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

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(Long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2615."") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. €. CARLTO .Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. 30 Tribune NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Shermsn House: P. O. News Ce.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House: Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. . ..1406 G St.. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. NRANCH OFFICES—: N W. Montgomery, corner of Clay, open untfl $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 3:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, cpen until 9 o'clock. 1086 Valehcla, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second apd Kentucky, opea until 9 o'clock. Filimore, open untll 9 p. AMUSEMENTS. Tiveli—*Little Red Riding Hood.™ Central King." Alchzar— " ¥'s Aunt.” Columbia—'Janice Meredith.” heum—Vaudeville. nd Opera-house- “Devil's and T! Vaudeville ev a’ternson and evening Fischer's—Vaudeville. Oakland Race Races to-day. AN ENGLISH VIEW, ncipal American opponents of a law to THE SA PROSPEROUS CONDITIONS. THE Telegram cf Portland, Or., bases a sharp criticism of The Calt on this sentence, which we used in discussing proposed’free trade with Cuba: “Tt is as much as we can do by careful legis- lation to preserve the conditions of prosperity for our own people.” The Telegram scouts the idea that protection has any part in a prosperity that it ascribes to “the ex- tent and nature of our country, the superior. charac- ter of our people and our democratic institutions.” As a rejoinder it may well be said that the charac- ter of our people is founded in the nature of our in- stitutions and the legislation necessary for their maintenance. Suppose that after we achieved inde- pendence our legislation had been such as to leave the people where Great Britain held them as colo- nists, compelling them to be producers of raw ma- terial and buyers of all manufactured articles from her or other foreign nations, will any one contend that their character would be what it is now, their quality the same, even with the extent and nature of the country and its democratic institutions as they are? Even before the constitutional period which began in 1789, the leaders of the Revolution saw that inde- pendence meant something besides and much more | than political independence. They saw that it meant also industrial independence, the production of raw material and its manufacture, both by our own labor. The first tariff was passed by the first Congress, with that end in view, and the purpose of all subse- quent tariff legislation has been the same. It has been a system of legislation designed to supplement politi- cal with industrial freedom. Jefferson believed in it, and Clay reduced it to formula and called it “the American system.” As our population has increased the necessity for it has seemed to survive and be more vital than ever. | No one denies that the resulting quality of our people, their genius and initiative, have put many forms of manufacture beyond the need of protection, but no one claims with reason that they would have reached that stage without protection, The industries that are now threatened by Cuban free trade and unrestricted commercial intercourse with the Philippines are agricultural. In some of their aspects they are new industries. 'Ihky diversify crops. They benefit all pre-existing agricufture by giving land a new use. Every acre in sugar, rice and to- bacco is an acre taken from the production of cereals, cotton and forage, and adds to the"syalue of those crops. The Telegram says that: “Fair and just pro- tection is good in its way, but it is time to cease making a political and economic fetich out of it.” Will that paper contend that specific forms of agri- culture are not as much entitled to “‘fair and just pro- tection” as were specific forms of manufacture? The Telegram says what no one denies, that “with or without protection, with or without any particular law or set or series of laws, FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER g 1¢ 1 von Stradonitz of the University of Berlin, com- menting upon Carnegie’s offer of $10,000,000 for edu- cation at Washington, is reported to have said Americans must begin to guard against the danger of fostering higher education at the expense of the practical intelligence of the people, and to have added: “We are suffering from it in Germany. We are burdened with an unproductive class who look with inherited scotn on those whose education has been merely in the art of bread-winning. The evil manifests itself in Germany by the existence of an idle element which, lacking. any other occupation, serves the recruiting sergeant of the enemies of social order. The fundamental feature of American schooling as a preliminary fitting for men and women in life’s battles is truly the Darwinian principle, and it finds a splendid vindication in the strength of America’s position in the world to-day. Mr. Car- negie’s technical school endowments showed that he was fully in harmony with the American spirit, but his latest