The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 24, 1900, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1900. 1is gh Sgéggds 3 THE O@KLAND CASE. e s 4 g Ga’ll‘ HE suit brought by the Contra Costa Water Caee e = Company against the city of Oakland to obtain SUNDAY --JUNE 241 —_ | a judgment establishing the value of its plant JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor, Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE .Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE Telepho EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 te 221 Stevemsem St. Telephone Press 203, Delivered by Carriers, 13 Cents Per Weelk. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: CALL (including Sunday), - C DAY CALL KLY CALL Fmuy subscriptio Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should be perticuiar to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS In order $o insure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. PAKLAND OFFICE veeees-1118 Bromdway C. 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Orpheum—Vaudeville. @rexd Opera-house—'"'A Homespun Heart.” Gran a house—Benefit for widow and Friday afternoon, June 29. orphans of A Milk White Flag.” -*"Madeleine "’ ar—*Sapho.” pia, corner Mason and Bddy streets—Special Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and rza del Destino.” g Park—Coursing to-day. Park—Baseball. Open nights. AUCTION SALES. 25, at 11 o'clock. Horses, at NROLLMENT of members of Republican the various Assembly districts of San ncisco began yesterday and will continu= e evening of Saturday, June 30. blicans should sign the rolls and rt in the organization of the clubs. s the duty Il good citizens who E t desire it : to the Republican party to respond, for in no it be assured that the clubs will rightly sent the genuine Republicanism of thq best ele- al to intelligent Republicans on this needed, and yet so engrossing are the ss, or the plans for summer holidays, many will neglect this important pub- unless a direct appeal be made to them. To end every earnest and zealous Republican should te at this time a portion of his energies. Let f them act as an agent to call the attention uld be rtain t is ce on, and to present to them the reasons v each and all should join a club and assist in its organization It certain that all the bosses or would-be bosses, @1l the evil clements that hope to make a personal | profi politics by attaching themselves to the Re- publican party, will be prompt to get their foliowers d, nor will they be at ail scrupulous as to the 1 a considerable number of clubs will fall he control of persons whose power will be o ess rather fhan 2 help to the party in the cam- There is but one way of guarding against that wpaign Mdanger—good citizens must do their duty; loyal Re- ppublicans must take up the work of the campaign at once and by enrolling themselves be able to organize ighe clubs in their districts and elect the officers. ore a Presidential election is to turn upon Susiness issues. It is again a question of preserving commercial, industrial and financial prosperity that is presented to the people. It is so understood every- swhere, and even among the men who supported PBryan four rs ago there are now many who will Once mot only vote the Republican ticket on election day but will aid it during the cathpaign, because they know that upon the election of McKinley and Roose- welt is dependent the welfare of the country. these converts from Bryanism are to be active in the #fight for prosperity, what excuse can stanch Repub- Jicans have for neglecting their duty? An stration of the earnestness with which some of the former Bryanites and free silver men are now co-operating with the Republicans was furnished in the news of vesterday, to the effect that three wealthy men of Utah have contributed $150,000 to the Na- tiona] Committee for the Republican campaign fund. The three men are Heber M. Wells of Ogden, Tho Kearns of Park City and Charles E. Loose of Provo. Four years ago they were ultra-silver men and contributed $25000 each to the Bryanites, but this year they are for McKinley and Roosevelt, and, eccording to the statement of one of them, have made their large contributions to the Republican fund “by way of atonement.” 