The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 8, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1902. AUGUST 8, 1902 | JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. s e 4étrees ALl Commreniestions to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. Ii!LEPHONE. ilk for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS. .. Market and Third. S. F. 17 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivercd by Carriers, 15 Certsx Per Week. Single Coples. & Cents. Terms by Mail. Includinz Postages DATLY CALL (ncluding Sunday), ome yeas gunf CALL @ncloding Sunday), 6 months. » AILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. AILY CALL—By Single Month. DAY CALL. Ope Year. WEEELY CALL, One Year. All postmasters authorized to receive subscriptions. g Semple coples Will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers in orfering change of m@dress shouid be culer to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order insure & prompt mnd correct compliance with their request. QAKLAND OFFICE.. +++1115 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Kensger Yoreign Atvertising, Marguetts Buildiag, Chiny. 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REVISI revision made by Secre! e v y interesting questions »oses piecemeal revision of the whole body of the revenue be consistent with each ot be the strictly scientific view of by the economic laws which under- one schedule of the tariff is and changed without regard to of the law, its effect field, its effect upon inevitable that incon- y?ungé the tes be abated in one e may suffer, even to inless the abated rates rer schedules, scientific standpoint, noth- erous than partial and be true of a method t if thi 1e inspection of the Ways e Comnittees of the House and be said of revision by treaty, by feciprocity ranged body as the two Ho: gble, wh by 2 commissioner or ar- standpoint of such a foreign If partial revi to be avoided as undesir- in which the House has no woice? v makes no reference to such method of t if his aversion to ‘partial ¢changes t ole Congress is justifiable, it must be s his objections apply with far greater treaty. es mnegotiated by Commis- e wine and fruit schedules to f the American producer, and they nues to the prejudice of the treas- posed Cuban reciprocity attacks the es the revenues and obsoletes cultural interest that has ever ction. It favors manufacturers, kes them recoup the treasury, nor ss of the beet sugar farmers. A survey of 1 field convinces one that the introduc ue, forced by the Cuban Junta, General Wood and Secretary Root, has destroyed harmony of action and feeling party. 4 {n no respect is this loss of cohesive opinion shown more plainly than in the Towa Republican platform, ufy. The 1 the lo in the Republican which, in attempting to get behind Cuban reciprocity, calls that very form of tariff revision which Secre- tary Shaw deprecates. The Call, in the beginning, when this issue first appeared, whrned those who were forcing cant dissensions in the party. Qur warning wa: ified when the House broke through all control, Yy excrescent treatment of the Cuban proposition killed it for the session. Dissension is again projected into the situation by this later differ- ence betwe the Secretary of the Treasury and the party platform of his own State. . " Our warning was wise and had it been heeded the party would have ted presented a a makeshift. front Protection is a system, not revenue is incidental to it. Its se 1s to give to the industries of the coun- t rm and symmetrical encouragement, each, in proportion to its importance and place in the mational life and energy, getting the encouragement which it merits. manuiactures are to be considered, the sys- tem is partial and not general in its method, and ;he prosperity it creates is-illusive, for they are benefici- ary, at the expense of other activities that have just as much merit When the Dingley tariff was adopted, the sugar schedule was especially commended to the farmers because it added 2 crop to the rotative possibilities of their industry, 2nd gave them a deserved share in the benefits of protection. No party can blow hot and cold so close mg.flhcr. It has been taken at its word and the farmers are raising sugar with the prospect of soon bringing the supply up to the domestic de- mand, when they will get their share of the one hun- dred and twenty millions.a year which we now pay for foreign raw sugar. If it is bad policy for Con- gress to revise the farmers out of the tariff, it is worse policy for it to be done by treaty. Boss Croker is to remove his English residence from the country to London, and now London poli- tics had better hunt coves once, in order that its differ- | ntire sys- | ion by the | | | | | and he at once set for himself the task of concealing conditions, in or: NDER the circumstances it is abnormal politics that any effort is promoted by | anybody te secure the renomination of Governor Gage, by the Republican party. Prior to the San Quentin disclosures his renomination might have been sought with a show of legitimacy, for existing differences between him and members of the party had their origin within the party itself. If he required forgiveness and oblivion for offenses against the party, it could do both by renominating him, and the body of the | people might have felt unconcern about party differences that did not notably project into | public affairs, which concern everybody. But the political situation is far past that phase. \The San Quentin affair is not a party difference; it is a public concern. 