The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 4, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1900, Che +Zalsoe @all DAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Ma - .Welepho: oF!e 204 Address All MANAGER'S Ul’l’!(’s. .e FUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, EDITORIAL ROOMS. Telephone Press 202. Delivered hy Carriers, 16 Cent Stmgle Copies. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail. Including Postager DAILY CALL DAILY CALL DAILY CALL DAILY CALI—By FUNDAY CALL One Year WEEKLT CALL One Tear 2 All postmasters are anthorized 10 receive subreriptions. warded when requested. Per Week. ress should be RESS in order with their request ..1118 Eroadway Manager Foreig Marqustte Building, Chicago. dong Distance Telephone “‘Central 2613.°°) sing o XEW TYORK RRESPONDENT: cc PR - ... Heraid Building NEW ¢ Waldort-Astoria Hotel: Tnion Square; Murray B CRICAGO ? Sberman House: P. O Fremont House: Auditortum Hotel WAS N News C orthern Hotel: HING sllington Hot ERANCHF OF 2 o SOME SP=CIiMEN TRUSTS. ves into a ¢ the express t e not on led the wi have possi ave div s are enormous, but they been extorted formed in viol However, Mr. has declared for by the res c The greed of the express companies trust goes be. Thus Wells-Fargo and the rest have persistently used to pay any part of the tax imposed by Congress to defray the expense of the war which Bryan was once so loud in urging end which he is now e y loud in denouncing. Tt tax-shirking corporation is now a Bryan tion, and, accordingly, all tt the Bryanites yond that of any other trust e corpo it does is justified by There may be some trusts conde nned sounding words d An uproar has been raised Mexico over the mnds which had been subscribed to purchase kip for Spain. It is ite probable that the believed would be ¢ inal to present the 1 proved so « o plunged a knife into the 1 oi a boy ought 1o be made to re: that we haw ze very ons where ght and that the the proper uses of the k =y 1 olice officials ficiency of the Goldex te Parl: some of our local a e ce rather than by a de to perform y to the public. ng the gests th The police officer who is accused of having blac! led a sneak thief cut of $2 50 as a consideration aving the offender from San Quentin ought to ead not guilty on the ground of insanity. The loc zen who shot himself while looking for a burglar must have some serious reflections on his own character if his aim was good ‘ McKINLEY @GAINST BRYAN. ! FTER all is said and done, the issues of the campaign will be found in their last analyses to be nothing more than a contest between McKinley and Bryan, between what is represented in the one and in demagogy by the other. men are supporting Bryan for no other reason than a desire to,defeat McKinley. Be- use they object to the President persomally or te | his policy upon some question great or small, they are opposed to him. The Democratic cry of old was: “Anythi to beat Gr; * and now it is, “Anything to beat McKinley.” The 1 to the President is carried out wit]‘u fi It will are w! agonis: a frankness that hardly attempts concealment be remembered that after the Kansas City platfo-m w Bennett Hill of New York told oi the platiorm could be her portions of it in another. t find or it was openl to be waged by suc to be another ce, but st McKinley. Mc( the D 1 of quotec thin phasized in a S ided on a plan by which te attention exclusi and just let the rest of rialism you the issue of imj al tha more v r. The composi P Se terference with our financ v rs But perialism is at our s shoo won't this taken up and now we epicted the election of sent to subst and of ora 1p 1z said: he ‘merz s c y'of Mr. Bryan's election | sec g of our country upon a er basis has already caused untold millions of our s s tl vn upon the market. And if of a mere apprchension of a possibil d be the ct of the event it- s . an imaginable limit to the de- ot t by the business dis- | Br would cause.” Yet | nd, fol- > silver g about imperialism I e trying to get t New not going to be deceived in than i York the time Grant re aware that Bryan s not changed since 1896, except, perhaps, to ac- 1 He is still the prophet of f i a foe of American calamity, a di ndustry and an Nothing but a blind ny citizen to support him in President whose sines mal dishonor. iduce admin ation has that of William McKinley. THE TWO LABOR PLANKS. Reput ced ican and the Democratic party their na this vear a plank containing declarations in favor of in platiorms re is, however, a wide difference in the is chara i e between the methods of the opposing parties One promises to workingmen the enactment of legislation whick will improve their conditions; the other prom- filled by a representative workingman, gt be used as the reward of some Dem- The Reput beneficial to hich encou: vy of protection ntive genius and provides work and wages for persons of varied tastes and talents, “In the further interest of American labor we re effec e restriction on the immigration n foreign lands, the extension eof ucation for working children, the of cheap labor frc opportunities