The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1900. THE JAPANESE INVASION. HE empire of Japan will socn appear to have a reason of its own for assenting to Tan agreément with our Government, whereby the migration of its people will be limited. That empire took on responsibilities in its war with China which compel it to stand in military readiness for what may come. Its population is not so large that it | can spare many people, for in the day of trial it must demonstrate that physical force which rests in numbers and discipline. These conditions present a favorable opportunity | for the negotiation of a treaty which will permit us to exclude Japanese coolies. They | are not needed here, even if they stood by the same standard of life and wages as our | own people. As we have already made plain, they are less desirable than the Chinese cool- |ies, They are less reliable, less orderly, less thrifty.- But we need neither class. The Chi- | nese exclusion law, honestly cnforced, protects us against the coolie laborers from that country. The need of Japanese exclusion becomes daily more imperative. One steamer | recently landed 1100 Japanese coolies. The tide rises, the flood is increasing. Its afflict- | ing effects are already apparent. The call is louder every day to our members of Con- | gress to take steps leading to a treaty that will arrest the evil where it is. It is the worst | policy to wait until tens of thousands are here, requiring the expensive institution of a ! registry and the operation of more official machinery, wfth more opportunity for craft and | corruption. i It is probable that Japanese will come now steadily at the rate of more than a | thousand a month. When the Chinese evil became so great that efforts began to effect | the exclusion of those people, the managers of their importation loaded every ship that came, and sometimes a thousand a week were landed. The Japanese evil is in that stage | now, and we may expect a constant increase in the importation. This makes an emerg- ency issue that must be considered. Our coast members should introduce in both houses of Congress joint resolutions calling on the President to report the condition of our trea- ties with Japan, and reminding the executive branch of the necessity for a new treaty, | covering this immigration evil and conferring upon Congress the power to exclude the Japanese as the Chinese are excluded. The Call urges our members to such action. It cannot be taken too soon. OHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Communications to W. S, LEAKE Third, S. F. OFFICE. .Market and Teiephone Main IS6S. VUBLICATION LDITORIAL ROOMS....217 te 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1874, Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Stngle Copiea. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including FPostages ¢ : Sunday), one year. : Sunday), € months. 3 months AKLAND OFFIC ..1118 Broadwnay KROGNESS. , Marguette Building, Chicage. Long Distance Telephone *‘Central 216.”") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: N Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: SMITH.. 30 Tribune Building B CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; F. O. News Co.; Great Nortbern Hotel; Fremort House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square; Murray Hiil Hotel D. WASHINGTON (D. C)) OFFICE. MORTON E. CRAN ...Wellington Hotel Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES— 52 Montgomery, eorner of Clay, opes | wotll 9:30 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until | #:30 o clock. 1841 Mission, open untii 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, cormer Sixteenth, open unttl § o'clock. 1096 | Te ki s requi i s ccigfbane g g e s d g S sl 14 We know of no other way to reach the result required. If there be another we will ¢ oeclock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, cpen until ® o'clock. We warn California of the | unchecked. If this invasion go on and be projected into another period of depression, | support it effectiveiy. consequences of letting the evil run AMUSEMENTS. | : ; Faan < : : | who can measure the seriousness of the situation? Ihe Japanese differ from the Chinese e in being truculent, insubordinate and less submissive to control. The Chinese Six Com- A Bachelor's Romance.”" panies have always exercised over their people a sort of governmental control. In the mysterious Asiatic way they have held a sort of mastery over the Chinese coolies, which had its uses in behalf of public order. But there are no Japanese Six Companies. There | may be a sort of padrone system among the Japanese, but they seem to go and come in | bands, and there is over them no authority, no control, like that