The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 5, 1900, Page 6

JISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 35, 1900 Che -Zolioe @all. FRIDAY... .OCTOBER 3, 1990 Proprietor. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, { Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | MANAGER'S OFFICE Telephone Press 204 | PUBLICATION OFFICE mriket and Third. S. F. Telephone Press 201, EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to =21 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202, Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Weelk. Single Coples, 5 Cents. ¥ Mail, Including Postag | Term DAILY CALL All postmasters are authorized criptions. to recelve when requested. Mat particular t to subserthers 17 Sive hoth Ineure a prompt and ring chanee of address shov AND OLD ADDRESS in or with their request ..111S8 Broadway C. KROGNESS, ing. Marouet'e Building. Chicago “Central 2619 JAKLAND OFFICE GEORGE Menager Foreign Advert (Long Distance Telephone DE: NEW T Herald Square €. €. CARLTON NEW YORK STEPHEN B. SMiTH NEW YORK 1 Hotel ¢ Northern Hotel: 1106 G St., N. WL pondent. MORTON E. CRANE, Corre BRANCH OF THE WISKINKIE W@ALKS. Tammany | ials who EW YORK Hal 1 the city off t organization a cir- says: “You are o be attached to our to Democratic principles has been tofore by appreciated contribu- tions. We fee ng - as you may be pleased t You have be pru- re stated miake for the purposes hereinbe our 2 at every d cently and economic r raised wi ded.” ular and describing the s states that Tam- urance t fly e g upon the cir operation the Tir many expects from e 5 per cent of his It he usual system adopted is e official in each department to | agree to h elf responsible for the collection | and delivery of the money to the Tammany treasury. As each offi s assessment his name is checked off the roll fied that cash is expected, and if this does not prove k ent around with the ‘black- Any man who refuses hose who do not pay are noti- | effectual the Wisk list’ to make col booked for seve ine or the loss of his j Few Tammany men ever refuse.” [ ng what t Of creature the Wis- | There ch we quote a casual | cinkie dates from “the days of round and were backward in pay- | n is vouchsafed as to who | w long a time has pa Now concern kinkie may be is indeed in the article statement that the W old when Dan Donigan went who here is no ex: ation given. from wt collected | money from officials ment,” but no i Dan Donigan w e since the “old days.” absence of any descrip- i tion a cartoon would have been gratefully received, | but even that has not been furnished. It seems to | have been regarded as all sufficient in New York to | niake a simple announcement of the fact that if Tam- many's officials do not put up the coin requested by | the appreciative sachems the Wiskinkie will round. From the simple statement “few Tammany men ever refuse” it is easy to draw the conclusion that the | creature is one of the cakewalkers who takes the cake f every time. Beyond doubt the thing is a holy ter- | ror, but whether Daa Donigan brought it from the bogs of Ireland or bought it from Barnum’s mu- seum we cannot say. It may be a hyena, or it may be a fellow with a bit of a stick. It is sufficient to know that when it walks the boldest tremble, and it warbles | the simple ballad, “Throw up your hands and give us all you have.” So long as the Wiskinkie walks only in New York we have in the matter only a curious interest; | but should Bryan be elected and the whole Federal | official world pass under control of Tammany, then [ we shall see the Wiskinkie throwing legs across the | continent. Who chall be safe then? | Saying “Bad luck to Dan Donigan” or swearing at | Ross Croker will do no good in a matter of this kind The Times estimates that Tammany’s circular will raise for that organization from city officials only a | sumr of upward of $300,000. To that will be added | many other sums, for of course the Wiskinkie will walk around by the saloons, the gambling-houses and other illicit places with as much alacrity as through | the departments of the city government. So large a sum will go far to help the Bryanite campaign. It therefore behooves the good citizen to be vigorous in the fight to head off Bryanism and Tammany. The issue is urgent, for the Wiskinkie'll get you—if you don't look out walk | Mayor Phelan’s hired men seem to have a very | deep opinion of one another's unworth. Even the Supervisors declare that the Board of Public Works and the Board of Education are fearfully and won- derfully