The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 7, 1902, Page 6

-] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, The FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Gommenications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. NARARID I )< - seleshing Ero B4 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201 EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail. Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year.. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8 months.. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. fl_subserfbers in_ordering change of address should be pariicular e e both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. ...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. : Mazager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building. Chisage. (ong Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. 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NW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky, open Fclock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. open “The Ameer.” Central —"Master and Man "™ Alcazar—*The Danites.” Columbia—-In the Palace of the King." utes, Zco and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and anics’ Pavilion—Juvenile Fairyland Carnival, Febru- Eall Metropolitan Piano Recital February 12. nd Ra R AUCTION SALES. at 10:30 o'clock, Oriental By Hagopian & Co.—This day, street. Leyng—2Monday, Howard street. —— February 10, at 10:30 o’clock, PROTECTION OR RECIPROCITY. & HARLES A. GARDINER in a recent address to the New York Credit Men's Association on the subject of American commercial ex- ented in a striking way the fallacy of the e that we can extend our trade only by re- STATE RAILROAD .COMMISSIONS. THE importance of the recent decision of t}.u: United States Supreme Court validating the law of Kentucky, which makes the judicial courts the instruinent of an executive or legislative commission for the management and public oversight of railways, is of prime importance in its relation to domestic traffic confined to points within the State. Hereto- fore when committees and commissions created of legislative creation with administrative functions have appealed to the Federal process for enforcement of their decisions the courts have declined to consider themselves as the subordinate and instrument of such minor executive body. On the other hand, the courts have held that they are part of a co-ordinate branch of the Government itself, with authority rooted in the constitution and power and jurisdiction defined by statute, and are not to be used as an executive con- venience. When a Railroad Commission makes a decision, as in the oil cases in this State, the courts cannot avoid giving their power ‘in temporary restraint nor the hearing of argument why that restraint should be made permanent. But it will be seen that our Rail- road Commission gets into court only by being chosen defendant in a lawsuit, and has to go before the bench and sit in the chair of the eringer just as if it were a common personality accused of overdriv- ing a livery horse or running away with a neighbor's wife. Adopt into our system the Kentucky law and the whole situation is changed. The commission then, like the centurion, can say to a Grand Jury “Come,” and it cometh, and to a Judge “Go,” and he goeth. The commission by the Kentucky law becomes the prosecutor, can assist or replace the local prosecuting officer, can draw indictments and appear with-them in the Grand Jury room. , In this State, under our law of initiation of criminal proceedings, it need not wait for a presentment by a Grand Jury, but can hold | up an octopus on information and belief, qualified to before any committing magistrate, and thereon can promptly hale 2 railroad before a petit jury and prosecute it. = The wild but well meaning people who made our present constitution thought that in creating the | Railroad Commission they were planting a thorn in { the railroads. But the only thorn around has proved |to be that on which the commission sat. While the resulting pain has been assuaged by a salary and headquarfgrs, the acute stage is now here, and either | the Kentucky law must be adopted in this State or | the commission must be substituted by some readier method of compelling conclusions. Our commission is charged with a lot of impossible duties. Among these it must adopt a set of books and a method of bookkeeping and compel their adoption by all rail- roads. There has never been a member of the com- mission who knew any more about bookkeeping than | bookkeeping knew about him. It is time to take away from the commission the numerous thirfgs it cannot do and give it the few, plain and necessary things it can and ought to do. The Legislature may well be admonished. That | body has heretofore occasionally chosen to acquire a | reputation for zeal by attempting the impossible. Let it not tamper with interstate commerce and rates, If & FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1902. statement with no intention to disparage the effort to make the Congressional Record a live newspaper. If Congress desire to have the country know more of its proceedings and reatl more of its speeches we have no objection to the circulation of the Record at $2 per