The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 24, 1902, Page 17

B44434343 334044480044 00 22 028 4444444343242 2 0449 Fhee Pages S 44 - L4 + + + + + + & L VOLUME XCII-NO. 85 SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1902—FORTY PAGES. + b‘#+§0§0¢0§¢000000000"0! Pages 00‘606*060‘6’00*#*#&00000 028 +* + + + + + L PRICE FIVE CENTS. RELIGION AND THE SCHOOLS Denial of the Charges Regarding Island System. Proselyting Is Not Permitted in the Philippines. Statement of Certain Catholics Promptly Combpbated. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—For a sec- ond time w a month the War De- , thr of the charges that the Roman faith is being discriminated sgainst in the administration of affairs of schools in the Philippines, The question has attained the import- controversy, f the church to the state nvolved than in any with which been confronted in to ntatives of Catholic 2 ago was referred acting Governor Wright of the Phil- ged that American Prot- ers were proselyting; ey were using their positions to from the Catholic faith. g Governor Wright reported to the nt that there was no foundation itizen, a religious publi- waukee, on May § published aption of “Protest- g the s article alleged the school system as & pro: charged perjur; cs in the schools. civil government of the nd report of Frank H. we nt of Public answer to it has reached having been forwarded by Governor Wright. the charges almost ays: NOT A CLERGYMAN. nt that the department of officered by Pro- ers is not warranted by 1 Superintendent Fred W. a Protestant clergyman, either has he any theo- Mason 8. Stone, City for Manila, is is B. Bryan, principal of School, is not a cler- persons has nstitutions. Of are now or have endents of schools n a clergyman, and little theological that seven out a arge 1 and have neve comir r taught to the that tend- before superi t every one n »d of nine or ten y 1 superintendents have experience, includ- ht s State Su- NOT CONSIDERED. us belief of ees was never con- in 1901. At that time a pecial appli gathered by e authorities of the Roman Catholic wurch the United States, was sent to civil government of the islands and transmitted to the general superintend- ents. From these special lists three di- wvision superintendents and twenty-two teachers were appointed. In reporting these appointments to the civil govern- the general superintendent said: I ad much difficuity in finding people lot of applications who are pos- of the educational preparation and ng experience which is required of appointees in this department. Those who have not been selected seem vholly unsuitable.’ nly departure from strict non- sectarianism in the conduct of the schools was a provision of the Philippine com- mission, which made it lawful for a priest or minister of any established church in & puebla where a public school 1s connect- ed to teach religion for haif an hour three times & week in the school building to puplls whose parents have expressed a wish for such instruction.” Concerning proselyting the report says: PROSELYTING IS BARRED. “Not only is no proselyting allowed or attempted in any of the public schools, but inquiry of the leaders of the four principal Protestant denominations Nere brings out the fact that, so far as is known by these leaders, there is not one ve Protestant Sunday school teacher in the entire archipelago. The statements that not a third of the Protestant teach- ers ever taught a day before going to ihe Philippines and that the Catholic teachers are.sent to the distant provinces are emphatically denied.” The assertion is made that the educa- tional department has no knowledge of the distribution of Bibles in a private church school by missionaries. It is also stated that the conditions of the public A schools in the Philippines do not warrant RELIGION ic lot of ations, gh the bureau of insular | airs, has issued a formal statement in in which the del-| Presidert | Philippine | It was The report is | endents are Pro- | 3 NEEDHAM WINS A RENOMINATION Congressman Honored by | the Sixth District. { 3 TOCKTON, Aug. 23.—The Re- publican convention of the new Sixth Congressional Dis- trict met to-day and renomi- nated Congressman J. C. | Needham by acclamation. through the formalities, and the only. inci- dent that broke the business-like routing | was the enthusiastic reception accorded the Congressman when he appeared on l the platform to accept the nomination. ‘ Full delegations were present from Stanislaus, Merced. Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Madera, Fresno and San Joa- quin counties. A. M. Drew of Fresno, the chairman, made a few remarks pertinent to the occasion, congratulating the mem- bers of the first convention of the new Sixth District that they could now come together without traveling over 125 miles and that a community of interests, politi- cal as well as otherwise, was represented in the new district. He referred to the old “shoe-string district” and remarked that it was so stretched out that the last time he started for a convention he arrived one day after it was all over. The only way to do in the old days was to start a week ahead of time. On the cessation of the applause follow- ing the announcement of the nomination, the chairman invited Congressman Need- ham to the platform for the purpose of addressing the convention. As he was advancing to the platform, one part of the convention roared: ‘Needham!” while the other side answered, “Yes; we need him.” After the applause had.subsided Needham said, among other things: “For the third time I have had the pleasure of standing before a Republican convention as a nominee for Congress. I you that honor is greatly appre- I shall striv—#p the utmost to merit it. It shall be my endeavor to e all the people without regard to party or sectional lines. It took two hours to go | \// | L & NATIONAL LEGISLATOR RE- NOMINATED BY REPUBLI- NS OF SIXTH DISTRICT. L =g ““Since the last Congressional convention was held the lines of the districts have | been recast. We begin under an entirely new district. The nine counties compris- ing the Sixth Congressional Distriet, six in the San Joaquin Valley and three on the coast, are countfes that have no conflict- ing interests. They are similar in many ways. I congratulate the people on this fact. There is no district in the State that has more vital interests in the suc- cess of the Republican part Its raisin industry, its sugar beet, prune, cattle, and in fact all its various interests, are de- pendent on the principles of the Republi- can party for growth and prosperity. Sit uated as we are in wealth, it is a vital ne- cessity that the protective tariff be main- tained. This is.a-question which affects the pockets of the people.” | @ ittt e @ NEGOTIATING FOR SALE | OF MEXICAN GOLD MINE ‘Largest of the Castras Ana Group in Oaxaca May Soon Change * Hands. | EL PASO, Tex., Aug. 22.—A preliminary | contract was made by J. H. Chapman, | general manager and vice president of the | Oaxaca Mining and Milling Company, | with Masterson & Browder of this city | for the sale of their Castras Ana group of gold mines, forty-five miles northwest | of the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, at the price of $800,000 gold net. This is one of the largest mines in the State of Oaxaca, fully | equiped with a modern Allis Chalmers’ | ten-stamp mill and all other necessary | mining machinery. There is said to - be jblocked out in one of the mines upon which most of the work has been done $3,500,000 in gold values. Browder, the mining engineer of the firm, will proceed to the mine next week and upon the veri- fication of the reports in the hands of the purchasers, Masterson will at once pro- | ceed to New York and close the deal. B e 2 e ) | the statement that they are worse in the | islands, as viewed from a Catholic stand- | point, than in the United States. The re- | port closes with the following: “The venomous attack on the Philip- pine commission, especially the Filipino members thereof, who are termed traitors and rascals, serves to show the degree of bitterness and recklessness which characterizes the whole article. The ne- gotlations at present under way in Rome | in regard to the church lands in these islands is sufficlent refutation of the last wild statement of this extraordinary pro- duction, in which not one material state- ment is true.” NO CAUSE FOR ALARM OF CUBAN CONGRESS United States Sends Soldiers to San- tiago to Relieve Men Entitled to Discharge. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—There is no cause for the alarm of the Cuban Con- gress in which an inquiry was started as to the landing of certain United States soldiers at Santiago. The soldiers who went to Santiago were sent by the War Department. They were few in number and had been ordered to relieve others on ! duty caring for the guns of the fortifica- tions at Santiago and whose terms of en- listment had expired. It was stated to- day that the War Department had placed no additional troops in Cuba, but that the understanding that the United States was to keep troops on Cuban soil to look after the fortifications means that those troops should be maintained at full strength. LARGE GOLD SUPPLY IN NATIONAL TREASURY Uncle Sam Has More Than Five Hun- dred and Sixty Millions in His Coffers. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—All previous high water marks In the supply of gold held by the United States Government ‘were surpassed to-day when the amoiint of yellow metal In possession of the treasury reached $568,797,306 $2, which ex- ceeds by more than a million dollars the record of two months ago. The items comprising this immense aggregate are: Reserve fund, $150,000,000; gold coin held for redemeption of gold certificates, $358,- 120,089; .gold coin and bullion in general funds, $60,677,217 82. This is the largest < gold supply held by any Government. FASTEST BIG SHIP IN NAVY New Battleship Maine Makes a Record for Speed. Scores 189 Knots in One of the Best Spurts. — Exceeds Requirement Under Unfavorable Conditions. BOSTON, Aug. 23.—The new first-class battleship Maine raced around the cape | on her trial course to prove her right to | fly the United States ensign. Her con- tract calls for a speed of 18 knots an | hour for four continuous hours of steam- | | ing, and though on one six-mile leg she | dropped to 17.