2 We admit now that the Governor might have treated it wisely and in a way cons sistent with his public duty. To do so he should at once have promoted a prompt inves- | tigation by the Prison Directors, and have made it an open, fair and full inquiry. “Why | he did not do this is now apparent. There were acts done at the prison that involved him r to shield himself. It is not possible that when he gave his first interviews, last May, he-did not know that immense quantities of prison-made goods had been shipped from San Quentin to | his own house. We will not say that it is impossible that he should not have known that | those goods were unlawfully manufactured and unlawfully bestowed upon him, for it§ passes understanding that a Governor who knew this, in the sense of appreciating its| turpitude, should have permitted it. Somewhere along the line of these transactions there was a blunted sensibility that had no appreciation of official propriety. Yet in his first interviews he talked aboit his sojourns at the prison and sleeping‘\ in nightshirts and between sheets, without asking their origin, when at that moment he| must have known that prison goods, thousands of pounds of them, had been shipped to | his home, and that evidence of the shipment existed. The Republican party of California { cannot so far forget its public trusteeship as to ask the people to re-elect him. It cannot afford to go into a campaign justifying or explaining the receipts that | show shipment of this property to the Governor, for there is no justification nor explana- | tion. If it could be shown that he paid for such great quantities of prison manufactured i ‘ property, there stands the law which makes its manufacture illegal. The law which for- er of Clay. open | DidS it is for the purpose of protecting free and non-criminal labor. It is to make it neces- | | sary that buyers of such, property shall pay free labor for making it. Above all, the Gov-| | ernor of California, elected by the people, if he required such immense additions to the| 1 of free labor. furniture of his house, is expected to procure it in the free market, the product \ This he did not do, and even if he paid for it, the Warden dare not return the pro- ceeds of the sale to the treasury, for that would reveal the existence of illegal manufacture ! at the prison. This is no newspaper fight, with no higher reason than political antag- onism. It is the revelation of the existence of illegal acts, of nfisdemeanors, forgeries and | felonies in great variety, which involve the Governor of the State, since it is impossible | that he did not know that his furniture was illegally manufactured, and that its reception | by him was a very gross violation of the proprieties of his position and a breach of the | State law. Malevolent charges against public men are made by newspapers, which are merely |' insinuative. But this affair is not in that category. There is no malevolence in it. We pre- | sent the proofs, that were writ long before we discovered them. They reveal the Governor’s motive in preventing investigation by the Prison Directors; in making prison employes and officials clamp their consciences in forestalling affidavits, and in preventing a timely judicial investigation. But these shipping receipts and forged bills, these false charges of furniture hard- | woods to the jute mill, could not make forestalling and nullifying affidavits. They are cir- cumstantial and can be averted only by destroying them. This we have prevented by photographic preservation. As we said in the inception of this affair, the books may be buried and the prison burned, and yet our complete evidence remains in shape to be re- ceived in a judicial court. Under the circumstances it is only abnormal and perverted ed in by both branches of Con. | POlitics that can continue a campaign for the Governor’s renomination. ‘ ELECTION ESTIMATES. ‘ XPERT calculaters of both parties have begun | E to put out their estimates of the probable re- | sult of the coming Congressional elections. Of | course such estimates are made largely upon the | principle of “claiming everything in sight,” so that it | is never szfe to bet on them. Still they are interest- | ing, fos while they are not reliable they serve at least | to show what districts are deemed doubtful and where each side hopes to make gains. As is usual the Democratic estimates are the more | sanguine or boastful of the two. The Democratic | political calculator as a rule not only claims every- thing in sight, but asserts