The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1901, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1901. SATURDAY _.SEPTEMBER 7, 1901 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communiestions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manmager. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 A A A A A A~ e A AP PUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 20! EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stevenson St. Deltvered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Centn. Terms by Matl, Including Postag DATLY CALL (including Sunday), one year DAILY CALL (ncluding Funday), 6 monthy DATLY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 8 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month FUNDAY CALL One Year. WEEKLY CALL One Y All postmasters are muthorized to receive =ubseriptions. EBample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subeeribers in orfering chanze of addreen whould bs particulsr to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order fo imsure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ...1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. 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Columbia—*'A Royal Family.” Chutes, Zoo 2nd Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and evening Tischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—RBaseball. Sutro Baths—Swimming. By McBride & Co.—This day, at 11 o'clock, Furniture, etc., at €29 Mission street 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Cali subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew addresses by motifying The Call Business Office, This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by & local afjeat im ~ll towsns on the coast. ITH hopes born of a variety of reasons the THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN. Republicans of Virginia have entered this U ‘ ear upon an active campaign. Their can- didate. fer Governor, Colonel Hoge, is said to be a strong man and a good debater. The fashion of joint debates has always been popular in the South, and the Republicans are trying to arrange for such campaigning in this instance, feeling confident that their opponents cannot successfully meet the argu- ments that Republican speakers are prepared to pre- sent to the people. The chief cause of revived Republican activity in Virginia is doubtless the satisfaction of the masses of the people with the Republican administration of na- tional affairs and their discontent with Democratic administration in the State. Prosperity has inclined many an intelligent Virginian to support the party of prosperity, while a deep disgust with Bryanism strengthened the inclination. Moreover, there been a bitter fight among the Democratic fac- of the State, and it is said the Republican ora- during the campaign will need no stronger argu- nished by Democrats themselves. Another source of cheer is the evidence of divisions of sentiment among the Democratic members of the constitutional convention and the growing popular distrust of that body. Some of the leaders of the con- vention have been so alarmed by the drift of popular sentiment they have seriously proposed that the con- vention declare the mew constitution to be the su- preme law of Virginia without submitting it to the popular vote for ratification. It is believed that if the constitution be submitted the voters will divide upon the issue and that a good many of those who vote against it will also vote against the party that framed it, while on the other hand, if it be not sub- mitted, smany citizens will vote for Republican can- didates to show their condemnation of that method of forcing a constitution upon the people. Of course no one expects a victory for the Repub- licans in Virginia, but it is believed they will reduce the Democratic majorities, elect a number of their cdndidates and infuse 2 new and better life into Vir- ginia politics. It is said a large number of young Vir- ginians have become allied with Republicanism in the contest and will help vigorously in making the fight against the old leaders. At any rate, it is not going to be a walkover for the Democrats, and that is something of a benefit to a State where for so many years Democracy has been undisturbed by any strong movement for improvement and progress. e — In receiving the Sheriff of London the other day the spokesman of the New York Board of Aldermen extended what he called “the freedom of the best governed city in the world”; so it seems the habit of greeting strangers with gold bricks has become so settled in New York that they use it even in official addresses. Russia has obtained a firm standing on the shores of the Persian Gulf, ard it is now announced that the Germans have established a coaling station in the Farsan Isiands in the Red Sea, so