The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1903, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, .THURSDAY,.JUNE 11,1903 The ~CiS< Eall. vee.-+.JUNE 11, 1903 THURSDAY.... . "~ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propricior. pcdress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. £sk for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the mnt You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday) DAILY CALL—By Eingle Month. EUNDAY CALL, One Year WEEKLY CALL, One Year All Postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Eample coples will be forwarded when requested Mall subscribers In crdering change of address should be perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order & isure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. 111S Broadway.. BERKELEY OFFICE. £148 Center Street.. +++.Telephone North 77 €. GEORGE XROGNESS, Manager Forelgm Adver- tising, WMarquette Building, Chicage. (ong Distance Telephone ral 2619.”) NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. €. CARLTON...... ..Herald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort- Asto A. Brentano, 81 Union Square: Murray Hill Hotel enue Hotel and Hoftman House. 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER | sabscribers contemplating a change of | during the summer months can have fornwarded by mail to their new notifying The « 1 Busine Oflice. also be on sale at all summer )y = local agent in Call residence their paper nddresses by This paper wil is represented the coas resorts and all towns on FANATIC FREE TRADERS O far as the House of Commons is concerned | S Ir. Chamberlain’s great plan for federating e British e re th a common fiscal complete fiasco. Rarely has < made so poor a show as on ue was brought up for debate. ¢ se s, Radicals, Labor men and , ke turned upon him. His very ag ( net stened to denounce his e spoke for Chamberlain g the debate of the House during his rge him with cowardice His position is a itish system a Cabi- 1 lines of policy iber of the Ministry is gns, unless it chance ) importance e spoken e contest Chamber- st his col- Mr. hat course, it dera and his n, any time. arger than th He has been a Tory by turns. He now should he go forward in virtually aban power and office, unless, of his es. to form a party nberl. discomfiture in vive his fall the ( The very ! ergume for the maintenance of the free e £ Britain furnish abund evi- dence weakness. For example, no bitterly than Sir John Gorst, and yet his argu- the dispatches was to the ef- ect t a great portion of the rising generation in nited Kingdom already so degenerate and stricken t anything tending to an in-| e the price »d would threaten national t. would not need a disputant of any extra- ability to retort that free trade has British people to that condition - the they get rid of it the better. The retort would if large percentage of the rising genera- sh people are so degenerate and so in the price of food would mean dis- unless it were accompanied by an in- nt and an increase of wages. e has well nigh wiped out the rural in- the British people, and the consequence has been an overcrowding of the cities by people of the country thronging to the manufacturing cen- ters in the hope of finding work. In the cities they H that prevent the development Tli fed, ill clothed, ill lodged e temptations of the towns, they grow up weak and incapable of performing hard/| work ng either poverty or disease. A -rise the price oi"the cheapest food would mean for f those people absolute starvation. That is the’ condition to which free trade has brought what was onte most vigorous race in Europe, and un- less statesmen can devise some means of getting the bulk of the people back to the land, and providing for all classes more work and better pay, degenera- tion wili go on in the future-even more rapidly than iri ‘the past That fact, however, the politician;oi the United Kingdom do not secem able to pergeive Having been brought up to believe 'in free trade as a dogma of. poiitical faith, their eyes are blinded to all the evils that flow from it. Nay, more—even when they perceive the evils they Jook upon them as reasons why the old course should-be-continued. Reduced to 2 logical form, Gorst’s argument is that iree trade has made the, British people-so poor they dare not now venture upon a remedy. - The patient is too weak to digest food. Whether -Chamberlain has the courage to hold on his way or nof, it is certain some one will. Although his name has become identified with the scheme of imperial federation and protection, .the issue is not of his making. It has been 'under discussion for years, and sooner or later the question will be/taken from Parliament to the people. 