The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1903, Page 6

THE SA ERAD CISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1903 EBRUARY 27, 1903 "JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprielor. fddress All Communlcations to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. iarket and Third, S. F. to 221 Ltevenson St. PUBLICATION OFFI EDITORIAL ROOMS. . Delivered 5 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cent Terms by Mail, Inciuding Postage: day), « 0 | e Year ters are authorized to recelve subscriptions e forwarded when requested. ring change of addrese should be AND OLD ADDRESS in order O ith their requert. ...1115 Broadway | OUR MONROE WARDS. E are just reaching an end of the conse- unences of revolutionary government and civil instability in Venezuela when we are furnished an object lesson in the turbulence and truculence of other wards of the Monroe doctrine in Central America. A Presidential election has been held in Hondu- | ras. The Government candidate ®vas Arias, private secretary of President Sierra. The popular candidate was Senor Bonilla, who received 40,000 votes more than Arias. But there was a third candidate, Soto, and none of the three had a majority over all, though Bonilla had a plurality. In passing it may be noted | that the election is by direct vote of the people, and | the result seemis to confirm the wisdom of the makers | of our constitution, who interposed the electoral | colleges between the people and the Presidency to | cut off such disputes as this in Honduras. In the lack of a majority for one over all it be-| came the duty of the Honduran Congress to elect a | President | Tegucigalpa, the capital, and broke a quorum, fear- But the members remained away from ing coercion for Arias by Sierra. Thereupon Sierra ordered the absent members hunted down, and for a fortnight it was a daily occurrence for squads of members to be brought in as prisoners with their g arms tied behind their backs and driven by barefocot NEW YORK pflA\med Arias President, after creating for himseli the STEPHEN B. SMITH.. office of commander-in-chief of the army. Square; Union n House. Northern Hotel; mer H 15e. Tremont House WASHINGTON (D. N. W. MORTON o ANE ICE...1406 G St., Correspondent. of Clay, open ed to the f room own s time for true that s are due faster t growing tive of the ed to the water front. depart: t the il rents have risen hort, wherever ‘a ones | 1 stores and of- in itime Bonilla, who had the largest vote, r. an armed force to protect his rights. But S pealed to Salvador and Nicaragua for help, and Rega- lado and Zelaya, resoectively the Presidents of those countries, agreed to support his usurpations Then Bonilla, who had been compelled to take refuge on Amapala, an island in Fonseca Bay, appealed to u for support While all this opera bouffe was in progress.uneasi- At a recent election there erra temala o ness spread in Salvador. the Government candidate for the Presidency w. brother-in-law of Regalado, but he was beaten by the popular candidate, Escalon. It dawned upon the latt and his followers that if Regalado supported at in Salvador a usurpa ne. ras he might attempt one The quiet election of @ President had not occurred before in more than thirty years, | do himself being a revolutionary usurper. But is a man of property because he is strong enough tc protect it against his predatory Govern- ment, and he must have put some plans afoot that admonished Regalado, for suddenly it is announced that Sierra and support Bonilla, and the end is not yet. A fitting incident is the un- lawful arrest, imprisonment and abuse of a party of eleven Americans present in Honduras Americati property. he will abandon to After being subjected to great humiliation and hardship they were released. The TUnit countries inspect d States must in some way impress those with the need of civic stability and the policy of protecting life and property. There is a growing fear that our attitude in the Venezuelan case is misconstrued by such countries as Honduras, M ragua, Salvador and Guatemala. They seem- to take it for protection of lawless license instead of lawful liberty. They do not.scruple to make Americans the of such license. At present in Honduras an American is forbidden to leave his house after 7:30 p. m., no matter what the necessity, and the Ameri- gan Consul is overwhelmed with complaints of gross ill-treatment and debasing indignities inflicted upon Americans by Honduran officers. victi The happy ending of the Venezuelan case has en- | hanced our prestige in Europe, but it seems doubt- ful whether that is the effect in the Monroe hemi- sphere. The United States has effectually protected the rights of all Latin-America against rope. Is it not about titte to Dbegin protecting the rights of American citizens against the savagery, the robbery and indignities which they constantly suffer at the hands of Latin-America? Our people readily backed their Government in its support of Venezuela, the under dog in a contest with two empires and a king- . rising | dom. That was well. We are believers in fair play, are ris- | €ven were there no Monroe doctrine. But the b % reasing population American citizen who is robbed, or