The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 20, 1900, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1900. ..JUNE 20, 19 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor, tdress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager MANAGER'S OFFICE e!l-n:§v ‘UBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 8. F. o o5 i Telephone Press 201, EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 te 221 Stevemson st Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 156 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: LL (ncluding Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL € T EUNDAY CALL WEEKLY CALL One Year. All postmasters are authorized to subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt end eofrect compliance with thelr request. OAKLAND OFFICE. ves+1118 Broadway C GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2619.”) KEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON.........ccrcvsenensemsssen sesesse. HOTRID Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: . STEPHEN B. SMITH....... .. .30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sberan House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Premont Hcuse; Auditotium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentaso, 81 Union Square; Morray H Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. . .ceveeee... Wellington Hotel MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES 427 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open untll $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 3 McAllister, open untfl $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1541 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock’ 109 Valencla, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW cor~ Ber Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o clock. —_— AMUSEMENTS. California—"A Milk White Flag."” Tivoli—' ine.” Alcazar— 4 Orpheum: eville. Grand O, use—A Homespun Heart.” Col: —Kellar. ner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. » and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and Olympla, « Forza del Destino." CHINESE AND CHRISTIANITY. ISHOP CRANSTON, who recently returned “hina, preached a sermon in Denver last It is proper for a Bishop to preach, he right day. hat ims Bishop n Sunday, therefore fills the religious of the Bishop derives its in- he appeared and preached as on the Christian Sabpath, discourse was not at all Christian nor suited and pl of its delivery. The preacher 1 Ch and in his sermon may be seen sed the Boxer revolution in that t the expense of breaking the peace In his sermon the Bishop said: “It n money, it is worth any cost in can ke the millions of Chinese nt Chri I would cut all the Id and break all the treaties ever ies of the United States in the i The open door must be nity as well as for commerce.” the Bishop is not a Christian. 1 of the most revolting type. ot a line in the New Testament me of Christianity that teaches d and the breaking of promises ng “true and intelligent Chris- s a Mahometan. That creed was propagated by the sword. It broke treaties, violated promises and counted nothing wrong that spread Islam. We wish to say Government has n tianity or any other religious creed. This is a secular Government purely, and not a theocracy. As for the Bishop's brand of Christianity, to propagate it would be a crime. It is a thorough misrepresentation of the whole spirit taught by the founder of Christianity. It means the opening of a bloody tragedy more hor- rible than the campaigns of Attila, “the scourge of God,” or those of Genghis Khan or Timour. To force a religion by the sword upon nearly five huh- dred millions of people, “no matter at what cost in blood or money,” and to begin the process by faith- less violation of solemn treaties, is to destroy Chris- tianity itself. At the close of such a tragedy the re- ligion of Christ will be found exactly where the state religion of Rome was after her subjugation of the world . Bishop Cranston has given an impetus to crime everywhere by this sermon which is incalculable. If public faith is not to be kept, individual faith will not be If war is to be made solely to advance re- ligion, against people whose offense is the acceptance of a form of the religious idea that is senior to Chris- tianity, the world sees the sham and avails itself of the example, and thereby the cunning of every thief is justified and the arm of every murderer is nerved. It is to be hoped that the American pulpit will promptly and unanimously repudiate this Bishop and And it is to be hoped that all good citi- zens will te the purely segular character of our Gover: insisting that it shall not enter a murdering partnership with’ the other nations, and break heads treaties to propagate a religion which was founded by the Prince of Peace. This s n expresses sentiments that would cause a shudder if uttered by 2 Comanche or Apache Indian, and they. gain no better quality in the mouth of an ter and a consecrated Bishop. s. also, that the United States