217 to 221 Stevenson St. | an for a return to protection | : 2 | more effective because the statement of Gorst CLEVELAND'S ALLEGORY. GROVER CLEVELAND, having been <=ily importuned for a month or more by politi- the country to say whether or not he is a candidate cians and newspaper men of all sections eof New York Independent a letter on the g'emle art of fishing. To the careless and to the uninitiated | this will seem like a palpable evasion of the ques- tion. Those, however, who are wiser will read be- tween the lines and perceive that Mr. Cleveland has answered his questioners fully in the form of an al- alegory, whose deciphering will be no unpleasant task in these days when any kind of intellectual en- joyment is a sweet relief from the chatter of the | silly season. study the inner meaning of this graceful letter, which | appeared in full in The Call of yesterday, it may be | just as well to furnish an interpretation, so that he who intends to run to the fishing waters this summer or hopes to run for office later on may read and be wise. Mr. Cleveland begins by a murmur of complaint against the “apparently unalterable decree which gives to all those who fish under the spur of any ! motive—good, bad or indifferent—the name of fish- erman.” It is clear that the complaint refers to the | fashion of including under the general name “Dem- | ocrats” all persons who drop their bait in the Dem- ocratic pool without distinction of motive. He goes on to say: ‘“We certainly have nothing in common with those who fish for a livelihood.” That means he is not in politics for coin. He next denies any relationship “with the murderously inclined, whose only motive in fishing is to make large catches.” That is a palpable hit at Bryan, whose fondness for large catches of all kinds is notorious. Next Mr. Cleveland says: resent the highest fishing aspirations are inclined to complain on days when the fish refuse to i There can be no worse exhibition than this of an entire misconception of’ a wise arrangement for ur benefit.” In thae statement he rebukes the im- patience of the conservative Democrats who howl against the rank and file for not taking conservative bait. He goes on to remind them that if fish would always bite any kind of a man could be a fisherman, meaning that if the party always voted solid any kind of a candidate, even a Bryanite, might win, and there | would then be no glory for those who aiter a weary ! time of no bites return some day and make a record- sometimes breaking catch Continuing that phase of the allegory Mr. Cleve- how many spurious and discouraged fishermen are spending their time in hammocks, or under the trees, or on golf fields, instead of in fishing outfits, solely on account of just such unfavorable day The ref ! erence in that passage to those Democrats who have taken to the woods is unmistakable. Mr. Clc\'c]and,J however, does not wish to be understood as denoun- | cing those men, for he may have need of them, so| he hastens to add: “Let it not be said that such| cc erations as these savor of uncharitabieness and | selfishness on our part i | We are only recognizing | the doctrine of the survival of the fittest and claiming | that these fittest should have the best chance.” In that declaration, “the fittest should have the best chance,” we catch the first clear intimation that Mr. Cleveland is still in the ring. At that point, | however, he deviates for a moment from his argu- | ment to say that some attempts have been made “to the best of the fraternity under the namie of | ‘anglers’ or some title of that kind.” That of course | who call themselves mug- wumps or independents and try by that means to ac quire a reputation for a superior political morality. Mr. Cleveland protests - against that He say “However much those who fish may differ in social standing, in disposition and in character, in mmi\-e: !is an allusion to those for the Presidency, has responded by writing to the | As some of our readers may not have had time to| “We who claim to rep- | !the Nicaraguan route, is equivalent to a decree of definitive ruin to the is(}umis, causing irreparable evil and giving origin to anti-patriotic sentiment.” In that declaration we have a demonstration of a sectional as well as a partisan feeling in the con- |troversy. The announcement that a defeat of the treaty would tend to produce “an unpatriotic senti- ment” is a thinly veiled threat that if the treaty be rejected and Panama sees herself in danger of los- ing the canal she will separate herself from the other states of the republic and undertake to manage her | affairs as an independent government. Panama’s interests are, in fact, inseparable from the canal. It treaty ratified will have the effect of alarming the opposition and making them drop the contest at once, but if not, then the fight will mean something like war. £ | i A highwayman raised all sorts of a fuss at old !ncws particularly encouraging at this season of the year, when most of ugs are thinking of the lovely stage ride which separates from.the hum of the city and our contemplated vacation home at the springs. | | THE ALASKAN FRONTIER. MERICAN opinion on the Alaskan boundary dispute is so fully