Great Britain's route to India is by no means so completely in her posscssion as it was a short time ago. v e Since Professor Triggs says Longfellow did not write genuvine literature, but that “Mr. Dooley” does, it will hardly be necessary to inform the world that the critical gentleman is a professor of literature at the University of Chicago. o~ Shamrock IT is known to be green and she is said to be good, but it isn't every kind of green goods inst the State Democratic machine than has | | the people. THE PRESIDENT SHOT. HE old idea honestly entertained in the early days of the republic, that here the bloody passions of men would not be turned against the administrators of a gov- ernment so admirably adapted to preserve the rights of man and procure his kap- piness, must be regretfully abandoned. The assassin has for a third time turned the weapons of death against Presidents of the republic. In the cases of Lincoln and Garfield the crime was different in its psy- chology from the murderous attempt made yesterday on President McKinley, which has plunged the nation into mourning. In the first two attacks the immediate personal ele- ment of revenge was apparent. Booth killed Lincoln through a supposed devotion to a lost cause, and by that act robbed that cause of a halo of romance far brighter than any which the genius of history will give it. Guiteau, a wretched monomaniac and paranviac, inflated his small personality to the stature of an historic murderer and died as he had lived, a purposeless, blattering, worthless creature, who had no followers and -assassin- ated with no reason that could dignify even murder. But now we are called to blush for a crime that must cause thé most serious reflec- tions that Americans can indulge. As far as known at this writing the assassin of Presi- dent McKinley is of that class of reptiles who sit upon a pinnacle that is built for them out of the misleading, misguiding and misteaching of men. First a word about the victim of this imported and murderous fiend. President McKin- ley has never been willing to distrust the people, even to the extent of thinking of his per- sonal safety. The most amiable, thoughtful and approachable of men, and throughout his career the sincere well wisher of his countrymen, his friendly personality, frankness and sympathetic attitude toward all humanity should have made him safe in any American community. He had a distinct individuality among our public men. His views of na- tional policy rested upon an original basis, and though the policies were old and battle- scarred in many a political contest, he gave them new life for new reasons. His career has been typically American and his inspiration came from his own experiences. His eye saw through all the pomp and circumstance of government back, and back to the ultimate purpose of government, the fireside welfare of the pcople. Therefore in all his public ut- terances we find him thinking of the home, the shelter of the family, and of the fire on its hearth, the food on its table and the happiness of its occupants. Only the day be- fore the bullet of the imported devil laid him low, in his speech at the Buffalo Exposi- tion his theme was the home, the hearts therein bound together in affection, and the means by which it could stand as the asylum of all gentleness. His oratory has always a marked grace and graciousness, and his statement is always lucid, but he never excelled this sentence in that exposition address, in which the scene around him was given its true significance, and its highest purpose was declared to be its influence on the home. “Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. They record the world’s advance- ment. They stimulate the energy, enterprise and intellect of the people and quicken human genius. They go into the home. They broaden and brighten the daily lifc of They open mighty storehouses of information to the student. Every expo- sition, great or smali, has helped to some onward ster. Comparison of ideas is always educational, and as such instructs the brain and hand of man. Friendly rivalry follows, | | ! further effort at depicting London or English life. {which is the spur to industrial improvement, the inspiration to use future invention and to high endeavor in all departments of human activity. It exacts a study of the wants, comforts and even the whims of the people and recognizes the efficacy of high quality and new prices to win their favor.” When the people make their knowledge of him the subject of reflection and consider the scene in the midst of which the assassin attacked him, they may well mourn. Around him were the evidences of the high progress and prosperity of the Western hemisphere, and upon it all the glow and sheen of popular contentment and happiness. His coun- try, the leader in that stately procession of nations that