The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 8, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1900. S. LEAKE, Mana vv....Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. .Market_and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOM St Tele, ne Press Deltvered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms b Including Postage: receive ded when requested. .1118 Broad YORK REPRES] MITH.... Hotel orthern 31 Unton Square; THE TRIUMPH OF THE FIRE DRILL. e credit I as to the tances an ounce of pre- nd of cure, and the maxim 1 to be prevented is Over iding on fire. ck of ed in theaters and re £0 numerous be dis- n of oyr public fire in one of ils be fol- en the in. g in its na- i the school autho tiés in pro- 1 2 thorough prevention against one of the most important San Francisco has been » might have filled hun- h g. The lesson showd ny portion of the community. ven of the excellent work re doing in the training s thousands of our people have Governor ks understanding and a scientific His Excelle eplies that he possesses com- mon sense. As any investigation, critical or otherwise, has been able to discover, the cherished ar- ticle is not carried under his Excellency’s hat. mind . as Mayor Phelan’s it to a Grand Army veteran who was opposed to a clause of the charter gives per- haps his Honor’s best conception of what a reform government in San Francisco must be. It is purely 2nd simply a worship of the Phelan hat. fortunate as the collapse of the Boers’ gallant le for Tiberty has been, there is some compensa- tion in the fact that the sophomoric platform-makers of the Democracy have been robbed of a few plati- - tudes ;. ko) s General Otis says that the better class of Filipinos have an inborn, uncompromising love of nationality. There are always two sides to 2 question after all, and a generous foe is ever ready to admit the fact. v strig _Weilington Hotel | 1S occurred where 2 coolness and courage of | ier their charge, and it one for | HANNA DEFIES HIS FOES. ONGRESS is closing the session with a bang C in both houses. The discussions of the week have been marked by efforts on the part of the more reckless leaders of the Bryanite factions to for- { mulate something iike material for the campaign. Thus there has been on their side more wrangling the committee was unable to reach a decision on the | than debate, more rhetoric than reason, and an the subject, and both plans were referred to a'joint com- | part of certain demagogues frequent outbursts of-pas- mittee consisting of the executive and advisory com- | sion and folly less like the arguments of sane men ees, with power to act. Upon that committee, | than the tavings of lunatics. re, devolves tie duty of arranging a plan which | Senator Hanna has long been the parti¢ular object defcat any schemes the bosses may have to obtain | of the malignity of the yellow journals, and borrowing ol of the party machinery, and which will se- | the weapons of those irresponsible bushwhackers oi cure every loyal Republican in his right to a fair and | politics several of the loose-tongued advocates of e in the organization of the clubs. 5 Bryanism have on more than one occasion made use ions in committee may bf TINOT | of them in the Senate itseli. These attacks, though matters in themselves, but they serve to point once contemptible in their nature, have been irritating, and more the w ng The Call has so often repeated. | 4t Jast Senator Hanna has lost patience and turned | n the Republic ity in the Lez'fiatm:c en- | ypon his malicions foes. He has dealt with them ed upon the tas electing a United States | (nce and for all so far as present issues are concerned, THE DUTY OF REPUBLICANS. ROM the temper displayed at the meeting of ! [:the Republican County Committee on Thursday | evening it is evident there are dangers ahead for | the party in this city, Two plans were submitted for { the organization of district clubs, and at once dissen- | sions arose. After a wrangle lasting nearly four hours equal v ns The di White it was made | a4 after his short speech of Tuesday it is not likely }mfkm o, e - | that any one will attempt again in the Senate to ar- ‘d a seheme | aek him when he is aroused from his usual coa- one of their own | temptuous indifference-to such enemies and is ready to fight. Pettigrew of South Dakota, in the course of his biatherskiting agains: the Republican party and its leaders, stated that Cramp, the Philadelphia ship- builder, contributed $400,000 to the Republican cam- paign fund in 1892 with the understanding that he | would be reimbursed by contracts . for the construc- tion of warships for the Government. It was a silly statement, and no one on the Republican side paid any attention to it. Thereupon Bacon of Georgia, with solemn pompousness, as if he were dealing with Al _ a grave subject, proceeded to repeat the charge and to Republican SUCCESS | say it had been denied neither by Senator Hanna, gn, and that is by ! present chairman of the Republican National Com- d-be bosses of all | niitee, nor by Senator Carter, who was chairman in one way to accomplish | 12855 Then the storm broke. 