The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 21, 1902, Page 6

The-s ibiiac Call. WED!;'—ESDAY“..‘...............HMAY 21, 1902 JOHN 'D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. BUSINUSOVT Aédress ANl Ccmmunieations to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager, TELEPHONE. &sk for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. ¥. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stevemsom St. Celivered by Carrfers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cemts. Terms by Mail. Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. change particuler t give both NEW AND OLD o isure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. DAKLAND OFFICE.....ccvscs...1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Wanager Yoreign Advertising, Marquette 3 Guong Distance Telephone “Central 2619.”) NEW YORE CORRESPONDENT: G O CARLTON......coccnveseec.Herald Square NEW YORK HEPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH 30 Tribume Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: * Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel MWASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St., N. W. 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AGE'S scheme for setting the corporations of G the State above the people through the me- dium of Assembly constitutional amendment No. 28 is worth studying in detail. It has wheels within wheels and each wheel is a buzzsaw for the people. Should it be adopted the voters of the State would be put out of business so far as' the regulation of corporations is: concerned, for they would have little or nothing to do in the selections of the Commissioners provided for by the amend- t, who are to have exclusive jurisdiction and power over all the relations of the corporations to the people. If the amendment be adopted the term of the C nissioners will begin on the first Monday after the first day of January succeeding the election, and consequently Gage will have the power of appoint- ing them. t is provided that: “The members of the com- ion in the first instance shall be appointed by the Governor, one from each district, and the Gov- ernor shall designate one thereof to hold office for two years, one for four years, one for six years, one for eight years and one for ten years; and in mak- ing such appointments the Governor shall not ap- point more than three Commissioners from any one political party.” As it is further provided “that the act of the majority of the Commissioners shall be deemed to be and shall be the act of the commis- sion,” it will be seen that the Governor can appoint three 'men chosen not merely from his own party, but from his own faction, who will control the com- mission for at least six years. After the terms of the first appdintees are ended each succeeding Commissioner is to hold office for ten years. We have this prospect for the voters: From one district Gage will appoint a Commissioner for ten years; when that term is over his successor will be elected for ten years; thus in that district the people will have a chance to elect a.Commissioner just once in twenty years. For the Cominissioner from the district represented by Gage's appointee for eight years, the people will have but one vote in eighteen years. For the Com- missioner for the six-year term the people will have but one chance to vote in sixteen years. Those three Commissioners will form a majority of the board, and by combining they can govern it. Their act will be the act.of the commission. Gage can put those men in power, one for six, one for eight and one for ten years. It will be a cinch for the They will have only to bring about by intrigue of corruption the election of the svccessors of those men to continue their power for sixteen years, or possibly for twenty years. Short of 2 demand for absolute power the corporations could hardly ask for more than what Gage’s amend- ment scheme purposes to give them. It is to be borne in mind that the amendment was carried through both branches of the Legislature by trick and deceit worked out in secrecy. The same tactics are to be employed in the effort to get it adopted by the people. The bosses who are working for the amendment do not discuss it. They make no attempt to defend it. They do not so much as at- tempt to excuse it. Their programme of action is to keep silent and avoid arousing the public. It is therefore the duty of the press to keep the issue clezarly before the people. The feature of the measure we have just pointed out is but one of its many evils. Were it the only cne, however, it would be enough to condemn it. The average duration of human life is but thirty-five years, so that the average man has but fourteen ars of life as a voter. It will be seen that should this amendment be carried the average voter would have but a slim chance of ever getting a vote in the selection of the three men who are to control the commission and virtually dominate the common- wealth so far as its dealings with corporations are concerned. In fact, the amendment is all for the commission. - The voters are not in it. e e corporations. A baseball player at St. Joseph was shocked the other day by lightning. And the “fans” have been wondering evér since why it was the umpire escaped. THE FRANCI O CALL, WED CUBA ‘LIBRE. T'is