of e g of of free labor against contract convict labor and an effective system of labor insurance.” Democratic tive rais platiorm, after denouncing the t iff as a trust-breeding measure, says: “In the interest of American labor and the upbuilding of the s the cornerstone of the pros- we recommend that Congress workingman, perity of our country create a department of labor in charge of a secretary | with 2 seat in the Cabinet, believing that the elev: i § 1 laborer will bri e Americ: g with it in- tion and increased prosperity to our creased pros country at home and our commeérce abroad.” ire the labor platforms of the two parties. ns a definite programme of reform and improvement One cont It provides for protecting the Ameri- an against the competition of cheap rer countries and also against the immi- | gration of cheap laborers to this country. It promises | to free labor protection within the republic against the competition of convicts. It proposes to put an end to the evils of child labor, to give better oppor- ; tunities of education t6 such children as are forced to vork, and finally to provide for a system of labor insurance that will be of bencfit to every workingman and his family. Against all that the Kansas City platform offers nothing but the promise of a recommendation to | Congress to create a department of labor. Of whas ould a secretary of labor be to workingmen fit' the protective tariff were overthrown and the-e { were no longer employment for the workers? What | could such an official do to restrict immigration, to | restrain the excessive employment of children, to pro- | vide education for youthful workers and to establish labor insurance? No intelligent workingman can read these two | avail to vote | gn | little more cunning in his methods of can- | orious for the republic and so prosperous | ic of the divergence | the age limit for child labor, the protection | planks in the rival platforms without perceiving that the Republicans offer substantial benefits to all the workers of the country, while Democracy offers noth- ing more than an office to be scrambled for by poli- ticians. On such a showing, which is fairly charac- teristic of the contending parties, there ought to be no difficulty experienced by workingmen in making i up their minds how to vote, even were there no other | issue at stake than the one raised by the two labor | planks. | INSPECTION OF CONSULATES. | L our consular service, Albert H. Washburn, formerly United States Consul at Magdeburg, contributes an article to the Forum for September which contains a suggestion well worth the attention i of reformers. Mr. Washburn holds that neither of the reform bills now before Congress is likely to pass, | nor is there much chance of any speedy removal of consular offices from the spoils of party politics, and he therefore argues that the only way to bring about an immediate improvement of the service is to estab- { lish a system of consular inspection similar to that which prevails in other great departments of the Gov- ient. On the question of introducing the merit system into the service he says: “Any general shaking up of the service is frowned upon by those who now adorn as jeopardizing their official tenure. | speaking, there are 230 principal consular offices which are much coveted. Almost every Senator and | Representative has one or more personal or political riends on this list. As a consequence whenever the PON the much discussed subject of reforming ssogiated Press contains a dispatch concerning con- | ® | sular reform there is a prompt flutter of alarm and Washington is bombarded with appeals from abroad more or less frantic to resist at all hazards the pro- | posed legislation.” The party in power is thus in- disposed to act, while the party out of power, of | course, never thinks of voting to extend the merit system so as to retain in office the incumbents. Thus | there is a complete deadlock which there is no ap- | | parent means of breaking. The ishment of a system of inspection is, thereic e one step toward reform that can be at- tained novelty present. our Such a system would not be a istrative methods. The Post- | office Department maintains a strong corps of inspec- tors to supervise the mail service. There are inspec- tors in the Treasury Department to supervise cus- | toms ¢ intern banks in adm \Why. then, should there not be inspectors in the State Department to supervise consulates? Washburn says: “With tions from other departm Mr, multiplying illustra- which would be merely cumulative, it is plainly the policy of the Govern to supervise the official ac- Broadly | revenue offices and national | | | | s of the Government, | tions of our accredited representatives to the Apaches, | {but to impose no check whatever upon our repre- se: abroad atives policy The folly of this short-sighted is m | garding the official and personal conduct of our suls which, serious and silly alike, deluge the State Department. The complaint of the usual. legal fees is perhaps This abuse of the fee system has most ances, it is fair to say, from a 1dable in