The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1900, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 18 1500 5 THE LATE CONVENTION. \1 HE Oakland Enquirer hears, and notes, that the 1 delegation to the Republican National Conven- tion, elected at Sacramento, proposes to elect Dan Burns as member of the National Committee. This is entirely probable, and would be in line with the Sinister course of politics heretofore taken by that | element which dominated in the personalities of the convention. . The evil qualities in a party must ferment them- | pccress Ali C 4 Third, 8. F. PUBLICATION O Tel arket a 1868, EDITORIAL MOOMS....Z217 te 221 Stevemsom St. | Telephone Main 1874 | | selves out, as does feculence in water. The personal | Delivered %y Carriers. 16 Cents Per Week. incidents at Sacramento were the last efforts of that element in California Republicanism. That kind of work is the only kind of which it is capable, and there If any need be no surprise that it acts that way. blame attach anywhere, it is to the indifferent mem- sobseriptions. bers of the party who permit it, and then wonder why P sy DRl S SO victories come so hard and so high, and why so often | VAKLAND OFFICE . ....1118 Broadway | If the act of the convention not at ali. ind expressive of its ideas duals were real} urposes, of its party loyalty, and of its opinion | of the uses to which a party should be put, the elec- | tion of Burns as National Committeeman is a per- | toward | and p LSPONDENT: -.Henald Squ fit conclusion. True, it may alienate votes, it may chill influences much needed to secure success | . el 11; it may disgust Republicans to the point of | next fa CHICAGO »EWS STANDS: defa Eherman House: P ws Co.; Great Northers Hote! the self respecting independent vote—but if it is in corner of f:;k“"c’;; line with the genius of the convention no one need 1| be surprised. Jt will simply prove that the forces which were not gtrong enough to debauch and de- | stroy the party in the Legislature were tapable of the i lesser exertion and lighter task of doing it untimely | | harm in its convention. During the session of that body The Call and its proprietor were under discus- BRANCH OFFIC ntgomery, es, oven until n, provoked by attacks coming from the Burns boss machine of San Francisco. This | turned upon support of the party policy. discussion There is one point in that policy at which the entire attacking force of the Bryanists will be aimed. Every intelli- | t Republican knows what that point is. The Porto n tariff, afterncon and | tentative measure to give the country Saturday, May AUCTION SALES. e to stu its new responsibilities and the method | of meeting them, has already been selected as the e in the Republican works upon which the he enemy will be trained. As was truly n the convention, at that point The Call has al- ready gathered and put in action the means of de- What other strong Republican agency has ? From what other have succors and re- The Call represents no per- But it does represent loyalty to the Republican party and fense done this inforcements appeared? sonal ambitions, of its proprietor or any other. | vertising fences permanently upon the city. | the bill-poster or property-owner. ing at the polls, and may turn away from us ’. tion In the i Senate it seemed i uch picturesque- and unfettered ame text, dependent d originality of ’ played by ex- ers becomes a orce would do no dy 1 without a c 1 to vote him out. er d him w re- regret n on the scene | t went again, disclosing | nd bearing the appoint- sstowed by the Lieutenant Governor /| pents of power and 1 e Senator- expected, the can politics. acting Gov- rk had been | 1 held a seat and vacated it | happened during a re- i the Governor, acting e Quay case, appointed | s most interesting. Ir. Clark. It do It is novelty it- | will look with interest upon | CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS. organizations that are ne and our.country ‘is deavor Association;, 1 session at Stock- vears since it was founded, and members the millions. and augmenting with' a ire even more remark- I past n will show the strength nake manifest the means by so much., It has the double ! vouthful ardor. Tts mem- en and women who under es would exert a potent influence in es, and who, by the added strength zation and harmony of sentiment, among the strongest factors which he development of the life of our by The work of d of similar associations is dis- tinctly b would be impossible to set bounds to the good which such organizations work in any community. Their influences extend far be- i the res energies, and by them life is er for many persons who never their lives come into direct contact iation that has helped them. Stockton has given to the convention a reception worthy of it. The true Californian spirit of hospi- tality has been shown in every phase of the arrange- ments made for the meeting. The occasion is there- fore one which will be remembered with gratification by all who share in it either as hosts or guests. | can. otion to its intergsts, and the statement made to ntion