The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1901, Page 6

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(Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”) ..1118 Broadway NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON...... vessssses.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........ 30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Shermen House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unlon Square; Murray Hill Hotel. _— AMUSEMENTS. California—""A Texas Steer. d Opera-house—"'Richelieu.” Columbia—7A Modern Crusoe.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. < A Voice From the Wilderness.” Alcazar—""The Taming of the Shrew.” Tivoli—*Faust.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater-Vaudeville every afternoon and | evening. Fischer s—Vaudeville, Recreation Park—Baseball. Sutro Baths—Open nights. Emeryville Park—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By F. H Chase & Co.—This day, 732 Market street By G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, October 7, at 12 o'clock, state Properties, at 14 Montgomery street < HOW LONG? OW Jong will public patience endure the con- | H dition of affairs in this city, and along the lines of travel that reach it? Practical immunity from punishment has so em- boldened the strikers that they no longer take pains fy the men whom they rob and attempt to murder. Peaceful travelers who are not coming here as laborers, but are business men, are attacked by gangs of cowardly ruffians on trains and ferry-boats, and not only grossly insuited and beaten, but robbed, are helpless to or protect themselves inst the overpowering number of their armed as- ants. Such travelers have been pulled out of their bert on sleeping humiliated and roughly handled, on suspicion that they were coming as strike-breakers, and some, if permitted to reach the ferry-boats in peace, have been met on board and beaten brutally. For a time a man took his life in' his hands only he walked the streets of this American city, where men are maimed, murdered or robbed with impunity by strikers, regardless of whether they are But now the death pen- Horses, Wagons, etc., at to ider resist cars, wh non-union workmen or not. alty is put upon such as choose to approach San Francisco on the highways of travel. Do the lawful zuthorities know the somber significance of all this? Do they know that it is permanently injuring the prosperity and good name and fame of San Fran- cisco? Do they know that men are everywhere con- cluding that this city is under the thumb of thugs and thieves? Is there no law to protect men against these open, defiant, murder-intending and death-inflicting mis- They are a small minority of our people, they are even a minority of our laboring population, but they have been emboldened by the lawlessness of the minor courts, the criminal neglect of duty by police magistrates and the silence of the Mayor, until they have suspended the civil law, removed all pro- tection of personal rights, and set up a bloody despotism with murder as its object. We speak plainly, for the emergency requires it. The public heart has been profoundly touched by the murder of the President. That great crime Yests upon such foundation of the myriad of lesser crimes committed in this city. The highway can never be safe for the President unless it is also safe for the humblest citi- zen while in pursuit of his lawful purpose and occu- pation. Organizations of our most respectable and respon- sible taxpayers and business men have asked Mayor Phelan and Governor Gage to enforce the law and stop these murderous assaults, which in number now run into the thousands, and have been answered by evasions which in a year from now will be gen- execrated as cvidences of cowardice. How Icng will the spectacle abuse our patience? How long will the Sheriff of Contra Costa County @vait on the Supervisors who refuse to give him a force that can protect the loading of wheat at Port Costa before he throws the responsibility upon the Governor by confessing that he is powerless to en- force the law? How long will the' Mayor of this city and the Sheriff of this county permit murder and" riot to hold the streets by day and by night before they act, or confess their fear to act, and call also “upon the Governor of the State? Citizens pay taxes for protection in the exercise of their lawful rights. The politicians who sit on the minor bench, the Sheriffs and the official heads of the city and State, may be well assured that going with the mob and winking 2t murder will not make votes. The un- zrmed majority, that is being deprived of its rights by an armed and desperate minority, will be armed with ballots on electicn day, and the official friends of theAmob will find that these voters have good memories. How long must murder run rampant, trainé and ferries and streets be unsafe for decent men, before official. action enforces the law? If it be too long, and the people are deprived of creants? the government for which they pay taxes, in the city 2nd in the country they will move to protect them- | eelves. How long will exposure to murder and risk g0 on beiore they are driven to this last resort for the restoration of order and the ptairvafion of life? FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. ARELY has there been a sentiment so well nigh universal among the