1, and that is by the | There are some libelers who are not much more im- It behooves all honest. | Lortant than gnats, but, as Queen Guinevere remarked ans to assert their "ighfs of them, “they sting.” The Senator from Ohio had m theif | feen stung once too often. The moment Bacon ut- | €S are not | tered the charge Hanra replied: “If I should under- | h‘_}’a“)' take to reply to all such statements made on this floor to mk_e control they will not | [ would occupy more of the time of the Senate than indifference ot careless- | even the Senator from Georgia does. I heard the (}”“““- they will at Once | statement and considered it unworthy of notice, and rergy and employ every resource of their | geclined to dignify it by a denial. I had nothing to corruption to profit by it and put | 4o with the campaign of 1892, but I have heard this story and I say most emphatically and decidedly that | I believe it is not true. So far as such allusions are | made to the campaign of 1806, I desire to say that no promises were made and no considerations were oi- fered to any person or any corporation for contribu-~ tions made.” He then reviewed the general course of Pettigrew in debate and closed by saying he some- times doubted the sanity of the man in putting such | things into the Congressional Record and expecting people to believe them. | Carter confirmed the statement of the Ohio Sena- tor, and added: “T say now that any charge that con- of party suc- eme at the regular on her when the extra session was7 ged by the disappointment, the field uttering threats against those wn them. Those threats they carried on, and now, flushed inery, ion to exclude de- v share in the control of al litical situation is in the | President McKinley is est popular men that ever ; his administration has ils throughout the lation; the Senator Bard e State as in therefore, promises victory, upon the provision t} duty. It is not a yellow dog rg, e is based ns do their t hon- KK .50 u(h,r‘n :Pa;.fu‘ Ra‘lf”“f S | tributions were received to be reimbursed through | to the Senate it is doudt- | the medium of Government contracts, or that any | ntages of the time, the promises were made to corporations or to individuals, have 51"fd California to the | ;. absolutely false and can be branded properly only as That danger is past, but another |, j;0 » appearance Oi. bcss’dominatiofl inthe | Of course it is not pleasant to say of a Unitedr » any suppression of the rank and file | Syaec Senator that he talks as if he were not sane, ion for office made by | g that his language ought to be branded as lying, c » will seriously compromise the | ¢ when a Senator persists in talking in that way campaign a:‘.d)\\ eak?n tlte c!_xar:cc_s of \'xctor‘,\_: what else can be said of him? Senator Hanna acted The moral of the situation is p""‘"j Republican suc- quite properly in crushing the pestiferous insect with in nd in this State is dependent upon | ;e blow. Why make two kicks at a Pettigrew, o vigor and resolution of that element of the party | pe jndirect in dealing with his pettigrewing? defeated the bosses in the Senatorial fight. The | who stand for heonest politics and true Repub- Republican column. An remains. of the p: d n he be W VIRGINIA AND NEGRO SUFFRAGE. ! T the recent conference held at Montgomery, i 5 < Ala., by representative Southern men to con- a denger ahead of the part‘.\' which sider the various problems growing out of the | , but it is a danger which can be easily | refations between the white and the negro races ntuch | i g ot & i il : Z 5 overcome if the loyal members of the party will be | (o5 caid of the duty of the dominant race to promote | ¥ 1, resolute and vigorou political responsibilities and duties of a Tt none can deny the welfare of the blacks and to fit them for the respon- | sibilities of freedom nd citizenship. From the tenor of the discussion it was hoped no further efforts would be made in any Southern State to deprive the negro of the privilege of voting, but it is now evident that the more liberal speakers at the conference are in advance of their countrymen. The demand for | restricting negro suffrage continues. The people of | | Virginia have resolved to revise their constitution | with the avowed object of depriving a large percent- age of negroes of the franchise, and in their eagerness to accomplish the work some of them have calied ston of the local Bureau of Immigration reports 1063 | :!}iori:;es]:is::fs?:h; :::::Z: :z:p;?:lu:e:s‘l::(:ei | arrivals of alien immigrants at this'port, during the | election of delegates to the constitutional convention H '“,"mh o \]a'y, Of ll‘e'se 380,“"0 foung.s and 688 | in November and thus get through with the work as | will remain in California. The nationalities repre- g | quickly as possible. » sented were:. Japanese, 437; English, 88; Korean, 19; Thi = i Mexican, 24; Portuguese,a8; Scandinavians, 11, and | _ i3 few evidence of what appears to be a wide- 5 # | spread determination throughout the South to elimi. Spanish-American, 11. The occupations were: Farm | hé § Titice 1 : S =7 B R ik e R = rate the negro from pol mcs.ls not e.ncourag"mg to the taborers, 202; mariners, 44; skilled + 255 €OM- | popes of those who put their trust in the liberal sen- 345 m"'-l—‘"]&d"(“ Sessisens; o, mcrc.hants, timents