as a cept his ser ordained m There is one novelty in Paris that ought to be imi- tated at every exposition hereafter and that is the establishment of schools for the purpose of teaching the public what to study among the exhibits and how to profit by it. The lawyer who is 2ccused of secking to sell posi- n the local Police Department must have im- bed his notions of civil service from the administra- tion of some of our “reform” commissions, Among the things the people would like to know as matters of passing curiosity is who stole the silver plank out of the Democratic State platform and what was done with it. 2. The Bryanites will perhaps try to run a Vice Presi- be computed. been present, it was without efficacy. and could only inflict harm upon the city,and thirty thousand Chinese were not prevented Chinatown would be suffering with it now. had occurred. Let it be remembered that the Federal existence of the pestilence. If present, the ) not exist. | all stood their ground. They know what -this | know it. Where it exists they do not stay. | panic. thing to do with spreading Chris- | | appointees. HE proceeding instituted by Supervisor McCarthy to oust Mayor Phelan’s pesti- lent Board of Health should be pushed to completion. the incompetents on his board, has inflicted an injury upon California that cannot The whole official contact of the Phelan government with the plague matter has been characterized by lack of sense and judgment. The Phelan Chief of Police and the Phelan Board of Health have omitted no startling folly and offense that they could commit. The midnight roping of Chinatown last March by the Chief of Police was the act of a vain, ignorant and incompetent officer. As a preventive of infection, had disease It could do nothing to prevent spread of plague, tine of that quarter was suspended by the courts, the conduct of the Chief of Police and Board of Health has been consistently foolish, weak, willful and injurious. persons when the board pretended to locate plague. When the Governor of the State, aided by the best medical talent here, .had made a thorough investigation and reported no plague here, Mayor Phelan said he would pay no more attention to it than to the opinion of a quack doctor. investigation and to the action of the Federal court was through his Board of Health to | encourage Dr. Kinyoun to inflict awful injury upon the whole State by putting it under general quarantine, still without isolating a house where any supposed case of the plague | the power to quarantine any such house, but none has been quarantined, either by the | Mayor’s board or its partner in vicious folly, a power lawfully theirs, the members of the Mayor’s board confess themselves either faith- | less to their duty or guilty of falsehood as to the fact of plague being here, now or ever. | The quarantine must be based upon a fact. That fact must be the presence and | and isolated. But the- board has not quarantined any house. case. Therefore the foundation of fact even for an illegal quarantine of the State does There is other evidence that the plague is not here in the fact that the Chinese have! Chinese population would have fled long ago. than white people stay with yellow feyer or cholera. . They refuse to leave now. The ropes are down, the police guards are withdrawn. ; Yet the Chinese are going into that quarter of the city instead of running from it in a " OUST THE BUBONIC BOARD. The Mayor, by standing by State. From that until the last quaran- Twenty or access to and contact with the places and If the disease had been there, all His response to this court granted to Phelan’s Board of Health Dr. Kinyoun. Refusing, therefore, to use| house where it exists must be quarantined It has not isolated any| disease is far better than Phelan’s doctors If there had been plague in Chinatown the They do not stay where it is any more | The resolution now before the Supervisors demand ing that Phelan’s board get out | before its follies and falsehoods do further harm reveals the double dealing of the Mayor’s It seems that the Mayor’s board got the assent of the Supervisors to the | quarantine of Chinatown by the assurance that if this were not done the State Board of | Health would quarantine the whole city. +The Supervisors subsequently learned that this | | was false. The city would not be quarantined without the consent of the Governor, and | he positively refused to permit it. It was by this sharp practjce and double-dealing that the Supervisors were induced to give their consent. It was by this deliberate deception | that the Merchants’ Association and individual business men were induced to join in | calling for the Chinatown quarantine. Yet this statement was made by Phelan’s board o | ar ter it had knowledge that Governor Gage would prohibi(a quarantine of the city. Such | misconduct is flagrant. If the members of Phelan’s board had a spark of right feeling within them they would resign. If the Mayor had any sober conception of decency or duty he would dismiss them from office. office if the law warrant