constituted. Observing citizens have been trying to give a mean- ing t& the letters “S. F. P.” which are fastened on the collars of our local, long-suffering policemen. Perhaps the letters indicate the ownership of Sulli- van, Fay and Phelan. | coin silver iree, at the ratio of 16 to 1. | demagogue calls government by injunction. | to be a proportional BRYAN AND THE LABOR VOTE, l of the men who were at work were on reduced wages and short time. No memory is so short or defective or so addled by prejudice as not to go back clearly to that distressing time and recall its condi- tions. Upon those conditions Bryan then relied for election, His greatest crowds were where labor’s distress was the keenest. He told laborers that their idleness and misery were due to the refusal of the Government to He told them they were victims of “the crime of 1873, and that their oppressor was ihe gold standard. He denounced low prices as the result of that stan- | dard. In his acceptance speech in Madion-square “We believe that while the struggle for gold goes on other things must become cheap, and as we increase the demand for gold it must de- crease the price of all those things which are ex changed for gold. We believe that the falling prices is destructive of the energies, industries and Lopes of the toiling masses of the United States and the world.” Now under the gold standard prices have risen an average of 50 per cent since 1896. Labor, then un- employed and with nothing to buy with, largely dependent on charity, or upon work planned and exe- cuted for charitable purposes, like the Balboa boule- vard in this city, is now employed, not only at wages far above the average then, but with the opportunity to work every day, and in many lines at overtime for extra pay. . Garden ‘he sai In this situation Colonel Bryan finds a grievance in gh prices as he did in low prices in 1896 when he talks to laboring men, but whén he talks to farmers and primary prod he tells them prices for what they sell are not high enough. Wheat, beef, mutton, pork, wool and corn have advanced in the hands of the producer an average of about 36 per cent. Cot- ton has advanced in the hands of the planter 100 per cent. As Bryan said four years ago that “fa]ling of prices is destructive of the energies, industrles and | hopes of the toiling masses of the United States and the world,” it is evident that he meant that rising prices were promotive of the energies, industries and hopes of the toiling masses. But to-day he is de- nouncing high prices as the sum of all villainies! It is a work of difficulty to have patience with a man who is a pretender to the Presidency and who regu- tarly swallows himself, turns on his tracks and plays agogue, as he do Four years ago he said the gold standard had emp- tied the dinner-pail of the laborer. At City he addressed several thousand packing-house workmen, a class of well paid labor, “If we the Republicans why for three and a half years they have failed to give the laboring man’ protection from government by injunc- tion the only answer is that the laboring man has a full dinner-pail, and he ought not to object to govern ment by injunction if the dinner-pail is full. But, my nds, the dinner-pail argument is an insult to the workingman, and the dinner-pail argument will not last through this campaign. I want to ask the la- Kan saving: ask boring man if he is content to live and die with noth- | ing more than a full dinner-pail. Man is of three-fold nature; he has his body, his brains and his heart, and the laboring man has need of something more than three full meals a day. He needs time for intel- lectual development.” It is hardly possible that the plainest pig-sticker in his audience does not know that preceding all intel- lectual culture or the leisure that may be used in the higher things of life must be the provision for phy- sical existence. It is as if Bryan had said: “Your full dinner-pail is no good; throw your abundant food awa¥y and culti- vate your minds."” Laborers had no work nor wages. time there was; did they get? They were not burdened with three full meals 2 day, nor one. They were eating the hard bread and thin soup of charity, and had plenty of leisure for cul- ture. Again, what has government by injunction to do with them? Many own their homes. If persistently intrude vpon their property, make it un- tenable, reduce the happiness or profit in its use, they apply for an injunction to protect their property. It is made perpetual and they live under what this If the party enjoined continue his imtrusion and