The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 20, 1901, Page 5

'TRAGEDY FURNISHES LESSONS TO BUSY AMERICAN STATESMEN 4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 19¢ POWER | OF LAW SUPREME Gospel of Discontent | Has No Place in 1 America. | Vengeance Necessary but Not Through Tyranny. An Interesting Service at Stanford Uni- [ versity. Professor Jordan on the Causes of the Crime. STANForD iy UNNER.SH')' Fole PRESIDENT JORDAN AND SCENES AT STANFORD. £ PRAISE FOR THE MARTYR Veterans Do the Dead President Honor at Pacific Grove. Sermons in Churches Throughout the State. Loyal Words From Well = Known Clergymen. B Incendiary Journals Given Scoring in Pulpits. o L - THE L)) CAMPUS o~ ‘THE \.JA>( To ‘THE TRAINS 2, THE EXERCISEy, HoMEwWwARD BourD - *| their land held other men in bondage and the | o . ST B S | RUINOUS INFLUENCE OF THE YELLOW JOURNALISM Special Dispatch to The C: TANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. —Nearly 2000 people gathered in | should not go on forever. I can remember | when we looked forward to the time when “‘at least the present form of slavery should be no | the Assembly Hall at 11 o'clock | more” For democracy and slavery could not | this morning to pay their tribute | subsist together. The Union could not stand— memory of Presi- | half slave, half free | o % f R e et p il e et st ot Getheli T e e IVIL and military exercises and religious services of an exceptionally impressive naturewereheld athetic prayer that courage | - Stransulatus pro republica’ lain for the | in all the cities'and towns of California yesterday. Many notable addresses were made, and in all of them was denunciatory comment on the malevolent influence yellow journalism had had on the republic.” The feudal tyranny of thé spoils. The services opened with | gyatem which had made republican adminis be given his widow Mendelssohn's ““Fu: in E minor, | tretion a farce has not had since Garfleld's < ing of the late | time @ public defender. It has not vanished discontented class that breeds anarchists. Gearer, My God, | from our politics, but its place is where it be- fre assemblage | l‘;:tg;;amung fhe petty wrongs of maladminis- | B ardner of Palo | “Again a Président is slain for the republic— invocation and read | and the lesson is the homely one of peace and —% Al its display of shoddy and greed, and intensified ¢ civilized countries are ruled by public | as may tend to make a crime like this in a manner. A vo- | crder, patlence and justice. respect for our-| by the cold, hard selfishness which underlies | opinicn. If there be lapse in our civic du- | free land hereafter impossible, Little, entitled | selves through pect for the law, for public | the power of the trust. All these people, mo- | ties, it is due to a laj in our keenness of MELVILLE B. ANDERSON, a responsive | Welfare and for public right. For this country | nopolists, social leaders, walking delegates, | vision, our devotion to justice. This means Chairman of the Committee. RPOTEYE |3 passing through a “time of storm and | agitators, sensationalists, dreamers, are allen | a weakening of the individual man, the loss of HENRY R. FAIRCLOUGH. Bk ng was | Stress. a flurry of lawless sensationalism. The | to our ways, outside the scope of our democ- | the man himself in the movements of the ROBERT E. ALLARDICE. | o * | irresponsible journall the industrial wars, | racy and enemles to good citizenship. mass. Perhaps the marvelous material devel- OLIVER M. JOHNSTON. the display of hastily gotten wealth, the grasp- The real Americans, trying to live their lives | cpment of the age, the achlevements of the JAMES P, HALL. ing of monopoly, the walking delegate, the vulgar cartoon, the fcul-mouthed agitator, the sympathetic strike and the unsympathetic lock- ] President Jordan’s Address. re sway of a number would our in their own way, saving a little of thelr earn- | ings and furning the rest into education and enjoyment have many grievances In these days huge co-operation which sclence has made pos- sible has overshadowed the importance of the individual man. 1If so, we have only to re- SERVICES ARE HELD d express re all symptoms of a single disease—the | of Brasping. trusts and lawiess nnions. Bt | sesort oarseives, 1t 1o of meen earominal mon, IN ST. JAMES PARK | sorro ot EaZionhas | oz of patriodiem, the accay 0t the ‘sense of gt suchfree Americans our country'ls made. | cloar-thinking, God-tearing, Sound-acting men, ST A 2 e woul o ot 22 | Justice. in other cases, the symptoms feed | They are the people, not the trusts or the |and of these alone, that great nations can i i o lost the =3 e | ibe discase as well as indicate It The deed | unions, nor their sensational go-betweens. This | be made. College Pres:ladent;aIl)‘ellver Eulogies | would s R igyoe = e of violence breeds more deeds of violence; an- | {g their government, and the government of the " at a Bi thering in woman who has been suddenly bereft of the | archy provokes hysteria, and hysteria makes | people. by the people and for the beople shail Fearless in His Duty. B - : o O epbiie, the | &narchy. The unfounded scandal sets a hun- | Rol perieh from (he earth. Tnis is the peoples | Dr. John J. Halsey, head of the eco- Han Jose, d equal wher- | {1 e hen & thousand homes, T e e T avar e e Ve ¢'as Killed ‘and | nomics department, followed President| SAN JOSE, Sept. 19.—San Jose was in Ives as men, the land | i &L LB Jordan, describing the dead President's|deep mourning to-day, and never in its or a large or small scale may we do it, not by anarchy or despotism, not by the destruc- tion of all’ who call themseives anarchists, not save the public servants a deed like this should be our detestation of Yellow Papers Scored. The jourral for weak-minded and debased makes neroes of those of its clas history was there such a general suspen- life as a soldier and lawyer and eulogiz- sion of business. Even the Chinese closed ing his character in all paths of life. He ; s who carry | by abridging freedom of the press nor by 5 al chance. T! orking® reform eave | 10Uy into crime. The halt-crazy egotiet im | checking reedom of speech. Those who would | Praised President McKinley's attitude in |21 thelt games of chance The clty was | killing. We would | 2Eines bimsel! a regicide and his nelghbor, | wreak lawless vengeance on the anarchists are | dealing with the great problems that| g o everywhere were flying at half-mast. ue iessons of this event wn | ST 07 {lean shirt; i3 it onpressor, und | themselves anarchists and makers of anarch- | arose during his administration and his| i ressive services wore held this Fore: the least of them fall on our | jherefo 7o o AR e S B courage in acting with perfect fearless-|noon in all the churches and at the St n least of | heart fails him and hi dness ds it- athered S LR DL T e e Laws Enough Already. ness, yet with due deliberation, in the | Normal School, while thousands gathered | fe this: Under democ- many crises that he had to meet. Whosoever throws We have laws enough already without mak- “It might be said,” Dr. Halsey remark- ing more for men to break. Let us get a the world stands aghast. But it is not alone in St. James Park in the early afternoon against the chief magistrate that these thoughts to listen to the public memorial exercises on - whosoever fires & | ana gecds are directed. There are usually | little closer to the higher law. Let us respect | ed, “‘that McKinl g ke a foolish a e a cd ected. The: sually s ed, “‘that McKinley never spoke a foolish | arranged by the general committee. The P United States. I8 others within closer range. There is scarcely | OUr own rights and those of our neighbor a | word. Greater than his utterances, how- | stand was substantially the same o8 tha . g B el nan in our country prominent in any way— f little better. Tet us cease to tolerate sensa- | ever, were his silences, for he was abused | from which the martyred President spoke ¥ b art, and treason 1In | Giotesman, banker, merchant, raflway man. | tional falseliood about our neighbors, or vulgar | 2YeFr FREC BS SHERTER: O be, WoS ABUEST h o of hig i 3 s Sl Sut b AaeAsanbens SC Ab: a Sibe (it thi -pow 1t h and maligne nts have on the occasion of his visit here last May, thought works J SSNess 0 r, clergyman, teacher even—that has not | abuse ose power. we have bad Lincol Integrity—national integ- 4 th hal ¢ a somewhere his would-be Nemesis, some lunatic | rulers let us change them peacefully. Let us since ACOM HiepriFnAt oh AL, eg, At /S lie dhle 1 wHIGH Do Bitige democracy s axree- | S0 5 sensational newspaper and & pistol pre- | Put an end to every form of intimidation |Hty—is the rock on which we rest as a|draped In mourning and occupled the | result of the last few vears' administra- tion. On this principle We stand at home and abroad. ““More than as a statesman is the man McKinley. No foes among generous heart- ed men; we see the tears streaming down the face of Willlam J. Bryan, his politi- cal adversary, when he heard the sad news. As a devoted husband he turned we have made iange but the hat we change it in f power under God This Crom- statute