The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1901, Page 6

SEPTEMBER 19, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress All Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: “HATLY CALL (including Sunday), one year. $6.00 DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 6 month: 3.00 BAILY CALL Gncluding Sunday), 8 r.onth: 150 PAILY CALL—By Single Month, 650 38 WOWDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to recelve subseriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. #m® subscribers in ordering change of address should be SMicular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order {5 ineure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. @AKLAND OFFICE.. €. GEORGE KROGNESS. wsnger Forelgn Advertising, Marguetts Building, Ohic-go. (Long Distance Telephone ‘‘Central 2619.) +..1118 Broadway — < A CORRECTION. A neadiining and introducing an editorial from the New York Journal in our edition of yesterday an error was made by September 13, while the President was dy- ing. This was a mistake, occurring by haste snu inadvertence, and due to the fact that the New York Journal editorial was repro- duced in the Commercial-Tribune of Cincin- nati on September 13. We desire to be just even to the unjust. lished in the Journal a few weeks prior to the assassination of the President and is re- garded by public opinion as one of the in- fluences leading to that event, and was not concurrent with the accomplishment of the | purpose which it seemed to express. HE New York Press, whose editor was threat- T ened by Hearst in an attempt to make that paper desist from its exposure of the crime- breeding course of Hearst’s papers, has laid down a rule for the extinction of such journalism as Hearst has originated and practiced. erly stated to lie with the people, by ignoring the cul- prit and his papers and refusing to be used as sand- wich men to advertise both. Every event that focused public interest was seized upon by Hearst, not for legitimate newspaper use, but for special advertising of himself. His hired liars gave Ananias the right to a new trial by their fakes and In this way he published faked in- terviews with the Pope, the Queen Regent of Spain and Mrs. McKinley. These were absolute inven- tions. No such interviews were given. His hirelings never reached the presence of Pope, Queen or Presi- dent’s wife. But Hearst wanted a reputation for en- terprise that would inventions advertise him, and so the inter- views were invented and published. His offenses of that kind against truth, decency and good conscience were legion, and the exposure of one only stimulated the invention of another. By simulating interest in some public question he would induce public men of reputation to appear in his papers over their own sig- nature, only to characterize them as his “commis- sioners,” or members of his staff, and put them in the ion ¢f sandwich men, toting his yel- ent. All such as were so used by him ¢ that they were being used to give nd quasi-indorsement to the riot, an- 1d murder taught in his noisome papers. One man whom he attempted .to use as a bill- board struck bpack at him a blow with the impact of a cannon-ball. Hearst chose the corpses of the ten score men who died on the Maine as an advertise- ment and organized 2 movement to collect money to erect to them a New York Journal monument. As vice presidents in this attempt he even secured h men as Levi P. Morton and William C. Whit- he had. He then wrote to ex-President Cleveland for consent to use his name as a Journal vice president. The keen intelligence, courage and manhood of Mr. Cleveland saw through the wretched scheme, and he answered in this curt note, which should be framed and set over the desk of every pub- lic man in the United States: WILLIAM R. HEARST: I decline to permit my sor- row for the men who died on the Maine to be perverted into en advertisement for the New York Journal. GROVER CLEVELAND. The Press now keenly analyzes the effect of the notoriety that Hearst sought and that Mr. Cleveland refused to be used in promoting. The era of such impudence is over. The light of exposure broke too late to save the life of a President who has fallen, the most distinguished human sacri- fice of all time, to the greed, malice and venom of a school of journalism which, with the name of its founder, will be cremated in the fires of patriotic wrath. San Francisco is in sackcloth and ashes. Grief for the dead is in the lines of all good men’s faces and in the hearts of all gcod women. But mingled with it is a shame that downcasts every eye when it is remembered that here Hearst journalism took root, tried its 'prentice hand and spread hence like a pes- tilence. Here the mangy pup gnawed its first bone, did its first snapping and snarling at private charac- ter, yipped its earliest ululations against law and or- der and grew to be 2 dog bad enough and big enough to invade any fold at night, cut any throat with its fangs, and seek the blood of the best. But San Francisco is repenting of her indifference to the growth of this beast and will cleanse her hands of further responsibility for its