session. This much may be said, however: If the venture is to have any thance of success the pres- ent custom of striking from the Record all the hot words and fighting talk uttered in debate must be abandoned. The Record can well afford to edit out much that it now contains, but if it is to be made a popular magazine it must publish the live news. e ———— The Princess Sophie Bamba Dhuleep Singh was pelted with snow a few days ago by some rude Chi- cago-boys and /she left in great indignation for Can- ada. It is also said that she took her name with her. F goes on in London it seems probable the Gov- ernment has given encouragement to the pro- moters of the movement to bring about negotiations with the Boer leaders. Neither side of course dis- plays in public any willingness to yield a jot of its original pretensions, but at the same time the Hol- land Government would hardly ‘persist in its efforts were it not that setret assurances are given of ulti- mate success. The Amsterdam correspondent of the London Mail asserts it is definitely known in that city that the Dutch Premier’s recent visit to London has resulted in the persuasion of President Kruger and the Boer delegates in Europe to consent to waive the claim for the acknowledgment of the independence of the Transvaal and Orange Free State as a prerequisite to any consideration of peace. He adds that the idea now is that of a partjal “incorporation” of the reptib- lics with the empire as distinct from absolute annexa- tion, and that the discussion turns mainly upon the terms on which banished Boers will be permitted ‘to return-and the amount of damages to be paid by the British to the Boers for rebuilding and restocking their homesteads. & If such agreement on the part of the Boers is “definitely known” in Amsterdam it is - certainly known nowhere else. The Berlin correspondent of the London News reports that President Kruger re- cently said to a friend in speaking of the probability of peace: “If intervention could shorten the war, even only by a day, we should hail it with thanks in the name of those whose unutterable sufier}ngs would be lessened by it. But we should not be grateful for an intervention which did not reckon,with our aspirations for independence. A peace which one often hears proposed on the English side—subjection first, then a sort of autonomy-—that we will never accept.” 4 While the Boer leader is thus uttering publicly his determination to stand by the platform of “liberty or death” the British Liberals insist that the chief ob- stacle in the way of peace is Joseph Chamberlain and the Ministry which supports him. It is pointed out thdt the Government has never declared a generous policy toward the Bocrs, nor has it, in fact, an- nounced any definite' programme whatever. Refer- ring to Chamberlain’s speeches the Westminster Gazette says: “He will not say he is for the policy OBSTACLES TO PEACE. ROM the steadiness with which the peace talk v N |RECEIVES AS A GIFT THE SWORD THAT CLASHED FOR HER IN DUEL o known in New York, the mail brought a strange present. 1 on the field of honor. share the superstitio O Miss Rachel Louise McAusland, who Is socially well from Berlin recently It was a dueling sword, and with it came a letter from a young German lieu- tenant, saying that with it he had fought for her hand His opponent had been a young Eng- lishman connected with the diplomatic service. At her home, where she lives with her mother, Miss Mc- Ausland told of her gift and naively added that she did not belief of some that friendships were girl. during the winter. TENANT AND A BRITISH DIPLOMAT FOUGHT A DUEL ABROAD, THE ARMY OFFICER SENDING HER 1 MISS RACHEL LOUISE McAUSLAND, A NEW YORK SOCIETY GIRL, FOR WHOSE HAND A GERMAN LIEU- i HIS DUELING SWORD AS A PRESENT. ’ R —— X gart, Germany, by the Countess von Linden, the wife of the former Germdn Minister to Russia, herseif a former New York It was at a reception in her honor that Miss McAusland met the diplomat and the soldier. tentlon, and at several of the European capitals thereaft They paid her marked at Miss McAusland confesses that from the first she was rather more strongly attracted by the soldier. tary, she said, always impressed her, and the young leutenant Things mili- it impinge the commission’s authority on any such legislation the courts will void it. The foxy brethren who know that our California exporters are caused to often broken by the akeeptance of a weapon as a present. Miss McAusland disclaimed a romantic disposition, but told with some satisfaction of how the young English diplomat and the soldierly lieutenant fought for the favor of her hand. was the very pick of the Kalser's army. In April, 1899, Miss McAusland returned to New York, still heart whole, She afterward learned the diplomat and the soldfer met in a duel, but whether efther man was wounded s. His plea was for a firm mainte- of unconditional surrender, but neither will he say he the policy of comprehensive protection, un- is against it. He will not say the Government will be der 9 1 b & a or not {s a matter of speculation. our industries have prospered and our spire by some of the long haul rates eastward are |deaf to overtures, but he proceeds to wipe off the i Miss MclAuhlr;l;dBlso ‘hgh:a:vge:tte;l;’:o::n;?bngge?i‘;::fine‘;' whs ibe_ hlade will hene on the wall of Mise McAdsfend's trade has expanded to an extent that has made it the | entirely capable of introducing such measures to |Sl2te almost every Beer leader who could possibly | dled several years ago. ;. 