The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 10, 1900, Page 6

Ncig, ==y Fr CThe =% ¥ Call RIDAY.... i Kt atand AUGUST 10, 1900 — = ELS, Proprietor, V.S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. .Tf-lephollr Pfell 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. Market nnd Third, 8. F. Telephose Press 201 JOHN D. SPRECK Lddress A Communica EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stevemnson St. Teiephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Including Postages postmasters are authorized to receiv sobscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when reguested. ange of address should be '3 part AND OLD ADDR n order wsure & pr ance with their request. CALLAND QFFIC +.1118 Broadway OGNESS, Building, Chicago. entral 2613.") dwong Distance phone * CORRESPONDENT: YORK NEW THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1900 BRYAN ACCEPTS. HE first of Colonel Bryan’s three acceptances of the Presidential nomination has passed, with all the incidents of crowds, cheers and enthusiasm. His speech, which was read from manuscript, and copies of which had been placed in advance by the Associated Press with the newspapers, is devoted to one subject, im the main, and makes but a brief ex- cursion into other topics. In his introduction is the sole reference to finance. It is in the form of a vague but venomous attack on the Republican party, in these words: “The Repub- lican party is dominated by those influences which constantly tend to elevate pecuniary considerations {and ignore human rights. Man, the handiwork of | God, is first; money, the handiwork of man, is of 'in- Man is the master, money the | ferior importance. servant; but upon zll important questions to-day Re- n legislation tends to make money the master man the servant.” Let us briefly examine declarations. Mr. Bryan served two terms in Congress. He was in 2 House composed of his own party, with a majority these so large that the Republicans and Populists could | have walked out and still leit a constitutional quorum. What legislation did he propose and what did his party pass and make the law, for either mian or.mone_\'? The Republican legislation of which he complains was G OwEIon ...Heraid Square | o) the statute-books. Did he propose its repeal? NEW YORK “SENTATIVE: Did his party substitute anything for it? The sole STEPHEN B. SMITH.., ..30 Tribune Building. | attempt it made was in the Wilson bill, distorted out CHICAGO :P. O ANDS: ; Great Northern Hotel; STANDS: Brentano, & s Hotel; A Union Square; Wallingron Hotel respondent ERANCP OF r of Clay, open on's war ree‘to all on the sheep to kill tw Park there is troub as started peaceful report from ng, where Mr. McCar- ween sheep ting for a whole 1 are in a way to recover. , South Dak and no sho ta, come rumors of It is free, public range, but superior righ ts by reason of prior e with rm the invasion of the ts destruction by their close ed the sheepherders to with- e herders, after getting the ipplied themselves with arms ng their rights to the free announce that they will a at is left on the ranges is being men and the slaughter of ani- the present System is fol- ock on th Southwestern r of overfeeding and destruc- water suf The forest re- ces of water, have been de- ares have been overstocked now. cattle are being ds, because the range ™ The system which makes every man to get all he can from the regard to its future usefulness is radi- 1 must end in disaster to those awho d on these pastures. The Stockman and Farmer ght ha d that it means also disaster to the try’s meat food supply of the most serious na- ging the supply for domestic use and cut- aluable and important export trade. There is only one remedy, and that is the leasing of the ranges, bringing them under lawful control. o —— e mTe st by thou: T ge 2 abused t necessary fo: ting off The twelv ved her -year-old Montana girl whose pleading her from imprisonment for life will be some day an interesting young lady, whose requests, it is safe to say, will be granted without protest. Another subtle attack has been made upon his Honor the Mayor. The Supervisors are considering h is designed to regulate and limit the granting of special privileges under the charter, o tstica’ ding to all reports from the Orient it appears t as soon as we have helped the Russians civilize ese we shall then have to help the Chinese and civilize the Russians get in The Chinaman lacks a good deal of being as good a fighter as the Boer, but all the same he has shown something like the same ability to get up a surprise party. PRS00 8 500 Do not forget in these days that the Admission day celebration is one of the patriotic things to which you ought to contribute and contribute promptly, n and Farmer says | the shape in which its author framed it, and when passed denounced by President Cleveland as “a rec- ord of shame, corruption and dishonor.” Surely in that period, when Mr. Brayn was in Congress and in a position to shape legislation, man was not dodging Lis m the dollar, but, in want, famine, star W Mills were closed, banks were crash- suspended tion and suffering, was out hunting for the dollar wage-pa ot fi it. were ying enterprises Cities were running soup-houses and the roads were rowded with thousands of men organized in armies The dollar was not bothering 1e Republican party was not in Man wa arid crying for bread. T er, the dollar was not in circulation. 