The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1902, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCIECO CALL, WEDNESDAY, The ciin: Goll. DECEMBER 3, 1902 WEDNESDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriclor. e !l Communications te W. S. LEAKE, Manage BUSS USSP TELEFPHONE N Ask for THE CALL. [he Operator 1./ill Connect You Witl t_e Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F, EDITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Wepk: Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mafl, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sundsy), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunda), § months.. - DAILY CALL ncluding Sunday), 3 months. 50 DAILY CALL By Single Month. ol FUNDAY CALL, One Year. - WEEKLY CALI, Ope Year. v All Postmasters are nuthorized to recelve . subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be partictlar o give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o imsure o prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. OUAKLAND OFFICE.. +s+.1118 Broadway C. 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NW. corer Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untll § p. m. S —— A LESSON IN SHAME. HIS city was shocked a few days ago by a tragedy of death and a far more depressing tragedy of degradation in the lives of 2 man and a2 woman. A girl,-hardly 18 years of age, believing | that life’s ideal had come to her, tired of the prospect before its beginning, killed herself, and a man pre- | sented to the public gaze a spectacle of horror far The girl was a bought | thing, a purchased convenience, weak, frivolous, ig- norant, The man had bought her as he would have bought a beautiful dog, to minister to in- stincts which would dishonor a hound. more fearful than death itself. wicked. When the girl found death at her own command the aught the people of San Francisco a lesson they should not forget. He had debased the girl | living: dead he defamed her. Over the blood-marked bod; his girl he called upon the world to know | her e. He calied upon the public to listen while he told of his own unspeakable moral filth and of the weakness of the poor dead thing which could not in | dying plead the sanctity of silence for a wrecked life. iting a mantle whi¢h a savage would not have | touched this man shed a light upon his own life in se : | ing tc send the companion of his craft and money i and corruption to the: grave robbed of the only char- | acter which would have clothed her, if not in honesty at least in pity. The girl had begged for burial from this man, and he threw her, naked in her shame, into { the strest, to be the object of ignominy and scorn, the victim of a man’s leprous plans and dastardly pur- poses. Weak as this unfortunate girl was, dizzy in the glitter of prosperity shaméfully won, living life at the threshold of womanhood,.she chose death rather than a2 purchased association with this man. And her choice this man has justified. He has exposed in himself a creature so base that he may learn a lesson from any animal that mates. He may know that even a dog cherishes its dead. He should be forced to know that in the civilization in which we live no man may defile his own nest and escape the crimson stamp which marks him among men as unclean. And when one thinks of this girl’s life and death, of this man’s loathsome dishonor; the | girl in her weakness and indeed in her wickedness, the | man in attributes that make his touch disgusting, one feels that the more he knows of such a man the bet- | ter he likes dogs. I penditures which San Francisco has enjoyed since 1808 are in some danger of being withdrawn and removed to a2 northern port. "While this city will of course dislike to lose the Government business which has expended here over'seventy millions of dollars, it is mot a necessity that we keep it. We can let it go and still prosper. The Government located here be- cause this was the best point ‘on the coast for the fa- cilities which it required. It needed ample harbor and water-front facilities, 2nd the means for the quickest possible repair and outfitting of ships. When it was buying 1 ly of army stores a market such as only this city s was necessary: For these reasons the business was located here, in the day of public emergency, when the Government had to be absolutely sure that everything was ready at hand to supply its needs. Now the emergency pe- riod is over. Neither in outfitting ships nior the pur- chase of supplies is the business at its former height. The ebb tide has started, and in a little while the business will have declined to a volume that might be 2 prize for Seattle or Portland, but that would no- be felt at all whether added to or subtracted from the business of San Francisco. THIS CITY TEREATENED. T is evident that the Government activities and ex- There are reasons to which we need not at present refer for the assumption that San Francisco had ceased to prize this Government favor and com- merce, and if these influence the decision against us we need not blame our neighbors, who are reaching out to grasp what we have enjoyed so long. We may rest in the certainty that our facilities are - on such a scale that whenever the Government finds stself in another emergency it will come here to eet what it wants, for only here can it be had. 1 i | ascription of intentions, no debate on | she fought for. PON the result of the election of yesterday The Call congratulates the people of The wvote was sufficiently large to show that a considerable proportion of the citizens take an intelligent interest in .such questions, study them and are prepared to go to the polls to maintain their judgment. more, the vote showed such a strength of opposition to the - scheme to turn the Geary- street Railway over to municipal operation that it is evident we have little to fear from San Francisco. : SOCIQLISM DEFEATED. further socialistic ventures in the immediate future. ¢ There is one feature of the: vote whose significance should not be overlooked. | While the voters of some districts of the city were in favor of municipal operation, the voters of the district through which the railway in question runs were two to one against it. That proves that while some persons may be willing to try socialistic experiments on their neighbors, the'neiglibors in question are decidedly oppased to being subjected to the test. It is safe to say that the people in the district that would have been most affected by the inefficiency of municipal operation were those who most attentively and most . seriously studied the proposition in all of its phases and had therefore the fullest understanding of what would be the inevitable result. So we may conclude that whenever any similar pro- posal is submitted to the voters of San Francisco the vote against it will increase exactly in proportion as it affects a larger proportion of the citizens. The Call is the only paper in-San Francisco that opposéd the municipal owner- ship scheme, and its opposition was based from first to last not upon anything peculiar to the Geary-street line, but upon the general principle that all governmental socialism is wrong. Again and again The Call has reviewed the socialistic tendency. of certain elements of the people and has pointed out how completely such experiments fail to benefit either a community as a whole or the individuals who compose it. In fact, socialism is wrong in principle. It proposes to establish society upon an unstable and insecure foundation— that of substituting failure for success, the weak for the strong, discontent in place of con- tentment, and a vain yearning for a factitious equality instead of a resolute endeavor on the part of each to master his fortunes and make his, own place in the world. Had the Geary-street experiment been undertaken .it would have failed, but it would none the less have been an incentive and a precedent for further steps in muni- | cipal paternalism. The advocates of the scheme would have found some specious argu- ment to excuse the failure of the first experiment and gloss it over. Thus we would have entered upon an era of experimenting in municipal operation of public utilities,and the re- sult would have been seriously disastrous to the city as a'whole and to every property- | holder and tax-payer. Only yesterday The Call had occasion to direct attention to the statement of the Secretary of War that governmental operation of a transport service between this country and the Philippines is an unprofitable undertaking. The Secretary declared; “I am satis- fied that it is practicable for private shippers to do all ordinary business much cheaper than it is possible for the Government to do it, under the limitations which rest upon Government action, and that they can afford to do the business for less than it costs the Government and still make a profit.” If the highly organized War Department of the National Government, with its well- trained staff of experts, cannot successfully carry on a transportation business, it is a sure conclusion that the ‘municipal government of San Francisco could not have operated the Geary-street Railway, which starts from nowhere and'ends nowhere, with profit to itself or satisfaction to the city. The people therefore have escaped a costly and foolish experi- | ment. We congratulate them upon it. _TARIFF REVISION. T is plain now that the short session will be too brief for Congress to attempt that’ revision of the tariff which must be comprehensive, if it be at- | [ temipted at all. Then will arise the question of under- taking that work in an extra session of the next Con- gress and completing it before the Presidential cam- paign of 1904. : We do not hesitate to say that as a matter of busi- 1iess necessity and of public policy if there is to be, re- vision let it come before 1904. In the campaign di: cussions of that year let there be no room for false, suspicion of what is to be done with the tariff, no declaration | that the Republican party is trying to get power again to revise the tariff in this, that or the other private in- terest. Let the country discuss, if it will, an act ac- complished, and not one to be accomplished. President Roosevelt has brought the politics of the future down to actualities. Protection is a Republican policy. Ii the Republican party cannot revise a pro- tective tariff, preserving its protective purpose, so as to satisfy the people, before 1904, it cannot do so after | that date’ There is no use, for any party reason, in | delay. Dealing with the actual and not the idea! or speculative, the party has to stand or fall by its works. 