2nd “den,” beside a rusty sword which has come down to her fror marvel of the-age. The reciprocity theory, the speaker pointed out, is upon a “mistaken conception of President Mc- nley’s Buffalo address.” To quote the language A w Carnegie, “reciprocity is an easy word to a difficult policy to inaugurate.” -~ Moreover, were inaugurated it would be futile in most as Mr. Gardiner sa “The essence of based Ki is the concession of special tariff rates to one country at the expense of others. ould be extended, concessions would multiply; and should it become general and concessions be then zll cencessions to one would neces- be nullified. Trade would, resume its natural Our protective tariff would be reduced with- est gain in foreign markets.” uttermost that can be said for the various re- y treaties that have been negotiated since the f was cted is that they promise a 3 I advantage to some American industries. No one cen guarantez that such advautages would ore than offset the losses occasioned to other indus- by depriving them of. protection. In venturing reciprocity, therefore, we would be embarking n an untried policy, one whose results cannot be ately computed. We would be turning away 1 2 fiscal system which long experience has en to be beneficial to all American industries he sake of trying one that at the best does no more than promise benefits to a few industries in- stead of to all If reciprocity made to al course. ciproc I In sharp contrast to the obscurity of the reciprocity theory stands the clearness of the protective system. As Mr. Gardiner say “Protection we know. _It has with our growth and expanded with the na- grown on he policy of no section, it is continental and American. For 125 years it has been as fundamental r commerce as is the constitution to our Gov- anment. Foreign nations have always recognized it and have made their treaties and adjusted their trade relations on the basis of our established protective system.” Why should any sane people think of giving up a known and certain good for the chance of obtaining a benefit unknown and uncertain? Many are the pleas that have been made for reciprocity, but in al- most every case the pleader has been either an out and out free-trader or else a2 man who wishes protec- tion for his own industry but is willing to deny it to other Americans. There are conditions of course under which profitable reciprocity treaties could be made by the people of the United States, but it is hardly worth while to run the risk of endangering the protective system by venturing upon them at this time s s s A sporting club of Newport News has accom- plished the impossible in modern civilized sport; it has determined upon a man hunt with bloodhounds for hunters and any stray vagrant man for the role of the hunted. To mgke the scheme notably praise- worthy some members of the club should volunteer to take the place of the vagrant. —_— Ornly a shart time ago the New York papers re- ported Mrs. Pat Campbell as saying she had won $22,000 at bridge whist from New York society women, and now Mrs. Campbell says she never won any such money nor ever played bridge whist in her life. Yellow journalism again, The exposition at Charleston is called “The Ivory City,” but as the featvre which attracts most atten- tion is the negro building, it would seem that ebony city would have been more appropriate, make themselves solid with the fruit and other out shippers by pretending to help them by doing some- thing that t became law would be of no more effect than the incantation of a Digger Indian before an image made of a Yankee pumpkin. Let the next Legislature hear a loud call to stick |to the possible, to achieve it without demagogue blather, and we may yet get something out of our Railway Commission to justify its existence. Uncle Sam has decided to arm the long frontier | which faces our Canadian friends and brethren. The best way to preserve good-fellowship and the bless- ings of peace is to prepare for war, ENATOR BACON of Georgia has introduced S a resolution providing for the genetal circula- tion of the Congressional Record. His propo- sition is to offer it to the public like any other publi- cation, at a price of about $2 for each session, the Government engaging to publish and distribute many copies as are required to supply the demand. The Senator supported his resolution by saying it is designed to give the people fuller info#mation concerning the proceedings of Congress than are ob- tainable through the press. Senator Hawley of Con- necticut commended the proposition, and in doing so lamented the comparative neglect of Congress by the newspapers of to-day. He stated that his own newspaper experience runs back forty‘or fifty years, and that in former times the préss gave a much fuller account of the proceedings of Congress and of the speeches of distinguished ‘members than is given by the press of to-day. Believing that the decline in { the amount of space given to Congress is doing harm to the country, he joins with Senator Bacon in urging a mcastre to make the Congressional Record fill a long-felt