existence. The day of poison in the mental food of this peo- ple is over. They are using tongs to cast the £xam- iner into the gutter, where the scavenger will find it and carry it away to defile the garbage with which it rides in his cart and rests upon the dumps. Tol- erance for it and those who make it what it is is at en end. Patience with its gorilla lusts, baboon mal- ice and monkey-shines is exhausted, and nothing it may do will sugar and shine it to a disguise that may permit its entry again into decent company. hur low advertise feel now kee respecta archy THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, DUST TO DUST. O-DAY the last rites are observed and the mortal presence of the dead President passes from sight, through that narrow doer that at last closes upon all human- ity. While standing on the dome of his career there passed before him a paro-| .4 rama of events'that stirred his country to the depths. When the first sounded it thrilled his boyish heart and nerved The sccond time his own hand rang the tocsin, and in respense thousands left the furrow and the forge, like him emerging into the trials and sufferings of the larger life and risk, to which the ineffable inspiration of patriotism calls men and they come heedless of restraint. The survivors of the Civil War heard the bugle call once more, and Union and Confederate soldier alike, forgetting their battles and differences, saluted the old flag and marched side by side to vindicate the heard the call to arms. him to spring from obscurity into history. majesty of their country and its institutions. sectional hate smolder and die, and the vision of a reunited people become reality. He saw the empire of Philip II die, swathed in all its sins, and its epitaph blazoned with all He saw the dream of that world-grasping monarch fade in the sunshine of an awakened world and the proud estate of its Emperor probated to the republic. He felt the thrill that was upon us as our regiments marched away and the pall that its virtues. fell upon our spirits as the helpless dead came From his high place he ministered through w of his countrymen, and was not only commander ir chief of his country’s army and navy, but of his country’s commercial conquest of the world. When he first uttered the great oath which obligates a President, chaos was upon industry and labor was on famine | When from his death bed he looked his last upon the beautiful trees plenty was bursting the storehouses and piled every table. rations. The history of that brief space, between heart ceased to beat, covers more of human tragedy, of the sport and change of fortunc,‘ the alternation of storm and sunshine, the uplifting of a people from want and idleness | | to plenty and occupation, than passed before in the history of man. onarging that its publication occurred on | shell of the past burst and a new world issued fullfledged; and he saw it all, and was ‘its conscious impulse. He impressed all people they wear as their password to a better life. Just Man, and those whom he delivered as the Man of Power. Life at its best is brief. Men bear their and its carrier is not. But as compared to the longest life and all that it may achieve, how very brief those years in which his greatest work was done, but how eternal its im- For the second time he He saw the last embers of civil strife and back to their narrow homes. <e administration to the materialities March 4, 1897, and the moment that his In that time the with some expression of his genius, which Far China salutes his memory, as the burdens for a day only and the load falls S THURSDAY, SEFTEMBER 19, 1901. BISHOP POTTER MAY BECOME PRIMATE ‘OF EPISCOPAL GHURCH IN AMERE fmselt zations he found time to interest ki in public questions of great moment. Ha E3 IXTY Bishops, some 600 delegates and about 3000 visitors will arrive her within the next two weeks to attend the Episcopal conven- tion. The opening of the conven- tion, which will be a most important one, is_scheduled for October 2. Delegates will journey here from all points of the United States and special trains will be run by the various rail- road companies to accommodate them. After the convention eoncludes its labors a great many of the delegates will visit the various points of interest throughout the State. One of the most important matters to ! he great movement to overthrow o] wv. Hiall and he has always de- nounced that organization for the bribery and crookedness found in the govern- New York. m’i";‘;i:ns: Potter's influence is due the building of the beautiful cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York Cuy."'rm, difice Is to cost $15,000,000, and wi not | only be the most costly but the largsst New World. ’n};l‘;;opes'ouer’s great ability has long been recognized by his church, of which he has been recognized as the de facto head in the United States. He will ar- rive in this city about September 30 and will be asked to deliver an address at a public meeting on “Civie Reform. —_— Harlem Friend—So you have to move on account of the children? ‘Why, I thought | there was no objection to children in this fla;‘."