%0, on her fastest she | reached 18.9, and this was followed by | other speeds equally agreeable. Thus at | the end her mean speed developed, with- out tidal allowances, was given out as 18.3. This is not official, as the Navy Board has not completed its figuring and will not for some time, but this is the statement made by the Cramps. There is a little feeling that she was | expected to go over this mark, but as it is she stands to-day as the fastest bat- tleship in the American navy, for the | Ilinois, which up to this time has held | the record, did only 17.84 on her fastest | leg. When the Maine was coming over at one time she is understood to have been pushed to 18.95, but it is explained that this is the first time a trial trip of th(s} sort has been run under service condi- | tions with unpicked coal and with an or- | {inazy cxow) of stoker: | UNIVERSAL PEACE UNION DENOUNCES MANEUVERS Claims That They Increase Military Spirit and Foster Dependence on Weapons. \ MYSTIC, Conn., Aug. 23.—At the busi- ness meeting of the Universal Peacci Union to-day a resolution was adopted | denouncing the army and navy maneuvers as “increasing the military spirit and fos- tering dependence on carnal Weapons. The resolution faxgra the abolition,of mil’ itary drille ap& boys' brigades ju the schools and t! option of such substi< tutes as fire drills, life saving practice and the formation of relief companies. An- other resolution denounced the increasing | number of lynchings and favored the pre- ventlon of strikes by the removal of the | cause of the aiscord *by the adoption of | a just system for the proauction and dis- !(rlbutlon of wealth, under which every | man shall be guaranteed the full product [ of nis toiL” Woman suffrage was advocated. During the afternoon Thomas C. Whip- ple of Center Groton, Conn., offered an | explanation of his remarks of Thursday | in regard to the United States army being “a disgrace to humanit Whipple said | | he wished to be understood as meaning | | that an army as an institution was a | disgrace to any nation. | | AIll the officers of the union were re- | elected. | _— ! NO NEWS TO BE SENT i FROM FISHERS ISLAND ;h | Center of the Naval and Military | Maneuvers Is Placed on a War Footing. | FISHERS ISLAND, N. Y., Aug. 23.— | This island, which is expected to be the | center of the military and naval maneu- | vers of the near future, is already on a | | war footing. A Government censorship | | has been established ov wire channels | of communication with the mainland, and the owners and managers of the tele- graph and telephone lines have been in- tructed not to permit the passage over heir wires of any information relative to the maneuvers. This order applies with equal force to the operations of both the | army and the navy in the coming strug- gle for the command of the entrance of Long Island Sound. For its own use the army has a special wire and cable from Prospect Hill, here, to New London. An army officer acts as censor of all mes- sages sent over that wire. The establish- ment of this supervision of telegraph and telephone lines is part of the announced intention of the Government to make every effort just as would be done in actual war times to prevent the sending out of news that might be of value to the enemy. 5 —_— DISREGARD WARNINGS AND LOSE THEIR LIVES Native Evangelist Confirms Report of the Murder of Two Mission- aries in China. SHANGHAIL Aug. 23—A native evan- gelist who has arrived here confirms the reports of the murder of an Australian missionary named Bruce and an English missionary named Lewis at Chen Chou in Hunan province. The missionaries dis- regarded the warnings of the natives, who foretold the outbreak. Although the murders are regarded in some quarters as beirg a local incident, they are caus- ing some uneasiness. SPANISH WAR MINISTER TO SEND IN RESIGNATION General Weyler Becomes Angered Because Court Officials Have Overridden His Orders. MADRID, Aug. 23.—It is understond that General Weyler, Minister of War, has decided to resign his post in conse- quence of certain court officials having overridden his orders permitting journal- ists to attend court functions. FAVORS THE NATIONAL REGULATION OF TRUSTS President Roosevelt Talks of the Country’s Prosperity and Present Evils. EWPORT, R: I, Aug. 23.— President Roosevelt closed his second day's journey through New England to- night at Newport, where he is the guest of Winthrop Chanler. Upon the coneclusion of his speech at the City Hall, Providence, he was driven to the dock, where he boarded a private yacht for the residence of Sen. — ator Aldrich at Warwick. Newport was reached at 9:30. He was at once taken to the Chanler residence, and while here will attend the christening of the Chan- ler baby. Since starting from New Haven his progress through Connecticut and Rhode Island has been marked by greetings the warmth of which could hardly be ex- ceeded. The weather has been all that | could be desired, and the President has frequently expressed his appreciation of | the successful carrying out of the elab- orate preparations for his reception and the ountpouring of the multitudes, all anx- jous to share in extending him a hearty welcome. He