uttered at the Montgomery conference. The mclging women and childsen, | franchise in the hands of the ignorant is undoubtedly | bad, and if Virginia sought to impose some kind of | educational restriction upon white and black alike | there would be no objection. When, however, it is § proposed to so frame the restrictions as to make them | operative against men of a particular race and color, | there is hardly anything that can be said in favor of them. The best way for the Southern States to fit the negro for citizenship is to treat him with fairness, for so long as he is treated unfairly he will be dis- | contented and antagonistic to the whites, and there- | fore less inclined to profit by their teaching. There are other questions upon which the consti- tutional convention is expected to act, and upon some of these’ there is reason to believe that reform is needed. The State is said to be overburdened with office-holders, and it is the desire of the people to get rid of 2 good many of them by abolishing the offices. In that desire they will have abundant sympathy. It is to be hoped that when the convention meets it will be under the control of liberal men, and that if any- thing be done to deprive the negro of his vote it will at least leave a way open for him to obtain it again by education and thrift. There may be and doubtless are evils in the suffrage as exercised by negroes in their present condition of ignorance in the Southern States, but their citizenship has been established in the constitution of the United States, and none of them should be deprived without cause of the right to cast an honest vote and have it honestly counted. Another blow bas been struck at women’s rights, and the timid may cxpect to see the angry hosts in the field ready for battle. Congress is taking meas- ures to protect songbirds from destruction by those who kill the birds for their plumage, Some of Bryan’s fricnds declare it does not matter THE IMMIGRATION OF JAPANESE. INCE The Call first directed attention.to the menace of Japanese immigration there has been ampie evidence that the warning was ut- | tered not a day too soon. In fact, every development of the issue from that time to this has confirmed the statement that the problem is one of growing im- portance artd that the governmental authorities at Washington should act promptly in dealing with it. It was announced Wednesday that Statistician Eccle- mon labore: 37: mo occupation, | 133. It will be seen from the figures that the Japanese far exceed in numbers the people of any other na- tionality who are now arriving at this port. It is to be borne in mind. moreover, that the 437 who have entered this city direct do not by any means include a1l the Tapanese who came into the State last month. It is safe to say a considerable number found their way across the northern border, and that the total immigration is much larger than it appears. In this connection it is worth noting that recent reports from Hawaii are to the effect that the Japan- | ese in the islands “have been misbehaving themselves considerably of late on several of the plantations, and it is very evident they have disaffected leaders behind them.” 1If the reported discontent grow to serious proportions it is quite likely there may be something like a wholesale exodus of Japanese from Hawaii, and in such case they will almost certainly seek to better | their condition by coming to California. We shall | thus have a notable increase to the immigration | which comes direct from Japan, and the effect upon ]thc Jocz] laber market will be highly injurious. The danger of this immigration has been pointed lout to the administration and to Congress by the | Senators and Representatives from California, and we may reasonably expect that steps will be taken to pre- vent it in the near future. In the meantime it will be well for the people of the Pacific Coast to keep up the agitation for Japanese as well as Chinese restric- tion. The one sort of immigration is as bad as the other, or if there be zny difference it is to the advan- tage of the Chinese. The United States must be guarded against wholesale immigration of any kind of oriental labor. ¥ local Democrats have failed to break the “slate™ in their highly interesting convention they have at least the satisfaction, <o dear to the Democratic heart, of having broken several heads. | medicine. { Markham’s moun; | the fiithy lucre may cling to his hands as | comparison with | after open discussion mi: I nity. He will I(cogn The Schemes of the San Francisco Schoof Board. By Rev. Peter C. Yorke. This is the third and concluding artic'e of the series by the paster of St. I_’atcr’_s parish on the generai subject of education as conducted in our .u:hogls and universi- ties. Article I was entitled, ‘On the Smaller Colleges”; drticle I1I, “On the Attitude of the State University Toward Catholies.” B e B2 e R e e e HE charter which was submitted to the citizens of San Francisco in 159 was rejected because of its pro- visions against freedom of education. At the request of certain teacher pol- iticians the Freeholders had inserted a clause limiting the choice of teachers to graduates of the public school system of California. Against