The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 9, 1900, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1900. nications to W. S, Telephone Pres: .Market and Third, 8. F. ne Press 201, EDITORIAL ROOMS....Z17 to 2ZZ1 Steven: Telephone Press 202. MANAGER'S OFFICE PLBLICATION T Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. d by Mail. Iuciuding Postage: (including Funday), one year. i ding Sunday), ¢ months. X ] Sunday), 3 xle Month. FUN e Year WE LY CALL One Year. ooe. 100 All postmasters are nuthorized 1o receive eriptions. warded when requested. g change of address should be OLD ADDRESS in order ance with r request. OAKLAND OFFICE ...1115 Broadway teenth streets. “BUGGY ROBE’ S@dMm. Potrero, who ft went home. fold and n ax Popper the 3 A that Popper was x cor- ey in a street sweep- act under 2 boodle Board of by them. to know, however, is e Phelan. If ou , mor yet 1 the favor of Phelan buggy That n yoke with which he has enci-cled uld make-an excellent story. n reports ssioners show th its in California ba increased by the 1 of $22.973,603. That sho an effective r y arguments of s, but it has a value greater than that. Political discu and then wil talk busi savings and depos I 31, 1899, come ss again. e a ti ne when people will begin to Then the record of the increased s of our people will be an en- nt for new enterprises in 2ll lines of trad= The greatest gain in deposits has been in the d that itself is an encouraging it the wage-earners and per e means have shared abundantly in When the welfare of labor hole community follow its in the savings bank mean that the workers of State have been able to pay off old debts, live better than before, and still n ever Ly way of provi of th v ented depos ture. One of the ignificant features of the subject is 1as taken place at a time when there ny adverse influences operating upon the s of the State. There had been a series h seriously impaired the fertility of orchards, and, moreover, the made t thi Te rural indu of dry yea incre: - for the low prices of farm g the depression of the panic of 1893. improvement is noted in a singie er such circumstances, may be taken as a sclusive proof of the solid foundation upon which our prosperity rests. 4 ospect of the future is bright. The cam- be over. Bryan will be out of poli- cs will be out of the field of American y the fall revival of industry will begin. Capital will seek investments and homeseckers will ing for a place to settle. The golden showing of our banks will then attract the attention of the en- terprising. and the year to come will make an even better showing of prosperity than that over which we now rejoice. actiy ng y confidential use of the | 37 national banks and 19 private | ing for the fu- | '! CALIFORNIA'S JUBILEE. ALIFORNTA awakes this morning to the fif- tieth anniversary of her admission to the political rights of a State in the American Union. The cclebration of the event virtually began yesterday, and is to continue to-morrow and the day after to-morrow. It is to be a four-day festival—the greatest in our annals and one of the most notable in American history. Were the full importance of the admission of Cali- ate duly known to all Americans »n would be national. The East would s cordially as the West. It would be a day timation of patriots would rank second yrious Fourth of July, for it was a day ssured to the nation and to freedom a State ornia as a free S { the celebr rejoice a hich in the ossessing the richest and most v equal area of land on the face of ed to the East of the Atlantic c gate to the older East of China and India. e the republic truly continental, and gave to field of activity broad enough for the reali- n of their highest aspirations and most splendid i the The pioneers who laid broad and deep the foun fations of the civilization of the State were worthy of e mighty task committed to their hands. By the 1ous proof of things done they have attested their right to the honor which Californians of all genera to come, will give them, in tradi- They knew how to employ every rich resource of ¢ and already the State is renowned o at veins the mountains than luxuries of wine, fruit and oil that blossom vineyards and orchards. Hampered by ns of traffic and transportation, these have provided the beginnin along all lines of arts and ¢ nd from the stud f he artisans have come forth of a s of art t and proper that the achievements of Cali- 1 the first fif her statehood should d with an versal among her peo- : years rdor her native sons and daughters, T