flogged, humili- length of of Every indi- | nd for aug- I or passenger traffic | this increase it , more- sequently what is ere long become of industrial and ated, thrust into jails infested by lice, centipedes and scorpions, in Salvador, Hond and many other o those countries, is the under dog, and unless we con- clude that the American abroad is a yellow dog, who does not deserve the protection of his Government, it is time that his rights should have effective and ad monitory attention Publi country will not long support the Government in running the risk of war with all Europe in order to protect Latin-America, while permitting there -the grossest insults to citizenship, our flag and our prestige. in this sentiment our In our bump- Son e fact, been carried forward | tious defiance of Europe we are overlooking the kind L e ) a position where the | Of brood we are nursing in Latin-America. The be- eq ts o 3 ne longer equal to the | 8inning of its reform will be when we let that group vl L extensions and improvements in of semi-barbarous nations know that our citizens <, accompanied by the ex-|have behind them a Government that will follow to = Orient, have brought to our r The growth of the | terior of the State and the augmented shipments | prod not only from farms and orchards and rom the rising manufacturing industries e various cities and towns of the interior, have | their bu Iso to the traffic. Thus while | the growth of the city itself has been almost enough | sever the dock equipments, the additional them the outside traffic rease of business. ns put passed the n upon by has limit, and we are hearing from all sides e requests for more wharves. is the immediate duty of the Harbor Commis- iers to give earnest attention to the problem of lying the city with dock facilities on a2 much e than at present. What was sufficient for | ficient for to-day, and will be abso- | iy inadequate for the future. I sue concerns the whole State, for the docks | » San Francisco are as essential to the traffic of the nterior as to that of the city. The improvement and cxfension of the facilities of the docks ought, there- fcre, to be undertaken on a broad«and liberal scale. | e work should not be undertaken at haphazard. comprehensive scheme of improvement should be the farthest verge and protect their rights of persop and property by punishing the lawless infraction of either. It begins to look as if the Legislature intends to endow San Francisco with three more Superior Judges. And we will probably suffer the usual con- sequence: the more law we get the less justice we find. bate on an Irish question that from first to G last was marked by uniform courtesy and good humor. For once the advocates of the land- A MATTER OF COIN. REAT BRITAIN has been delighted by a de- most advanced Nationalists roared as gently as a sucking dove. The occasion of such charming and unwonted har- mony was the debate on the new land scheme pro- posed by the conference last January. It arose over an effort of Mr. Redmond, the Irish leader, to learn | from the Ministers whether it is the intention of the | Government to report a bill substantially like that lords forbore to scoff and sneer, and for once the| while if they report a different bill both the landlords and the tenants will denounce them and charge them | with failing to settle the old dispute when an oppor- | tunity was offered them. It is plainly a question of coin, Various estimates | have been made as to how much will be required to | carry out the scheme. The dispatches containing an | | account cf the debate estimated that it would entail |a free grant of $110,000,000 and a loan of $500,000, 000. That estimate was evidently made by an oppo- ! nent of the plan. Other estimates have fixed the | total cost at less than $100,000,000, extended over a period of twenty years. The issue is the more perplexing to the Govern- ment because there are to be many other demands for money at this session of Parliament, not the least of which will be the sims needed for the relief of the Transvaal and the censtruction of railways in various parts of South Africa. Moreover, London is herself to put a heayy tax upon her ratepayers this year for tem and the construgtion of the new docks. Under such circumstances the Ministers are not to be blamed for being cautious about the Irish land purchase { scheme. . It would appear, however, that aiter all, even if the cost be as high as the estimates given in the L¢ posal, as a rejection of it would lead to such dis- turbances as would 2ntail the maintenance in Ireland of a police and constabulary force whose cost would exceed the amount required for settling the con- troversy altogether. —— one of the small towns of New Jersey a member of a hose company ate twenty-two fish cakes, seventeen siices of bread and a jar of pickles and drank seven cups of coffee. tated to accept an invitation to the ¢ an appetite. i v SOUTHERN EDUCATION. W homicides, political follies and all the other forms of sensational news, there are none abundant evidences not so conspicuous in the news HILE most of the reports from the South are of a discouraging nature, such as stories the less re| than they have ever known before. These great | progressive