stretches from Hudson Bay to Cape Horn. holds her place not by the sword but by the implements and arts of peace | which he had labored always to make more effective in the hands of the people. There was everything to inspire happiness, good will and friendship toward him, and to put thankfulness into every heart. But one heart was black with murder and had become a plexus to absorb all the poison emitted against the President by enemies who have pursued him beyond all Jim- its heretofore permitted in American politics. The widespread labor strikes have gen- erated an atmosphere of lawlessness in which such papers as the Examiner, and especial- ly the Examiner, have enlarged the elements that lead to murder. That paper by coarse cartoons has persistently pictured the President as the promoter of whatever ‘could be represented as inimical to the public welfare. Sordid discontent in a time of general pros- perity has been encouraged to raise its hand against the law, and a wave of disorder has swept from ocean to ocean like the pulse of the tides. President McKinley could not be a candidate for another term. His first was a time of test and trial, of novel responsibilities and crushing anxieties which he bore with philosophy. After his second and last term began there was no possible partisan reason justified by good sense or fair play for con- tinuing vulgar and slanderous attacks upon him. But the Hearst papers have not ceased to attack him in precisely such a way as to incite their pupil and ally to the murder which he has attempted. Those papers are morally accessories before the fact to the crime that has appalled the world. Their daily attitude of brutal falsehood and disrespect has been all the license required by the anarchist murderer who finds his justification in the lying that they indulge about economic conditions and the responsibility for them. So the pure and primitive idea that our Government would never be the scene ®f such crimes must be abandoned. It was entertained before such creatures were spawned | as those who make a newspaper the inspiration of crime and promoter of assassination. Upon this city still lies the genial spell of the President’s presence. The school chil- dren cherish his counsel toward wisdom and happiness and all men feel more wholesome as their lives can show the influence of his example. In no other part of the republic will more prayers go up for his survival of the shots that smote him. will deeper indignation be felt toward his assassin and the dastards whose miscreant journalism nerved his hand. San Francisco sits in thought by the sufferer’s pillow, soothes his pain and offers an oblation from pity’s sweet fountain that is balm intended for his wounds. : Not elsewhere Nor will his detractors and enemies who have led to this attempt to undo him be for- gotten by our people, who will not be deceived by sniveling hypocrisy and pretended solicitude about a crime that they have suggested. It is a time for sorrow and resent- ment. M who has achieved considerable success in several of his works, has recently announced an intention to leave London and to abandon any A “BRIXTON” EMPIRE. R. GEORGE MOORE, the Irish novelist, sire an atmosphere in which tenderness, and pity for humanity, and the cultivation of ideas, count for more than so-called material advantages.” Oi the irate author’s coming and of his going the busy world of London will take no more note than would “the sea’s self, a pebble cast,” but all the same Mr. Moore has fixed a descriptive phrase upon the empire that will. be approved by a good many people. It is a Brixton empire fighting for greed and gain He will hereafter reside mainly in Ireland and will write of the Irish people. As Mr. Moore is not a genius of first or even second class, nor an author of any great popularity, this decision ‘will not mean much to the world of letters, but it is significant of the growing feeling on the part of the Irish for a distinctive literature as well as a separate Parliament. Mr. Moore is a master of the art of phrase making, being in that respect fully equal to Oscar Wilde and not unworthy of comparison with Sheridan himseli. He has exhibited that faculty in announcing his de- termination to leave London. To an interviewer he said: “I must escape from the ‘Brixton’ empire,” and when the interviewer balked at the word Mr. Moore added: “This empire of vulgarity, and greed, and materialism, and hypocrisy, that is crawling round the whole world, throttling other races and nationalities—all for their own good, of course!