The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1901, Page 6

7 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1901. WEDNESDAY.. vesvee. DECEMBER. 4, 1901 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e L Address All Communiestions to W. 8. LEAKE, Mazager. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press B LA RISITIRGSET I OF PUBLICATION OFFICE, ..Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 20L. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. ~ Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. ngle Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DATLY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), ¢ months.. DAILY CALL Gncluding Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL. One Year.. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Semple coples will be forwarded when requested. Mell subscribers in ordering change of address ehould be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o ‘insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. . ©+...1118 Broadway ©. 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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until $ o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p, m. he Geisha.” ‘The Streets of New York.” n Enemy to the King.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Iouse—‘Carmen.” California—"A Stranger in a Strange Land. ™ Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer' s—Vaudeville. . Oakland Racetrack—Races to-dav. RS FOUND AT LAST. VER since the collapse of Bryanism and free silver the Democratic organs and lead- have been searching for a new is- a2 new man. The search has been with varying degrees of sagacity and folly, but without avail. The wise men have been no more successful than the fools. Now at last there comes from the Hearst papers a sudden shout that an issue has been found. No more free silver, no more Bryan, no anti-government-by-injunction, no more cry of anti-imperialism. The new issue is to be the whole thing. “Let Democracy,” said the Exam- iner .of yesterday, “forget its quarrels over dead is- sues, close its ranks and move forward to a victory all the more welcome for being so long desired.” Strangely enough, the new issue has been furnished by the Supreme Court. It was but a little while ago the Bryanites were denouncing the Supreme Court as an agepcy of plutocratic control and an enemy of erty The Court decision as an illumination and an thrill by the Bryanites is really a novelty. The party was dying amid its dead issues, but now it is alive, and lo! it was the Supreme Court that did the en- livening. Here is new politics indeed. The explanation of the paradox of a Bryanite”bel- lowing for the Supreme Cougt is simple. The court has decided that until Congress provide otherwise the Philippines are to have full freedom of trade with the United States. They can ship to our markets their fruit, rice, hemp, sugar and other products with- out paying customs The American producer will have to compete with that cheap labor and find E sue and conducted ers acceptance, therefore, of a Supreme electric ties. W no protection. Over that situation the Examiner gloats. It sa “We have free trade with the Phil- ippines. All we have to do is to keep it.” Warming with enthusiasm the Bryanite organ urges Democrats in Congress to resist any attempt at tariff legislation for the Philippines. It cries in big type: “The court’s decision has given Democracy the op- portunity of its life.” Many a fool dog has barked up the wrong tree, so “he Examiner is not without a predecessor to serve as 1 model for its uproar over the new issue. About the ime the Southern Bryanites get a fair kick at the new solicy, however, it will be sent clean out of camp. T'he Democrats of South Carolina, Georgia and Louis- ana are not eager for free trade with countries where rice, sugar, tropic fruits, hemp and other ar- icles of Southern production can be produced -heaper than the South can produce them. It is true he Southern Democrats for many a year have been lamorous for free trade, but with them it meant nainly free trade in manufactured goods. It no onger means so much as that, for the South has segun manufacturing. The fate of the Wilson tariff »ill shows what Southern Democrats think of free rade in these days. They have had the experiment nce, and they are not going to try it again in a wrry. In addition to the Southern vote there is the labor ‘ote to be taken into consideration. How will the vorkingmen of California enthuse -in support of a srogramme that will expose them to the competi- ion of the cheap and pauperized labor of the Philip- svines? With what success will the Bryanites attempt o rally the ;workingmen in support of a platiorm alling for “free trade and cheap labor”? The Hearst paper may for a time cackle and crow wer the new issue, but by and by it will cease ‘to be novelty, and then there will be another call to the arty to leave dead issues and go forward to some- hing mew. The Supreme Court decision seems to ave galvanized Democracy into a sudden