The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 25, 1902, Page 6

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ALIFORNIA is proud to have Mr. Watter- C fres dulum between the extremes of optimism ng in American politics. He swings like a pen- and pes- simism in regard to the prospects of the Democratic party. Sometimes h banners flying, bands playing and offices on tap. Then again he follows its funeral, keeps step to the dirge and coins its threnody out of his fervid imagination. In his last expressior he mixes hope and despair in a delightful dish of irtellectual hash, with despair a trifle in excess. His bete noire in politics is Mr. Cleve- sees it in a vista of victory, S land. rnest inquiry has failed to find the reason of his intense dislike for that vigorous old gentleman. He turned upon him in the middle of his first ad- | ministration and has stayed turned ever since. In- deed, a retrospection of Mr. Watterson's opalescent career reveals the interesting fact that his aversion for Cleveland is the only sentiment that has stayed with him. In all other matters he has been flexible. Even the star-eyed goddess of Reform has been to | him what May Yohe is to her vast variety of ad- mirers, sometimes in high favor and sometimes ex- pelled into the outer darkness, with her jewels pawned. But his passion against Cleveland is indurated, crystallized and unchangeable. He now says that the people will never trust Cleveland again, for he trayed them once. be- All kinds of politicians would liki a bill of particulars. Mr. Cleveland was a wonder in American politics. He unexpectedly revealed quali- ties of leadership, seated his party in public confi- dence and led it in three great battles, and to the winning of two victories. Mr. Watterson will admit that even now, when Mr. Cleveland chooses to ap- pear among Democrats, he is received with more fer- vor and friendship than any other. This makes a question to which we venture to in- vite the attention of Mr. Watterson. If the Democ- racy continue to cheer and toast a betrayer, what hope has he that it can ever again win public confi- dence? He fears that this means that Mr. Cleveland seeks the Presidency once more, and between the lines may be read his suspicion that, if so, he would be elected to do some more betraying. Again, the politicians of the country of all sorts and conditions would like to know why Mr. Watterson fears that Cleveland might be elected. Does he think that a suffi- cient number of Republicans would desert their own standard and join the betrayed Democrats to make such election possible? More than any other American politician, Mr. Wat- terson deals with the psychology of public affairs. He reads the public palm, casts the party horoscope, tzkes the position of the planets and prophesies like another Zadkiel. Will he please descend from the rosy, rainbow clouds of metaphor and tell the peaple in plain English why he fears the influence and views with alarm the possible candidacy of Mr. Cleveland for a fourth time? Republicans stand in no fear of the political future, bu: they like fun as much as any- body, and they recognize Mr. Watterson’s capacity to imstruct and amuse. The differences between our public men are always of interest. The war between Tilden, Seymour and Sanford E. Church was interesting, and its origin was known. The Blaine-Conkling feud relieved politics for many years, and led many of their copartisans to a profound study of the art of making peace between stubborn men. The only great quarrel now in sight is that between Cleveland and Watterson, if a differ- ence that is never referred to by Mr. Cleveland can be called 2 quarrel between the two. Mr. Watterson has had the floor on that subject for many years, and Mr. Cleveland has said nothing. Indecd, as far as | any one can learn from him he is unaware of Mr. Watterson’s existence. Whether administering the Presidency, shooting ducks, catching bluefish, ad- dressing college students, writing history or rousing Democratic enthusiasm, Mr. Cleveland seems uncon- scious of Mr. Watterson’s presence on the planet. Public curiosity is piqued. People want to know why Mr. Watterson hates Mr. Cleveland. Shylock gave several hypothetical reasons for his prejudice against Antonio. He dragged the harmless, neces- ‘ sary cat into his explanation. Will Mr. Watterson, metaphorically or otherwise, take his admirer, the public, into his confidence as to the rise and progress of his hatred of Mr. Cleveland? We assure him that curiosity is on tiptoe about it, and that Mr. Cleveland will be more clearly seen through the lens of his jStatement, son as a guest. He is never anything but pic- | turesque and interesting. He has opinions | utters them with a prodigal freedom that is re- 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 25, ' THE SHIRKING GOVERNOR. to a hearing.” share therein, as a beneficiary. | be promptly. Time is slipping away. We | act at the primaries. whole investigation. is possible. What will he do about it? HE afternoon official organ of Governor Gage in this city, in pursuance of function and duty as a parasite, says, in its issue of the 22d inst., referring to its employer’s libel suit against