The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1903, Page 6

HE New York World suggests that the wide- JUNE 12, 1903 THE POSTAL CORRUPTION. spread intrigue and corruption in the adminis- ] tration of certain bureaus in the General Post- JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Prwri:tu' Pcdress All (crwmum:fltlen‘ o W. S, LEAKE ‘Manager. NOTICE TO POSTMASTERS AND NEWSPAPER AGENTS. Owing to the largely increased cost of white paper and the great advance in wages of the men employed in producing a news- paper, and in the general cost of production thereof, the undersigned newspaper publish- ers find themselves compelled to ask for a slight increase in the cost of subscription rates. On and after July 1, 1903, the price of the | San Francisco newspapers will be as fol- IOWS CHRONICLE, CALL and EXAMINER, $8 per year, or 75 cents per month. EVENING PAPERS. | BULLETIN, 65 cents per month, includ- ing the Sunday issue, or $6.80 per year. : POST, 50 cents per month, without Sun- day issue, or $5 per year. THOMAS GARRETT, Publisher Evening Post. R. A. CROTHERS, Proprietor Bulletin. M. H. DE YOUNG, Proprietor San Francisco Chronicle. | W. R. HEARST, Proprietor Examiner. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, oprietor The San Francisco Call. \ P, 0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER | f8ll subscribers contemniating a change o"‘ residence during the mmer months can have | their paper forwarded by mail to their mew sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. | rhis paper will aiso be on sale at all summer | tesoris and is represented oy a local agent im | all towns on the coast. 1 -1 | | T > ——— ATTITUDE RUSSIA’S of Russia to the offers ng Jews in Bessarabia ste and diplomatic state the Cczar, having the means f o the despoiled Jews, and irom other coun such aid had | | | | this declaration b Rus abi exent of on sufferers, to the as st the great that and | n Great the der a fam v that ( ardon; heed any Gover nment n the be tings to demand influen nd it ed by desired As the other nterfere by 1d Those who t rotest rever and peace Jomn, goes adver siness ends declaration | | | | Russia will not ie Russian Jews Nigra on the ground that they are unde R ubjec ssia excuses the legal in- on the ground that If any other nation he same ground her posi- h is what she desires. If Unite d protest to Ruks:ul aga the her of Jews be- ause e citizens Russia would er assent protest might give | at a aspect to the massacre, and| st answer ‘Yes, is admitted | 2 Je are desirable immigrants. Indeec the Czar, with all his power, his Christian subjects from upon th It not circumstances, that our immigra- against the Russian i mitted upon the same terms | . | restrain vengea is discriminate er al | The excessive crait of Russia is further shown by extension of the assent to this right of exclusion, | the effect that she admits the right of every na- to say who shall come through its gates and | In the ability of diplomacy to trans- | tute terms, cover Russia's o shall not substi One this may and g hat she badly wants to do in her Chi- ese zone, and not only exclude therefrom “whom” | what” she desires to keep out. This would | over commerce. The Czar charmed the world by | hymn of peace in suggesting The Hague Con- | At that time the Siberian railroad was un- and unfinished. Russia had no a military force into China t:»'Crpl‘ was impracticable. So the Czar| reached peace till his military road was finished, and | ow an inaccessible land line for the trans-| i s ready to gobble what he | and Korea and challenge the ob- erence der construction f getting and that by sea, with eases ector to a2 war. It was a very brilliant piece of strat- cgy. and the diplomatic meaning of this latest declar- ation zbout the Jews and the right of exclusion is | cqua i smart diplomacy. e e en Premier Ralfour begged the leaders of the a factions of the opposition beiore venturing nto a debate on the tariff to insure him the stabi of his own Government he made a confession which may result in making him the laughing-stock of the nation and Joseph Chamberlain Premier of England. | transportation Govern | should be surprised that it is not worse | daily office had for an object the organization of a power- ful clique, controlling 100,000 votes in the Republican party, to effect the defeat of President Roosevelt for renomination. This may have been the object or not; whether it were the object is less important than the fact that it might have been. Our postal system is a business carried on by the | Government. It has always been costly, has never ! paid its own expenses, results in large annual de- ories, it is a necessity to the people which it is be- lieved must be supplied by the Government. essence it is the transportation of letters between all points in our own country, and between this and all parts of the world. For the latter purpose we have comprehensive postal treaties, under which our for- eign mails are carried, our postage stamps are hon- ored, and money is