that his sight includes a good many things that are clearly beyond his field In the present instance the estimates of that party are that they will control the next House | of Representatives by a majority of something like | thirty votes. Republican estimates are more moder- ate. They give the House a Republican majority of not more than twenty-one or two, thus conceding that | some seats now held by Republicans will be carried by the opposition. The next House will contain 387 Representatives, a gain of 29 over the present membership. A recently | published Democratic estimate is to the effect that l'the party will have the entire delegations from the Southern States and in addition will get from Cali- | fornia 2, Colorado 3, Connecticut 1, Delaware 1, Idaho 1, Illinois 11, Indiana 6, Iowa 2, Kansas 4, Massachusetts 4, Michigan 4, Minnesota 2, Montana 1, Nebraska 4, New Jersey 3, Nevada 1, New York 318. Ohio 6, Pennsylvania 7, Utah 1, Wisconsin 2. | This estimate gives a total of 211 Democratic mem- | bers of the next House, leaving the Republicans but | 176 members, thus giving a Democratic majority of | thirty-five. It is the extreme estimate on that side | and the conservative calculators decline to indorse it. | They will not go further than a Democratic majority | of thirty. | Republican estimates concede the extreme South- | ern States solidly to the Democrats, bt claim sev- | eral seats in the border States, including 3 in Ken- | tucky and 4 in Maryland. The estimates for the | doubtful States are that the Republicans will get from | California 8, Connecticut 4, Illinvis 14, Indiana o, | Michigan 10, New York 23, Ohio 17, Pennsylvania 28 | and Wisconsin 9. b It will be scen that the differences between the esti- mates are wide. In California, where Democracy esti- | mates two members, the Republicans estimate a solid ! delegation. In New York the Democrats claim | eighteen, while the Republicans concede them but | fourteen. In Michigan they claim four, while the con- ;cession is but two. Similar divergences run through | the whole list, and are interesting as evidences of how } many districts there are in the country which are now | for one reason or another deemed doubtful. i In some—of the districts the present Republican members were elected by but narrow ‘majorities, and | the Democrats seem to have assumed that in each of those cases they will win out this time. Such as= | sumptions, however, have no valid ground upon | which to rest. There are no reasons why men who voted the Republican ticket two years ago should vote against it this year, while on the other hand the prevailing prosperity, caused and maintained largely by Republican legislation, affords very good reason why men who then voted for the opposition should ithis year decide to support the administration. of vision. A FUTILE CONFERENCE. ATE reports from London are to the effect that L Mr. Chamberlain has virtually admitted that the Colonial conference of which he had such high hopes_is doomed to end in failure. His projects for imperial federation have found no favor in the eyes of the Australians or the Canadians, and without the | aid of those two.great colonies the plan cofild not be carried out. The two elements in the proposed federation on which the parties cannot agree are those relating to customs duties and to imperial defense. Neither Canada nor Australia is willing to surrenfler its right to regulate tariffs to suvit itself, nor to undertake the maintenance of any part of the imperial army or navy. It is stated that each of them promiised to so reorgan- ize its colonial troops as to fit them for co-opera- tion with the British army in case of war, but that is as far as they would go. Neither of them would undertake t6 maintain any specified number of troops, uor to render any specified service. They insist upon retaining to themselves the right to determine what aid should bz given in any emergency, so that it would come of thieir gwn initiative and as an act of grace on their part and not a service to which they were bound by imperial obligation. The question of tariff regulation found the great colonies as firm in refusing to surrender to the cmpire as that of imperial defense. Neither Australia nor Canada in fact is as yet in a position where it could afford to entangle itself with a British customs union. The interests of the colonies upon that point are in fact too diverse from those of the mother country to make a close union desirable. Each of the colonies needs protection to its industries and that protection must run against British as well as other outside competition, if it is to be effective. It appears indeed as if the effort at imperial feder- ation, has been made too late. Canada and Australia have developed national ideals. They may be loyal to the British crown and the British connection, but they are dreaming of their own future greatness and their aspirations are toward the realization of that dream. As the years pass and their populations and wealth increase, it is inevitable the ambition for