The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 27, 1901, Page 6

" THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1901 . FRIDAY .SEPTEMBER 27, 1901 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. " Raéress 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 Stevensom St. Telephone Press 2 Delivered hy Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year DAILY CALL, (!ncluding Surday), § month: DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), 3 1.onhthi DAILY CALL—By Singie Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Yea WEEKLY CALL, One Year. $6.00 3.00 1.50 65c 1.50 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Eample eontes will be forwa when requested. AMUSEMENTS. le Lord Fauntleroy.” seco A Texas Steer.” “house—"‘Dr. Jek; odern Crusoe. le. ana Mr. Hyde seball. sing Park—Coursing Sunday. Open nights. AUCTION SALES. October 1, at 11 o'clock, Trotting street and Eagle avenue, Ala- Horses meda By G. H: 1 Crocks Estate —Monday, October 7, at 12 o'clock, erties, at 14 Montgomery street. WHAT IS AN ANARCHIST? HE following deadly editorial appeared in Hearst’s New York Evening Journal on May 22, 1901, less than six months be- fore President- McKinley - was = shot down by a pupil of yeliow journalism: “What is an anarchist? 7 “According to accepted definitions, issue by the higher classes of society, an anarch- ist is one who tries to do something useful that has never been done before. “There is a change coming some day, whether the gentlemen who denounce char- ity as anarchy want the change. or not.” THE COIN OF THE YELLOW, OR the first time in many a year the people of he United States have fronted a great public mity without having their sorrow disturbed f the Examiner secking to make universal grief. Before the grave low journal stands abashed. { the public denouncing its vile editorials it slinks away and e to come forth passing the hat for “Examiner monument ¢ of “commissioners” selected memorial which W, R. Hearst bute of the American people ‘to the ious There ification in having for this ffliction of the in- ism, with its self-advertising schemes into public sorrow. , however, is needed than the ab- he yellow anarchists from their usual this kind. Popular sentiment de- o monument or other memorial to McKinley should there be ac- rom the yellow journals, or any sub- them. Their coin should be refused con- Having derided, abused, vilified, maligned ley during his whole term of office he United States, they should not to insult his memory by contrib- a monument over lis grave. ever before been a President whose followed by so many earnest demands nt to commemorate his services and the ve of his fellow citizens. There is hardly the Union that has not some memorial consideration. All classes of honest in these movements. In the men who were McKinley’s com- n the war that saved the Union have been con- cuous in promoting them, and in the South men vho wore the gray and who were his foes on the field ttle have taken the lead. No voice has been carnest, and hardly any more eloquent, in urg- butions to 2 McKinley monument than has t of General Gordon, commander of the ate Veterans. It is right that it should be The loyal people of the North will not grudge nor misconstrue the subscriptions which McKinley’s n of the Civil War may offer now to orate his fame. All such contributions will other evidence that the old divisions and among the people have passed away, and e restored Union is a union of hearts and of ds as well as of States. So, too, with full graciousness and appropriate- housands of Democrats who voted against Me- and opposed his policies in war and in peace may rightly contribute to his memorial. Political lifferences there must always be among us so long as we remain a free and an intelligent people, and political controversy dishonors neither one side nor the other. When he entered upon his high office McKinley ceased to be a Republican partisan and became the representative of the whole people. Over his grave there can be no partisan controversies or cven differences. With respect to his memory all true Americans are now nothing else than Ameri- cans, and therefore all can with sincerity, with hon- csty and with patriotism unite in raising a2 monu- rom the emphatically as their hypocritical grief is demned g to er There has under ve united er foem comm be ment to him who so nobly served the State and fell a martyr to anarchist hatred of its government. From this universal right to take part in every effort made to do honor to the dead there is excluded ing that exists in America, and that is the of W. R. Hearst. The public can neither forget nor forgive the wrongs