people and the press of the United States as that which now holds the Hearst newspapers re- sponsible for the spirit of anarchy that led to the assassination of President Mec- Kinley. In the mourning for the illustrious dead there glows a deep wrath against the yellow journalism that fostered the crime. The feeling could not be repressed even in the solemn ceremonies of Thursday, and from the lips of almost-every orator of the day throughout the land there came well understood words of condemnation against the vicious papers which, after having long defiled the profession of journalism, | have now brought about a crime at which the world stands aghase. The New York Independent says: “Behind these little groups of anarchists, the John Schwabs and the Emma Goldmans, behind the Paterson, or Chicago, or Detroit conspirators, stand those other infamous slanderers of the Government and rulers that make it their business and trade to inflame the public mind. * * * To them we must look for the accursed inspiration that struck down the President. - They are not to be laughed at, not to be taken lightly, but with indignation. We doubt not that Senator Hanna is in the same danger of assassination as was President McKinley, and if he should | be shot it will be the yellow journals that are to blame. But what care they? The murder of a Presidert sells editions.” The New Haven Leader says: “The excesses and indecencies of New York yel- low journalism have often aroused the disgust and abhorrence of decent people, but now it has so aroused their indignation that there is cause for belief that radical and effective | . - . o . o action will be taken. Just now these yellow journals are loading their columns with praise of President McKinley. . They are doing this with the smirk of the hypocrite and the impulse of the coward. * * * Let no one forget, however', that President Mc- Kinley has for years been denounced and vilified by these yellow anarchists.” The Bridgeport Standard sounds this warning: “The murder of a President is but the first fruits of that sort of pabulum thrown broadcast among the people; the other logical consequences will be general murder, riot and rapine. And law and decency stand supinely by and allow this deadly work without a protest. * * * Qnly the madness of the anarchist, inflamed by the promptings of dirty journalists who seek for gain in the gutters of political warfare and incite the desperate to murder, can be found to account for this most infamous crime.” The Albany Evening Journal asks the pertinent question: “Who is the greater crim- inal—the man of superior intelligence who insidiously incites to murder, or the ignorant, perhaps weak-minded, one who, urged on by incendizry speeches and writings, goes forth to do the killing?” The New York Press quotes the words of Emma Goldman when arrested: “Why should any one wish to kill McKinley? He is the most insignificant President the United States everhad.” And adds: “There is but one source on earth from which this woman could have gathered this estimate of this man. It is in the editorial pages of the New York Journal and its allied publications in Chicago and San Franciscos” The Chicago Journal says: “The Journal has no hesitation in pointing out where thé real responsibility rests for the crime against the President. The yellow and irre- sponsible press of the country by their degrading and malicious attacks on public officers and men in high places have fostered discontent, have promoted anarchy and have made possible just such crimes.” The Nashville American quotes from the New York Journal this statement made | after the assassination: “The old-established Presidential custom of receiving all citizens and treating all comers as worthy of confidence and friendly greeting must be aban- doned. * * . * The times prove that humanity in this country is no longer univer- sally worthy of the confidence which the handshaking custom implies.” Thereupon the American adds: “If such a condition as the Journal asserts really exist, and we do not deny that it does, such yellow newspapers as the New York Journal have contributed their full share to the existence of such conditions. * * * No intelligent, decent, healthy minded man can have any respect for such a paper as the New York Journal.” f Such expressions show the temper of the press and the people of the East and the South. A similar tone prevails here. The patriotic press along the entire Pacific Coast has spoken out manfully against the Hearst papers with special reference to the Examiner. b The Tacoma Ledger notes the statement of the Examiner that it does not reply to the charges brought against it and its allies by the indignant public because, “The Ex- iner has too deep and sincere a respect for the President” to reply now, and makes the pertinent comment: “The papers attacked should have been ready with a rejoinder. Tt is weak for them to make such a plea as they are trying to hide behind. They have never shown any respect for Mr. McKinley, have slandered him freely, have deliberately mis- construed his righteous acts, and now the profession of sorrow strikes the judgment as being a grotesque and pitiful pretext.” The San Jose Herald takes a similar view of the present course pursued by the vel- low journals, and says of the one in this city: “What does the Examiner know of conscience or political policy? Its present