The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1901, Page 6

THE SAfi' FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBKUARY® 15, 1901 .FERRUARY 15, 1901, JOHN D. SPRE Atéress All Commu: MANAGER'S OFFIC PUBLICATION OFFIC Telepho .Telephone Pre ket and Thir s 201. ¥ EDITORIAL ROOMS. ... .217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weelk. single Copies, 5 Cents. il, Including Postage: $6.00 T 5| C5 1.50 ear... sanen . . 1. sare anthorized to receive ubacriptions. 1 warded when requested. & change: of address should le | OLD ADDRESS in order lance with their request. .1118 Broadway | c. Henager Poreign Adver Long Dist - NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON . - Herald Square NEW YORK R STEPHEN B. SMITH. . ATIVE: 30 Tribune Building < NEWS STANDS: A. Brentano, 851 Union Square; Waldore-Astoria Murray Hill Hotel CHICAGO NE " P. ( STANDS: Great Northern Hotel: se News Co.; WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ...1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRYEGN FOR 1904%. for being drawn in 1904. His nd Senate have their soon be blazing. revolt agai Brys led. of indepen- met it with such a grew to it was Cleve- expression Bryan and id the floor and rination again, as I " Bryan tells how he 6 As early S 1g a non- ce the Repub- ring for free int bolt from both He says and those who lonment pro- ty-five temporary orga nined upon and carried Its plans were operated with it were s the tools o secret. who co being nembers had neve Democritic i Connecticut had party in those States fional conventio ent the , nor was th ture its 1 om rm over gathered e party. It was not a ref that: ternal remedy and cannot be Those who are within the party a voice in the making of the led to make such change in the of the party as they please, require that any desired »sed and fairly presented.” and good faith require part of Bryan and his junta What Democrat, what Re- d the lawless declara- or that the convention e that condemned the arty from its beginning? Bryan's acts then and his professions t his views of what is fair and interests and change of po- on the outside and broke in from ambush without previous ¢ or open praposition of his ation onesty 5 1 In disguised, mas 895 declaration of intentions. 1l notice of the blow d. tyle Democrats to consider the situa- how thiey like it t which it is ai 3ryan were under contract to ‘maintain a < agreeable to Republicans he could better. Even their shortcomings will vhen. he points them out, because he so often when there was no wolf id to him. not be b s yelled “Wol that no attention is Angry citizens and saloon sympathizers of Kansas threaten to tar and feather Mrs. Carrie Nation if she nues to make ber depredations. Perhaps the - might suggest that in keeping with the traditions r sex she is accustomed to a somewhat less pain- ful use of feathers. | issue raised is the whole question of a police force, independent and burdened by no obli- + THE CITY’S YELLOW PERIL. HE legislative investigation of the police relations to the Chinese in this city camej to a close just at the edge of reliable revelations which would prove that the real | yellow peril of the city is the danger of a partnership between political ambition | and yellow journalism. The investigations so far carried op by this Legislature have done it small credit, | but this promises to reflect upon it, through its committee, positive- discredit. * Germane to the subject over which the committee had jurisdiction was the whole subject of the political and newspaper influences whieh under the new charter may control the police establishment of the city. Leading through that goes the proper inquiry as to what use may be made of the force to bring profit to papers or power to politicians. The gation except its duty to the people, and with every man ‘in its ranks sure of his tefiure as long as that duty is discharged; or of a force used as trading stock in politics, with its control.given over to a newspaper manager to be used by him for offense and defense and for his own profit wrung out of the loss it may threaten others. This issue is the most serious to which legislative attention can be directed. It far transcends any inquiry into the existence of vice in Chinatown. That fact is as well known as the existeace of Chinatown. Gambling, lottery, slavery, ars all there, mingled indistinguishably in the malign pus of Asiatic life, planted as an exotic in a Western com- munity. An expression of surprise that they exist is an affectation. That they will pay in heavy blackmail to officials for the privilege and profits - of existence is equally well known. In that these Asiatic