a source of gratification to all Americans and I to all lovers of liberty throughout the world that Cuba has at last taken her place among the na- tions. In this country it is a subject that will al- ways be remembered with pride, because of the high part taken in this great event by our own Govern- ment and people. Without that Cuba would to-day be a gasping victim impaled upon a spear. We may well forget some errors in policy and some expres- sions of selfishness that have appeared among our- selves which seemed to indicate ulterior motives at war with our expressed purpose when we intervened between Spain and the island. The new republic begins with an eftusion of patriotic feeling worthy of the people who know the cost of liberty and the watchfulness that must main- tain it. -The honor paid to the patriot dead, to those who long ago were martyred in what seemed a vain struggle, and to the living who staked all that men have to give, for freedom, is a most wholesome evi- dence of a patriotic spirit that will endure and grow | stronger with time. Patriotism is the cementing principle of all repub- lics. It is that love of country which has no relation to parties, nor dynasties, but regards them as pass- ing and impermanent things, while the land' and the people whom it nourishes from generation to genera- tion are the objects of popular love and solicitude. A San Francisco gentleman who recently spent some time abroad was one day riding in one of the fine parks in Vienna. The driver was evidently im- pressed by the American’s admiration of the beauti- ful grounds, and said to him: “It is very kind of the Emperor to permit his people to enjoy this park. He is very good to his people.” The answer was a clear-cut American expression to the effect that the people were very kind to the Emperor, because they permitted him to live in splendor in a palace which they provided and to pretend ownership of their parks and places, which he could not create nor care for. The Cuban people have been reared and schooled in that subserviency tc a dynasty and to a regal au- thority which assumed to permit them to live and imperfectly enjoy that which proceeded from their own toil and strength. It is high evidence of their spirit and of the force of our near-by example that they cast off this spirit of dependence and submis- sion and look themselves in the face as the owners of the island and the source of all that it has been made to bear and to be. They have neither hatred nor gratitude to express toward Spain, but exulted in their own enfranchise- ment. Though we are distant from the scene of their emergence into liberty, the American pulse quickens in contemplating it. The' church bells tolled a requiem for all the patriots who perished in the long combat against power and oppresSion. Marti and Garcia were not forgotten, and they and all the dead were blessed by the prayers of patriots. The free people marched to the fortress Cabanas and stood upon the spot where patriot prisoners had been manacled and shot, and where the daily slaughter had reddened the ground with the blood of men and boys whose crime was love of country. They were a nameless host of martyrs. They died in despair. Their last look was upon a land \yhere power knew no mercy and the greatest crime was patriotism. Forlorn and friendless they perished. But their grateful countrymen, exulting in the liberty of which theiriblood was the chrism, did not forget them, and the place of the death was crowned with flowers and hallowed by grateful tears. In these days when the rights of the strong are vaunted as the only rights of the world it is a stirring spectacle to see a physically weak people, few in numbers, strong only in purpose and great in their love of seli-government, take their place among the nations with a sovereignty that is the equal in dig- nity of the oldest and proudest of the nations of the earth. Americans who comprehend clearly the mis- sion of their own country rejoice with a great joy as their own flag is furled over Morro Castle and the bright banner of a new republic takes its place. The center of conflict in the Philippine war seems to have crossed thousands of miles from the Pacific islands to Washington, where the thunder of the Senatorial jaw artillery disturbs the dignified peace of the capital. The only casualty thus far reported is the English language. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. EPORTS that British officers and agents in R this. country have been instructed to make no further purchases of horses or mules for use in South Africa go far to confirm the belief that the chances of peace between the British and the Boérs are much better than has been given out in Parlia- ment. There is of course a desire on the part of the Ministry to begin retrenching expenditures as soon as possible, but at the same time they would not un- dertake it at the expense of the army unless they were much more sure of a termination of hostilities than they pretend to be in their official utterances. So strict has been the British censorship upon re- ports from South Africa that very little reliable in- formation has been made public concerning the terms offered by either party. The length ot time occupied in the negotiations, however, is enough to render it certain that the