1f new converts to Republicanism show such zeal, surely the business men who have been the strength of the party all along cught to be willing to take their part of the political work of the year. In San Fran- cisco the work that is to be done now is the organi- zation of the district clubs. All good Republicans should enroll themselves. If by any evil chance the bosses and their gangs get control of any number of the clubs the men of the party who neglected their duty will have none but themselves to blame. It is o safe prediction that the nations will find it a good dezl easier to get into China than to get out; and, morcover, they are going in harmoniously, but they will hardly come out that way. When we have firmly established civilization and order in China it might be worth while to try what we can do in St. Louis and Kentucky. ) It is desir- | Republicans of his acquaintance to the enrollment | Since | — | and the measure of income to be received upon that | valuation is one of unusual interest and importance. | People who have thus far watched the proceedings have waited with great curiosity and anxiety for the | outcome of the objections raised to the Judge who has been acting in this case. It is a question whether the country outside of this State, and it demands grave inquiry and consideration. While the objection to his sitting in the case was couched in the usual diplomatic language of the legal profession, protesting | that no reflection was intended upon the character or | integrity of his *Honor,” the ordinary Jayman will fail to see why the objection was made at all if there was not underlying it a suspicion of something wrong. Unless it was a wanton attack, the objection plainly carried the intimation that the city of Oakland did | not believe it could obtain a fair hearing and decision from this particular Judge, and the matter should not be permitted to rest there. If the courts are to be of any value they must be above suspicion, and no class of men is so much interested in keeping them in high | repute as the lawyers themselves, for without confi- | dence in the courts people will shun them as they would a pesthouse, and the practice of the law must degenerate in consequence to the level of licensed pillage and blackmail. No country can be great or enjoy a high degree of prosperity in any way unless it has a system of jurisprudence in which its people | believe and trust. President Diaz of the republic of Mexico, who is | one of the greatest statesmen of this age, early gave evidence of his wisdom by reforming the courts of | that country and taking stringent measures for the | impartial enforcement of the laws, with the result that the credit of the nation was re-established in all civil- ized countries and foreign capital was freely attracted to the development of its resources. Why has the bar | of this State remained silent since this attack upon | one of the judiciary? In former days, when the rules, of chivalry obtained in the Southern States, every lawyer stood ready to defend the honor of the Judges before whom he practiced, and if one of them was in- | sulted the lawyers of his bailiwick would draw lots to determine who of their number should challenge the insulter to mortal combat, because the Judge, on ac- | has there been no demonstration to protect the Judge in this case? There can be but one of two answers: Either the bar of Califcrnia generally has become de- | generate and indifferent to the high prerogativés and obligations to it belonging, or its members do not consider that the character and standing of this par- ticular Judge are such as to command their interfer- be determined, because if an innocent man has been unjustly assailed while occupying a position which ties his hands from defense, and is forsaken by his natural defenders, then the business men of the com- munity who are interested in the good name of the State chould step forward to his defense. It will be the aim of The Call to follow the proceedings in this case closely and keep its readers advised of the facts. There has already been too much scandal in this State | about the fixing of water rates and the buying of Su- with. We hope the odor of this filth and corruption | will not taint the good name or contaminate | robes of the judiciary, and that no member of the bench will be unjustly suspected. On the other hand, the people should not be blamed for entertaining sus- picions, for it is a matter of public notoriety and his- | tory that in many instances in the making of rates the public has been defrauded and betrayed by the gross- | est treachery and corruption, and it becomes the rate- payers to be vigilant against repetitions of such prac- tices. A clean Chinatown and a new Board of Health are things we need, and there is no reason to believe they would come high if the people insist on them. | | s e ‘ THE OPEN DOOR TREATIES. 