vices are not alone. : . But the issue is, Who wanted to control the police force in order to be the tax-gath- erer on Chinese vice? The committee considered this inquiry to be within its jurisdiction. When Mayot Phelan was on the stand it permitted him to go into it at length. Pity it is that the frank- | ness of his statement was not equal to its length. . He admitted that the Examiner expected a substantial reward for its support of him by abusing everybody opposed to him. He admitted that he gave that paper a mortgage upon himself when he entered politics, and that foreclosure was not attempted until the | new charter was adopted. He admitted that he was expected to turn the Police Depart- ment over to the Examiner, and that he would have done so but for the opposition of the other newspapers. But he denied that there was a “compact” to that effect, but admitted that there was an “understanding.” Now there the whole subject was opened by the committee. The Mayor said, under oatli, that the “undcrstanding” caused the Examiner to demand control of the Police and | Fire departments and also of the judiciary of the citys The first two it expected to secure through the one-man power given to the Mayor in the charter; the last by his in- | fluence in the party, conventions. And he would have consented had it not been for the| pressure brought to bear by the other papers! It will be seen that it was competent for the committee to traverse these statements ¢ LI HUNG CHANG IS WILLING by the testimony of other witnesses. The Mayor’s admissions demonstrated that the great danger to police fidelity is not bribery in Chinatown, which may corrupt a few offi- | cers of one squad, but the organization of the whole force as a blackmail machine to wink at wickedness that pays, and backed by a subservient judiciary that will drive non-paying vice out of town to increase the profits of the other kind. It will be seen that the plan was copied from Tammany methods. It became im- portant to know what compact the Mayor had with the Examiner and to what lengths he went to keep it. There is one man who knows, and he is an honorable man. That man is ex-Commissioner” and ex-Chief Biggy. He was a Witness, but before his testimony was taken this committee went into secret session with the Examiner representative and | agreed to prevent his testimony over the ground that Mayor Phelan had been permitted to | cover! So this witness, who knew the facts and in whose honor and truthfulness the whole State places implicit confidence, was refused permission to traverse the Mayor’s testimony, | and the committee flinched at its most important duty and fled from the scene of its| cowardly display of incompetence and subserviency. ; After he left the stand Mr. Biggy said: “I wanted to prove to this committee that Mayor Phelan attempted to sell the Police Department of this city to the managing ed-| itor of the Examiner, and when he swore he did not he committed perjury. I wanted to prove that the chief executive of.San Francisco and the Examiner entered into a corrupt | bargain to use the police power of the city as an engine for private profit, and that in this whole disgraceful, shameful affair Mayor Phelan has been a liar off the stand and a| perjurer on it.” After detailing the extremes to which the Mayor went to keep his compact, Mr. Biggy said: “When he threatened me beyond the limit of endurance I ‘said to him: ‘Mayor Phelan, if you insist upon the election of Escla as Chief of Police the people of | San Francisco will do everything to you except spit upon you in the streets, and if I agree to do as you demand of me they will spit upon me. Every reputable interest ih the city is opposed to this plet. Tt is a diabolical scheme to milk the town. ” That is what the committee’did not want to know about. That is the subject they let THE CARTOONIST OF THE ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEM OCRAT PICTURES THE REASON WHY THE WILY EARL MAKES NO OBJECTIONS TO THE PAYMENT OF INDEMNITY. A FINANCIAL The Executive Committee of the Wrestles With Overproduct Prunes. L. F. Graham, a member of the executive committee Association of California, makes statements concerning t prune growers of the State which are certain to attract says that the prune production of the State in the year j twice the maximum demand of the United States in former years. B e Y PROBLEM Association ion in of the Cured Fruit he situation of the wide attention.” He ust closed was about As a con- sequence there is still on hand In the State a bulk of prunes amounting, ap- proximately, to 100,000,000 pounds, worth something like $2,500,000. A grave problem now before the Cured Frult Association is how to market these prunes. 