original propositions of the two parties were radically different from one an- other, and that a great deal of difficulty has been found in arranging a basis of agreement. v, Not long ago the London Telegraph obtained from its correspondent at Klerksdorp a report of in- formation gained by interviews with Boer delegates assembled there to discuss peace propositions. In the course of his repcrt he says the Boers concede that the two republics must pass under the sover- cignty of Great Britain, but demand that they be “reconstructed under the British flag as self-govern- ing states within a specified period. The time limit for reconstruction is to be one year, and there is to be no disfranchisement intérposed against those who have taken up arms.. A further consideration is that a sum of money sufficient to rebuild the de- stroyed farms and to fairly restock them should be granted. The amount is variously estimated at one to three millions sterling. Another and equally specific term is that there shall be immunity given to all rebels, Cape, Natal or others, and to all per- sons who bore arms against the British; that “no penal proceedings shall be taken against them, and that they shall not be otherwis¢ molested or debarred the enjoyment of any civic rights and privileges con- ceded to their fellow burghers.” " It is further stated that while the Transvaal men are eager for peace, the men of Orange Free State are sullen and unwilling to surrender. Among the British there are reported to be two' views—one in favor of continuing the fight until the Boers yield in an unconditional surrender, the other advocating a grant of liberal terms so that the con- thing of a czar in his district all rizht. quered will not feel humiliated and will more readily accept the empire. Kitchener, acting for the Gov- ernment, is rgported to have offered the Boers home rule after a period of reconstruction, royal pardon for all rebels, appointment of three Boers as mem- bers of the South African Council, £10,000,000 in- demnity for destruction of towns and farmhouses, revocation of the decree concerning the confiscation of Boer property and a return of the war prisoners. Such are the impressions gathered by a British | correspondent on the spot. His views, however, may be colored by a desire for peace. means certain the Boers are so eager to end the war as he supposes. It is to be noted that Lord Wolseley, who recently arrived home from South Africa, is quoted as saying: people in South Africa—that is, the non-combatants —are desirous of seeing the war ended. I do not be- lieve the Boers will ag-ee to terms unless their aims are accomplished.” One of the encouraging features of the times in local affairs is the fact that most of the members of our footpad fraternity who are caught are pleading guilty. Our Judges should keep up their excellent work of giving the rascals all they deserve. S STEAM OR ELECTRICITY HALL the railroads of the future be operated by steam or by electricity? Will the competition the electric lines develop into formidable com- petitors with the steam lines even in long distance hauling? - To the people of California such questions at this time are not practical. It is still a long time be- fore we are to have any serious problem of that kind to solve. To New England, however, they are very practical questions indeed. In that thickly settled section of the country electric suburban lines have already become strong rivals to the steam roads, and | in some respects they even threaten to supplant them. As an outcome of the .competition there is now before the Massachusetts Legislature a bill providing that “a railroad corporation may, subject to the ap- proval of the Board of Railroad Commissioners, subscribe for, purchase, own, invest in and.hold any shares of the capital stock of any street railway company, and may vote on all shares of stock so sub- scribed for, purchased, owned, invested in or held by it.” Commenting upon the bill the Boston Tra’nscript says its passage “would settle the question whether or not the street railways of the commonwealth are | to be developed into a system of rapid-service, long- distance lines, with their smaller lines acting as feed- | ers of their trunk lines, or whether the street rail- ways shall become feeders of the steam railroads, fol- lqwing the policy which has been pursued in Con- necticut.” It appears the steam railways of Massachusetts have for a long time ignored the rapid development of the electric lines, but can no longer afford to do so. In some cases their local traffic has been almost taken away from them. The bill now under consid- | eration would give them the privilege of buying up the competing lines and making use of them as feeders for the steam roads. It is believed the service on both kinds of roads would be improved by the combination and the public convenience benefited. The subject is interesting as an illustration of the rapidity with which the movement toward the con- solidation of corporate interests is going on. It has long been a foregone conclusion that the steam rail- ways of the country will eventually co-operate in- stead of competing with one another, - and now it seems that in thickly settled localities street railways will be consolidated with the steam lines. Broadly speaking the issue is