1 UR British cousins are so fearful of Russian ! O diplomacy they will not trust it even when the { United States has a share in it. Thus while | we have been congratulating ourselves and the world upon the success of the efforts of Secretary Hay to obtain the consent of all the great powers to the maintenance of the open door in China, some British authorities have permitted their fears to persuade them that our Government has been deceived, and | a= we have thought they promised. The ideas of these alarmists have been expressed in the National Review for June, partly by the editor and partly by Robert Yerburgh, who contributes an elaborate paper on the subject. The argument is sufficiently curious to be worth noting, and is ren- dered the more interesting by the crisis which now threatens to precipitate the partition of the Chinese empire, and thus put to immediate proof the value of the concessions which Secretary Hay obtained from | Count Mouravieff. | The declarations we sought from the powers are | that no power will interfere with any treaty port, or | any vested interest within any so-called “sphere of interest,” or leased territory, it may have in China— | that the Chinese treaty tariff of the time being shall apply to all merchandise shipped to all such ports as are within such sphere of interest, no matter .to what nationality it may belong, and that dutieg so levied shall be collected by the Chinese Government—that it shall levy no higher harbor dues on vessels of another nationality than on its own, and no higher railroad charges over lines operated within its sphere. In replying to the request for Russia's agreement to these declarations Count Mouravieff said: “In so far as the territory leased by China to Russia is concerned the imperial Government has already demonstrated its firm intention to follow the policy of the open door by creating Dalny (Talienwan) a free port; and if at some future time that port, although remaining free itself, should be separated by a customs limit | from other portions of the territory in question, the customs duties would be,levied in the zone subject to the tariff upon all foreign merchants, without dis- tinction as to nationality.” It is claimed by the National Review that in the letter the Russian does not agree to the declaration that the customs shall be those established by tariff treaties with China and collected by China, nor to | that guaranteeing equal railraad rates.. Furthermore, it is said the statement that the tariff in the Rus- | ¢ian zone of influence shall be equal upon all “foreign merchants” is capable of a double construction. It is regarded here as meaning that the country is Chi- nese and that Russians as well as Americans are “for- eigners”; but it may be held that the country is Rus- sian, and therefore Russian merchants would not be subject to the tariffs imposed upon foreigners, The discovery has all the marks of a mare's nest, but the writer for the National Review is quite wronght up over it. He says: “The battle for the such a proceeding would likely occur in any part of | count of his position, could not defend himself. Why | ence. It is due to the general public that this question | pervisors and other like bodies in connection there- | the | that the Russians have not promised half so much | open door has been fought; the public believe it has been won; the public has rejoiced with exceeding great joy. As a matter of fact the battle has been ! lost, and we are to-day as far from an agreement with regard to the open door as we were before the United States entered the arena as its champion.” P THE JUBILEE CEL.zBRATION. RAND MARSHAL COSTELLO has issued a circular directing the attention of the people generally to the arrangements now being | made by the Native Sons to fitly celebrate the semi- centennial of the admission of California to the Union, and calling upon all to cordially assist in the | work and in the festival. After pointing out that the various parlors of the order have appointed a joint committee and perfected arrangements for making the celebration the grandest in our history, the cir- cular says: “It is not our desire, however, and the Native Sons of the Golden West do not claim the right, to monopolize the celebration of this great | event. It is our ardent wish that all citizens and resi- | dents of the State of California, both native and adopted, should unite and co-operate with us in making the forthcoming celebration of Admission day the most memorable that California has ever | | known, a celebration worthy in every way of such a | historical occasion. We therefore ask the assistance | and co-operation of ail organizations, fraternal and otherwise, in this city and State, to aid us in our en- | deavor.” | It is to be hoped this invitation will meet with a | cordial and universal response. The summer and the fall are to be stormy with political agitations and dis- cussions. There will be a strain of partisan contention upon the people for months to come. It will be well, | therefore, for all to have an interlude of common pa- triotism to break the continuity of campaign speeches. | | The date of Admission day falls at the right time for ; such an interlude. It comes after all the struggles | 1 over the nominations have been made and just before the stump speaking and the campaigning begins in | earnest. It is therefore just