The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 190% g The sgdaine Call. THURSDAY.... ..o oo esasses s MAY-TS, 1002 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A e A A A AN Address All Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. 2a A e A A TELEPHONE. &sk for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect Tou With tie Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS ..217 to 221 Stevenson St Clelivered by Oarriers, 15 Cents Per Weelk. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. .$6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8 months 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 65c SUNDAY CALL, One Year... WEEKLY CALL, One Year - All postmasters are authorized to receive subscripti Semple coples will be forws Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should be particolar to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. “when requested. 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April 17 April 18 Aprd 19 April 20 April 21 0 | April 22 30 | April 23 Apsil 24 April 25 April 26 April 27 April 28 April 29 April 30 + 1,855,710 ABOUT SUGAR. E have had occasion to call attention to the Wimpolitic utterances indulged .in by the pro- moters of free trade with Cuba. The De- partment of War and Economics, through Mr. Sec- retary -Root, has ceaselessly urged free trade upon the Republican party: It had been supposed that un- der the administrative organization of our Govern- ment such questions belonged to other -Cabinet officers. As far as our domestic production of sugar con- cerns the farmers the Secretary of Agriculture should be heard, for the taxpayers maintain his department by a large expenditure for the purpose of having at hand expert knowledge for the benefit of the tillers of the soil. The past reports of the Secretary of Agriculture show him™to be enthusiastic for beet sugar as a conspicuous addition to our farm crops. As a fiscal question the Secretary of the Treasury is especially charged with expert functions in regard to the tariff, which it is proposed to reduce or abolish. The committees of Congress in charge of the ques- tion have not called the Secretary of Agriculture nor the Secretary of the Treasury. But the Secretary of War seldom sees a day when he is too busy to favor Congress with instructions upon a question that does not belong to his department at all, and with an immodesty that is mcre than zeal invades the func- tions of two departments in a matter which is their business and not his. Suppose the case were reversed and the Secretary of Agriculture were déi]y issuing orders to Congress respecting things that belong to the War Depart- ment. There is openly expressed disgust and horror at the military methods employed in the Philippines. Suppose the Secretary of the Treasury should take advantage of this feeling uttered by Senator Lodge and Representative Sibley and other Republicans and proceed to instruct Congress to order the War Department to reverse its policy, would not the Sec- retary of War demand the Yesignation of Wilson and Shaw, or resign himseli? Everybody knows that that would be the result of such a game of cross purposes and interference in the Cabinet. Then why does not somebody resign when Secretary Root daily goes outside of his duty on an ferrand that not only humiliates two other members of the Cabinet but threatens the prosperity of the country and the supremacy of the Republican party? The frequency and effrontery with which an im- proper thing is done may make it safer to do by getting the people to accept persisterice for pro- priety, but all the people cannot be - fooled, and those who_cannot be will finally dictate the admoni- tion that will reach the responsible party ~who needs it. In the latest report of testimony offered by the Total 2 ETATE OF S CITY AND F £ ¥ FRANCISCO. ¢ ** On this 1. ay 2, personally appeared before me, William % “ry Public in and for the city and.| county aforesaid, W." J. Martin, who being sworn according 1o law declares that he is tbe business manager of The Sax Francisco Call,_a daily newspaper published in the city an San Francisco, ate of California, and that ther d and distribs during the month of April, 1902, | R hundred and fifty-five thousgnd seven hun 855.710) copies of the said newspaper, which ed by thirty (the number of days of issue) gives dally circulation of 61,857 copie: W. J. MARTIN. cribed and eworn to beforeeme this 12th day of May! ribed and ewo 20 fay ot lic in snd for the City and County of San Fran- State of California, room 1015 Claus Spreckels build- | 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER | Call subseribers contemplaiing n change of restdence during the summer ths can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew wddresses by motifying The Call Business Ofiice. This paper will also be on sale at all summer | nd is represented oy a local agent in | on the coast. TOURING THE STATE. of the State Board of Trade, is doing a most | desirable and necessary work. San Francisco | too little personal touch with the rural parts of the State. The fields and orchards and vine- the forests and mines, have poured into the merce of this city, and through them almost en- tirely has come the impression of the resources of California TH}: Promotion Committee, under the auspices vards, n adopted cf sending the business and pro- onal men of San Francisco on tours around the | State, to meet the people, study natural resources and hail the men whose labor and enterprise are ed- veloping them, promises to add to commercial | knowledge the desirable element of personal and“ sympathetic contact. All this may sound strangely | tern man, who has not in mind the vastness nia. To travel over it, study its resources and meet its people is as if a committee of New Yorkers start on the road to study the country and | meet the people from their own city to Charleston, | S. C. In this desirable and pleasant survey of Cali-.