2 Manifestly, says Mr. Graham, there are but two way: fornia In the future in reference to prunes. The first, s to proceed in Cali- which no doubt in- expedlent, s to reduce the production. The other way, which is the one that commends itself to the judgment of the executive committee of the Cured Fruit Assocfation, is to increase the demand sufficiently for all the prunes that California produces. The market has absorbed the maximum of- previous years already. will not take the remainder of the crop now in Californ adopted to bring that about. Having indicated the serio tion, Mr. Graham remarks that the executive committee to make a market It la unless means are usness of the situa- is helpless, man- acled, unable to effect any great measure of relief under existing conditions. He explains that money is needed to gain the confide: jobbers and their salesmen and the retailers and the abill take more prunes. But, unfortunately, the executive spehd a penny for advertising or in promoting the marke nce of the Eastern ity of the market to committee cannot ting of the crop. It faces the fact that there 1s a huge bulk of prunes on hand, in which there is a large amount 6f money tied up, and still remains help! bers of the association find a way to provide the funds less unless the mem- necessary for the EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY President Diaz’s Vacation. It augurs well for (he stability of thlnv down in, Mexico that President Diaz Is ing to' start off on a tour of Burope, ving his duties as the practical AItator in charge of one of his Ministers. That is a privilege that is forbidden to the heads of most republics, Including our own. Con- gldering that President Diaz has had no vacation since he was first elected, a quarter of a century ago. he would seem to be fairly entitled to this outing.—Bos- ton Herald. Uncle Sam to Chip In. The Secretary of the Treasury has de- cided that St. is has raised the $10.- 000,000 which entitles her to the $,000,000 Congressional appropriation in ald of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1502 This, then, places $15,000.000 at the disposal of Sf. Louls to begin with. She will need much more, as Chicago_did, if her expo- sition is to rise to the dignity of a great international fair, and we frust that she, like Chicago, will be equal to the emer- gency. The thing for us to do now s to elp the St. Louls enterprise along. After all 1s said, St. Louls is one of our most substantial and deserving suburbs, and :hmever we do for ner will redound in the e Our Fighting Force.- As reported to the Adjutant General at Washington, the total availdble strength of organized militia In the United States foots up 113,97 officers and men, about S5 per cent being infantrv. How siight a proportion of the fighting strength of the republic is denoted im this ser- yYice is apparent from = the returts Yo the Adfutant Genmeral's office of the unorganized available force — 10.- 432,43 men. It is apparent that in a sea- son of grave emergency the Government would be enabled to set from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 soldiers in the field without seri- ously embarrassing the commercial and | industrial demands of national existenca. | No nation on earth ean boast such enor- | mous reserved military strength.—Phila- | delphia Record. Subversive Massachusetts. Massachusetts keeps on doing unique and exceptional things. Here it turns out that the Legislature of that State passed | a statute that persons losing money in stock gambling transactions can recover from the brokers who transacted the deals. To cap the climax, in a case whera two men sum{m recover $16,000 lost in tHat way, the Massachusetts court has hell | that’ the law means what it says. This looks like a staggering blow at the vested interests. - If the Massachusetts ‘rule were to ba generally maintained the stock-broking usiness would have to be confined to those smooth gentry who levant or go into | bankruptcy when the customers’ money | is gone. But as Massachusetts Is Dot a | large State the practical effect will be to | Induce the stock brokers to locate them- | sélves and their assets outside of it3 | boundaries.