annoyance the court that issued the decree arrests and punishes him for contempt of its order. The injunction is for rich and poor alike; it protects the property of all, and there is not one-tenth of one per cent of the in- telligent supporters of Bryan who would think for a moment of robbing courts of the right to indepen- dently enforce their decrees. Indeed, it passes belief that any intelligent man, They had all the how much intellectual development | who knows the origin of the rights of property and the judicial independence required for the protection of those rights, coulg think of supporting such raw, bold demagogy and dangerous appeals to the pas- sions of men against the very institutions which pro- tect their rights. ——— DEMAND FOR FREIGHT ‘CARS. ANY evidences of the extraordinary prosper- /V\ ity of the United States are before the people at this time, but among them all there is none more impressiv€ than the orders given by the great trunk lines for additional freightcars and locomotives. Our railway system is already one of the industrial marvels of the world, and yet it is insufficient for the needs of our expanding industry and domestic com- merce. The number of new cars that have been or- dered to meet the demands of freight runs high up into the thousands, and the end is not yet. Along with the increased freight traffic there ought diminution of freight rates. There has been a decrease to some extent, but it is by no means equal to what the public has a right to expect. Moreover, the decrease has been frequently made in a way that disturbs business almost as much it helps it, and in many cases has injured individuals instead of benefiting them. Such results are due to the unfair discriminations exercised by the railways in making freight reductions. quently happens that while the roads can show a large decrease in rates for the country at large, | for many localities there have been virtaally no re- ductions at all. The marvelous augmentation of the railroad traffic of the nation will undoubtedly have the effect of re- viving public interest in -traffic problems as soon as | the Presidential election is over and the cessation of the Bryanite agitation gives the people a chance to once more talk business. The Interstate Commerce Commission, which has time and again asked for greater powers of regulating freight rates, will un- doubtedly renew the request, and the issue will in | that way be once more made a matter of practical politics. N 1896 labor was largely unemployed. A mmjority. of | In 1896 the dinner-pail was empty. | another | In fact, it not inire- | tional capital to insist that the coast shall have a representative upon the commission. This part of the Union is perhaps more seriously affected by freight discriminations than any other in the Union, | because it is furthest from the centers of -population where the great markets are. In the increased orders for freightcars, therefore, we may see a proof of an | increased need for Pacific Coast men to get together | and stand together in defense of Pacific Coast inter- | ests. We may be sure that when all the thousands of new locomotives and freightcars are ready for the roads and for business there are going to be a great many readjustments in transportation, and we must AN UNWORTHY OFFICIAL. UARANTINE OFFICER KINYOUN has Q once more given an illustration of his utter | the exhibition has been one of a particularly offensive | character. From the reports and complaints made by passengers on the Coptic of the indignities to which | they were subjected by Kinyoun's subordinates it ap- | pears that a gross outrage has been committed as { well as an act of official imbecility. | Ever since Dr. Kinyoun joined in the efforts of the Board of Health to excite a bubonic plague scare in this city, and had his ignorance of such subjects ex- pesed by the press, he has been seemingly animated by a desire to injure the city in every and any way possible. The manner in which the passengers on the Coptic were treated will be reported far and wide, and as a consequence other persons who are coming from the Orient or from any of the Pacific islands to | the United States will seek admission at some port than this. other self to the indignitics as well as the delays of Kin- | youn's quarantine, and accordingly the stream of pas- | senger travel will to a considerable extent at least be deflected elsewhere. San Francisco is a large city, while Kinyoun is a small sort of a man, and under ordinary circumstances our people could well afford to despise his