The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 30, 1900, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1900. The ESe Call. .....AUGUST 30, 1900 IURSDAY... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. sl i Communications to W, S, LEAKE, Manager. Telephone Press 204 tddress A MANAGER'S OFFICE I'(ILIL’ATIQI OFFICE. .Market and Third, 8. ¥, Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS T Term Y CALL (nciuding Sun LY CALL (including Sunds CALL (ncluding Sund: CALL—By Single Montl NDAY CALL One Year LEEKLY CALL One Yes 41l postmasters are a subscriptl Bample ocpies will be forwerded when requested. Matl subscribers in oroering particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure & prompt and correct complience with their request. / D OAKLAND OFFICE <...1118 Breadway GEORGE C KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2615.”) YORK CORRESPONDENT: . Heraid Square NEW C. C. CARLTON..... YORK REPRESENTATIVE: NEW STEPHEN B. SMITH 30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoria Hotei; A. Brentano, 1 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eberman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: mont Hcuse, Auditorfum Hotel. Wellington Hotel orrespondent. ERANCF OFFICES -5 ¥y, corner of Clay. open until $:30 k. 300 Hayes, open until 9:3) o'clock. 633 Allis pen unt 0 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until ntil 16 o X 9 o'clock. open unt Eddy streets—Specialties Vaudevilie every afternoon and d Sixteenth streets, Saturday, September 2. QUESTION OF APATHY. > EX OR HANNA in recent address at As- \ ry Par ewed the warnings which 1 The pe t McKinley entering upon pre- i be alertness and something occur prosperity they an nain away from the not the Presi- atural, : t and so gen- the conditions of the ose of 1896 is so strongly im- d that there seems hardly z ty the election of a cala candidate y th Then there is the further gn are in the nature threshed over. The i v. There is no further paign of education on the subject. The 1d s been proven by silver fully demon- e public year ard f frec guiments on th subject is re g a twice-told tale and the people t it. Thus, with a sure feeling established conviction con- ke, there course, a rt of the voters to take the sible and leave the work of the of is ter date s easily understood, it is never- re, and Senator Hanna was quite i C derable portion of his ad- 1ousing Republicans to the duty of :active paign werk. The issue at stake is that T erity ar »d government under McKinley nistrative radicalism under Br; 1o . ortant that no man ought to be g to take chances on them. Prosperity m indus applied to fields, nd is largel, none the le dependent upon na- ss good legislation is men to reap the reward of their Tation will rwin all that nature gives country wretched in the midst of condi- d abundance for all e of the subject, Sena- lesson. Go back ve prosper ppiness that pre- Then furn were blazing, spindies ness was hurrying us back and e and you got it. Well, I need not picture how fires went out in ow spindles failed to spin, how' unem- men went hungry, how happiness disappeared, how b went to worse. It was deplorable. Well, war another change, and you got it What a Furnaces are glowing, spindles are singing Happiness us all with prosperity. ther don’t. to get back to g3 ¥0ou must work to pre- ourse vent it you here is the whole thing in a nutshell. 4 duy If the in- strious and thrifty people of this country do not return to the hard times of the second Cleve- iministration they must work to prevent it. To t'end they should at once take part in the political ities of the time. Every citizen should register. who are young and strong enough to do campagin id - enroll in a Republican club. Repub- ifornia sheuld set an example to those of Indifference may result in defeat. Vin igor will assure victory s of € The pedagogues assembled in State convention at San - Jose have reached the conclusion that school laws. have become obsolete. The educators must have beén studying the administration of affairs under San Francisco’s “reform” board. BRYAN'S EXTRA SESSION. his Indianapolis spéech Colonel Bryan announced his intention to get right down to business as soon as he had taken a bite after inauguration. He said: | If elected 1 shall convene Congress in extraordinary | session as soon as inaugurated and recommend an im- mediate declaration of the nation’s purpose—first, to establish able form of government in the Philip- pine Islands, just as we are now ablishing a stable form of government in Cuba; second, to give indepen- dence to the Filipinos, just as we have promised inde- pendence to the Cubans; third, to protect the Filipinos from outside interference while they