spasm, but : cannot save the donkey. . — Australia is young yet as a united nation, but she as already undertaken the work of imperialism by ssuming the government of New Guinea. The aing seems to be catching and affects infant nations s well as grown ones. The Hague Court of International Arbitration is oing nothing for itself, but the Boer envoys in ‘urope are keeping it before the public eye by unching it every now and then and making 'it get » and explain. THE MESSAGE. HERE is no pageantry about the opening of Congress, except as philosophy may see porip in simplicity.” The London Lord Mayor’s show is a tinseled spec- tacle, and the opening of foreign Parliaments is a bravely bannered function, but an American Congress comes from the people to its first assembly with no other display than the friendly greeting between members, just as neighbors hail each other on town market days. When the greetings even suspend the legal formalities with which the business begins, and the drawing for seats resembles more the counting off by a lot of schoolboys than anything else, the citizen looking on from the gallery would feel no sur- prise if this proceeding were conducted by the Speaker counting off by rigmarole “onery- on-ickeny-and,” the lucky one being “It” for first choice. of seats. The appearance of the President’s message, like all the rest, is a simple affair. This was first called “The President’s Speech,” and Washington attended the first Congress in person and made his speech. Of course this was in analogy of the King’s speech to his Parliament. This method was soon abandoned and the President’s message came to be’ written out in long hand, to be read to each house separately. made an innovation by delivering it in print. The interest in this last message has been heightened by the circumstances en- meshing the President. Of strong personality trained in executive functions, a writer more copious than any other public man in our history, he is on record in his histories, biographies, narratives and essays. He has written upon nearly every major public cues- tion, but let no man think that he will change any positive expression of opinion without adequate reason, or without stating that reason in justification of his attitude. any man expect any pointed dissent from that reason by any of his thoughtful country- men, who are the final cause of that public opinion which rules the republic. His first message has the merit of being interesting reading. There is not a par- tisan expression in it, but it discusses the public welfare and the state of the Union from the standpoint of a clear-headed, self-centered American, called to supreme responsibility and not afraid of himself nor of his countrymen. His review of the life of his predecessor is so planned as to be a eulogy and an essay on economics, and is already a classic inI the catalogue of official threnodies. His recommendations in restraint of anarchy have the merit of moderation and effectiveness, and are respectful of the lawful rights of all men. His discussion of the combinations of capital is in line with his Minneapolis speech. To show that he has no sympathy with the reckless rooters on this subject, he points out this great truth which is unchangeable: “In accordance with a well-known sociological law the ignorant or reck- less agitator has been really the effective friend of the evils which he has been nominally opposing. The men who demand the impossible or the undesirable serve as the allies of the forces with which they are nominally at war, for they hamper those who would endeavor to find out in rational fashion what the wrongs really are and to what extent and in what manner it is practical to apply remediez.” He would restrain overcapitalization and compel publicity of corporations, because by investing in the stocks of their combinations the public furnishes the capital upon which they do business. This system being already in operation in the public oversight of national banks, its application to all combinations engaged in interstate trade is easy and natural. 5! The recommendation of a new Cabinet officer, to be Secretary of Commerce and Industries, is in line with public expectation, and if Congress do not immediately provide for it, it should incubate such a department by creating it as a bureau, following the ex- ample set in the evolution of the Interior and the Agricultural departments from such bureaus. He strikes the popular chord in recommending such change in our immigra- tion as will shut out about two-thirds of our present foreign immigration. We are re- ceiving the indigence and disease of Europe. Letourlaws admit only prosperity and health. The reform in banking to accommodate the needs of the country by enabling an emergency currency is recommended on the lines often stated in The Call. The President is at home in discussing the Western problems of irrigation and forest preservation. His observation of detail is shown 1In his statement of the effects of over-grazing on the public domain, even down to noting the especial destruction wrought