malevo- lence. His official position, however, gives him power |te inflict grievous injuries upon the whole commu- nity. He has done his worst in the past to give the 1 ression that bubonic plague was raging here, and his present tactics are almost as serious a wrong. Tt is time to begin to deal with Kinyoun in earnest. He is unfit for the office; he is a menace to the prosper- ity of the port, and his removal should be insiste: Fupon by all parties. There is no reason why there should be any delay in dealing with offenses of this kind. Therefore it would be well for both the Republican State Comimit- tee and the Democratic State Committee to send to Washington a statement of his misconduct, together with a notice of the public demand for his removal. There is no partisan feeling in the matter. Tt is, in fact, one in which the two State committees might even unite in a joint rote. Citizens of all parties are wearied of the misconduct of Kinyoun, and his prompt removal from an office whose powers he misuses would be hailed as a public benefit. It is gratifying to note that the efforts The Call has made in the past to bring about the suppression of Kinyounism in this city have been cordially seconded | in this instance by the Chronicle and the Bulletin. | Both of those journals have warmly condemned the | indignities offered by the quarantine officers to the passengers of the Coptic and other steamers. I short, the demand for Kinyoun's removal is well nigh unanimous, and steps to achieve that end should be | taken at once. THE BRYAN CLUB CONVENTION. FRO,\I reports that come to us of the Indianapo- lis convention of Democratic clubs it appears [ the affair has fallen flat and is virtually a com- plete failure. Instead of the grand gathering of stal- wart Bryanites “one hundred thousand strong,” as | was expected by sanguine claimed through the yellow journals, there were oa the opening day less than 2000, and many of those were from local clubs. Nor was the oratory of the | oeezsien in any way superior to the assembly. In- stead of an array of men who could speak with au- t!ority for the party there were only a lot of freak stump speakers like “Ham" Lewis and “Golden Rule” | | jones. There is something surprising in all that, and it is not easy to understand it. Indiana has been for many a year the storm center of American politics. In no other State are Presidential elections carried on with anything like the fervor and the uproar that mark the struggles for the Hoosier vote. During the Oc toberz of bygone Presidential years the contests in In- diana have been so lively that speechmaking parading were going on every night. Even in the | remotest rural districts the schoolhouses were re- ccunding with political oratory at least four times 2 week, and it was no trouble at all to get 2000 men to- gether at any sort of a county rally. What has come over Indiana, what has come over Democracy, that a great national convention of organized clubs held in the capital of the State fails to make a showing much larger than could have been brought to the city in ordirary times by a fairly good circus? The disappointment caused by the lack of numbers l:md enthusiasm in the convention appears to have de- | pressed the speakers. Ham Lewis is not a statesman, but he is one of the most picturesque figures in politi- <al life, and as a stump speaker he ranks among the first. Even the talk-wearied members of Congress used to leave the cloakrooms and the corridors and throng the House when Ham Lewis had the floor. As | for Golden Rule Jones, he is an exhorter of national renown. His campaign for Governor in Ohio demon- | strated an ability for racy speech of a telling kind. {Yet b8th of these'men spoke on the first day at In- | dianapolis without saying anything worth the saying | or arousing any enthusiasms or even tumult among the listeners. Lewis, it appears, contented himself with telling a | Tot of funny stories which amused the crowd, and then | Jones began to preach to them. He is quoted as say- | ing: “T am a socialist; I am a patriot—not a partisan of any sort—and I have no hope in any party that now is or ever shall be. My hope is in the good that is in | the human whole. I believe that on this continent and under our flag is yet to be reared the co-operativ commonwealth that has been the dream of poets and sages and prophets of all ages.” Such sentiments are not calculated to rouse party | enthusiasm, so it is not surprising the Democrats did | not greet them with cheers that make the “welkin | ring.” There was a torchlight