The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 31, 1900, Page 6

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SMITH....... .. 30 Tribune Building NEWS A. Brentano, NEW YORK STANDS: ‘Waldort-Astoria Hotel; Mursey HI Sotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Premont Heuse; Auditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ...Wellington Hotel MORTON E, CRANE, Correspondent. ERANCF OFFICES 527 Montgomery, corner of Clay. open untll $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 638 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until $:30 o'clock. 1341 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 108 Valencia, open § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW cor- -second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Vaudeville. and Opera-house—""The Silver King." “The Masked Ball.” Frou Frou.” mbia—"The Only Way.” a, corner Mason and Pddy streets—S Alcazar lsom and Sixteenth streets, Saturday, ay Hall-Paloma Schramm, to-morrow after- rsion to Monterey—Sunda tember 2, Fair, Sacramento—Sep! S AUCTION SALES rse Exchange — Monday, Septerhber 3, N 21 Howard street @ BUBONIC BOARD IN TEXAS. in this ci onic Board of Health d by Quaran g to create a scare and a Officer Kin ttr he existence of the dr was a widespread -be! ficers could ever do ther ‘¢ or ed that ity who would Kinyoun put together. ing the ir ned to con it. seems dete; people, The Ei Paso Herald of the 25th publishes in fuil an elaborate petition from the Chamber of Com- of that city to the Governor of Texas pro- against the action of the State-Health Officer, Blunt, and recommending his removal from The -petition contains some tween the Chamber of Commerce and Blount, and mazement that in 2 note, dated “There is now no embargo it will be learned w August Bl against anythi pt it nected with Chinatowir, San Francisco. to 16, ex has .been For reasons il be no her In this connection known es there modifi I' desire to say th best ours ons fi the present t the public advised of the situdtior there.” has never been fully In a note of Augu he said: I received the i 19 “Yesterday wing telegram: ‘One white c lived in Chinatown. One new case to-day, Chinaman. (Signed) Charles F. This shows that the lapse of time has not demonstrated the trath of your contention that the quarantine is not justified by existing cenditions.” Norton.’ Who the Charles F. Norton is who sent out the re- | ports of new bubonic plague cases we know not, but it is safe to assert he is a liar of the first rank. As for Blunt himself, his zscertion that the public has never been fully advised of the situation here is suf- ficient to stamp him as an utterly unfit man to hold eny offi A man who will say he situation here was in- al position whatever. that will say anything vestigated not only by the press, by the State Board | of Health and by a committee appointed by the Gov- ernor, but by an eminent expert, Dr. Shrady of New York, who was employed by The Call and the New York Herald expressly to make a full investigation and an impartial report of what the conditions were. That report was made and published and the State Health Officer of Texas cannot be ignorant of it. In describing to the Governor the perverse course pursued by Blunt, the petition of the E] Paso Cham- ber of Commerce says: “We beg you, sir, to believe that in using terms which approach perilously near the boundaries of parliamentary speech, we mean no disrespect to you. If we were to employ the terms that are suggested by the maintenance of these quar- antine restrictions we should go far beyond the bounds of parliamentary language. The indignation, the sense of injustice and wrong under which our peo- ple are smarting have reached large proportions and the languagé in which the State Health Officer’s ac- tion is denounced in private conversation is not to be quoted in writing or in print.” After that statement it is hardly worth while for us to attempt to characterize the action of the bubonic official. The average Texan can do justice to &im in private conversation and probably no one can do it anywhere in print. The man is about the worst ex- ample of a fool or worse in office that is just now play- ing fantastic tricks before the eyes of heaven. The whole thing is an illustration of how hard it is to cure fools of their folly and how dangerous to the world is a Jie that has once been well started. That plague scare worked a vast injury to San Francisco and Cali. fornia and now it is proving fully as injurious to Texas. e 1 Unioa Square; | the | to believe tha correspondence be- | directly con- ETHIOPIA LIFTS HER HEAD. FEW weeks since a Pan-African Conference fl'was held in the city of London. The delegates L. were from Africa, Abyssinia, the United States, West Indies and other parts of the world. The chairman was Bishop Walters of Jersey City. He said that it was the misfortune of the negroes in the United States to live among people whose laws, traditions and prejudices had_been against them for centuries. It had been the policy of certain classes of Americans to keep them down. It took 240 years for negro emancipation and 100 years to attain here his standing as a soldier, therefore it was too