1 1n those days that glorious state of independence which Colonel Jryan regards as his ideal condition, and labor was ) poor to buy drugs for its sick or to bury its deac Remember that this was when Bryan was a legisla- officer of the Government, with actual power to nce its policy toward man and money. The last year | rule Mr. Bryan's estate, given under his oath | Assessor for taxation, was only worth $240. The | of Republican rule it had risen to more than five times that value, and now, by hi more than twenty times the value it had in 1896. still his estate, multiplied twenty During the time of this increase y regular calling, and has aban- he“and his passed out of power. first yea s own oath, is Is | by he r, or does e followed an he doned his two vocations of law and journalism, yet he has prospered in basket and in store, and his petty which was master, man or money, when | , the Kelly army and the other ragged g on Washington? Where Does he know of a soup- | xey were march ents armies now? Does he know of a poorhouse | American mechanics? In the day . when he was in Congress, “man, the e th house that is open? ed with nflu ork of God,” was shivering and starving, in | d hunger. He was driven to choose between 1g and starvation. He was striving to the death ste with his fellow-man for a chance at the poor wages | th t were to be earned Now, because the Republican party has changed all this, because the shops and mills are running, trade is | active, prosperity is reinstated, and labor earns good | wages and capital good profits, he faces an audience | to impeach Republicarlism for putting the dollar above the man! a The Republican party has not put the dollar above the man, but it has put good trousers on man, with pockets, and has filled the pockets with dollars. Let every laboring man who heard or reads Colonel | Bryan’s speech recall his position in 1896 and contrast | it with his position now, and ask himself if he desires to go back. That prosperity which multiplied Colonel Bryan's own estate by twenty has reached and touched every man in the Union. It has been general and not par- tial. The country likes it and will not throw it away ify the fetid ambition of Colonel Bryan. If the professors and doctors in the University of California clinic indulge in much more of the secre- tiveness which they displayed in reference to the | woman who di€d on their operating table it would | be wise for their superiors to open a bureau of infor- mation in connection with the establishment. THE MERCHANTS’ ASSOCIATION. ONGRATULATIONS are due to the Mer- chants’ Association upon the record of its work, which appears in the fourth anniversary number of the Merchants’ Association Review. The organization has been one of great usefulness not only to its members but to the whole city, and it is | gratifying to learn it is rapidly increasing in numbers | and in strength, and will be in the future even more | than in the past a potent force in urging on the ad- vancement of the city. Commenting upon the growth of the organization | the Review says: “The most sanguine among the | forty-seven charter members of the Merchants’ Asso- | ciation six years ago could have scarcely imagined | ministration. ciated with progressive and energetic public-spirited men, who are working on so comprehensive a scale for the welfare of San Francisco. The Call cordially indorses the closing words of the | greeting with which the fourth anniversary number of the Review opens: “Every citizen interested in the material welfare of San Francisco ought to co- operate actively with this organization. There are « thousand merchants in this city who have not yet | joined the Merchants’ Association. come forward and sustain a movement that has fidently hope that the fifth anniversary issue of the Review will contain an official list of 2000 members.” A recent review of the building and loan associa- tions in the United States gives the total number at 5435, with assets amounting to $581,886,170. The ac- cumulations represent mainly the savings of working- men, and it is to those men Bryan is appealing for power to pay off the savings at fifty cents on the dollar. SECRETIVE OFFICIALS. | OR the second time within a | l::briei period the Sacramento Bee has been com- pelled to resort to the courts in order to obtain | from State officials documents of importance to the public and of interest as news. On each occasion the decision of the court has been in favor of the Bee, so there can be no dispute but what the action of the officials was an illegal assumption of power and an | the people have a right to a full knowledge. | The latest of the two instances is of particular in- | terest to San Francisco, because the State paper to | | wh h the Bee desired access relates to the bubonic plague scare. On August 2 the Bee requested of Dr. Matthews, secretary of the State Board of Health, | plague by Drs. Mouser and Ryfkogel, in order that | it might make such publication of them as it saw fit | The request was refused, and thereupon the Bee sued | : g | out an alternative writ of mandate before Judge Hart | tof the Superior Court, and the mandate was issued. | In