| fornia these social and commercial tourists come in | contact with a far greater variety of resources and kinds of production than is found between New | York and Charleston. The methods and means of | development they wili see are immel.\sel)' greater in | fumber. Some of them would be as novel to a New | York business man as the processes modern | physical laboratory. The next tour taken is to include the vast and rich Sacramento Valley. It is better stored with natural similar area anywhere on the sur- face of the earth. From the gold and copper of its upper stretch to the fruits and farm crops of its delta | lands that valley is 2 world in itself. There is no | want of man for the necessaries -of life and no long- ing for its luxuries that Sacramento Valley cannot | supply All this is framed in scenery of a beauty and maj- | esty that has no rival, and is under a climate that no lJand can match. Every day in the year that valley is producing something of value to commerce, and the toil that develops it is performed under such | physical conditions gs-to -make it seem like the pieasure of recreation to workers under the hard and exhausting climatic conditions of the East. San Francisco may well study - this empire of wezlth that has its commercial drainage to her har- bor, to her docks and warehouses. It will be an enlightening experience for her business men and will be appreciated by all the communities that are visited. If there be Eastern business men or in- vestors sojourning among us, by all means let them be invited to join the party. They will get needed knowledge. In the vast orange groves of the Sacra- mento they will smell the blossoms and see the form- ing fru They will sce the vineyards and the or- chards, the wheat just heading and the bearded bar- ley yellowing for the reaper. They will see the cop- of a wealth than an lings depcsits signifies something Cuban free-traders, under the instigation of the War Department, is the evidence of Mr. Kelly, “exten- ively interested in Cuban sugar-growing.” He swore that the Cuban sugar-growers would be the eneficiaries of iree trade, and that the refiners would not gain anything from it. This, of course, is in- tended to relieve the issue of any incubus that might be caused by the interest of the sugar trust. But it does not remove a single offensive feature of the antastic proposition. It simply brings the issue again between the American and Cuban sugar- growers. 3 The American farmer pays American wages and American taxes. He is paying now the cost of the war which gave Cuba her independence and will go on paying pensions on the same account for many years to come. The benefit given to the Cuban |p!anters is taken out of the pocket of the American farmer. But the Cuban planter pays neither Ameri- can pensions and wages nor American taxes. He does not pay a dollar of the cost of making his isl- and independent. The only way to get anything from him for all that was spent to make him free is by putting a tariff on his sugar and tobacco. But the Secretary of War and Economics says that we are under obligations to the Cuban planters and they are under none to us! If this view had been sug- gested before the Spanish war Weyler would still be Captain General and the Secretary of War would not be dividing with him the horror of reconcentra- | tion camps and the butchery of children. In the investigation into the conduct of the Amer- ican army in the Philippines which has been in progress in Washington, it is said that the service tends to derange the mind of the American soldier. Perhaps aiter all this is the only rational defense of the water cure. A PROOF OF PROSPERITY. GRATIFYING proof of the prosperity of A San Francisco is found in the report of the Board of Bank Commissioners that there is now on deposit in the savings banks of this city $1,046,068 more than at the close of last year. The total amountf‘due depositors by these banks now amounts to $134.476,550 77. Deposits in. savings banks represent in the main the prosperity of the working classes. Tt is true that others than wage-earners sometimes make such de- posits, but as a rule it is the wage-earners or the men and women of small salaries whose savings go to banks of that character. An increase in savings | bank deposits is therefore an unfailing register of the welfare and advancing wealth. of the labor of the community. It is to be borne in mind that an increase of sav- more than ap- pears in the figures themselves. For a considerable period there has been a notable . acfivity in the building trades of the city, and while there is no way of estimating accurately