such a proceeding. Refusing to do so, he should himself be ousted from { This disgraced and virulent Board of Health cannot be useful to this city in the future. Its sodden persistence in a policy of ignorance, spite and falsehood has destroyed all confidence in it, and if any pestilence should appear in the future the people would not | believe any statement it might make. [ | tion of the office. Mayor Phelan has it in his power to benefit the city by doing two things. He should | first remove this Board of Health and then himself resign and let some one become | Mayor who has the mature judgment and sober mind required for the proper administra- THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. ENATOR WOLCOTT spoke with the enthu- siasm natural to the occasion when he took the yesterday, but there was nothing of exaggeration in his words. It is literally true, as he said: “Since the was never one gathered under such hopeful and aus- picious circumstances as those which surround us | past four years, our country prosperous and happy, with nothing to regret and naught to make us publican party stands facing the dawn, confident that the ticket it shall present will command public ap- | its purposes it will voice the aspirations and hopes of | the vast majority of American freemen.” 4nd as acute distress as ever fell upon the people of | this country, the Republican party met in convention ing to excite class antagonisms, demanding a depre- | ciation of the money of the republic and threatening | before it, and so strongly had the distresses of the | panic years affected the popular mind that it was by more, however, there was evinced that saving com- mon sense among the people which makes popular | to the Republican party. The results are perceived on every hand in the thousand evidences of revived in- | fluence of an abounding prosperity. Thus it has come about that this year the prospects of the party are with the exception of the great emergency in which it came forth to save the Union and to free the slave, it usefulness more thoroughly understood by the voters. It is to be noted there is nowhere any distrust of one doubts that the nominees will have the cordial support of all Republicans, or that the platiorm will citizens, no matter to what party they belong. The people will follow the proceedings of the convention nated, that 2 man worthy of the Presidency itself will be named for Vice President, and that the platform tection and sound money upon which our prosperity is based, and that vigor of administration of foreign tige in the world than it ever had before. Senator ‘Wolcott was therefore right in the double claim that S chair of the Republican National Convention first party convention in these United States there to-day. United, proud of the achievements of the ashamed, with a record spotless and clean, the Re- proval, and that in the declaration of its principles and Four years ago, after a period of as widespread | to face the clamors of agitators and demagogues try- the constitution itself. It had then a stormy contest no means sure what the result would be. - Once | government possible. The government was intrusted dustry, and are felt in every home through the in- better and brighter than ever before in its history, and, was never more useiul to the republic, nor was that what the convention will do or leave undone. No be of a nature to merit the approval of conservative knowing beforehand that McKinley will be. renomi- will guarantee the mgintenance of that policy of pro- affairs which has given the republic a mightier pres- the convention meets under most auspicious circum- dential boom up against Dewey, so as to have an off- | stances, and that it will voice the aspirations and the set for Roosevelt, but it won’t work. hopes of the vast majority of American freemen. than was done by all the Christian A JOHN MARSHALL @ANNIVERSARY? ENTENNIAL celebrations have become so C popular in the United States that not infre- quently they are held in commemoration of men or events that hardly merit it. The only justification for some of them has been that they afforded m opportunity for making a public holiday. There will be, however, a general approval of the movement now under way to get the whole bench and bar of the United States to join in celebrating with appropriate ceremonies the one hundredth anniversary of the ac- cession of John Marshall to the position of Chief | Justice of the United States. b It may be doubted if any warrior or statesman has had a more potent influence upon the nation than Marshall. The constitution, which statesmen framed and which warriors have defended and preserved, was but a doubtful creation until Marshall breathed into it the breath of life. During his long term of thirty- four years on the bench he pronounced judgment upon almost every disputed point of the constitution and gave to its words the force and scope which they now have in our courts. What would have been the effect had the early decisions of the Supreme Court been pronounced by a