books of her words, our fathers | ution. The will of the | any statute you It is the decree place of honor. The services were solemn and appropriate. E. A. Hayes presided | and fitting eulogies were delivered by the | Rev. Father Kenna of San Jose, president of Santa Clara College, and the Rev. Eli McClish. president of the University of the Pacific. A choir sang ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee,” ‘‘America’ and the ““Star-Spangled pared to take his life The gospel of disconfent has no place within ou blic. It is true, as has often been said, that diecontent is the cause of human prog- ress. It is truer still, as Mr. John P. Irish has lately pointed out, that discontent may be g00d_or bad, according to its relation to the individual man. There is a noble discontent which a man turns against himself. It leads the man who fails to examine his own weak- wherever practiced. The cause that depends vpon hurling rocks or epithets, on clubbing teamsters or derailing trains cannot be a good cause. Even if originally in the right, the act of violence puts thé partisans of such @ cause in the wrong. No free man ever needs to do such things as these. For the final mean- ing of democracy is peace on earth, good will toward men. When we stand for justice among ourselves we can_demand justice of , 1 V .’ Other services in_lodges and ; President. It Is | nesses to make the needed repairs in himself, | the monopolistic trust. When we attack it | aside from the cares and the programme | Banner. 5 scracy; mot of blood or of | then to take up the struggle again. There 15| with clear vision and cool speech we, shall | of state to bring back to health his in- | churches were Peld this evening. our own understanding | z cowardly discontent which leads the man to | find the problem of combination for monoroly | valld wife. Rulers of the Old World have behave justly, e. 1f our law blame all failure on'his prosperous neighbor or on soclety at large, as if a soclal system ex- not greater than any other. And large or small, there is but one way for us to meet been surnamed “The Great” by their de- | YELLOW NEWSPAPERS voted subjects. Willlam the Well Beloved wtel nce which bas ! isted apart fi the men who make it. This | any problem: to choose wise men, clea: % SCORED BY MINISTERS mage it s " little and we'shal | 15" the Bort of ung;‘nn’lcn( to which 'the agitator «-lt,él":ndwn,'lh; best we “can .rxehcumtlhreo\x“[hm:gr NI shall bE fnithe heastiiopall true it A g it will be time to | appeals, that finds its stimulus in sensational | method of the ballot ane en to trust the . » . < hiady §ou-naliem. 1t is that which feeds the frenzy | rest in thelr hands. The murder of the Presi; | Lloyd E. Harter, ‘01, spoke’briefly but| C'ergymen at Salinas Make Attack Lews are made through the ballot and | of the assassin who would work revenge on | cent has no direct comnection with industrial | With much feeling for the students, dwell- | . on Journals That Vilify High through the ballot we can unmake them. | society by destroying its accepted head. war. Yet there is this connecticn, that all | ing on the President’s high standing as a Officials. | g e g o g Ky B 4 Where Responsibility Lies. Taer, Gestrove mutoal Fesmact and. trust. Sives | lowing Mr. Haster Dr. O.'M. Johnston of | SALINAS, Sept. 19.—At noon to-day | fective. To break the peace is-to invite tyr-| 1t is not theoretical anarchism or socialism | Inspiration to anarchy, pushes a foul thought | the Romanic languages department read | memorial exercises began here by the anny. Lawlessness i the expression of weak- | or any other “iem” which s responsible for | on to a foul Word, & foul word on to a foul | the resolution adopted by the UunIVersity | firing of minute guns sntll ane hundred of unpatriotiem. If tyr- | this. Many of the gentiest spirits in the world | deed. ness. ignorance. ~ v Council. It is as follows: nd twenty rounds were fired. At 2 o'clock nny prov hy. =0 40 rchy peces- | to-day call themselves anarchists, because they | We trust that now that the worst has come, a y . cl e tovand 4\,v‘,'ux14~n Drings. the men on | look forward to the time when personal meek- | the foulest deed has been committed, that our | STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., Sept. 14 a procession composed of Troop C, N. G. Torecback. 