how much of that activity | is due to the building of workingmen's homes, or how much of the savings of the wage-earners, has been expended in that way, it is certain that the ag- gregate amount has been large. Moreover, other large sums have been employed in paying off debts and mortgages upon homes erected by workingmen in former years. Finally, the general increasc of prosperity has raised the standard of living; and the great mass of the laboring population of the city has lived better during ihe past year than during the period that followed the financial panic and indus- trial depression which were so disastrous to the country. The bank deposits represent the savings over and above those increased expenditures. In this increasing prosperity the workingmen of the city can find ample reason for sustaining the Re- publican policies of protection and sound money. Prosperity of course depends mainly upon industry and thrift, but without well ordered legislation for the protection of industry and the maintenance of the value of the money in which labor is paid even per and gold mines in action, the forests ripe for the the most industrious and the most thrifty cannot be sure of earning enough to live in comfort, much fess saw, and around it all an inspiration in the sunshine | saving anything. The workers of America were as and scenery that may be enjoyed only.in California. | industrious and as A rifty during the panic years as - I'they are now, but they could not find continuous employment at good wages, and the result was that instead of increasing their deposits at the banks they were in many instances compelled to draw upon the savings of former years. The lesson taught by that experience should not be forgotten. The men who are making deposits in the savings banks under the beneficent influence of protection and sound money should on election day deposit in the ballot-box votes to maintain those policies. I Superintendent Geary of the Philadelphia Hospital for the Insane recently stated at a hearing of a spe- cial legislative committee that Go per cent of his pa- tients are tainted with insane blood, and urged legis- lative action in the direction of a rigid marriage law to prevent the marriage of persons affected in that way. Should such a law be enacted the Justices of New Jersey would have a bonanza in marrying Penn- sylvania couples. ONE ON THE TRUST. SINCE the rapid and unexpected rise'in the price of beef there have been many counselors ad- vising the American people how to bring the price down again, or how to live and wax fat despite of it. Some assert that the increased price is due to | jan arb‘n_rary act of the beef trust and they applaud the President for trying to bust it. Others declare the real cause of the advance is an excessive demand for beef, and they recommend the wholesale adop- tion of a vegetarian diet. There are others who sug- gest use of different kinds of meat, and among them | | are some who seem to be trying to revive the Bel- gian hare craze, so insistently do they urge the value of the flesh of that creature as a substitute for | | everything the ox can supply, from an oxtail soup to a bullshead breakfast. Not one of the many suggestions has found much favor. Fighting the trust is a long process and peo- ple cannot wait breakfast and dinner until the trust is busted. ‘A diet of herbs does not suit the Ameri- can taste, and the adoption of it in this . instance would seem too much like a surrender to the t-ust for it to be accepted even with as much grace as might otherwise have been accorded it. Finally, the country has no desire Yo raise the Belgian hare busi- ness agai. One wrestle with that rage is enough. In this dubious condition of the public mind the Mil- waukee Wisconsin comes forward with a solution of the whole problem. It proposes that the peéple use horse meat. X In advocating the new food the Wisconsin says: | “The horse is the cleanest of all animals, and there- fore his meat is not unhealthful. We have had some experience in' horse beef and know what it is. In 1870 we were shut up for two months in the siege of Paris, and horse beef was served up by not a few of the restaurants under the title of ‘fillet de mouton.’ It is a palatable diet, but inasmuch as there is 'no fat in the beef it is not very nourishing. Meredith M. Read, who was our Consul General at the time iin Paris, told us Xhat he lived during the whole siege on horse beef. It satisfied hunger, but was not a | nourishing diet. That is really the only objection to horse meat. The animal before® being slaughtered was carefully inspected by a veterinarian, and if pro- nounced free from disease it was sold to the public. It is strange there should be any prejudice against horse beef. The animal in all its habits is nearly’ human—it is'so cleanly.” e We present the suggestion for what it is worth. To Californians of course it is of no value except as a topic of current interest illustrating life in the East. In this State we are not likely to be forced to eat horses. If the worst comes we can live on prunes. Still i is instructive to note that since Chicago or- ganized the beef trust and raised prices Milwaukee shows the country how to get.a horse on the trust. There is one statement of the Wisconsin, however, that needs