made up and so firmly based upon indisputable evidences of the ju | tice of our claims that comparatively little interest is fnow felt in any further discussion of the subject. | Even the reference of the issue to a conference of irepresenta!ives of the two coyntries has occasioned | little or no comment. We are quite certain that our | claims can be amply proven and that our represen- | tatives at the conference will make them quite clear' nd convincing. So far as we can see there is noth- ing to arbitrate and nothing to dispute. We present claims and “stand pat”” That is all there is to it. | Despite this general indifference to further talk and argument over the well-worn theme, there is | | some satisfaction in seeing the American case stated once more with fullness and terseness by Richard | Wayne Parker in the current number of the North | American. Mr. Parker has indeed nothing new to | add to the subject, and owing to the limitations of a | | magazine article he could not review the whole | question with the elaboration with which it has been | | presented by Thomas Willing Bach, whose work on | the subject covers cvery phase of the controversy; | | but his statement has-the advantage of putting the | | | our | American argument in.a compact form.and with a land asks his friends and the public “to remember | clearness that makes every point.plain. Mr. Parker reviews the history of all diplomatic negotiations concerning the Alaskan boundary be- tween the British and the Russians, and sums up the whole by saying: “Ever since the treaty of 1825 be- tween Russia and Great Britain it had been perfectly well understood by all parties that by that treaty Russia had an unbroken strip of land along the main continent, which gave her full control of all the| sounds, channels and inland seas of that broken may be that her resolute determination to have the | Shasta the other day by holding up a stage. This is | THEATERS ARE REAPING MIDSU HARVEST WITH STRIKING PRODUCTION B — | i HITE WHITTLESEY is a gallant figure in red coat and < T g g powdered wig, representing C(’!dS.(. and ]x}mmse pr(.)(:tze(.l her fur companies upon & young - TrHE. . offiesr 18 the islands from the incursions of the Hudson Bay SRATCTE ob Al -l Company. These considerations had been para-|at the Alcazar, and he acts with mount.in the negotiation of the treaty. This had | $7d°F dellcacy and inimitable humor. been the construction shown in all the maps from 1825 to 1897, whether English, Russian, American or Caradian. Russia, and afterward America, had oc- cupied to the head of all these inlets. If ever there was a question which was absolutely settled it was But with the discovery of gold in the Klondike everything is changed. A new construction of the treaty is put forward, just as some new child, never heard of before, always appears to claim a large for- tune.” That statement contains the whole story in a nut- shell. Canada’s claim on the froutigr is due solely to the gold discoveries and to her desire to obtain thi and ambition, and even in mode of operation, all|a port for the Klondike country. It is a claim abso- must abide to the end of the chapter in the contem- ! lutely without justification, and so far as her rights plation of the outside world within the brotherhood | called’ ‘fishermen.’” That means, of course, that | Democrats must get together. It is a direct plea for | { harmony. | Going swiftly from that point to the conclusion of | the whole matter, Mr. Cleveland says with enthusi “In any event let us go out with good tackle, good bait and plenty of patience. If the wind is in! the south or west so much the better, but let's go | wherever the wind may be. If we catch fish we shall | add zest to our recreation. If we catch none we shall have the oyting and the recreation—more healthful | and more enjoyable than can be gained in any other way asm: | Aiter that but little need be said | Mr Clc\'clandl | would like to have the favor of the West and the ! { South, but even if that be lacking he is still for the | sport. He is in it not for fish nor office, neither for | }\nin nor catch, but for his health. What allegory | could be clearer? At present he is cutting bait. | Owing to a strike of the laundry workers in San | Jose the (people of the Garden City are in serious | danger of a dearth of clean linen. -There is- after | all a condition somewhat worse than that of the fel- | low who had to remain in bed while his solitary shirt | was being washed. It is not expected, however, that l San Jose's predicament will be serious; ' the weather { promises to continue warm. e e [ A PROTEST FROM PANAMA. HEN the Colombian Congress assembles on June 20 to pass upon the canal treaty with the United States it is likely there will | be lively times in Bogota. It is well known | that a strong faction is fighting the treaty and is | endeavoring to win public favor by holding out the | promise that if the treaty be deieated Colombja can | make much