- Pincherflat (resignedly)—There wasn't when we moved in. But the new janitor is a bachelor and he objects to them.—Washington Star. A London paper described a children’s The editorial was pub- | The remedy is prop- | pression! This is a day of significance. strew the place of their repose. Its tears will be dried, its somber trappings and all its pomp and circumstance of solemn pageantry will pass away, but history will linger long and fondly upon the story of which it is the last chapter. In lineage the dead President was the last of his line. | His father and his mother and his children rest by his side, and the leaves of autumn But the high example of his lofty life leaves a lineage | that death cannot destroy and its inspiration will be as immortal as the republic. He sleeps beside his dead. A LEGAL ANOMALY. HEN it was believed that the President would recover from his wound and that the assassin would therefore under the law of | New York escape the death penalty, there was a good deal of discussion concerning the proper method of dealing with persons who wattempt the | assassination of a President of the United States. Some authorities declared in favor of drastic meas- ures. Ex-Attorney General Griggs, for example, is quoted as having recommended the passage of an act making an attempt upon the life of the President or any of the higher officers of the Government a capital offense, whether it succeed or not, and pro- viding punishment by imprisonment for life for any person convicted of being a member of an organi- zation which teaches the murder of public officials. Despite the earnestness of those who favor drastic laws upon the subject, the general tone of the discus- sion has been adverse to such measures. The people are not yet willing to admit that the President of the republic needs any other provision for his safety than W that which the law affords to every citizen. The dis- cussion, however, has brought to light a curious anomaly in our statutes in that respect. The Bos- ton Transcript directs public attention to the fact that under the New York law had the President sur- vived the maximum penalty which could have been inflicted upon the assassin’ would have been ten years’ imprisonment, while under the Federal statutes a similar assault upon a mail carrier would have been punishable by imprisonment for life. The section in the Federal statute, which in this connection is sufficiently interesting to be quoted in full, reads thus: “Section 5472—Any person who shall rob any carrier, agent or other person intrusted | with the mail, of such mail, or any part thereof, shall be punishable by imprisonment at hard labor for not less than five years and not more than ten years; and if convicted a second time of a like offense, or if in effecting such robbery the first time the robber shall wound the person having custody of the mail, or put his life in jeopardy by the use of dangerous weapons, such offender shall be punishable by impris- onment at hard labor for the term of his natural life.” It is certainly a curious anomaly in our law that while it makes such careful provision for the protec- tion of mail carriers it ignores the dangers that sur- round the Presidency, and it is well nigh certain that |at the coming session of Congress some effort will | be made to provide by Federal law for the punish- ment of persons who assail the President and the chief officers of the Government. Mr. Bryan has at last admitted that he sometimes makes mistakes. In a recent number of the Com- moner he admits receiving a book entitled, “Ellen, or the Whisperings oi an Old Pine,” and apologjzes for having in a previous number made the word “pine” read “pipe.” It is hardly necessary to add that he attributes the wrong to a typographical error. R SR, The old saying it is an ill wind that blows good to nobody appears to be holding true even in the case of the assassination of the President, for ever since the commission of the crime the number of people visiting the Temple of Music at the Buffalo expo- sition out of curiosity has given the show something in the nature of a boom. One of the curious things about the assassination of the President is a number of persons cropping up in all parts of the country who had heard reports of a conspiracy to commit the crime but who never thought of saying anything about it. It goes without saying that the crime of Czolgosz will help the passage of an effective immigration re- striction bill, and perhaps after the long delay we may get the desired law at the coming session of Congress. —_— A New York couple were married a short time ago in an undertaker’s shop at midnight. The museums of Gotham seem to be allowing good material to go to waste. _lootcd them from Athens; and, finally, many of the ART AND MORALS. S a means of relieving their minds from the A perplexities of the problem of organizing a combination strong enough to assure a tri- umph for honesty in the approaching city election the people of New York have undertaken a discus- sion of the relation of morals to art. It is not an academic discussion merely, for it relates to a gift which has been offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in that city; ror yet is it strictly a practical question, for it is well known what the issue will be. In fect, it is just the kind of a question most likely to give rise to spirited ¢cbate without com- pelling any one to commit himself decidedly one way or the other. 