the right season for Re- | publicans, Democrats, Populists, Prohibitionists and | | Independents to meet together in a general feeling of | i pride and loyalty to the State and to the Union, and | make an Admission day festival that will be a thing | to remember and to talk of for years to come. | The plans for the celebration can be easily arranged s0 as to give every important organization or associa- | tion in the State a fair field and opportunity for taking | | part in the festival. There is, however, but little time for preparation, and those who intend to share in the | | work should, in the language of the street, get a move | | on. The Native Sons have in their ardor designed to | make the celebration the grandest in our history; let all join in and help them to make it so. THE BILLBOARD ORDINANCE. OR many a year the American people have had | F:a jeer significant of contempt for the kind oi; politicians who “‘are in favor of the law, but agia | its enforcement.” The cause of the sentiment is the frequency with which that sort of dodging is prac- ticed by a certain type of officials. It is to be hoped none of the Supervisors will expose himself to sus- picion of belonging to the type. Such suspicions, however, are likely to be aroused should the Super- | visors pass an ordinance but postpone its enforcement | for a year to come, and that is what some of them at | least seem inclined to do in dealing with the billboard nuisance. The passage of an ordinance restricting advertising fences to a height not exceeding ten feet, but declaring the restriction shall not be enforced until July, 1gor1, will be of no benefit {o the city nor of any credit to the Supervisors. During the year in which the ordinance | is to be inert and ineffective the men who derive a profit by the high fence nuisance will have time to devise ways and means for evading it, postponing its | operation or defeating it altogether. It is probable | that when put into operation suit will be brought to i test its validity. The settlement of that suit will re- | quire considerable time, and it cannot be begun until the ordinance is in force. Thus if the ordinance carry a clause putting off the enforcement for a year, the date at which the people may expect relief from the ugly and dangerous nuisance of high fences will be very distant. The Supervisors can hardly expect to be able to fool | the public on a matter of this kind. They will not de- ! ceive anybody by passing an ordinance restricting the ! | nuisance after a year from July. The demand is for a restriction of the nuisance now. The Supervisors will either give relief or they will not, and an un- enforced ordinance gives no relief. That is the plain statement of the situation, and the people so under- stand it. When the ordinance comes before the board | for final passage those Supervisors who desire to re- } strict if not altogether suppress this nuisance, against | | which the /public in every American city have been | | i | | | protesting for years, will strike out the clause which postpones to July 1, 1901, the time when it is to go into effect. KINYOUNISM @ND CHINATOWN. EFORE we forget Kinyounism let us profit by B the lesson it teaches. There would have been no Kinyoun quarantine had there been no foulness in Chinatown. Had the sanitary regulations of the city been enforced there the people of other cities would never have been suspicious of San Francisco and the plague talk would have had no more effect upon the minds of people abroad than it has had upon the minds of those at home. Out of the filthy condition of Chinatown has come what little excuse Kinyoun’s quarantine has had, and so long as that quarter re- | mains in such condition so long will it be an excuse for similar quarantines in future. The enforcement of the sanitary laws of the city in Chinatown is an imperative duty of the municipal au- thorities. Owners of property in other quarters of the city are required to keep their property in good condition and in accord with the health laws. Why should the owners of property in Chinatown be ex- empt from a similar requirement? Chinatown is in the very heart of the city. It lies between the aristocratic district on California Hill and the grtat avenues of trade along Kearny and Mont- gomery streets. It is therefore a locality in which the health ordinances should be enforced with the ut- most care and firmness, and yet nothing has been done or is being done to make it a decent part of a civilized community. It is the duty of Mayor Phelan to remove his in- competent bubonic Board of Health and appoint in the place of it a new board composed of men who will enforce the health laws of the city and compel the owners of property in Chinatown to obey the or- dinances. Let us get some good out of the experience we have had with Kinyoun. Let us have Chinatown cleaned up at once and cleaned up thoroughly. It is said that the Democratic party in New Eng- land has lost about every man of high character it had, and, while the report may be true, it is not likely the country will note much diminution of the voting .