better terms and get much more money ;than the treaty promises. On the other hand, the Government desires to have the treaty ratified partly because, having negotiated it, the President | and his colleagues are eager to get their work in- | dorsed by Congress, but also because if they can get it ratified they will have the handling of the money to be paid by the United States; while if it be defeated there is no telling who will be in of- fice to receive and administer such money as might be paid under a new treaty. Those two opposing elements in the Congress have long been understood, but now comes a new con- testant in the field. Panama has come to the conclu- sion that her interests are likely to be sacrificed at the dictation of politicians from other states of the Colombian republic., Recently a mass-meeting was held and the following dispatch sent to the Presi- dent at Bogota: “Colombians, resident and born in the isthmus, without distinction of political party, consider of vital importance the approval of the Hay-Herran treaty, which consults present and fu- ture interests and aspirations. The non-approval of ! the treaty, when endeavors are being made to adopt are concerned she might just a5 well assert a sov- ereignty over the moon. e — In a glorious military triumph the other day the French killed three hundred Moorish tribesmen. Is there a doubt in the mind of any one in reference to the character of the arms with which the tribes- men were provided? These splendid victories have become synonyms for wholesalé murder. THE PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM. OR some time past the attention 6[ observant chn has been attracted: by’ the rapid” develop- ment of -socialistic sentiment -in - Massachusetts. The trend of public opinion in that direction is no- ticeable not only in. politics, but in the tone temper of all discussions of social topics. It appears that many persons who wauld not support a social- istic ticket or a socialistic platform as a matter of practical politics are still ready to give encourage- ment to the movement by advocating, in an aca- demic way, the. propaganda of socialistic principles. An instance of the kind is now in evidence. It has been proposed by Dr. Hale that ‘the revenue de- rived by Massachusetts from the poll tax be used as a means of providingsold age pensions for work- ingmen. From that part of her system of taxation the State receives annually about $2,000,000, and Dr. Hale says: “If we divided that sum into pensions of $100 each we should have 200,000 such pensions. If we.paid $100 a year to every man and woman over 69 years of age in the State we should have to pay about $125,000. Each of them would feel that he had been insuring himself in old age by his payments to the commonwealth.” The scheme thus proposed is not a political issue, The discussion of it thus far is purely speculative, and as a\ consequence a considerable number of persons without apparently giving any thought to the inevitable outcome of the adoption of such a policy are recommending it as a reasonable solution of some of the problems that confront reformers who are trying to reduce the ills of poverty when ac- companied by old age. It is safe to say the socialists of Massachusetts will be prompt to take advantage of the indorsement given to the scheme, and may perhaps include it in their next political programme. Should they suec- ceed in getting the principle. of old age pensions adopted to the extent advocated by Dr. Hale they will not stop there. - They will demand pensions for persons of less age than the limit fixed by the doc- tor and of larger amount than $ioo. Having been given an inch they will demand the proverbial ell, §ocialism. in short, is a good thing to let alone, for if it once begin there is no telling where it will stop. Lady Somerset has. seen fit to deplore what she considers to be the widespread inebriety of the people of Great Britain. She evidently doesn’t sympathize | with the opinion of an’ English poet ‘who declared that man, being reasonable, must get drnk. ~and | Next week “Pudd’'nhead Wilson,” the in- | genfous story of thumb mark identifica- tion, as put in virile dramatic form by Frank Mayo, will be played at this the- ater. E. H. Sothern will close his engagement at the Columbia Theater on Saturday night. el lte The famous Sousa opera, “El Capitan,” is enjoying an unusually large share of patronage this week at the Tivoli Opera- house. The splendid Tivoli stock com- pany, headed by Edwin Stevens, has scored a big hit in this opera. This is the last week of *“El Capitan.” Beginning @i @ PERSONAL MENTION. Dr..R. J. Schimpel of St. Paul i3 at the Occidental. J. Topley, a druggist of Vallejo, is at the Grand. Dr. R. W. Ellis of Los Angeles is at the Palace. D. M. Dean, a merchant of Portland, is at the Lick. G. L. Levy, a merchant of Fresuo, is at the Lick. R. K. Evans, a merchant of Selma, is at the Russ. G. P. Schafer, is at the Lick. 2 S. Ewell, a