The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1900, Page 12

12 EW ERA CHARTER DAY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HE FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1900. Whitelaw Reid, Formerly United States Minister to France, Delivers a Biril- liant and Masterful @Address on the Momentous Political Issues Dividing the National Parties, Students, Gather to Cele Alumni and Faculty brate the Thirty- Second Anniversary of the Founding of Closing With President Wheeler. Their College, a Reception to 1‘ THE DAL GAME - Z(‘((Z//'o/efla. 5./7&0/4g ViZ.7d Assembly Hall Packed. v the augu bers of the d_ White- main n up the A were de- pastor of 1 of Oak- a his | the to , but d ¥ . said: President Wheeler’s Address. | . 1 here to-day in rec- 15 devotion to the cause foundation grown out | r e—the uni- | from these fields | 1ess of which we | >t by bread alone. came forth re the lesson of over again, ublic spirit has the foundations of | set themselves along the npires. | his ambition It may be a‘'man should, career, ask Many a man Why bother with dressmaking or in waste time hunting silks when we offer \ le Silk Waistfor This sty $5.50 Made of the best Juvenile Taffetss, with thirty-six fine tucks and six box pl: hand- silk, and lined somely embroidered with throughout with percaline, dressmaker’s finish All Staple and Newest | Pastel Shades ‘ I MAGNIN& GO | 840 Market St., Opp. 4th ‘ | any party been able to answer the question ght; but many another amiss. In the he highest judge a man's life is if his short s y ace of exisi w0t tended o at it may provide good @ - Whitelaw Reid Warmly Greeted. the speaker of the day, Whitelaw introduced, amid thé prolonged ! handclapping of the audi- an hour he spoke to those as- and held their inte t and at- d. His subject was With masterful 1 an eloquence simple and forward he discussed his theme lines. At the conclusion cf cheer after cheer c t Mr. Reid’s speech follo honored me with his inv ¢ so high and so sudden that it might almost be dignified by the ime of a draft he gave me nearly equal ense. 1 was to speak ‘“on anythin growing out of the late war with Spain. How that war resembles the grippe! You reme 3 ity no less hi S shed te. ‘“The every day of your re are people of so war with Spain! is to speak at all of its present on this high day of your uni- rsity ‘year, he should do so only as & patriot, not as a partisan. But he cannot avold treading upon ground where the ashes are vet warm, and discussing ques- tions which 1 of the present inter- lines and_confusion of . will_ presently be found the battle-ground of mpalign oratory h le hosts. You will eredit me, I t respect for the pro- platform to avold marked artisan arguments—even though fortified by the express warrant of your dis- tinguished president to discuss national questions from any point of view that a patrio: can take. New Lands Ours to Hold. The new territories in the West Indies and the t are ours, to have and to hold, by the supreme law of the land, and by a title which the whole civilized world recognjzes and respects. We shall not Speedily get rid of them—whoever may de- sire it. On these points I make bold to repeat what felt warranted in_ saying, a fortnight ago within sight of Bunker Hill, that there is every evidence that the American people have distinctly and definitely made up thelr minds, The American people know that they are thus proceeding to do just what Jef- ferson did in the vast region he bought | from France—without the consent, by the way, either of its sovereign or its inhab- itants. They know that they are follow ct path of all the construc- ing in the ex. ti e statesmen of the republic, from the 's of the man who wrote the decla: nd of those who made the consti- tution, down 'to the days of the men-who con. d California, bought Alaska and denied the right of 'self-government to ferson Davis. They simply do not that a new light has been given to the present apostles of a little America, Er er and purer than was given to Washington or to Jefferson, or to Lin- coln. Past Cannot Be Changed. So I venture to afirm without qualifica- tion or reserve, that what is past cannot be changed. Candid and dispassionate minds knowing the American people of hades and in all sections of y, can see no possibility that in power, whether the present one or its opponent, would or could now or soon, if ever, abandon or_ give back one foot of the territory gained In the late war. But in all these constitutional discus- slons to which we are referring one clause in the constitution has been curiously thrust aside. The framers placed it on the very forefront of the edifice they were rearing, and there declared for our in- struction and guidance that “the people do ordain and establish this constitutiof * * * to promote the general welfare.” ¥ what right do statesmen now venture think that they can leave our national interests out of the account? Who and where is the sentimentalist who arraigns ug for descending to too sordid a level when we recognize our interest to hold what the discharge of duty has placed in our hand? Since when has it been