—and reducing everything to one machine-made Brixton pattern.” - ‘Warming up to his theme Mr. Moore went on to say: “I am going to find a primitive people, in place of a sophisticated—I may say a decadent—people. I am going in search of air that I can breathe without choking. The first concern of every man is the moral atmosphere in which he lives. Some people are quite that can get away with the people of the United |at their ease in an atmosphere of cruelty, lust of gold States. jand all the gratifications of the senses. Others de- and not for glory or for law in South Africa, and it is that fact which has impressed the novelist and rendered him discontented with any further life in London. As he himself said: “It is only of late, when I have seen how insatiate imperialism is degrading the English race, that I have recognized how all art, all morality, all spiritual life is rooted in nationality. I am going so far as in me lies to help Ireland to recover her own language and save her soul.” Inspired by that resolution Mr. Moore may yet achieve greater things than his critics have deemed possible for him. The Brixton empire loses nothing that it values by his departure, but he may gain much. In the meantime the world has to thank him for a good phrase added to the talk of the day. e ——— The America won her famous cup in 1851, and con- sequently it has now been in our hands just fifty years. Sir Thomas Lipton believes he can lift it this year, but should he do so it is safe to say the British will find it so heavy they cannot hold it so long as we have done. . If Kitchener cannot find Dewet in any other vny‘ he had better advertise for the lost one. There must be some way of finding him, STRANGE STRIPED GIRAFFE-LIKE ANIMAL DISCOVERED IN AFRICA FEET. & THIS CREATURE HAS A GIRAFFE-LIKE STRUCTURE, WITH STRIPES RESEMBLING THE ZEBRA’S ON FRONT LEGS AND HIND QUARTERS. THE DISTANCE FROM THE TOP OF HIS HEAD TO THE GROUND IS SIX most astonishing discoveries of moad London Sphere. 7 PERSONAL MENTION. A. P. Fraser of Stockton is at the Ocei- dental. Dr. Schultz is registered at the Palace from Samoa. Dr. A. Kahn has come down from Napa and is at the Lick. C. H. Griffin, the Los Angeles mining man, is at the Grand. E. Lavy, a business man of Tahitl, Is a guest at the Occldental. Edgar Rickard, a mining man of Den- ver, Colo., is at the California. H. C. Leake of New Orleans is at the | Palace with his wife and family. A. M. McDonzald, a wealthy mining man | of Jamestown, is a guest at the Lick. John Hudner, District Attorney of San Benito County, Is a guest at the Lick. Professor R. E. Alladice has come up from Stanford and is at the California. Isaac Bird, a Merced merchant, is| among the recent arrivals at the Lick. | C. W. Tyrer of the Cherry Hill mine is | one of the recent arrivals at the Palace. | C. L. Dearing, a well-known mining | man of Dawson, is a guest at the Grand. | G. A. McElfresh of Los Angeles is a | guest at the Grand, where he arrived yes- terday. Geprge L. Andrews, a prominent mer- chant of Pasadena, is a guest at the Oc- cidental. ” F. P. Flint, a prominent attorney and politiclan of Los Angeles, is registered at the Grand. E. O. Webber has come down from his | home In Santa Rosa and is at the Lick for a few days. Raleigh Barcar, a well-known attorney and newspaper man of Vacaville, is among yesterday's arrivals at the Lick. | C. J. Berry, the Klondike millionaire, is at the Grand, where he registered yester- day from Selma. Mrs. Berry accompa- nies her husband. United States Circuit Judge Erskine M. on his way to Seattle to attend the session of the United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals in that city. Jekyll and Hyde Gage. The Pacific. The Pacific remarked a few weeks ago that it seemed good to see Governor Gage in with the bishops at the opening of the | Epworth League Convention, and that it would in all probability be a good thing for the State if he could tabernacle in so excellent company. Governor Gage was | up on the mountain top of high thousht that day and said some good things in way of welcome to the assembled Leaguers. But, alas! how much easier it is to preach than to practice, to counsel other people to right action and noble endeavor than to tent oneself on the fleld of sucn action, ready always to battle for that which Is in the best interests of humanity. Governor Gage had not been long separ- ated from that exalted position taken by him when he addressed the Epworth League before he lowered his standard considerably. When, a few days ago, he removed from the office of superintendent of the Home for Feeble-minded Childrea a man who for fifteen vears has filled that position in a highly satisfactory manner, to make room for a protege of his and a chronic office-seeker, he failed by a lonz distance to measure up to the impression made by his words that day when he sat with the venerable bishops, and he fell far short also of what the people of Cali- fornia have reason to expect in this day from a man who occupies the guberna- torial chair. On all sides the members of his own party are condemning him for the removal of Dr. Osborne