procession at nigh: | that appears to have been a fairly good show, and | with that much of success the Bryanites will have to be content. and The Police Commissioners have installed their | august selves in the Hall of Justice, and those famous " pictures are but a memory of civic pride. The gallery ' When the discussion upon it becomes earnest it will - has lost four gems. unfitness for the office he holds, and this time | No one will willingly expose him- | leaders and loudly pro- | EX-JUDGE HINKSON publican Vote Ex-Superior Judge A. C. Hinkson of Sacramento, who has been a stal- wart Democrat all his life, has re- nounced that party and declared his intention to vote for William McKin- ley for President at the November election. He declares that he has al- ways trained and fought under the | Democratic banner and that he had | stood by Bryan even after Bryan had ;declmd against expansion, hoping | and believing that his views would be modified by the Democratic plat- | form, but he avers that he cannot fol- low the candidate into ‘“the deep watere into which the Democrats have launched their new craft, and which they have overladen with re- | trogression.” Judge Hinkson was | cne of the vice presidents at the meet- |ing in Sacramento addressed by iBrynn on the occasion of his first | campaign. N a letter of resignation addressed to the Iroquofs Club, the leading Sacra- mento Democratic organization, Judge Hinkson states that he adheres to the opinfon that, not only as a wise politi- cal and commercial measure but as duty to the inhabitants of the Philippi Islands, the fslands should be retained as United States territory and should be | | governed as our other territories are gov- erned. Judge Hinkson writes that the | Philippine Islands should be retained: | First—For the same reasons which | actuated the American people in forei- bly, and against the will of the Indians, | and at the expense of many bloody wars, in wresting thefr country from' them and forcing them to submit to such laws as, under the right of “power,” and as a duty to ourselves and to civilization, we were pleased to emact for their government, | and because we could govern them better | than they could govern themselves. Second—Because the remnant of the one tribe that is in. rebellion, of the sixty | tribes of those islands, are Malay and Tar- tar interlopers into the Philippine Isiands, and are there voluntarily, and therefore | are entitled to such rights only as the | Government In its wisdom may concede | | to them. £ | Third—Because of the elght millions of | | the inhabitants (a majority of whom are | | less civilized, less intelligent and less cap- | | able of self-government than were the | | Indians), a remnant of the tribe which constitutes less than one-sixth of the pop- | ulation, arrogantly demands that we shall ; | haul down our flag and surrender to them the territory which we purchased from | the government to which it legally and | legitimately belonged. This, not only | | that they may undertake the hopeless | task of governing themselves, without cxperience or true knowledge of free in- stitutions, or the principles of a repub- | ! lican government, but to govern the other | fitty-nine tribes, nearly every one of which | is hostile to them as well as to each other, and at the expense of interminable an- | | archy and endless wars among them-| BRYAN FOR PRESIDENT McKINLEY —— A Demoerat All His Life, but Will Cast a Re- E.++H—:+hH++l+H—H44+PH+4+FH'H‘*'PH+H"'H+H:H’EH+. gl o Rl RENOUNCES in November. = 4 | SACRAMENTO JURIST WHO 1 OPPOSES THE DEMOCRATIC | STANDARD BEARER. o+ " selves, which would certainly ensue If the | Tagallos should undertake to assert sov-| ereignty over the other tribes, to say noth- | ing of the humiliation of the American | people in surrendering their territory to | semi-savages, as Aguinaldo and his mur- derous band have proven themselves to be in their barbarous treatment of Ameri- | can prisoners, and the manner in which they are now assassinating .American cit- izens and soldiers, and those of their own | people who have declared in favor of the | American Government. | Fourth—It would be much more absurd | to surrender our possession to Aguinaldo | arfd his marauding band of Interlopers, | after his more worthy and intelligent peo- | ple have accepted the situation and are in favor of sustaining our Government, merely because they impudently demand | as a right the privilege of establishing an independent government on American ter- ritory, than it would be to yield to the! demands of the