states- manship to shut our eyes to the interests of our own country and ‘patriotism to consider only the interests or the wishes of others? For my own part I confess to a belief in standing up first for my own, and find it difficult to cherish much re- spect for the man who won't—first for my own family rather than some other man’s; first for my own city and State rather than for somebody else's; first for to make the world | been fc ded here at the West an stitution of the spirit. he State has university and left it to the love of Californ The uni- - place for the engender- d gain, It does rest, b for the community It pes not ial tool for the use of any me from | s as a tribute of honor to the | mber the medical definition by | gh than our present | that dis- | th as to say that this exactly de- | e, g | | my own count please God, for | the United Sta s of America. | Future of California. | Which way do your intertsts lie? Which way do the Interests of Californla and | the city of San Francisco lle? | Three or four days ago, when your | president honored me with the summons | I am now obeying, there came back to me a vague memory of the visions cherished | by the men you rate the highest in Cali | fornia—your " pioneers and forty-niners— | as to the future of the emplire they were | founding on this coast. | as Mr. Willlam A. | _ Here, for example, Howard, whom 1 found declaring not quite a ‘third of a century ago that San Francisco would yet be the largest Ameri- { can city on the largest ocean of the world. r. Delos Lake And here [ maintaining nited States is | now on a level with the most favored na- | tions; that its geographical position, its line of pelatial ‘steamers ablished on the Pacific Ocean by Amer enterprise, and soon to be followed by ocean tele. | graphs, must before long render this | continent the proper avenue of com- | merce between Europe and Asfa, and | ralse this metropolis of the Pacific to the loftiest height of monetary power."” There was a reason, too, widely held by the great men of the day, whose names have passed into history, for some such faith. Thus, an old Californian of high | and happy fame—Major General Halleck— speaking of San Francisco, said: “Stand- ing here on the extreme western verge of the republic, overlooking the coast of Asia | and occupying the future center of trade | and commerce of two worlds * s s if that cfvilization which so long has moved | westward with the star of empire 18 now, purified by the principles of true Chris- tlanity, to go on around the world until | it reaches the place of its origin and | makes the Orient blossom again with its benign influences, San Francisco must be made the abutment and international law the bridge by which it will cross the Pa. cific Ocean. The enterprise of the mer- chants of California has already laid the foundation of the abutments; diplomacy {and steam and telegraph companies are rapidly accumulating materfal _for construction of the bridge.” Thus far | Halleck. But have the Californians of | this generation abandoned the bridge? Are we to believe these men of to-day who tell us it is not worth crossing? Spirit of Forty-Nine. Let no man fancy that these somo- times exuberant expressions of a nobln and far-seeing faith by your own pre- decessors and by a presclent foreigner | have been revived in derision, or even in | doubt. Those were the days when, if some | were for a party, at any rate all were for | the State. These were great men, far- | seeing. courageous, patriotic, the men of who in such lofty spirit and with such high hope laid the foundation of this em- | pire on the Pacific. Distance did not dis- [ turb them, nor difficulties discourage. | Has the race shriveled under these sum- mer skies? Has it grown old befors its time? Is its natural strength abated” Are the 0ld energy and the old courage gone? Has the coul of this people shrunk within them? Or is it only that there are strident voices from California sounding across the Sierras and the Rockies that misreprcssnc and shame a State whose sons are not unworthy of their fathers? Has the arm of the Californian been shortened that he cannot reach out? Has £ fdig/rr N 7247 17 MAY | FrRoyioE the salt left him, that he cannot occupy and possess the great ocean that the Lord has given him, or has he forgotten tne les- son taught by’ the history of his own race (and of the great nations of the world), that oceans no longer separate—the: unite? There are no protracted and paii- ful struggles to build a Pacific raiiroad for your mext great step. The right of way is assured, the grading is done, the ralis are laid. , Contiguous land gives a nation cohesion. but it is the water that brings other na- tions near. The continent divides you from customers beyond the mountains, | but the ocean unites you with the whole boundless, mysterious Orient. Cause of Our Prosperity. San Francisco s exceptionally prosper- ous now. So is the State of California. Why? Partly, no doubt, because you are sh_ring the.prosperity which blesses the w-iole country. But is that all? What is the increase in the shipping at your wharves? What was (he meaning