attitude is even meaner than its abuse and crocodile tears.” ; The Nordhoff Ojai: “It appears that one bright reflection from the crime at Buf- falo is the probable downfall of yellow journalism and in particular the tabooing of Wil- liam R. Hearst’s triangle of infamy, the Journal-American-Examiner. Hearst was hanged in effigy at Hanford, and from all parts of the State are reported excoriations of the Ex- iner by the press and pulpit. Hearst’s Eastern semi-anarchist organs are likewise being exposed to the withering heat of indignant public opinion.” The Santa Cruz Sentinel was threatened with a loss of subscribers because it pointed out the responsibility of yellow journalism for the crime of Czolgosz, but no such loss occurred, and in commenting upon the threat the Sentinel says: “The ancny- mous communication read as if it was written in the interest of the Examiner and sent to us as a bluff. This is a bad season of public sentiment to run a bluff on any one or any- thing in the interest of anarchy. With a President dead and a people exasperated, this is a good time for the champions of disorder to hide heneath thistles.” The Stockton Independent quotes an editorial of the New York Journal saying: “D? you doubt that Mark Hanna, acting for McKinley, will increase the army, and, if oc- casion arise, use it against organized labor, which he so much hates?” Of that and much more of a similar kind the Independent says: “It is the stupid, sodden, unreasoning, irre- ligious and irresponsible mind that is fired to hatred, disorder, treason and crime by these utterances. As a class these degenerates are in greater proportion in New York than elsewhere, so Hearst’s paper has an easier field for ecrime than its equally guilty con- temporaries that have used the same arguments, repeated the same lies and imitated the same methods.” These quotations from the press of all parts of the ?untry will suffice for to-day. We present them in order that our readers may be made aware of the extent and the depth of the feeling that has arisen against the yellow journals. As the Alameda Argus has said: ““We must not think that Hearstism is an affliction peculiar to California. It is known all over the country and people everywhere are turning to drub it.” The Philadelphia - Inquirer has pointed out the moral for the whole people in these emphatic words: “And let it not be forgotten that anarchy and yellow journalism are one.” The German Emperor has decreed that all physi- cians in his empire must be cleanly shaved, the rea- son given for the decree being that microbes of dis- ease attach themselves easily to a beard or a mus- tache. Perhaps in the long run, if German science continues to work along the microbe theory of dis- ease, the Kaiser may order the whole medical frater- nity to shave their heads. The extent to which silurian opposition to good roads can be carried in some American communities is illustrated in New Jersey, where, for the purpose of comstructing a good road from Lakewood to Point Pleasant, the State offers to pay one-third the cost, and George Gould has offered to pay another third, so that the taxpayers of the county would have but one-third of the expense to bear, and still they kick. 2 erChe it If Chief Constructor Bowles be correct in his esti- mate that $9,000,000 will be required to pay for the needed repairs on our warships during the next fis- cal year, it would seem to be just about as cheap to sell them for junk and build new ones. v (i o1 R It is stated that Croker has made up his mind that if Tammany be defeated in the city election in New York this fall he will live in England for the rest of his life, so the inducements for reforms are stronger There are some curious coincidences in the na- tional tragedy over which the country is now mourn- ing. It is the secorid time that an Ohio President has been assassinated and a New York Vice President has succeeded him, and John Hay, who was Secretary of State to the assassinated McKinley, was private secretary to assassinated Lincoln. Senator Hoar says nearly every reciprocity treaty we have ever made has been a source of unmixed vexation, and the Senator knows what he was talking about. : 1 : i SEPTEMBER 21, 1901 BRITISH ADOPT STEAM WAGONS FOR USE IN FIELD OPERATIONS - HE wars of the future are going to be largely conducted by the aid of steam. Armored trains- drawn by heavily protected locomotives have been much used in the British war in South Africa, and the military authori- tles in England have made many trials of steam wagons. The photograph above shows/ the type of steam wagons adopted by the British War Department and em- ployed for drawing supplies and ammuni- | tion along ordinary roads. They are built ANSWERS TO QUERIES TO TAMALPAIS—C. H. R., Vallejo, Cal. The distance from the City Hall in San Francisco to Mount Tamalpais in an air line is 13% miles. SUCKING EGGS—B. N., City. The old | saying, “Teach not thy granny to suck eggs” Is traced back to the Latin, “Ne sus Minervam,” which means, “Let not a pig presume to teach Minerva.” She was one of the great divinities of the Greeks, a goddess in whom power and wisdom were harmoniously blended. The proverb is applied to a stupid person who presumes to set right an intelligent one. @ il 3 YELLO W PRESS RECEIVES SHARP RE COAST ORGAN OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES Little Wonder That Assassin’s Crime Ocecurred After He Had Read Articles > Defaming Slain Chief Magistrate. as lightly as possible consistently with great strength and ability to hold together on rough roads. Thé wagons were built by the Thornycroft Steam Wagon Com- pany, Ltd.. at its shops at Basingstoke, in Hampshire, England. This company has also supplied the German War De- partment with steam-propelled vehicles for use in military operations, and feels assured that they will play a very impor- tant part in the armed struggles of the future. L e S 2 e e . A CHANCE TO SMILE. His Glorious Fourth.