the abstract, to collect current expenses, Congress, in the grown up in some in desire, perfectly oney press of other matters, having neglected to provide decent Thi s a perfectly fair measure of reform. There is no reason why consular offices should not be subject to inspection as well as other public of- fices. Mr. Washburn cites several notorious cases of ered and stopped had there been any inspection of ths office where the wrong was going on. be It is hardly to ibted that the inspection which has proven so us in other departments would be equally e pedient in the Department of State, and since such re- form appears easily attainable it should be supported by all who are interested system, AN INEIDENT IN KANSAS. ~ | l JANSAS folks after a brief season of raptu-e, i \ caused by a belief that their prolific State had surpassed the record of the woolly horse by producing a feathered dog, have been plunged into 1 discovery that the dog is a’ fraud. By reason of this swiit change from gladness to despair | the minds of the people are in a turmoil, their feelings irge from the depths of despa | confusion by ir to the heights of in- dignation and there are times when they are inclined to slaughter everything in sight that wears feathers. The story is a simple one. It appears that for months past a native has been going about the State exhibiting a creature that had the form and the bark | of a dog, but which was covered not with hair as a | dog should be. but with feathers. The people were | pleased, but an enterprising reporter seized an oppor- tunity to pluck several feathers from the animal and he | noted that it did not wince. Thereupon the reporter leclared the thing to be a humbug. An investigation | took place and the discovery was made that the dog | had been completely covered from nose to tail with a | tight-fitting coat of canton flannel on which pigeon feathers had been sown so close as to seem like a natural growth. When the fraud was exposed the owner of the dog fled from Kansas and is said to be headed westward. The Kansas people can hardly fail to apply to other affairs of life the lesson they have thus learned’ and paid for. There are a good many feathered frauds going round the country. There is the Bryan bird, for example, covered all over with anti-imperial feathers and posing as the eagle of liberty. He is making an exhibition of himself in all parts of the country and is duping not a few people. When he shows up in Kansas some enterprising man should pull some of the anti-imperial feathers and it then be seen that the animal doesn’t wince. Let a full investigation be then made and it will be found that the feathers are merely a false coat upon the old i5 |to 1 dog. Should some Kansas man make that ex- posure Kansas will be speedily rid of Byyan, but we hope he will not foilow the example of the featherel dog man and come West, The financiers who intend to establish a new man- agement for the*Southern Pacific Company and re- move from the affairs of the corporation the remain- ing influence of the “Big Four” are making for Cali- fornia history of the deepest meaning. The legal authorities of a Southern railway have precipitated a most interesting controversy by insist- ing that a male person wearing a shirt waist is de- cently dressed. The point in doubt is whether or not the male person is a man. The gamblers of Sacramento have raised an inter- esting and unique principle of law, the significance of which they do not themselves seem to understand. They insist that they have a vested right to rob people. g . wrongdoing that would have been promptly discov- | | improving our consular | | | i rifest from the flood of complaints re- | - | GIRLS, LOOK OUT, FOR MEN 'HAVE THE SHIRT WAIST CRAZE il Mews Be Bairo wing the Cool and Fetching Garment From Wives and Sisters. “THeY i CoOMFORTABLE ARE 50 A DLay APLATED THouGH S5Aa10 SHAaLL |\weEaR. R ONESY T Jooge AWLOR -+ No DECENT MAN SHouLD WEAR OME v N\YITHOUT A& CorseT 3AID JoESEPH Sapo M PARTIAL To THE LAWN ONES STEVE COoSTELLO e s GARRET msnwa’ S ITS ABSOLUTE REle s LARY oA AR SHIELDS=w » CoverY < TeBIN Kirre PALACE o « bwm.lci: OF THE -9 THouGHT 48 GAVIN MENAB . - ALL EMPLOYES OF THE CITY TowEAR | THEM', Sayp THE MAvYOR. se ARoUNDY SAID NED GREENWAYew A COMING EVENT AND THE SHADOW IT CASTS BEFORE. 5 HALL men wear shirt waitsta? That is the new struck this ously the privileged members of juestion that has own and is being vigor- ssed and Ciscussed by can | | the charmed | wals attorney considered it superfluous to go into print to voice his approv Shirt waists are all right,” said Mc- erney nd I had no trouble in secur- ing idy-made garments to fit me— circle, the club man, the professional man, | ture. But tvhfl‘thhlng‘s m“:‘mf-xq’:\e bumped the merchant, the clerk and the laborer. | UP, agalnst are the arm shield o5 o It is the absorbing topic of the moment. | cjajming a great truth, “that it is abso- It is discussed in the mansion and the |jytely necessary if you would wear shirt cottage. » dinner is known these days | waists to wear arm shields? When I got to geach the fish