work out their destiny, just as we have protected the republies of Centrpl and South America, and are by the Monroe doctrine pledged to protect Cuba. Here are several propositions of interest to the | American people. In the first place it is Colonel Bryan’s admission and declaration that if he is elected the same vote will sweep into power a Congress in agreement with him. Unless this is the case it would be futile to call an extra session, for it would not obey his recommendation and the cost of it would be We are of opinion that the interests of the n called wasted. people do not require such an extra se by Colonel Bryan and that the threat of it will de- | tract from his vote. After long paralysis our industries are in motion ! again and there is no desire to see their momentum checked. The long distress entailed by the panic of 1803 has not been forgotten, nor have its effects en- tirely disappeared, though happily becoming a dis- solving view. A political session of Congress will not aid in the reparation needed by all our materizl interests, seamed and scarred as they were by the awful pinch of that recent depression. Give us a continuance of calm and progressive com- merce and the Philippine question will reach adjust- | ment without any extra session. A further examina- tion of Colonel Bryan's intentions reveals among them the purpose to transplant the Monroe doctrine to Asia. That is an excellent hemispherical doctrine, but was never intended to be an all embracing spheri- cal principle. To transplant it to Asia will require a larger army and navy than that which so a!nrrfls Colonel Bryan and his followers. To make it opera- tive from Seoul to Aden will be a very large task, in- deed, and yet that is the task set for his country by this candidate of a potpourri of parties If the political which he represents get power, there will be no end to the agitation that will ensue. His extra session will plunge us into con- fusion at home and his Asiatic Monroe docrine will burgoo keep us busy abroad. It is not the programme of a statesman, but the pro- gramme of an inflated young man who determines all means to be legitimate that can help on his ambition. that the Monroe doctrine has for three- a century been a shield to neig He say: quarters of publics and yet it has imposed no pecuniary burden upon us. That is very true, because we stand guard but a few day from the theater on which it must be enforced if challenged With the Philippines it is quite different. No one in his sober mind will say that we can enforce such a doctrine in Asia without assuming far greater burdens than have vet fallen upon us from the Spanish war. Nor was it ever intended by Monroe and Adams, or successors, that the Monroe doctrine b They conceived it to be a measure for our protection, that of the other hemisphere being secondary. awa their should go beyond this hemisphere. any countries 1n th reason for the Monroe principle does not apply in | Asia at all, nor will Colonel Bryan ever have the chance to attempt its application there. The people want none of him, his extra session nor his attempted dictation in the affairs of Asia. o o escns A ROAST FOR CALIFORNIA. NE of the oddest campaign documents for Bryan that has appeared up to this time is a O work bearing the title, “Why a Rich Yankee Did Not Settle in California It purports to be written by Addison Awes Jr. of Gloucester, Mass,, a gentleman who to his name appends the information, “Son of a revolutionary sire.” Whether there be such a man, we know not. The book reads like a sandlot utterance of defiance to California and a hurrah for Bryan. Of our social conditions the writer says: “This free ever select, where you will not be surprised to see some personage present who in New England would be considered unfit for decent society. Men who are Iibertines are there and are permitted to associate with pure-minded maidens, whom these wretches would ruin the moment they are in their power. The boor, if he only has weaith, can enter fhe drawing-room and be received with as much cordiality as the president of a college. Thus the extremes meet and mingle and the standard lowers year by year until the true aristo- crat becomes a hermit, feeling that to mingle with such a motley crowd is not only a waste of time, but has a tendency to immorality and vice that offends the sen- sibilities of a true gentleman.” Of our business opportunities it is said: “It takes more hard work, tact, economy, skill, industry and brains to transact and develop business in the Golden State than elsewhere in the great marts of trade. The competition is very severe, unjust and bitter; the chances of success are getting smaller and the hances of defeat greater and greater. One