The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 17, 1902, Page 6

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This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts amnd is represemted by a local agent in all towns on the coast. e INVITING -TOURISTS, URING the last three years there has been D observed a growing tendency of tourists from the East to visit the region of San Francisco Bay. It is a peculiar travel and seems to seek a tourists’ hotel in preference to the commercial botels in cities. Northern California has not sought to lure tourist travel, and especially has shunned ac- qQuiring 2 reputation as a sanitarium for lung diseases. But invalid tourists make up a small percentage of the annual migration which runs away from harsh winter weather in the East. Recently there is ob- served 2 movement ‘rom the East toward the cities around Sar Francisco Bay to escape the deadly hot weather of the summer. The fame of this region as 2 summer résort bids fair to eclipse that of South- ern California as a winter refuge. The resorts on the North Atlantic coast in Maine and the maritime provinces of Canada seem to be growing stale, and summer refugees who run away from sunstroke and thermal fever find this bay better suited to their pur- pose and our summer climate to have a zest that is missing 2t Bar Harbor, Mackinaw and other places on the Atlantic and the Great Lakes. Tourists find here a cool and invigorating summer climate, separated by only'a few miles from exceed- ingly desirable mountain resorts, and from the great but dry heat of the Valley of California. So they are coming here, and the State Board of Trade has appointed a committee to promote the building somewherc in the Contra Costa mountains conve- nient to Ozkland and San Francisco of a tourists’ hote! for their proper accommodation. The movement deserves encouragement. The loca- tioh will be convenient to two large cities. The waters of the bay invite to yachting. The scenery is of unsurpassed beauty and variety, and the summer climate perfect. The fast trains will soon put us but little more than two days from Chicago and St Louis, and we can easily make the Eastern sufferers from great heat acquainted with a delightfully cool summer climate in the latitude of Washington and Baltimore. The pioneer hotel will no doubt soon be followed by many others, for, hard as the Eastern winter is to bear, the Eastern summer is worse, and when those who are exposed to its risks and discomforts once get 2 breath of our summer air they will become mis- sionarics to spread the gospel of our climate among their feliow sufferers. Tie Emperor of Japan has recentiy given-his baby grandson a formidable but handsome dagger. No- body seems to know whether this is an act of affec- tion or hatred toward the youngster, who is only a few days old. Geronimo wants the job of rounding up Tracy, that ubiguitous rascal who is touriag the Northwest. If the tifing could only be arranged society would chuckle if both gentlemen made a finish fight of it. {however, will not have much effect upon. the | It is hardly necessary to say the Polés are jarred. N THE SAN THE FOREST RESERVES. AHE courts have decided that an act of Congress ”-l is necessary to protect the Federal forest re- serves from trespass. Merely reserving the for- est land irom sale to private parties does not change its character as part of the public domain, and so the courts hold that it is not within the authority of the executive branch of the Government to exclude any cne from the public land. Sheepherders are i2king advantage of this deci- sion and now have mzny thousands of sheep in the reserves in this State. The situation should cause Congress to pass needed iegislation. The system of eserves is being made unnecessarily unpopular by regulations that injure the owners of patented lands and water rights within the reservations. Since the great development of the use of elec- |tricity generated by hydraulic, power it has been found in this State and Colorado, especially, that the Government reservations cover the best locations for water power. The proper use of that power in no way interferes with the purpose for wiich the reser- vations are created, which is to preserve the forests which cover them. If the water power can be used for generating electricity the use thereof will in many ways help in protecting the forests. Electric tram- ways for the use of mines on mineral lands already patented and for facilitating transportation and com- munication would permit the rapid mobilizing of forces for use against fires and trespassers. Such use of power is not at present permitted, and so a harmless means of developing the country is | prevented by an executive regulation which is not founded ir any good reason that runs to the purpose for which the reservations were made. The Sierra Nevada Mountains are covered by reservations for hundreds of miles. No matter how desirable it may be to throw electric lines across them, or to pene- trate them with electric tramways, thus increasing the safety of the forests, the executive regulations stand in the way. The water power unused, the operation of patented mines is prevented, and the sheep- herders and other trespassers, who do serious dam- age to the forests, are able to defy all attempts to control them. These useless restrictions make the reservation policy unpopular. Its great