much to expect that he would get complete political rights in thirty-five years. Yet the negroes of the United illiteracy and to-day owned $735.000,000 in réal and personal property and in their struggle for civil equality asked for sympathy, consideration and en- couragement. The Bishop of London, addressing the conference, | said the probiems which it was to consider would not settle themselves in a hurry. This conference, the | first of its kind held in the world, was a sign of the tendency toward settlement. After all, the sense of human brotherhood was a real thing, but magnificent as it was, it created practical difficulties. | Mr. Sylvain, the Abyssinian delegate, spoke of the | natives and the colonists. He charged that there was an anti-liberal reaction in British colonial policy for the last fifteen years. Natives must no longer be con- | sidered like serfs, workable at their masters’ dicta- tion. An address to the governments of the world was adopted, which sa; “Let not the cloak of Christian ionary enterprise be allowed in the future, as ften in the past, to hide the ruthless economic ex- ploitation and politi-al downfall of less developed na- tions, whose chief t has been reliance on the plighted faith of the Christian church.” It was noteworthy that the members United States exhorted the conference to seek jus- ce through adequate and sound education of the peo- ple it represented. | They stood for mental enlightenment and expert | manual training, to the end that the negro might find himself equipped for industrial independence. The crux of the problem in the United States is | the nullification of the constitution, by depriving the negro of the ballot where he needs it the most as a means of securing that very education which is to up- from lit him The ballot being given to the white illiterate and taken from the black, it was anticipated that the illiter- y of the blacks may be expected to increase rather than diminish, since continued denial of the ballot will depend upon that illiteracy. The philosopher { menace to the future { and sociologist will see in this z peace of the country. A vast illiterate population is heir capacity desire to to resist oppression is diminished as oppress inereases on the part of the dominant race. Both are injured by it and civil insti- | tutions. intended to cstablish equality, are finally de- bauched and destroyed others take a hopeful view of the future and profess the blacks in the S cation to remove the ban to their equal use of the bal- Booker Washington and ith will seek edu- But, as without the ballot they will have no means to secure facilities for such education, it is no wonder that many do not share this optimistic | view. We are making of the negro a soldier, training him in tactics and the use of arms, teaching him the value of military organization and at the same time supplying him with a motive to finally turn this knowledge of the offensive arts against us, provided that denial of rights given him by the constitution shall continue to the int of exasperation. E have had many inquiries asking the reason BRYAN AND WELLS-FARGO. \v and significance of the sudden conversion of Wells-Fargo Express Company to Bryan. That company -supplied him with his argument that the Republican party so arranged the war tax as to ie off corporations and fall on the people. It ren- dered itself peculiarly offensive in that respect and its course was generally reprehended by the press of the whole country | its willingness to serve Colonel Bryan in the capacity a terrible example. The temperance lecturer who d his audiences indifferent to his appeals, im- | #nediately became successiul when he engaged an habitual sot to travel with him as an exhibit of the effects of sociability and shoving round the can. In this capacity Wells-Fargo has already rendered | Colonel Bryan great service. But its attitude is not | viewed with great confidence by the people and they | will be less willing to accept Colonel Bryan, with his | niew partner, than they were to take him when he was prejudice. Since Mr. Valentine, the president of Wells-Fargo, | carried his company over to Populism, it is noticeable | that accessions to the support of McKinley have mul- tiplied from the ranks of those Democrats who believe in sound money and who believe | that maintenance of the gold standard is the best foundation for the country’s prosperity and a' miti- gating influence of the severity of panics when they come. Such men are not betrayed into folly by the use of a party name and they are deaf to appeals for them | to stand in on the ground that, on the whole, it is better for the Democratic party to win, because they recognize no feature of Democracy in the Populistic combination that Bryan is playing. They look ask- ance at a partnership between Populism and monopoly, such as the Wells-Fargo-Bryan arrange- ‘ment offers. 