want. Of course anything that increases popular knowl- cdge of the course of national legislation Will be beneficial. There are a good many people doubtless who have time to read the Record and who are will- ing to do so. It is probable some such persons can be induced to pay $2 for the privilege of reading the | proceedings of a sessici; but as under existing con- ditions almost any one can obtain the Record from his Congressman without paying anything for it at all, it is not likely the number®¥f subscribers would be large. As a matter of fact the newspapers give the public about ‘all the proceedings of Congress that the pub- lic care to read. Times have changed since Senator Hawley began his career as a newspaper man fifty years ago. In those old days the American people were not much interested ‘in anything except poli- tics, and naturally enough the newépapers gave most of their space to news from Washington. Very di- ferent is the condition of affairs now. The advance- ment of science, the tremendous expansion of indus- try, the increasing variety and interest of American social life and the development of int‘mational com- merce have brought new demands upon the public and upon the newspapers. Such matters can no longer be dismissed in a paragraph while a page is given to a speech of a Senator at Washington. More- over, while these diverse interests have been increas-, ing public interest in politics has been decreasing. We are no longer engaged in such strenuous politics as that which preceded and led up to the Civil War, The oratory of the House and of ‘the Senate no longer thrills a public mide intensely sensitive by a struggle that threatened disunion. 1 We make these comments upon Senator Hawley's as CONGRESS AND THE PEOPLE. { make them. At one moment he uses fairly concilia- tory language, but at the next he is making threats which, as regards the most important people con- cerned, entirely close the door en conciliation.” It appears from all of these contradictory showings that both the Boers atd the British are making grand stand plays in public, but are secretly working through the Dutch Government to arrange for end- ing a war of which both sides are tired. At present the negotiation shows a very pretty game in dip- lomacy. The Dutch Government officially and for- mally declares it has no intention of intervening, and will not consent to mediate. It.announces it has no intention to even suggest anything. - The British de- clare they have no terms to offer to any except "the Boers in the field, and the terms to them are uncon- ditional surrender. The Boers in their turn assert a determination not to negotiate for anything ex- cept independence. Still the talk of peace goes on, and it seems evident that each of the three parties to the game has much better cards in his sleeve than he shows in his hand. . e ——rp—— In a single week recently New York received 6o,- ooo sacks of poggtoes imported from Great Britain and Boston about 5000 sacks, so it would seem the old country has a few foodstuffs in sufficient quantity to share with her neighbors. THE FLANNELED FOOLS. IPLING has been supported by the London K Times in his attack upon the “fannéled fools” and “muddled oafs” of Great Britain who spend their time playing cricket and golf.insteAd of learning how to be of use to their country in pro- tecting the “lordliest line in the world.” While most of the voices of Britain have been loud in commenda- tion of the healthful games of the schools, universi- ties and clubs, and either indignant or sarcastic ‘in criticizing the poet for his rough-rhymed attack upon them, the Times says Kipling is right—that the devo- tion to games and athlctic sports in Great Britain has been carried too far and has become a positive evil in the land. . The Times says the public delight in games has row reached-a point where engagement .in athletic sports is virtually “compulsory” upon every young man who has any leisure at all. The schools expect it of every robust pupil and the universities of every stalwart student. After graduation the young man finds that his county or his club eipects him to con- tinue at the games in order to uphold its ‘prestige in the face of rivalry. By reason of the pressure of such a public sentiment, cricket and football have become “the serious business” of many young men who ought to be much better employed. The games them- selves lose in value by the devotion of the people to them, because they cease to be a means of recreation and become a pursuit requiring excessive training and exhausting #rials of strength and speed. Furthermore the Times says the men who are fore- most on the ball grounds have not been prompt in responding to the call of the country for volunteers for the war. In short, the conclusion is that Kipling is fully justified in denouncing the athletes as “flan- neled fools at the wickets and muddled oafs at the goals,” and that empire cannot put its trust in such men. 5 > The athletes will now have to turn their attention to the Thunderer, and Kipling can give his mind to the compositiod of a new and roughér blast at the aristocracy that desires empire without having the | courage to fight for it. PERSONAL MENTION. E. O. Miller, a banker of Visalia, registered at the Palace. J. Miller, postmaster of