and lasting utility is lost sight of in the annoyance of land-owners, who feel themselves unjustly restricted in the use of their mines and other holdings. - Congress should provide by law for all uses of and casements over these reservations that do not inter- fere with the preservation of the forests. It should | also provide for bette: foresting of the timber land. | All timber that has reached the point of maturity and will soon begin to decay should be cut for economic uses under the supervision of trained foresters, who { will compel its harvesting in such ways as not to in- jure the growing trees, which should be carefully pre- served as the coming crop in a permanent forest. At the rate at which the valuable timber forests of the country in private ownership are being destroyed it will not be many years before the country will de- pend for timber and lumber upon the Government forests, as has long been the case in Continental Europe. Throughout our Government reservations | forest trees that ought to have been cut are passing | their maturity and are. falling, cumbering ‘the forest { floor and furnishing fuel for the spread of fires that destroy the young crop and render vast tracts value- | less. Foresters, like Fernow and Pinchot, should be con- sulted by Congress in the framing of intelligent legislation on this subject. All these public forests should be put under the management of expert for- esters, trained in the forestry' schools of Yale, Cor- nell and the other colleges of the country. Such oc- cupation should furnish employNent for hundreds of hardy young men, who are trained in all the special- ties of forest preservation. Pine forests are béing destroyed by insects. Already the large and small bark beetles which destroy the bull pine, Pinus ponderosa, have appeared as far West as Colorado, where they are completely de- stroying the forests of that pine on the Government reservations. They operate by eating the cambium, the sweet tissue between the bark and the outer layer of wood. They were first observed operating in South Dakota, and are now-evidently migrating. They lodge first in the bull pine, and as many as 100,000 of them have been found in one tree. When they de- stroy all the bull pine they attack ather coniferous trees. If they could cross the plains between Da- kota and Colorado they are sure to appear in the Cascade and Sierra Nevada ranges. This invasion makes imperative the guarding of these forests by foresters who have all the knowledge of dendrology and entomology necessary to protect them. But while this winged destroyer of trees is mov- ing upon us, and while it is completely wiping out the trees reserved in Colorgdo, the Government is busy preventing the use of water power and hindering the control of private property and making annoying regulations against things that would help protect the forests, while it reserves them as food for bark beetles. The bucolic stranger who believed that he could match his shrewdness against the craft of our in- teresting and accomplished bunko steerers probably belongs to that great band which knows everything without ever having learned anything. THE TRUST PROBLEM., going to develop intg the paramount issue of Amgrican politics in the next two years and form the subject of party controversy in the Presi- dential election of 1904. That does not mean that one party will denounce trusts while the other advo- cates and defends them. No such easy division of opinion on the subject is possible. The controversy will arise solely upan the method of dealing with the problem. It will not be a question of the nature of the evil, but of the proper remedy. The trend of political discussion in the East, where politics occupies ‘much mor:/i public atten- UvNLESS all signs fail the trust problem is tion than it does here, is clearly infthe direction of making an iséue on the trusts for submission pri- marily to Congress and afterward to the people. The tendency toward that end is notable in both parties. That fact constitutes one of the salient features of the discussion and is significant of its growing im- portance, On the Democratic side there is a certain eager- ness to claim the solution- oi the problem as their privilege and to deny the right of Republicans to have anything to do with it. Thus in some of their platforms they declare the Republican party to be the ally, the patron or the creature of trusts, and as- sert that the Democratic party is the only foe that monopoly fears. Such assertions, public mind, for eminent Republicans have been too prominent in discussing ways and means to guard against the evils~ likely to re- sult from trusts,.and too. insistent in demanding legislation to that end, for any considerable number of independent voters to be misled by the platform utterances of Democrats. Each party, then, is very likely to fosinulate something in the wa® of national regulation of trusts within the next year, and then the issue will be made up fairly for submission to the popular vote. While the Democrats have been passing anti-trust resolutions the Republicans have been acting. Presi- dent Roosevelt has spoken clearly on the subject and has made the regulation of trusts one of the chief features of his administrative programme. It has been announced that he has requested Congressman Littlefield of Maine to take charge of the issue in the House, and as Mr. Littlefield