the proprietor and the manager of The Call, that the postponement of the case at San Pedro, made necessary by an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, effectively hangs up the case until after the election, “and probably nothing further will be heard ‘of the proceedings in this city after Judge Sloss hands down his opinion. Spreckels and Leake control the Butt-in Boardman case, and even if the Police Court is held to have jurisdiction, they will not press it This is merely parasitic lying. Messrs. Spreckels and. Leake desire the case to proceed before the primaries of August 12. Every move they have made has been for the purpose of getting before a court under such circumstances as will place all the evidence in their defense promptly hefore the people. Now, to this end, they are willing to stipulate, through their attorneys, with the attorneys of Governor Gage, that if Judge Sloss decide against the jurisdiction of Judge Fritz they will waive all proceedings here- tofore taken in the State and Federal courts and go immediately to Los Angeles and | proceed to trial before any impartial Superior Judge who will sit as a committing magis- trate, provided Governor Gage’s attorneys will stipulate that if Judge Sloss sustain the jurisdiction of Judge Fritz Governor Gage will appear in the latter’s court and take no steps to hinder or impede an immediate hearing of the case therein, and provided further that he will impose no technicalities to impair a prompt, shut out any material testimony, proper under the rules of evidence, to prove the charges made by The Call against the management of San Quentin and the Governor’s Can language make any plainer our purpose and desire to proceed? Will the Governor order “is attorneys to enter into such a stipulation> We offer it and will | abide by the results. There are left eighteen ‘days before the August primaries; time enough to exploit the case and reveal our evidence finder judicial sanction. We pay at- | tention to the vermin organ of the Governor only because it publishes his expreé'sions in pay for the succulence it gets out of him. We treat its utterance as his. If he choose | vermin as his herald and instrument, it is not our fault ‘but his choice to seek expres- sion by such an instrument.. Therefore we treat him as saying that Messrs.. Spreckels and Leake will not use the jurisdiction of Judge Fritz if it be affirmed. "2 R e We will use it, and will go further and stipulate to go at once to Los Angeles if the jurisdiction of Judge Fritz be non-affirmed, provided the. Governor wili. not impede it it affirmed. This stipulation will bring an immediate trial, no matter what the de-| cision of Judge Sloss may be. If against thejurisdiction of . Judge Fritz we will, under such stipulation, waive ‘all pending appeals and .go to trial. We will submit to the in- creased cost, as the people who pay the Governor’s expenses must submit to his making them as heavy as possible. We will take the risk. of getting witness trip of a thousand miles to court, and to the transportation of the record evidence, pro- | vided he will agree not to interfere with the jurisdiction of Judge Fritz if it be affirmed, | and will not whet the edge of technicality to cut the chain of our. evidence. 3 So we state and restate, in every plain and possible form, our position, and | affirm our desire to secure a prompt hearing. Will the Governor respond? If he do let it want the people to know this case before they | It has unfolded from its beginning in May. We began it as a proper newspaper inquiry into the conduct of a public institution. In the course thereof it was necessary to inspect public records, by law open to all citizens, Such lawful right was denied to us, even when re-enforced by the official order of the president of the Prison Directors. We put upon this refusal its proper interpretation, that the records would not bear inspec- tion, and proceeded to procure unimpeachable testimony to prove the results of the From that time till now we have sought to make this evidence known under such circumstance and solemnity as judicial authority can give it. The Governor by his private investigation, forestalling and preventing an inquiry by the Directors, and by bottling the whole matter in a criminal suit and then trying to hide the bottle in far Sa'n Pedro, has temporized, equivocated and delayed. He has now our offer under which no more delay its its fair and full hearing, or es to make a round A CHICAGO UNDERTAKING. OME days ago The Call directed Stention to a S movement now under way in Baltimore to rid | that city of the smoke nuisance by supplying | all factories within the corporation limits with elec- tric power generated by water. It is now to be noted that Chicago is discussing an equally ambitious un- | dertaking in the way of improvement, that of getting rid of fire engines by substituting a syster® of water mains supplied with a current strong enough to force water to the roof of the highest building. In the account that comes to us of the project it is stated that in the business section of the city the munigipal authorities are laying pipes through which water will be forced at a pressure varying from | 40 to 200 pounds. It is believed that by means of | such pressure water can be forced through hose to the top of any structure, so that there will be no longer any need of a steam-engine. Should the ex- periments prove successful it is the intention to ex- tend the pipes into the larger buildings in such a way as to have each floor protected. When a fire occurs the water may be turned on. from every floor, if | necessary, without waiting for the arrival of the Fire Department. The Fire Department will be reorgan- ized into hose companies, and the men will make couplings to the pipes instead of to engines. The two experiments taken together promise to bring about considerable changes in American muni- cipalities. A city whose factories are operated by electricity generated by water will have much less fire risk than under present conditions, and if the water supply can be so arranged that it can be turned on in a bold stream on any floor of any im- portant building at any time the danger from the spreading of such fires as may break out will be greatly diminished. It is therefore quite possible that the steam fire-engine may soon disappear from our larger cities, and the next generation may look upon specimens of them preserved in museums with as much curiosity as the young man of to-day looks upon the old-time hand engines of former years. | | | | | | recognition, are at their are trying by devious practices to establish citi- zenship rights. Their attorneys should remember | that the Federal Government has not yet forgotten how to expel this sort of coolie interlopers. old tricks again, and One of the Consuls of his Glorious Majesty the Czar of Russia feels.that he has been grossly insulted by some of Uncle Sam's sailors. Perhaps the gentle- man, worthy of his sphere, never thought that it may be impossible to insult one of his general importance in the scheme of affairs. The world powers promise that within a month Tientsin will b'e restored to its rightful owners. Ven: turesome explorers might make it interesting for the rest of us and tell us what is left of the great oriental city. Youthful imitators of Tracy are appearing like un- sightly irruptions in various parts of California. The afflicted communities might do well to physic them- selves of the disturbing elements without delay. Local Chinese residents, ambitious for political, .caucuses of the party; t THE WISCONSIN PLATFORM. ENUINE Republicans of every part of the United States find reason to rejoice in the G stand taken by the recent State convention of the party in Wisconsin upon the indorsement of Senator Spooner. * The Senator is an able man, he holds a foremost place among the statesmen of the time and is one of the leaders of the Senate. The sole objection which kLis fellow Republicans of Wis- consin have to Him is his alliance with the machine, They gave him an indorsement for re-election con- ditioned upon his acceptance and indorsement of the State platform. Now the State platform denounces the State and Federal political machine, and it is that fact which gives national interest to the situation, The exact language of the occasion is worth noting. Indorsement is given to Spooner provided “he shall express his willingness to stand as a can- didate in harmony with the sentiments and in sup- port of the platiorm principles as adopted by Wis- consin Republicans.”” The platform says: “We con- demn the pernicious activity of Federal officials in this State, in flagrant disregard of civil service laws, in attempts to forestali and control conventions and and we demand that every voter may exercise his sovereign right of choice by direct vote without the intervention and manipulation of political agencies.” Declarations of that kind coming from a State con- vention are cheering because it is significant of the trend of Republican sentiment in all the States. The interference of State and Federal office-holders in the affairs of the party has become unendurable. Signs of a revolt on the part of the rank and file of the party are to be noted everywhere. Wisconsin Republicans do not stand alone on that issue. From Pennsylvania to California the feeling against the efforts of Federal and 'State officials to ‘“forestall and control conventions and caucuses of the party” is strong. The Wisconsin platiorm is all right. e — William Jennings Bryan has started on another lecturing tour and we may expect soon to hear that the sluicegates of his torrential mouth have been opened and that William Jennings is once more bath- ing his friends in his disesteem. And in his campaign if he utters a single original thought the American public will charge it to accident. The County Clerk's office has passed through an- other experience in which valuable documents have been mysteriously lost and as mysteriously found. What a curious innovation it would be if somebody could conduct this office on a plane of absolute se- curity to litigants, A local item of pathos and interest was printed the other day and the sufferings of an animal, rheumatic, paralyzed and with lieart disease, were told in the compulsion under which the afflicted one lived in a saloon. The animal was a dog, not a man. The reopening of the public schools gives to an- other of our municipal governing bodies an oppor- tunity which has been lost for nearly two months. During the summer vacation there was not a single scandal in the School Department. 