3 Surely it is an angular patch on the crazy quilt of thé campaign to see the Southern expansionists led by Anti-Expansion Bryan and the anti-monopoly can- didate resting on the same pillow with a tax-shirking corporation! There has been a suspicion abroad that many of the great corporations are secretly in favor of the Sioux Falls platform for Government ownership of all the instruments of commerce. If they can control a Bryan administration, sell out to- the Government at 2 good price and retire, they will have executed a brilliant stroke of business. The people may look at it differently. They will be paying interest then on a Government debt contracted in effecting the pur- chase, as well as supporting the extraviagances of public administration of a very large business. In fine, the Bryan programme of Government owner- ship of the instruments of commerce opens yast pos- sibilities for a financial transaction on a stupendons scale. If the present owners of those instruments can sell them to the Government, they “will only need to wait for the errors and extravagance of Goy- ernment management to put them again on the mar- ket at such a reduced price that a margin, large enough to gratify extreme avarice, can be made in the transaction. All who have followed the course of attempts at L4 States had ih that time eliminated 55 per cent of their | the | a dangerous element in a popular government. | Perhaps its present course may be accounted for by | | in business as a sole trader in popular passion and | public ownership under our system of government feel confident that that would be the result of the experiment. Hence it may well be said that the cor- porations which support Colonel Bryan are wiser than the children of light. S rightful rank among cities of the Union. While holding the position of metropolis of the Pacific Coast, her popplation is inferior in numbers to that of such provincial cities as Cleveland and Buf- falo. In point of trade she far surpasses each of those cities and as a social and political center they are not within range of comparison with her. In the natural order of things population should be proportionate with wealth and industrial energy. San Francisco, however, is subject t6 exceptional conditions. She has not been able to absorb her suburbs as have East- ern cities and furthermore she is the metropolis of one of the most sparsely settled sections of the Union. Throughout the whole Pacific Coast wealtn and activity are disproportioned to population accord- | ing to Eastern standards. We do not show up in the census anything like so potent as we are in the actual life of the republic. It is probable that a similar condition of affairs will prevail for a long time to come. We have not the cheap lands that have attracted swarms of home- seekers to other sections and there has never been en- couraged any wholesale immigration of workingmen to this coast. Nor is it likely that there will be any change in such respects in the future. By coinci- | dences of development the Pacific Coast has been from the first a land where immigration is subject to natural restriction. In the old days the journey was so dif- ficult it required much energy, strength and courage In latter days the high price of lands and the forces which have held back manufacturing indus- tries have served to prevent anything like a rush of immigration. The penniless, the unenterprising and the doubtiul have, as a rule, halted on the other side of the Rockies. Thus it is that all over the coast we | are doing work in excess of our comparative popula- tion and are disappointed when we perceive our cities and towns rated lower in the census than Eastern cities that are inferior in every other respect. There are prospects, however, that the coming dec- ade is going to bring a wonderful increase of popu- lation to the coast. In an address before the Hamil- ton Club of Chicago on Wednesday Senator Davis of Minnesota, in speaking of the increase of commerce that is sure to result from the development of China, said: “When fully completed the Ufiited States will be the greatest participant in that trade of the Pacific which Humboldt predicted more than seventy-five years ago would be the greatest commerce that land and sea have ‘ever known. We need cross but one PACIFIC COAST PROSPECTS. N FRANCISCO has not yet attained her to come. ; : THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1900. SCHOOL BOARD PROVOKES OAR OF DISCONTENT AN UPR Exposure of Gross Frauds Favorites at the Expense of Instructors Who Have No Political or Personal Pull in the Selection of &~ ocean to grasp the ‘wealth of Ormus and of Ind’ | Europe must trave four seas to share it. produce everything hi h that insatiable market can absorb, just as now we are producing and exporting | our goods, textile, metallic and miscellaneous, to every market of the world, as the direct result of Re- publican economic policies put in force during our Civil War and steadily persisted in by that party ever since. This is manifest destiny; it is written by an auspicious astrology upon the sky of a visible future. It will give Pacific Coast.” | It is not the statesmen only of the country who per- | ceive this promise of a rapid increase of population here. . The far-seeing “captains of industry and | finance” also perceive it and are preparing for it. In a recent interview W. G. Nevin of the Santa Fe Rail- road stated: “The management of the Santa Fe is deeply inter- csted in the development of the commerce of this port and will naturally dod