Justice who interpreted them in accordance with the doctrines of the strict con- structionists it is difficult to say. It is certain, how- ever, that much of our history would have been dif- ferent, and all that part of national development and social order which are affected by the decisions of courts would have been quite otherwise than what they are. ’ To Chief Justice Marshall, then, the nation owes a debt that should be gratefully remembered. The centennial of his appointment to the Chief Justiceship occurs on February 4, 1901. There is therefore ample time for preparation to make the ceremonies of com- memoration impressive and popular, and since the bench and bar have undertaken the matter, it is to b hoped they will carry it out upon a scale that will be worthy of the occasion. It is estimated that the lumber market and the manufacturers of the United States consume about 5.000,000,000 cubic feet of forest products every year and that about 15,000,000,000 cubic feet more is burned as fuel, so it will be seen that we have none to waste and it is high tin{_e to put a stop to forest fires before we destroy the supply. N Our reform Police Department is eclipsing all records as a squanderer of the secret service fund. This probably explains the readiness with which pri- vate detectives supply misinformation to an inquisitive Chief of Police. / D S T e T S S S P S e | law of California says that 1f the report prove true that the British are to send two brigades from South Africa to China, the Boxers | will have the credit of doing more to help the Boers sympathizers on rflflflwww TO THE POWERS—IS THIS THE TIME TO QUARREL ABOUT LAND GRABBING? PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. C. H. Stocking of Los Angeles is at the Grand. A. B. Ware, a merchant of Sacramento, is at the Lick. ‘W. H. Clary, a mining man of Stockton, is at the Lick. Judge J. G. Hamilton of Hollister is stopping at the Russ. Rev. H. H. Guy of Tokio registered at the Occidental yesterday. Mlle. Catherine Bartho of New York is stopping at the California. J. F. Clapp, a mining man of Chicago, | is registered at the Grand. ‘William A. Junker, manager of the Del Monte Hotel, is at the Palace. The following named arrived from the East yesterday in a party and are on their way to Honolulu: Henry Water- | house and wife, Miss Elndra Sturgeon, | Mrs. I. W. Corbett and child, Miss Sara Robertson, Harold Rice, Albert Water- | house. They are at the Occidental. Rev. A. A. Fulton, wife and child re- turned on the Doric yesterday and are stopping at the Occidental, en\route to the Fast. For twenty years Rev. Mr. Fulton has been doing missionary work in Can- ton, China. He is well known to the great Li Hung Chang and occupies a prominent position among the Presbyterian mission- aries of the Orient. Rev. Mr. Fulton thinks the Boxer uprising is confined to the Peking country. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, June 19.—William Ber- rick and George R. Palmer are at the Ar- lington; Louis P. Boardman is at the | Shoreham. — ——e—————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MAIL FOR NOME—D. F. N., Grass Valley, Cal. Mail for Nome will leave San Francisco July 5, July 25 and August 15. Malil will leave Seattle for that point June 25 and July BAY WINDOWS— Santa Rosa, Cal. There is nothing in the general laws of the State in relation to bay windows on the corner of buildings. STATE TAX-—Subscriber, City. The| “the State Board of Bqualization must, for State urposes, fix an ad valorem rate on each $166"0f Valuation. s GOVERNMENT WHITEWASH-G. H. K., Redding, Cal. The formula for mak- ing government whitewash was published in the department cf Answers to Corre- spondents, March 18, 1900. A DOLLAR OF 1878—Subscriber, Loms poc, Cal. Dealers in colns demand for dollars of 1878 with eight feathers in the tail of the eagle from $150 and $17 ad- vance, but they gdo not buy such coins. MARY NAVARRO—K. M., Sacramento, Cal. This department has no other in- formation as to the residence of Mary Na- varro (nee Anderson) than what was pub- lished in this column some time since. MOON AND CROPS—E. P. B., City. The traditions concgrning the time to plant seeds are not founded on fact or rational theory of any kind and need only l:) be tested to show their entire absurd- | ¥. TO TACOMA~—T. N.. Somersville, Cal. The fare to Tadoma by rail is §25, §20 and $16 50, with $6 25 added from Portland. By steamer the fare is §15 and §8. For steam- ers sailing from this port to that point %)nl?ult the advertising department of The all. REGISTRATION—C. C. N., \Millbrae, Cal. In the State of California one who is entitied to vote and is approaching his m: may register upon making affi- davit will be an elector on the next succeeding election. MOLES—A Reader, Chiles, Cal. It Is an open question whctljer moles ‘are detri- mental or beneficial. The methods used for the destruction of moles are: Protes- sional catchers, dogs who root them out of their burrows and poisoned shreds of placed 4t the entrance of the ;fi‘du Cal. lecti] census