1902 in any Anglo-Saxon country, for probably 200 years, has the law permijted a resort to coercive meaus to wring confession from those charged with or suspected of crime. He apparently forgets, although a judicial officer, a judge advocate In the army, that under any and all circumstances, wherever it ap- pears that a confession of guilt has been yielded up by any kind of persuasion or threat, of promise, such a con- fession can never be used ir any court. If the guiltiest crimi- nal while in the custory of the officer is merely invited to confess, or if the faintest suggestion is made that it would be better for him to confess, such confession, when brought into court, is invariably excluded; and yet If Colonel Groesbeck, and others of his view, should have their way, torture to obtain confession would be revived and incorporated in the juris- prudence of our country as one of our “institutions.” KILLED LIKE RABBITS. Now who is it that this water cure is applied to? The colonel apparently ‘would have us believe that its victims are assassins and persons whose depravity is-such as to entitle them to the ban of outlawry—death. And yet who are they? They are a people who have apparently conceived the notion that, having assisted the American troops as allles in a com- mon cause in destroying the dominion of Spain in their islands—having fought for their independence two or three hundred years, that independence should not be destroyed by the American troops. In other words while twenty millions of dollars were paid by our Government to Spain, that by that purchase we only acquired Spain’s title and at the time of . the purchase, or at the tim~ of the breaking out of the Spanish war, Spain had neither dominion mnor control, was exercising no sovereignty over any portion of the Philippines except Manila. Such is the contention by these absurd crea- tures. Spain sold- what it didn’t own, they say; therefore they refuse to submit to our sovereignty; they refuse to surrender their liberties; for such refusal they have been harried; run to cover; slaughtered like rabbits; their homes and firesides desolated; their cities and towns burned; the very altars of their churches despoiled; have fled to the jungle and the moun- tains, and all because of their abhorrence of the rule of the foteigner; all for love of freedom and independence. Comical, colonel, isn’t it? To throw off the foreign yoke is exactly wha: they have been shedding their blocd for for decades and cen- turies, but we want to civilize them, and they ought to see it. And so we are rapidly making their land one of ashes and blood—“slow sailing vultures and voiceless desolation.” But as to the water cure, the method is this: One of these freedom loving idiots is caught, a suspect for example, as they used to call them in Ireland and other countries—his captors believe that he knows where munitions of war may be con- cealed, or where may be found some hunted and starved fel- low creature that our troops are pursuing. He is asked to yield up his information—now, mark you, it is not known whether he has any information or not, but the lleutenant, or sergeant or corporal who captured him suspects him—he de- nies it, and is met with counterdenial; finally is threatened, he still stands out, and then the water cure is resorted to, and I fancy that in most instances, as the colonel says, it “works like a charm,” and that its eulogist indulges in no exaggera- tion when he speaks of its “simplicity and effectiveness.” A Jescription of its practical working in the case of a Filipino priest is given in the testimony before a Senatorial committee at Washington, in about the following language: PROPERLY CALLED EFFECTIVE. The man is thrown on his back—three.or four men stand on his arms and legs to hold him—his jaws are pried open by a gun barrel thrust between them—a nozzle is inserted, and then the fun commences; the victim soon becomes unconscious, unless he yields up his supposed secrets sooner. Right you are, colonel, when you say that it is effective; and it is so, for no other reason than that the victim knows that it will destroy his life, if he does not comfess—to something. The testimony shows how these people under this punishment have suffered— how they have been tortured into unconsciousness; have then had the water pressed out of them, and have had the process pplied again and again, and been again reduced to uncon- sciousness, and finally bave confessed—to something. Apropos of these things let me present a few figures to be found in a report of General MacArthur, now on file in the office of the Secretary of War: For a certain period during the war in the Philippines these fisures show that there were forty Americans killed and seventy-two wounded, and during the same time eight hundred and one Filipinos killed and thirty-eight wounded. Now it is very well known that the usual propertion, in civilized warfare, of the killed to wounded is about ome to four; that is, one is killed to