done to the dead by three lying papers in which Hearst day after day for years assailed the President and inculcated in the minds of the vicious the hatred that led to the crime of Czolgosz. Hearst's coin must not be accepted. Ttare is blood on it. In | pus consideration. Archbishop Ireland on the same subject. an absurdity. than his owns of the law. BE NOT WORSE THINGS THAN VIOLENCE. WHAT THEN? intolerable. our streets. you to-morrow. IT IS YOUR FIGHT. to-morrow. { virtually issues the defiance to the world: his head and kicking with both feet. like it ought to be. “gray hair and venerable aspect”? ARGUMENT RUN MAD. HEN the Rev. Father Peter C. Yorke entered the arena of strife to take part in the controversy between the strikers and the business men of San Francisco, The Call, recognizing his past eminence as an orator and his official position in the pastorate of the city, deemed his utterances worthy of. seri- Accordingly his speech at Metropolitan Hall was not only fully re- ported, but the salient points in it were later on given the dignity of further publication in parallel columns with the utterances of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Riordan and Since that time the Rev. Father Yorke has en. tered further into the controversy by contributing a series of letters to the Examiner. In these letters he has gone beyond the reach of serious consideration. | has written for the Examiner in contrast with the words and the counsel of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishep Riordan and Archbishop Ireland would be to reduce argument to The Rev. Father Yorke in fact has kicked over the traces of reason; he is out of reach of comparison with any one else, and is to be judged by no other standard To publish what he Human history is full of instances of men of ill balanced minds who after achiev- ing a marked reputation in the community have become infatuated with their triumph, and in their efforts to live up to it have given the world another vaulting ambition which as Shakespeare says In his present efforts to be eloquent Father Yorke screams; in his struggle to be inspir- ing he grows wild; and in his desire to make points he misses truth, argument and | philosophy and comes nowhere in measurable distance of that at which he aims. What serious treatment is due to such utterances as these taken from Father Yorke's article published in the Examiner of yesterday? Though traffic has been disorganized, though commerce has been crippled, though the passions and prejudices of the community have been aroused, the city is peaceful. If there has been violence it has come from the hirelings of the Employers’ Association, and | from the mercenary police whom the rich men have subtracted from the impartiality illustration of that “o'erleaps itself and falls on t'other side.” When the city was absolutely peaceful this malodorous society captured the police | force and has since used them as provocatives to crime. Before | close let me say one word on the general question of violence. | HAVE WARNED THE MEN AGAINST IT, BUT | AM BEGINNING TO CAST IN MY MIND IF THERE Violence is to be reprobated when the law protects you, BUT IF THE LAW IS PERVERTED, The action of the police in this city, especially within the past few days, has been | have seen an old man with gray hair and of venerable aspect ridden down and clubbed by one of Sullivan’s Bashi-Bazouks. Every hour peaceable citizens are held up, searched, robbed, assaulted, and there appears to be no remedy. the police act as they are acting to-day on the water front of San Francisco and in Never in Russia did People of California, what is done to-day to the longshoremen maybe done to WAGE - EARNERS OF SAN FRANCISCO, WILL YCU STAND BY AND SEE YOUR BRETHREN CLUBBED INTO SUBMISSION TO THE EMPLOYERS’ ASSOCIATION? object of this violence is not to keep the peace, but to compel the men to return to service. When the strike leaders protested to Mayor Phelan, what was his answer? Listen to it, ye freemen: “If they don’t want to be clubbed, let them go to work.” As of old the refractory slaves were lashed into obedience, so now American citi- zens in San Francisco are to be clubbed into slavery. HOW LONG WILL YE STAND IT, YE WAGE-EARNERS OF SAN FRANCISCO? The The police that terrorize the sailors to-day will terrorize the clerks, the mechanics, IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO THINK! And as for me, if the responsibility of giving advice should again be put upon me, | should consider long and earnestly if there are not worse things than violence, AND IF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION DOES NOT CALL US TO PRESERVE OUR