that it has the sympathy and support of forty-nine out of every fifty Republicans in the State is undoubtedly true. Turning it down, then, is not a vengeful victory over any man’s ambition, but the act stands as public punishment administered | by a convention for having represented the wish and e welfare of forty-nine fiitieths of the party. The X not injured, and its proprietor has lost nothing | of the least personal consequence to him. But the | convention has made the party seem to repudiate and spit upon its own professions, and treat as punishable | it approves as most | This is the To elect Burns only makes that | offenses those things which needed to make it strong and successful. m that is done. arm plainer, and the need of The Call and the pro- priety of its course more apparent. We stand ready to do our part of the increased | necessary to carry the State. g We are | prepared to shoulder our part of unnecessary { burden with which the election of Burns will handi- | rty, for we realize that what is done and is threatened means the the cap the pa what last. appearance of Burns and his influence in the organization. As we toiled to avert the greater danger of his election to the Senatorship, we will do what we can to nullify | and cancel the lesser danger of his recognition by the delegation. ,Having saved a city from being | sacked and burned by a freebooter, the good soldier | does not complain of the lesser duty of protecting it | from burglars. It is a proper illustration of the Burns methods that | no rumor of his ambition to be a member of the Na- | tional Committee was permitted to escape before and | during the convention. So his Senatorial candidacy was kept under close cover until the party had left the polls a winner in 1898. Then when the chance to get an expression upon his ambition had passed the cover was lifted and the conspiracy was disclosed. The proprietor of The Call submitted himself to | the suffrage of the convention openly as a Republican, was defeated as a Republican, and remains a Republi- That is not the Burns way. His bossism is of a peculiar kind. politics. It wears a mask. It practices concealment. It follows gopher It lures others to exertions and, when they succeed, suddenly jumps from ambush and snatches from them the results. | We are convinced that it played its last engage- '; ment on the boards at Sacramento, and that hereafter | when its revenges are put in action the party will inquire into its purposes and compel their disclosure. The Republican party, under the circumstances, needs more than ever the loyalty and labor of the' men who are intellectually joined to its fortunes. The Call has not overestimated their influence, for it has done nothing and can do nothing without them. The party was born of the purposes of such men. It was brought into being in a high cause, as the crea- tion of men who were glad to sacrifice themselves for it, to spend and be spent in its promotion, It was not whelped like a mongrel, to be used for the profit of the base. : ——— Sometimes political orators feel more deeply than they speak. Sometimes they forget the fashion of- the hour and speak more truthfully than they know. Ii ever there was a political campaigner who spoke from the bottom of his heart with a wish that was surely father to the thought it was Grove L. John- son at Sacramento when he begged his hearers to *Jet the dc_ad past bury its dead.” 3 —_— The University of California has sent forth another little army of student graduates, each armed with clenched teeth and inflexible determination to reform a wicked world. The icé trust in New York is about the coldest deal ever sprung upon the people of that city, but they are getting hot enough to melt it. THE BILLBOARD ORDINANCE. 'HE ordinance recommended the other day by the Judiciary Committee of the Board of Su- pervisors legalizing advertising fences twenty feet in height not only does not meet the popular de- mand for an abatement of the billboard nuisance, but it is a positive concession to the bill-stickers. In- deed. the ordinance will, if passed, fasten high ad- As the law stands at present there is no legal au- thority for the erection of these fences. I one of them should fall and break the crown of an incau- tious pedestrian a suit for damages would lie against But if the fences are legalized and inspected by the municipal authori- ties, as is proposed by the ordinance, it may and probably will be contributory negligence to walk on their side of the street or venture within striking distance of them. If these unsightly and unwholesome nuisances must be tolerated in the interest of the bill-posting firms which have influenced the Judiciary Committee to report this ordinance, they should be limited to ten feet in height and forbidden on all the principal thoroughfares. Fences ten feet high could probably be constructed so as to be comparatively safe, and certainly such a space ought to accommodate enough illuminated literature to satisfy the demands of the cigar, sodawater, circus and cigarette loving public. The paste and filth emanating