overruling a demurrer of the defendant Judge | Hart said: “I have no doubt that the reports, of | which inspection is herein demanded, are public writings within the meaning of sections 18g2 and 1893 oi the Code of Civil Procedure, and of which, accord- ing to those sections, every citizen has a right to have inspection, or take a copy, or obtain a certified copy Commenting upon the decision the Bee very justly sa “The secreting of public documents, which the s give the people a right to examine, away statute: from the humblest citizen of the land is an arrogant | | and aristocratic assumption of despotic power which | should never be permitted.” The Call has had experience with the growing as- sumptions of officials in this respect both at Sacra- | mento and in this city. estate, en the country was run on his plan, has grown to be plutocratic under Republican policy. Will the C regi Not long ago a representa- tive of The Call at Sacramento was refused permis- | sion to see the correspondence which passed between Governor Gage and Attorney General Ford concern- | ing the proposed amendments affecting the judicial | department of the State. In this city it has had fre- quent occasion to comment upon the secrecy with which various boards and commissions of the muni- cipal government are carrying on the work of ad- Instead of holding public meetings for the discussion of all public business intrusted to them, so that their plans, projects and policies can be made known to the people, the officials meet in executive session, everything is kept as secret as possible, and the people are left in ignorance of matters of which they have a right to a full knowledge. Such tendencies on the part of officials are radically bad, and unless checked will inevitably lead to gross | wrongs and to jobbery. It is true that an action is | not necessarily bad simply because done in secrecy, nor | necessarily good simply because done publicly; never- | theless, all the world knows that honesty does not | hide itself and that dishonesty will hide if it can. Our | laws wisely provide for publicity in all branches and departments of government, because nothing else can so surely guarantee the rights of the people. There- fcre every attempt on the part of an official to keep secret a matter of public business is an assumption that should not be tolerated or excused. The Bee has rendered important service not only to the press but to the whole State in making the fight against secrecy of the officials at Sacramento, and it is to be hoped that'having now for the second time demonstrated the right of the public to know what the State officials are doing, it will not have to resort for a third time to get a mandate from the courts to compel the officials to obey the law. Once more Philadelphia rises to protest against being called a slow town, and by way of backing the protest points to the fact that her factories have built the swiftest locomotives on land and the swiftest ships on the sea; but she ignores the vital point that she sells those ships and engines and lets other folks run them. b i Chicago is complaining of “blind pigs” in the rarks, but for once it is not a pork question. The blind pig is a place where a Chicago citizen can get a drink without the police knowing anything about it, and the reason it is complained of in the parks is that the girls are on to it. C. A. Towne, who has declined the nomination of the Populists for Vice President, has scored a triumph ir. English rhetoric. He consumed hundreds of very valuable words to disguise the single reason he had | that the membership would ever reach one thousand. | Yet to-day there are 1226 firms enrolled as active | members of the Merchants’ Association, making it | numerically the largest commercial organization in | the world. During *he existence of the Review our | membership has nearly trebled. This remarkably rapid increase of mcmbers affords gratifying proof | that the association’s work enjoys the confidence and | support of this community. Strength of numbers is an irresistible weapon in popular government.” Along with the increasing power of the association there has gone a steadfast expansion of the field of its operations At the present ‘time it has committees engaged in investigating practical questions pertain- ing to the cleaning, sprinkling, paving and light- ing of the public streets; the removal of poles and wires from the main thoroughfares; the establishment of children’s public playgrounds; the arrangement of uniform and attractive signs indicating names of streets; the construction of public conveniences; the utilization of salt water; better harbor facilities and lower port charges; the conservation of the flood waters of the State; the Pacific Commercial Museum; the correct administration of charity and numerous other important topics and desirable improvements. Of such an association it pays to be a member. There are many advantages of a persdnal nature to be derived from it, for its co-operative energies are directed largely to the benefit of its members; but the highest good of such membership is to be asso- for his withdrawal. He did not say he was disgusted. The police officer who pleads that his head was troubling him when be assaulted and would have killed his superior may