The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 25, 1900, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 18 1900. JOHN D SPRECKELS Propnelov ‘Gd'ou Al Ccmmuw cations to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Main 186S. EDITORIAL .217 to 221 Stevemson St. Matn 1874, Deltvered 15 Cents Per Week. 5 Cents. ding Postager .86.00 cluding Sunday), . 8.00 ay), 3 months. . 150 . 6% . 150 1.00 All postmasters sre authorized to recetve sabscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE ..1118 Brosdway °C KROGNESS Menager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTO Herald Square EW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: .29 Tribune Building Y LUKENS S STANDS: ews Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Hotel. CHICAGO Eberman House; P. O. Fremont House; Auditoriu NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldor-Astoria H A. Brentano, 31 Murray Hill Hotel Unton Square; WASHINGTON (D MORTON E C.) OFFICE Weilington Hotel CRAN OFFICES—£2T Montgomery, corner of Cl BRANCH »pen until k. 2261 lock. 1008 open until Kentucky, t Eleventh, corner Twenty-second and sck. aMUSEMENT& Monday, March 2. Mr. S b, to-morrow night y afterncon and Spectaities. ng 12 al bodies of this city are n to defend San Francisco g that has been Health and the Hearst twins, It will be r cle agreed to omit publica- al doings of the Board of Health ice, which occurred between g on the 8th inst., but the Ex- ed to join this proper policy, eport to the New York Journal, spre broadcast. As if this were not e rst’s New Y. er put in the time un- t reparing for a “plague edition,’ w t i with two broad pages covered with I t embered rk pap le pictures, intended ict the most possible r letters Plague ow pictures. is a scene in a non-existi ling on the sidewalk, of <upply. e scene represent n a surging mass of white ropes. There are also ble European pictures of the sorts and conditions of all set in pious quota- her sources setting forth ague. Under the subhead, “The ble Times ticle bubonic plague, which now threat is the worst scourge humanity has e ue which has afflicted the M of recorded history. Never be- fore has the black death succeeded in reaching the New World, and its foothold in South nd now on our Pacific Coast has the United States )mwn‘i )1)(d from De }'oe and rgin are interviews from ith Mayors and other officers, stion of what they San w that the plague is in San Fran- Fall River, g from the Pacific Coast will be quaran- ‘s not alarmed by “the appearance of plague in San Francisco,” ertise the will nselves against 1l be more alert than ever”; onic erior cleanness and advan- e to inspect all out-going ail and turn back all suspects. And d robin secured by Mr. They all assume that the plague | housands the vile pictures are sup- ravages in San Francisco. We know of nothing that would inflict more dam- ornia. The scare will injure the East- nption of our fruit throughout the season, n every possible way that our interests can be hed by Hearst's sensational lying they will be in- low twin. d by posed to represe: As the only conspicuous result of the experiment of 2king a Christian daily out of the Topeka Capital s been to divide the stockholders into two camps and set them to fighting one another, it would appear there was something wrong in the way the scheme as operated, or in the character of the men who worked it The edict has gone forth from Washington that in California sheep must be kept off the forest reserves. The national authorities have neglected to observe, however, that it is still possible to make bands of sheep migrate from one county to another, and the Middle Ages,” | duction begins a long ar- | Francisco. | and | MR. REID'S ADDRESS. ERHAPS there is no better illustration of the p confusion of ideas in the public mind as to the new and dangerous issues raised by the Span- ish war than may be found in Mr. Whitelaw Reid’s ‘chaner day address at the State University. Mr. ‘ Reid stands upon a public eminence. He has long been editor of a leading American newspaper, has been Minister to France, his party’s candidate for the | Vice Presidency, and was a Commissioner to nego- tiate the treaty of Paris, which gosed the *Spanish | war and projected. its results into these days and far | into the future. His opportunity to get an unem- barrassed view of what the masses of the people see fitfully has been exceptionally good, and yet his ad- dress has no clarifying effect whatever. It was able in its structure, crisp and antithetical in form, but vague and unsatisfictory in conclusion. After all, it added only one more to the uncertain sounds that are rising from all parts of the republic. ! It cannot well be called a discussion of issues between the two great political parties, for the subject under Its cleavage runs discussion does not divide parties. through the people regardless of party. Let either | party attempt a dogmatic declaration upon the status | | of our external dependencies, and it becomes at once a house divided against itself. This shows that the issue is fundamental and not partisan. Mr. Reid declared that he would go no farther than Jefferson and Lincoln. It is the fashion to plant every novelty in policy in the authority of Jefferson and Lincoln. Colonel Bryan has done this with each onster that he has brought forth and baptized “Democracy.” Mr. Reid follows the same course. Now Jefferson admitted that we might possess Cuba P incorporate her into our system, because no en- largement of the navy would be required for her de- ense, and he said let that principle be the limit of pansion; add nothing that requires more navy The annexation of Hawaii and conquest ppines are direct violations of the plainly principles of Jefferson. Mr. Reid’s Jeffer: Discussing the