movements are going forward silently, like the deep currents under the waves of the sea, but they are far more potent than the noisy agita- tions on the surface of which we hear so much. Ample evidence exists to show that the South is giving far less attention to politics and far ‘more at- tention to industrial development than is commonly | supposed. The construction of railways, the estab- lishment of new manufacturing enterprises and the development of mines are going forward rapidly in almost every section of the Southern States, and along | with the increased interest in material prosperity there has been a marked increase of interest in real educ: tion as contrasted with the book learning of the old- fashioned schools. | Of late there have been several notable illustrations | of the desire of the South for a better education and | In an address at Atlanta a| training of both races. short time ago President Spencer of the Southern Kailway, one of the leading business men of the | South, said- the chief lack of the Southern people to- day is that of men competently trained to manage in- dustrial enterprises. Such men, he urged, are needed more than other classes of men at this juncture. By way of emphas | are the men that are not only to lead your industries— | they are the men that are to shape your public sen- | timent. They are the men who are not only to run I;I)ul they are the men who are to shape your lives | with reference to the industrial situation around you, i You are not in an age of making laws, you are not | is a century behind you. You are developing a great “country. You are governing a country that is | branching out in its trade to the world. It cannot | sustain itself in every particular in the outside world | ‘in the sharp and intelljgent competition that goes | | around it unless the m business. n who are here know must be zble to do any part of it, and some of them | —what is more important still—must be able to dem- | onstrate it. You must make your administrative men, {and therefore I say to the State of Georgia, turn | your attention to the industrial education of | youth.” | About the time the big railway magnate was thus | exhorting the whites of Atlanta Booker Washington } was holding his annual conference at Tuskegee and teaching much the same doctrine, but on a humbler | scale, to the negroes. He repeated his often uttered counsel that the open path of advancement was not | through politics, but industry and education. After | referring to the consistency with which Tuskegee had held to that principle he said: “While not for- | getting other important interests of the race, we be- | lieve that these constitute the primary foundation upon which all races began their career of freedom | and usefulness. As we count to-day the many homes that have been secured, schoolhouses built, debts paid, taxpayers produced, and State and local negro conferences that have been organized in every section of the South as a result of our little heginni}:g twelve years ago, I think we have some right to feel that these meetings have not been held in vain.” Along these lines of education designed to fit men and women for some definite work in the world the | really substantial elements of both races find it easy your | to march together. Not long ago one of the wealth- in that State said: “Our citizens feel a deep inter- est in this work because they see the good results | that are coming to us from what is being done, and | the rapid improvement in citizenship which appeals |to every interested man and woman in this com- munity.” the purpose of providing for the new educational sys- | patches, it will be economy to accept the pro-; It is announced further that he hesi- | r on the| ground that he was not feeling well and had only hali | of race antagonisms, brutalities of lynch law, | ports that | the Southern people, white and black alike, are stead- | ily moving forward toward a better condition of life | g the point he added: “These | | your factories, own these mines and these furnaces, | forming States, you are not founding a republic; that | their | They must know it in every detail; they ! | iest bankers of North Carolina in speaking of the | work done by the Slater Industrial School for negroes | 'RESIDENTS OF SAN JOSE PREPARE FOR ARBOR DAY — W.P Lvon. PRESIDENT OF THE HiGHWAY Inmvmt (Lus. L IRIRRRREE R H i | | AN Improvement ¢ Jc ! bor day. March 10, by commencing | i the work of plant! ands of { shade trees to line hoth sides of the high- | | way from Stanford Univ the Lick | Mount d Observatory programme was meeting of the the club, and Pr decic x. ident pointed su it necessary ar: ements, | The plans of the Highway Improvement | | Club contempiate the be tifyin the roadways in Santa Clara Cou when the work is completed, W require several years, this city and coun- | ty will be one of the most aitractive | places in the country. From Stanford to | Mount Hamilton the road will be divided | Into sections, and mile and half-mile di- vistons will be planted with different va- rleties of trees. A great many palms and semi-tropical trees are to be set out, as | the climatic conditions favor them, and these in themselves will prove a nu\'elly‘ to Eastern visitors. | The Highway Improvement Ciub has en- listed some of its most prominent mem- bers in the work of Arbor day. W. P. Lyon is president, H. Geldert secre- | farx and Mrs. Mary Worthen vice presi- | ;10000 B N eontiyine of Beme Nearly all the fraternal societies in this | o" "‘lf."v e Prwf?