rose early this morning in Hartford and arrived at the station some minutes before 8 o’clock, the hour of de- parture. REACHES PEOPLE AT ONCE. The handsome special on which he is traveling is maintaining its schedule and so far there has been no hitch on this account. The President's democratic ways are constantly referred to and in his speeches he seems to reach the peo- ple at once. At Willlamantic, where he spoke from his carriage In the .public square, his gemarks were referred to by several as a heart-to-heart talk. Perhaps the most enthusiastic reception accorded, to him by the smaller places where stops were made was at River Point, R. L, in the Pawtuxet Valley. Pastime Park, which adjoins the railroad track, was thronged with people, among them hun- dreds of Grand Army men who formed a semicircle in front of the platform. The President quickly captured his Bud!en?e. who applauded his tribute to the vet- erans of the Civil War for their unswerv- ing valor and devotion to duty, and his reference to the people of Rhode Island concerning the utilization of their re- sources met much distinct favor. The demonstration at Providence was the climax to an eventful day. The mul- fitude which gathered around the plat- form in front of the City Hall gave vent to its feelings time and time again throughout the course of his address and at its conclusion he was overwhelmed with congratulations. OVATION AT PROVIDENCE. PROVIDENCE, R. Aug. 23.—Not | since the visit here of President Hayes has a chief executive been accorded so prilliant and thoroughly general reception | as that tendered to-day to President Roosevelt on the occasion of his tour through this State. People came from every part of the State and gathered 15,000 strong about the platform at the City Hall, from which the President delivered his address. An ovation which lasted five minutes was the president’s greeting when he arose.to speak. The President said: “We are passing through a period of great material prosperity and such a period is as sure as adversity nnel:l to tune for weeds. though they themselves, about us. do. sequence. vate when most men prosper somewhat it al- ways happens that a few men prosper greatly, and it is as true now as it was when the Tower of Siloam fell uvon all who were under it that good fortune does not come only to the just, nor bad for- ‘When the! weather Is good for crops it is also good | Moreover, not only do the | wicked flourish when the times are such that most R flourish, but what is worse | the spirit of'envy and jealousy and hatred springs up in the breasts of those who, doing fairly well | yet see others who are no more deserving doing far better. only to the unjust. may be FOSTER PROSPERITY. “Wise laws and fearless and upright administration of the laws can give tha opportunity for such prosperity as we see But this is all that they can ‘When the conditions have been cre- ated which make prosperity possible then each individual man must achieve it for himself, by his own thrift, intelligence, erergy, industry and resolute purpose. If when people wax fat they kick, as they have been prone to do since the days of Jeshurun, they will speedily destroy their own prosperity. speculation and lose their heads they have lost that which no legislation can supply and the business world will suffer in con- If In & spirit of sullen envy they insist upon pulling down those who have profited most by the years of fat- ness, they will bury themselves in the crash of common disaster. It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best laws, but it is easy enough by bad laws to throw the whole nation into an abyss of misery. “Now, the upshot of all this is that it is peculiarly incumbent upon us in a time of such material well-being, lectively as a nation and individually, each in his own account, to show that we possess the qualities of prudence, self- knowledge and Government we need above all things sta- bility, fixity of economic policy, while re- membering that this fixity must not be in- ability to shape our course anew to meet the shifting needs of the people as these needs arise. There are real and great evils in our social and economic life. There is every need of striving in all pos- sible ways, individually and collectively, by combinations among ourselves in pri- life and through the recognized organs of Government. for the cutting out of these evils. Only let us be sure that we do not use the knife of the ignorant zealot, which would make it more dan- gerous to the patient than to the disease. ““One of the dangers of the tremendous If they go self-restraint. into wild both col- In our industrial growth of the last generation has been the very great increase in large private, and especially in large corporate, | fortunes. We may like this or not, just as we please, but this is a fact, nevef~ theless, and as far as we can see it is an inevitable result of the working of various | | causes, prominent among which has been the immense importance steam and elee- tricity have assumed in modern life. “It is not true that the poor have grown poorer, but some of the rich have grown so very much richer that where multitudes of men are herded