proposal I am unable to commend.” The warning coming from such a source is interest- ing, but it is not likely to alarm any considerable number of our people. It is true the endowments of our universities are now very large and are increas- ing at an extraordinary rate, but the country is large and the population is increasing. Moreover, the op- portunities to make use of the highest education are abundant. It is going to be a long time before the United States will have to complain of the “burden” of too many learned men. o e s e It is said the Presidential campaign in Cuba is gradually working up to a triue American enthusiasm. The rival parties have already begun to denounce one | another as “pig heads” and “traitors,” and before the clection takes place the oratory may be quite equal to anything our own spellbinders could do. FOREIGNERS AND THE LAW. H OWEVER i strongly intelligent Americans may be inclined to support their own country “right or wrong"” in a controversy with a for- eign power, it will not be easy for them to deny the | justice of the claim the Italian Government is now making ‘at Washington with respect to the lynching of certain Italians in Colorado, Louisiana and Mis- sissippi. The claim is the simple one that since Americans in Italy have all the protection the Italian courts can give, Italians in this country should have protection from the Federal courts, since it is the Federal Government which makes the treaties under which they come here. In a recent statement of his side of the question the Italian Embassador said: “In the case of Italians residing in the United States the treaty assures them the same rights and protection given to American citizens. But, unfortunately, this expression of the treaty, so far as it relates to Italians in this country, |NEW YORK WEATHER JUST NOW NOT A BIT LIKE THE LOCAL ARTICLE 1 NEW YORKERS ARE EXPERIENCING WEATHER MUCH DIFFERENT FROM THE BALMY BREEZES AND SUN- | SHINE THE PEOPLE OF SAN FRANCISCO HAVE RECENTLY ENJOYED. SHOWS STORM-SWEPT PARK ROW AS IT APPEARED ON DECEMBER 17. THE ABOVE ILLUSTRATION L e il there are periods of |is somewhat theoretical, for under the American sys- tem, which limits the Federal authority over States, the central government is not able to give effect to the guarantee laid down by the treaty. We fully rec- ognize the difficulties of this situation, which have | OR five hours yesterday afternoon and evening, savs the New York World of December 18, New York had the real thing in the way of a snowstorm. It set in at 3:25 and stopped at 8:23 p. m. and began again at 11 p. m. The wind was northerly during most of the. storm, but by 10 p. m. had shifted into the north and northwest and the storm center days when they were boys. ‘With the first thin covering over sidewalks and pavements came slippery walking. The streets were almost like ice. Shoppers and business men homeward bound failed in many cases to keep their feei, to the damage of dignity and Hmb. Melting slightly, the snow packed into balls beneath horses’ < merchant marine are connected in some way with the British ship builders and nd are concerned in the prosperity of the e ships which carry the most of ecreate our prosperity and depression.” No paper has more fre- quently or clearly stated this law of action and re- action than has The Call. But here again legislation has something to do with the severity and duration of owners, British owners of . had moved off Block Island. hoofs. On asphalt pavements coach horses slipped and slid. our deep water commerce. the reaction when it comes. Individuals who are out |been as apparent to the statesmen of this country as | " jthough the instruments of the Weather Bureau showed Mulr‘l‘r::énfilv‘teh;i_henn(}n;n[lm?}g :fle!r;;%xgh;c;?“:hs&"kg’e:ehm” They have just been reinforced by an_interview | of debt 4> not feel hard times. Nations that are not | they have to those of Ttaly. We have hoped this | that the sow began sifting dowm at B p, m_ but fow peosle eq portious: ‘The Teadway waa like loar " ° £ e given to the Cincinnati Enquirer by Sir Christopher |in debt fecl them less severely than those that are |Would bring about the enactment of a law which o Thea I oame down In.& £008 .0l TAshIoTIcd WAYNGSD" Vsl Aoa herse cas rathe wee hamuered i the upger ypre Furness, the largest ship-builder and ship-owner in |debtors. By the financial and tariff reforms insti- | would permit the Federal Government to carry out | as “grandfather” and “the oldest resident” talk about in the clines with provoking hesitancy. the world tuted by the Republican party since 1897 this has !hig;\i\ramf]e* of the treaties.” { @ ettt el el feefobeffelnteleielefelielnfeiefee oo el Sir Christopher is visiting this country in connec- |ceased tc be a debtor. nation. We owe , nothing Inder ordinary circumstances there would be no | . s iy g SR NCE e ,.‘,,{r\.(n’yl, . I:.