LIBERTIES EVEN AT A SACRIFICE. What serious reply is to be made to all that? What man would undertake to argue against it in view of Solomon’s double warning against answering a fool acccrd- ling to his folly, and also against answering him not according to his folly? If the Rev. I'ather Yorke sincerely believes that his statements are true then he has the kind of brains that are going to make him the laughing stock of his enemies. In fact Father Yorke is evidently suffering from a - species of madness which leads him to believe it to be his duty to fight the whole community. He berates lustily nearly everything in sight. All who are ricli, all who are at work, all who oppose vio- lence, all who are sane and reasonable, all who publish the truth or who accept it when published, and in fact all who are not on a strike or kicking, are regarded by Father Yorke as his foes; and like Bombastes Furioso hanging his boots at the cross roads, he “Whoever dares these boots displace Must meet Bombastes face to face; Thus do I challenge all the human race.” The new Bombastes is in fact wilder than the old. He is like a man standing on He sees everything distorted, topsy turvy and up- side down. Within the range of his vision “nothing is like it used to be,” and nothing is The only ways by which he can ever be made happy again are by reversing himself, or by revolutionizing the world; and he prefers revolution. What avail to answer or to argue with all this hullabaloo about “clubbing Ameri- can citizens into slavery,” about “Bashi-Bazouks” riding down and robbing citizens with | The San Francisco public sees no reason for wasting argurflent on any one who is jumping so wild as is the Rev. Father Peter C. Yorke. ROM the number of canal projects now under Fdiscussion in all parts of the civilized world, from Russia to Brazil, it would seem that the early part of the present century may become more remarkable for canal extension than for anything else. The railroad cannot supply all the needs of in- Jand commerce. Cheap waterways are in demand everywhere. Canada is projecting a canal from Georgian Bay to the Ottawa, and hopes thereby to carry the trade of the upper lakes through her territory instead of having it go to sea by way of New York. Chicago wishes the Government to take her drainage canal and convert it into a commercial canal of sufficient depth to admit vessels to pass from Chicago to New Orleans, and at the same time she wishes a deep water canal to the Atlantic, All along the Atlantic coast from New York to Charleston there is an agi- tation in favor of constructing a series of inland waterways which would enable a boat to make the trip from one of those cities to the other without going to sea, and a further canal is demanded for a route from Savannah to New Orleans, which would obviate the long voyage around Florida. Kaiser William has an elaborate system of canal projects for the improvement of the commerce of Prussia. The Czar’s Government is said to have de- cided to enter at once upon the construction of one which will open a way from the Baltic Sea to the Arctic Ocean and thus provide Russia with an ave- nue to the Atlantic in case of war with some power strong enough to close the Baltic to Russian fleets and merchant vessels, The French are discussing 2 great deep water canal from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, so that French fleets and ships could Apass from the ocean to the sea without having:to DEMAND FOR CANAILS. pass around Spain and under the guns of the Brit- ish fortress at Gibraltar. The most extensive canal programme of the time, however, is in South America. In that continent there are three great river systems—the Amazon, the Parana and the Orinoco—all of them rising com- paratively near together. Surveys have disclosed the fact that it would not cost much to connect the upper reaches of the three rivers by canals available for vessels of large size. It is said a passage less than forty miles long would open a way from the Upper Amazon to the Parana, and thus provide an inland waterway from Para to Buenos Ayres. The feasibility of the canal plan was discussed at a recent meéeting of the Latin-American Scientific Congress at Montevideo, and the facts brought out are reported to have been so impressive it is believed practical men will take up the enterprise and carry it to completion. Finally, there is ths great canal across the isthmus that is to open a short route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. That of course stands far above all others in magnitude, cost and importance. Taking all the projects. together it will be seen they constitute an amount of work that