-A—d.hnfthemrvintha section on election day. efecfact % podecpe v URING the nine months which have elapsed since Mr. Henry Miller left us we have had about one month of rational theatrical entertainment in San Francisco and eight months of desolation. His returfi, always welcome, will this time be doubly so, and his endeavors to bring back to the theater a class of peo- ple who have been forced to prefer a good | book at home will be crowned, I trust, | with the high success they deserve. It Is sarely not unfitting to pleal for one the- ater in a city as large as San Francisco where the best plays procurable may be interpreted in the best manner. The city has plenty of cheap houses, where farce, burlesque, melodrama and ‘‘comic” opera are served up at moderate prices all the year round, to the evident enjoyment of people who enjoy that kind of thing. But such ‘“entertainments” do nothing to ad- vance the drama as a fifie art and have absolutely no interest for people who have read good plays and who have seen really fine acting. To make his season a success Mr. Miller must find in San Franeisco about 10,000 people each week who really want to see the best that is a-going and are willing to pay for it. That means about 2% per cent of our population—not a very large pro- portion, surely. . . . Mr. Miller promises us this time Dumas’ “A Marriage of Convenience.” Good! Good also Is it to hear that we are to have “The Only Way,” for if Dickens is to live by anything more than “David Copperfield” it will be by the pathos and the dramatic power of “A Tale of Two Citles.”” But what has become of “Tre- lawney of the Wells,” which was prom- ised In the earlier announcements, but is not mentioned in the most recent? That is a better play than any on Mr. Miller's list, with the exception of the two men- tioned. It is in Pinero’s very best style and contalns a character sketch of Tom Robertson that is of great historical in- terest. Let us hope that “Trelawney” will be forthcoming. N e From New York comes the gratifying intelligence that the fund for the actors’ home has reached the respectable sum of $66,000. This result is due chiefly to Mr. Al Hayman, who subsecribed $10,000; to Mr. Harrison Grey Fiske of the Mirror, whose exertions for all things that tend to better the profession are untiring, and to the management of the New York Herald. Among the subscriptions it is pleasant to notice one of $100 from Sarah Bernhardt, $500 frorg the Roman Catholic Orphan Asy!um?nd $1250 from the New York Fire Department. Come, now, boys of the San Francisco Fire Department; where are you on this? Here's a chance to show that you are as good friends of the actor as are the boys in New York. The shelter of the actors’ home is deep as a well and considerably wider than the church door. Mr. Miller's Jeason: Calye on Opera And Maeterlinck’s Plays. By &. Du Pont-Jyle. It extends to every poor Thespian that needs it, be he from Florida or from Alaska, from Maine or from California. S | “The very mode of expression in op-| eratic art is false and the whole of it is | unreal and untrue.” Who says this, 1 wonder? Is it scme jealous playwright or | spme composer of symphonies? No, it is | Madame Calve, the finest operatic singer of the day, who Is going to abandonm | opera for drama.. Soul of departed Wasg- ner, can you hear this from any sphere, however remote, and not return to con- found the heretic? Madame Calve merely proclaims what many people who are bored by opera feel, but have not the courage to express. They | are bored because, not being musical en- thusiasts who can overlook all absurditi provided song be there, they find it im- possible to believe for a moment that any- | think taking place on the stage is like | anything in real life. And they are right. The drama asks us to grant conventions enough, but none that are palpably in- credible; opera demands that we grant| conventions which are palpably incredible. | For instance, how can I be for a moment illusionized by a tenore robusto who runs up and down the scale of linked sweetness long drawn out in meilifiucus attempt to say to his lady love, “Madame, walk this way and I will open the door”? As| Madame Calve says, the very mode of ex- pression is false, unreal, untrue; it is like | nothing in the heavens above or the earth beneath or the waters under the earth. - TR The republication In attractive book | form (Sergel, Chicago) of three of Maeter- | linck's plays has led me again to look over | the works of morbid, melancholy, Maurice, | and again to wonder at the judgment of those who hail the recluse of Ghent as