prosperity h jubila nes or a raere conceit of superio f a recogn he people which assu 1t than the past and recog: kened spirit of State lo; an intel their true value the larger in- gence which v Such great issues those of op of forests, preserv conserva- , the improvement of rivers, the de- t of better systems of municipal government E cement of manufacturing and commer- ndustries will occupy much of the thought and ch of the energy which in the past have n almost wholly to local issues. California 1 will come to mean something more than a to celebrate Admission day. It will sig- iness among the people to work together ommon good 2nd for the greater glory of the State and the Union. ith gratification challenge the i to show a land where industry is more amply rded, where labor has better wages, where thrift To-day we can more are more closely affiliated, where homes are or the home life sweeter than in Californi ity has attained here its highest level of civili- he fruitful scil is not zation. T more prolific of frujts and flowers than is seciety of brave men and fair wom Among no cther people is there such hos- itality of welcome to all or such geniality of social It is the land of lands in beauty and in —and the best land of all to work in, to play and to live in. : San Francisco opens all her doors to those who throng her streets to join in the celebration. She arrayed herseli for the most magnificent festival of her hi and in the glory of banners and the starry splendor of inaumerable lights displays jubilation she feels in receiving all California within her gates. It is a time for exultation, for music and for cheers, and everywhere in the city, from the ferry | to the cliff that overlooks the ocean, the joyous visit- ors will find occasion and opportunity to give voice to the gladness of their hearts in celebrating Califor- nia's jubilee. arcourse. ory A VARIEGATED CAMPAIGN. | VER since accepting the nomination for the | E Presidency Bryzn has done his best to uphold the declaration of the Kansas City platform erning the “paramount issue” of the campaign. | He has dodged the money question as nimbly as he | could and has said little or nothing about trusts to | disturb the ice monopoly of New York and the Wells- | Fargo Express Company. His efforts, however, | have met with indifferent success. cor States the people persist in holding him to his free silver record; in the South, where nearly everybody is an expansionist, they mock at his paramount babble, ang it now appears that even in the Missis- sippi Valiey States the managers of his campaign | have found it necessary to make the fight along some | | other line than the one they started on. A recent report from Chicago announces that Chairman Jones and his associates of the Democratic | National Committee have put into circulation about 30,000,000 documents on the “paramount” issue, but | have found the people more or less indifferent to them. The Bryan literary bureau has therefore been | set to work to prepare documents on another issue, | and it has selected the trusts as the object of attack. | The report says: “The Democratic managers imagin= that they are preparing a masked battery. They are secretly printing millions of pamphlets and leaflets | vpon the trust question, which they intend to put into | the mails about September 10, but both the contents of these documents and their quantity are perfectly known to the Republican generals, who will have their own literary artillery trained to meet and silence this Democratic volley as sure as it is discharged. This plan to switch from ‘imperialism’ to trusts is only another example of the rapidity with which Bryan is ready to shift from one utterance to another.” 1t is certainly high time for the Bryanites to make a change of some kind. Up to this time the only ef- fect of the campaign against so-called “imperialism” has been to demoralize the silver forces, which con- stitute the main strength of the Bryan movement. Many of the stanchest silver men of 1896 have refused to follow Bryan since he undertook to sidetrack the 4 y | importance, fronting on the greatest ied opportunities to prosper, where all | the | In the Eastern | silver question, and little or nothing has been gained to offset the loss. It is therefore not unlikely there wiil be a complete adoption of the plan proposed by David Bennett Hill—that of making the fight on dif- ferent issues in different parts of the country. Democ- | racy will make a variegated campaign. In the East it will be said the money question is not at issue; in the West it will be said free silver is the chief issue; in the Mississippi Valley the clamor will be for the | suppression of trusts, and in the South the cry will be “anything to beat McKinley.’ THE PRESERVATION OF PROSPERITY . e, the minds of the people is that presented by the con- trast between the conditions of workingmen and siness men in 1896 and those which prevail to-day:. neral Prosperity isn't much of a talker, but h nce is of the kind called golden and its influence n home is more potent than thz lamity orators from the Pa- TATESM Philippine question and the money question, but N and politicians are talking of the felt in every Americ; eloquence of all the cific to the Atlantic. o the workingmen and the business untry were almost at the end of their Four years men of this ¢ The long years of industrial and com- resources. mercial depression following the panic of 1803 had about exhausted the savings of the workers and the Bryan's promise of an easy ing the standard of value of the currency was then a very direful threat It was not known how far the people suf- capital of the merchants. v to pay old debts h‘\- redu eed g from a lack of work and wages would be de- ceived by it, and as a consequence something like a de was upon the country for months. n's defeat was made known the 1me work. Since then there has been such an activity in all lines of industry was rever known before. been T able to producers of all sorts of goods, and in addition thereto there has been found a way to ex- nd ¢ Our home market has 1 u reign commerce to an extent undreamed of four years ago. These facts are fresh in the minds the people. There is no desire for a return of of calamity. of the life of this generation. The prosperity of the time is so notable among | the seaboard States of both the Atlantic and the Pa- at there is not the slightest prospect of Bryan carrying any of them. His fight is fo carry enough of the States of the Middle West to make up with the solid South a majority of the Electoral College. Even in that section of the Union, however, the pre- ling prosperity is so great it is doubtiul the alamity candidate will get as large a vote as he did four years ago. For the purpose of cbtaining up to date facts con- cerning the conditions of that section the Republican National Committee recently sent out letters to a large number of representative business men askingz how the financial affairs of their communities pered with those of five years ago. A summary of the replics shows that savings and commercial de- posits have increased from 50 to 120 per cent since 1806; that municipalities are able to borrow money at a rate averaging more than one-half of one per cent less than in 1896; that farm values in most sec- tions have almost doubled; that about 30 per cent of { farm mortgages have been paid up, and the re- ' mainder renewed only with “prepayment” privileges !"and at lower interest rates; and that from 20 to 25 per cent of the debtor classes, to whom Bryan four years ago vainly appealed with his dishonest proposi- tions for cutting in two the value of money legal tender in payment for debts, are now actually lending if com money in competition with the business men writing | these letters. The letters from which these conclusions are | drawn were received from Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana. They are therefore fairly rep- resentative of the whole of the central portion of the | | Union lying between the Rockies and the Alleghany | | Mountains. Some of the strongest evidences of pros- perity come from Bryan's own State. Such argu | ments need no speaker to expound them. Prosperity is an issue which the intelligence of the American people perceives of itself, and, moreover, that intelli- gence has learned by experience how to value pros- perity when it sees it. IN PALESTINE. HORTICULTURE NE of the unexpected results of the worll's competition at the Paris Exposition is the an- : nouncement that the Jewish colonists in Pales- | tine have obtained a gold medal for exhibits of wine | and of grape brandy, and a silver medal for fruit trees and fruit. | There has been a good deal of scoffing at*all at- | the ancient home of their race. The scoffers have as- serted that the $oil of Palestine is exhausted and in- | capable of making a profitable return for any exten- | sive cultivation, and that the Jewish race is not fitted or agriculture. Assuming their assertions to be true, they have concluded that a Jewish colony would fail at farming