future status of thess tropical islands, he scouted the idea of giving their people political equality or admitting them as States. As for Porto Rico, he said: tem for her situation and wants, because it is best for her, and therefore our duty, not because it is under the constitution of the United States her right.” That onian. means that we are to Rico, and she is not to judge. government in all of its essence, spirit and effect. Again, he said: “But it is said that Porto Rico de- serves admission (as a State) because we are bound ~ | by the volunteered assurance of General Miles that | they should have the rights of American citizens, | though there is no evidence that he meant more than | such rights as American citizens everywhere enjoy, | the civil rights which the genius of our government | secures to all who are capable of exercising them. If he meant more, did that entitle him to anticipate his | chief and override in casual military proclamation the supreme law of the land whose commission he bore? Behind Porto Rico is Cuba, behind Cuba all the other West India islands, and abreast of them the Philippines. Regard, I beg of you, in the calm, whire light 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 state- hood!” We beg to refer this part of the address to Regent Barnes of the university, who has recently received the wild approbation of the Union League Club of Chicago by declaring that he knows of “no race of | people that is incapable of American citizenship.” | But Mr. Reid continued: “The republican institu- tions in which we have been trained constitute a sys- tem only likely to endure among a people of high vir- tue and high intelligence. tax the intelligence, the patience and the virtue of the highest Caucasian development, that it is obviously ystem absolutely unworkable by a group of tropi- \m\ what does this all mean? Obviously that our civil institutions are racial, and can be maintained only where our race can exist and perpetuate itself. It cannot exist in the tropics, therefore our institu- tions cannot exist there. The races found there by nature will cause “the degradation of the republic” if | given a voice in its government! Verily an anti- | expansionist can rest his case on this expansion ar- gument. It is an avowal that these tropical and oriental races can never assimilate and work our civil system. Therefore we are always to hold them in dependence and subjection, without their consent. Yet Mr. Reid professes to stand with Lincoln, who said: | another man without that other man’s consent.” we suppose that both Mr. Reid and Colonel Bryan, having said that they stand with Jefferson and Lin- | coln, will to the far end stand by their mumpsimus, | having said it so ofte President Wheeler of the University of California and of the methods of those that rule us. He asked the Southern Pacific Company for a student train . to Berkeley, and was told that the request would be granted at some other time. @ STATISTICAL ABSTRACT. ROM the statistical abstract just issued from [:the Bureau of Statistics for the fiscal year end- ing June 30, 1889, it appears the year was in | several respects a record-breaker, the figures repre- | senting results in various departments of nalionaL | activity being the largest in our history. | The estimates of the bureau are that we had at the | | close of the fiscal year a population of 76,011,000, and | | on January 1 of this year 77,116,000. The cengus of | \ the year will test the accuracy of these estimates, but | xt is hardly likely they will be found erroneous to | any considerable extent. and it will not be many years before we can talk of ourselves as a nation of 100,000,000, not counting the inhabitants of the outlying colonies. One of the points in which the year broke the rec- ord was that of governmental expenditures. National Government. To meet the expenditure we had an income of $610,082,004 So there was a de- ficit of $88,111,560. That unsatisfactory condition of 2ffairs was largely due to the war. years the expenses of the War Department have been about $50,000,000 annually, but in the year ending on the 3oth of last June the expenditures of the depart- ment amounted to $232,305,365. The Navy Depart- ment cost $64,354,735, or abont double the usual amount. An interesting feature of the treasury statistics is the showing that the receipts from internal revenue position is no more Lincolnian than it is | “Give her the best sys- | judge what is best for Porto | That is autocratic | Such are its complications | and checks and balances, and interdependencies which | “No man was ever good enough to govern | Still | is rapidly acquiring a knowledge of our institutions | We are increasing rapidly, | a It cost | us that year $700,003,564 to defray the expenses of the | Ordinarily of lare | | taxes exceeded those from customs duties—the one | it i yielding $273,437,162, while the other, which in the past has been the most fruitful source of our rev- enue, yielded but $206,128,482. It has happened several times before that intermal revenue taxes have exceeded the income from cus- toms, but on former occasions that result was due to exceptional circumstances, which soon passed away. Now, however, the protective tariff has built up a manufacturing industry that well nigh furnishes all the manufactured goods required by our population, so that in the nature of things our imports will not be large enough in future to furnish the bulk of rev- enue required by the National Government. It is | probable, therefore that internal taxes will continue for a long time to come to hold their present pre- | eminence over customs as a source of national in- come. of the fiscal year the amount of money in the United States was $2,745,350,508, and of that amount there | was in