discover that the Police Com- mission has a peculiar way of removing troublesome things—even heads. —_— Li Hung Chang may be old enough to deserve the respect which attaches to age, but the interesting old gentleman certainly ought to make some endeavor to suppress his remarkable faculty for lying or there may be trouble. The Boxers have probably discovered that they no more than others possess the ability to dodge bul- lets. The Mongol savages had an idea that foreign bullets bounced when they struck. —_— Sihice Senator Wellington of Maryland has come out squarely for Bryan it is safe to predict that his Waterloo is not going to turn out as the original one did for the other Wellington. Chicago must be suffering from strange apathy. The national census has been taken and we have heard nothing to suggest that the city of the lakes is the largest in the world. —— Bryan’s oratory is to run in a different groove this year from what it did in 1896, but it will be the same old stuff, To each of these | | desirable firms we earnestly appeal as a civic duty to | proven so beneficial and advantageous. Let us con- | comparatively | attempt to conceal from the people matters of which : permission to see the reports made upon the alleged | DD DD DD PG a4 D R beceie b ebeie * o S S oe S e e o e DR. JEKVL AND MR. HYDE. Cover each half of the picture alternately and see ‘“our great and good friend” Li Hung Chang in his great transformatiom act. *-0-- -0 *Drebe b e bebebedeie . - - —Chicago Tribune. ¢ e e e e o o S~ ] PERSONAL MEN TION. W. B. de Jarnett, a banker of Colusa, is | stopping at the Palace. oil man of Fresno, is at the Grand. W. P. Hammon, & well known mining man of Oroville, is registered at the Pal- ace. A. A. Bonynge, brother of the mill!n:- the | aire mine-owner, Is registered at | Grand. E. W. Hale, a dry goods merchant prince of Sacramento, is a guest of the Occldental. M. L. Washburn of the Alaska Com- mercial Company from a trip to the East. George W. Marston, one of the most prominent merchants of San Diego, is a guest of the Occidental. Lieutenant Commander W. of the United States navy, accompanied by his wife, is at the Palace. F. B. Hill, accompanied by his family, lis staying at the Occidental. He is a prominent mining man of Nevada City. of the New Yoirk Central Railroad at Chi- cago, left for the Windy City last night. shipping and commission merchants of Portland, Or., is stopping at the Occi- | dental. George F. Heusner, passenger agent of the New York Central Railroad at Port- webfoot last night. F. A. Jones, general agent of the Santa | Fe at Fresno, and T. H. Warrington of the same city, iraveling agent of the com- pany, are in the city. Rev. M. T. Vait, a priest of Davenport, Ia., Is registered at the Palace. He is accompanied by his two sisters and is | here on personal business only. | W. B. Lardner, a prominent lawyer of | Auburn, is in the city. He served in the | Assembly of the last Legislature and was highly commended by his constituents for | faithful attention to public duty. Fred W. Swanten of Santa Cruz re- | turned from Nome yesterday. He is very much disgusted with the northern coun- | try and brings a bunch of hard luck | stories that are interesting but not really | new. R e o e e e e el B DY ) —_————— AIRING THEILF'REFERENCES Three maidens talked, as maidens will, Of what gives life its zest. Said one, a buxom country girl, “The mountain air is best.” | | | The second, clad in yachting suit, All white beyond compare, Did thereupon exulting cry, “Give me the ocean air.” Then one in swinging hammock posed Half oped her eyes divine, And languorously said, “T'll take The millionaire for mine.” LATEST STORIES of the FUNNY MAN. g[e—l have come to ask for your hand. he (teasingly)—Which hand? | He—The one with the most diamonds.— Chicago News. Enthusiastic Young Person—Oh, profes- sor, are you interested in trees? Professor Dryasdust—Genealogical trees imlerest me, madam.—Sommerville Jour- nal. Jack Hyfly—So old Millyuns is looking for a divorce from his young wife? On what grounds? Tom_Topnotch—On the grounds of econ- omy, I guess.—Judge. Officer (to straggler)—What are you stmdlnfi ?‘:ehlnd that tree for? The ‘en- yin; Biraggior iurran! That's just the op- rtunity e been waiting for; I'm a H:st class wing shot.—Richmond Dispatch. Cleverton—Miss Peterkin is married. What shall 1 send priate for a wedding persent? Dashaway—Oh, anything she doesn't want.—Detroit Free Press, “I hear your husband is very sick, Aunt %fln: to be er appro- Yes'm.” é “Nothing serlous, I hope. His condition is not eritical 2" “‘Critieal! aint satisfied tian Register. A FITTING HEAD. Rural Editor—Have you set up that article I wrote about the prisoner who hanged himself in the jail with a towel? Compositor—Yes, sir; it is ready for the I should say he wuz. T with nuffin."—The ~ Chris. press. Rural Editor—But T forgot to head it. \ Compositoreoh, I fixed 1t 8l right. I headed it, “Wiped Out of Existence.”