everything in its power to increase it. The acquisition of the Philippines and the history-making events that are taking place in the Orient are destined to create a mighty progress for San Francisco, and it is only a question of time when this will be a really city. In view of its present progress the day of its greatness is not far distant. Appreciatiga this situation, our company is backing the judgment of its managers by preparing in all w: to handle this coming great traffic.” | So the movement works with a double motion. | provide for increa To ng business and population the transcontinental railroads will improve their facilities for transportation, ahd that improvement will in turn promote the very business it is designed to serve. Thus the prospects of a rapid growth of population are brighter than ever before. This year San Fran- | cisco is ninth among the cities of the Union in point of population and the Puget Sound ports are ranked among fourth class cities, but ten years from now the census men will have a different tale to tell. D 1 SAVINGS B@NKS STATISTICS. | ONLY a few days ago we directed attention to the reports to the Bank Commissioners made by the savings banks in this city, shov‘ving an increase in deposits amounting to more than $7,186,- | 000 over those of a corresponding period last year. | Now it is to be noted' that reports from the savings banks of the interior of the State are equally gratify- | ing. Their deposits show a gain for the year of | $5.037.585: so that the total increase in the savings | bank deposits of the State is in excess of $12,224,000. | It is to be borne in mind that this handsome in- crease in the savings of the wage-earners has been accompanied by an increase in the building of homes and by payments of mortgages and old debts upon a large scale. Thus the showing is one of remarkable prosperity. It proves that the people are living in better condition than before, are relieved from many | of the burdens of the past and in addition have stored up a notable sum in the way of savings as a safe- ‘gllarf’. against any disaster that may come in the fu- | ture. : Such being the case, it is not likely any considerable | number of thriity voters will vote for a “change” next November. Nor will they be deluded into the belief | that “imperialism” is the paramount issue in a contest of this kind between the party of prosperity and the party of calamity. The question that appeals to the common sense of the plain people is whether they shall overthrow the party of protection and sound money, which has brought such abounding prosperity to all classes of industrions citizens and all sections of the Union, for the sake of putting into power an administration pledged to deprive our industries of protection and to debase the coinage. The workingmen who have made deposits in the savings banks earned gold and deposited gold. They expect to be paid in gold. They are not going to vote for fifty-cent dollars in exchange for the full- value dollars the banks owe them. Bryan may be a very clever demagogue, but he can never persuade a majority of American workingmen to commit any such folly as that. Duelin;g in Italy appears tobe passing from an inno- cent pastime to a very serious affair. Four men were vecently killed at the sport in a single day.’ We can | 5,000,000 of people to our States of the | | the department will be ruined for years. | partment s the loss of permanency TEACHERS REBEL. PRESIDENT CECIL W.MARK INTRODUCES FAVORITISM RORISM OF THE PULL INTO THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT AND | R AND THE TER- | HE scandal which has been brewing in the School Department, chiefly | through the gross mismanagement | and favoritism of Cecil W. Mark, | president of the School Board, threatens to take a form far more serious than pro- | test. Instructors who have had years ofi experience in the department, but who dare not expose openly the wretched methods now in vogue for fear of the re- | venge of Mark, declare that if something is not summarily done to check the board Through the introduction of absurd no- tions of instruction, particularly in the primary grades, teachers and pupils alike have been demoralized. Children of im- mature years are weighted with courses of instruction which it is physically and mentally impossible for them to master. Teachers are forced, through a dishonest classification and consolidation of classes, to"undertake the instruction of so great a number of children that individual in- struction is an impossibility, and the effi- | charges, criminations and recriminadons, protests of parents, teachers, pupils and clency of the department is daily being undermined. Foisting Favorites on the Rolls. Added to these outrages upon the de- | in their tenure of office which the teachers | are suffering. None know when the next | whim of Mark and bis associates will Tob | them of their places and relegate them to the unassigned list without pay, which means out of the department. Instructo who have been in the department fa more than twenty years have been con- solidated out of the schools, deprived of their classes and of their salaries, while a woman who has been a teacher less than two months, but