such an attempt to create an educational monopoly public sentiment revolted. The charter was de- feated. The people of this city were not willing then and are not willing now to surrender their right to select teachers wherever and however they can secure the best. But it would be a mistake to suppose that those teacher politicians lost courage or hope. They know so much better than the people what is good for the people’s children. The one thing necessary to se- cure the educational salvation of Cali- fornia is to give them full and everlasting control of the school system. With life positions, good salaries and unlimited patronage there is no knowing how high they might elevate the community. Of course they begin with San Fran- cisco. Let no one dare to insinuate that this Interest in San Francisco is dictated by the magnitude of San Franeisco's school system and the length of San Fran- cisco’s purse. That interest is purely pa- triotic and pedagogical. An enterprising doctor loves nothing so much as a rich patient with notions about diseases. Sci- ence is benefited by experiment, and the patient who has the means to pay for ex- periments and the belief that he needs them and the devotion to submit to them is a godsend to a poor but scientific prac- titioner. San Francisco is strong enough to support aad rich enough to tempt all the resources of science. The city has been doctored by every schoo: of political _ We have had government by mobs, government by corporations, gov- ernment by reformers, government by bosses, and we are now trying govern. ment by salaries. That this last form of municipal management finds favor in the €ves of the teacher politician is merely a coincidence. His thoughts are of higher things. With mental vision he sweeps tain peaks, and though he progresses through this vale of tears and politics he esteems it but as dross in the benefits his talents, Bis knowledge and his energy bestow on the youth of a generous an commonwealth, e Hence it is not surprising that those Who favored the mon 1 i opoly of in the old charter did not Jose hoge. ohch the new dispensation came into being. The Wit of man has never vet been able to | devise a treasury with only one door. was_ refected by the community ht be forced on er and oblique harter the task the community by means. Cnder 'the Tew © 11d not ifficult with a_manageable Mayor and the proper pulls. The on‘e con- dition of success is that the eyes of the people be blinded to the true meaning of the movement ard their eams decelved by :::{esslons of high aims ana disinterested I In dealing with public questions st this it is dlways necessary to Keep. s to first principies. It is true one runs the risk of being tedious, but it is better to be tedious than obscure and filogical. Prejudice and passion and self-interest are ever tending to hide the issues in such matters. In them a short-sighted view is always ‘a mistaken view. Without fre- quent reference to the great truths on which our civil polity is founded there is continual danger of stumbling into blund- ers. which are worse than crimes. There is no right more sacred than that of the parent {o his child. As.long as father and mother do their duty no power on earth is justified in interfering with them. The state can intervene only when that duty is manifestly neglected. and then only by duve process of law. In an ordinary family there is nothing the par- ents resent so much as the meddling of outsiders with their chiidren. If you wish to lose a man's friendship forever tell him how to manage his family. No father. To mother will suffer other people and other people’s ideas to rule the home. Now in the eyes of the parent the state is merely the other people of the commu- ize their right to in- sist ‘on_education because education is a public necessity. but he reserves to him- self the choice of teachers, of schools, of methods and of the kind of education that will_best advance the interests of his child. When parents associate themselves in school districts in order to support a system_of common schools they do not surrender these rights. They keep the management of the schools in the hands of their representatives. and they keep in their own hands the right to send their children to these general schools or to use other schools, if to use them should com- mend itself to their judgment. fllfi'ol!\ this principle three great results ow: 1. The schools belong to the people whose children use them. I do not mean, of course, that the schools exist only for those who have children actually attend- ing them, but I mean the peopie of the territory whose wants the schools are built to supply. Hence it is that in our system of government the school district is the smallest political unit enjoyving home rule. It is nearest to the people. In a large city where the system is naturally complex the truth of this conclusion is not evident at once. But let us take a country district with a few dozen fami- They have built their school and now comes the question who is to manage it? Surely they do not hand it over to the authorities of a county a hundred miles away. They eleet representatives or trustees—they elect them directly and they elect