11 was to keep away both anarchy | ness shall take the place of all statute. The | clyil wars may stop, not through the victory | At this solemn moment when the honored | C.. Grand Army Veterans and societies | of one side over the other, the trusts or the unions now set off against each other, but in the v‘:ory over both of the American people, Leesons of Tragedics. R e e the past ite severe lesson it has | imported from the old world, excited by walk- Jearmed. When Lincoin fell slavery perished :;;chde:g:;; ‘::«Df:l nu{‘p:;:dltb;jx.;o“::r:y 2 Chief Magistrate of the nation lies stricken to death by an assassin, we, the council and faculty of the Leland Stanford Junior Univer- sity, would express our grief and shame that thé ‘page of our national history should again be red with the stain of murder, We would express also our abhorrence of the lawless teachings that prompt to these wanton and aimless crimes. And we invite our fellow-citi- zens to join us in the effort to disseminate such just and rational principles and to inculcate upon the young such a reverent habit of mind | passed down Malin street. At the pavilion the following programme was rendered: Invocation, the Rev. W. P. Andrews; ad- dress, “McKinley as a Patriot, Soldler and Statesman,” W. J. Hill; music solo, ‘‘Abide With Me,” Miss Julia Renison; address, “McKinley as Husband,” the! Rev. George McCormick: address, “The ssons Taught by MecKinley's Tragic eath,” the Rev. C. M. Westlake. The Rev. A. P. Needham, Methodist of the great body of men and women Wwho must ey for all and who are the real suffer- ers in every phase of the’ struggle. “‘Strangulatus pro republica,” “‘Slain for the republic.” The lesson is plain. It Is for us to take it Into our dafly lives. It s the les- | whatever sort, unpractical dreamers or con- [ son of peace and good Will, the lesson of man- scienceless scoundrels, exploited in the news. | liness and godliness. Let us take it to our- papers, abetted by so-called high soclety witbA selves and our neighbors will take it from us, To the American of to-day buman slavery in & 1and of civilization is almost an impossible ot many of us who think our- Selves silli youns can remember when half of | selves still | prominén [ McKinley took the form of a parade of |of the citizens of the Pajaro Vallev - = Episcopal, denounced yellow journalism, Special Dispatch to The Call. which he claimed to be like a hydra- headed serpent of old and which was the ACIFIC GROVE, Sept. 19.—In cause indirectly of the assassination. He hoped public opinion would centralize and punish any publication which openly de- fled the law and ridiculed those in power. The Rev. George McCormick, U. P. Church, during his address sald he had forbidden the gopers claiming to be re- formers, but which by scurrilous cartoons abused public men and taught anarchy, to be left at his home. No respectable person, he said, should read or patroniz any yellow journal which referred to lic men in a spirit which fostered anar- | chy and mischief. He hoped that the iaw would make the owners accessory to such murders as that of President Mec- | Kinley. i The Rev. C. M. Westlake and other | speakers in strong terms denounced rhn; o violent a. aults upon the character men. — | PARADE IN VALLEJO i OF IMPOSING CHARACTER M Samuel M. Short;ége Delivers an In- | teresting Address During | the Ceremonies. 3 VALLEJO, Sept. 19.—Vallejo's_testimo- nial, to the memory of the late President | military and civic organizations and li erary and musical ‘exercises afterward. The memorial parade was more imposing | than that held here for President Gar- field. An elegant catafalque had been ar- | ranged and after the procession was taken | to Farragut Hall, where a suitable musi- | cal programme by the Vallejo Operatic Society was given. L. G. Harrier read an original poem and S. M. Shortridge deliv- | ered a touching address. An overflow | meeting was held at the Plaza, at whica | the United States Marine Band furnished | the music and District Attorney F. R. Devlin_presided, while Superior judge A | J. Buckles discoursed upon the late Presi- | dent. The navy yard was closed down. | At noon 100 minute guns were fired. The | demonstration_on the whole was very creditable to Vallejo. | | | APPLAUD ARRAIGNMENT | OF YELLOW JOURNALISM | WATSONVILLE, Sept. 19.—Never be- | fore had there been such an outpouring | as there was In Watsonville to-day during | the holding of the memorial exercises to the memory of Willilam McKinley. Every ‘ fraternal organization in the city partici- uated In the memorial parade, the raem bers of the G. A. R. acting as_honorar; pallbearers to the catafalque. Mayor W. | A. Trafton acted as grand marshal of the | procession. The . exercises consisted of | prayer, sacred music. Scriptural ree.ding | and eulogy of the dead. J. W. Linscott of Santa Cruz delivered the address. His arraignment of anarchy and yellow journalism was applauded. Long Procesion at Benicia. BENICIA, Sept. 19.