Alaskan Indians to set up an independent government in Alaska. To such demand I apprehend done of our Democratic friends would think of acced- | ing, notwithstanding the Alaskans are “to the manner born” while Aguinaldo, | the Malay, and his followers are inter- | lopers. | Fifth—Because the Democratic party, to | which I have given a life service, is tra- | | ditionally an expansion party, and the ac- | quisition of the Philippine 1slands is in | direct line with its traditions and doctrine; doctrine that was not only promulgated by the mentor and leading lights of the party, but has been incorporated inte Democratic platforms. " PERSONAL MENTION. | | F. H. Harvey of Galt is at the Grand. | G. C. Hyatt and wife of Stockton are at | the Grand. Francis T. Underhill of Santa Barbara is at the Palace. Dr. J. E. Dreibrodt, a Chicago physi- clan, is at the Palace. Don Campbell, merchant at Fort Worth, | Tex., is at the Palace. | George Schwinn, merchant at Huron, is | registered at the Grand. 0. Y. Woodward, a Woodward Island | capitalist, is at the Grand. J. B. Chinn, an extensive rancher at Porterville, is at the Grand. Captain W. K. Wright of Fort Gibbon, | Alaska, is at the Occidental. | G. W. Towle, capitalist from Towle sta- | tion, is registered.at the Grand. : John W. Liloyd, a mining man from | Randsburg, Is registered at the Palace. Gilbert M. Walker, 1 large lumberman at Minneapolis, is stopping at the Occi- | | dental. | | W. A. Whitney is at the Russ, havinz | just returned from a profitable trip to Nome. | John R. Fennell, rancher from Tehama | County, Is In the city for a few days and | is stopping at the Palace. | Rev. Fathers Kennedy and Elllis of Eu- | reka and Nevada City, respectively, reg- istered at the Russ last evening. William Englund, a prominent attorney | at Marysville, accompanied by his two daughters, is a guest at the Grand. | R. U. Goode and G. W. Turner of the United States geological survey at Wash- ington, are registered at the Oceldental. General A. W. Barrett and wife ars back at thelr apartments in the Cali- | | fornia after an absence of a month in the southern part of the State. Mrs. Phalon, wife of J. W. Phalén, trav- | eling passenger agent for the Great Northern Rallroad, has returned from Portland, where she went to attend the funeral of her father, the Hon. A. J. Knott, who died there last weck. William Mahl, auditor for the Southern Pacific, who has been in the city for sev- eral weeks working on the company’s an- nual report, will leave to-day for New York. The report, which will show a big gain In company earnings during the last year, will be finished the last of the month. —_———————— COMMERCIAL MUSEUM IN SAN FRANCISCO Philadelphfa Times. ‘Philadelphia, omong rival cities, is con- stanitly referred to as slow, and San Fran- cisco, in the eyes of its bumptious citizens, is quite up to date. San Francisco Is willing, however, to imitate slow Phila- delphia in the matter of establishing a Commercial Museum patterned of our | own, and to advertise it as an evidence of commercial progress that should place San Franclsco by universal assent in the front rank of modern commercial cities. It has named its new exhibit of Pacific Coast products the Pacific Commercial Museum, and its managers announce their determination to collect samples of the preducts of all the world for the instruc- tion and enlightenment of Pacific Coast merchants and manufacturers. As Philadelphians know by experience the value of thelr own Commercial Mu eum as an ney for the promotion of in- creased trade, they can commend San Francisco business men for adopting the idea and putting it in gncllce, and they will waive all credit for the invention. Philadelphia never applied for a patent right on its Commercial Museum, and is only too glad to know that other cities can adopt and profit buhe same sort of an institution without ng compelled to pay a royaity, nlar the commerce of San Fran- cisco or any other city will not detract from that of Philadelphia, and Philadel- phia does not want a monopoly of all the good things that are going. Fred Burmeister, Warren, Iil., had to pay the city $1 for allowing his horse to eat 88 on the street while he stepped into his house on an errand. A CHANCE TO SMILE. Doctor—Don’t ride to and from work. You shouldn't sit down so much. Patient—I don't. Doctor—Ah, you walk, then? Patient—No: I hang on to a strap mostly.—Philadelphia Press. Wattelle—Old Bullion fired you from your job in his banking-house, did he? | What are you going to do to get even with him? Foyle d’Agayne—I am goin him on a postal card and tell him I must | not be considered any longer an aspirant | for the hand of his daughter.