—Pittsburg Dispatch. | The Great Postal Fraud. | Business men who seek better postal facilitles through a cheaper letter rate, quicker delfverfes, malls, matic tube service, uting plant or any of the betterments in which our system i§ so conspicuously lacking, ought to understand that they will not get_them by mere petitions to Congress. They can get them oniy by fighting the publishers’ ring, which throt- tles Congress. The crippling of the serv- ice in all departments, which causes it to limp further and further behind in the international race, is due simply to the second class mail fraud. Congress dares not add to the existing deficiency annual- ly created by the carrying of book, peri- odical and advertising circular freight as “mail.” Consequently it abandons penny letter postage, the parcels mail and the pneumatic tube system. So also it is doubtful if it will extend the rural free delivery system. Thus it keeps our serv- ice far behind that of Great Britain and | Germany at the behest of a number of business concerns which have combined to make the Government bear the freight and express charges which other business concerns bear for themselves. If tha merchants_and manufacturers who want new pestoffice bufldings and an increased celerity in the handling of the mail in th | 0ld ones will take the second class mail frauds by the throat and shake the Gov- ernment’s misappropriated revenues out of their garments they will get what they ° | want in_onme session of Congress. The | Postmaster General's and Postoffice Com- mittee reports have demonstrated this | over and over again. But by mere peti- ’!inn they will get nothing, for there is not enough to go round. And they will | deserve just what they get.—New York Press. —_————— A CHANCE TO SMILE. Mrs. Housekeep—I suppofe you want a | plece of cake, too? Harvard Hasben—No, lady; but if there's an old black suit of clothes about the house I could use that. The poor fel- low you gave the cake to yesterday was my brother.—Philadelphia Press. . Mre. Benham—Not ene woman in g | thousand marries the man she wants. Benham—She don't want to marry the end to our advantage —Chicago Inter an. O e and objects to being | the Mayor uncover and the Examiner cover u; To have gone into the facts that are known tor Mr. Biggy and others would Ila\'é! demonstrated why the charter made the Mayor an autoerat. It would-have revealed revo- | lution of city government by conspiracy, to milk Chinatown into the Examiner’s bucket. trying to keep the compact only from compu! p again. put-in the Mayor's hands the power to And it would have shown that Phelan quit | Ision and not from choice. - OUR CURRENT TOPICS CLUB. N Saturday The Call will begin the publication of the series of papers announced under the title, The Current Topics Club. The papers are to take the place heretofore occupied in The Call by the Home Circle Studies. They are designed t» be equally as instructive and beneficial as the Home Studies, and interesting to a larger circle of readers.” As the title of the series implies, they will deal with matters of current interest and will therefore be of yalue to all who wish to keep posted on the events of the time. The series, with which the club begins deals with “What the -Government Does for the People,” and on each successive Saturday there will be an article treating of some important phase of that subject. The | Monday papers will treat of “The Opportunity and | the Man”; those of Tuesday will describe “Colonial | Governments of .To-day—Their Strength and Weak- ness”; on Wednesddys there will be a course of ar- ticles on “The Women's Club movement—What It Is i Doing”; the papers of Thursday wiil treat af “The { Art of Living a Hundred Years,” and en Fridays | there will be a series of descriptive articles on “Ameri- | can Life a Century Ago.” The spring term 6i the club, which begins on Sat- urday, will continue for four months. While each paper will be complete in itself, it will nevertheless be more valuable and more interesting when taken in connection with others of the series to which it be- longs, and consequently it is advisable for all persons to start the course with the first number. All there- fore who intend to take the courses of reading pro- vided by the Current Topits Club should be sure to begin with that whichvappears on Saturday. We remind our readers once more that each of the | various series is under the editorship of an authority of high rank in the different lines of work taken up, and cach separate paper is to be prepared by a person well qualified to treat of the subject. The course as a whole will constitute a valuable addition to family reading and will prove of great assistance in under- standing some of the most important factors involved in the problems of the day. > . o o —— s . The Chinese dignitary who has been ordered by his Government to commit suicide ought to be able to contribute some pathetically eloquent remarks upon the general unfitness of practical jokers. ‘' A DELAW@RE : REFORM. HILE Mrs. Carrie Nation, exulting in the security of her womanhood, is sweeping the ‘East