from a ten- foot fence might, indced, be reduced to a minimum by careful inspection. But fences which tower twenty feet in the air should not be permitted under any circumstances. No matter how securely such contrivances are con- | structed, they are always a menace to the lives of pedestrians, and it is little less than an outrage for | the Judiciary Committee to even contemplate yield- ing them to the bill-posters. There is no doubt whatever that the people who advocate the suppres- sion of the advertising fence nuisance in this city | would prefer no legislation at all to the passage of this ordinance, which authorizes the fences, and to that extent indorses them. A crusade against cap- ping for faro which would result in legalizing the game and prescribing conditions under which it might be played would bear considerable resemblance to the consideration which the Judiciary Committee has shown these billboard pests. The Phelan ad- ministration has already presented the town with sev- eral disconcerting legislative gifts. If it is sufficiently bold to confer upon it twenty-foot advertising fences the zenith of impudence may be considered to have been reached. If the Supervisors are in any doubt as to the sen- timent of the people with reference to the billboard abomination let them poll a few blocks inhabited by intelligent citizens. We venture the prediction that nine out of every ten persons casually encountered will declare that advertising fences are dirty, un- Lealthy, unsightly and dangerous, and that they ought to be abolished. Such being the case, thers should be no hesitation in adopting measures neces- sary to suppress or at least restrict them. San Francisco, it may be added, does not exist for the benefit of bill-stickers, nor yet for the profit of the unprogressive property-owners who are encour- aged to maintain unimproved lots by the revenue de- rived from a tall fence covered with advertisements of sodawater, cigarettes and alcoholic drinks. This city is organized and conducted as a place of residence fo- peaceful people, intent on extracting as much com- | fort from life as possible. It is an insult to the in- telligence of these men and women to insist that the town shall be covered with paste and paper and the streets made dangerous to travel by the presence upon the sidewalks of billboards twenty or even ten feet high. If the bill-stickers cannot be entirely suppressed | they should be driven off the principal streets and | restricted to low anA safe fences. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FORESTS S a result of the campaign of education on the fl subject of forestry and the protection of our woods, a movement has been started in the East to bring about a reform in the present methods of governmental administration of that department of our affairs. In this, as in many other respects, the laws of the United States are more like a patchwork | of conflicting statutes than an orderly system of ad- ministrative control, and much of the inefficiency of | the Government in dealing with forestry problems is due to that cause. The administration of forests on the national do- main is committed to the General Land Office. The work of mapping and déscribing the reserve forests is in the hands of the Geological Survey. The author- 1ty over forestry interests and the establishment of relations between the Government and private own- ers of forests are in the hands of the forestry division of !h‘ Department of Agriculture. Thus there are three bureaus to supervise the one subject, and as an inevitable consequence there is a degree of divided responsibility and power which prevents good results. It is asserted by the advocates of reform that the control of the whole forestry problem should be placed in the forestry division of the Department of Agriculture, the argument being that the General Land Office is not capable of attending to it. Forest administration is a matter of scientific maragement. In fact, we have now reached a point in our develop- ment where trees will have to be regarded as grow- ing crops and be carefully cultivated, just as fruit trees are cultivated in orchards, so that the forests will be renewed and not destroyed as, they have been in the past. Such cultivation would of course be more fitly placed under control of the Department of Agriculture than of any other. Some time ago the forestry division undertook to advance the science of forestry on a comprehensive scale by offering to co-operate with States and with private owners in the care of woods belonging to them. This offer has been promptly taken up, and iz is said the division has now on file applications for working plans from private owners of over 2,000,000 acres, and references from the Interior Department covering 47,000,000 actes more. Thus it will be seen the division is rapidly advancing its work for the preservation of forests, while the General Land Office has hardly done anything. That showing in itself is a strong argument in favor of vesting the entire con- trol of forests in the division, to the exclusion of any 