—Chicago Tribune. to write to | When Bryan walks the autumn wood | He finds a flaw in nature's good; Though everywhere bright blossoms nod, | No silver grows—'tis golden-rod. | —Indianapolis Journal. | | “Our boss won't let us offer any ex- when we make mistakes.” Why not? He says it hurts his feelings to see us | waste time in which we might be making more mistakes.”—Chicago Record. ————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. EXPORTS—A. S., City. “The Commer- | cial Year Book™ gives figures on imports, exports, debts of all countries and thé like, e b NEW FLOWERS—M., City. There is no record of Luther Burbank having late- Iy evolved new flowers of particular merit. i LAWN TENNIS COURT—R. A. H., | City. The court of the California Lawn | Tennis Club is at the corner of Bush and | Scott strests, San Francisco. RUNNING HORSE—H. E. C., City. The | stride of a running horse in a race varies with the animal running. There is no record of the stride of racing animals. WHO WROTE IT—M., City. This cor- | respondent wishes to know who wrote: Love is a trouble, love is a bubble, Love]ls llhe north wind and man the dead | eaf. BILLTARD PLAYING—R. A. H.. City. The best way to learn billiard playing is to read up first class books on the game | and practice under the direction of some | well known Dla):er. | THEATERS—S. G. W., and N., City. | The seating capacity of the Alhambra in | San Francisco {s 1458, California 16 Columbia 624, Grand Opera-house stat, to be 2600, and Orpheum said to be 2900, il BRISTOL FARTRING—G. T.. S8an Jose, Cal. Bristol farthings of 1652 are not quoted in the catalogues of dealers. You would better submit your plece to a dealer, who after viewing it and discovering its condition, will tell you its value. WHY A DEMOCRAT—G. McA. §., City. 1f your opponent in a political argument asserted that he is a Democrat but was unable to give any reason for being such, this department certainly cannot tell you why he is such. There is, however, no accounting for tastes. NO RECORD OF POLITICS-M. €, J., City. As the parties named in the letter of inquiry are under civil se ere 18 no record of the poltie oe . individugl. To ascertain such each indi- vidual would have to be asked, and it is probable that each would reply that his politics, like his religion, was his own concern. SINGING LESSONS—A. B., City. How many lessons one has to take to become | a singer depends on the voice and capac- | ity of the individual. Som take lescons for vears and st nsSht able to sin is_department does not advertise any one’s business, consequently cannot inform you who is “a ach- eics 00, 00 forih” Couu e classified po: of the ecity directory ead of teachers (singing). LEAD PENCILS—L. B., City. What are called black lead pencils have no lead in their composition. They received their name from the leaden plummets that were used to rule faint lines on paper bee fore the discovery of graphite. plum- mets were called lead pencils and were first made in England in about 1560, They en were far inferior in quali a nce to those of tue Dresent dav. ARTL, i % Srritingita DIk Sreak ofered o Seveo contrist to lhcdrle one of the lead, so it Ei called, in distinction m_l’u. black | dietarians. be timely for the Pacific Coast delegations at the na- .WWWH. ‘JP'TO'DATE EDITORIAL UTTERANCE Views of the Press on Topics of the Times. DALLAS NEWS-—If Porto Rico had fought us as the Filipinos are fight- ing us it_might have had more consid- eration. But., having given us no trouble, we will not be troubled about her poor, little petty affairs. ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC—The Chinese have the same right to thelr territory that we have to ours. Because the empires of the Old World are eager to bezin the loot- ing of China is no reason why we should join them in their sin OMAHA BEE—Desertion of Bryan by the newspaper correspondents who form- erly formed an escort for him in all his tours and expeditions has much signifi- cance. Newspaper men never drop a good thing until it is worn out as a news sub- Ject. CHICAGO = JOUT Raw Food Sof ey are zealous disestab- lishmentarians of the customs that make mankind the slaves of the cooks. They are stern pioneers in the anti-dyspeptic method of eating. BALTIMORE HERALD—General Fitz- hugh Lee says that the American troops cannot be withdrawn from the Philippines until there is peace, and the general has the reputation of g a pretty good Democrat. He also