where four are wounded. But we ‘find that twenty Filipinos were killed to one wounded, and this, mark you, is the official report. Between November 1, 1899, and September 1, 1900, there were 268 Americans killed and 750 wounded. During the same period there were 3227 Filipinos killed and 695 wounded. Of Filipinos there were twelve killed where one American was killed. “This is no time to take pris- oners,” said General Smith. Apparently not,as the figures show. The ratio of the Americans killed to wounded was one to three—about the average ratio. But the ratio of the Filipinos killed to wounded was four to one. The first battle that was fought in the islands, as testified to by Generals Hughes, MacArthur and Otis, shows the follow- ing result: There were 250 Americans killed and wounded and upwards of 3000 Filipinos. There were from fourteen to twenty American soldiers killed and the rest of the number given were wounded. And this is the only battle, according to the testimony of General Hugkes, in which the Filipinos attempted to make a stand. These are figures that the American people ought to look at, and then they ought to look into a mirror and see themselves blush. And yet this is what we dignify by the name of war! ARMY IS NOT TO BLAME. The American army cught not to be blamed for- these things; even General Smith should not be unduly censured. He found himself mercly charged with the execution of ‘a remorseless imperialism; he was to pacify that country, and he could have made a better defense of his famous order than has yet been made for him by simply pleading that the temper and nature and disposition of those people are such, and their love of independence is so intense, that to subdue them you must kil! them. His instructions were to subdue, and he was making the best effort that he could to do it. Nothing less strenuous would complate the job. A greedy and merciless spirit of imperialism now apparently dominates the land, and is responsible. The nation in the Chinese war covered its2lf with glory as with a garment. It outfought and outshone in valor and clemency the nations of Europe. Are the laurels there gained to wither and fade” How long, then, shall this thing continue? Shall we put every- body above 10 years of age to the sword? Leave no human creature to nurse a memory of the inhuman wickedness perpe- trated in the name of this enlightened Republic? “Let the torch go with the sword; let famine tread upon the heels of slaughter? Then when you have made it a land without a home; a country without a people—then the work of ‘be- nevolent assimilation” will be complete, and you may write ‘pacified’ upon the tombstone of a buried race.” P James Anthony Froude said in his sketch of Caesar: “If there be one lesson that history teaches it is this—that free nations cannot govern subject provinces.” Lincoln sald “that God never made a people good enough to rule over another people without their consent.” Again he said “those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and urder the rule of a just God cannot long retain_it.” And again “when the white man governs himself, that is self-government, but when he governs himself and also gov- erns another man—that is more than self-government—that is despotism.” BARCLAY HENLEY. @ ittt et bt et @ PERSONAL MENTION. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. A CHANCE TO SMILE. 0. Y. Woodward of Woodwards Island | THE BATSMAN IS OQUT-Y., City. 1f| "Georse, how many times does this is at the Grand. in a game of baseball a player throws his m‘a‘;zth;lt!kyou h‘v; )r;;‘omd to m'?h k A. B. Corey, a railroad contractor-of | g&iove at the ball, stopping it and fielding lon’t know. You said it would have to be fourteen times before you would it Ogden, is at the Lick. to first Dase before the batsman| ... oo o iiention te it, but Fve lost the | published in last Sunday’s Call, in which he expressed certain opiniops concerning General Jacob Smith and the “kill, burn and destroy” order of the general, and defends the “water cure,” has created a national sensation. The action of the War Department, taken no doubt at the request of the President, in demanding from Colonel colonel made a deep impression on the powers at Washington. 3 2 b - If Colonel Groesbeck has made any reply to the demand of the Secretary of War it has not been made publie. The Call has received the following communication anent the matter: drollery must not fail to read an interview in your paper of last Sunday with Colanel S. W. Groesbeck, whilom judge ag» vocate of the Department of the Philippines, who, from fields dan. The demands upon the colonel's time in the tented flelg have been so imperative that his talent for humor, reveale in this interview, has hitherto been obscured; but a few more ¢ v forced Your reporter was interviewing him réspecting the retirement from service of General Jacob A. Smith, and thus spake the colonel: fellow, and an earnest, energetic officer. He is inclined to be impulsive, however, and what has been noised over the world as the ‘kill, burn and destroy’ order was simply an impulsive with Major Waller.” Now to properly understand and appreciate the significance of Colonel Groesbeck’s