—If your husband hasn’t any engagement for next Thursday, bring him over to our house for dinner. “Well, he hasn’t any engagement, but he expects to have about forty. You know, he's a surgeon.”—Chicago Tribune. “Gayboy’s got so many girls now he has to buy a typewriter to Keep up his eorre- spondence.” “Ah! I suppose he can write a half- dozen letters in the time it took nim to write one before.” “Exactly. He writes one letter and man- ifolds it.”—Philadelphia Press. i BUKE FROM 7 | . 3 | TYPE OF STEAM WAGON TO BE USED IN WAR BY THE BRITISH. ik - The Pacific. ANTON criticism of Presidents is no new thing. But only in these later years has it led to results so deplorable. ' Whether insane or an anarchist, there is unquestionably a connection between the shoot- ing of William McKinley by Czolgosz and the defamations of the yellow journals. Says Dr. Allen McLane Hamilton, professor of mental diseases in the medical college of Cornell University: “No one except a physician who sees much of insanity or persons whose mental condition is doubted can appreciate the influence of the present distorted public sense of decency. This is manifested by 2 lawlessness which finds expression in some of the public prints and in the delib- eration of societies instituted for the relief of the oppressed. This literature and these societles are ustally a menace to law and order in putting into the heads of half-cracked people per- nieious ideas which they almost immediately act upon.” Dr. Hamilton says that there have come to his motice lately humerous cases of disturbed mental states which were due directly to such influences. Only a few weeks ago a man went to him with a number of newspaper clippings of an in- cendiary nature, and after showing them announced his in- tention of killing several prominent persons, among them be- ing J. Pierpont Morgan and Senator Hanna. The Chicago Journal, in an editorial on “The Yellow Press and Anarchy,” says: “If what Hearst's newspapers have said, printed and portrayed about President McKinley were true, he was not fit to live, much less to rule. * * * They could not have made more scandalous, more bitter or more degrad- ing charges against the greatest scoundrel on earth.” And John Most, the leader of the anarchists, says to the police as he repudiates Czolgosz: “You wish to make this man one of us. Why don’t you read the New York Journal? Look at the caricatures on the last pages, where your President is por- trayed in a way that would make even a bootblack ashamed.” What™ wonder, then, that Czolgosz should get it into his brain to put President McKinley out of the way after reading the articles defaming him either in the Hearst papers or in some just as disreputable! It is with extreme sorrow that The Pacific sees the pernicious influence of such papers. It seems strange that a man of such life-long advantages as W. R. Hearst should give himself to that which is so generally with astonishment that we compare what is said and printed in his papers since McKinley was stricken down with what was sald. and portrayed previous to that time. And all without any 'admission of previous mistake or Injustice. In one of these papers it is said: *“To William McKinley was intrusted the care of a nation, great, powerful, self-sufficient, free from dangers and turmoil. His duty was to guide the great machine honestly, cautiously, according to the will of the people. He did his duty and he died at hisipost. * * * His life was com- plete. The nation for which he worked he leaves powerful and prosperous. * * * He knew that in the land where millions had opposed and disagreed with him politically not one was free from deep sorrow, not one but felt the national calamity as a personal loss.” But as we read there is constantly before the eyes that printed cartoon in which McKinley is pictured as applauding the trusts, which are represented as riding down, in an auto- mabile, the common people. In the presence of such journalism The Pacific can not re- main silent. We dare not let it pass unnoticed and unrebuked. The San Francisco Call and the Bulletin have spoken plainly, but these are daily rivals of one of Hearst's papers, and as such their utterances might be discounted in some circles. The readers of The-Pacific will not question our motive nor dis- count what we say. The present writer, recognizing the great influence of the press, devoted himself at the close of his col- lege life twenty years ago to journalism. We have no less a estimate to-day of that influence. It molds thought and I far more than most people are aware; and we tremble for the welfare of the nation when we think of some of the hands into which it has fallen. We were glad to read in the news- papers of this city extracts from recent sermons by ministers denouncing yellow journalism, but not