and the appoint- ing of Dr. Lawlor. Leading party papers declare it to be a crime against the most helpless and innocent of mankind. Unless the Governor can give for his actlon some reason not now known to the public, he will ind himself shorn of the respect of a very large number of the people whum he was elected to serve. Refuses Carnegie Gift. - An independent and high spirited Penn- sylvania town lets it be known that if Carnegle expects it to accept from him a || $40,000 library he must provide a fund || for its maintenance. The town declines |, to do it; too frugal to spend money on fancy business of that kind, and able to ' find what books it needs in the running brooks of the region, which cost nothing | and are apparently dulte equal to its rather and watery intellectual re- quirements.—New York Tribune. — g estimated that the men of Great It Brif spend £250,000 a year on silk hats. HE finéing of the strange giraffe-llke animal dwarf inhabited forests of Central Africa is on» New varieties ¢f well-known anlmals are from timie to time brougkt home by travelers, but the discovery of 2 hitherto urknown animal, formin in the of the ern times, says the a new genus ANSWERS TO QUERIES COLONIAL WARS—Subscriber, The secretary of the Society of Colonial Wars is Walter L. Suydam, 45 Willlam street, New York City, N. Y. The So- ciety of Colonial Wars 1892 to “‘perpetuate the memory of these events and of the men who in military, naval and civil positions of high trust | onsibility, by their acts or coun- | and re: sel, assisted in the establishment, defense and preservation of the American coio- nies, and were in truth the founders of this nation. With this end in view it seeks to collect and preserve manuseripts, rolls and records; to provide suitable commem- orations or memorials relating to the American colonial period, and to inspire in-its members the paternal and patriotic spirit of their forefathers, and in the com- munity respect and reverence for those whose public services made our freedom and unity possible.” Eligibility is con- fined to an adult male descendant of an ancestor who fought in battle under colo- nial authority, from the settlement of Jamestown, Va., Lexington, in 1775, ernor, Deputy Governor, Lieutenant Gov- ernor, member of the Council or as a mil- itary, naval or marine officer In the ser- vice of the colonies, or under the banner of Great Britaln, or was consnicuous in military. official or legislative life during that pericd. The New York soclety was the original socie FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS — F. A. 8., Palo Alto, Cal. To ascertain the number of members in each fraternal or- ganization in the State of California you will have to write to the chief office of each organization. . RAZZLE-DAZZLE—A. C. R.. Marys- ville, Cal. In shaking dice razzle-dazzle the only rule to avoid disputes is that at the beginning of the game the players should determine whether aces or sixes shall be high. City. | as instituted in | In 1607. to the battle of | or who served as Gov- | —p great amount of interest in the zoological world. Though utter- ly unknown as a living animal until during the past few years, the existence of such a beast was hinted at bones dug from the miocene deposits nf anclent Greece, in which t had lain hidden for thousands of years. giraffe-like animal was larrer than the giraffe, but his shorter neck and legs agree with those of the newly discovered ani- y some fossii This prehistoric or family, 1S a rare occurrence and naturally has crecited a mal in a way which adds further romance to the discovery. © - 0 oferiieri=t i i aoi o o e e S o B S R e S . | A CHANCE TO SMILE. Patience—It was held recently in a Lon- | @on police court that no one has any right to force his way into a railway carriage already full. Patrice—Perfectly right: a man has no | business in any public conveyance when | he is in that condition.—Yonkers States- man. “Ain’t you most afraid to have John g0 to war?” You know these far-shootin’ guns will hit a man a mile an’ a half away every time.” ““There ain’t no bullet that'll catch John if he gets a mile an’ a half start.—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. ‘Wheeler—I took that short (?) trip you recommended. It was fully thirty miles. Sprockett—Well? Wheeler—Well, you sald it was only fit- teen as the crow flles. Sprockett—Ah! Maybe the crows were full of corn the day you went.—Philadel- phia Press. e Chotce candies. Tr—-econd's. Palace Hotel® —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c ner Ib at Townsend's.* —_—— | Selling out. Best eyeglasses, specs, 10c to | 40c. 81 4th st., front of barber and grocery.* JumRREE 1 <ot fbabau Special information suppited dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- comery street. 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