cause of this is the large number of one-lunged business men who wander to these shores in search of health. The genial climate revives their drooping spirits and they resolve to stay at all hazards; so they enter into busi- ness circles and reduce or destroy fair profits—for all they care for is to live, not to accumulate.” Upon the conditions of labor the writes quotes and indorses the statements of one whom he describes as “a man who was for months traveling in California and whose opportunities for close observation were unusually good.” This authority, among other things of a similar purport, says: “Farm labor is at 2 low figure. The price for the privilege of eating indifferent fare, “sleeping in a strawstack and pur- ting in fourteen hours a day following a mule team is $20 per month. During the hard times of President Cleveland wages on farms were $25 or $30 a month. Indications are that this winter wages will go to $15 a month.” So from subject to subject the author goes on de- picting the miseries of the poor and the villainies of the rich in California. The bar, the bench, the Legis- lature and the merchants of the State are equally spit- ted and roasted. However we are not leit to despair. We are told there is yet a chance for the redemption of California. The writer says a “‘second Lincoln has appeared.” The name of the new comer is Bryan, and his election is predicted as a necessary sle’p(_toward the relief of the peop!s of California from the corrup- tion engendered by the domination of the Southern | Pacific Railroad. 5 It will be seen that we are in a hard fix, for even were all the evil written of us true, we should still | fall from the frying pan into the fire should Bryan | triumph. Whether the book will prove an effective campaign document may be doubted, but it will amuse Californians. Unfortunately it may have an injurious hboring re- | The | effect by discouraging immigration from the East. Thus it will hurt California more than it will help Bryan. In fact the indignation which such a work will arouse in the State is likely to react upon the Bryanites themselves. Calamity howling is bad enough, but wholesale vilification is worse. DMISSION day is now so near at hand that the thrill of the coming celebsation can be felt the city one of the largest throngs that ever gathered here. The decoration of the city i ADMISSION D@y - FUND. fiey throughout the city. It is to be an occasion artistic and splendid. In short the festival will be in memorable in otir annals and will doubtless draw to State. Contributions for the celebration fund. have be liberal in most instances. The Market-street Railway | corporation has net given so much as it should, but then that is the way of the hog and by this time we are used to it. As a rule the response to the appeal for a local contributior of $50,000 has been gener- ous and when all is over it will be found that San | Francisco has done her full share in providing for | the State jubilee. There are, however, a considerable number of citi- | zens who have not yet subscribed to the fund. Many of them have doubtless overlooked the matter in the rush of their private businessy Others perhaps have not given the subject the consideration it merits. These people should now act. The time is getting short and if they are to have a hand in the celebra- tion and give help to the work they should do so at | once. | of men, for it is one of patriotism and of advertising. It is to celebrate the greatness of the State and to make known to capitalists and to home-seekers the rich opportunities that wait upon industry and enter- | | prise in every section of the commonwealth. In a | movement of this kind all are expected to take part. ‘LI( each gives in proportion to his means none need | give much. When the celebration begins and the | city is radiant with banners and thronged with proud, | patriotic and happy people, those who have had i sufficient spirit to»do their share in providing for the | festival will have a fuller and a finer joy in it all than {can fall to the lot of those who have given nothing, done nothing and been mere nullities in-the com- | munity. —— EURNING ISSUE. ! THE | | \V Angeles upon the work of the California | Water and Forest Association wittily and truly | described our forests as the “burning” issue of the time. They are burning right along throughout the | year. Sometimes the burning is lawful and sometimes | unlawful, sometimes it is the result of design and | sometimes of criminal carelessness, sometimes it is | mere wastefulness of material and sometimes it is de- | liberate destruction done with malice. | For the purpose of undertaking a campaign of edu- | cation on the subject and promoting a scientific