of tnose crowded columns of business statistics your newspapers proudly printed last New Year's; what the signinicance of the in- crease 'In exports and imports, far beyond mere army requirements? Why s, every room taken in your big buildings? What has crowded your docks, filled your streets, quickened your markets, rented your stores and dwellings, sent all this new blood pulsing through your veins, made you like the worn Richelieu when, in that moment, there entered his spent veins the might of France? : Was it the rage you have witnessed among some of your own leaders against everything that has been done the past two Vears; the warning against everything that is to be done? Was it the proof of our unworthiness and misdeeds, to which we all penitentially listened, as so elo- quently set forth from the high places of light and leading; the demonstration that what ‘we needed was to sit_under the live oaks and “develop the individual man, nor dare to look beyond; the forgetfulness that muscles grow strong only with exer- cise; that it is the dutles of manhood that take the acrid humors out of a youth's blood; that it is great responsibility, man- fully met not cowardly evaded, that so- bers and steadies and enobles? Treatment of the Islands. Well then, how shall the islands be treated? Are they to be our. wards, ob- jects of our duty and our care; or are tney to be our full partners? We may as well look that question straight in the face. imen often say—I have even heard it within a week on this coast—that all this is purely imaginary; that nobody favors their admission as States. Let us see. An ounce of fact in a matter of such moment is worth tons of random denial. Within the month, a distinguished and experi- enced United States Senator from the North has announced that he sees no rea- son why Porto Rico should not be a State. ‘Within the same perfod one of the lead- ing religious journals of the continent has declared that it wouwiu be a selfish and brutal tyranny that would exclude Porto Rico. Only a few weeks earlier, one of our ablest fienemlu. now commanding a department in one of our dependencies, a laureled hero of two wars, has officlally reported to the Government in favor of steps for the admission of Cuba as a State. On every hand rise cries that in any event they cannot and must not be dependen- cles. Some of these are apparently for mere partisan effect, but others are the obvious promptings of a sincere and high minded, however mistaken, impulse. Partly through mere inadvertence, but partly also through crafty design, the wave of generous sympathy for the suf- fering little island of Porto Rico which has been sweeping over the country has come very near being perverted into the means of turning awry the general policy {and permanent course of a great nation. To relieve the temporary distress by rec- ognizing the Porto Ricans as citizens and by an extension of the Dingley tariff to Porto Rico as a matter of constitutional right foreclosed the whole question. As to the mere duty of prompt and am- ple rellef for the distress in orto Rico CHARTER DAY AS CELEBRATED AT THE UNIVERSITY. | there is happlly not a shade of difference | of opinion among the seventy-five millions of inhabitants. Nor was the free-trade | remedy so vehemently recommended, im- portant enough in itself to provoke seri- | ous objection or delay. Beyond and above all, give her_the best system for her situation and wants, whether it be our Dingley tariff or some other, because it is the best for her and is therefore our duty; not because it is ours and therefore under the constitution of the United States her right. Tha mission of that ill omened and unfounde | claim would be at the bar of politics a colossal blunder, at the bar of patriotism a colossal crime. Admission of the Island. But it is said that Porto Rico deserves admission anyway, becuuse we are bound \h‘\' the volunteered assurance of General Miles that they should have the rights of American citizens, perhaps; though there is no evidence that he meant more or they thought he meant more than such rights as American citizens everywhere enjoy, even in the District of Columbla—equal | laws, trial by jury, the writ of habeas cor- | pus, local self-government—in a word, the | civil rights which the genius of our Gov- ernment secures to all under our control who are capable of exercising them. If he did mean more, or if they thought he meant more, did that entitle him to antici- pate his chief and override in casual mil- | itary proclamation the supreme law of the land, whose commission he bore? Or did it entitle them to suppose that he céuld? Behind Porto Rico is Cuba_and behind Cuba are all the other West Indies, and the famous law of polit- ical gravitation which John Quincy Ad- ams prophetically announced three-quar- ters of a cenutry ago will then be actin, on them with ever-increasing force. A.ng behind them, not ahead of them—abreast | of Porto Rico itself—stand the Philippines. Regard, 1 beg of you, in the calm white llfhl that befits these cloistered retreats of sober thought, the degradation of the republic thus coolly