with a besom and raising something like a riot in every town in the State, the legislators of Delaware have under consideration a bill which, if enacted, will startle her worse than the sight of a gin | mill"in open working order next door to her own house. The Delaware measure is nothing more nor less than a proposition to equalize punishments in that State and to treat vicious wives in the samé way that vicious husbands are treated. According to the reports that come to us the bill provides that “if any person, being the wife of any man, shall, by physical violence, abuse, maltreat or beat her husband, she shall be deemed guilty of a mis- | demeanor, and upon convii:_tion thereof shall be pun- ished by being whipped at the whipping post with not less than five and not more than thirty lashes by the Sheriff, or by her husband, at his election.” To the people of California such a bill will appear nothing more than a legislative josh; but they are treating it seriously in the East. The New York Times notes: “There is a subtle touch of grim humor in the phraseology of the bill, which makes it optional with the wronged. husband whetker he or the Sheriff shall administer the disciplinary castigation to the virago under correction. There is reason to fear that the Sheriff, having no personal interest in the matter, would discharge his duty in a more @r less perfunctory manner; whereas the husband of the ‘person being the wife of any man,’ who has rendered himself amen- able to the penalty of the husband-beating misde- meanor, would tertainly apply the scourge with no sparing hand, if moved to apply it at all.” : There are reasons for fearing that husband-beating is a too frequent practice in that part of the country, and that few husbands are safe when their wives are infuriated. There is a tradition that even John I.. Sullivan, in the height of his career, once complained in a Boston court that his wife was in the habit of beating himh unmercifully whenever he went home tos drunk to put up a fight and defend himself. The Delaware bill may therefore be in the interest of wholesome household reform, but all the same the husband who sends his wife to the whipping post will have a just claim upon the sympathy of the world as soon as the dame gets home again. \ t 3 { proper work in the East. It Is manifestly unwise, so Mr. Graham thinks, to cut the price and load up the Bastern market at low rates to the detriment of the price for the next crop. The Eastern dealer, naturally, {s inclined to take advantage of the necessity of California producers to beat down the price to a point where the grower would meet with loss. * Having made this statement, Mr. Graham says that there is a way for the association to provide the funds that are needed so badly. In fact, a meeting of the Cured Fruit Association has been called and will take place in San Jose on Thursday, February 21, the purpose of which is to consider an amend- ment of the by-laws. An amendment has been drawn by an attorney and this Is now under discussion among the membérs of the association. This does not enlarge the powers of the executive committee to borrow, but en- ables the committee to use money for the pressing and immediate needs of the association to the amount necessary from a fund which the committee was originally authorized to-raise by borrowing for the purpose of erecting warehouses. The authorization to borrow extended to $200,00. The amend- ment does not imply that the executive committee proposes to use $200,000 in a?\'ertlslns and promotion, but only what is indispensable for the purpose in view. Mr. Graham says that he makes these explanations because there would seem to be some misunderstanding in some quarters. To the mec‘ing of the 21st Inst., therefore, the prune growers and their committee are looking for- ward with much interest, as the property values at stake, both present and prospective, are very large. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. IDAHO-J. W. H., City. Idaho was ad- mitted as a State of the Union on the 3d day of July, 1890, being the thirtieth to be added to the original thirteen. TWENTY DOLLAR PIECE-D. W. P., Placerville, Cal. The gold in a twenty- dollar plece of the United States is worth $19.995, ART SCHOOL—O. JI., Ashland, Or. The most prominent art school in San Fran- ! cisco is the Mark Hopkins Institute -of ‘was ccmmanded by Captain R. H. One hundred and ninety-eight lives were lost. She had on board $1,267,180 58 in treas. ure. A good portlon of this 'was recovered by a wrecking com; 0 Thomas 3. Srailey was the neaq ¢ 18t8 TO SAN MATEO—P. T. Sant. Y, a Ro: l‘C‘:l. The brcut ‘Wagon road from the S!l‘.n ancisco