explanation. It says the horse “in all its habits' is nearly human.” Is that regarded in Mil- waukee as an argument for eating it? RUSSIAN INTOLERANOE, EPRESENTATIVE GOLDFOGLE of New R York recently procured the adoption by the House of a resolution calling upon Secretary Hay for information concerning alleged discrimina- tions on the part of the Russian Government against | American citizens of the Jewish race. In. response | the Secretary has informed the House that *since Secretary Olney's effcrts to secure equality of treat- ment for American citizens in Russia the position of the State Department has not changed and its | ' | efforts have been continued. They have not, how- | | [ ever, been attended with encouraging success.” The Secretary added that he has no reason to believe that American Jews are treated by the Russians in any way differently irom the Jews of other nations. The report raises a problem for American consid- eration. It is no defense for wrong done to an American citizen to say that citizens of other coun- tries are treated just as badly, nor should the appar- cnt willingness of other countries to submit to the ill- | treatment of their citizens be regarded as an excuse | for an equal willingness on our part. The reference ! of the Secretary to the treatment of Jews of other lands is therefore irelevant to the issue. Our sole | | concern is with the manner in which that class of | | American citizens are treated by a Government which for a long series of years has continued, against our protestations, to act harshly and unjustly. It is conceded, of course, that Russia has a right to exclude undesirable immigrants or travelers from her soil. The United States refuses to admit Rus- sian anarchists, criminals or paupers, and Russia has a right to exclude similar classes of Americans should any of them desire to go to that country. That principle, however, does not apply to the case | before us. The injustice of the course of the Rus- sian Goveinment lies in the fact that discrimination {is made against certain persons of American birth | and citizenship not because they are criminal, dis- | cased or indigent, but solely because of their race and their religion. Against such discriminations it | would seem that we have not only a right to protest, but that it is our duty to do so. As all efforts made by our State Department since the days of Olney have been met with so much ob- .| duracy on the part of the Russian Government that no encouraging resuits have been attained, it seems clear that more vigorous efforts are necessary. There is no reason why an American citizen in Russia should not be as well treated as a Russian is tion of race or religion in our citizenship, we should 1ot permit others to make such distinctions. All that we have to ask of the Russian Government is hat the validity of the American pasd)ort shali be recognized no matter by whom it is borne. The is- Congress has taken it up and roused the State De- | partment to renewed efforts to put an end to the | business houses and public men by the | pound, in fire-etched bo wrong. 5 ?n- Cllwm.gumm .(:nan -),m!n Ci‘ll- 9. :As nice -~ for. ¥ 7 treated in this country; and, as we make no distinc- | %" NEW YORK'S LATEST - IN BIG SKYSCRAPERS R e e HIS remarkable building, the illustration of which is reproduced from Har-, per's Weekly, is being erected in New York at the southern Junction ot' Broadway and Fifth avenue. only in its appearance, but in its mechanical constr ing is like the prow of an enormous steel ship. sue is an important one, and it is gratifying that | @ + 3 sw‘du Morm&nux; uupplhd .daily to present 609 Market st., Palace Hotel bul It is to have a height of twenty stories above the ground on a plat of land most difficult for construction purpeses. Not ‘uction, the great build- L] Townsend's California glgce fruit, 50c a | R | HAWAI!'S MASONS HONOR FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY Special ‘Correspondence of The Call. HONOLULU, May 7.—The fiftleth an- niversary of Hatvailan Lodge No. 21, Free and Accented Masons, was celebrated in the Mascnic Temple here on the night of Monday, May 5. The rooms and hall were thronged with guests. 3 The ceremonies were conducted by Wor- | shipful Master Frederick Whitney. { Seated with him on the dais were Judge Morris M. Estee, past grand master of the Grand Lodge of California; E. Oscar White, master of Lodge Pacific, and Wal- jace R. Farrington, master of Lodge le Progres. An interesting historfcal ad- dress of the Hawaiian Lodge was given by Past Master John A. Hassinger, who began with a sketch of Honolulu in the early days and concluded with conditions | of to-day and an account of recent Ma- sonic ceremonies. The Republican Central Committee, after a discussion that has lasted several weeks, has finally adopted primary rules for the coming election. The discussion was over the adoption of a rule allowing all persorfs who wish to enroll themselves the time of the closing-of the polls, and placing restrictions, such as requiring a piedge to support the Republican party. as a prerequisite for voting. Those who tavor the former plan prevailed, largely on acount of the last convention having declared for such a plan. The general system of rules adopted makes the pre- cinct clubs the unit of the