national independence should increase also. In fact both Canada and Australia have now become too large to subordinate their future to that of the cmpire. Great Britain can continue to count upon’ them for help in every war that may threaten her, but they will retain for themselves control of their troops, their navies and their tariffs, and every other im- portant attribute of sovereignty they now possess, even if they do not cut loose altogether and assert themselves as independent nations. —— It was announced at one time that Botha, Dewet, and Delarey were coming to this country to solicit aid for the Boer families impoverished by war, but it is now said they are coming to study American systems of farming. That's better, | THE GOVERNOR AND THE PARTY. |PYTHIANS EXPECT GREAT CROWD WILL ATTEND BENEFIT TO-NIGHT EMEISFELDER Lot areycorive CommiTTES + KiLLIvGS cvorTm Sorane Commirres ES 1 e HE monster progranmime that is to be presented to-night in the Grand Opera-house under the direction of the Theatrical Managers’ Associa- tion in aid of the general fund for the entertainment of the Pythian visitors promiges to be one of the best that has ever been given in that place of amuse- ment. The several numbers that are to be offered in addition to “Trilby” will add much to the pleasure of the many who will be a crowded house, hibit; and residents of the county have added various amounts to the fund. Three-fourths of the fruits to be shown will be contributed by growers of Vaca and Suisun valleys. A large electric sign placed across Montgomery street yesterday announces that the Supreme Tribune of the Knights of Pythias has made the Occidental Hotel its headquarters. The tribune is the court of final appeal of the order. ‘will attend, and from all indications thm‘:’. H. N. Clausen has been placed in Signor Alfredo Zonghi of the Tivoll wi sing a grand opera selection ang the Or- pheum will send over Lew Hawklhs, “the Chesterfield of minstrclsy.” More than 1200 seats have already been sold. Solano County proposes to make a fine showing during Pythian week in the fer- ry building under the supervision of Com- missioner Fred M. Buck, assisted by Verne L. Joslyn and W. H. Killings- worth. The Commissioner is one of the most prominent fruit growers of the county. Those who have arranged for the display have decided that the feature of the show shall be the green and dried fruits of the county just as they are pre- pared for shipment to the East. There will also be a display of the cereals of Solano and a large number of views of the Government works at Mare Island. A trophy awarded several years ago to So- lano in a competition with other counties will be on exhibition. The Supervisors have contributed $2000 and the lodges $100 each toward the fund to maintain the ex- @ il @ ANSWERS TO QUERIES. WEASEL SKINS—H. D. O, Oakland, Cal. Weasel skins have no market value as fur. STEAMERS—S., City. The steamers Oregonian, Hawallan and American werc built at Chester, Pa., in 1901. Aoz o \ DYNAMITE EXPLOSION—J. F. S, City. It was on the 16th of January, 1887, that the schooner Parallel, with about forty tons of dynamite on board, ran on the rocks near the Cliff House and the dynamite exploded. OLD COINS—E. 8., Jackson, Cal. Deai- ers in old coins do not offer premium for the following coins: Columbian half dol- lar of 1893, dime of 1848, Italian silver iira of 1862, Napoleon copper coins of Italy, 1811, and Grecian coins of 1857. FROM HAMLET—M. B., City. The quo- tation asked for is from the speech of Polonious in the third scene of the first act of “Hamlet” and the words are: Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man. PINKS—A. B. C,, City. In the language of flowers a pink means boldness; carna- tion, woman's love; double Indian pink, always lovely; single Indlan pfnk, aver- sion; mountain pink, aspiring; double red pink, pure and ardent love; single pink, pure love; variegated pink, refusal; white pink, ingeniousness, talent, you are fair; yellow pink, disdain. CLARE—L. C. A, Oakland, Cal. Clare is the diminutive of Clara and Clarissa, but none of the dictionaries of names of women give Claire as the diminutive of either of those names. None of these au- thorities give a diminutive of Clarence, but it is common to address a man of that given name as Clar or Clare, the pronunciation of the latter being as if written Cla-ree. TO KILL STUMPS—A. B. C., Santa The Missouri Demacrats in State convention reaf- firmed the demand for free silver, but it was doubt- less done for a bluff. Even in Missouri the average Democrat is not such a fool as he looks. Laqcal drugstores, by municipal command, will now have to pzy a liquor license. This ought to mean a decrease in the number of drugstores or an increase in our bewildering array of saloons Claza, Cal. The following is the method for killing stumps by the use of salt- peter: Cut down the tree in the fall, bore a hole in the center of the stump about eighteen inches deep, put in about two ocunces of saltpeter, fill the hole with wa- ter, then plug it up tight. In the spring take out the plug, pour in from eight to ten ounces of petroleum and ignite. The stump will smolder, but not blaze, to the ::lt‘ree'mlthl of the roots, leaving only | harge of the headquarters of the local dges’ executive committee, located in the Pioneer building.