has already sub- mitted a bill upon the subject and is known to take a keen interest in it, he can be counted on to under- take the task with vim and vigor. When the issue is made up there will be a wide difference between the methods of regulation the two parties will propose. The Democrats will begin by asking for a repeal of the protective duties on goods whose manufacture is controlled by trusts, and they will also advocate a radical policy of repression, if not absolute suppression. The Republican policy will naturally be more conservative. In his Pittsburg speech President Roosevelt outlined the policy he proposes by declaring for “new legislation, con- ceived in no radical or revolutionary spirit, but in a spirit of common sense, common honesty and a reso- lute desire to face the facts as they are.” He asked also for “laws, with a fearless administration of them in the interest neither of the rich as such, nor of the poor as such, but in the interest of equal and exact justice to all alike.” To such a policy no valid objection can be raised. The issue will arise when an effort is made to devise the legislation that will “do equal and exact justice to all”” Upon Mr. Littlefield is to devolve the task of formulating such a statute, and the country will wait with eagerness to learn what remedy he will have to offer when he comes to speak for the administration and not for himself alone as he did in his former bill. — The Moros seem to be enjoying that feeling of se- curity from Uncle Sam’s soldiers which makes them wag their ears in disdain and defiance. Some philan- thropist ought to induce one of them to take the water cure and tell his lesson to his fellows. e ——————— THE WORK OF OONGRESS. PEAKER HENDERSON’S assertion that S this Congress in-its first session performed more work than any other Congress in the same length of time has roused certain critics to point out that however much it may have excelled its pre- decessors it fell far short of public expectation. Ac- cording to the critics the session was marked more by what was left undone than by what was accom- plished, ard special complaint is made of the failure to pass such important measures as the banking and currency bill, the merchant marine bill and a bill for the regulation of trusts. The controversy is capable of unlimited discussion, for while it must be conceded’ on one side that a great deal of important work was enacted during the session, much that is of hardly less importance was overlooked. 1If attention be turned, however, from the so-called “important measures” to a considera- tion of the whole work of the session, it will be readily seen that Speaker Henderson was justified in his sweeping declaration of the superiority of this Congress over any other as a working body. The enrolling clerk of the Senate has recently sub- mitted a statement of the legislation of the session which gonfirms the statement of the Speaker. It shows, in fact, that this Congress did more work dur- ing its first session than any previous Congress dur- ing its whole term, so that the estimate of the Speaker was an under statement rather than an ex- aggeration. A summary of the statement of the enrolling clerk says: “The total number of bills and joint resolu- tions offered in the twq houses to the time of ad- journment on July 1 was 22,022, of which 1503 were sent to the President. Of those introduced 15,572 were offered in the House of Representatives and 6430 in the Senate. - Of the House bills 956, or 6 1-7 per cent ofsthe entire number introduced, were sent to the President, while of the Senate bills 547, or about 8% per cent, went to the President. * * * The Senate passed of its own bills 1090, but 543 of them failed to get through the House. On the other hand, the House passed 1386 of its own measures, of which 430 failed in the Senate.” It is stated that the best record made by any pre- vious Congress is that of the Fifty-first, but in that even during its whole term the entire number of bills introduced was 19,640, of which only 2240 became laws. - Of the bills introduced at the late session less than 9 per cent became laws. Many of those that were 'safely enacted and were signed by the President are of little importance. The number of such measures shows to what extent the time and the energies of Congress are taken up by private bills of one kind or another, and it would seem to be worth while for Congress to devise some means of relieving itself of a large part of that work. Certainly upon that record of bills introduced there can be no well founded complaint of the exercise of authority by the Committee on Rules in deciding what measures shall ‘come before the House. With more than 22,600 bills on file at one session it is evident that some one must have authority to sift them and pass upon them. The House itself as a whole could never do it. The time of a whole session would be well nigh occupied in ‘megely reading them The young man of this city who a2t the age of 14 married a lady of 27 and now seeks the balm of the divorce court probably is willing to believe that he was never asked in the matrimonial market to choose between good and bad, but between bad and worse. General Chaffee has been relieved from command igthe Philippines and will soon be on his way home. This is to remind the busybodies that the next step, if experience be a guide, ought to be a scandal in