ferry to San M Mission street S to Twenty-! out what is called iho alducoflgfg'r;kfifm POULTRY--Subscriber, . Peason. ‘Ferndale, Cal, Art, California and Mason streets. If "you will send a self-addressed ODD FELLOWS BANK—Correspond- ;;‘gm::‘:mnfln envelope to this de- ent, Solsbyville, Cal. The 0dd Fellows' | St will send” you. the de- It does not adver- ‘tise any business. Had you sent your name instead of signing “Subscriber” an answer would have Questions the been sent by mail Bank, which suspended February 5, 1§72, has palid in dividends up to date $1,839,159 41, or 87% per cent. TEMPERATURE—A Constant Sub- seriber, Haywards, Cal. The answer to the questfon as to the temperature in New York and in London appeared in this department January 27, 1%01.. - to an advertisement of the bust: an individual or a firm will mot be swered In this department. of an- RECORDING SECRETARY—J. S. H., City. Generally the dutfes of a recording F. O B—A. 8, City. The letters|sooretary are to call the roll at 1..0. b. In the commercial world mean free | nociing” read the min ol nn’:.:z on board, or that goods are sold with thg meeting, keep a record of all the procedd- understanding that the ‘seller places them on board of train or ship without cost to the purchaser. JEFFRIES AND SHARKEY—C. A. O., City. Jeffries and Sharkey met twice in the ring—May 6, 1599, in San Francisco, and November 30, 186, at Coney Island. In each instance Sharkey -lost. WILLS IN PENNSYLVANIA—J. H. C., City. There is no law in the State of Pennsylvania which declares that a per- son who has attained the age of 7, !f mentally capable, shall not be permitted to make a will. A provision of the law In that State says: *“No will shall :e effl- it unless the testator were at the ti clml:l“kml the same of the age olupl'i years or e _THE GOLDEN GATE-S. E. G., City. The steamer Golden Gate was destroyed Maan N miles o Bhove. " She ings of the society; a record of the names and residences of members, showing ‘when admitted, when died, resigned, when ex- pelled or took a withdrawal .card; a record of the motions made, of the Sail Jects debated, names of those who took part, the decisions of the ’W oM cer or of the soclety by vote, and “have charge of all 3 ks and commu- nicatlons which do not belong to the finan- clal secretary. The dutles of reco secretary vary in different societjes, such are laid down In the by-laws, he minutes of a recording secretary shouid show concisely every transaction at a meeting. Every motion made and second . ed has to be put by the chair, and wheth. er carried or lost a record of the same should appear on the minutes. —————— AT HOTEL DEL CORONADO the season is now on at full tide. American and Europsan plans. Best of everything, including the cnay- acter of entertainment. Apply 4 New Montgm. ery st clty, for spectal ticket. | cost me $3 a foot. t wolf to see a man answer to which amounts | man she wants; she wants to marry the | man some other woman wants.—Brooklyn | Lite. Servant—Yis, sor, Mrs. Bounce is in, What's yer name, sor? Visitor—Professor Vandersplinkenheime er. Servant—Och! Sure ye'd better go roight in and take it wid ye.—Tit-Bits. Markley—Yes; I'll dispose of m; vrog- erty in Swampsmere at a sacrifice. It Starkley—What'll you sell for? Markley—1 guess T'll have to sell fom about $130 a gallon.—Philadelphia Press. There was a young man who said that He would work like a vinegar vat If he found a soft place. His friends said. hid k, He would find it nizat under hig hat. —Chicago Record. “I suppose,” said the wife sarcastically, ¢ :ou'\;e been sitting up with a sick friend again?” ““Well, yes; he certain was sick,” replied Jacksup. “Indeed! What's the complaint?” “He complained that we stacked the cards,”"—Catholic Standard and Times, —_———— Chotce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* — e Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.® —_———— Spectal information supplied dally to .u-ne? houses mnnhne .!,-‘- 1 the gomery st. Teiephons fln"n‘ . Bra before the man sees the wolf is an omen that he will be struck dumb, and so remain as long as the wolf lives. It is commonly believed among the -.n:ry in the Lyral Mountains that ADVERTISEMENTS. HOW DO YOU DO? When you find yourself say ing: “pretty well; thank you, but not very strong;” you are likely to be, as you say, “pretty well;” but getting no good of your food. Tf you have money and lei- sure, take a vacation; the doc- tor calls it “a change.” Which is good. 4 Almost as good is Scott’s emulsion of cod-liver oil, in- stead of vacation. With it is better yet! thedoctor is right. ‘We'll send you a little to try, if you like. SCOTT & BOWNE, o3 Peacl sirest, New Yorks