them for a short term. These trustees stand in the place of the people of that district, not in the place of thc people of any other district. They man- age the schools for the children of the locality and according to the local needs. This independence of the school district is guaranteed by the constitution even against all the people of the State. Not even our ure can pass a special enactment “providing for the manage- ment of common schools.” General laws there must be, but as long as those zene eral laws are obeved each school unit is self-contained and independent. What is true of the country school dis- trict fs true of San Francisco. The city schools belong to the city peovie. They do not belong to_the people of Alameda, Santa Clara or Sacramento. We dP not meddle with the schools of any ‘other county. Why should the people of any other county meddle with ours? Such m ng. no matter by whom, is posi- tively indecent and the man or board that suggests it is untrue to the interests of the'dty and a traitor to the people's 5. ‘The second result which flows from the general principle i that the schools for the children, not for the are teachers. In a country distriet. who hires | has beem teacher appointed by the teachers them- selves. This idea must be ever borne in min The schools are for the children, not for the teachers. Therefore the teach- ers are not_ the ruling power, but those who_stand for the children’s parents. 3. The third result which flows from the general principle is that the schools must not made the instrument of injustice to any clgss of the people. Not only must they be gpen to all under the same con- ditions, but they must confer no privi- lege in the face of the State which is not enjoved equally by every other citi- zen. “The children of the people have a right to an_education in the public schools, but they have a right to no more. Least of all in the matter of public em- ployment should they have a claim to spe- treatment. The door te public em- ployment should be open to every citizen | on equal terms. No man should be pun- ishéd directly or indirectly for using his legal rights. If a parent in his discretion educates his child in a system other than the public school system that child should suffer no disqualification for its parents constitutional act. That child should have as free access to public employment as the child brought up in the common school. Now employment in the public schools is public employmerit. It stands on precisely the same footing as_employ ment in the Postoffice or in the City Hall Therefore to make graduation in the pub. lic school a necessary condition for teach- ing in the public school is to discriminate against parental rights. As I have said already, no parent will be willing to send | his child to a private institution if the | State reserves its emoluments for its own wards. | In crder, therefore, to safeguard the | parents’ rights and to adhere to the spirit | and letter of our constitution the schools should belong to the people, should be managed by the people and should be open | to all the children of the people whether | as pupils or as teachers. L It will be noticed that no objection to | these principles comes from the people. | Indeed, when an open attack is made upon them, as in the charter of 18%. the people give a very decided answer. Neither does the attack come from the great body of hard working and zealous teachers. ‘Ihey realize their position with regard to the | parents of the children. A great trust| given them and a great respon- sibility. 7They believe they can fulfili that | trust better by frankiy accepting the re- | sponsibility. The best teachers are the most anxious fo see the parents interested in_the schools. The attack comes from another quar- | ter and it comes all along the line. Those who make it claim that the people are not fit to manage the schools, that the schools should be in the hands of the teachers and that the teachers should be products of | the schools. There is a natural tendency | in man to magnify his office. It is easy to convince him that his profession is the most important in the scheme of thing Where he and his professional brethr are numerous and influential it is not dif- ficult to persuade them that they know | better than mere outsiders what makes for the common weal. Teachers do not escape this tendency to form themselves | into a separate estate. The majority, it is true, recognize their true position as pub- lic fervants and are satisied when they receive security of tenure. There are others, however, who consider that the profession of teaching puts them on a different level from ail other public em- ployes. Dealing so much with children they convince themselves that the com- munity has never emerged from the shadow of the pedagogue's rod. There- fore the community is unfit to manage the scl That management shouid be de- livered into the hands of ‘‘educators,” which is another way for saying teacher oliticians. These “‘educators’” are evolved 2 some m: ster{:ms )v‘ny from the or; nary teacher. but they are as superio fo'the ordinary teacher as is the butterfly to the grub. In fact, one of their chief demands is that the ordinary teachers