sys- |tem of forest protection the Water and Forest | Association has been organized. In speaking of it, | Mr. Smythe said: No mystery surrounds its origin or purpose. There is absolutely no politics fn the movement. We have no | party but the Water and Forest Association, no candi- | date save irrigation, but we do insist that to make Cali- | fornia ready for the future millions and worthy of her | high destiny is “the paramount issue” of the hour. What we want is at least 25000 members, drawn from all parts of the State and every walk in life. Our mem- bership committee, with Chief Justice Beatty at its | head, is pushing the enrollment, and already it mounts | to thousands. We raised over $10,000 tirough our | finance committee, and in the autumn will able to | present the results of its expenditure in th® form of | expert reports exhibiting the workings of or present | laws in relation to some of the most import’t streams | of our State. - | Itis, of course, gratifying to learn that so much has \becn accomplished by the association and that its membership is already so strong. The protection of forests, however, is cne of the movements of which it may be said that nothing can be accounted done so long as anything remains undone. The people of the assisting in its work. We ought to have something !in the way of effective legislation on the subject this | winter and to that end every one who takes an intelli- lgcm interest in the prosperity of the State ought to exert whatever influence he has. The time is propitious for presenting the claims of the association upon the people. Fires are occurring in all parts of the State and follow one another with rapidity. Some of them have been so disastrous as to convince the occupants of the districts over which they swept that forest preservation can never be so costly to taxpayers as forest destruction. The issue ought to be discussed throughout the State while we are electing members to the Legislature. 'Let us send to Sacramento this winter a set of men who will have sufficient statesmanship to understand the importance of this problem and the right methods of dealing with it. . | | Some of the interesting dive-keepers of this city who are groaning under police interference in their affairs may find hope of a new field for their opera- tions in the fact that owing to a legislative mistake Hawaii will be a “wide open” country for several months. We could endure in patience the loss in our population which their migration westward would represent. Mayor Phelan has returned from abroad feeling, he says, exceptionally vigorous. It is sincerely to be hoped that he feels strong enough to attempt to remedy some’ of the glaring abuses which are dis- gracing the administration of several of the depart- ments which he created. —_— The good people of Belvedere must be trying to prove themselves the best tempered people in the world or the soundest sleepers. They are protesting. loudly against a crusade which has begun to eradicate the cats in their neighborhood. —_—— The bitterness with which the Japanese are war- ring upon the Chinese suggests the intensity with which a family feud is waged. The yellow men of the | Orient appear to hate one another because of their | resemblance to each other. . Whatever else may be said of the little men of the Mikado's realm, they certainly have proved them- missionary work in China appears to be done with a sword. . ———— The convicted murderer who wants to be sent.to a leper colony instead of to the State Penitentiary ought to take into consideration that even lepers have some rights which society is bound to respect. 2 Money, it is said, talks. This fact probably oc- curred to the lawyers who have been bl-ckgurdin‘{ one another in the Townsend case. to be profuse, | | every respect worthy of the jubilee year of the Golden ‘ 0 The issue appeals to the business and the bosoms | 9 ILLIAM E. SMYTHE in his address at Los | State should give a cordial support to the association | and easystyle extends into society. No gathering, how- !b_v joining its ranks, contributing to its funds and | 1| total liabilities, $43,043,483 31. selves foes worthy of any foeman’s steel. | Their only | ‘| Robles, is registered at the Lick. ANTICS OF THE SHAH . ENLIVENED ALL PARIS @ Persia for Ostend the Paris papers | ara filled with curious anecdotes | abdut him and his suite duringtheir | stdy here. 11 is sald that while constraining himself to use a fork on state Jc- | caslons the Shah whenever eating away | from Eurbpeans or official dignitaries pre- ferred to .employ his fingers in dealing with the meats and salads. | Another story told of him is that he caused his Persian servants to be flogged almost ds'ly for the least offense