the Belgian Shakespeare. Surely, never be- fore this fin-de-siecle period did a poet at- tain European reputation with such a nar- { row range of ideas, such poverty of imag- ery, such monotony of expression! To read Maeterlinck one would think that we | were still living in the fourteenth cen- tury, when men childishly believed that the problem of the universe was solvable and that by much prying we could man- age to peep through the veil that shuts off | the unknowable from the knowable. * ¢ *| True, also, we are but infinitesimally small puppets dancing upon this sand speck of a world in an cbscure corner of an unim- portant collection of asteroids, which we | dignify by the pame of the solar system, but this depressing fact cannot and must | not be continually harked back to by any one who expects to get anything out of | life, least of ail by a poet, whose duty it | is to beautify, to elevate, to cheer, to con- sole. Now, Maeterlinck seldom beautifies, elevates, cheers or consoles; on the con- trary, he too often prefers the ugly, the | depressing, the gloomy, the morbid. What o » 2 more horrible subject, for irstance, than o | that which he has chosen for treatment in *The Sightless,” where six biind old men and six blind women (ore mad) are led out to a dreary forest by a sick priest. The priest dies and the twelve blind peo- ple starve to death. That is the entire play. Can any rational or healthy mind derive either pleasure or profit from such a work? The opening dialcgue of this play fs thoroughly characteristic of Maeterlinck. It runs as follows: First Blind Man—Is he not coming yet? Second Blind Man—You have waked me. First Blind Man—I was asleep, too. Third Blind Man—I was asleep, too. First Blind Man—Is he not com~ ing yet? Second Blind Man—I hear nothing coming. Third Blind Man—It must be about time to go back to the asy- lum. First Blind Man—We want to know where we are. Second Blind Man—It has grown cold since he left. First Blind Man—We want to know where we are. The Oldest Blind Man—Does any one know where we are? The Oldest Blind Woman—We were walking a very long time; we must be very far from the asylum. First Blind Man—Ah! the women are opposite us! The Oldest Blind Woman—We are sitting opposite you. First Blind Man—Wait, I will come next to you. Where are you? Speak! that I may hear where you are. The Oldest Blind Woman—Here; we are sitting on stones. First Blind Man—There is some- thing between us— _ Second Blind Man—It is better to stay where one is! Third Blind Man—Where are you sitting? Do you want to come over to us? The Oldest Blind Woman—We dare not stand up! Ete., ete., etc. . B Alas, poor Belgiw Is this your Shake- speare? That dialogue séems to me a gross libel on the intelligence of blind peo- ple, but a very good imitation of the chat- er of idio Nordau is not far wrom when he say ‘The stupid people o Maeterlinck say nothing because they have nothing te say. Their creator has been unable to put & single idea Into their empty brain-pans because he had not a single idea himself. His pieces do not show us human beings thinking and talk- ing, but tadpoles or slugs considerably more foolish than the learned fleas which are exhibited at country fairs.” =+ (hina Now the Pow@er Magazine © f the World By CHARLES DENBY, Ex-United States [inister to China. | nected with thi HE reader may be assisted in forming an opinion touching the important events which are by some account of the life of the remarkable woman who is now the head of the empire. The Empress Regent Tzi An has had a career full of s changes, coups d’etat and romance. S Jouth shoe was a servant girl at a public nn. She be- came the secondary wife of the Emperor Heinfung. It is to be Soted that secondary wives are not concubines, who constitute 2 ower rank. The concubines themselves are divided into classes, there belng first, second and third classes. The Empress is now any forelgnzr except Prince Henry of Prussia, in 159, and the adles of the legation In 18%. Her own subjects never see her face. She receives behind a screen. From 1861 to 1559 she never gave audience to any foreign Minister, and I belleve that she has not done so since. In 1889 the Emperor Quangssu assumed the reins of government. The Empress came prominently into public life after the allies had taken Peking in 18%0. This event occurred October 13, 1860. October %, , the British treaty was made and the day after the French treaty. Last year the Empress Dowager Became alarmed lest the whole of China would be ceded to the foreign powers and selzed the reins of government with her old but strong hands. As the writer left China in August, 1898, he is unable to render an aceurate account of the facts which transpired-con- s event. When the Empress attained the age of 60, in 153, all the nations which were represented at Peking vied with each