eulogy, the reader should have before ergetic” order prfivlnce of Sdmar.. The way this order happened to reach the American public is explained by the fact that a certaln the Philippines, for haying executed, without trial, eleven Filipinos, against whom nothing was proved except that they were Filipinos. At the time of their execution they were en- in attendance upon the American troops; when Kkilled they were unarmed; they were defenseless; they were unoffending, and they were—Filipinos: Major Waller was enabled to successfully defend himself from the charge of murdering these people by testifying that he considered himself as merely executing orders in so doing, pronounced complete, is the one above referred to, reading thus: “Kill and burn—this is no time to take prisoners. The more make Samar a howling wilderness.” 3 Interposing this order of his superior officer in defense, the result was an acquittal. - But the act charged against Waller, this-order, was characterized by General Chaffee in an official communication to the War Department, as being the most disgraceful in the history of the American army. I have not ing, but upon investigation it will be found that the language used by me conveys the same idea. But one word, if you please, about the “kill, burn and destroy” order, so airily and manner of Podsnap, he waives behind him as unworthy of serious notice. What I have to say is this, viz: That if General Weyler, ar Butcher Weyler, as we used war with Spain, had ever made any such order as that, not only the United States but all Christendom would have united in a declaration of war against a Government that for ons say that for five hundrad years no commanding general of an army has been guilty of the promulgation of any order, or command, equaling in brutality this order—which Colonel Again quoth the colonel, speaking of Smith, “He is a splendid fellow, and an earnest, energetic man.” Well, evi- dently earnest, undeniably energetic, but upon the whole Government has retired him, after he had acquired and earned the title of *‘Hell:Roaring Jake.” We know something about “impulsive” men. The reddest pages of history furnish ample tributed to General Smith, Torquemada was somewhat given to the habit; Claverhouse of Scotland in his bloody hunts for such game as the Covenanters was addicted to it; the Duke Danton were no laggards at the business. But none of thes monsters preserved by history to immortal infamy ever mads any deliverance in the direction of killing every one in a coun- FULLY APPRECIATED NOW. But this jocose criticism of the colonel is far outstripped by the racy humor with which, in his suceeding remarks, he institution,” and as being.fabsolutely harmless, works like a charm.” “It is severe in a; way,” he declares, “but not half so cruel as some of the sweating systems resorted to by the a combination of simplicity and effectiveness it is an institution which some day will be appreciated at its full value.” Ah! But, colonel, it is now appreciated “at its full value” space here to quote the resolutions passed by about sixty ministers of all denominations at. late meetings held in Boston and New York respecting this business, you ‘would have no sions of appreciation would exactly suit may be doubted. But now let us subject this matter to a little analysis. First, it must be borne in mind that the object of adminis- “works likeé a charm,” isto wring from reluctant lips, to tear from the heart of the recusant Filipino, words of treachery to his countrymen. And while “it works like a charm,” that if “harmless” how can it be efficient? How efficient unless it hurts? Looking into the dictionary we find that ‘“‘harmless” means-that *“which does not hurt, nor injure, nor damage,” pronounces upon it? Because, if “harmless,” how can it be an efficient instrument.to extort from treasonable lips a be- trayal of their countrymen? at will hardly do. And when that it makes its victim recant, and go back on his country and trample under foot the traditions of centuries, we are ready to believe him, but being employed as an instrument being harmless involves a very plain solecism. HIS HUMANITY AFFECTED. And right here the apprehension demands expression, that Colonel Groesbeck's humanity, but has enervated and in fact utterly prostrated his powers as a logician. -That it “worked charm,” however, there can be as little doubt as that The religlous truth of that portion of the eulogy will never be. contradicted by .any .one who. is familiar with it as the colonel seems to be, or has ever been one of its victims. But fond of the water cure that he don’t propose that in the future it shall fall into desuetude—and, according to him, or according to his hopes, it is going to be incorporated in the colonel says “It is an institution that some day will be appre- ciated at its full value.” Thus it is to become one of our “institutions.” The colonel also makes a comparison between sorted to by police authorities in the United States.” Now the implication from that is, and must be, that in the United States, as a means of extoriing confessions, some kind of Here Is an officer, a graduate of West Point, who, and while there, as a part of the. curriculum of the