- The court that leads to the assembly hall has been wired to furnish illumination, and an electric sign will direct the strangers to the place where they can obtain information on ail subjects. In the main hall there will be an orchestra day and night, and the vis- iting Knights and their ladies will have the privilege of dancing at any time in the evening. The ladies’ parlor will be provided with literature and facilities for correspondence, also free tedephone ser- vice, while the banquet hal®has been fit- ted up in like manner for the Knights and for a smoking-room. Every room has been artistically decorated under the su- pervision of Past Chancellor Eisfelder of California Lodge No. 1. H. C. Waraleigh, grand keeper of rec- QUARTET OF XKNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS WHO WILL AT- TEND THE CONCLAVE. ! B — |ords and seal of the Grand Lodge of | Utah, accompanied by a party of Pythians | of that State, arrived in this city yester- | @ay and has establisied headquarters at | the Oaks, on Third street. Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend’s,* —_—— Reduction, genuine eyeglasses, specs, 10¢ to 4#0c. Note 81 4th, front barber, grocer. * —_——— Townsend's California Glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. €39 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * —_—— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau @Allen's), 230 Cait fornjg, street. Telephone Main 1042 One Dollar and a Half for Ten Cents. EXT Sunday’s Call will inau- gurate an entirely new de- parture in modern journalism. It will present a feature absolutely unique in the history of the news- paper world. In two consecutive edi- tions of the Sunday Calf our readers will get the latest revised edition of the novel “None But the Brave,” the literary sensation of the year, for ten cents; five cents each Sunday. In book form it is a $1.50 novel. The first half of the story will be pub- lished in our special book edition of August 10 (next Sunday) and the second half, completing the book, will be printed on Sunday, August 17. Nothing like this has ever been at- tempted in the West before, but this is only the beginning of ,The Sunday Call’s new literary policy. Bigger surprises are to follow. The next novel to be published in this form will be ‘“Lazarre,” which has had a wonderful success in the East and also in Europe. Following “La- zarre” will come “Alice of Old Vin- cennes,” “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” etc., all $1.50 books, which you will get with the Sunday Call for less than one-tenth that price. The books and the price speak for them- delves. Not the least interesting feature of this new literary policy is the man- ner in which “None But the Brave” will be illustrated. Every character has been represented by a living, breathing human being. This idea is also absol ly unique. In order fo carry it out properly the full stren; of the Frawley Com- pany, now playing at the Grand Opera-house, was utilized, because all members have appeared in p! of that period and consequently are thoroughly versed in the customs and manners of the times. Goldstein & Co. costumed the char- acters and gave their whole staf® to the task to insure correctness in every detail, while Goldstein & Cohn furnished the wigs. And then to carry this perfection of detail still further the pictures were made at thd Stan- ford Studio, where the operator, Mr, Morrison, gave particular attention to the setting. The outdoor pictures— | those on horseback—were taken un- der the supervision of Professor Dil- lon, riding master of the Park Riding School. Never before has so much effort been given to illustrating o book in any form. Alice Johnson for the indoor ple- tures and Eva Dennison for the out- door pictures alternated in the part of “Debby” Philipse. Miss Thais Lawton was Baroness Riedesel, while the male members of the company as- sumed the parts as follows: Mr. Crane as Merton Balfort, Mr, Brewers as Lieutenant Hazeltine, Mr. Tracey as Lieutenant Curtis, Mr. Rob- ertson as Lieutenant Acton and also Jim Marvin, and Mr. Travis as Lieu- tenant Atherton. The pictures are masterpieces in photogrnphy. . Bemember that the first half of this great story will be out in The Sunday Call of next Sunday and the second hfltvillnpp-rlnm!und.-y&llo! August 17. The story complete will eontynubvtnncenumdmvm have read ome of the most popular $1.50 novels of the day. There will bonovuflngfrmvukto'nkfot the continued chapters of -the story, as is the policy of magazines and newspapers heretofore in se- rials. This arrangement will give you the complete book in two numbers of The Sunday Call and avoids that most unpleasant week” that ruins a good story fer the reader by appearing just at the most interesting point in the narrative.