other in showing her respect. Autograph letters were written to her by all the chiefs of state, including her own, and many hand- some presents were forwarded. It would seem that this respect and esteem have changed to infinite hate and loathing. It is understood that the foreigners in China regard her as the Canti-Christs’ the opponent of progress, the prospective mur- derer of the Emperor. Other people say, to their statement, t effort to save China from and I am Inclined to give some credence hat the Hmpress is making a desperate partition. It is claimed by well- informed people that this i her supreme end and purpose. Tt this be true the people of the United States should wish her success. The main purpose of American supremacy to- day should be to prevent the partition of China. If the empire is dtvided up there will be an end to our missionary work, ex- cept, perhaps, In the English possessions. As for our com- merce, which is so greatly developing, it will be constrained, cabined and confined. There is no reason in the world why Great Britain, Russia, France or Germany should have any greater right to seize portions of China than we have. | any men formulate a reason why we have not equal rights in Asia with the BEuropean powers? Will any men put on paper @ decent argument why they should have the exclusive right or any right to take possession of the provinces of China? We have done as much, or more, to introduce modern civilization into Asia as they have. Our trade surpasses theirs, except England’s. Our people are next to the English In numbers. Fhat the powers should protect their people from death or 66 years old. She has never received | happening now in China | of existence a field injury goes without saying, but must they necessarily wipe out of enterprise which is the most promising in the world for our people? »d must we stand idly by while the process goes on? The Empress ruled China from 1851 to 1889. She had built up the difficult edifice of foreign intercourse. She left her coun- try at peace with the whole world. She was reverenced by her own people and respected by foreigners. It is hard to believe that all this honorable regard has been forfeited. The reign of the Empress Regent was noticeable for a marked and generak progress in a number of diffgrent direc- tions, especially commercial. Ralilroads did not until recently win their way, but the foundation was laid for them. The use of the electric telegraph became general. The secret societies in China have been heretofore chiefly influenced by antagonism to the Manchus. They have favored the restoration of the Ching dynasty—which was Chinese. In order to embarrass the Government they have attacked for- eigners and native Christians, who, under the treaties, are en- titled to protection. There were occasional anti-foreign riots. Riots and dis- turbances are not unusual in our éwn country. China paid compensatory damages in every case of injury to persom or property. It would seem from some of the reports from China that the secret societies have taken up the cause of the Emperor. This is almost a self-evident contradiction. The quarrel with the Empress on the part of the foreigner is that she is anti- foreign and that she is secluding the Emperor, who is in faver of the foreigners. There can be no reason, therefore, why the secret societies should take up his cause. At the bottom of all these popular uprisings is discontent growing out of deluges and starvation caused by short crops. There is a great deal of misery and poverty in China. The editor of the World's Editorial Forum has asked my opinfon of “the real meaning and probable outcome’” of the ex- isting riots. Judging by my experience in China from 1% to 1598 1 would say that the riots would be put down by the Gov- ernment, as hundreds have been put down heretofore, but new elements have entered into the situation. It was not until 1567, when Germany landed a battalion of marines and seized a por- tion of the province of Shantung, that it came to be believed that China had no rights that Europeans were bound to re- spect. Since then three other nations have helped themselves to her territory, and no objection has been raised anywhere in the world. In some quarters the idea seems to prevail that the human race would be benefited by destroying the autonomy of China and dividing her soil up among more advanced na- tions. This plea thinly veils the greed for conquest and domination. Left to herself, China will work out, as Japan has done, her own salvation. Ruled by monarchies and despots, her land will always be the abode of abject misery and want. Let the people who wish well to China frown upon the es- trbllsnmenl of a protectorate. It is the beginning of abgorp- tion. My judgment is that the Boxers will be put down and that before iong peace will prevail in China, and that partition will not be attempted at this time. itately. the way of utterin; PERSONAL MENTION. Brad Barrar, a mining man of London, is at the Grand. 