‘i-gr Dudley of Stan- city have promised their aid. The mer- | ford University and Voiney Rto o U chants are also responding l:bernuy and | ";‘ evra;{rn; ”:; 'v‘:‘rk”" taking a promi- there will be no lack of funds to inaug- | PRt vart in the work urate the work. Many citizens have also | The Suvervisors will be asked to make promised to plant trees in front of their | ATTNSements to care for the trees after homes. The Trustees of the county é’l‘;i'r:“:“ X"{‘;';“‘l“i'zl'-nin'ihtl» u(;:_p:ss an or- schools have been asked to declare Ar- ERES D the cutting of ire bor day a hollday. and also to beautify | 30% 2ion& the roadsides, Santa Clara the yards of the schools by planting trees | ¥2./€¥ Das the fines roads ip the tate, and flowers. San Jose is enthustastic oves | 4nd With shade and tropical trees lining the laea 'and Arbor day promises to in | them they will become known throughout g the world as picturesque boulevards. President Lyon has announced the fol- lowing committees: —r— CITIZENS OF SAN ARE PREPARI) BOR DAY. JOSE WHO G FOR AR- + troduce a general -+ | @ el @ ‘ { BERSGNAEIMENBICIN El iiag st Sube. ammitis 8 N 1 - - ree comm —Dr. Osborne (chairman), Ex-Judge J. M. Mannon of Ukiah is at | Professor x;ih—\, P,m'"g”r Rattan, Mrs. the Lick. Judge W. H. Hatton of Modesto is at the Lick. tee—W. P. Cragin. Harry Edwards M. Tenney, T. C. Barnett, S . H. Gel Dr.i Neil C.. Trew of Los. Angeles is at | o, Schodt commitice "Profescr C. W. Childs, the Occidental. S i e i & ¥ | A. G. Benson, a capitalist of Spokane, | . H. Pleper, C. M. is at the Russ: Frank Freeman, a lawyer of Willows, is registered at the Lick. Barker. Transportation committee—J. H. Rucker, J. L. Stull, F. H. Babb. el H. H. Lee, a prominent attorney of | Arbor Day Celebration at Oakley. Denver; 15 at she Ealace. 2 OAKLEY, Feb. 2.—Under the aulpices Fish Commissioner W. E. Gerber of of the Oakley Improvement Club, Oakley recently celebrated Its first Arbor day, planting a row of pepper trees on both sides of the county rvad for a mile east and west out of Oakley. The next im- provement the club will make will be on May day, when a seventy-foot liberty pole will be erected in front of the post- office. Sacramento is in this city. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Condon, wealthy residents of Osewego, Kas., are at the | Occidental. | George B. Robbins, general manager of | the Armour car lines of Chicago, is at | the Palace. | Fred C. Siebe, the wholesale liquor mer- chant, leaves on the 28th of next month | | | | MRS. JOHNSTO IS ENTERTAINED AT LUNCHEON ————— Mrs. Jack Johnston (née Landers) wi, has ccme up from Los Angeles t Ler old home, was guest of honor day at a dainty luncheon given by M Charles Lyman Bent and M Lansing at the Hotel Pendleton. ( were laid for ten and the table w. and | artistic with jonquils Later in the afternoon the gues entertained at cards, seven-har chre being the game. Miss F rfs was the prize winner. Among present were Miss Pearl Landers Gardiner Shaw, Mrs, Gregory Grant ser, Miss Edna Robinson, Miss A | Van Orsdale the scene of the pleasant affair as Miils, Miss Harris, Miss Amy Port Mrs. Johnston. A large reception was given last e ing In honor of Colonei and Mrs. J and Major and Mrs. ( officers and ladies ry. The Presidio Club w P Booth by the seventh Infan callers were received during t A large number of informal were lssued to the families navy officers and civilians. il w effectively decorated with fol lag rifles and Music ax added to pleasur The wives of th fa cers received. They we M Mrs. worth Mrs. W. J tions for a ov¢ of her daughte The first of next | will return to Los Angeles, cutting visit short owing to the ss of | hustand. W. K. Va ve beautifying of homes | | vice president and gen dinner at the Pacific Club or e main for Dr. a mont Harry T\ P. Greer ok, Captain H. ¢ ry Hol nis Searles, Mrs. Frank y of s Ke Colum a few days. Mrs. Cha 4 onel Coolidge, enter dies” Club at « FARRELL COMING BACk WITH A NEW TITLE President Hill's Assistant Due to A:- rive Here From the East To-Morrow H. Piles of the Pacific controls Company. 2 He prec dent of has been ri President Hi Compary, and due Washington to-morrow. The local steamship agents have been anxiously waliting for news from th regarding the selection of a new dent of the Pacific ¢ Company came yesterday in a peculiar way first intimation the San Frane of is to of the compan had that Mr. ] successor had een named was on re of the company's February -circula which contained the namg of W. H. Car non of New York in place of that of M Farrell. J. C. Ford, who was suppo: to be the most likely candidate for presidency, appears on the new list as ral manager, wita headquarters at Seat ——————t Sons of the American Revolution. The California society of the Sons of the American Revolution has elected the fo lowing delegates and alternates to repr sent the organization at the fourtee continental congress, to be