by sheep in a dry country, : it In insular matters he reflects a popular hope rather than a physical possibility in looking forward to the population of Hawaii by American homesteaders and prosperity following the exclusion of coolie labor. Our attitude toward the Filipinos is declared to be pedagogic, leading them up the strong path to self-government, but whether as citi- zens of American States or not is not specified. i Civil service is bluntly and unequivocally favored, and in our island possessions is regarded as imperative, no discrimination to be permitted on account of party affilia- tions. Extension of the classifiedservice is foreshadowed, and the country may expect that the field uncovered by President McKinley will soon be included again, even be- yond the frontier to which Mr. Cleveland ainted. These are the principal points in a message that never loses its outspoken frank- ness and its breezy tone. There is in it an indescribable zest and an infusion of the youth, optimism and the experience of its author, which gives it a place by itself in the line of Presidential messages. It will be read through by more people than ever before read an entire message. It holds out hope and support for those who would recreate our mer- chant marine, for the protected interests struggling into strength, for labor looking for security of its foothold, for commerce measuring itself with the world, and for manhood that stands upon its own feet and turns its forehead to the stars. NO NEED FOR A FIGET. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has virtually taken P charge of the mcvement to bring about the re- enactment of the Chinese exclusion law so amended as to make it better and more effective. Our information from Washington further assures us that the President has the support of an over- whelming majority in Congress. The passage of an amended and improved act of exclusion is therefore certain. In his message the President says: “Not only must our labor be protected by a tariff, but it should 2lso be protected as far as it is possible from the pres- ence in this country of any laborers brought over by contract, or any of those who coming freely yet repre- sent a standard of living so depressed that they can undersell our men in the labor market and drag them to a lower level. I regard it as necessary, with this end in view, to re-enact immediately the law exclud- ing Chinese laborers and to strengthen it wherever necessary in order to make its enforcement entirely effective.” § Qur dispatches from Washington announce that so far as the poll of Congressmen on the subject has been carried only one man has been found opposed to the exclusion act. The matter has been placed in charge of Mr. Powderly, Commissioner of Immi- gration, and he is now in consultation with the Cali- fornia delegation and others for the purpose of de- vising an act which will be thoroughly satisfactory in every respect. This news will be gratifying to nearly everybody in California, and especially will it be gratifying to the gentlemen who at a meeting last evening were ap- pointed a committee to collect, money to make the fight and to send a delegation to Washington to look after the contest there. That committee will not have to go to the trouble of passing the hat. No money is needed, no committee is needed. The bat- tle has been won and the fight is ended. The only class of people who will regret the sud- den ending of the excitement on the subject will be the politicians who hcped to make political capital out of it and to pose before the public as defenders junket is over. All that ¥s left them is their commis- sion signed by Governor Gage. That can be handed down to their posterity as evidence of a greatness that “might have been.” The California delegation in Congress can look after the interests of the State without the help of any such committee, and the peo- ple who would have been induced to contribute to defraying the cost of the committee can keep the money for Christmas gifts. Despite the disappoint- ment of the committee and the politicians the issue is one for general congratulation, All's well that ends well. ——— By the way in which the New York papers re- ported the speeches at the banquet given to Joseph H. Choate, we can estimate the extent to which some former great men have faded. Choate’s speech of course received the largest space, next came that of Carnegie, Mark Twain was third in honors, Fom Reed who preceded him was given three lines, and then the reports concluded: “Senator Depew, Wil- liam B. Hornblower and Judge Howland followed Mark Twain.” Giving Tom Reed so small a space is bad enough, but to cut Depew down to a bare men- tion is a clear case of cruelty. —_— According to a theory now being discussed . in scientific circles the ice cap upon the south pole has been accumulating for about 25,000 years, now con- tains 50,000,000 cubic miles of ice, and cannot hold to- gether much longer; so we may expect it to col- lapse and start a revolution in the Southern Hemi- sphere that will break the record. AR AR TR , The Thanksgiving banquet served for the Clover Club in Philadelphia included in the menu: Codfish clover, Philadelphia pepper pot, pork and beans, tur- key, cherry punch, quail and pumpkin pie. It is‘an- nounced that they also drank something. Surely such a combination would never pass muster outside of Pennsylvania. 