possesses patriotism and common sense. PHILADELPHIA _ RECORD—Democ- racy had a great opportunity to obtain control of the Government and to bring it back to its constitutional grooves. They lost thelr opportunity by abandoning JOURNAL—The Chicago a body of advanced | Democracy first for Populism and after- ward for Crokerism. SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN-If the railroads of the Pennsylvania coal region were confined strictly to the duties of a common carrier coal would sell at ma- terially lower rates in this part of the country and the miners would no doubt receive fairer treatment. BALTIMORE AMERICAN—Unless in the formation of the Cuban government steps are taken to prevent them, the same scandals will arise which have provoked the interference of FKuropean powers in Hayti and San Domingo. and there I3 always more or less danger in such in- terferences ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH—The fa- mous “Yellow Terror’' has not yet ma- erialized. But continued fighting would tend to organize. train and infuriate the Chinese horde. The menace of overwhelm- ing numbers of men quick to learn and ghting for their homes and altars Is not to be despised CHICAGO TRIBUNE—Many sad words are sald about the hard lot of the young and old men of this day. but, all things | considered, they are better off than they would have been had they lived a century ago. Then there were fewer opportunities for the young man and old age came much sooner than it does now. NEW YORK PRESS—The hearth In the New York tenmement fireless this | winter, like the empty cupboard in the Pennsylvania mining patch, will be dus to the operation of the cardinal prineipie of the Bryanite politician's bellef that out of the human misery of industrial strife are bred Bryanite votes. CLEVELAND LEADER—Opposition to the trusts is not a political question. Every man who thinks right, whether he be ublican, Democrat, Populist or Prohi- gi!lonlst. is against the monopolistic com- binations of capital. Bryan makes a po- litical question of it simply because he represents the party that is out. NEW YORK TRIBUNE—What a tri- umph it would be for industry if not nine- tenths nor three-quarters, but even one- half of the potentiality of coal could be utilized! The cost of power would thus be materially reduced and the final exhaus- tion of the coal deposits—which is merely a question of time—would be postponed for years, perhaps for centurfes. BOSTON HERALD—What we do expect to see in the next six weeks is a steady weakening of the Democratic ranks wher- ever the Republicans really make a fight to win. They have the means and the or- ganization to fight hard and successfully They have only begun to put forth their power. The biunders of their opponents will fight for them. Bryan is the always conspicuous blunder. PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER—Everv dance hall, every gambling hell, every green goo man, every ‘‘shover of the queer,” every den of infamy in New York City must pay tribute through Tammany to the campaign fund which permit. Stone to enjoy himself at the Hoffman House, Mr. Cockran to travel In luxury and Mr. Bryan to make use of a car with palatial appointments. NEW YORK POST—Almost every day brings news of wage scale agreements ir conference of employers and employes, and of strikes averted for a longer or shorter perfod, while the industrial war which has been waging in the anthracite fields the last fortnight furnishes a sad example of the economic waste and need- less suffering Involved in the strike meth- od of adjusting grievances. BROOKLYN EAGL -If Mr. Bryan fis sincere he is the biggest fool whom a considerable party ever nominated high office. He has found substantia every proposition which he advanced foun- vears ago disproved by the experience of his countrymen in the past forty-eight months, and yet he repeats them anew and uses what every one else regards as the proof of his error to substantiate the correctness of his assertions. —_—e—— IS THATMARKHANNA MAMMA? Is that Wh Mark Hanna, mamma? he ain’t any show! Where's all the skirts and funny things, what I'd like to know? He's nothin’, only just a man: And his mouth ain't like a shark’s! 1 thought he was a bogle— All over dollar-marks! Them picture fellows ain’t no goed At makin’ pictures true: His head’'s as big as any one's— And he's good-lookin’, too And he's whoopin' up McKinley— Hurrah, that's just the stuff! Wouldn't 1 like to do it, too, f I was big enough! MORRPLL. 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