of the Six Companies. l Judicial notice has already been taken of the prevalence of crime among them. They are | | thus early furnishing an undue percentage of criminals. | ahead of the Chinese. nikof and Haml Pets Jurg to-morrow aster- the Nile.” use—"An Arabian Girl" cert House—"'Cavalleria Rusticana.” T deville every afternoon and | strels. | | | | Eddy streets—Specialties. ry's Trained Animal Show, ng, fshing, etc., every Sunday. In this respect they are now Their offenses are against Americans, while the breaches of the law by Chinese are mostly agamst their own kind. 1In 2 time of depression these Japanese will violently resent such measures as were taken to rid certain of our communities of | the Chinese, and there will be very serious trouble, involving our Federal Government with that of Japan. ALTGELD ON JEFFERSON. inois has gnawed his rope ighbors are suffering the con 1d the All this can be prevented by acting now. This view of what is certain to come It may be distasteful to now interro- gate the Japanese Government on the subject, but it will be far more distasteful later on | to be interrogated by that Government in behalf of its people who have suffered in a pop- ular storm such as is certain to be, unless prevented by measures taken now. THE W@AR TdAX DECISION, people Albany, should be impressed upon our own Government. what Jefferson would n was doubtless newspaper exper t Jeff rament ownership of evi tgeld’s opinion people by A ROUGH RIDER MILITARY SCHOOL. ¢ by the result. s r to the Ili s anarch- HE decision of the United States Supreme DECIDED novelty in the way of a school or 1d the people do not Court in the case of the American Express camp of military instruction' has been pro- s ion. But one may go Company vs. Maynard, Attorney General of jected in Colorado, where it is said upward of Jefferson’s ideas into In his first in- ied the rule of the majority, condition of republican gov- not subscribe to the neces ry ess of the will of the major- e of the majority to be righ ority. It is an admission ut the means necessary f the majority when it is un ed that it would be sometimes g cannot long He rule in government nothing about avert- 1 that they It was left for John Marshall, whose hief Justice by Adams was bitterly son, to develop from the constitu- alizing force to correct the un the majority when it took on that which Jefferson foresaw. That shall found in the judicial courts, estab- the constitution. They are the branch of ment that must rationalize its processes, ate with the majority. a and Kentucky resolutions are in- that form of bond between the States. 1s of that feature of the constitution which the supreme law, and liis position leit open a ch was never closed until the Civil War decided forever that the constitution made an ion between the States. the constitution permanent ry influence in government which it He saw it the prevalence of principle as soluble v ev 1alize which Jefferson admitted to when be admitted that the Jdways be reasonable. It is noteworthy tgeld put in most of his time, and all of his gall, e courts, the very branch of thg v to perpetuate it by measuring by the constitution. tgeld closed his initiation of Jefferson 1 ranks with several mouthfuls of ve B s popularity as the avatar of The cold figures that stand over against hot ones are that the Democratic vote for Cleve- lznd increased 705,888 between 1884 and 1892. The Republican vote increased in the same time 350,910, showing 2 less rate by reason of the popularity of certain things for which Mr. Cleveland’s personality But by 1806 that tendency to decrease was The Republican vote that year increased 1,608, and the Democratic vote only 1,652,070, on the vote of 1884; the Republican gained on the Democratic increase 629,628 votes. - If this is evidence of Colonel Bryan's popularity, let it continue. all of the Gover into the figures, to 1 ferson sfood changed Mayor Phelan’s bank is about to erect a building on Market street, near Geary, the dimensions of which are to be fifty-three feet by ten stories. What was that about “people living in tall towers”? Supervisor Brandenstein thinks it is as muchsas 2 man’s life is worth to go to'some of our Jocal theaters. He must have seen some of those Eastern farces which recently afflicted us. | of the tax | of shippers to do so. ay not be reasonable, and there- | iid not readily accept the constitution in | cy in government, and he found in it | majority | Michigan, scems to have disposed of the contention that it is the duty of express companies generally, ua- der the war revenue law of 1898, to stamp their re- ceipts, bills of lading or other evidences of the con- tract of carriage; but it does not appear to have settled the other and