should relln}}uish security of tenure in their favor. They demand the divine right to set up and to pull down, to give life or destroy. This blessed scheme is known to the elect as “ridding the schools of polities.” | The school system Is to be a sel contained entity, as independent of the people as a business enterprise. To be sure the dear peopie will have the privi- lege of paying for the support of the system, but the management of it must be in the hands of those entirely free from popular influence. In a late address Mr. Frederic Burk. rincipal of the San Francisco Normal Bohool, formulates this poliey. He said that no matter how iniquitous legislators are on other matters, they are always willing to listen and to be guided in school legislation by those who make a profes- | sion_of teaching and are therefore able | to speak from experience, and that he would recommend the appointment of a committee to wait upon the next Le:ls-l lature and suggest the method to be em- ploved itn riading the schools of politics. e even went so far as to name the com- mittee, viz., President Wheeler of the State University, President Jordan of the Private University at Palo Alto, Prinei- pal Black of the San Diego Normal School and Superintendent Kirk. Concerning this cold-blooded proposi- tion it may be well to remark that there is no department of the Government fl}:clh cnl(\}lbe or ‘:ll;uuld be taken out of politics. Give politics any meant ou Piease, good of bagd. and in the last re- Sort it slgnifies poyular control. To take the schools out of politics therefore means to take them away from popular control. It is against the fundamental principles of our Government to remove anything in civies from the sphere of the people’s will. It is all very well to say that poli- ties is corrupt, that bosses rule, that schools are injured. If polities is corrupt it is because the people are corrupt. if bosses rule it i8 because the peopie vote for them, if schoois are injured it is the will of the sovereign multitude. No com- munity deserves to have a government better than itself. Even were we to be- lieve all the hysterical asseverations of the goo-goos we can only conclude that as the people can have what they want they are getting the kind of politics they like. A Bovernment of the people and By the peopie and for the people cannot be higher or better or purer than the people. To a government of that kind we are i ted, and as we enjoy its advanta we must bear its drawbacks. This is the rea- son all our reform machines go to smash. Honesty is not in the law nor in the char- ter, but in the man who executes it. 1 should not like to trust a thief with the administration of the ten commandments. rantee g T ca- than they fare in the hands of the common folk. It is to be proved that to take them out of one kind of politics will not land them in another kind of politics. Who is so simple as to believe that the “‘educators” are any wiser or better or rer than the popuiation in general? low did they get their positions if not by the same arts that every other politician AT Se i ety L ut " deals through with a md‘rm m? dispatch that would Ent the most experienced ward heeler to the blush. Why then do they demand special and exceptional ment? at should we think of the sewer cleaners—that latest and most mar- velous development of the civil service— if they approached the Legislature with tion to take the sewers out of ¥ €iving the Board of Works into hands? hat should we think of t)h‘e pfg(lume elerks Ir'th:y n:l:m the whole man: ent of mail sei Committed o clected” Fing e ‘would be no more ridiculous than the 1 of certain teacher. ticians posal only pedagogues _ shoul control schools. ur I have set forth in detail the principles which underlie our lcbofimu tem e ’t' ;l:;ool ?&‘nl of ates one of them. That body is shining_exampl. b.nufl?'l o{ ;A!s'l':nt the mohh on: n‘;‘ should bo.'J 21 hat the il Why are not three of the Police Board gollcemen:’ Why are not three of the 'ire Board firemen? Why are not three of the Health Board physicians? As a consequence the board is sl:fln[ into the hands of those who would make the State system a close preserve. It will not trust itself to select teachers. though this is one of the duties for which the members draw their generous salaries. It appeals to outsiders to draw up a scheme and the observant reader may with profit compare the list of these outsiders with Mr. Burk's committee. which is to influ- ence the next Legislature. Why, we may inquire, was Dr. Jordan's name put om that list? He is the president of a pri- vate institution. Why should he be sin- College passed over County to do with the school system of San Francisco? What right has Presi- dent Wheeler to forget his duty of hands off even if our School Board is too incom- petent to know that duty? The scheme was imbecile in those who proposed it. It was indecent in those who accepted it. Every one sees now that this new plan is part and parcel of the great deception. It is_true that neither Dr. Wheeler nor Dr. Jordan was privy to the imposture, but for years the idea has been fostere that Berkeley and Stanford were the cap and crown of our public school system, and that to them the