‘,‘::,:, - ‘c(,;,:-'r"p:.,m,“_ o e | haad 68 RhnhiErred ppliog Hos are b sympathy among Americans with any effort made by | P ERSONAL MENTION. ANSWERS ‘94QUE““: [ A CHA‘\_CEV E) SMILE. at New Orleans in his ppivate car sought opportunity | rowers from other nations. They owe us for sup- |2 foreign power to mduce us to change our system to make pablic his opinions in opposition to the proposition to protect ship-building in this country until we get enough bottoms under our own flag to carry our own commerce. He said: “It could cer- tainly serve no useful purpose to subsidiz& passen- ger ships. They cannot be depended on to extend the commercial relations of the country. To subsidize them would be of-no use whatever to American commerce. On the other hand, if subsidies were ex- tended to cargo vessel be nly, such a course would not and I think would only increase the cost of freight to shippers by giving such beneficial to commerce a large margin of profit in prospect that it would encourage extravagance in expenditures and ener the business These views of Sir Christopher are being seized upon as material in the campaign against an Ameri can merthant marine. But no one has so far shown they are anything more than the opinions of a gentleman who is interested on the other side of the question. He refers to the cheapness of our steel for ship-building and the advantages we have for con struction. But the difficulty does not lic in the price of material, nor it it incident to the mechanics of construction. It is in the cost of operating Ameri- can built and registered ships after they are built. Even if we admit that our higher wages to ship- building mechanics do not figure against construc- tion, because of their greater skill and productive power, the fact remains that in operating ships the higher wages paid to American scamen do put our merchant marine at a decided disadvantage. The same issue is carried into the shipping busi- ness that prevails throughout our industrial system. The American wage scale leads the world and Amer- icans insist that it shall be maintained. If it be de- sirable that our flag float at sea over American ships, they must have a measure of that protection which has given ws industrial independence on the land or the first inroad must be made in the American wage scale. We must reconquest our carrying trade at the expense of the American sailor or by the joint encouragement of the whole people. D In a recent address at the Franklin Institute Philadelphia on the evolution of firearms General Wheeler said that as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century many military experts believed the crossbow a more effective weapon than any fircarm then in use, and experiments made in England in 1792 seemed to confirm the opinion. As evidences of the slowness of army and navy officers {0 adopt new inventions in arms he cited the facts that old-fash- ioned muskets were used in the Mexican war, and that during the war with Spain our fleets were not supplied with smokeless powder. _— in Not content with an insurrection at home, and im- pending conflict with Colombia, a row with the United States over the asphalt claims and an ultima- tum threatened from Germany, President Castro of Venezuela has picked a quarrel with France; and if there are any other nations that wish to talk war Castro will accommodate them. In raiding the policy shops in New York receatly the police found papers which show that the " aggre- gate receipts of the,shops raided amounted to up- ward of $70,000 a week; so it will be seen the tin horn gambler sometimes blows a big horn. The society fox hunters of Long Island are com- plaining of other society folk who insist on following the hunt in automobiles, and from that fact we may infer what kind of fox hunting they do. . v plies, and they borrow of us. The rule is a simple one to understand, but its practice seems to depend on some form of authority. The first protective code that is recorded was given to the children of Israel by Moses, and he clearly stated the above rule by en- joining them to borrow of no man but lend to all nations, The Telegram sees already signs of a business re- action, So 1803, debtor To do so needs no clairvoyance nor sorcery the depths of the panic that began in and prolonged our status as mtion, the gift prophecy required to the end of the hard and the of enterprise. The panic was prolonged by the fact that it was a slow process of liquidation of our debts, Another will in by of was a was not see times reinstatement panie come, but the liquidation will not require as much time. We are on a better basis,. A protective tariff, sound money and less need of liquidation will mitigate it, and to that extent legislation will prove to be a factor in the prosperity of our people. e It is announced that Congressman Wachter of Maryland has withdrawn his bill to abolish football pames between Annapolis and West Point, and so one cloud passes from the sky and the coming year HIGHER EDU ‘ATION ] may be merry after all. CCORDING to figures compiled by the Phil- A adelphia Press the gifts to educational institu- tions this year will be in the neighborhood of ,000,000. The banner year for such gifts in the past was 1899, when the total reached the sum of $55,000,000. In the compilation of the Press the re- cent gift to Stanford University put down at $15,000,000, the estimate being that such sum repre- sented the increase on the endowment originally made by the founders. The gift of Mrs. Stanford thus ranks as the largest of the year. Carnegie's