contemplated by the men who assure us we have no possessions whose people are not entitled under our constitution to citizenship and ultimately to statehood! The Republican institutions we have been trained in constitute a sy: y to endure among a peo- Ble of high virtue and high intelligence, uch are its complications and checks and balances and interdependencies which tax the intelligence, the patience, the virtue of the highest Caucasian development, that it is obviously a system absolutely unworkable by’ a group of tropical and Oriental races, more or less hostile to each other, whose highest type is a Chi- nese and Malay halfbreed,” and among whom millions, a majority, possibly, are far below the level of the pure Malay. We all remember Mr. Lincoln's words, “This Government cannat permanently endure half slave, half free.” Who dis- putes’it now? Duty Should Be Followed. ‘Well, then, can it endure half civilized and enlightened, half barbarous and pa- gan; half-white, half-black, brown, yellow and mixed; half northern and western half tropical and Oriental; one half hom geneous, continental, the other half in myriads of islands scattered haif way around the globe. but all eager to partici- pate in ruling this continent. which our fathers with fire and sword redeemed from barbarism and subdued to the uses of the highest civillzation? M?‘y T not go further and vouch for you, as Californians, that the faith of “the fathers has not forsaken the sons; that you still believe in the possibilities of tha good land the Lord has given you. and | mean to work them out; that you know what hour the national clock has struck, and are not mistaking this for the eighi- eenth century: that you will bid the men who have made that mistake. the man of little faith, the shirkers, the doubters, the the grumblers, begone, like Diogenes, to their tubs—aye, better his in. struction and require.these. his followe:: to get out of your light. For, lo! yet an- other century i{s upon you, before whicn even the marvels of the nineteenth ares to grow pale. As of old,light breaks from thes wd- | Hale’s. : 1 Hale’s. the millinery opening. successful, of course. come in to-day if you can and spend an hour or more study- ing the new creations for the spring and summer. new arrivals vy express new grenadine veiling— ring dois in black, waite, gray, blus and laven- 9= der—the va-d ~25¢c silk tuxedo veiling—doubls mesh, witn silk dots in all the new spring shades —the yard.. . 60C black Brussels net—w large single v:ivet spc;:s—the yard, enly.. SOC new silver effects—in tuxedo and spider web m:sh vellings —the yard 35‘: 75¢. 5 ¢ and new spring gloves. ReynieP—z-clasp susde pique French kii gloves, ou- sprinz importation, just in, latesf shade of gray and mide— per pair..... $1.50 misses’ kid gloves—2-clisp, all the spring shades in sizes 434 to 6.4; also a L:nt 1ac-sim glove fo- boys and missss in eitn2r I or 2 clisp, tizzs 44, 6, 6 5; colors Havana and rei— the piir, only................ Hudnut’s perfumery, ail odors, 50c oz. east, but now also, for you, from th= Farther East. It circles the world in both directions, like the flag it is newly gilding now with its tropic beams. The dawr of the twentieth century bursts upon you without needing to cross the Sierras, ard bathes at once in its golden .-plend'nr_s‘ with simultaneous effulgence the Nar- rows of Sandy Hook and the peeriess por- tals of the Golden Gat g SPEED AND ENDURANCE | ON THE BERKELEY OVAL | A small crowd attended the freshman- | sophomore Affillated Colleges field day on the Berkeley cinder path yesterday. Whiie some of the contests were Interesting, none of the events rose to any degree of brilllancy. No records were broken nor were any of them equaled. The games | developed a promising sprinter in Stanley | of the clas of '03, who won his heat and | the final in the 100-yard dash. His time, | 10 4-5, was excellent when it is taken into | consideration that he has done little or | no training. In all probability the fresh- | man will be encouraged, as he has the | making of a fast man in the sprints. Following were the officials: Referce. W. ! P. Drum; starter, E. J. Brown; timers, Professor Magee, H. D. Smith and James L. Drum; judges at finish, Walter Dickie, Howard Squires and Charles Pringle; field judges, Jack D. Hoftman, H. P. Hill and | C. R. Broughton; clerk of course, John B. | marshal, Dr. George Hufferdine. dash: First heat—First Stanley, *03; & Time, 5. Second second, Townsend, "03. | rst, Stanley; second, , Townsend. Time, 10 4-5. yard Time, Bishop; thir : 120-yard hurdle-First, Bakewell, A. C.: se | Time, 18 3-5. . §80 yards—First, Service, '02; | third, Cilfford. Time, ond, Hamlin, "02. Half-mile run, . uarter of a mile—First, ard dash, a_q brcor g 440- 3 Scott, "02; second, Robertson, '03: ers, "02 Time, 55 2 O mile (open)- irst, Mosher, " sécond, fllm’;;lsnn, *01; third, Tolman, Time, gne mile wallFirst, second, v ‘e, §:17 15 | 0 vard mardle First, Dakewell, A. C.; sec- | Time, 21 2.3. i Ja0-yard dash—_First, Townsend, '03; second, | Baker, 03; third, Walsh, A. C. Time, M 4-5. | One’ mile run—First, Clifford, '03; second, | Scott; third, Reeve. Time, 