the career of the worthy soldier. e e Uncle Sam'’s military authorities have decided that whatever else may be included in the uniform of the American army, knickerbockers must be barred - der all conditions. What a blow this must be to our English cousins. Th;'Russhn press is said to be roundly d@méing the Prussian Government for its treatment of the Poles and is'urging them to look to Russia for relief. FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1902 GAGE ADMINISTRATION = DROR Manipulators of the ACES THE STATE Governor's Political Machine, Failing. to Win the Republican Support, Are Appealing to Democrats for Help at the Primaries HE manipulators of Democratic newspapers of Califo: and comfort to workingmen are opposing his candidacy There is a powerful and increasing sentiment in the Repub- Aguirre, lican party against Gage, Kevane, Mackenzie. The boastful attitude of the served onme good purpose. It has aroused to a sense of danger and thus quickened registration of voters. Gage Direetly Responsible. The expected in connection with the new ad- ministration of the Home for the Feeble-mind- ed has developed thus-early in the course of the management of Dr. Lawlor, the pot-house politiclan with whom Governor Gage supplant- ed Dr. Osborne, for fifteen years the devoted | and successful superintendent of the - instliu- tion. Charges of cruelties, in part conceded. inflicted on those helpless, pitiable wards of the State, are made with a directness and with & circumstantiality of detail that calls for prompt, thorough and non-partisan investiga- tion. With all due respect to the Governor, by virtue of his office, we beg to submit that & personal investigation such as that he re- cently made at San Quentin will be very much out of order and will not be accepted as in any respect conclusive. Indeed, the San Quentin in- vestigation has by no means been so accepted; but the people, apathetic where only money is involved, will hot submit to anything that sug- Bests the glossing over of mistreatment of these wards of the State from whom nature has de- nied the sunlight of normal intelligence. Even harshness, much less cruelty and brutality, is not to be tolerated in connection with the treatment of these hapless ones. A man in whom infinite compassion is not aroused by contact with them has mo place in the man- agement of the home. Governor Gage is di- rectly responsible for whatever mistreatment these unfortunates have undergone under: the Lawlor administration. He outraged the very pame of humanity when ne supplanted Os- borne with Lawlor, a moral crime perpetrated in prostitution of his high office to selfish ends. The San Jose boss, Johnny Mackenzie, whose satellites this week sought by force to set aside the will of the people of San Jose as cxpressed at the polls, was his instrument; and having accomplished the purpose, Mac- kenzie resigned to accept the position of Har- bor Commissioner and the duty of promoting the Gage ambition for remomination by fair means or foul. Dr, Lawlor admits that he has immured these irresponsible boys and girls in dark cells, on a bread and water diet, for -as long as a week at a time! Dr. Lawlor concedes that he has used a mod- ified form of straitjacket cn the irrespon- sible disobedients among his charges! There is evidence that some of these irre- sponsible infractors of regulations have been brutally Jashed! In all the fifteen years of Dr. Osborne's su- perintendency there was no complaint of harshness, much less of mistreatment, of cru- elty, of brutality. The home was regarded as the ‘model institution of the kind in the coun- try, its wards ruled by humane methods based on scientific study and the devotion of the man- ager for a work he made his life’s effort. Re- moved to make room for a politician, his et- ficlent corps of attendants were in ‘turn re- moved to give places to others whose princi- pal recommendation, was a politieal “‘pull.” It is apparent and to be expected, then, that mis- management should be In evidence: but that harshness, cruelty. brutality should be visit- ed upon these pitiable charges is almost in- comprehensible ‘even in the face of Lawlor's admissions and of positive evidente. Henry T. Gage, Governor of California, is the author of every lash that has descended on the backs of these misbegotten children. At his door are to be lald the shrieks of pain wrung_from physical sensibilities incapable of mental responsibility; upon his soul must rest the heavy weight of the terrible terrors, to the benighted minds of these hapless children, that were entalled by solitary confinement in dun- geon cells. He must answer now and hereas ter for the sufferings his creatures have im- posed upon these pitiably- irresponsible charges of humanity.