of- fer of $10,000,000 to iound an institution for research at Washington takes second place, and the gift of Rockefeller of $5,000,000 to the University of Chi- cago holds third place. The New England States get a large proportion of the total gifts. Boston gets $2,500,000 to found the Simmons technological school for women. Clark University, it is estimated, will get about $2,000,000 when the estate left by the founder is settled up. Brown University gets $1,000,000, and Harvard and Yale each receive more than that sum, so that even were the smaller donations to the minor collefes to be omitted, the increase of the New England educa- tional endowments would be notable and impressive. The North, the East and the West have thus been generously and munificently provided for during the year, but the South receives little. That fact is due of course to the lack of wealth in the Southern States. When the South has millionaires it cannot be doubted they will prove equally liberal in promoting education, and fortunately the number of rich men in the South is increasing rapidly. The manufacturing industries that are springing up in all parts of that section will produce’ wealth for -the South just. as similar industties pmduced it in the North, and con- sequently the time is not far distant when the yearly summary of muynificent gifts to education will be augmented by gifts in the South as well as in other sections of the Union. While we are thus rapidly increasing our educa- tional facilities and are congratulating ourselyes upon the fact a warning comes from Germany, where higher education has been more widely dif- | fused than in any other country in the world. is of doing justice. We are well content with our method of leaving life and property to the care of | the States rather than burdening the Fede courts with them except where the wrong done is in viola- tion of a Federal statute. Upon the subject of lynch- ing, however, we are likely to be tolerant of any sug- gestion from any source that tends to put an end to it. Lynch law has now become so prevalent that it constitutes one of the most serious evils of the time. In several of the States the courts are unable to ef- fectively deal with it. Consequently anything which will bring a lynching gang to answer Federal anthority instead of State authority approved There is a show of reason in to the claim of the Italian Government that the Federal courts should have power to enforce Federal treatics, and it is to provide be hoped Congress cun wranting the power, MARCONI AND THE CABLES. ARDLY more attention has been given in the H East to the marvel of Marconi's dispatch of a wireless message across the ocean than to the action of the Anglo-American Cable Company in informing him that the company has exclusive rights in the operation of ocean telegraph stations in New- foundland and that he must cease making his experi- ments th The action has been taken as an evi- dence that the cable company recognizes a potent rival in the Marconi system and is desirous of pro- tecting its monopoly in the island as fully as.possible during the two years jt will remain in force. Marconi has expressed the conviction that it will be casy to arrange terms with the cable company, but in a good many quarters it is believed that not only the Anglo-American but other cable companies will fight the advance of wircless telegraphy by every means in their power. Over that issue a warm controversy has arisen. It is asserted on one side that should Marconi establish wircless telegraphic communication across the ocean the system would not be a successful rival to the cables because of the length of time it takes to send a wireless message and the liability of the system to frequent interruptions and disturbances. On the other hand it is said thc Marconi system can be oper- ated so cheaply it will be possible for the managers to profitably transmit messages across the ocean for one cent 2 word. It ic argued that stich competition will force the cable companies to.reduce prices even if they continue to hold the bulk of the commercial business that requires quicker dispatch than Marconi can give. It will be seen that neither side takes into account the possible and even probable improvement of the wireless system until it reaches a degree of perfec- tion that it can transmit messages as rapidly as by wire. That probability, however, is one that the cable companies have not overlooked. At any rate the ac- tion of the Anglo-American Company has given no- tice to the world that it looks upon the Marconi tele- graph as a rival in even its present experimental stage, and consequently the public will be justified in reaching the same conclusion. some method of General .Grosvtnor of Ohio has introduced into Congress a bill providing that all manufacturers of cloth of mixed shoddy and wool shall tag it in plain letters and figures showing the percentages of the mixture. Tailors and clothiers are also required to tag all garments. The only defect in the bill is that it does not provide that people who wear the Dr. | cloth shall also have it tagged. will be widely | - dental, | Grand. Dr. Humphreys of Honolulu is at the California. A. Moncure, a frult grower of