7 The cause of the discussion is that the articles con- tained in the gift are parts of the spoil that was ob- tained in the looting of China—that is to say, the gift is virtually made up of stolen property, and the debate turns upon the moral right of the museum to accept gifts of that kind. There is no question of legality involved in the issue. It is conceded that the gentleman who offers the articles to the museum has a legal right to them. He did not himself loot them. He purchased them at | auction in China from persons who had obtained them by the simple process of taking them. The collection is said to be large enough to fill several railway cars and includes many valuable porcelains, Pronzes, I wood carvings, ivories, paintings and silks. That they would constitute an important exhibit in any collection of oriental art is not denied. The one ob- jectionable feature abcut them is that they would be looked upon by some persons as an exhibit of loot rather than as a exhibit of art. The officials of the museum are reported to be quite sure that an art museum can properly be made the custodian of loet, provided the loot have an ar- tistic value, and provided further that there be a way of eliminating the word loot from consideration of the problem. Thus the curator is quoted as saying: “The collection cannot now be called loot, since it has been put up at auction. It has had a commercial experience.” Another defender of the rightfulness of accepting the donation says that art collections made in that way are not novelties. It recalls the fact that Napoleon looted the galleries and the churches of nearly all Europe for the purpose of en- riching the great collections at the Louvre; that the British Museum contains certain marbles of the Parthenon which Elgin bought from the Turks, who great monumental works of art in Rome were looted from subject cities. On the other hand the objectors declare that to ac- cept a gift of the kind would be to make the Metro- politan a receiver of stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen. The Springfield Republican urges a further objection in the statement: “To a nice conscience these treasures of the consummate skill of great Chinese artists for famous centuries will al- ways remain tainted not with the stain of pillage alone, but with the disgrace and blood of innocent beings slain.” ———— It is not often that outsiders say - better things about us than we say about ourselves, but sometimes they do. For example, the Atlanta Constitution says: “The Merchants’ Association of San Fran- cisco has broken the power of the evil and unclean gangs and placed the city on a healthy foundation.” It will be perceived that while the report is correct as to the intent, it is rather premature as to the ac- complishment. L The Czar and the Kaiser held their recent inter- view on warships far out at sea, so no anarchist had a chance at them, and doubtless the French police would be very glad if they could devise a means of rendering the Czar’s visit to Paris equally safe. In nominating Mr. Schmitz of the Musicians’ be considered at the convention is the clection of a primate for the Episcopal church of this country. It seems more than lfkely that the fa- mous Bishop, Right Rev. Henry Codman Potter, will be elected to the primacy of the church. Bishop Potter is a descend- ant of a noted family of divines. His father, Alonzo Potter, years Bishop of Pennsylvania. The Rev. Henry Codman Potter was born in Schenectady, N. Y., in 183, and was educated for the priesthood in Phil- adelphia. His rise in the Episcopal church was rapid and his ability so ap- parent that in 1887 he was consecrated Bishop of the New York diocese, the largest in the United States. Notwithstanding the fact that the Bishop was always a busy man in his dlocese and numerous charitable organi- @ i PERSONAL MENTION. W. G. Dickey, a Fresno banker, is at the Lick. Dr. 8. S. Bogle of Santa Rosa is at the Lick. Dr. E. Wilsoceki of San Jose is at the Palace. R. E. Peakes, a traveler from London, is at the Palace. Dr. F. M. Archer of Redding 1s regis- | tered at the Grand. J. D. Linkershim, a banker of Los An- geles, is at the Palace, . W. A. Allen, a wealthy Chicago manu- facturer, is at the Lick. George E. Stickle, a mine owner of An- gels Camp, is at the Lick. W. O. Smith, ex-District Attorney of | Hawal, s at the Occidental. H. Wittenberg, a wealthy merchant of Portland, Or., .8 at the Grand. W. A. Niel, a prominent railroad man of Tucson, Ariz., is at the Grand. The Rev. C. A, Hyde, a minister of Fort ‘Worth, Tex., is at the Occidental. J. B. Howard, a Stockton mining man, is at the Russ en route to Alaska. C. Stewart, a traveler from Rangoon, Burmah, is a guest at the Palace. T. J. Field, the Monterey banker, is at the Palace accompanied by his wife. Fred Dodd, the Fresno hotel man, is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife. Charles Monroe, an attorney and politi- cian of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. J. B. Carroll, a wealthy cattle raiser of Elko, Nev., is a guest at the Russ. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Morse of Santa Clara are registered at the California. —————————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—The following Californians have arrived: San Francisco—R. Dollar and wife, Miss G. Dollar, at the Astor: Miss D. Hamlin, at the Vendome; R. M. Lyman, at the Imperial; Mrs. T. M. Osmont, Miss Osmont, at the Normandie; L. Beret, A. L. Conlin, at the Manhattan; I. Fried- man, G. L. Kohlberg, at the Herald Square; J. D. French, R. B. Marshall, Mrs. W. L. Whelan, at the Grand Union; W. B. Isaacs, at the Holland. Los Angeles—W. R. Bird, at the Cri- terlon; W. H. Bradley, at the St. George; Mrs. T. Bright, at the Manhattan; Scanlan, at the New Amsterdam. San Diego—Miss L. Quick, at the Al- bert. Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—The follow- ing Californians have arrived at the ho- tels: _ Raleigh—H. R. Newberry and wife, Los Angeles; Miss B. M. Silver, Ne- vada City. Arlington—Harold Mack, San Francisco. National J. Alluny, Call- fornia. Metropolitan—J. E. Hayden, San Francisco. Riggs—J. R. Johnson and wife, Riverside. ——————————— Duty of the American People. In the face of the deep sorrow into which our country has been plunged through the assassination of its beloved | President, I can not refrain from express- ing my indignation and contempt for the | Examiner and its consorts, which I hold in part responsible for this diabolical e. 1% a pity that such outrages cannot be reached by the hands of justice. But there are other ways and means to reach them, and that is absolute withdrawal of atronage. \ DoAY cltizen or business house who will hercafter support them, either as sub- scriber or advertiser, will thereby in- dorse and npRruva of the policy of such papers and will run the risk of being con- sidered confederates of them. It rests entirely with the people to dis- courage any such shameful journalism in the future. Remember the 6th of Segtambor! CLAUS THIESSEN. 105 Mason street. - Choice candles, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —_———— Cal. glace fruit §0c per 1b at Townsend's.” —_—— Closed Thursday. W. 8. Townsend, 639 Market street. ¢ —_——— Specfal information supplied dally to business houses and public men bl{ the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * Union for the office of Mayor the Union Labor party has done well. We need harmony in the municipal government, and in providing it Mr. Schmitz can o beat the band. —_——— Unselfishness is one of the things that | is unkpown to politiclans. ——— Stops Diarrhoca and Stomach Cramos. Dr. Slegert’s Genuine Imported Angostura Bltters,* was for twenty! ok A PROMINENT DIVINE MENTIONED FOR THE PRIMACY OF THE EPIS- COPAL CHURCH. * ANSWERS TO QUERIES REAL ESTATE—L., City. It s in viola- | tion of what is known as the lottery law in the State of California to dispose of | real estate by raffle. RUSSIAN VESSEL—J. L., Oakland, | Cal. The displacement of the Russian | cruiser Novick, built at Danzig, Ger- many, not Kiel, is 3000 tons. Her horse- power is 17,000, TOM FITCH—G. G. G., City. This de-| partment is unable to find any record of | the death of Tom Fitch, the “silver-| tongued orator of Nevada.” Or the 17th of March, 189, he delivered an address at a banquet in New York City. DIFFERENCE IN TIME-H. S. D., | City. The difference in time between San Francisco and Buffalo, N. Y., is three hours and thirty-five minutes. Between San Francisco and Montreal, Canada, it is three hours and twenty-three minutes. REFORM SCHOOL—H. J. R., City. The Preston School of Industry, commonly called the reform school, is. located at Tone, Amador County. Boys are admitted there on commitment by a court of com- petent jurisdiction. Suggest that you seek advice as to your boy from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. CZOLGOSZ—K. E. B., Gilroy; F. L. B, Petaluma, and others, City. There is no | combination of English letters that can | express in print the proper pronunciation of the name Czolgosz. the anarchist and | murderer of President McKinley. The only. way to acquire the pronurciation is to hear either a Pole of a Bohemian pro- nounce the name. S excursion as a “long, white scream of joy,” and was called to account by a cor- respondent, who said that a scream could be long, but not white. Whereupon the editor justified himself by urging that “a hue is often asscciated with a cry.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. FILIPINO Remarkatle story of dwelling among the Next Sunday’s Call PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND FAMILY. WHITE MAN WHO GAVE EVERYTHING FOR HIS LOVE. the white Bismarck Igorrotes of Luzon. THE BARED ARM GIRL IS HERE. You will want to know who she is and I all about her. THE HUMAN BEAST OF BUR- Do you know who he is? RICHEST INDIAN GIRLS IN AMERICA. PAGES OF HUMAN INTEREST STORIES. From Ordinary Seaman to Rear-Admiral The Remarkable Story of the Rise of O. W. Fareaholt, U. S. N.