course or the doughnuts |on to that fact the trouble began. I went —as the case may be—without that mo- mentous shirt waist question cropping up. The only tween the Any a man has talked Opinions are pretty since the agitation began, himself dry on the subjec nearly unanimou: difference known to exist be- various shirt pielers lies in the fact that while one eases his parched throat with Chateau Lafitte, the other may be wetting his whistle with | bawled; steam beer. Such a commotion has shirt-waist que: citizens who would decide aii matters in | 3ng her ¢ | conformity with constit | order are | vexed question which they j onal law and a clause to fit the rapose to offer preparing as an amendment tc the new charter, 1t was while discussing the possibility of such an amendment that Mayor Phe- lan consented to make public his indi- | vidual views on the shirt alst question. “I am decidedly in favor of the shirt waist for men,” said his Honor. “I have given the matter considerable thought and have come to the conclusion shirt waist stands as the 1 am for progress and advarce- | progress. ment. in my charter. 1 have given that emblem the of *ample proof of that I intend to bring the matter before the convention at San Jose and in the meantime I shall issue an edict that will compel ali employes of the city to adopt the shirt waist. leave the matter of style and color to their own individual taste. : all will be required to wear the straight- | ous! backed ga I shall gener- However, rment with hemstitched and tucked fronts; also white shirt waists are to be strictly’ tabooed. I consider it decidedly poor taste purity. White siands for ior my followers to stoop to the negess:ty of calling public life. It is superfluous and unneces- | attention to the purity bf my Mayor Phelan has brought along with him many shirt waists from Paris, and what is more, he declares he is going to wear them. These French might be added with honor to a belle's outfit of lingerie. Promotes Home Industry. “*See here, he turned ment “Look! vivid red, the center. foreigners cisco and shirt waists. nation.” “Do 1 believe in shirt waists for men echoed Joseph Sadoc guess T do. mean emancipation. I ever contrived They are very becoming to my I favor the long straight front ef- | ‘With me the shirt waist has been | a cause of live and learn. them. figure. fects. preparatory See this diadem. embroidered in aid the Mayor suddenly back a corner of a pink g: to folding it away with the letters ‘J. D. P. Well, T told those foolish that 1 was Mayor of San Fran- that is how they marked my The French are a wonderful Tobin. “Well 1 I wear them. To me they 1 don’t see now how to play polo without The first one 1 put on did not have the desired effect, and do you know the reason why? 1 had forgotten, sald the polo player in his most insinuating, confidential manner, “[ had forgotten to put on a corset cover. I got one and it made all the difference In up, o respect in the world. If you are going to write this said Tobin as he bowed i ut, “don't forget to say that no man who has an atom of decency and self- the seribe his make-up should attempt to wear a shirt waist without a corset McEnerney’s Arm Shields. t McEnerney was one of the first cover. Garre! gentlemen walst. and of this city to adopt the t in view of that tlclp the br.alrl:y | prett | lon created that the good | TOSY face taking on a_deeper hie. | | | | confections |In shirt w i | vantage. ol for men, and =o st into a fancy goods store and asked the saleswoman for a pair of arm shiel ** ‘What size?” said she. * ‘Lurgest,’ sald I, and thereupon she produced a pair of those rubber things that, upon my soul, would not have been large enough to fit under a canary bird's wings. That made me desperate, and I did not care who knew. “‘l don't want them for a child, I ‘I want them for myself.” You should have seen that girl behind the the masculine | counter blush,” said McEnerney, his g “For | a moment she stood with her mouth open staring, and then she ga ed, ‘We haven’t got any to fit you. sir, But the attorney was not to be outdone by a little thing like that. He went to the Goodyear Company, ordered a gross of | shields and is now luxuriating in the “lat- est” shirt waist. J. C. Kirkpatrick, the genial manager of the Palace, has got himself in trouble on account of shirt walists. Kirkpatrick has always preached to the myriads of men under him that the road to success lay in following the good example of those whose station and successes in life made them high and shining marks. It is this bit of splendid advice, given with the best of intentions, that has caused the manager’s undoing. Kirkpatrick appeared the other day in all the glory of a fashionable new shirt waist. It set off his manly figure to per- fection, and, above all, showed his mag- nificent chest expansion to the bes Kirkpatrick had hardly gone three times around the Palace court when, as if by magic, the bellboys began to ap- pear in shirt waists as nearly similar to Kirkpatrick's as it was possible to obtain at %o short a notice. ; “It was simply awful,” said Kirkpat- rick. “There was no dlstlngulshin: s ter from man. The waists were exact counterparts of the one 1 had on, even to the number of tucks In the full fronts There would have been no way of dietin: guishing us. so T was forced to post up a notice {r\rhlddmfi the beliboys to appear ists. It grieves me to have haa said the manager, “‘and, what s more, it embarrasses me. This is the first time I have had to go back on what 1 preached.” 