Palermo, 18 at the Occldental. G. L. McCandless, a merchant of Sacra- mento, Is at the Grand. The Right Rev. F'. R. Graves of Shang- hat I8 & guest at the Occldental, Rallroad Commissioner Edson Is down from Gazelle and 1s at the Oceldental, D. J. Paddock, a merchant of Santa Roun, I8 umong the arrivals at the Rusa, 1. ¥, 8wift, a pork packer and prom- Inent merchant of Chicago, s at the Pal- nee. J. E. Terry, a lumberman of Sacra- mento, 18 xpending a few days at the Pal- hee, The Rev, Rusrell Talbot of Manila, av- compented by his wife, Is reglsterol at the Oceldental, John A, Mcintire, a mining man who resides at Sacramento, I8 spending a fow days at the Lick, Qeorge N. Penney Jr., formerly of thix ity but now practicing law in New York, 18 here on o hort visit and I8 at the Pal ace W, B de Jarnett, one of the most ex- tensive frult growers of the State, is down from Colusa and Is at, the Occle Marjon Biggs Jr., the well-known bank- er of Oroville, {8 here on a short business | trip and has made his headquarters at the George E, Gard, formerly chief detective of the Southern Pakific Company but now engaged in business in Los Angeles, Is at the Grand. Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—The following Californians arrived here to-day and reg- istered as follows: At the Ebbit, L. Goetz; at the New Willard, W. P, Thom- | as; at the Aridngton, Douglas \White; at | the National, James Ycung and R. O. | Lincoln, ml of San Francisco; at the | Raleigh, William Kamsay of santa Paula, Lester 1. Morse of Bania Clara ana Us- car Hoffman ot £an Francisco. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—R. E. Revalk and W. 1. Morrison at the Imperial: J. Wal- ton and wife at the Gerard; L. Eas‘land at the Sturtevant; R. N. Chappell at the Park Avenue; W. H. H. Hart at the Hol- | land; L. Kalman, D. J. Moses and G. M. Perine at th® Herald Square; Dr. J. W. Wand at the Manhattan: M. Waddie and wife at the Victoria. From Los Angeles—R. L. Baker andl Mrs, A. L. Bancroit at the Victoria: F. M. Bradshaw at the Herald Square; J. G. Gaffey at the Hoffman. From Oakland—C. Crowell and J. C. Ewing and wife at the Imperial. ————— i s The Chicago Girl—Plague take this Eastern culture. Her Boston Aunt—What is the matter, my -dear? The Chicago Girl—I've really become in- terested in Ibsen. 1 think he's bully; I take to transcendentalism without any trouble; I'm getting used to eyeglasses and I dote on dignity; but I can't get over saying ‘‘rats!” instead of merely ele- vating ry eyebrows.—Harlem Life. v iy e Sid i Mo Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hote!.* —_—— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's® | —_——— Cal. Glace Frult 50c per ib at Townsend's. * —_——— Epecial Information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Pureau (Allen's), nw ont- gomery street. Telephone Main' 1 . —_——— Those who live in giass houses should remember that they are easily seen through. ——— Don't miss hearing Henry Lloyd sing “‘Our BONES—A Subsertber, City. The bones | of animals are largely used in making the | she handles of small brushes and those of the more common table knives and forks, and | in the manufacture of a cheap sort of comb, They are also converted Into bone | black and bone dust finds in tk “Heavens! “No, “Why, ll.lwm AGE OF STAMPS—Reader, City. In the Sunday issue of The Call. | Magasine wection, of October 22, 1%, | fAat and T pr which you may consult at the Free Public \:f'f'l‘" o Libr, ' Wil find an Illustrated article | eocs on describing the language of stamps, | ante negotiations for you and save you a lot of trouble, You could attend to the mat ter yourself, but in wo doing, not belng conversant with the rules of practice, you might make a mistake that would lose | you your pulmvr n-\ | Next Sunday I MORE WOLFVYi STORIES Mammy Pleasant, The By Isabelle Fraser y Albert Dezendorf Watchword's Death to Anarchy and Treason™ at Oberon this week and next, she doesn't. | tried & solitary one of 'em. “How does that happen?’ she's always out of something." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. ot in the world, MAJOR SAYRES’ BATTERY By Alfred Henry Lewis Il ustrated by Ed Borein, the Cowpuncher Artist The Reindecr Queen of Alaska Voyage of Tne Cordelia Feald Mary Mannering Talks of Her New Play, “Graustark” The Sunday Call Calendar for 1902 The Sunday Call Has the Literary Magazine of the Coast. ne paper: In fncl, for tea. no. We compromise. On what way? Meeks—We compromise on coffes.~Chi- S The VeryLatest Color Process Eight Pages in Beautiful Colors That are Pleasing to the Eye LLE Woman A —_—— | ““Yes, my wife reads every blessed recipe And does she try them all?" she never Meeks—My wife prefers coffee for break- ‘Then I suppose you have botn? SECURING A PATENT--OId Subscrth- | ¥¢ NeW™ — or, Occldental, Cal If you have an in- Mamma—~What's the matter, Willle? vention upon which you think you are en- | Didn't you have a good time at the party? titled to a putent the safest way for you | While—Naw? to proceed I8 to engage the services of a | —Didn’ ’ A e Mamma—Didn't you get enough to eat Willle—Yea: but 1 didn't get too much.— | rhtladeiphia Recora. e e HOTEL DEL CORONADO, choloast Wind fors beat living, olima fl i eei—