3 -.——Q-A_.__ ® It sounds almost like a report of the revival of a mummy to learn from the New York papers that at the recent horse show E. Berry Wall was conspicuoug of labor. The saddest of all will be the committee | for the style of his dress. The country has been un- that expected to be scnt to Washington at the ex- | der the impression that the once famous® King of the pense of a popular subscription. Their dream of a | Dudes” had repented or died years ago. President Roosevelt hasi Nor, let| FRUIT-GROWERS DISCUSS TOPICS OF MOMENT TO THE PACIFIC COAST ELWOOD <TOCSPER., = LL sections of the State were rep- resented at the California State Fruit Growers' Convention, which convened yesterday at Pioneer Hall under the auspices of the State Board of Horticulture. Morning and afternoon sessiops will be held daily { until Friday afternoon, when the conven- tion will adjourn. A special evening ses- sion will be held on Thursday night. Ranged around the large hall were magnificent specimens of citrus and dried fruits. These came from all parts of the State and each one bore the name of the exhibitor. They were carefully examined and thelr various qualities freely com- mented upon and discussed. Elwood Cooper of Santa Barbara, chair- man of the State Fruit Growers' Conven- tion, called the meeting to order. R J. C. Adams said a short prayer. Profs sor E. J. Wickson of the State Univer- sity was elected vice chairman. Mayor James D. Phelan was introduced to deliver the address of welcome. He referred to the fact that while San Fran- cisco could not boast of her horticultural development, still each year an immense quantity of fruit is handled here. Con- tinuing, the Mayor said; There ought to be a great market for Cali- fornia efruits in Kurope. A short time ago 1 had to pay & franc and a half for a peach in a hotel In Paris. There ought to be a gold mine for California growers who ship their fruits to Burcpe. Competes in Markets of Spain. Mayor Phelan read from consular re- ports showing that California fruit was competing in the markets of Valencia, Spain, with fruit grown in the immediate vicinity of that city. He thought the construction of the Nicaragua canal i would be of immense benefit to the State and would materially aid the fruit indus- try. The Mayor was given a rising vote of thanks when he concluded. President Ellwood Cooper read his an- I nual address, saying in part: Greater prosperity exists than 'has existed for many years. Deciduous fruits and oranges have sold well. Lemons were depressed through excessive importation. Prunes and raisins have not been well marketed. The question of mar- keting fruit is the most important before the fruft growers. The expensc of removing pests is very great and is likely to be a perpetual tax on the in- dustry. If, however, we combat noxious in- sects by thelr natural enemigs we may find a good and cheap solution of this great problem. The pure food laws ought to be strictly en- forced. These laws should be revised and a mode devised for sampling foods, detecting vio- lation of the law. and punis] offenders. 1 recommend that we pass a resolution to be sent to Congress declaring that we oppose any reductfon, by reciprocity or otherwise, in the tariff on fruits and fruft products, and that ‘we favor an interoceanic canal. We should endeaver to procure an appropriation of §10,000 for the investigation of parasites and fruit pests. A. H. Naftzger. B. N. Rowley, E. J. Wickson, ‘H. P. Stabler and W. J. Hotch- kiss were appointed a committee to con- sider the recommendations of the presi- lent. ¥ dWnu-m H. Mills, who was to deliver an address - on his impressions of the Pan-American Exposition, was absent. The report of the California Fruit Growers' Association was read by Pro- fessor Wickson, owing to the Inability of H. E. Weinstock, the president, the at- tend. It dealt with matters of transpor- tation and the extent of the various erops and concluded with the following sum- mary: . On’the whole. this bas been one of the most favorable years in the history of the Califor- nia fruit industry. The results cannot but have added very much to the value of Califor- nia fruit lands and to have inspired the fruit growers with renewed courage and hope in the futere. With the growing experience and higher judgment that is being exercised on the part of the grower iIn the planting, cultivating, har- vesting, packing and the marketing of his crop, the outlook was mnever brighter for the future of the California green fruit Industry. Papers relating to the distribution, transportation, marketing of fruits and fruit products consumed the greater por- tion of the afternoon session. “Distribution of Fruits” was the sub- ject of an address read by A. H. Naftz- ger of Los