together in a limited space the contrast strikes the onlooker as | | more violent than formerly. On the i | whole, our people earn more and live bet- ! | ter than ever before, and the progress of which we are so proud could not have taken place had it not been for the great upbuilding of industrial centers, such as our commercial and manufacturing citles. But, together with the goed, there has come a measure of evil. Life is not so simple as it was and surely both for the individual and the community the simple life is morally the healthy life. There is not in the cities the same sense of com- mon underlying brotherhood which there is still in country localities and the lines of soclal cleavage are far more clearly marked. REMEDIES FOR EVILS. “For some of the evils which have at- tended upon the changed conditions we can at present see no complete remedy. 1 | For others the remedy must come by the | | action of men themselyes in their private capacity, whether merely as individuals or by combination one with another. For yet others some remedy can be found in legislative and executive actlon—national, State or municipal. Much of the com- plaint against combinations is entirely | |unwarranted. Under present-day condi- tions it is as necessary to have corpora~ tions in the business world as it is to have organization among wageworkers. But we have a rigit to ask in each case i | that they shall do good, and not harm. Exactly as labor organizations, when managed Intelligently and in a spirit of 1 | justice an@l fair play, are of very great : service, not only to the wageworkers, but | | to the whole community, as the history of many labor organizations has comelu~ sively shown, so wealth, not merely indi- vidual, but corporate, when used aright is not merely a benefit to the commue nity as a whole, but indispensable to the upbuilding of the country, under the con- ditions which at present the country has grown not only to accept, but to demand, as normal. This js so obvious that it seems trite even to state it, and yet if we are to judge from some of the arguments advanced against and attacks made upon wealth, as such, it Is a fact worth keep- ing in mind. WEALTH IS A FACTOR. “A great fortune if not used aright makes its possessor in a pecullar sense a menace to the community as a whole, [ + * | just as a great intellect does if it is not CHIEF EXECUTIVE WHO IS accompanied by developed consclence—by MAKING A TOUR OF NEW ckaracter. But obviously this no more ENGLAND. affords grounds for condemning wealth than it does for condemning intellect. * —* | Every man of power, by the very fact bring mutterings of discontent. At a time | of that power, is capable of doing dam- | age to his neighbors, but we cannot af- ford to discourage the development of such men merely because it is possible they may use their power to wrong ends. If we did so we should leave our history a blank, for we should have no great statesmen, soldiers or merchants: no great men of arts, orators or of selence. Doubtless, on the average, the most use- | ful man to his fellow citizens is apt to be | he to whom it has been given what the }psalmlst prayed for—neither poverty nor riches; but the great eaptain of industry, the man of wealth, who alone or in com- bination with his fellows drives through our great business enterprises, is a factor without which this country could not possibly maintain its present industrial pesition in the world. Good, not harm, normally comes from the piling up of wealth through business enterprises, Probably: the most serlous harm resulting to us, the people of moderate means, is when we harm ourselves by letting the dark and evil vices of envy and hatred toward our fellows eat into our natures. CONCERNING CORPORATIONS. “Still there is other harm of a more evident kind and such harm it is our clear duty to try to eradicate If possible, and id any event to minimize. The cor- porations, and therefore those great cor- porations containing some tendency to monopoly, which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts, are the creat- ures of the State and the State not only has the right to control them, but is in duty bound to control them wherever tha need for such control is shown. “There is clearly a need of supervision —need to exercise the power of regula- tion on the part of the representatives of the public wherever, as in our own coun- try at the present time, .business cor- porations become so very strong both for beneficent work and for work that is not always beneficent. It is idle to say that there is no need for such supervision. A sufficient warrant for it is to be found over and over again in any of the various evils resulting from the present system, or rather lack of system. LEGISLATION FOR TRUSTS. “There is in our country a pecullar difficulty in the way of exercising such supervision and control because of the peculiar division of governmental power. ‘When the Industrial conditions were sim- ple very little control was needed, and no trouble was caused by the doubt as to where power was lodged under the con- stitution. Now the conditions are com- plicated and we find it difficult to frame Continued on Page 18, Column 2.