—Benicia to the martyred President. At 10 o'clock a procession, headed by a juvenile band and consisting of troops from the ord- nance department. Benicia Arsenal, Grand Army veterans, school children, civic and fraternal societies and an unattachead divi sion of citizens, numbering in all fully 1000 persons, formed on J street and marched down First street to the wharf, thence counter marched back to City Pari where the following literary exercises were held: Opening remarks, E. M. Bill- ings; prayer, the Rev. Father O'Connor of St. Dominic’s Church; oration, the Rev. Father Riley of St. Dominic’s Church. -, | Hall were | assassination, and Councilman C. { Carlos Catholic Church, followed by Assemblyman | George G. Radcliff presided and Professor | | house. | B the very place where the mar tyred President met and spoke to his comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic only a few short months ago some of those same comrades and the citizens of this town assembled to-day to pay the last sad tribute to his memory. Tears were shed and words said as if for a brother as well as the honored head of a great nation. hush seemed to be upon the town all day, broken only for a while this morning by the tolling bells. All the shops were closed and very few people were about on the street during the day The memorial services at the Assembly attended by the Grand Army of the Republic veterans, the city officials and the pupils of the public schools in a body and from almost the spot where in ay President McKinley addressed the Srand Army encambment the words of orrow and eulogy were uttered by the peakers of to-day. The Rev. Dr. W. W. Case of San Fran- cisco delivered a sermon in which he eulogized the dead President and de- nounced the foul doctrine that caused his K. Tut- tle read on behalf of the Cits Council resolutions of s w and respect. A sim- ultaneous memorial service was also held in the Episcopal church and the rector, Dr. H. Chetwood, preached a sermon from the subject, “He Was a Just Man, Ruling In the Fear of God.” Dr. Chetwood pr nounced the highest encomiums upon the life of President McKinley and was most bitter in his denunciation of anarchy and all that fosters and abets it. Tributes at Monterey. MONTEREY, Sept. 19.—Never before in her history has Monterey paid such a tribute to living or dead as that which to-day was laid at the bier of President McKinley. For thirty-six hours no bu ness of any kind has been or will be car- ried on in town, signs of mourning are everywhere and deepest quiet reigns. The memory of the late President’s visit to Monterey last May and his great-hearted and brotherly wor to its people is still fresh in the minds of all and no sincerer sorrow is felt anywhere in the natic than that manifested here to-day. The memorial ceremonies were somewhat elab- orate and very impressive. At 9a m. a solemn votive mass was celebrated at San an eloquent sermon by the Rev. Father R. M. Mestres. After the sermon the regu- lar prayers of the church for the author- ities of the nation were offered. At 10:30 o’clock a procession consisting of the civie and fraternal organizations of the town, the children of the public and parochial schools and citizens and headed by the fire department band play- ing Chopin’s funeral march started from the old Spanish plaza, where the citizens’ committee met and welcomed the Presi- dent last May, and marched to the opera- Here the memorial exercises were eld. Captain T. G. Lambert, a_well- known Knight Templar, presided. and | made a few very appropriate remarks, tha | main address | Duckworth. people | and the Cit fully 3000 stro! to tribut B e e O P o2 | over the town and bells were tolled during being delivered by S. J. The clergymen of the town Council also took part in the Flags were at half-mast all exercises. the hour of the memorial services. ———ie Mourning in Dominion City. VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 19.—Vancou- ver was a city of mourning to-day. Prob- ably in no_city in the Dominion of Can- ada was_the offictal decree of mourning for the President more completely ob- served than in Vancouver. The banks of the city, as well as many business houses, did not open their doors. There was a record attendance at the opera-house this afternoon, where a memorfal service was held under the auspices of the clergymen of all denominations.