Angeles, president and gen- | eral manager of the Southern California Citrus Fruit Association. He sald that the average cost to the grower who ship- ped fruit through that association, in- cluding all charges, did not exceed 3 per cent from the time the fruit was placed on the cars. This included a monthly payroll to employes of the association .of §7000, He urged growers of other fruits to combine in the same way. “The Deciduous Fruit Outlook in the San Joaquin Valley” was the subject dis- cussed in a paper presented by I H. Thomas and read by E. J. Wickson. W. H. Aiken, who lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains, gave an interesting his- tory of the prune and methods of culture in his paper, ‘“The Outlook for the Prune Industry.” Future Trade Possibilities. Isador Jacobs read a well considered pa- per on “Future Trade Possibilities in Canned and Dried Fruits.”” He showed the necessity of maintaining a high stand- ard in all goods shipped to Eastern and foreign markets. In the discussion which followed E. Ber- wick provided a small sensation by at- tacking the San Francisco commission merchants. He said some years ago they charged $ per cent for handling fruit, and this year arbitrarily raised their commis- siont to 10 per cent. He asked that the convention condemn this action. A long discussion followed. Most of the mem- bers were opposed to such radical action, and a compromise was effected by the appointment of a committee of three to investigate the conditions governing the commission market in San Francisco and report back to the convention. The chair namec. A. R. Sprague of Sacramento, F. N. Righter of Campbells and Chauncey @alnes of Fresno. The report of the committee on fruit ; packages, recommending a 'standard size for 25 and 50 pound boxes, was read by Professor Wickson and adopted. Favor Nicaragua, Canal. E. Berwick read the report of the com- mittee on foreign consular advices and | detailed the work so far accomplished by E. F. Adams and Eugene Goodwin of the Pacific Commercial Museum, who had the matter in charge. The committee on Nicaragua canal of- fered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That this State Convention of + MEN PROMINENT CEEDINGS OF THE FRUIT GROWERS' CONVENTION. IN PRO- * “® mediate steps for the construction of the Nic- aragua canal. The convention will meet this morning at 9:30 o’clock and will be addressed by Mr. Goodwin on the work of the Pacific Commercial Museum. Other addresses will be dellvered by T. N. Woeds, A. R. Sprague and W. J. Hotchkiss. MENACE OF PEAR BLIGHT. Horticultural Commissioners and Fruit Men Discuss Measures for Its Extermination. “Pear Blight” was the subject discussed at the meeting of the State Board of Hor- ticultural Commissioners held last night at Pioneer Hall. H. W. Motherall of Kings County acted as chairman and George H. Cutter of Sacramento as tem- porary secretary. Chairman Motherall opened the discussion by relating his ex- perience with the parasite that has been devastating the pear trees. The particu- lar parasite is sald to be one of vegetable origin, which produces a sweet-tasting excretion very much fancied by bees and carried by them into the opening blossoms of the pear tree. He told of the efforts of the orchardists to stamp out the pests and the means that had been adopted tor ex~ terminate the bees, which are in this in- stance regarded as trespassers upon the orchards. He said the beekeepers had been notified to keep their bees at home, and that if they did not they would find their honey crop very short. In the discussion which followed A. D. Pryal of Alameda County, I. N. Clark of Lompoe, Professor C. W. Woodworth of the department of entomology of the Uni- versity of Californla and members of the fruit-growers’ convention who were pres- ent by invitation participated. The whole fleld of frult pests was considered during the discussion. C. M. Heintz, editor of the Rural Cali- fornian of Los Angeles, brought up the question of spraying citrus fruit trees with distillates, claiming that it worked Injury to the fruit and the trees and that whole orchards were frequently killed by the use of this insecticide. —_— Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * Choice candies. Townsend's, Palace Hotel® ————————s Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* ——— A —— Special information lied dally t jusiness houses and ::m ‘men u: b Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), mbing. gomery street. Telephone Main 1048 ¢ Fruit Growers of Californla in session in San Francisco, Cal., on the 3d day of December, 1901, imSressed by the utter inabllity of the transcontinental railroads to handle the enor- mous and rapidly Increasing traffic between East and West, urge on the Senators and Rep- ———— oo value of an Kansas products for ), including animals slaughtered, placed at ns'l.qm.m. | » HOTEL DEL CORONADO, choicest Winter Resort in the world, offers best living, climate, boating, bathing, flshing and most amuse- Canal Commission and .aking im- | ments. E. S. Babeock, manager, Coronado, Cak