merchant of Marysviile, is at' the Culifernia. G. ‘Turner, a hardware man of Modesto, is at the Grand. R. S. Miller, a merchant of Sacramento, is at the Grand. P. Ehlers, a merchant at the Occidental. W. Lacy, a merchant of Los Angeles, is a guest at the- Palace. H. Hahn, a liquor merchant of Port- land; is at the Palace. T. K. Backer, a merchant of Los An- geles, is at the Palace. Houghton Murray, & mining man of Cisco, is at the Palace. W. W. Gillett, a frult grower of Paler- mo, is at the Occldental. W.. Nashburg, a merchant of Marsk- field, Or., is at the Lick. J. H. Minor, a lumber man of Arcata, is registered at the Grand. J. 8. Jacobs, a tobacco merchant of Sac- ramento, is at the Grand. ‘W. Martin, proprietor of a hotel Glenwood, is at the Grand. F. M. Shideler, a lumber man of Bu- reka, Is stopping at the Lick. H. W. Harris, a machinery man of Portland, is at the California. W. E. Kleinsorge, a merchant of Sac- ramento, is at the California. J. T. Turner, a business man of Los Angeles, is stopping at the Lick. C. 0. Yordi, proprietor of a general mer- chandise store at Cloverdale, is at tne Palace. J. B. Robinson of Chico, Pacific Coast manager of the Diamond Match Com- pany, is at the Palace. Dr. J. W. Hudson of Ukiah, husband of Grace Hudson, the well known paintes of Indian heads,.is at the California. ‘William Pope, a prominent attorney of Santa Fe, N. M., who in the past has act- ed as adviser for the Indlans living on the Puebla of the Isleta reservation, is at the Palace. Prince George of Bavaria, who arrived here from the Orient Monday, accom- panfed by his tutor, Dr. Mayo, and im- mediately went to Monterey, returned to this city yesterday afternoon and is res- istered at the Palace. Marius de Zayas, a noted young artist of Mexico and son of the new Mexican Consul General at thils port, arrived from the South yesterday, acconipanied by his jother, and registered at the Occidental. ‘hey have come north to join the Con- sul General in establishing a home in San Frapcisco. ownsend’s Callfornia. glace frults ana candich fhe/ powndih i Xes. T e, Tib Market at.. above Call Sie —_——— information e R A a merchant of *Modesto, of Honolulu, is at FLIARD-HASSELL~- MAYO ~~»DODGE MMER - - = FOUR OF Th. PRETTY GIRLS WHO ARE FLEASING AUDIENCES AT | THE CALIFORNIA IN THE “CIRCUS GIRL" TWO ACTORS WHO ARE MAKING HITS AT OTHER THEATERS. i % | next Monday evening. “The Isle of Cham- pagne” will be put on. . . “In Washington™ continues to pack the Grand Opera-house at every performance. Sunday evening it will commence its third week and a new edition will be pr sented which will contain many att tive novelties. Raymond and Ca will introduce an amusing parody on the | popular song, 'he Volunteer”; Cheridah | Simpson will sing “The Congo Love| Song.” Louise Moore, “The Maiden With the Dreamy Eyes” and Harold Cranhe the | spirited patriotic song, “My Own United | States.” e | “The Circus Girl, which is holding sway at the California this week, has proven fitself one of the funniest and most enjoyable hits yet presented at that popular playhouse. . It is the opinion of the vast army of | playgoers who frequent Fischer's Theater | that “Twirly Whirly the ne t crea- tion at the showhouse, Is funny in the ex- | treme, and gives every member of the | company a chance to do or say something clever. @ There is the customary crush at the Or- | pheum at every performance this week, nd Frank Keenan and his compan. Hanlon's Pantomime company and Hale and Frances, the newcomers, have all made hits. Paxton's Living Art Pano- rama continue gh favor, and Russ, and Locke, Harry Le Clatr, the Lutz Brothers and the last appearance: Four Emperors class Rixfords are in their Next Sunday come the f Music and other high audeville acts. “On the Stroke of Twelve” at the Cen- tral proved the biggest drawing card since “The Resurrection.” The Central will deviate from its custo- mary melodramatic offerings next week, ard will give its pairons a comedy treat, with M. B. Curtiz as the star attraction in his original creation, “Sam’l of Posen." This will be Comedian Curtis’ first ap- pearance in this city in over twelve years, The exceilent vaudeville programme of- fered at Grauman's Theater is serving to please large audiences every afternoon and evening. MclIntyre and Primrose and other tertaining specialty people are pleasing the audiences at the Chutes every after- noon and evening. To-night, after the regular performance, the amateurs will appear, concluding thefr portion of the entertainment with a new series of living pietur RS READ By Jack From Santiago to despair or—2 ICHCHORORCHRORCY LROBOA LACRORO OROBSRORFOROHOT OPRORORHOHCI HORONS SHORORCS CHOROH RO Next Sunda l?‘csSvaethmgt flu 'cvancw. Youbym:: choosc any locality . * from Catalina to Puget Sound. And here’s something good for you to take along to read. “At the Rainbow’s End” The Gnomes' Daughter Fable. “The Missi ™ e THE s Call London. The Girl and the Highwaymaa Bubble” s 7 o