who enjoys thes favor of Mark, is fixed safely in a de- sirable berth. This discrimination, which has eclipsed anything similar in the history of the de- partment, is carrying demoralization into every school. Priority of service counts for nothing and ability is worth no more. The only basis of success under the Phe- lan board is that of a “pull.” When Mark saw that there was an opportunity to provide for one of his favorites in the physical culture department he lost no time in accepting it. The department was admittedly efficient. The instructors were competent. They had the indorsement of socleties representing 12,000 men deeply in- terested in physical culture. Luck of an Imported Athlete. All of this counted for nothing with President Mark. He had a friend namea €. T. Work, located at that time in the Jast. This friend Mark decided should be placed in charge of the physical cul- ture department, and the other instructors were discharged. Work was duly elected at a salary of $200 a month. Not satisfied | with this proceeding, the board went still | further in its scheme to provide for a fa- vorite. It determined that Work should be paid his salary of §200 for the month of July. 'll‘;ne public schools of this city were not in session during that month. There was neither a need for physical culture or the posssibility of glving it, but perhaps Pro- fessor Work carned his money punching the bag for his own edification or turning cartwheels with himself. Story of the Barber Secretary. An entry in tie city directory explains another interesting job of the present Board of Education. The entry reads: -Charles A. Berliner, assistant secretary of the Board of Education and barber, 1000 Howard street.’” The entry fails to state whether Mr., Berliner is more efficient as a barber or as a secretary. It is interesting to know, however, that Mr. Mark is the close personal friend of Mr. Berliner, who owes that distinction to the significant fact that he is the barber of Phil Crim- mins, roustabout, heeler and saloon poli- tician. President Mark finds it to his interest to do favors for Phil Crimmins, and while the president of the reform board did | not have the pleasure cf appointing Mr. | Berliner a secretary he did increase his | ealary. Some of the teachers who arc | beginning to understand why various acts of favoritism in the department are being shown are inclined to think that Mr. Ber- liner's salary was increased because the board may contemplate the establishment of a tonsorial parlor in connection with the secretary’s office. Mr. Crimmins is very frequently in the City Hall and him as a convenience. ‘Mark as an Instriictor. Since President Mark has begun so flerce an onslaught on certain teachers alleging their incompetency and suspen: ing them arbitrarily and without trial for admitted as a probationary teacher, begin service on July 10, 1593, at a salary | of $80 a month. He was Grammar School and conducted his cl in so unsatisfactory transferred maintain such notoriety insist that President Mark has probably forgotten tt to be arbi Violent Protest Against the Board. | These are w0 | for injury. partment, assigned to the Washington eform.™ a manner that he was He as utterly unable to discipline and affairs reached a pass as to become an affair of in the department. Teachers board. | 1s inactive. e ircident when he seeks now | arilv severe on other teachers the charges and counter Press Clippin; gomery st. The Call’s Semi- Centennial Admission | Day : Edition. i Out September 2, 1900, Page Upon Page. ... Of Intensely Interesting Stories Profusely Illustrated as only the Sunday Call can do it. + The Greatest. .... Admission Day . Edition Ever Printed. The Sunday Call Leads Them A", Classes favorites are being smuggled into the de- saloon politicians have given preferences and all in the name of In this uproar few teachers. as aiready indicated, care to risk an ou test as they will feel the revenge of Mass-meetings appear to be wi out avail and Mayor Phelan, who accepts responsibility for the actions of the board, Special information supplied dally business houses and public men b Bureau (Allen’s). 510 Mont- ‘elephone Main 1042. & * | the general public which have set the de- - | partment in an uproar Addition parents are up in arms becaus: In the Western | their children are consolidated out of periods so long as a year, the t“‘“"hmf | schools and forced to to unsanitary have taken the pains to Investigate his |puildings while teachers o erfence ars own career in the department. These in- | disp! . Thousands of citizens havo vestigations have developed several inter- | been ered by trary measures and esting facts. President Mark's career in ;‘h;\no :m;;w 1y . o1d ‘? mind '3'” : swn b . Methods of instruction the department has been brief. He was |} o, peen changed to no purpose except are overcrowded, been poken pre \ Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsehd's * —_—————— to the + ON DEFINITE CONTRACT. the arrangement might be accepted by [$1265 a month pays up a $1000 ot g o Bt LOANS INSTALLMENT PL. ine. The most w. loan In 1 | qonic for the % years; $20 80 in § years. The M. BAJA CALIFORNIA Damiana Bittersy 15 A GREA A -"3 RESTORATIVE, INVIGO Rl