one of concern to the whole country, and the Massachusetts experiment will be watched with close attention by all who are inter- ested in railway develcpment: It is said there is' no probability of a decline in the price of beef this summer, so the average citizen might as well look forward to living for the next three months on strawberries and cream. Tnekt Friday to Tulare County. That county was the former center of the San Joaquin Val- ley = stock-raising industry. There lived the cattle king, Senator Fowler, who was so long a power in the valley and led the “no fence” fight in the days when good men believed that the only use of the land was for raising cattle and sheep. Then Visalia was a sort of cowboy capital. - The «vaquero was the gtreat figure there and the rodeo was a regular annual festival. But that period has passed like a watch in the night. It is preserved only in the “Visalia saddle,” a form of that horsg equipment which originated ‘there and remains to this day the best mount for its purpose that was ever developed. How vast the change has been appears in the statement that these visiting business men will be shown in Tulare County 5000 acres of citrus ar- chards, growing and bearing in a belt that runs like a broad ribbon from Porterville three hundred miles north to Oroville. On that belt will grow oranges more excellent than the fruit of Sicily and in an abundance that will fill tens of thousands of cars and TULARE ORANGES. HE business men of this city will make a tour | supply not only the American market but send to Europe a surplus that will make the orange common to the foreign consumer, as it has never been made by the orchards of Italy and of Spain. But Tulare does not carry all her eggs in one bas- ket. The San Francisco merchants will see there prune orchards that have a record of half a ton of fruit per tree, the finest nectarines in the world, peaches and pears, figs more luscious than the Greeks feed on, dairies that produce butter that is | scented by- the ambrosial forage browsed by the cows, and cheese that is pressed cream. They will see the headed grain billowing in the wind, and high above it all the majestic mountains wearing an im- perial crown of snow, with their cheeks bearded by the forest of big trees that shade the trickling streams whose falls and cascades sing a song of plenty and of peace. e, It will do the business men of this city good to look at Tulare County, for it is good-looking and good to look at, and they will come back with a larger and better idea of the greatness of California and remembering the beauties of Tulare as a lover remembers the dimples of his sweetheart. T R e A KN L Speaker Henderson has an unruly following in the House, but as he has just been unanimously renomi- nated for an eleventh term it is evident he is some- SDAY, MAY 21, It is by no | “The majority of the, between electric lines and steam lines end in | the domination of city and suburban railways by the | great companies controlling the steam roads, or will | 1902. PRETTY FEATURES ARE PLANNED ANTA ROSA, May 20.—The juve- nile floral carnival in this city on Saturday, May 31, bids fair to be one of the most elaborate flower fetes ever witnessed in the north- ern section of California. The affair is under the auspices of the Women's Im- provement Club of this city, and com- mittees from that organization have the details well in band. Park will be the scene of the festivities. The youthful king and queen are row being drilled in their roles. The former is the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Blitz W. S | Paxton of this city, and is a bright-eyed | ! chap of 6 years. The queen who will rule daughter of ex-Congressman and Mrs. Thomas J. Geary. The selection of these little tots has met with the approval of a!l Santa Rosans. The king-elect is a precocious lad, and the little queen is ene of the prettiest children of Sonoma’s capital. THey will be drawn in a hand- somely decorated equipage, and will be robes of king and queen are to be of wkite satin and silver, and the attend- ants will be garbed in rose-colored rai- ment. Among the maids of honor se- | lected are twenty charming little girls, | and twenty-four tiny maidens in tosy | gauze will constitute a court of honor to | the monarchs. In addition there will be many pages and pretty court costumes. and the effect will be one of pleasing beauty. TRICKS OF GAGE “MEN IN THE SAN JOSE CAMPAIGN One of the tricks of the Gage manage- ment in the San Jose campaign was the Park. Governor Gage has, during the past few weeks, and in fact ever since the ing that he found’ the San Jose people strongly in favor of the park. His fol- lowers went a step farther and promised to be included in the park would be closed this week, or directly after the election. A San Francisco business man received a letter a few days before the election from | probably be closed this week. Hill is one of the prime movers for the Big Basin Park and he seemingly was led into be- lieving that the promises of the Gage management at San Jose relative to the park would be speedily fulfilled. The fact is that no titles to land have | the State and there is no @ i @ Cal. glace fruit 30c per 1b at Townsend’s.” —_————————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.” —_—e————— Note 81 4th (front barber and grocery), gen. eyeglasses, specs, 10c to 40c, 9 to 5. * e business houses -and public men by the | Fress Clipping Bureau. (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 Townsend’s California glace fruit, 30c a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bask- ets. A nice present for Eastern friends. | 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * —————— It’s Always Time To get one of our clocks—the quaint gold- candlesticks, candelabra cases make fine weddin, prizes for card parties. ! Co., 741 Market street. — and jewelry presents and anborn, Vl.ll.