—Modesto Herald. AT PR I Gage Degrades His High Office. Governor Gage has mow an opportunity to atone in some degree for a grievous wrong and to correct, as far as possible, one of the worst acts of his high-handed administration. In causing the removal of Dr. A. E. Os- borne from the position of superintendent of the State Home for Feeble-minded Children the Governor committed a great outrage. It is confessed that no charges of any sort, were made against Dr. Osborne, who had proved himself not only a thoroughly competent su- perintendent but also a devoted friend of the helpless children committed to his care. He was removed without cause and for the sole reason that the Governor wanted to make a plade for one of his political henchmen—Dr. Lawlor. The latter himself on assuming the office remarked to Dr. Osborne that he hoped no ill feeling had been excited by the change: that it was merely “‘a turn of the play.” The phrase well illustrates the Governor's spolls idea of the public service, which he has con- stantly prostituted to prh political ends. The Governor has done well in instituting on the basls of mewspaper exposures a prompt investigation of the accusations inst Dr. Lawlor as superintendent, and also in acting upon the report of Drs. Hatch and Youns by recommending to the trustees of the home the removal of Dr. Lawlor. But to replace Lawlor with some other political henchman or experi- ment, unfit either by character, temperament or training for the responsible duties of the position, would be simply to commit another wrong upon the wards of the home and again outrage public sentiment. ‘While the Board of Trustees is presumed to act upon its own judgment in these matters, it s well understood that Governor Gage ap- points no men to membership on State boards save such as he has good reason to belleye will conform to his wishes. Hence the new superintendent is certain to be of Gage's choos- ing or approval. t Gage could for once rise superior to his disposition to practice the sort of petty poli- tics by which he degrades his high office and belittles himself in the eyes of the people, and could he realize the real needs of the situa- tion, he would bring about the restoration of Dr. Osborne to the superintendency of the home. That would not only be an act of jus- tice, but moreover would restore to the posi- tion the one man conspicuously well quafified for it by training, experience, natural abilities and kindnees of heart: a man whom the unfor- tunate wards have reason to love and to whom their parents are devoted by ties of gratitude an ect. Wil the Governor rise to the occasion?— Sacramento Bee. | ——— Gage Is a Failure. \ The expected has happened, and a disgrace- ful scandal has occurred in the management of the Home for Feeble-minded Children at Glen Ellen. It was just what might be ex- pected, when a place filled by an able and competent specialist like Dr. Osborne was vacated and & political factétum like Dr. Law- lor given thi on. The responsiblilty of the situation at Glen Ellen rests upon Gover- He cannot evade it. He can show & sense of decency by a prompt investigation and the ousting of Lawlor, if half of the cur- rent {ons about his management are prov- ed to be true. So far as the investigations are concerned the Governor has been prompt and is entitled to credit. His action does mot, how- ever, lessen his responsibility for the apvoint- ment. That was a grievous Ylul!‘cx: Gov- ernor Gage’ must atone for it by the condemna- tion of fair-minded men. There has been no administration in which the great charities of the State have more the sport of politi- clans, and the asylum of the political job chaser. We do not care who gets the Repub- lican nomination, provided it s not Gage. The country has had ‘enough of him. He Is a fall- ure and should be relegated to the comparative obscurity from which he was drawn by Dan Burns.—Vacaville Reporte: S Tes ot Gage’s Bad Appointment. Prior to the removing of Dr. Osborne, former superintendent, this institution , the was converted into a public crib where avaricious Governor machine are orenly begging the support of Demo- crats. They are boasting that Mayor Snyder in Los Angeles and Buckley and Rainey in San Francisco Wwill line up the Democratic push to vote the Gage ticket at the primary election. the managers of the Republican machine campalgn: There are many signs of a Gage-Herrin conspiracy to break the solid Republican Congressional delegation from California in return for Democratic assistance to Gage. In the light of existing conditions it is not at all surprising that Gage is making a strenuous appeal to the enemies of the Republican party for help, as nearly 3l of the Republican newspapers of the State and four-fifths of the Republican farmers Gage's political the primary election All the active rnia are lending ald The bosses will not Governor's extreme and foer another term. Lawlor and Gage managers has Republican citizens of California have simply court defeat. improvements there which are creditable to| him and those connected with the institution. | He has granted the attendants of the State s | wards more privileges than they formerly had | by allowing them one day.off each month; a le has been erected in front of the build- ing from which each day floats the “‘star- spangled banner.”” Beneath this has been | planted a beautiful lawn which tends to make the surroundings more cheerful. Dr. Lawlor has in part acknowledged his guilt concerning these charges, and it the pub- lished reports can be relied upon he will in the near future be removed for his misdeeds. Who his successor may be is a quandary, but we do most sincerely hope the Governor will not make bad matters worse by appeinting a man who is less capable than the incumbent. Sonoma Valley Expositor S Sport of Partisan Polities. The disclosures made by the Chronicle touch- ing the treatment of the feeble-minded children at Glen Ellen serve to open up afresh an old wound that has bled all too profusely in times gone by and will continue so to suffer