held at New Haven, Conn., April 30 next Delegates—Giles H. Gray, Colonel Cutler: Commodore John W. M S. C. Mastick, Edward M Redington, William L. Plum, E. Black Ryan alternates—Colonel C B P. Fugene A. Hardy, J. . C R. Pringle and Wil H. Finch: delegate at large, Willlam Bunker; alternate, Dr. Garrett Newkirk. —_——— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* —_—— Townsend's California glace frult and candies, 0c a pound, In artistic fire-etched bcxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, 639 Market st.. Palace Hotel building. * ————— e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by ths Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Call- fcrnia street. Telephone Main 1042, s for Germany. | W. H. Avery, local the Japanese steamship from the East yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Flood and Miss Maynard, a relative of the former, leave in April on a trip to Europe. George A. Parkyns, assistant general freight agent of the Southern Pacific Com- pany at Los Angeles, is at the Palace. George E. McCague, trafic manager of the steel trust, arrived from Southern California yesterday and is stopping at the Palace. H J. B. Banning of Catalina Island, who | . has been in Washington for several | weeks, arrived in this city yesterday and is registered at the Occidental. Captain A. W. Keller, an old-time Pa- cific mariner, who has been making a trip around the world, arrived yesterday and is registered at the Russ. J. W. Hausserman, assistant United | | States Attorney General of the Philip- | pines, Is at the California. The gentle- | man has been touring through Europe and is on his way back to his post. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Californians in | ' New York: From San Francisco—D. Brown, at the Navarre; M. Bulkley, at the Gregorian:; A. P. Childs, at the Grand. general line, agent of returned | | : Ry THOMAS DIXON JR. From Sacramento—F. M. Burgess, at the New Amsterdam. ———— LEQOPARD’S ARE YOU READING Kl REGAN FEBRUARY 22 AND wILL RE CONTINUED IN }agreed upon by the conference or to make radical 4 3 ;| That statement expresses the whole thing. In- California Historical Society. | alterations. He did not get the desired information, | dustrial and technical education is fitting the youth of | At an informal meeting at the Univer- devised and carried steadily forward under competent lirection. The cry of the time is for more wharves. H We must have them. They are needed in our busi- ness The London Lancet announces that where bacterial cultures were allowed to stand in a room near an en- gine house they were all killed by the mechanical vibrations. We may infer from this that the surest | way to exterminate disease germs in a man is to iar‘ him for a while. ) The De Beers South African syndicate is said to; have raised the price of diamonds 5 per cent, and yet the world is less disturbed than it would have been for the Ministry is not yet ready to show its hand, | the country for good citizenship and white and black | sity Club of gentlemen interested in local but everything passed off so pleasantly that high hopes are being entertained that this perplexing problem is going to be satisfactorily settled at last. The situation of the Ministry is by no means a pleasant’ one. - The Irish landlords and the Irish ten- ants have agreed that the landlords shall sell their ! lands at a very good price, while the tenants are to | | buy them at a low price. The difference between the selling price and the purchase price is to be paid by the British Government—that ‘is to say, by the Brit- ish taxpayer. It will be seen that if the Ministry support the had some raised the price of beer 1 per cent. / } alike are benefiting by it. The problem of the South {is, in fact, slowly and silently, but none the less surely, working out its own solution in a way the agitators on either side have not dreamed of. P By way of putting the whipping post to the best use a bill has been introduced in the Delaware Legis- lature providing that bribery at elections shall be pun- ishable by forty lashes laid on the bare back of the briber. The bill is entitled “An act to lessen bribery,” %0 it will be seen that the object is not to put an end to it altogether, but only to mitigate it, as it were. It lconference agreement the taxpayers may protest. | is believed the Addicks men will fight it. ’ history, held recently, there were present i Professors Davidson and Morse Stephens ‘i of Berkeley, Farrand of Stanford, Judge || | James V. Coffey, Rev. W. A. Brewer, Robert A. Thompson, Colonel A. 8. Hub- | bard and Horace Davis. After consider- | | able discussion it was resolved to revive | ! | the California Historical Soclety, | Messrs. Farrand, Stephens, Davidson Coftey and Hubbard were appointed a | commitee to take actlon in the matter. The commitee met later in the day and drafted a circular which will be sent to all persons interested in historical re- ‘scarch throughout the State. The hope was expressed that it will meet with a hearty re;ponll:‘; Peml;- interested can correspond Wi an; b y of the len'.lcmen]_ ..Next Sunday’s Call.. The Tenderest, Most Dramatic Book of the Age. Read the Shorl Story Series. Read The “Coloncl Kate” Papers.