circulation—that is to say, there was outside the United States treasury—$1,004.071,881. We ex- ported domestic merchandise valued at $1,203,031,222, and imported goods to the value of $697,148.489, leav- ing in our favor a balance of trade amounting to $529,874,813. Of that sum, however, we had to pay back to foreigners a large portion in payment for | ocean freights, and it is therefore by no means pleas- ing to note that during the year our shipping in- creased only 2.41 per cent, and that of our total ex- ports less than g per cent was carried in our own ships. Some of the per capita figures are interesting. The expenses of the Government cost us $9.21 each. We paid in taxes an average of $8.04 each. The public debt at the*close of the year was $15.20 per capita. The circulation of money was $25 per capita, and | that sum had never been exceeded, though the esti- mates are that on January 1 the amount had been raised to $25.98 per capita. If local burglars continue to progress much further in daring it might be wise for the authorities to pro- vide watchmen for the police stations. The raid on the California-street bank was dangerously close to headquarters. R make another effort to carry off the America’s cup, and will ask the privilege of bringing two yachts across the Atlantic to be tested in American | waters, so that he may make the contest with the win- ner of the two, have been favorably received by the New York press, and it is probable the request wild. | be granted. The rules governing the contests declare: “The ‘challenged club shall not be required to name its representative vessel until a time agreed upon for the start.” But from the challenger the deed requires a | ten months’ notice in writing, and it adds: “Accom- panying the ten months’ notice of challenge there | must be sent the name of the owner and a certificate of the name, rig and following dimensions of the challenging vessel. namely, length on load waterline, beam at the load waterline, and the extreme beam and draught of water, which dimensions shall not be ex- ceeded, and a custom-house registry of the vessel must be sent as soon as possible.” Under these rules the challenged club has consld- | erable advantage over the challenger. For example, ‘ in the last race, if in the trials the Britannia had beaten 1the Shamrock, Lipton would nevertheless have been | compelled to make the race for the cup with the yacht he had challenged with ten months before, while the Americans could have defended the cup with any yacht that might have proven speedier than | the Columbia. We have now beaten the British so [ often, and Lipton has proven himself to be so thor- | ough a sportsman, there is an inclination in New | York to yield the advantage in our favor and let him | bring over two yachts for trial in New York waters and make the race with the winner. | The request of the challenger has, in fact, been treated with the best nature possible. The New York Sun, for example, says pleasantly: “Two visiting yachts would make the popular amusement of book- keeping on their expenses a positive delight. The | bills for two yachts and two crews and two tenders | were paid in behalf of America last year, the De- fender and Columbia having been fitted and tried in their own waters; but the cost of sending a couple of contestants across the ocean would be vastly more | staggering. But it would unquestionably increase | the chances of success, and of that we believe our | true-blue sporting friend, Sir Thomas, is more cove- tous than he is of—say half a million pounds sterling.” The manner in which the request has been réceived | js a high compliment to Lipton. It is an evidence | that he has completely won the favor of the American | people, and that they are willing to give him every- thing he asks for in the name of fair play. It remains | to be seen whether the New York Yacht Club has authority to alter the rules without forfeiting the right to the cup, but we may be sure there will be nothing of an unsportsmanlike spirit that will move them in | deciding the point. | | S ————————— | LIPTON'S NEW CHALLENGE. EPORTS that Sir Thomas Lipton proposes to Because the drama of “Sapho” as presented in New York has been condemned as indecent, some wild | reformers have jumped to the conclusion the book is equally bad, and now a member of Congress has | moved to have it excluded from the mails. As the | book has been circulating in this country for | fifteen years or more, and has been universally re- | garded as one of the masterpieces of modern Frenck fiction, it would seem to be a little bit too late to have a spasm over it now. The New York experts who declare it is safer for | the general public to bet on a roulette or a faro game | than on most of the racetrack events of the time evidently speak from experience. The track gam- blers do not carry their operations on for pleasure | nor for the improvement of horses} but for the coin | that is in it, and they give the public very slight | chances of winning anything worth having. Three murderers of this city have been released on “technicality,” to ply again their terrible trade. The practice of release is becoming common enough | to suggest that some communities have a habit of in- viting dangerous characters to go elsewhere when the | courts are powerless. | The more the country considers the problem of the | Porto Rican tariff the stronger becomes the conclu- | sion that protection and imperialism cannot be made | to work together without a good deal of friction and | more or less kicking. —_— Astoria has offered a bounty of five cents apiece on rats. The employes of the Board of Health might make themselves valuable as well as ornamental by carrying rat-traps with them in their Chinatown raid. Atfter being a city for