until California attains a higher standard of peliti- cal morality. A system of politics that makes asylums, hospitals and reformatory institu- tlons the sport of partisan politics j3 barbaric and worthy of all condemnation, dnd that is tshetm_n of system that has obtained in this tate. The care of the feeble-minded is a science which some men know- about ana others do not, and which no one can know about until he has gone to all the sources of information and has had years of practice and observa- tion. This is equally true of the care of the incorrigible and the insane, and whoso re- moves from office by executive power one who does know the things that are indispensable to the. proper conduct of such an institution as any above mentioned and puts in his place one who does mot know and 1s not experienced and does it from political motive is a public enemy and an oppressor of those who have the strongest possible claim upon human sympathy and helpfulness. Such an executive is worthy of unstinted condemnation, and yet that is the policy that California executives have pur- sued almost from time immemorial. Our Be- nevolent institutions have been made the vic- tims of political partisanship almost without reserve, and the fact constitutes a profound humiliation to California. As to the discipline employed in Glen Ellen The Register will not attemot to pass judz- ment further than to say that the evidence is damaxing and a reflection upon the ledge as well as the humanity of the responsible officers. He who seeks to govern by resorting to violent methods of punishment takes counsel of passion and not of ascertained knowledge of the way to rule the incorrigible or feeble- minded. Discivline there must be, but its effectiveness in reforming character is never to be measured by its severity, but only by its certainty and wholesomeness. It {s the abnor- ‘mal child that is sent to such an institution, and the care of abnormal beings, big or little, calls for - infinite patience and Infinite love exercised with indomitable power. No man or woman has any business inside the doors of | such an institution who does not love God With all the heart and ‘the unfortunate beings -1 their charge so much more than themselves that they are willing to sacrifice all things for their zood. Doubtless this view of the responsibilities involved will sound strenge in the ears of poli- ticians concerned only for getting to the pie counter, but s> generally is this view ac- cepted in older commonwealths that not even Tammany dares to make spoil of office of re- formatory institutions in the State of New York. Califofnia has not learned this lesson yet, and therefore great is the measure of her reproach. Let us put bigger, broader, better men in the gubernatorial office.—Tulare Reg- ister. g Evil Effect of Political Intrigne. The resignagion of Dr. Lawlor from the man- agement of the Home for the Feeble-minded at Glen Ellen furnishes another instance of the double evil of political intrusfon and intrigue on the affairs of public institutions. This Home for the Feeble- was es- tablished in Santa Clara County by Dr. E. A. Osborne, who had devoted his life to this form of public benefaction. institution flourished here until a ago, when for some cause now forgotten Dr. Osborne acquired the enmity of John D. Mackenzie. Under the insidious hatred of this politiclan the affairs of the home became discordant until finally Dr. Osborne and his friends removed it to Glen Ellen with a view largely to escaping local persecution. But John D, Mackenzie Is implacable. Hé never forgives nor forgets an enemy. He has kept his evil eye upon the Home for the Feeble- minded during all of the years that he has been creeping upward toward the bad eminence he has of late attained. en finally he be: came influential in the State political machine one of his first acts was the procuring of his own appointment to a place upon the rd of Managers of the Home for the Feeble-minded People wondered what ‘‘Whispering Johnny™ wanted with that unsalaried position, but their wonder was s ily satisfled. Off came the head of Dr. borne. Out of the institution went the man who had created it and made a life study.of its pathology. That was part of the evll effect of ascendant political -intrigue, bus that was not all. When Dr. Osborne was removed another man must take his place. Naturally the choice fell upon a political hack rather than upon a man of the tender sympathy and fine feeling required for this delicate position. So Dr. chosen to fill Dr. Osborne's vacated place. might be expected this elevation of Dr. Lawlor proven his real and final downfall and ruin, and thus the double evil is complete.. The institution will not recover from the i the scandal for vears. Dr. Lawior doubtless cul the day he accepted the charge of its affairs. In this instance as In every other the ht.l;‘la of -\'?Il D. Mackenzie has blackened everything and everybody upon which it has been laid.—San Jose Mercury. ————— Polluted by Gage Politics. What a pity that even the words ‘“‘political pull” should pollute such an institution‘as the Glen Ellen Home for the Feeble-minded, an institution that should never be connected with politics in the least possible manner. It Dr. Lawlor is gullty of doing and allowing the awtful things of which he is accused he not be permitted to remain overnight. He is a far more fit subject for the mallows than for superintendent of that grand State insti- Such terrible brutality can scarcely be imagined, and this State should rise up Such a man is not fit to mingle %4 should be tor- poor, weak-minded children. Blander. alone ought t e him.