one named any paper as such, and it is a singular fact that some of those denuncia- tions were printed in the very paper at which they wero hurled. It would seem that there are publishers whose moral judgments are so conditioned that they are unaware of ths fact that they are issuing such pernicious papers. Or eise, in the hour when the thunder and lightning of wrath is playing, they seek by the publication of the denunciatory utterances to protect themselves from its strokes. Let us hope that in this experience yellow journallsm may PERSONAL - MENTION. B. Cussick, a rancher of Chico, iIs at the Grand. C. B. Shaver of Fresno is registered at the Palace. F. G. Stevenson, a merchant of Benicla, is at the Lick. Judge S. S. Holl of Sacramento is stay- ing at the Grand. H. F. Beede, a lumber merchant of An- ticeh, is at the Lick. Willlam A. Junker, manager of Del Monte, is at the Palace. Paul R. Jarboe, an attorney of Santa Cruz, is at the California. M. B. Harris, a prominent attorney of Fresno, is at the California. C. P. Plerce, an extensive fruit grower of Marysville, is registered at the Lick. C. H. Wideman, a merchant of Gon- zales, registered at the Grand yesterday. Louis Sloss Jr. returned yesterday from his annual expedition to Dawson and Nome. . Thomas H. Malloy, a mining man of Fresno, is in the city on business. He is -{ at the Lick. R. S, Sloan of the Orleans Manufactur- ing Company of New Orleans, La., is in the city, combining business with pleas- ure. / General Robert H. Hall, U. 8. A, ac- companied by his wife, returned yester- o e i) day from a trip to Southern California regarded as one of the basest uses of talent and wealth. It is and is at the Occidental. —_————— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* | —_————————— Cal. glage fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* ——————————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men b{‘ the Buyreau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- Lo N bhone Maim 02+ —_—ee——— Excursion to Buffalo. The Santa Fe will sell tickets to Buffalo and return October 3 and 4 for $§7. Free reclining chair cars. Pullman’s latest vestibuled palace and tourist sleeping cars. Full particulars at 641 Market street. ——————— The charm of beauty is beautiful hair, Secure it with Parker's Hair Balsam. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 cts. —_——e———— ‘Stops Diarrhoea and Stomach Cramps. Dr. Stegert’s Genuine Imported Angostura Bitters.*® g ey DTSR S e i CRITICISM OF THE CALL In the Wasp this morning appears the following editorial comment in reference to The Call: One of our illustrations depicts the crowd gathering around the of- fice of the Morning Call to read the bulletins relative to the assassina- tion of Presidemt McKinley. The Call is one of the oldest newspapers in San Francisco, and oene of the greatest in the United States. It has for fifty years heen Lnown as the family journal par excellence of the Pacific Coast. Reliability is its motto—“Be sure you're right then %o ahead.” The Call spares no ex- pense in getting the news and is al- ways theroughly up to date in all its departments. Its pictorial features are a revelation of what can be ac- complished in illustrated datly jour- nalism. It not only employs the best artists in the country, but achieves the more difficult feat of printing their work so admirably that the beauty of The Call’'s en- sravings are the wonder of the world of art. If any one department of The«Call is more deserving of spe- cial notice than another, it is its editorial department. The Call's editorials are masterpleces and ex- press in no.dubious terms the opin- ions of the journal. On great public questions The Call speaks in no certain tomes. This has been part umlarly noticeable during the long strike in San Francisco. The Can has come out boldly for law and or- der, condemning the attempts to create anarchy that find expression in brutal assault: ~union men who dare to take pluces vacated by the strikers. This Independent course had added much to The Call's influence among the l-w-.llill‘ people of the State. The municipality of Berlin will i 1,500,000 marks for benevolent pnr:::;: under the will of Dr. Vierling, George the composer, who died in Wiesbaden fast receive a lesson which will tend to its profit and purification. SQUARE' CALIFORNIAN. A California automobilist walked into the office of the Fairmount Park Com- mission recently, and handed back to Secretary Martin the number for an au- tomobile issued to him by the commis- slon, says the Philadelphia North Ameri- can. “You may want it for somebody besides, we don’t have tags like t "Frisco,” he said, as he returned the pe man entitling him to use the Park dri “Such consideration is wunusual,” s Secretary Martin. “Out of about 40 num- bers issued to automobile ri > the park drives, many are held by residents. In Reading and other cities residents have numbers, so that they can pass through the park when visiting Phitadeiphia.” e IT'S A MATTER OF TASTE, Of course, but most people want perfect laundering when they send out their linen. If you could take a peep into our Work- rooms yoW'd quickly learn why we're do- Ing the laundry business of the city. Per- fect system and absolute cleanliness m;?a any other result imposssible. No saw edges. UNITED STATES LAUNDRY Office 1004 Marke: Strest Telephone—South 420, Oakland Offlce—54 San Pablo Ave,