will employ the energies and the surplus capital of the nations for a long time. The last fifty years of the nineteenth century ‘was essen- tially an era of railroad construction. Perhaps this is to be an era of canal building. Sir Thomas Lipton deserves a tribute from Americans for a genial, delicate and discriminating humor. The first test of speed yesterday between the yachts showed that when Lipton named his boat Shamrock Second he was inspired not only by the fitness of things, but by wit, gy a few dollars. deeply interested. From the Evening Journal, on ,: TREET car conductors are good average American citizens. They are not anxious to be mur- | derers. If they are bad as a class, then the nation is bad. | A man, unless goaded to desperation, But the trust ozvners have a bigger stake. It is millions of dollars with them. They are more uld learn a lesson at this coming election. ‘1 NOT ENOUGH HAVE BEEN SHQT. THE PREACHING THE DREAD ‘ DOCTRINE OF MURDER | TO AMERICAN CITIZENS the St. Louis Strike, June 20, 1900: would not commit murder or risk his life for And, besides, THE TRUST OWNERS NEVER GET SHOT. They hire professional shaoters, while they get out of town and carry on the war by wire. A Inttle girl was shot dead. ~ A union man was killed by a bullet in the back. NO TRUST MANAGER HAS EVER HAD A SCRATCH. THAT, PERHAPS, ACCOUNTS FOR THEIR ARTI- FICIAL GAYETY AND OPTIMISM. If the people were not fools the trusts wo But, unfortunately, the people are fools yet. LIMIT HAS NOT BEEN REACHED, Among the Mourners. TUtica Observer. ‘Ex-President Grover Cleveland is in Washington to attend the funeral of his successor, the dead President. Yesterday morning he telegraphed to General Wil- son accepting an invitation, and at 10 o'clock last night, with Colonel Daniel 8. Lamont and in Colonel Lamont's private car, he left Princeton, arriving in Wash- ington this morning. “I shall participate,” he said before starting, “in any of the exercises that may be deemed proper. It is not my present intention to accompany the funeral party to Canton.” There was a very friendly feeling, as the Observer has the privilege of know- ing, between the dead President and the living ex-President. There was something more than courtesy between them in the hours that preceded the outgoing of Cleveland and the incoming of McKinley at the White House. Their conference regarding unsettled public matters soon to fall in the hands of President McKin- ley disclosed entire concurrence of view and agreement of spirit. If we add to this that they parted on inauguration day with a distinct and abiding esteem on Cleveland's part for the moral quality and purposes of his successor, we can also add something for the other side. The intimate friends of McKinley knew before he became a resl- dent of the White House that he had an unconcealable admiration for the charac- ter and qualifies which distinguished his predecessor. That the American people would see some of these qualities pre- served in his own administration was one of his hopes, and became an aim. The presence of ex-President Cleveland in Washington is not merely perfunctory. It is personal tribute. ———————— An Amazing Partnership. Alameds Argus. __ It was a great mistake for anybody to reply to Father Yorke in the city press. All he wants is a chance to sling a shilla- lah. From no Christian standpoint are the thugs who assault, maim and murder men in San Francisco just because they want to work to be defended. The men who strike are ‘‘common people,” to be sure, but the men who want to work are also common people. The effort of Yorke or anybody to stir up class hatred is rep- rehensible. The partnership of YORKE ‘WITH THE EXAMINER in such unholy business is amazing. PERSONAL MENTION. Ernest F. Tann, an orchardist of Los Gatos, is at the Lick. Sam Davis, Controller of the State of Nevada, is at the Lick. John A. Mclntire, a mining man who resides at Sacramento, is at the Lick. J. W. Crystal, an extensive fruit grower of Vacaville, is a guest at the Grand. P. Sweed, a prominent merchant of Petaluma, is spending a few days at the Grand. Dr. D. E. Cassellen, a prominent physi- clan of New York, is at the Palace with his wife. J. 8. Goodwin, a mining man of You Bet, Nevada County, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Jackson Dennis, a miner of Sutter Creek, is in the city on business and is at the Grand. A. S. Wagner, proprietor of the Imperial Hotel of Stockton, is at the Oceldental, accompanied by his wife. E. P. Dole, nephew of Governor Dole of the Hawalian Territory, is at the Palace with his wife. They are en route to the East for their honeymoon. Frank Cummings, who until a few weeks