figures expect that by the cl of the year they will be able to announce,| to the of the prin- THE CENSUS-J. P., Los Those who have charge of | wife, should the wife desire to resume her | the following in the list of the largest cit- | iz 1 eple o pomminien 5t O pr At 1 gt a0 Bl e Bl Uhited states. s — VOTING ON DECLARATION—C. C. N., , Cal. number There are a of j.of black velvet, with lol:h.l-m . States in the Union where men have the right to vote before having resided in the State or even in the United States | for five vears. In a number of Statos men are allowed to vote after having de- | clared intention of becoming citizens. VENTRILOQUISM—J. M. F., Newark, Cal. There are books which are to be obtained from any first-class book seller that will assist one who wishes to become | a ventriloguist. The art is acquired by long practice. The department of An- swers to Correspondents does not make nn); charge for answers to questions sent | to it. TO MANILA BACK—M. A. H., City. If you mailed a letter to Maniia April 6 to a soldier there or supposed to be there, you might expect a reply inside of seventy days if the party recelving it sent an immediate reply. If the party was away on duty in some other part of | the island of Luzon it is impossible to | tell when you might expect a reply, but | generally an answer might be looked for in ninety days. DIVORCE—A Subscriber, San Jose, Cal. When a man secures a divorce from his maiden name she must petition the judge who_hears the action. It depends upon the facts if he grants the petition or not. |, So far as the law of California is con- cerned, no divorced person is permitted to marry in the State inside of a year after the decree of divorce has been granted. It does not matter where the divorce was obtained. LARGEST CITIES—W. E. C., Campton- ville, Cal. In a few months the work of the present census takers will be over and the names of the leading cities as to opulation will be published. € popu- ation statistics at this timie are mere guess work. The estimates of mayors of | cities at the ¢loso of the last year place ies in the order given: New York (Great- er), Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Bal- timore, Beston, Cleveland, Buffalo and Cincinnati. ATTACHING HOMESTEADS—S., Santa | Rosa, Cal. A homestead i{s the subject of execution on judgment obtained before the declaration of homestead was filed for record, and which constitutes a lien on the premises, for debts secured by me- chanics, contractors, sub-contractors, ar- tisans, architects, builders, laborers of all classes, material men, or vendors who | have a lien on the premises; on debts :e-! cured by mortgage executed and acknowl- edged by hushand and wife or by an un- married claimant and on debts secured by mortgage on the premises executed and recorded before the declaration of home- stead is filed for record. .—0—0—0’-0-.-9—0-0«-0-0-0-0—0—.-. FASEION HINT FROM PARIS, f 0—0-+0+0—0—0—¢-0+0—0—0—0—. , 1 beneath rosettes of the The epaulettes and cuffs are e S L S S o & o D eraawaw I e —Chicago Record. R e I e e I S Cal. glace fruit 50c per Id at Townsend's.* —_—— Special business houses and public men by tho Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. + PUSARERS . v . A Theatér omnibuses have been started in Paris, which leave tke chief theaters after the performances and go out to Six resi- dence quarters. —_—— Chicago and Return $72 50. Tickets on sale June Nst and 224, good for return within seventy days. Only 9% hourr to Chicago, on the Overland Limited, vit Union Pacific Rallway. D. W. Hitchcock, Gen. Agt., 1 Montgomery st., San Francisc information supplied dally to CONTRIBUTORS ——TO0 THE—— SUMMER TERM COURSES, +2..1900.... THE CALL’'S HOME STUDY CIRCLE SERIES. REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D.D., Boston. COLONEL THOS. W. HIGGINSON, Cambridge, Mass. » ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS Boston. F. HOPKINSON SMITH, New York City. HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. ‘Washington, D. C. FRANK A. VANDERLIP, Assistant Secretary <f the Treasury. G. STANLEY HALL, LL.D., President Clark University. PROFESSOR LEWIS E. GATES, Harvard University. PROFESSOR JAMES F. KEMP, Columbia University. ALBERT S. BOLLES, LL.D., Haverford College. JESSE MACY, LL.L., Towa College. WILLIAM J. ROLFE, LITT. D, Cambridge, Mass. 0. P. AUSTIN, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, A. C. McLAUGHLIN, LL.D., University of Michigan. Philadelphia. PROFESSOR G. BR. CARPENTER, Columbia University. REV. LYMAN P. POWELL, Author of American Historic Town Series. JAMES A. WOODBURN, Ph. D, Indiana University. WILLIAM HOUITON, M. A, MacMaster University, Toronto. ~ GEORGE M. WRONG, M. A., University of Toronto. CHARLES H. SMITH, LL. D, Yale University. PAUL C. FREER, Ph. D., M. D, University of Michigan. ROBERT M. TOOKER, M. D, Chicago. OSCAR H. ALLIS, M. D., Philadelphia. WILLIAM HOWE DOWNES, Art Editor “Boston Transeript.” Art Editor New 3 ‘Commeretal And others whose names appear in connection with the programme of studies. :