anywhere, that any colony would fail at | farming in Palestine, and that a Jewish colony farm- 1 ing in Palestine would have to quit after the second | year and start life over again as dealers in rags and junk. + The success achieved at Paris by the agriculturists | in such a high grade of farm work as that of produc- ing wines and fruits is sufficient to prove that the | scoffers are likely to have the laugh turned against them. Palestine was once one of the richest countries in the world so far as soil is concerned, and its pro- duction in the way of grapes astonished the Hebrews | even after their long experience on the rich soil of ypt. The destruction of forests has largely but not | wholly destroyed the old-time richness of the Pales- tine hills and valleys. There remains a basis upon which to restore something at least of the old-time fertility, and upon that the Jewish colonists are building. That they are having an encouraging amount of success is proven by their exhibits at Paris, and it is quite probable the future may see a wealth of production there which will startle many folks who have believed no good can come out of Nazareth. The Sheriffs of the State, in annual session, have given us a new genesis of the tramp. He is an un- ruly boy sent out to hustle for himself. No one will be more surprised at the definition than perhaps the tramp. The young man who used two revolvers in an effort to blow out his brains must have been deluded by some phrenologist imq an exaggerated notion of his brain capacity. A climax of horror seems to have been reached at Cape Nome. Destitution has become so general that men can find no profit even by preying upon one another. 3 s 3 oy it is probable that after all the sup.eme issue n We have had enough of that for the rest | tempts to settle Jewish colonists upon the lands of ! ERHART HAUPTMANY man playwright, is the subject of an appreciative study in the Sep- | tember Atlantic by Margarethe | Mueller. As we have no dramatic poets of our own, and as Europe has to-day only four, it may be little distance into the field that she has opened up for us. is one of the cruelest facts in this thinker it stupid world that nearly every who is in advance of his age w or fifteen of the best years of b vain attempts to get a hearing. To this rule Hauptmann is one of the few happy | | exceptions. His first play, “Vor Sonnen- | ufgang’’ (“Before Sunrise written when he was only was far too uncon- ventional to be accepted at any subven- fored theater; it might, therefore, never | have got bevond the manuscript stage had he Ger- | ] i not unprofitable to follow Miss Mueller a| AL A A AL it not happened that just about this time there was formed in Berlin an associa- | | tion known the Freie Buehne (Free | Stage), the object of which was to encour- age orfginality in dramatic productions. | The Frete Buehne produced “Before Sun- | it was received with a storm of | mingled applzuse and vituperation violent that which, sixty years before, had | raged around the devoted head of Victor Hugo's “Hernani."” Hauptmann has two distinct | the naturalistic and e . The former is the exp fellow | feeling for the poor and the oppressed; the latter, of his poetic temperament, » and simple. ¢ ified accordingly best plays iall ons; in the one come s anners— ic A s Asce and Sunken o4 Lives” and “The Weavers” I me account upon former oc- Sunrise’ ¢ therefore | plot as Lo iHeaven' “Lonely { have us s Mueller is a man of comes to 2 study the condition miners. At the house of his lege friend Hofmann he meets “in-law Helen, a pure and lonely r rooted in the foul sofl of an in- 1 home. She is the youngest daugh- a peasant, who, after suddenly be rich through the opening a on his land, like all his neigh- iken to drinking, and at the ¢ ing of the drama had degene: the | rmer col- | is friend's 1 | mere beast. The young peopie fal with each other, and when Loth that Helen's father is a drunkar that her sister has inherited this the lendid ture for a future hypothetical race of crificing en, s oths. Helen then despairs of life | herself. | if the object of dramatic art be only to amu ident that there is no place a play as this, for a more subject hardly be imegined. But if the drama be denfed the privilege of te | to the novalist and the a theme as that in ‘‘Before a proper subject for dramatic treatment, | question is: Has the dram- play interesting and h: 1 the moral problem which he presénts? Yes, he has done both. The interest is inkerent in ®he nuture of the question, hereditary