ago was head clerk at the Palace Hotel, will shortly leave for Los Angeles, where he will fill the position of chief clerk of the Hotel Angelus, which is now under construction. Mr. Cummings is one of the best known hotel men in the United States. He was a clerk at the Palace Hotel for fifteen years and made hosts of friends through his kindness and courtesy. —_———— Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—The follow- ing Californians registered here to-day: At the St. James—T. P. Hogan and wife, Oakland; Edwin Capps, San Diego; Mrs. Charles Thompson, Miss Thompson, Palo Alto; A. M. Kidd, Alfred H. Jacobs, Cal- ifornia. At the Raleigh—Charles Leyler J=., Los Angeles. At the Metropolitan— BE. F. Kimball, Frank Vegely and wife, G. 8. Smith and wife, Santa Ana. At the National-L. M. Wade, Oakland, | “IF McKINLEY SHOULD | DIE AFTER RE-ELECTION" | The following editorial which was pub- | lished in the New York Evening Journal of September 8, 1900, under the caption of “If McKinley Should Die After Re- election,” reaches the climax of horror | in the crusade of the yellow newspapers | against the constituted authorities: “Mr. McKinley, we must regret to say, is 2 man of doubtful health. Much care was used by the trusts and Hanna in se- lecting & man for the Vice Presidency because of the fear that McKinley might | fail to live out his term. “The plan was to carry forward the idea of changing the form of Government now existing here—a form that now makes trusts and their profits dependent on an election, and is, therefore, insecure. ‘“‘Roosevelt was selected to run for Vice | President. “If anything should happen to Mr. Mc- Kinley the trusts would be quite content to see Roosevelt in the White House. “How would the average thinking citi- zen like that? ““We do not ask the opinion of the citi- zen whose personal physical timidity ieads him to worship a magazine-made hero. We ask the thoughtful men—men brave enough to do their own fighting if cause should arise, men who do not hand over their thinking or governing to a magazine blusterer. “How would you like Roosevelt in the ‘White House? “Roosevelt stands for a large perma- nent army and for using it against those who should fail to agree with him. “He has said that his way of treating those with whom he disagreed politically would be to ‘stand a few of them up against a wall and shoot them.’ “He is a man who would use the country and its citizens for his own stupid ambition and big-toothed glory. He could conceive mo better use for young men than to make the tough ones rough riders and the tender ones rough taxpayers—the rough riders to build up his fight- ing fame and the rough taxpayers to feot the bills.” —_———— A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Uncle Jerry,” asked his downtown rel- ative, “how do you like your vermicelli soup? ““The soup’s good enough,” replied Un- cle Jerry from beyond the suburbs, “but 1t't a lot of bother to have to take out all these strings.””—Chicago Tribune. He—There, dear, after toiling and plan- | ning for years, we have at last been able to buy this beautiful home, and you ought to be perfectly happy. ' She—But I'm not. She—What's the matter? She—I know we shall never be.able to sell it.—Harper’'s Bazar. *I should like to know how many pro- posals May Rocks has rejected?”’ sald Miss Murray Hill to Miss Homewood. “I'm sure I don't know,” was the lat- ter's reply, “but I understand she has the largest family of brothers in the city.””—Pittsburg Chronicle. “This verse,” said the Sunday school teacher, ‘““says ‘to him that hath shall be given.’ You must have noticed many in- stances of the operation of this principle. ‘Will you mention one?” “Yes'm,” saild one of the little girls. ‘“When you've got a sore eye all the bugs and things fly into it.”—Chicago Journal. Caught Red-Handed.—“We believe you to be the guilty man,” hisssd the great sleuth. “I am inngcent,” retorted the accused. “But those red stains on your hands? They are surely blood.” “No, sir; lithograph ink. I started to read the art supplement of a Sunday paper ‘while I was perspiring.”—Chicago News. Aunt Hannah—It is positively fiendlike to return evil for good. Uncle George—What I think when I smell coffee. I love it beyond expression, and yet ses how scurvily it treats me every time I drink it!—Exchange. De Witt—I've been reading “Black Beauty.” It's a sympathetic story of the horse. Bluegore—Oh, yes; everybocly’s heard of that book. In our family it is second only to the Bible. De Witt—Well, I don't wonder. It's a sort of sermon on the mount.