equally as important contention shirking corporations that it is the duty From the meager condensation of Justice White's opinion forwarded by telegraph we gather that the court has upheld the right of the carrier and shipper | te contract on the subject., In other words, it has been decided that the war revenue law does not im- pose the duty on ecither of the parties, but leaves them to arrange for the stamping between them. If this is a correct statement of the point made by Jus- tice White, the contumacious express corperations of | California may still be compelled to stamp their re- ceipts and bills of lading. The laws of this State have something to say upon the subject, and if they are not in conflict with the Federal statute—and they are not—they may be invoked and given effect in the cases now pending in the local courts against Wells, Fargo & Co. Section 2130 of the Civil Code say “A carrier must subscribe and deliver to the consignor, on de- mand, any reasonable number of bills of lading, of the same tenor, expressing truly the original contract of carriage, and if he refuses to do so the consignor may take the freight from him and recover from him, besides, all damage thereby occasioned.” And section 2169 makes it obligatory on a common | carrier to “accept and carry whatever is offered to 2 he undertakes or is accustomed to carry.” Other sections make a bill of lading property and assign- able for value. Under our code, therefore, Wells, Fargo & Co. must issue bills of lading on demand, which necessarily implies legal bills of lading, and since the war revenue act imposcs a fine of $50 for every illegal bill issued, there.is no logical way out of the difficulty except for it to issue stamped instru- ments. It follows, therefore, that all California | mand legal bills of lading, and if they arc not forth- | coming withdraw their property and bring suits for | damages. | The right to contract for the payment of charges | other than the cost of freightage spoken of by Jus- tice White has unquestionably been en away from common carriers in California by the sections of the g Civil Code quoted above, and if the Supreme Court | has gone no further in shifting the burden of this tax upon shippers than is indicated by the telegraphic | accounts of its decision, there is still a chance out here to make the express companies buy their own stamps and ‘cancel them. If they continue to resist after the law has been interpreted in this way, and fitted into the code; it will be in order for shippers to withdraw their patronage and drive them out of [ the State, or for the Attorney General to bring suit for the forfeiture of their franchises. The Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans | | of Portland decided to m&t at the same hour as the Republicans. There was some consolation in being in evidence at one stage of the campaign at least. The Oakland footpad whose plea that bad associ- ates led him away did not save him from San Quen- tin will find now that the same kind of associates will wnt he able to lead him away for some time | him, at a reasonable time and place, of a kind that |- chippers need do with Wells, Fargo & Co. is to de- | | of 1,000,000 acres of land have been set apart for it | in the Shenandoah Valley, 400 miles from Denver. It is to be known as “The National Rough Rider | Military Encampment,” and its object is to train young men in all the tactics of mounted infantry—-a class of troops which the South African war is prov- ing to be of wonderful efficiency since the introduc- tion of the weapons now in use among civilized na- tions. The instruction given will cover all that is required to make a first-class mounted trooper, or officer, in- cluding rough riding, scouting, trailing, signaling, and all tactics suitable to that kind of service. A re- cent circular announces: “Governor Charles S. Thomas of Colorado is the official head, and General 2. V. Sumner of the United States cavalry service is the military head of the new organization. Asso- | ciated with them as a board of governors are General Irving Hale, U. S. V., Colonel S. K. Hooper of | Denver, David H. Moffat of Denver and C. D. Gur- |ley of New York. * * * The co-operation of the | War Department and the services of non-commis- | sioned officers have been secured. The young men will be permitted to join by regular enlistment. They will be sworn to serve one year, the time required for the training. Each man will be supplied with a horse, equipment, clothing for the entire year, rations and instructions.” If the enterprise be conducted with care it may develop into one of the best training schools for young men in the country. A year of such drill and practice in the open air of Colorado would be