—Calistoga Calistogian. — People Will Not Forget. e decision t6 summarily dismiss Dr. Law- 1¢r from the superintendency of the Home for e Feeble-minded i3 & proper actlom, het i will not wholly e%- e decmed 1 somebody In power to give him a political job: P % ity i3 to be com- Management Condemned. All the San Franclsco papers, both morn- ing and evening, are against Dr. Lawlor. Ev- wire pullers and political bosses receive favors, it has been disgraced is now causing un< t0ld anxlety to hundreds Avho are justly think- ing their unfortunates have been mistreated if rot tortured. m:tmldqb!bifirn:a&hmem. wlor for this entire change .a home, ‘as handicapped by Governor Gage's appointments of men who n:onln 'ln‘_ MH&‘—K this the doctor has 5 Indications promise a tremendous vote in San Francisco at August 12. It is believed that the men of the Republican party who stand for good government and clean politics will rally at the polls in sufficient force to over- whelm the Gage push and Democratic healers combined. One trick of the Gage political system is to claim everything. As a matter of fact only nine Gage delegates have been elected to date, but the push forces are claiming San Francisco and Los Angeles counties. If the claim should be made good Gage would be 132 votes short ¢f the number required to nominate. The large registration already assured is a guarantee that the Gage delegates from San Francisco will be few. Whatever strength he gets in this city will be obtained by sneaking in an unpledged delegate here and there on the district tickets. riek an oven fight In the faceof the unpopularity. . The following expressions of opinion given by the leading newspapers of the State very clearly signify that the people had enough of Gage. Any party that would nominate him for another term as Governor would Here is what the press of the State say ery one of them condemns his management of the institution over which he has been presid- ing the past few months. In this they go con- siderably further than the two emiment phy- sicians sent by Governor Gage to investigate the matter. These physicians commend many things done by Dr. Lawlor and it Is quits probable that he has tried to do his duty, but he has not proven the man for the place and he will have to go. Those who have formed his acqualntance since he came to this county generally_like him personally and are sorry to have him get into trouble of any kind.— Santa Rosa Republican, —— An Unblushing Confession. Any one having a spark of humanity in his composition cannot fail to sympathize with the poor, unfortunate children at the Home fom- Feeble-minded at Eldridge. To them, whose minds are clouded intellectually, the deep sympathy of a civilized human race is bound to g0 forth. They are irresponsible by no act of théir own. Their imbecility may have been wrought by ill-assorted marriages, the acci- dent of birth or some other cause over which the poor unfortunate charges of the State have no control whatever. The feeble-minded child- ren of the California home aj to the sy! pathies of all those who are in the full e ties. The brute creation, not capable of drawing the line In a matter of this kind. This remiads us tHat the sangfroid confes- sion of Dr. Lawlor of the California Heme at Eldridge made to Edwin the er representative, who interviewed him last Sat- Sevora oe that Mstimcts weuld maks & tax bet 7 t instl would mal - ter lion tamer than a trainer for fesbie-minded does not the accused doctor con- fess to immuring heipless imbectles in a veri- table dwnd for days at & time on a diet of bread and water? For shame! Dr. Lawlor has unblushingly ._They say, a slather of whitewash, that Dr. Lawlor is of a “kindly" disposition, and In the next para- with a daub of very black paint cen- sure bim for the punishments upon his helpless charges.—Sonoma Index-Tribune. — Will Snow Him Under. ‘This county will probably not pledge its dele- gatcs, but If Gage expects to secure anything here the reason for that hope is not lppml:: Coun have nons of him. mm"fl‘h‘“mmu send a_divided delegation. The coast countles, : Sant are for Fiint. Fra & claimed fof. both and ngisco is cl or, i Taking it all in all, Sears s Yo conventfon do not look overly bright right now, while if he does mapage to win out there, people have nat forgotten him and the voters—the final arbiters of the whole question—will snow him under at the Ontario Observer. Let the Scandal Be Probed. It the charges made against the ymanage- ment of the Glen Ellen Home for Feeble- minded Children are but half true, they are serious enough to call down upon the superin- tendent, Dr. Lawlor, the condemnation of the people. ' This scandai seems to verify the state- ments made when Lawior was appointed some months ago that he was entirely unfitted for the position. He ought to be summarily missed, and Dr. Osborme, who for eighteen years had given the best satisfaction as super- intendent of this home, should be ted. Governor Gage has ordered a strict iga- tion to be made. .Let the scandal be probed to the bottom.—Downieville Messenger. o= a3 Others Ought to Go. 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