— Chicago News. “Your family is lat ting your. Shmmer trin "Yes: thite Are sh of us to make up our Mnu; where | many that we never starte to g0 M.,M ar| until | Milton McWhorter, the big rancher and returned yesterday | S. Hughes | W. B. Jerome, general western agent | George W. Weilder, one of the leading | land, Or., departed for the land of the PR +»0-¢-o+0+0+0—0—0+’ FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. t P 1 e R e R B e o o ® @ |of o | grad -+ S+0 03+ 0+0+0+@® won't allow the p MASS-MEETING T0 DISCUSS The SCHODL PROBLE Western Improvement Club to Join Parents on the Question. —_—— Redistricting Plan Causes Great In- convenience to Pupils in the Grant and the Pacific Heights Schools. SZ PRI The Western Improvement Club will take up the fight against the redistricting plan adopted by the School Board. A meeting will be held in the Flood building to-morrow afternoon at 8 o’clock to form- ulate a plan of action. The least the club will do will be to petition the Super- visors to rescind their action and if this does not accomplish the desired end more emphatic measures may be adopted by the soclety. That the residents of the Western Ad- dition are thoroughly wrought up ls evi- dent from the dally complaints made to the school authorities by the parents of the £uplls affected. In the Grant and Pacific Heights schools no less than 1200 | scholars are inconvenienced. According to the parent of one of the pupils there are eighty children in one of the sixth grades of the Pacific Heights School, to which some of the Grant chil- dren were tfansferred, with only fifty-five » accommodate them. Virtually olars to a seat. When writing it ry for part of the class to stand. ther room there are seventy-eight nd the third sixth grade in this ding Is n y as d. ere are th vacant rooms 1 the Grant § ol and because of the n: arrangement a large number of pupils [ Who formerly went to the Grant Sehool iruw have to go fr ight to fourteen blocks to get to Pacific Heighs School. An order has been is: ducation t s must atte jat the corner of one hour every from ten to fif: n t d by the Board lars of certain High School G ry and Scott streets week. This edict means teen blocks more for the William Ross of 3024 Clay street is especially vigo s in his denunciation of the new system and he thnks it high time | something was done. He has three | dren affected by the change and their | car fares mean to him an itional ex- pense of § ar on a basis of 60 cents child, excluding the ten “The whole thing & | pupil to walk f‘ nutshell r. Ross, “is that Den- { man and id want the schgols | condensed can put in mamual | training. The fur t their disposal tting In of the neces- @ | sary paraphernalia in all the bu ¢ | they select a few buildings and the | to concentrate the pupils regardless 4 | inc I am glad that the e | D is to take up the . land rely hope it will be succ ® |in its endeavors to have board's 3 + | rescinded. . Payment of Claims Against City. City Treasurer Brooks has issued a cir- he states for the informa- tion of those having registered demands rebates for overpaid personal propert taxes of 1899 or any other delayed clain ¢ | against the city, that when there is mor 4 | in the treasury for th 1 ¢ | claims, or any part ther, | duly notified. The Treas fa- vor in any way to his disadvantage a ¢ | person to whom the claims may be as- & | signed. No authority has ever been given by that official for the purc of claims | ¢ | or demands outstanding against the city . and county. S A E—. | L4 l Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend . * . —— e & | Special iInformation supplied daily to D R SR S S SR SR S B T S . CLOTH AND SILK COSTUME. The costume represented if of dove-col- ored cloth. The bolero is edged with over- lapping shaped flounceés, and the skirt tunic is of gray and white striped silk. Beneath it are two narrow flounces like those on the bolero, which form a head- ing to a deep shaped flounce of cloth. | | | | business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery st. Telephone ifain 10i2. . —_———— McJigger—Isn't it tiresome the way peo- | ple talk about the weather?" | When you travel? Thingumbob—Tiresome? It's positively dangerous. The minute you make a re- mark about the weather it gives the other fellow a chance to say, “Yes, but it'll ba a cold day for the one or th ~ November.” Then, first thing y you're mixed up in a flerce political di cussion.—Philadelphia Press, —_—— Do You Enjoy Comfort It you do, buy your ticket via the Northern Pacific R'y and ride on the “North Coast Limited.” the most perfectly a; pointed train in America. Solid vestibuled a lighted with incandescent electric lights, ob- servation car with a large parlor for ladles, tourist sleeping car fnished in mahogany and upholstered In olive green leather. The oni line selling tickets direct into Yellowstone Par Tickets to all points north and east at the lo est rates. T. K. STATELER, Gen. Agt., &3 Market st., S. F. —_—e—— The Santa Fe will sell tickets to Chicazo and return on August 21 and 22 at the very low rate of $72 50, good for sixty days. This is a very low rate and is open for all. They will tell you all about it at 623 Market street. 6 \ HOW TO MAKE AN ATHLETE OF THE BABY. 0DD EFFECTS OF “CHARACTER ™ MAKE-UP. By WILTON LACKAYE. \ !_:——‘ \“KING WILLIAM” SIS V|, S— The Mysteries of Lagunitas Canyon. i IN THE GREAT MAGAZINE SECTION. NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. THE SUNDAY CALL LEADS THEM ALL. hod By NAN BYXBEE, EXPERIENCES IN AN OVERALL FACTORY. THE LATEST FADS IN EMBROIDERIES AND TAPESIRIES. Dismasted in a bead Calm— CURIOUS WRECK OF THE PFLUGER.