bene- | ficial to every young man who can afford it, and the camp will doubtless be attractive to thousands. It ie probable, morcover, that it may be so directed by | governmental influences as to train a valuable corps of auxiliaries to the regular army. A good deal of fun was made of Weyler's typa- writer during the closing days of Spanish rule in | Cuba, but after all the machine appears to have told the news better than Roberts’ censorship apparatus. The willingness with which some witnesses in the Fair case admit that they have lied is a reasonably clear indication that they are still at their trade. Per- baps when they say they lied they are lying. The Toronto Mail says that owing to his large lum- ber interests in Canada General Alger will probably make that country his home hereaiter; and if the Canadians wish him they can have him. About the only subject on earth upon which Bryan cannot talk is Dewey’s candidacy, and yet that is perhaps the only thing that has given him any really serious thought for a year. \ . General Otis’ is coming home and perhaps he is coming with a bee in his bonnet and the intention of _putting himself in the hands of his friends. The prominent actor who looked.upon the wine the other day and disgraced himself refuses to talk. Per- haps he is still speechless. The exposition will doubtless be the biggest thing in Paris this year, but the size of the hotel bills will push it pretty close. It is now a question for debating societies whether Roberts has Bloemiontein or Bloemfontein has Roberts. 3 3 MR.SATZENT 1 AM SROOST MINE GEITING et STOP THE JAPANESE INVASION. California Press Protests Against the Coming of Hordes of Little Brown Men. e gei et LOS ANGELES EXPRESS. 1t would be serfous enough If the Japanese coming to this country were of the better class, but if the reports from Yokohama are correct such is not the case. It is alleged that charitable societies and possibly the municipal governments of Japanese citles are taking a hand in the shipping of Japanese pauper laborers to this country, and it is further alleged that destitute Asiatics are not allowed to congregate at Yokohama and Tokio, but are sent across the Pacific as fast as possible, this belng the cheapest way of getting rid of the undesirable citizens. n the absence of anything else, the law in regard to the immigration of labor- ers under contract should be rigidly enforced until something can_ be done to check the evil. We cannot afford to be made the dumping ground for Asia, and that is what is in store for us unless prompt and energetic action is taken. R BLUE LAKE ADVOCATE. The Japanese are now pouring into this country by hundreds and thousands. ‘We are informed that upon three steamers, one recently arrived in San Francisco and two others about due, eleven hundred of the “little men” will be landed at that port. Probably as many are landing at the Sound ports. Now that they are pointed this way the stream will increase until it will equal the flood of Chinese which afflicted us some years ago, and are here now to curse us with their presence. We need the same kind of legislation against the Japs that was applis to the Chinese. It is high time for the laborers of this country to give this matter some thought and take some action in reference to it. e A GRASS VAI LEY UNION. It is true that Japan is a country far less populous than China, but yet Japan could easily send many thousands to this State who would never be missed from their own country. Those already here act as advertisers for Cali- fornia, and the tendency is to a steadily increasing Iimmigration from the Mikado's empire. Should this immigration continue, as seems inevitable, the question of restriction must be seriously considered. It may seem a ha:dshl;) to shut out such inoffensive and intelligent little men as the Japs, but the welfare of American labor should be the first consideration and the controlling one. * e SAN JOSE MERCURY. If the Japs continue to pour into the Pacific Coast States it will be in order for the Government to intimate to the Japanese Government that its subjects are making themselves too numerous here, and there is little question that a mild but plain protest of this sort would have the effect of stopping this un- desirable immigration. If not, it will be the duty of Congress to give the subject its serious conslderation. . o BAN DIEGO SAN DIEGAN SUN. Are the Japs trying to play the recent American game of expansion or is their coming due to a pulling influence at work in this country? In other words, are the Japs coming because they want to come or are they coming on some- thing like an lllefnl labor contract? This question will be answered sooner or later, awfl a whole lot will depend upon the answer. S