3 J. B. McDougall, a prominent business man of Seattle, is & guest at the Palace. W. E. Schricher, president of the Skagit County Bank, La Conner, Wash., Is stop- ping at the Occidental. with our Creelman. Ananias was taken as a type too precip- He could never hold a candle superflious and brilliantly transparent e ———,——————— THE CALL FIRST AGAIN. Reedley Exponent. The San Francisco Call gave the best report of the Democratic convention last tained judgment; but other furniture is subject of execution. SHOULD BE DEFINITE—F. W,, City. The sentence “In event of this proving a faflure we will refund your mone: sufficiently clear. It should read, event of this proving a failure we will re- fund you your money."” SAN FRANCISCO TO MANILA—S., The distance from San Francisco in a causeless, stupid, i t mn: the. °u§; mpmfimt ik Gl AR R R TR S. M. Sprague, Sheriff of Placer County, arrived from Auburn yesterday, and is registered at the Russ. Eawin Austin Oliver, assoclate editor of the Yonkers Daily Statesman of Yonkers, N. Y., is a guest at the Palace. Henry Miller, Sadie Martinot and Mar- garet Anglin are stopping at the Palace. Dr. W. H. Lyne of Richmond, Va., is at the Occidental. James Campbell and A. L. Kasson, prominent lumber miil owners of Port Blakeley, Wash., are guests at the Occi- dental. The first named s accompanied by his wife. —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 23.—Alfred I Hol- man of San Jose is at the Waldorf; J. Rose Mackenzie of San Francisco is al the Holland; Colonel J. H. Borland of San Francisco is at the Imperial; W. H. BSnedaker of San Francisco is at the Plaza. ———————— ANANIAS CREELMAN. Alameda Argus. We read In two of the big morning papers of San Francisco, and indeed in one of the news dispatches of the third, that the most extraordinary scenes of enthusiasm followed the nominating speeches at Philadelphia, but it remained for Creelman, in another part of the last one, to say that “indifference marked the {hr:eeedlnn during the nomlmtlomi:nund t the convention was ‘‘a great lure the wgpoh'l‘t, of s-rty enthuslasm be man will 0 be &g aisappoin and every woman week of any of the city dailles, and on Monday it gave the ten-minute speech of Stephen M. White, which no other paper | ave. We will reproduce it in our next ue, as very few of our readers have had the privilege to hear this master- mind; but they shall have the privilege of réading that speech, for it is a gem. st e St e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DOLLARS OF 18%—H. H. G., City. Deal- ers charge an advance of from $l to $2 for silver dollars of 189. ARCHBISHOP-S. H., La Grange, Cal. In writing a letter to an Archbishop it is proper to use the title “Your Grace.” THE NEW CARS—W. M. C,, City. The length of the new red cars on the Thir@- street line in this city is forty feet. THE NORTH WIND—P. D., Yountville, S ad effocs 04 crops and ss Torth I that i By Snd Darohima. o oTeh I8 that SIZE OF THE STAFF—H. H. G., City. The steel staff on the top of The Call building is 10 inches in diameter. The gilt bail on t of it dlmat.er‘w measures 19 inches in CONTRACT MARRIAGES-E. B., City. ;l"h“eh law of California whicl did away contract marrfages went into effect gixty days after March e s ) 26, 189, when it A SPANISH COIN—L. S., Yuba City. gl.l.n? ett;:n o’t Spain of the reftgn of Cares s 111, that is so much worn that all but Hispania and the a is ot no volue to mn:.:lmn. “:-E:dphe“hh' FURNITURE-L., Sacrament Beds, bedding and Kitehen furniture sad stove cannot be at tisfy claim of a lmlmt:\frbor‘fi?flli. has 2: ¥ City. %o Manila varies according to the route. By the great circle the distance to Yoko- hama is 4336 miles, thence ‘to Hongkong 1490 miles, thence to Manila miles: total 6654 miles. By the traek chart San Francisco to Manila via Honolulu the dis- tance is 7130 miles. AFFECT AND EFFECT—F. W., City. Affect and effect are not synonymous. To affect is to influence; to concern. To ef- fect is to accomplish; to bring about. For instance, a cold affects the body; a medi- cine may effect a cure. “Will not affect the most delicate physique,” when applied to a medicine to be taken internally, is not as good as “will not affect delicate organism.” i —_—e—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1> at Townsend's.* —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mono- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ 10 THE PUBLIC! The Democratic and Silver Re- publican delegates to the NA- TIONAL CONVENTION AT KANSAS CITY JULY g4th have selected the RIO GRANDE LINES As the OFFICIAL ROUTE. Rate open to_all. Tickets on oo, Sale June 2, 3 and . THOMPSON. o‘-’:’u Agent, F. W, €25 Market st. (Palace Hotel), San Feaso~w.