1 | Z Z R. ——New York Herald DRIVE AWAY THE BLOODSUCKE P R R R R R S o R e R e o B e B B e S S S | ! | | | § B THAT AT AT AT AT AT AT RCTET X XA RT R R R AT A TR T AT ATHA T AT AR @ IS THE WORLD GROWING HAPPIER ? By Susan B. Anthony. B AT ATHTATATATATAT AT AT AT AT AT A TAT AT R AT AT AT AT AT RS A SAS @ the world growing happler? I will attempt to answer , property-holding, self-supporting, capable, Independent women only for womankind. Yes, womah is happier than ever | suddenly transplanted into the condition of two generations before in the world's history, and this fact alone dem- | ago—education, even in the common branches, placed beyond onstrates that the whole human family is happler and | thelr reach: every occupation closed to them except sewing, 0 » A Q * ) other bureau whatever, for the department which does the work should be that which has authority. T A T S r—— One of the speakers at the Huntington banquet spoke eloquently on “cinders,” The theme possibly had something to do with that smoke which issues not from engine stacks but from the law department of the Southern Pacific Company. The Board of Public Works has again been de- nounced by citizens for its extravagance. “The people of San Francisco seem to entertain the preporterous idea that under our “reform” government public office is not a private snap. \ better. If man were growing worse and more miserable it would be wholly impossible for woman to be happy, for it is an axiom as old as life itself that the two must rise or fall together. Every organization of women in existence to-day is actu- impelled Eve apple—a desire for knowledge—and every one utilize this knowledge for the betterment of social conditions. Even the anti-suffrage soclety, which might be considered an exception to this rule, Is trying to block the wheels of progress | because it believes that it ds better for woman to bear the ills she has than fly to others that she knows not of. This has been the situation during the past half century whenever it was proposed to make any change in the condition of woman: that it would bring discontent to her and unhappi- ness to the family; if she received an education it would unfit | her for the duties of wifehood and motherhood; if the married | woman were permitted to own property she would desert her husband and children; If those of the poorer classes were al- | lowed to control their wages domestic chaos would result; if women entered the trades and professions immorality would ated by the same object that reign supreme. In direct contradiction to these pessimistic forebodings every progressive change In the condition of women has brought to them an immeasurable increase of happiness. The only way in which even an approximate estimate of this can be made is to imagine the present generation of educated, | teaching and factory work; the wife robbed of her own prop- spair. to eat the is trying to | It was only the Creator t complete freedom. for development. they lacked a Moses to lead them out of the wil ey endured so long and so patiently. at last and experienced the joy of even a partial liberty they will not pause until they have atta erty the moment she was married; the mother deprived of all guardianship over her own children. what would be their humiliation, their wretchedness, thelr de- We would see such a revoit, such a revolution, as the world has never known. because women were taught it was the will of It is impossible to picture should be in subjection, only because derness, that t having emerged E d the full happiness of No one can observe the busy, broad and useful lives of the women of to-day, the splendid work they are doing for the world, without realizing the vastly increased happiness the closing years of the century have brought to them. The gulf between us and our foremothers is no wider than that which exists between ourselves and those future genera- tions who shall have an absolutely untrammeled opportunity This will be possible only when there ghall be placed upon the brow of woman the crown of citizenship and sikle by side with man she may work for the regeneration | of the world, enforcing her will, as he enforces his, by tha supreme authority of the ballot. not put into words the happiness which will come to ‘woman, and through her to the race, when this right is hers. The most powerful pen can~ PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. L. B. Baldwin, U. 8. N, is at the Occidental. Ex-Judge Thomas B. Bond of Lakeport is at the Grand. M. Biggs Jr., a land owner of Oroville, | is at the Grand. J. F. Condon, a merchant of Verdi, Nev., is at the Grand. A. P. Stewart of the C. and A. Rallroad is at the Occidental. Charles Schirmer, ex-Assessor of So- lano County, is in the city. F. Rockefeller, a mining man of Cleve. land, Ohio, 1s registered at the Palace. Fred Dodd, proprietor of the Hughes House, Fresno, is registered at the Lick. G. G. Medburg, & big importer of silks, is here from New York, registered at the Tdck. Thomas W, Patterson, president of the Fresno National Bank, is stopping at the Grand. D. McFarland, a prominent young club- man of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Palace. John Hays Hammond of South Africa fame is expected in San Francisco in a few days. Ex-Senator James McCudden came down from Vallejo yesterday and is reg- istered at the Grand. W. H. Brown, a mining man of Oregon, arrived from Portland yesterday and.is stopping at the Lick. Y. Murota, Japanese Minister to Mex- ico, registered at the Palace yesterday. He is en route to the Orient. Thomas White and wife arrived yester- day from Phoenix and are at the Russ, Mr. White is a prominent mining man. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.| NEW YORK, May 17.—Robert Maxwell of San Diego is at the Astor; H. S. Don- nelly and wife of Los Angeles are at the Empire. —_——————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, May 17.—Representa- tive Metcalf arrived here to-night from Oakland. Frank Bishop of San Francisco is at the Raleigh; Alex Hay and wife and Samuel W. Burtchall of S8an Francisco are at the St. James. ——— CALIFORNIANS IN PARIS. NEW YORK, May 17.—The following San Franciscans are in Paris: Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Leven- tritt, W. A. Grubb, Jerome A. Bassitz and Mr. and Mrs. H. Payot. the Sunday Call of May 20. If you cannot go, the next best thing is to read about it, and The Call will give full and il- lustrated accounts. e s e S 444444440440 | | D DO DGO DD DD DD DD DD DD e the scene upon the stage. The caused a flutter of sympathy to pass through the audlence. “No great harm | done,” sald the comedian. *‘Just hand me | a napkin, a glass of water and a salt | cellar.” These were brought, and he sat | down, folded the napkin in the form of a bandage, dipped it in the glass and | emptied the salt cellar on the wet part. | Having thus prepared a compress accord- | ing to preseription, and when every one | expected he would apply it to his fore-| head, he gravely rose and tled it round | the pillar.—Collier's Weekly. | | .-4—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—-0-’ £ FASHION HINT FROM PARIS, ¢ O——o—o— P-t—0—a-o -4 ! | | | S o ! g A o % 2 O a ty & i )./ g o ot Fov T¥r, 2 "5’!‘/‘5?»'3-' g i AR 5 D ) oW e Y S NS 9 & & SU o (5.7 g . Er 109040004009+ 0 0409049040000 0D [ R R R Y RED GROUND FOULARD DRESS. | The dress represented is of red foulard, | printed Avith black with flowers of black Chantilly lace. The lapels and apron on the skirt are edged with the same lace. | tterns and tri e ‘ ‘&& mme: | make mention | guished.” | two_ persons without _des: | as President or Vice Pres 1 Have a new typ-eWriter, Andd it is my de: ight to patter on it gally¥ And write, and write! and write § It aldss mE in my laborrs9 When Im in WorkiNG veint It makeS A GREat improvEmentf) i write So veRY pLain. It oPerates soswiFt1Y$§ § that when yqOu find you're sTUck and CannoT fiNd the lettder Justbjab—and trusT to lucks$ (? It’s Easy — VEry e — To opeRAte it then;:; 736&7() Now where on garth’s that colon? ; x X x x x x Give me my ink and pen! ————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ,.HALF DOLLAR OF 180—T. B., Jose, Cal. .{A hal!g dollnrho! m‘i is_not . ‘0] BT o F s ® coln dealers PREMIUM CENT—Peerless, Sacra- thud | cording to the returns for 1399 the numert- cal strength of Free and Accepted Masons in the United States was 536,549, MAIL TO NOME-Subscriber, City, Steamers carrying mail to Cape Nome will leave this city on the following dates: May 25, July 5, July 25, August 15. From Seattle—May 2, June 2 and July 3. MASONIC BANK-S. Redlands, Cal, The Masonic Savings and Loan Soclety its final dividend of 131 per cent, ing a total of % 31-100 paid depositors, in September, 1991 The copartnership hag een dissolved and uncalled for dividends were turned over to the State Treasurers LIGHTS EXTINGUISHED—J. L. €., The several published accounts of ral Grant's tour of the world do not that “when he visited the lights were extin- There is mention of his visit én Eubun, but no mention of a visit to ork. ELECTING A PRESIDENT—Subsecrib- er, City. Prior to the adeption of the tweifth amendment to the constitution of the United States the electors voted for ignating efther ident. e ona receiving the highest number of votes was President. If no one had a majority the House was to choose from the fiva highest. Under the twelfth amendment mal Cork, Ireland, | the electors vote for President and Vice President and If the elections go to the House of Representatives the choice is from the three instead of the five highest. —_———— Peanut crisp at Townsend's. — e Splendld Alacuma at Townsend's. * —_——————— DeliclousRoman caramels atTownsend's.® e Look at our handsome fire-etched boxeg for Cal. glace fruits at Townsend's. ¢ —_——————— Special fhformation supplied daily to bust houses and public men tha e Clipping Durcat (Allsn D). 510 Moty gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, ¢ ——————————— An Epitome of a Century’s Progress. Professor—Miss Flavilla, mention a few of the most wonderful scientific Inven- tions of the nineteenth century. 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