alcoholism, which for | all its admitted horribleness is'a pressing | sroblem in that most vital and most mod- ern science, Sociology; the solution cor- rect, for though the death of Helen is ter- riblé, six times more terrible would have been her 1iving to give life to half a dozen | | children, each infected with the taint of | | heredita lcoholism. ‘ | When confronted with the specter nri to of may not hing granted st. then such Sunrise” Is ® such a question as this Soclety is apt | hide its head, ostrichlike, in the sand ETTTTS i ’,/M /) uu.J.,’,"l’/‘/,/él//f/vl' Wy, 3 =3 ation, and then, by violent conmr of feather and by shrill cries of half- ked expostulation, Society tries to frichten away both specter and specter | summoner. But this will not do to-day; like Banquo's ghost, they will not down, | and I for one take off my hat to the brave few who, like Dr. Jordan on the platform | and Hauptmann the stage, force us to think about th questions and to try and find for them an adequate solution. D axes are inev| o these ex- two-thirds of ills are remediable—but oniy when we have the irage to face them. courage to them. | Hauptmann's mast poetical play, “The | Sunken Bell,”” has gone through twenty- five jons in Germany and run the Tou f all the principal theaters there. | Its failure when produced last spring in New York by Mr. Sothern is not entirely due to our American refusal to take our | sl theater serio but is partly attributa- ble to our natural lack of interest in the | folklore of a foreign nation and partly to defects in the dramatic treatment. Sym- bollem is a dangerous element in a play; it requires the nicest handling to make 1t | effective, and when freely employed, as n “Maeterlinck.’ is sure to induce ob- Now ““The Sunken Bell” is full o m. and worse than this, a per- | mbolism that bas no interest for | znorant of the fact that the bell | h sank in_the mountain lake is sup- | 1 to typify Hauptmann's historical | drama, “Florian Geyer'—a _failure strength of the play lies in the charactcr. jzation and in the beautiful lyrical pas- | sages in which it abounds. Miss Mueller | gives the story at somewhat tedious | Jength; Mr. Archer, who saw the play at | Bu | Schoolmaster and the Barber carry him Frankfort, has a plot statement d e an better proportioned. %, famous bell found briefer Hein- gr: bei mountains r licious satyr upsets_the cart, the bell rolls down into the depths of the lake and the of witch Pri. a sort her The mother in the forest. off to his home in the wife and two children aw: is on the point of dying lein comes down and into him. He follows He is full of vast pla and the regeneration somehow or other (one d 3 know why, for the machinery of t s as vague as its ethics) his plans a wrong and he sickens of evervthing. end comes when he sees his t na toiling up the mountain them a heavy pitcher: Helnrich—What bear ye in the pitcher, dear. my children? First Child—Salt water. Second Child_Bitter water. First Child—Mother’s tears. At the same moment the voice of tha sunken bell booms forth from the depth of the lake: Heinrich casts off Raute lein with curses and flees down the m tain. In the last act Heinrich comes b: to seek Rauthedelein and die play ends with a really exqui colloquy between them. = FUZZY ENDS OF BRYAN'S SO-CALLED EPIGRAMS So-Called Epigrams From Bryan’s Address at Keyser Repro- dwced From THE EXAMINER With Comments by . Bohm. Dr. E. 4 T practiced law until . cused Democrats of Bad Cause ‘enough.’ ** IDyestrous JEvery party for grand larceny that I did not have time to defend people charged with petty larceny.” Answer—This gave you plenty of time to prove and more so0 to show your ability. Republicans grand larcenists? “I want all the avenues kept open so that every child born into the world will have something to kove for.”” Answer—Democrats have always given hope. Republi- cans have given prosperity and opportunities to every child born into the part of the world we call the United States. “This Republican system of private monopoly is condemning the young men to perpetual clerkship. Anzwer—Therefore Coxey airmlies have been extinct! no need of crying out for work. “If the Republican policy continues you will be pounded until you do Answer—If the Republican policy continues you will be pounded until you do holler “Enoug] e ““The poor men wliil furnish sons for the army, but the contractors and the exploiters will reap the profits.’ poor colonel, who contracted that honor to exploit and reap Chance ; of Answer—Bryan's Success. profits for political reasons. I became so busy prosecuting the Republican If Colonel Roosevelt ever really ac- cowardice, do you get even by calling father furnished a son for the army, a HERE IS ANOTHER SUGGESTION. Editor The Call: As a foreigner so- journing in your beautiful city may I be permitted to make a suggestion as to a fitting inscription for the handsome Band S..nd, so liberally given by one of vour most public-spirited citizens, Mr. Claus Spreckels? Fhe lines thought of are quoted from “Cae for Music on Saint Cecllia’s Day, by Pope, and are: “Hark, the numbers soft and clear Gently steal upon the ear; Now louder, and yet louder rise, And fill with spreading sounds the skies: Exulting in triumph now swell the bold notes, In broken air, trembling, the wild music floats degrees, remote and small, And melt away 4 g In a dying, dying fall. “By muslc minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. If in the breast tumultuous joys Music her soft assuasive voice applie: Or when the soul is pressed with cares Exalts her in_enlivening airs. Warrlors she fires with animated sounds, Pours balm Into the bleeding lover's wounds; Melancholy lifts her head, Movphue vounes ooV Boi 3 Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes, Listening Envy drops her snakes; Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions hear away their rage.”” Faithtully, ANDRE IVANCOVICH. Over Mr. Hearst's Signature. The San Francisco Examiner said, over Mr. Hearst's signature. November 10, 1895: “The vote of this electionyis a vote of approval for the war and principle of expansion. It is both right and reason- able that the administration which, de- spite some mistakes, carried this glorious war to a successful conclusion should re- ceive a vote of confidence. It is both right and reasonable that the policy of expan- sion, ever the lcy of the Peo- Whould recelys (e approval af the 5 of cratic.”—Exchange. it WORTH ONE CENT. San Francisco Call ;yl the Price of One Man’s Character. Santa Barbara (Cal.) Press. Some time ago a dapper youth, Charles ‘Williams by name, made his appearance in the San Francisco social world and pro- ceeded to cut a big splurge. This he did for a time and finally succeeded in becom- ing engaged to a maiden whose father counted his money by dollars like other people count theirs by eents. A few days previous to the wedding the San Francisco Call discovered that Willlams was not what he cracked himself up to be, and ac- cordingly published an article showing him up in his proper light. The wedding was indefinitely postponed and young Wil- liams was prompily ostracized. “Willlams brought suit against The Call in the Circuit Court before a jury for, defamation of character. In other words. with the clerk of the Circuit Court a certi- fied check for one cent, in full settlement of the verdict. Insult was added to injury a little later when Williams had to pay the costs. —————— A FAMOUS VERDICT. Salem Statesman. A reputation estimated by a jury at one cent, with the privilege of paying the costs of having the appralsement made, is scarcely a valuable asset in efther the business or social world. Such was the verdict of the jury in the damage case of Charles A. Willlams, the South African mine, o against the San Francisco | innocent girl from the clutches of a v WILLIAMS' PENNY REPUTA- TION. (San Jose Mercury.) A reputation estimated by a jury at one cent, with the privilege of paying the costs of having the appraisement made, Is scarcely a valuable asset In either the business or social world. Such was the verdict of the jury in the damage case of Charles A. Williams, the South African mine owner, against The Call for its at- tack upon him two years ago, made, as The Call sald at the time, “to protect an lain and to rid soclety of an offenstve member.” Contrary to the usual practice in such cases, The Call had nothing to say about the matter prior to and during the trial, thus konoring by its breach the custom of making damage suits serve as an advertisement for the papér against which they are brought. ONE MORE ‘“David.” “Yes, Martha.” “Something dreadful has happened.” There was a tremor in her voice and the old man straightened up. He noticed that she held a letter. “What's wrong?” he asked. the children sick?” “No. st week 1 saw a plece in our farm paper that said if I sent a dollar I could find out how to get rid of rats and ru:\;hes. I sent the dollar.” Yeatr “Here's what they wrote back: Move FORTUNATE. “Is any of away. 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