twenty-seven years without a city officer, Placerville wants to elect some officials. It f. an extremely difficult thing to teach people that is always wise to leave well enough alone, The monetary statistics are gratifying. At the close |. ! } ; : } i ; i : : i ; i L el e e o o o ok o o T o e ok 2 S 2 o e o =Y @0 PROTESTS AGAINST SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S ADVANCE OF RATES Los Angeles Express. The Southern Pacific Company yester- day advanced the passenger rates between Los Angeles and San Francisco, first class, from $13 to $15. This action of the raliroad company came In the nature of a com- plete surprise, no previous intimation hav- ng been given, and the first the public knew of it was when intending purchascrs pplied for tickets at the office they wera ln ormed that the new rate was in effect. This increase in the rate is an outrage upon the traveling public, by which be- tween and a day is taken from the people to further enrich a corporation which has grown fabulously wealthy and made milllons for its principal owners by the bounty of the commonwealth. No reason for this advance is given. The rallroad companj' simply holds up ihe traveler and adds more for a service that is already liblru!y paid for. o e e Fresno Republican. If the target shooters do not come to Fresno it will be the first of the series of negative profits which the Southern Pa- cific will earn by its niggardly policy of increasing rates. The reduced fare was a direct stimulus to traffic and a money- maker for the railroad; the increased fars is a discouragement to traffic and will be a money loser. Nobody claims that the new fare is ex- tortionately exorbitant. It is no more than is charged on most railroads, and is rea- sonable Iindeed in comparison with the pr osterous freight rates we have to pa. ut it is the established policy of this State, embodied in its constitution, and is a sound principle of good morals and goud business, that a raflroad rate once put .down to meet competition shall stay down. The fact that there is a way of evndmg the law by subterfuge in this case does not alter the substantial fact that the action is against public policy and con- trary to the plain intent of the law. ¢« o e Merced Sun. The raising of rates by the Southern Pa- cific Company of fares between San Joa- brought forth a storm of protest from the ?eople of the interior, and a vigorous kick being made all up and down the line, The Increase in rates affects all the towns south of Lathrop, and none of them seem to like it. The newlparers are calling at- tention to the law, which says that when railroad fares are put down to meet com- petition they cannot be raised in with- out the consent of the Railroad Commis- slon. 5 Madera Mercury. The action of the Southern Pacific Rafl- road in returning to the old rate of fare between San Francisco and points in the San Joaquin Valley will not be received by the peorlc with unalloyed pleasure. They will fea more inclined to howl, but so far as an; od coming from it they may just as well nve their strength, for the South- ern Pacific does not care much for the ob- ections of the railroad-ridden public. ‘here is a lesson In this experience which it would bc well to l"‘vrnm by. Tt is to put no faith in railro: lve them nothing that théy will not pay for, and png well, too. They ln.va no sentiment In eallns with the ?.o and the people shoul Fave none in dealing with tham. ———————— M & Remmel Insolvency. United States District Judge de Haven yesterday dropped from the calendar the order of the Puget Sound Lumber Com- pany and others to show cause why they lhlould notrltn re(l o mrlnm :elll:\‘g‘ cer; tain property of e vent est e of Marcuse & Remmel. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib -t'rownuna’u.- Special Information supplled dally to business houses and public mep by ths Bureau (Allen’: Mont- s;::r;‘: "nzf Telep;o(no llx;x)x &. oy New finishes in oak moldings for picture frames, and new pictures in water colors, latinoty; photogfaphs and efchin; ‘mltor- p‘:un welcome, b#n \/ , T41 Market street. Through State aid there have been built in New hn Ibollt 450 miles ot ard roads. boroughs, town. ships and other mnnlcipum- have con- structed as many more. THE CALIFORNIA FARMER: Silver Bug When He Lands.” D e e B e e e S S e e e o quin Valley towns and San Francisco has | A Pugnacious Teamster. George Homer, a teamster, appeared in Judge Mogan's court yesterdayona charge of obstructing the street, and the case was continued. Friday afternoon W. L. Welch, driver of the ambulance, was driving along Ninth street with a patient for the Re- | celvii Hospital, when Homer drove his | team directly in'front of the ambulance. When_remonstrated with he offered to fight Welch and refused to remove his team. He followed Welch to the ambu- lance stables on Park avenue and offered | again to fight him. Welch declined and called in a policeman, who arrested the | pugnacious teamster. “I’ll Fix That Thar Pesky B R B e e e e e e e e R 2t o N ] R BRI Smuggled Goods on the Grant. | Six large packing cases containing val- uable bronzes and other curios from Japan and China were seized yesterday | by customs inspectors from among the commissary stores that were being un- loaded from the Government transport Grant. The packing cases were addressed to Captain Buford of the Grant. As they | did not appear on the ship's manifest and as the officers of the vessel had not noti- eed the customs inspector in charge that these dutlable articles were on boai Customs Surveyor Spear ordered the cases and contents confiscated as smuggled and taken to the Appraiser's store. 006000000036900000000000000000C¢ § Important Announcement, GREAT SALE —OF— Ladies Kid Gloves! 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