party and con- fines voting in the primary elections to those who are on the club rolls. The | home rulers are preparing to adopt a | stmllar system. : Another inquiry has been received here reported from Tahiti as a cure for leprosy, | and with which the Hawailan Board of | Health is preparing to make experiments at | the leper settlements as soon as enough of | the plant shall have been grown. This | time the inquiry comes from a leper in | Brazil, who asks that some of the plant | be sent to him. The barks Andrew Welch and Alden | Besse yesterday ended a remarkably close | race here from San Francisco. They left | the Golden Gate twenty-one days ago, the | Alden Besse about two hours and a half | ahead of her rival. They arrived here in just about the same relative positions as ! to time, after twenty-one days of sailing. | The Welch' passed the other at ome point | during their voyage, for she arrived off the coast of Maui on the 3d, leading the | other vessel. Between Maui and Hono- lulu, however, the positions changed and the vessel which left San Franciseo two | hours and a half ahead arrived at Hone- | lulu two hours and a palf ahead. - | Dr. A. E. Nichols, a well-known dentist | here, filed a petition in bankruptey on the | 3d, showing personal debts of about $20,000 | and no assets excepting a small amount | of personal property, which he claims as | exempt from execution under a law ‘pa!!ed by the last Legislature. He was declared a bankrupt to-day by Judge ! Estee in acordance with his petition ana | a referee was appointed to look after the | interests of the creditors, Over $5000 of | Dr. Nichols’ debts are running accounts with local merchants. PERSONAL MENTION. B. Cussick, a lumber man of Chico, is at the Grand. J. C. Steele, 2 mining man of Carrville, is at the Grand. i George Schwin, a merchant of Huron, is at the Grand. | 'J. H. Batcher, a merchant of Sacrae ! mento, is at tWe Grand. i Thomas Derby, a mining man of New Almaden, is at the Paiace. { F. A. Hihn, a well-known capitalist of | Santa Cruz, is at the Palace. ! A. G. Wells, the Santa Fe representae | tive in Los Angeles; is at the Palace. 1 Frederick Beaudry, a mining man of | Colorado, is at the Palace, accompanied | by his wife. | I H. Tuttle of Watsonville, president of the Pajaro Valley Board of Trade, is | spending a few days in the city. |CITY SHOWS WONDERFUL i FINANCIAL PROSPERITY | Eighteen Commercial Banks Gain | 4,742,203 25 in Deposits Since | Close of Last Year. { The financial condition of the eighteen | commercial banks of San Francisco is sald by the Board of Bank Commissioners to be better than at any previous périod {In the history of the city. That the city | as a whole is very prosperous is evidenced | by the fact that there was on April 30 on | deposit in these institutions $4,742,203 29 more than on December 31 of last year. The statement of resources and Habili- | ties of the local commercial banks, as of- ‘flclally reported April 20, is as follows: Resources—Bank premises, $2,165,108 96; | other real estate, $2,465,158 42; miscellaneous | stocks and bonds and county warrants, 1038 90; loans on real estate, $3,903,715 63; {loans on stocks, bonds and warrants, $17,253 €62 11; loans on other securities, $4,693,553 04; loans on persenal security, including overdrafts, | $22,849,226 46; money on hand, $13,531,261 07: | due from banks and bankers, $19,525,572 25; | turniture and fixtures, expenses and taxes and | other assets, $3,270,423 77; total resources, $97,- | 346,616 60. Liabilities—Capital paid In coln, $10,408,.- @51 05; reserve fund and profit and loss, $15.- | 408,490 34; due depositors, $60.287.341 0L; due | banks and bankers, $7,436,472 78; other Habil- | itles, $3,805,161 42; total labilities, $97,346,- | 618 6o, } Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend" * | Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend’s.* ! Note 81 4th (front barber and grocery), | gen. cyeglasses, specs, 10c to 40¢ 9 to 5. * % \ oolie labor. It is made to work ‘l)lfla";‘:xi.\l::n%s with much better effect than the coolfes do or can. The question that troubles the Indian Government is what is to become of the natives, who are in- capable of any other work. —eeee #? Going to Thunder Mountain ?? The Northern Pacific Rallway is the best, cheapest and quickest route. From Lewiston and Stites, Idaho, there are good wagom roads 1o either Warrens or Dixie, from which points the trails into this district are most accessibie. For rates, etc.. address T. K. STATELER. @. A., 647 Market st., S i e 0o S Do Your Feet Ache And burn, and make you tired all over? Allen's Foct-Ease makes the shoes comfortable, rests and cools the feet and makes walking easy. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25¢c. Sample sent Free, Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. l TWENTIETH CENTURY COOK BOOKS A car-load of Cook Books as just arrived from Chicago and they are ready for distri- ution at the business office of this paper. All Call sab- seribers aré entitled to a copy i of this great Cook Book at l the premium price of fifty | | | Electricity has infringed on the sphere i cents. An ndditional charge of 20 cents to pay expressage will be required from out of town ~ subscribers ordering by matl. 1 on the precinet clubs to cast a vote up .- {