1i they justify it, it is justified. If they do not, nothing can justify it. The time has gone when parties can live on their past, no matter how high and mighty it was. The people are living in the present and, parties fhust live with them, or die and let the people move on. There is a prospect that the pressure of the Cuban-question will be greatly relievéd when Congress comes to re- vise the tariff. The stories of distress which were used in the effort to force Congress into a stampede to free trade prove to have been apocryphal. Cuba is more prosperous than any cne had reason to expect. A country with.a naturally lazy and inert population, fonder of fighting than of working, after many years of destructive revolution, does not at once recoyer lost markets and suspended industries. Cuba has re- cuperated more rapidly than our own Southern States did after the Civil War, and nobody had to pass the hat for them., They lost everything. Cuba gained all It is the testimony of impartial ob- industries are thriving; the plantations are coming back into action; trade is in- creasing and the people are in but little need of the servers that the island i charity for which they were said to be starving. When this is made plain revision of our tariff will be easier. It is too much to hope that Congress will do the unexpected by formally repealing the Piatt amendment and freeing Cuba of its incubus, thereby | making her a free country in fact. Americans are the most unpopular people in Cuba at this time. The rea- son must be sought in'the Platt amendment. Instead of trusting to Cuban gratitude and good feeling we | insisted on tying them to our chariot wheel by that amendment. Its adoption by our Congress was a fiagrant cxpression of lack of confidence in the Cuban people. It made them give bonds that they were grateful. It established at once a most hateful and ir- ritating relation between them and us, and it need not be wondered at that they hate us, for it is human nature. 1f you save a man from drowning and He says “I thank you,” and you answer “I think you lie, but anyway give me a bond.that you are thankful,” he is apt to forget all sense of obligation in the sting of being distrusted. That is the position in which we put the Cubans. But we are perhaps not yet ready to do justice to them and lift the weight of our- distrust from them. We can, however, proceed to revise our tarifi without being influenced by the specter of an imaginary famine in the island. So great has been the impression imade in Japan by the Young Men's Christian Association that the na- tives have start‘eN_Young Men's Buddhist Associa- | tion, and’ the next thing we know the Chinese will be organizing a Young Men's Boxer Association, and then the world: will be fairly well satisfied" with its young men of all creeds JUST FOR MEMENTOS. UT of man's fondness for mementos there O comes a curious little scandal from Wash- ington. In the reconstruction of the White House it has been arranged to provide new equip- ments for the Cabinet room. The chairs in the room have been occupied by the Cabinet ‘officials of ten successive administrations. They are old, but, hav- ing so'much history back of them, they are esteemed ! by sollectors as. far more valuable than new ones. The story goes that tlie’ President, having no author- ity to give the chairs away, sold them to the members of the present Cabinet at the rate of $5 apiece and turned the money over to the national treasury. 7 It is upon that basis of }act that the scandal is con- structed. It is charged that the President had no right to dispose of national curios in that summary way. Men who are expert in such matters declare that the chairs are very valuable. It is recalled that on one occasion many years ago when the furnishings | of the House of Representatives were sold at auction some of the chairs which had been used by distin- guished men brought a very high price. Sumner is reported to have paid about $100 for a chair and desk, and after his death they were sold for more than $600. Drawing conclusions from such sales the babblers complain that the President and the Cabinet by distributing the old Cabinet chairs i-mve deprived. curio collectors of a chance to get rare ar- ticles and at the same time have defrauded the treasury. To such madness does the collector’s mania lead. The-country at large is not going to be much ' dis- turbed by the report. After all the chairs were and are nothing more than chairs. That the sentimental fancies of some people put a big value on them does | not alter in the least’the fact that they are worth no more and probably not as much as the sum at which they were rated in the private sale. The col- lector is, in fact, almost an irresponsible creature. He will give more for an old faded daub of 300 years ago than for a genuine]y_ good painting of to-day; more for an 6ld manuscript than for a hundred vol- umes of good books in handsome binding. He is a freak :whom the world tolerates as harmless, but he should not disturb politics by slandering the Presi- de_nt nor by trying to convert every refurnishing of the White House into a rummage sale. B —— The captain of a steamer bringing a number of .serpents to the New York Zoological Garden tells a good snake story. During the voyage a huge python got loose and made its way to the deck, where it acted so viciously that the captain had to assail it with | 2 broadax. At the first lick he chopped it fairly in two. Then both ends attacked him and he