3 " to do it Costello an Enthusiast. Steve Costello bel he is using every means of persuasion in his power to have the Native Sons turn out in shirt waists in the comin, Tal parade. . ““The first time I shall wear a shir waist,” said Steve, “will be in the grand parade. I took several home on approba- tion the other day. They were all len- dia fit, and, what is me e Te, extremely be- coming. But, unfortunately, I will not be able to keep them. They are made,” ex- Fln!ned the grand marshal, “of the finest awns, as all the fashionable waists are. When I tried the waists on I naturally pinned on all the medals I shall wear at the grand parade. You know,” said Cos- tello modestly, “I shall be covered with medals from chin to walst line, and I found that the material could not bear the weight of all my decorations. You see, there was no_telling what might happen. 80 1 had to abandon the lawn waists and send for one of firmer material. It is really the only Grawback I have met with n all my preparations for .ne great ccle- bration.” And Costello sighed deep and long. for, as he afterward said, he Is “par- tial to the lawn ones.” Sam Shortridge in Line. *“Do I favor men wearing shirt waists,” sald Sam Shortridge. in his deepo. dark itable in both coloring and tex- | t ad- | ieves in the shirt waist | rong is his belief that | > | tones. “Most certainly I do. I am glad you came to i{nterview me on this subject. I can answer you as a man and a father. I said T favored shirt waists. Now, let us | look the subject in the face and come refully to our conclusions. First, I favor | shirt waists for men because it s the | fashion. I always advise people to follow the fashion. Second, I favor shirt waists because they are neat and cool and becom- ing. Third, I favor shirt waists because— | I speak as a father now—because they are | so comfortable when you handle the bab: ge Lawlor had decided the question Ju of shirt waists before the interviewer ap- proached him. | “I favor shirt walsts,” he sald, “but T am not prepared as yet to speak fully on the subject. You sée some walsts are lain back and some waists are pleated Pack, and I have mot yet sufficiently in- | vestigated the matter to commit myself in print. { “This much, however, I will say,” sald the Judge. “I consider the yoke effects very cute.” Ned Greenway has gone further than | any other man in the shirt waist matter: | _“I have my walists made to order,” ha said, “and I have gone in for the very coolest sort. 1 have come to that tyme of life when a man likes to wear big shoes and soft collars. I have never found it | necessary to follow fashfons. I creats them. The shirt waist I wear s a pleated | back affair, with soft pouch front and long | dress sleeves without cuffs. There is no |lace on it. I'm not selfish and I would leave some things exclusively for the girls. | I wear no collar with mine. I find rib- { bon, twice around and finished with a | neat bow much more becoming and com- | fortable.™ | McNab a True Patriot. | _“I have had some troubles in life.” satd | Gavin McNab, “but nothing that ever | went beyond ‘this shirt waist question. | Hoot mon! Do I believe in the shirt waist? | I believe in anything the Democrats want and T understand they want those gar- ments. My trouble is In getting plaid ones. I had one made up to the China- | man's on O'Farrell street the other day, and, oh, it was awful. The plaids did not match. 1 have since that awful fail- | ure taken advice from those competent to { boss in such matters and following thelr | suggestions. I am having one made on the bias. I shall wear It at San Jose," sald | MecNab, “and I hope it will do credit to ¥ politics and my par! Walter 8. Mart the new lieutemant colonel on the € mor's staff, belieyes in the shirt waist for me: The colonel is not here to sp f, but the fol- lowing letter from New York, addressed | to nis brother. settles the vexed question | without a doub | Dear Pete: I have brought any number of shirt waists along me from Paris. it is the proper thing to r them, and I always Ao the proper thing. on account of thess shirt watsts tha u to secure for me the services of a m My man can't sew, and ou know it is absolutely n ry for me to ave my epaulettes sewed on every shirt wa before I dare put it on. To appear without | epaulettes is quite the most awful crime I | could commit. T believe the penaity fs death. Get a pretty maid if you can. Ta-ta, WALTER. Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend's * B — . Spectal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 AMont- gomery st. Telephone Main 1043 s s o AN OPULENT LADY. 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