—Catholic Standard and T'mes. 5 | | out of the way o d @ Tttt e T Sictaia . JOURNAL THREATENED | THE ASSASSINATION OF ¥ s PRESIDENT M'KINLEY From the Evening Journal, September 20, 1900. | F you wote for Hanna yoic vote for dangerous social conditions, for conditions dangerous even ; [ to the trust owners themselves, although they are too blind to see it. | This people will not submit to permanent exploitation of many by the few. That exploita- tion could now be crushed and gradually brought under control. | Let it go on for another four years and you will see conditions that will demand remedies | that Mr. Hanna never dreamed of in his wildest attacks on Bryan. The people must decide, not between McKinley and Bryan, but between Bryan ard CON- SERVATIVE REMEDIES NOW AND DESPERATE REMEDIES LATER. | And the rich man, even the trust owner, should be most deeply interested in applying CONSERVATIVE REMEDIES BEFORE IT SHALL BE T00 LATE. _— : .Wi‘!ww%fi%%m%m. Demagogues at Work. Bakersfleld Datly Californian. | The strike in San Francisco would have been settled long since but for the in- fluence of the Examiner, and settled doubtless to the satisfaction of both par- ties to the controversy. The Examiner, for its own purpose, keeps alive the germ of discontent, and when it feels its power waning it arranges for mass- meetings to be addressed by such dem- agogues as Peter Yorke. The body of strikers is anxious to return to work, and with the Examiner and the agitators the trouble would be speedily adjusted. a5 F ANSWERS TO QUERIES. FRANCHISES-U. C. P, City. For such franchises as you allnde to in letter of inquiry you should apply to the Board of Supervisors and also consult the rail- roal companies which already have tracks over which you des're to run cars. MOUND BUILDERS—M. L. M., Los Gatos, Cal. This correspondent wishes to know where he may obtain information atout the Mound Bullders of California. Can any of the readers of this department inform him through Answers to Cor- respondents? AN ATTORNEY—J. C. P., City. If an attorney is employed to defend men who are selected to give another a severe beat- ing and he knows that the parties he will be called upon to defend ‘were to engage in an unlawful act, he would be liable under the penal code and would also be subject to disbarment. RENEWING—A. C. R, City. If a party¥ owes a debt on a verbal agreement the debt outlaws unless an action is com- merced within two years; If on a written agreement, then in four years. If judg- ment is obtained the same can be renewed from time to time without the knowledgs of the party against whom it was obtained. Any lawyer you may secure to obtain judgment will explain how a re- newal of judgment is brought about. TRANSPARENT PAPER-M. B., City. To make transparent paper that will re- sume its opacity is to dampen the paper with pure and fresh distilled benzine. It at once assumes a transparency, and per- mits of the tracing and of ink or water colors being used on the surface without any running. The paper resumes its opacity as the benzine evaporates, and if the drawing is not then completed the re- quisite portion of the puper must be again dampened with benzine. This pro- cess permits the use of stiff paper for tracing. THE ST. PAUL-C. P. M., City. Dur- ing the Spanish-American war while the auxiliary cruiser St. Paul was off Santi- ago the Spanish vessel Terror was sent to drive her off, but the movement was not successful, for the Terror had to turn back and be run aground to prevent ! from sinking, as she had her steering paratus shattered and a siot went clean through her on the water line. That the nearest that the St. Pzul came to be- ing chased by a Spanish war vessel That was on June 22, 1898. PARKS—X. Y. Z, City. The acreage of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, is 2% Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Certral Park, New York, 82, and Dr Hill Park, Baltimore, 704. It is said tha Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, is c. sidered the flnest natural park in the United States outside of the national parks. The following are the measure- ments of Golden Gate Park in feet. Ex- treme length from the eastern end of the panhandle to the ocean highway, 20,000 feet; the length of the panhandle is 2500 f2et and its breadth 275 feet. The wi of the park proper is 2800 fset, —_————— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel® —_————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib &t Townsend's.* ————. Drunkenness and all drug habits cured at Willow Bark Sanitarfum, 1829 Polk. * ———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allsn’s), 510 Mo: gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * o e g S A west side woman recently asked a fr:cer for a quarter's worth of oblong ea. —————