had to chop again. When he finally won the fight the snake was lying about the deck in twelve sections. No information is given of the brand of whisky used on the steaher. Sarah Bernhardt's visit to Germany has had all sorts of effects on all sorts of people. She pleased the aris- tocracy, surprised the Kaiser, was hissed by a mob., was- claimed as a cousin by a German lady, and was declared by some Berlin papers to be of German birth and parentage; so it will be seen she is still vigorous enough to make a sensation wherever she goes, _— If you haven't_seen the citrus exhibit at the ferry building you should make it a point to do so in order that you may talk with the right enthusiasn when you undertake to tell an Easterner what Northern California can do in the way of orange-growing. —_— Down in Maine they are talking of enacting a law that will provide as heavy a puriishment for shooting a man by mistake for a deer as it would be to shoot a deer out of season. ' . ¢ 1t is said the Russian Doukhobors will in future go to Turkey ,imtead of to Canada, and doubtless the Canadians will be willing to pay them a premium to . Adoso. Further- Charles | DECEMBER 3, 1902, - STRIKING DESIGN FOR MEMORIAL EVERAL representative citizens some time ago began the collection of funds with the object of plac- ing in the beautiful new chapel at Mare Island Navy Yard a suitable mem- orial to commemorate - the lives and | achievements of Rear Admiral John D. Sloat, Commodore Robert F. Stockton and Admiral D. G. Farragut, three naval heroes who were identified. with the ex- peditions sent out by the United States Government to take possession of the ter- ritory bordering the Pacific Coast, of con- firming the authority of the United States and - establishing - the .Mare Island Navy Yard. d It was decided that the memorial should take the form of a stained glass window and a young New Yorker, Joseph Evan | MacKay, was requested to make the de- | sign. MacKay has finished his work, having selected for the window an allegorical subject, “Victory.” PERSONAL MENTION. H. Eichwold of El Paso is at the Grand. C. C. Royce of Chico is at the Califor- nia. Senator Charles M. Shortridge is at the Lick. F. B. Muir, an attorney of Willits,. is {at the Grand. R. K. Truit, a rancher of Healdsburg, is at the Russ. Dr. §. M. Harris, Mayor of Grass Val- ley, is at the Russ. Byron D. Beckwith, an oil man of Co- lusa, is at the Russ. Frank C. Henderson, a mine owner of Detiver, is at the Grand. George §. Nixon, a banker and news- puaper proprietor of Winnemuceca, is at the Palace. , James C. Pond, general passenger agent of the Wisconsin Central Rallway at Mil- waukee, i at the Occidental. W. E. Downs, a well known mining man of Sutter Creek, is at the Occidental. | He is accompanied by his wife. W. W. Middlecoff, an attorney of Stock- ton, is @t the Occidental, accompanied by his wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. H. F. Hubbard. Dr. David Powell, of Marysville, presi- | dent of the State Board of Medical Ex- | aminers, is attending the regular quar- | terly* meeting of the board. ———————— -SUGGESTS THAT NATIONAL CONVENTION BE HELD General Shafter Proposes Reunion of Members of Society of Army of Santiago. Major General Shafter, president of the | Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba, | has taken steps to arrange a natlonal convention of the members of the organi- zation. The soldiers who took part in the | glorious campaign have been so wiaely | scattered hitherto that it was not deemed | best to attempt fo hold any general | gathering. But now that the Philippines | trouble is settled and the troops for the most part are once more on their native | soil, a reunion seems practicable. It is suggested that the convention be held in Chicago on July 17, 1903, the fifth anniversary of General Toral's surrender. A committee of arrangements consisting of thirty-two officers and enlisted men has been appointed by General Shafter to consider the matter. Generals Adna R. Chaffee, H. M. Duffield, George H. Harries, Charles ‘Dick and George H. Brown head the list. ot gV GRS Many a man's hypocrisy is due to the fact that he has a scolding wife. m— . NEW ADVERTISEMENTA TO 'CURE ANY DISEASE. The Cause Must Be Removed, Same Way With Dandruff. Kill the germ that causes dandruff, fall- ing hair and baldness, you will have no more dandruff and your hair myst grow luxuriantly. Herpicide not only contains the dandruff germ destroyer, but it is also a most delightful hair dressing for regular toilet use. No other hair prepa- ration is on this scientific. basis of de- stroying the dandruff germ than Newbro's Herpicide. Sold at leading drug stores. Send 10 cents in.stamps for sample to Hervicide Co., Detroit, Mich, - . *. ’ & ANSWERS TO QUERIES.| A CHANCE TO SMILE. DESIGN FOR MEMORIAL WIN DOW OF MARE ISLAND'S NEW CHAPEL. * ¥ The figure representing ‘“Victory” is represented on the prow of a ship, boldly sailing through the Gelden Gate. In the right hand fs the laurel leaf extended, and on' the prow of the ship is the great seal of the United States, while reflected in the water is the national motto, “In God we trust.” In the background is the glowing sunset casting a wealth of color on the water. The border of the window is also symbol- ical, being composed of three laurel bands LAKE NICARAGUA—A. 0. 