& Married constables of the London police | force receive forty pounds of coal a week all the year round. s St e TR A A PP Going to Thunder Mountain PP The Northern Pacific Rallway is the best, cheapest and quickest route. From Lewiston and Stites, Idaho, there are good wagon roads to elther Warrens or Dixle, from which points the tralls into this district are most accessible. For rates, etc.. address T. K. STATELER G. A., 647 Market st.. S. F. anflla_Extract is er than three of doubtful kind. Though cost- ing a few cents mome per bottle, its purity and ts-t-mmnmntmuxmtmm . One bottle of Burnett's better i s — e ——— { Grace Brothers’ | | with him {s Miss Helen Geary, the petite | received with civic pomp. The royal | use of promises concerning the Big Basin | campaign at San Jose opened, been say- | that the deal for the sale of the lands | Andrew P. Hill of San Jose, in which the | statement was made that the deal would | been passed by the Attorney General of | telling just Special information supplied daily to ! en ones that every one wants. Also gold | FOR THE JUVENILE FLORAL FET —p | wealth of roses shown. Master Weston Anderson, the little son of Dr. and Mrs. David P. Anderson, has been chosen as grand marshal. He will be mounted on his gayly caparisoned pony and lead his royal rulers over their tri- umphal march. Master George Proctor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Proctor, will act as drum major. He will have in charge a large drum corps and a corps of trumpeters, CARNDISL. e 7 i —b AR Zrr PaxroN CARNTVAL . THREE CLEVER.LITTLE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF ROSES WHO | WILL TAKE LEADING PARTS IN ITS CONCOMITANT HOMAGE TO MIMIC ROYALTY. THE CCMING FLORAL FETE AND The festivitles at the park will include | a floral parade and many prettily deco- | rated equipages will be in line. The pa-| rade will be a miniature rose pageant such as originated in this city several | years ago and which brought Santa Romi into much prominence by reason of the! when they will be. The Governor has no power to put the park project through without the co-operation of his assoclates in the Big Basin Park Gommission and they are inclined to go slowly, as pasi | events have abundantly demonstrated ]Comequenuy any promise that Gage | Would hasten the deal for the park was a { case of false pretenses, pure and simple. | In the past few weeks the Big Basn | Park Commissioners have made some progress. An opinicn has been secured from the -Attorney General of the State in ‘which the power of the commission to hypothecate the entire appropriation for the purchase of park lands was affirmed. | The owrers of'lands in the Big Basin { have about coneluded that there is no great thing for them in the price that the | Ssate will pay for their holdings. Various | concessions have been made by them tof | the commission and the tract that may be finally accepted will probably embrace nearer 3500 than 2500 acres. The original proposition of the lumber men was to | absorb the entire appropriation of $250,000 for 2500 acres, or just one-half the size of | the tract that the Legislature was assured by the Sempervirens Club was the lowest | limit acceptable for park uses. X 4 all of whom wil be clad in white and pink. Subsequent to the floral parade eighteen little fairies will give a delightful May- pole darce. . The carnival will end with a ball in the pavilion at the park in the evening. T!s grand march will be led by King Marshall 2nd Queen Helen. SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS OLD ACE—A. 8, City. The author of the poem entitled “Old Ace” and com- mencing with “What pleasures can com- pare,” is, so says a friend of this depart- ment, Fred Emerson Brooks. ASSUMED NAMES—A Subscriber, City. Persons may marry under assumed names as it is the individuals and not the names that are married, but in doing sq the per- sons are taking a “whole lot of trouble” upon themselve: PAN - AMERICAN CONGRESS — L. City. In Current FHistory, commencing with the December number, which can b2 geen in the periodical room of the free Public Library. will be found a concise account of what was done by the Pan- American Congress held in the City of Mexico. “Pinet of Paris” and to $20.00 per pair, at $3.50 per pair, Alssby THE STYLE PILOTS. e * set the pace in foot fashions. # Shoes of Genius,” they create,— at $12.00 Within 30 days after origination, their exact counterparts are on sale in 45 REGAL stores, This gives you London or Paris styles, six months ahead of other American stores. Style book reveals the method. Sold daly in 45 Regal Stores from Atiantic to Pacific. aad Loadon. SAN FRANCISCO STORE: S. W. Corner Stockton aod Geary Steee's “Thomas of London” mail.