school, doubt- Jess was called upon to study the institutions of his country— HE interview with Colonel Stephen W. Groesbeck, late judge advocate of the Department of the Philippines, Groesbeck an explanation of his defense of General Smith and the “water cure,” shows that the ‘statements of the Editor Call: Whoever is fond of -genuine, downright fresh and gory,” arrived here recently on the transport Sheri- such efforts will bring him to the fore in fine shape. “General Smith’s position is unfortunate. He is a splendid remark uttered in the heat of feeling in private conversation him the following verbatim copy of the “impulsive” and ‘‘en- sz?sged by the general while in command of the . Major Waller was placed on trial before a court-martial, in gaged in the discharge of menial duties or something cognate, OUT-WEYLERS WEYLER. and the particular order, under which his Jjustification was vou Kkill_and burn the better—kill all above the age of 10— and against a lieutenant, who was the immediate executor of the language used by General Chaffee before me at this writ- lightly alluded to by Colonel Groesbeck, and which, after the to call him, in command of Cuba prior to the outbreak of the moment should countenance such an atrocity. It is safe to Groesbeck savs was an “impulsive remark.” rather “impulsive.” In fact so much given to impulse that the illustration of the enerzy and “impulsiveness” such as are at- of Alva was first-class in that line; Robespierre, Marat and try, male or female, that was over 10 years of age. alludes to the water cure, describing it as a ‘“‘grossly maligned police authorities in the United States;” further on saying, “As by all Christian people in the United States. And if I had doubt that it was “fully appreciated.” Whether the expres- tering this punishment, which is so “absolutely harmless” and is, accomplishes its purpose, it is yet ‘“harmless.” But, colonel, and yet if harmless is it really worthy the panegyric that he the colonel says it “works like a charm,” meaning of course, of torture and as a means of punishment, to describe it‘as the soft and voluptuous life of the tropics has not only affected like x cz 1t it' cdnstitutes a combination of “‘simplicity and effectiveness. warming to his theme, our warrior seems to have become so judicial machinery of our country. I say this, because the the water cure and certain supposed ‘sweating methods re- sweating methods are resorted to by the police authorities. who seems to forget t‘{at in no State in the Union, that nowhere W. P. Hammond, a mining ‘man of | Féaches it, the batsman is not *safe.” e Oroville, is at the Palace. LIQUOR LICENSE—A. 8. T. C., San| ‘'So have L™ ‘W. S. Hook, a, street raliroad official | Mateo, Cal. For the purpose of carrying “Great Scott!” groaned the young man. of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. cn the lquor business it is neces-| “Then I've got to go back to the begin- Jesse M. Bakeér, captain of the trans- port Grant,. has returned from the East and is at the California. e R. B. Miller of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, with headquarters at Portland, Or., is at the Palace. Graham E. Babcock, president of the ning and do it all over again!"—Chicago gary to have a Federal license. Applica- Tribune. tion for such must be made each year to the Collector of Internal Revenue, San Francisco. It must be made on what is known as form eleven and must be sworn to before a deputy collector or some other officer atthorized to administer oaths. ““Are you sure that your arguments are calculated to impress people with your punctilious principles?” “I don’t want to ‘em too impress Coronado Railroad, and son of the man T strongly with my punctiliousness,” an- 2 “| SALUTING—Subscriber, City. The reg- | Swered Senator Sorghum. :If anybody ager of the Hotel Coronado, is at the ulation in the United States n}:'my o th:t ie willing to sell out I don't Wwant him o Palace. A.-Musto, a well;known merchant of Stockton, is heré on a short . business trip, and has made his headquarters at if a private soldier bearing side arms er- ters the quarters of an officer he does not remove his cap, but if he is without side arms he must remove his cap; if a feel scared about making a proposition.”— Washington Star. 53 —_— Prunes stuffed with apricuts. Townsend's." —_————— the Grand. . private meets a superior officer on the | Reguetion, genuine eyeglasses, specs, 10c BRI A ey street the practice is to salute by the |ty 40c. Note 81 4th, front barber, grocer. * ‘By George! I'm beginning to feel pret- | ordinary salute; if the officer should be - ——— ty old" with a lady and the private was with “Why? You don't look it.”” £ ' “I know, but I've just been introduced to a stunning girl whose picture I remem- ber seeing in the magazine as she sat in a washbowl posing as an advertisement for a baby food factory.’—Chicago Rec- ord-Herald y . side arms he would salute by raising his hand to his cap, the ordinary military salute; if he did not have side arms he ‘would raise his cap the same as any civ- iian. If a private was walking in the company of a lady and met an uain- tance the mode of salutation would be the same as between civilians. \ §