5:15 { Shot-put—First, Woolsey. A second, | Plaw, High jump—First, Wo Foster; third, Powell, "0 inches. T *02; . Distanee, 37 §-10 feet. | O O eet Woolaey, A& C.; second, | Telght, 5 feet 6% | e Pole vault—First, Duden, '02; second, Wool- | y. Helight, 9 feet 6 inches. *Froad jump-—First, Topham, '03; second, Ser- | vice, '02] third, Dresser. Distance, 20 feet 2-10 of an inch. A R | WHEELER RECEIVED BY UNIVERSITY ALUMNI Last evening Presient and Mrs. Ben- jamin Ide Wheeler were the guests of honor at a reception given at the Hop- kins Institute of Art by all the alumni of the University of California. The Institute was crowded with a select assemblage that comprised the represent- ative set of Oakland and the college town as well as well-known society and pro- ssional people of this city. It was an é‘iellmclivepmulfilude, the ladies all in elaborate costumes, either evening or re- ception gowns, and the gentlemen in cor- rect evening dress. Professor and Mrs. ‘Wheeler received the guests in the main salon, They were assisted in their pleas- ant duties by Mrs. Phebe Hearst. Pro- fessor and Mrs. Ritter, Judge and Mrs. Slack, Dr. and Mrs. 4’Ancona, Dr. Emma Sutro Merritt, Miss Emma Hefty, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Cheney, Miss Maren Froe- lich, Charles S. Green, L. Van Orden and C. Chapel Judson. Besides the formal social feature of the reception there was an excellent musical programme, under the direction of Sir Henry Heyman, and speeches by George ‘W. Plerce of Yolo, class of '75; Dr. Emma | Sutro Merritt and Professor Wheeler. The reception was managed by Charles 8. Green. Emma Hefty, Willlam E. Ritter, L. Van Orden and C. Chapel Judson, who constituted the committee of the of the Associated Alumni. PRESIDENT WHEELER BEFORE THE ALUMNI . BERKELEY, March 23.—The alumni of the University of California, gathered to- gether from all parts of the State for the charter day exercises this morning, held a conference in the philosophy build- ing this afternoon. There were addresses by President Wheeler, Senator Pierce, ‘Ar- thur North and others on the needs of the university. The best method of assist- ance to the university was discussed and a tanerul plan to attain.their ends de- clde n. President Wheeler in his address spoke of the special needs of the university, par- tieularly a large library, which should be open to all students on the Pacific Coast. —_— ‘ouncil You never have a head in the morning from drinking Jesse Moore “AA™ whiskey. Try It. —_——— Death of Martin Frank. Martin Frank, first vice president and Eastern representative of the local firm of 8. H. Frank & Co., died in New York City yesterday. He was born and raised | K LE in San Francisco, where his brothers, Al- bert and William Frank, still reside. Heo went to New Yorl® about seven years ago to represent the firm in which he was in- terested. He has been sick for several! years and his death was not unexpected R i e Jeffries at the Chutes Sunday. Jim Jeffries will spar with his brother Jack. to-morrow afternoon at the Chutes The “exhibition will be given over the Chutes lake. —_——— Salvation Farewell Service. The headquarters of the Salvation Army on Market street were crowded last even- ing, the occasion being the farewell of Lieutenant Colonel Willlam Brewer and Major Ludgate of New York, respectively editor of the Salvation Army publications and writer of Salvation Army hymns. All the instrumental musicians of the army in the city were present. Colonel Evans resided. Colonel Brewer spoke and Major .udgate sang. Superfluous hair removed without tha electric needle. Treatment 50c up. Ladies’ Hair Physiclans, room 430, Parrott bidg.* —_—————— Caught Trout Out of Season. R. W. Willey and L. E. Lewis were ar- rested yesterday at Soquel, Santa Cruz County, for violating the State law which prohibits the taking of trout before the ist of April. They were taken to Santa Cruz, where they pleaded gullty and were each’fined $20 by Judge Stanley. — e Dandruff removed. Treatments 50c up. Room 430, Parrott bldg., Prudential Haic Physicians; open evgs. by appointment.® Too Much Mother-in-Law. Harry D. M. Cobb, whose wife of six weeks, Josephine Cobb, sued him for a dlvorce a few ago on the ground | of cruelty, filed his answer to her com- plaint yesterday afternoon, and after de- nying all of the allegations of cruelty and shotgun episodes, declares that the whole trouble is due to “too much mother-in- e e e iy Best creamery butter, two squares for 65 cents, at Faber's, 119 Taylor street. * —_——— Sorrow Hastened Klint’s Death. Henry Klint died suddenly Thursday afternoon a few hours after he had made a futile effort to save his fifteen-year-old son Robert from a term In prison. Klint was subject to heart disease and it is pre- sumed that the excitement and sorrow at- tending his son's trial before Judge Law- lor hastened his demise. The boy was committed to the Whittier Reform School until he reaches his majority. ———————— Our work and methods made many firms rich. Our printing wins. Mysell-Rollins, 22 Clay. * Lenten Exercises. 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