and once even ordeted one who had upset a candle- | 'stick on .the table, burning the Shah’s hand sligliitly, to be decapitated. French | advisers lad great trouble in making the Eastern ruler understand that he must refrain from such practices. BOUGHT TWO TONS OF CANDY. Among the Shah's remarkable purchases dies, principally sugar almonds, which he munched at the rate of a pornd a day after his discovery of these dainties at a confectioner’s. The thing that bewlildered the Shah more than all the other wonders that he saw was the affection of the European husband for his one wife, even long after age had rendered her unattractive. At an official banquet given to the Shah oy President Loubet the Asiatic monarch critically surveyed the low-necked mat- rons around the table, almost all middle- | aged wives of high personages. and then | remarked bluntly to General Parent, who sat next to him: “I can't understand why you retain your attachment for women, and~ especially hy _you bring ' them out when v have reached such an advanced age. harem all the women are young. The papers say that he envaged two | young and pretty women acrobats whom he noticed at the Hippodrome Circus to erform later at his palace and inat five rench girls, four of whom were dancers | ® | f i | i \ | | | | MUNCHED A POUND A DAY OF SUGAR AL- EXPRESSED GREAT SURPRISE THAT | MONDS AND THEN BOUGHT TWO TONS. Dy OSeY. D NI A O £ s =Y “ @ Spent $1,600,000 and Bought Everything in Quantities From Salads to Automobiles. INCE the departure of the Shah of | was more than two tons of French can-| and one_ an expert photographer, were sent to Teheran to awa't his return. The Shah and the Grand Vizler ar2 known to have bought more than 150 women's dre of the most fashionable and costly The Figaro says that the cost of the Shah’s purchases while he was here was more than $1,600.000. When the Shah and his Persian colony vacated the sumptuous mansion provided by the French Government for visiting royalty it was found necessary to thor- oughly clean the entire establishment. Many priceless tapestries, carpets and pieces of furniture were ruined. he Shah took but one bath during his stay and that was scalding hot and not for the sake of cleanliness, but to allay rheumatic pains. During his visit the Shah decorated 240 people, including Cheiro, the American palmist, who predicted the attempted shooting of the Shah four days before tha event. FINE SHOWING MADE BY BANKS OF THE STATE Gain in Deposits in the City and Outside Business Institutions. R Yesiat Farmers and Capitalists Saving Money in Spite of the Cry of “Ruin” by Calamity Howlers. LR The reports of the commercial and sav- ings banks of this city and the interior of the State show a wonderful increase in gains of deposits during the past year, In fact, the reports forwarded to the State Bank Commissioners show that all classes are in a prosperous cordition. Last week The Call published that the footings of the city savings banks showed a gain In | deposits of $7,136,713 71. Yesterday the re- ports of the outside savings banks were compiled and they show a gain In de- posits of $5,037, 34 during the last| twelve months. Thus the total gains of this class of banks in (he State has been the remarkable sum of $12,224,209 05. When it is remembered that tnese deposits were made by the.laboring people, the well-to- do class and the farmers it is readily seen that the country is not going to the dogs as some of the Bryanite politicians wowid have the public believe. The city commercial banpks, where the |-capitalists transact most of their business, | do not show such large returns, althougn the gain In deposits in these institutions since the last report in .August, 189, reached the no small figure of $1,430,163 12, The reports of the city commercial and | country savings banks are as follows: City Commercial Banks. Resources—Bank premises, $1,843,793 70; real estate taken for debt, §2,371.338 33; United States bonds, miscellanebus bonds and stocks and county warrants, $6,179,126 06: loans _on real estate, $4,915.655 95; s on stocks, ‘warrants, $12,275,306 99; loa: tles (grain, etc.), $3.71€,121 72; Joans on personal security and overdrafts, $19,842,403 20; money on hand and checks and other cash items, $11,503,- 130 51; due from banks and bankers, $I1644, 813 38; furniture and fixtures, expenses, faxes and other assets, $737.777 11: total resources, 5,121,516 Liabilitles—Capital paid in coin, $8,643.958 44; reserve fund and profit and loss and confingent fund, $13,783,330 38; due depositors, $42,107, d“w;“..d-n?h h'fl“;'u\u“"“'u“:‘r“' dividens un, and other_liabilities, $4,375,649 93; t Uabilitles, $75,121,516 92. ? o County Saviggs Resources—Bank premises, $586,076 05; estate taken for debt, $2,720,149 77; United Stat ‘bonds, miscellaneous and county warrants, $8,135,647 tate, $23.366,167 86; loans on arrants, $1,020. E ties (grafns, etc. persona security and overdrafts, $1.113,667 72; money on hand, checks and other cash items, $912,545.53; due from banks and bankers, $4,140,891 66: furni- ture and fixtures, expenses, taxes assets, $305,921 05; total resources, $43, 3 Liabilities—Capital paid in _coln, $3,645,705 reserve fund, $1,439,390 30; profit and loss and contingent fund’ and due depositors, $37.6%6. 