system shouid look for its models, its governors and its teach- ers. Hence came the selection of a com- mittee, all the members of which belong to one'style of educationalists. No doubt the plan they will put forward, if they ever put it forward now, will make it im- possible for any one but their own dis- ciples to gain preferment. With such a plan in operation the schools would be well guaranteed against all outsiders. That the idea of such a quarantine emanated solely from the School Board does not appear likely— though I must not be taken as supposing that august body sterile of all ideas. T order would seem to come from higher quarters. For what other reason can we assign for the action of that other fearful and wonderful comtrivance—the Civil Ser- vice Commission? Its application forms demand from the candidate information as to the school in which he was educated. That is none of the examiner's business. It has no reason, except that it be another means to close up ail cracks in the quar- antine. The composition of the School lerd and its doings are opposed to the funda- mental ideas of our school system. There are other matters on which I have not touched in_ this article, namely the af- fillations of Mr. Marks and the deputies of Mr. Webster, to discuss which another occasion must be taken. [ have said | encugh to justify my utterances at St 's College. With a personal matter gMI:;"i;‘ nu‘t §;lhal address 1 beg to close, A few days after 1 had spoken in Oak- land I received a letter afldr_@ssed Rev. Peter C. Yorke, care Very Rev. John J Prendergast, 110 Franklin street, City The letter was as follows: i DEPARTMENT ' OF EDU cr HALL, SAN FRANCISCO, Ma 1900, — : Very Rev. Joh TION, 5, Rev. er C. Yorke, Care J. Prendergast, nklin street. M. Dear Sir: board 1 write quoted in the San Francisc morning as follows: “And the worst of. all is oly possible in education. that the supply of teacher: the University of California and from the pri- vate university of Stanford. When the veople cannot choose the teachers for their children they may close their public schools. * * ¢ e are afflicted with boards and commis- sioners without number, and one of the most Wonderful of them all is the present Board of Education n San Francisco, which is making rules for San Francisco teachers to be herealter selected, and it places the power in the hands of the presidents of the university. ““An answer at your catiiest comvenience wilh very much oblige yours. respec &% “JOHN B. CASSERLY, School Director. Of course I did not answer the letter. The insult implied in sending it to the Vicar General, as though I were a tramp without a local habitation or a name is worthy of Mr. Casserly. A gentleman can- not descend to the level of even resent- if P. C. YORKE. ing it. PERSONAL MENTION. Judge J. K. Law and wife of Merced are at the Lick. A. Luchessa, a merchant of Cambria, i at the Grand. B. F. Shepherd, a mining man of Fresne, is at the Grand. 2 J. E. Brown, a bardware merchant of Seattle, is at the Grand. F. A. Hihn, the hotel and real estats man, of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand. C. M. Coglan, secretary of tne State Board of Equalization, is stopping at tha Lick. E. E. Bush, G. R. Cameron, P. McRaa and J. W. Barbour of Hanford are in this city on business connected with the oil flelds of the south. They are stopping at the Lick. O. 8. Breese of Los Angeles, associate editor of the Mjning and Metallurgical Jourpal and secretary of the Southern California Branch of the California Min- ers’ Association, is spending a few weeks in this city on business. Ralph Pincus of the Columbia Theater left last night to meet the Henry Miller aggregation of stars. He will pilot the company ahout the State for two weeks, during which time “Miss Hobbs,” the lata New York success, will be played in Los Angeles, Stockton, San Jose, Sacramento and Fresno. The company will arrive in this city about June 20. _—e——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK, NEW. YORK, June 7.—Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst of San Francisco is at the Wal- dorf; Paul Bancroft of San Francisco is at the Fifth Avenue; W. B. Standeford of Oakland is at the Sturtevant; Mrs. Dr. R, L. Buchanan of Los Angeles is at the Savoy. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MINORCA—H. B, City. The breed of chickens that you inquire about are known by the name of Minorea, not Minucka. BALDANZA—W. A. M, City. In the files of The Call, April 6, 130, you will find an account of the death of Ernesto Baldanza, an opera singer. ENTERTAINMENT-M. W. S, Sacra- mento, Cal. There is no such official in the order of Native Sons of the Golden West as “c of the entertainment to Tiburon, take the ferry to this city and from here glva along the county road to the Garden City. MINOR COINS—“Little Billy,” City. D oo e ol rom 0 cents; b i is6i seile for MUTILATING COINS-H. W., City. It is a crime under the laws of the United States, to debase or mutilate United States coin, if it is the intention of the party so debasing or mutilating the coin to pass it as current money. MARRIAGE LICENSE — Subscriber, Clerk and required by law. ——————— .Cal. glace fruit 5ic per I at Townsend's.*