8., Encinal, Cal. The length of Lake Nicaragua is 120 miles and its" width forty miles. REV. PETER C. YORKE—H. McD., | City. According to his own statement ! the Rev. Peter C. Yorke Is a native of | Ireland. ] RED NOSE—J. 1. C. Sacramento, Cal. A red nose may be the result of various | causes. A remedy for such can oniy be | offered by a physiclan after he has dis- covered the cause of the trouble. LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION—Read- er, City. Great caution should be exer- cised in giving letters of introduction. | Such should never be given unless the one to whom it is addressed and the one for whom it is written are friends, not mere -acquaintances, of the writer. Even | then the writer should consider whether the introduction is likely to be agreeable to both. - WINDOW TO AMERICAN PATRIOT% linked together. In each of the links is the initial of each of the great men of undying fame. The dominating idea is to illustrate that the lives of the three sailor-patriots were linked together in giving California to the United States. The window will be fourteen feet high and eight feet wide. Already 3850 has been contributed to- ward the. patriotic memorial, the actual { sum required being $2000. To further the project the following named have been appointed a committee by Rear Admiral Miller, U. S. N, to re- ceive subscriptions, in co-operation with a committee of the Native Sons of the Golder West: D. H. Kane of the Pa- cific Hardware and Steel Company, Mis- sion street, corner Fremont; Andrew Car- rigan of the Dunham, Carrigan & Hay- den Company. 17 Beale street; Colonel W. R. Smedberg, 224 Sansome street; Lewis F. Byington, Hall of Justice; Chaplain A. A. McAlfster at the Navy Yard, Mare Isl- and (ex-officio). “Of course,” said the church trustes, ‘‘we realize that you are a good preacher, but—"" “But,” interrupted the mipister who was unable to collect his safary, “I ap- pear to be doomed to be good for noth- ing."—Philadelphia Press. et Prunes stuffed with apricots Townsend's.* S0 A S g el Townsend’s California’ glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, In artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * ———————— Special nformation supplied daily to business houses and public men oy the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Calf~ fornia street Telephone Main 1012 - Guillett's Christmas extra mince bvles, lce cream and cake. 905 Lariin st.; tel. East 198.% _——— Parker’s Hair Balsam keeps the hair soft and plentiful and restores the color when gray. Hindercorns, the best curs for corns. 13cts. R — The Sunday Call Christmas Edition. HE most talked of book of the year is “The Gospel of. Judas Iscariot,” by Aaron Dwight Baldwin. It has created a tremend- furor both in Europe and Amerieca. T ous literary and religio It is stronger than ‘“Ben Hur,” more thrilling than “Quo Vadis,” and by far superior to any of the great modern books that tell of the flerce struggle between the Christians'and the Romans. “The Gospel of Judas Iscariot” throws a new light on the strange life of this, the most bitterly execrated, the most despised man in either biblical or profans The Sunday Call has not only secured the exclusive rights to this literary treasure for publication as an extra section—absolutely free—with the Christmas Call out the whole eight pages of the first color reproductions of art masterpieces of the life and scenes of Christ and the Romans, by the most famous painters in the world. Then there is the big special fiction ssction, story is written by a prominent San Francisco divine. This is a feat- Nothing like it has ever been origi- ure that is absolutely unique. nated in the West before. of the Advent; liam Rader, Third Congregational Divisfn Then there are “The Colonel Kate? Do you know? ‘Well, ther lies a big surprise. Knows It AlL"” Then there are two page by the best waiter arrange the Christmas table. Two more pages, change, tell where, how and cially the inexpensive presents. NUMBER OF 32 BER 14. Don't forget the date. “San Francisco’s Bump of Benevolence,” Nichols, Right Reverend Bishop of California; mas Tale of the Thirtieth Century,” b: tho:aa:nuik; ChAn_r;h;l l“The Redem; by Father John ally of All Saints Church, 3 . Choir Boy’s Last Christmas Solo,” by Father Herbe:}y::i:i"chu?c‘; ‘““The Carols of San Francisco de Asis,” by B::v. Wil- by Colonel George French, Command - of the P of the Salvaticn Army, e’tc. T Then there is a full page poster picture, real life, that will appeal to every hearl'):, old ‘;r Discovered.” A full page of pictures of donnas.” A magnificent study called “The page of society girls in Christmas They are all San Franeisco girls—just watch that page. The first article is edited by the Ladies of the Woman’s Ex- what to buy for Christmas—espe- But this is only a small part of THE SUNDAY CALL’S SPECIAL PAGES OUT DECEM- history of all ages. December 14, but has illustrated installment with half-tone and wherein every by William Ford “Nyanza, a Christ- y Rabbi Jacob Voorsangar of ption of the Masked Marauder,” Church; “The Red Devil of the photographed from young, “Santa Claus “National Types of Ma- Christmas Star.” A full “Mother Song” living pictures— EKate Papers.” ‘Who is Colonel e is'the mystery, and therein, too, “The Beautiful Woman Who pages of Christmas Menus leadin, Francisco chefs—good recipes—and how to prep.lubythem fn:u: in the Palace’ : Hotel, telling you how to \!