534 94; due banks and h.-l\le'rli $10,: 85 divi- dends unpaid and other liabiilties, real tes 211 $261,641 72; PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. E. E. Stone of Marysville is at the Lick. Lieutenant E. Bruce, U. 8. N., is at the Occidental. Dr, J. C. Bull Jr. of Eureka is registered at the Lick. C. W. Easton, an attorney of Modesto, is at the Grand. €. A. Canfield, the Los Angeles ofl man, is at the Palace. 4 W. Joreslaw, a merchant of Brentwood, | is at_ the Grand. L. S. Alexander, a merchant of Watson- ville, is at the California. Capitalist T. -DeWitt Cuyler and fam- ily aresguests at the Palace. Edward W. Ferguson, chief engineer of the China, is at the Occidental. George W. Pelter, the Sacramento mer- chant, is a guest at the Palace. y. R. M. Shackleford, a rancher of Paso R. W. Shingle, a merchant of Honelulu, is among the guests at the Occidental. Colonel H. C. M. Woods and wife of Palace. Bermuda are registered at the J. H. Mackenzie, manager of the famous Mariposa grant at Mount Bullion, is reg- | }istered at the Lick. James Crook, Charles W. Jones, S Bragg. C. Kyrle and Virgil P. Griffin of the Alabama Railroad Commission are at | the Occidental. | —————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—C. S. Long of San Francisco is at the Astor; W. V Huntington of San Francisco is at thc Everett; Walter McCreary of San Fran- cisco is at the Waldorf; Ethel Kelmer of Los Argeles i at the Waldorf. Among the arrivals on the Kaiser Wilheim der Grosse were Mr. and Mrs. Claus Spreckels of San Francisco. ———— Why Doesn’t the Examiner Anner?‘ Fresno Republican. The Call asks the Examiner the plan quebtion: “Is the Examiner in favor of | holding the Philippines? If so, under what | governmental conditions?” The Examiner has already answered the question many | times and unequivocally. It is in favor of holding the Philippines forever, as colo- | nial dependencies and regards as “little Americans” all who hsid any other opin- ion. At least this is the opinion of the | Examiner if the signed editorials of its | proprietor, printed only a few months ago, are any indication. If the signed editor- | ials from the same pen, printed more re- cently, are any criterion, it is of exactly | the opposite opinion. It will be interest- | ing to see which horn of the dilemma the Examiner takes. —_—— Refused to Pay War Tax. Berkeley Daily Gazette. | The antis are strangely silent over the | recruits for the Republican papers. But | their papers can make a big howl over the | acquisftion of such a man as Valentine | of Wells, Fargo & Co., a man who is so | patriotic as to refuse to pay the war | tax® Truly, he is a notable acquisition (o he Democratic party, greatest “Roman” of them a A CHANCE TO SMILE. A FIXED VERDI “What is a metropolis, Uncle Christo- pher?” “A metropolis is a town =0 important that it doesn't have to brag about its im- portance.”—Puck. OPPOSITION “Why do they call him Contrary Court- ney "‘;El:"lflll!fl he always is Why, he had a cl next door to a ma L C sunstroke.” - PERISHABL ::‘S‘;lhal alls Mrs. Miggs e says she spent the wh - noon. making that cake and t)?l. ’::'::‘rv gobbled it up in fifteen minutes.”—Chi- cago Record. HEREDITY “I don't care much about the eircus,” said the boy. “I only go to give father an_excuse for going. This terrible falsehood fllustrates the influence of heredity." —Detroft Journal o s Bt -t Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend's ® preiadsadd s s b ot Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by ¢ Press CHDDIn{ Bureau (Allen's). 510 nn.;'» gomery st. Telephone Main 1042, . ———— AN AGREEABLE COLOR. “Do_you like pink teas”’ asked tha Brookiyn girl. " “I never tasted them,” replied the visi- tor from Cook County, “but I just dote on pink lemonades.”—Brooklyn Life. —_————— Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters, a pure vege- table tonie, makes health, and health makes bright, rosy cheeks and happiness. Out September 2, Page Upon Centennial Admission Day Edition. Of Intensely Interesting Stories Profusely. lllustrated as only the Sunday Call can do it. The Greatest. .. .. Admission Day Edition Ever Printed. The Sunday Call Leads Them A", 1900. ‘Page. ...