STOCKTON MAIL. There will soon be an opportunity for the exercise of statesmanship in the relations between the United States and Japan. It is necessary that Japanese immigration into this country should be stopped, and yet it is very desirable, in view of our commercial exsan!don and ambitions In the Orient, that the United States and Japan should be on friendly terms. B SAN JOSE HERALD. ‘With Japanese landing on this coast at the rite of two or three thousand a month it is time to take up the question of Japanese exclusion in earnest. SAN FRANCISCO'S CULTURE. The Call does not hold ftself responsible for the opinions published in this column. but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest, F the present season is to be taken as the standard of the status of our city in artistic and literary opportunity San Francisco can no longer be reproached by her Eastern city sisters for paucity In opportunities for pure and true culture. Notyonly has this season been one re- markable for its bounty of musical art of the highest order—the best in the sev- eral departments have not disdalned to come to us, nor have we failed in mu- nificent recognitign of splendid achieve- ment—but now, at its close, our liberal- minded adopted fellow citizen, Prince Poniatowski, brings to our very door, al- most to our hearthstone, an opportunity for lterary enjoyment and education which may perhaps be said to excel in the department of pure letters and schol- arship any public ft for which San Francisco has thus far had cause to re- turn her public thanks. ‘We refer to the course of lectures now bein flven at Hearst Hall, Berkeley, b M. d‘e egnier, a high exponent of Frenc poetry, and here be it remarked, notwith- standing the reproach so often thrown at us of lge commercialism of the age d markedly that of our own nation, that never has there been a time when poetry as a high art has had so well defined a basis, has so combined intellectual lines with emotional color as it does to-day, and if we allow it to be profanely spoken of as “a drug in the market,” we may indeed further add, a drug which brings healing to the Sore heart and establishes harmonlous conditions of intellectual health. M. de Regnier's first lecture was upon the sonnets of Jose Maria de Heredi who at this moment stands at the head of that school of poetry, ranking directl. opposite to the school of symbolism, an so does Heredia excel In his characteristic style that sonnets are true cameos in verse, each making one unrelated, in- dividual clrvlnt. unequaled and Insular in the domain of poetry. So high do these rank that it is said the lgerit of this one little book alone, “The Trophies,” made its author one of the forty immortals that compose the Institute of ce. Not every one, to be sure, has so exact a knowledge of the guage as :o m?kfl clearly gnlalll‘lbll:g h.lr:ll:“:he :r; nal verse so classic and so e e, bu lglsm gmdleo. through one of its resi- dent litterateurs, has been given the honor of introducing to English literature in the form of translation the complete collection of the sonnets of Heredia, and S0 su ul Edward R n Tay- ;or bo;:flg:xc ‘l l.wlt_ti‘k. tptehrtect u!'n umnet 3 m of the original, per- !g:;tmm und ing and unravelin, pe;‘ ::%""* f mmuonnn' 2: R uch une of 5 T y S men as Edmund Gosse, R. Garnett, Edw. Dowden, Benson and the like, have given him high rank as poet, translator and scholar. MRS. DR. L. C. LANE. PERSONAL MENTION. Jasper Harrell, a Visalla capitalist, is at the Lick. Dr. John Law, a mining man of Lead- ville, is at the Palace. C. W. Munson, a wealthy resident of Chicago, is at the Palace. Charles E. Bigelow, a capitalist of Santa Barbara, is at the Palace. J. B. Sommers, a well-known mining man of Yerington, is at the Lick. Digby Bell, the famous actor and play- wright, is a guest at the California. C. O. Scott, a merchant of Cleveland, | Ohio, and wife, are at the Palace. J. G. Scott, proprietor of the Lick Paper Mills at Agnews, is at the California. L. Hauseman, a cattleman of Montague, Siskivou County, Is registered at Grand. George A. Hutchinson, a well-known merchant of Chicago, is staying at the Palace. J. McNeil, superintendent of the Elec- tric Power Company of Santa Cruz, is a guest at the Palace, N. Blackstock, the Rallroad Commis- sloner, is at the Grand. Mr. Blackstock came to this city to attend a session of the commission. . Charles E. Olney, a prominent lumber- man of Grand Rapids, Mich., Is at the Occidental. R. Kondo and M. Olagana, representa- ' tives of the Japanese Government, are | staying at the Occidental. ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 18.—Charles F. Craig of San Francisco is at the Holland; L. W. 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