Vancouver, B. C., is a guest at the Grand. J. H. Polk, a capitalist of Los Angeles, is at the Palace with his family. W. C. Price, an oil speculator and cap- italist of Pasadena, is at thé Grand. Frank H. Buck, the well-known fruit- grower of Vacaville, is at the Palace. Harry L. Ford, an official of the United States Coast Survey Department, is at the Lick. Bank Commissioner John Markley is down from Marysville and is registered at the Lick. 3 3 O. G. Sage, manager of a "hardware store at Sacramento, is among the ar- rivals at the Palace. J. Haslacher, a merchant of Oakdale, is down here on a short business trip. He has made his headquarters at the Palace. Leonard Joseph, vice president of the Joseph Brothers Railway Supply Com- pany of Cincinnati, is at the Palace. He sails on the Sierra for a tour of Aus- tralia. is —_——— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 6—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—Mrs. Lonsdale, at Na- varre; C. H. Lumberg, at Manhattan; Mrs. E. A. Miller, at Grand; W. B. Cope, at Holland; J. F. Valentine, at Broadway Central; I. L. Gilbert, at 8t. Denis. From Los, Angeles—P. Farre, at Im- perial. From San Jose—J. W. Kliley, at Marl- borough. Wealth of Arizona Mines. The Prescott Prospect has issued a Spe- cial mining edition devoted to infarming the world concerning the wealth ' of Yavapai County, Ariz. Particuldr at- tention is given to mining, but agricufture and grazing are described fully &nd the outsider will be astonished to.find out what a fine county this is. The Prospect takes off its hat, metaphorically speaking, to the climate, upon which it dwells wi enthusiasm. In all respects the Prospect has issued an admirable number, which will be of material assistance to the sec- tion which it pictorially represents and verbally describes felicitously. ' e s Ex. strong hoarhound candy.Townsend's.* —_——— Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* —_——— Townsend’s California glace fruits, 50c a nd, in fire-etched; boxes or Jap. bas- )’;‘;‘s. ‘A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * — e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 nt- gomery street. - Telephone Main 1042, * e A movement is on foot in North Caro- lina, prompted by the tobacco dealers, to Raleigh. Collection boxes are to be placed in’ stores where tobacco is sold. —_————— Burnett's Vanilla Extract is the fixed stand- ard ot excellence. Has outlived ériticism. Is the finest, purest vanilla extract that can be bought. g AR TSA 5 R sy “Senator Lotsmun,” ask fellows on the other side, me why you favor the ship subsidy bill.” “Well, sir,” answered the distinguished Senator, “after you've got your Nicara- guan canal dug you'll want to see some American ships go through it, won't | you?’'—Chicago Tribune. - ————— HOTEL DEL CORONADO, choicest Winter Resort in the world, offers best living, climate; boating, bathing, fishihg and most amuse- ments. E. 8. Babcock, manager, Coronado. Cal, in the winter of 1898 she was introduced to society In Stutt- L o e e e SR S erect a statue of Sir Walter Raleigh in| one of the" “will you tell ANSWERS TO QUERIES. NOW A DAYS—C. C., Occidental, Sono- ma County, Cal. There is a work of fietion called “Now a Days,” written by Mrs. E. M. Marshall. LIKE AND LOVE—Subscriber, City. Tt is proper to say “I like my friend” and “I love my friend.” The degree of affection is to be measured by the speaker. PAPER MONEY—C. C., Oc¢idental, So- noma County, Cal. Paper money of 1779 has no market value. It is worth what- ever the holder desires for it or an intend- ing purchaser is willing to give. OYSTER PLATES—W., Oakland, Cal. The correct way to use oyster plates, such as have compartments in then. in imita- tlon of shells, 1s to rest the oyster fn'the half shell in the compantments. 3 Sigs A WATERPROOF—W. P., Fort Brags, Mendocino County, Cal. The best atticle of for repairing a waterprodf, the sea: ”h’.fl‘g ce- which are opening, is gutta ment. a Rewllutionary ancestor. L] A CHANCE TO SMILE. Ambitious Reporter—Mr. Depew, if you Wwill tell me what you expect to say when your wedding comes off, so I can get a Scoop on the_other fellows, I'l promise mot to use it till we get a dispatch that you are married. Mr. Depew—My dear fellow, I'll do it, only you mustn’t tell anybody else. I ex-~ pect to say “I do.”—Chicago Tribune. The vender of the little toy automo- biles was doing a thriving business, and the tiny tin chauffeur guided his little machine round and round in a ceaseless circle. “Step right up, ladies and- gentle~ men,” called the vender. “Here's your Willle K.'s true to the life, only a quar- ter!”"—Boston Transcript. “You may not beMeve it,” sald the young man with the bad eye, “but I found a needle in a haystack once, when I was a boy.” “How long did it take you?" inquired the other fellows. ‘““About the tenth part of a.second. I sat down on it.”—Chicago Tribune. *-—— — O e | What to Do When Held Up by a Footpad By Chief of Police Wittman and Captain Seymous A Day at the Public Library The Funay Things People Do and Ask Foe There - Judge Coffey’s Wards in Chancery San Franciseo $200,000,000. SATAE G READ THE FICTION, FASHIONS HUMAN Orphans Who Are Heirs to Over RethhhS:)ry in Sunda"l‘ Call. 2 SRR SO TR R WOLFVILLE STORIES By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS, EREEE ’ N