transmitted by postoffice orders. The latter, while a great convenience, is in- | vasion by the Government of a distinct business fie|d which brings it into competition with the banks their exchange business, and with express companies in their money order system. In addition to the| desired orders it is by | many of our people that the Postoffice Department shall take over and run the entire telegraph and telephone business of the country. The Postoffice Department has now more }(‘dcla]‘ appointees and employes than any other department | The public servants in its em- | and money of the Government. ploy have organized on the plan of the labor \mmus,! l\\lm-h cither are affiliated with them or are in active | sympathy with their purpos and undoubtedly co- | operate with them in politics. It is to be noted and remembered that office administration, not being the exercise at all of the post- { the purely political functions of government, but | being a business, has from the beginning of the 1ent been the most corrupt of all Federal de | | partments. Long ago, when public defalcations were | quite in the of the { postoffice was rotten in spots, the de- falcations of Swartout and Schuyler, long before the party was in existence. Since then we have had the star route frauds, and now the corruption the bureau of purchases and other divisions of this business enterprise of which Instead of won- rare, in infancy our institutions as shown by Republican in the rural delivery, the Government has a monopoly dering at what has been revealed by the searching in- vestigation ordered by the President, and ably car- ried on by Postmaster General Payne, the country During the campaig: of last year we had furnished | the spectacle of the Democratic organ in this city appealing to a powerful division of postal em- | ployes to seek an increase in their pay by defeating a faithful Reput manfully defended honesty and economy in the postal These appeals were effective they were addressed assured Hearst paper of a money compensation, »f increased pay Congress. In nvolving political action on the part of Government an member of Congress who had | Those by in the form service. to om were the | if they would elect its candidate to | this is just such its way an intrigue, | it is charged they engaged in for the The two | employes, 2 purpose of defeating President Roosevelt are perfectly The guilt in one is as great in kind as in the other. They differ only in the dif fcrence in official degree between a President and a | It is therefore interesting and admon- | joined. Congressman to see the affected zeal of the Hearst papers acts tory blazoning - the revelation of others of which it was itself guilty But, aside from all this partisan hypocrisy. thoughtful people of the country profoundly consider in in let the what ‘would surely happen if the Federal Government | add to ts business activities the ownership and con- of all the telegraph, telephone and railroad | papers advo- and it was favored by the last Democratic | As the Postoffice Department Democratic ness of thg country. The Hearst cate this, national convention has been corrupt under Whig, and ani publican administrations, what could the country expect when the politicians would control more than 4 million Government employes and the family and friendly votes which they would influence? Now, the corruptions in the postoffice can wreck an ad- of to Government destroy the then, the expansion be used mini bu Government itself The country wishes the President well in his fear- Jess attack upon the postal crimes and his pursuit of the guilty te punishment. But the Government should undertake to run the railroad, tclegraph and telephone service of the country no President would | stration: iness would as surely if be strong enough to survive against the power of corruption that would be put in the hands of the politicia no matter what the civil service regula- | tions might be. A republic has no business to be in | business Governor Bailey of Kansas, aiter all sorts of ap- petitions and solicitation, has succumbed to the shaits of Cupid and has announced his engage- ment to be married. But, wise and cautious in his generation, he is taking the least chance in the game. He intends to marry 2 charming widow. F Institute of Technology purposes to establish a course of instruction in engineering as ap- plied to the prevention or the extinction of fires. In other words, it is to be a scientific training in the art of fire fighting and is expected to meet a de- mand that has long been pressing upon our Ameri- can civilization. The demand grows out of our annual losses by | fire and the heavy expenditures of all our cities in | maintaining departments and equipments to fightt fires when they occur. Carefully compiled estimates | are to the effect that the fire losses of the United | States average about $150,000,000 a year, and that the | aggregate cost of the fire service of American cities | is fully equal to the losses; so that the total cost of fires to American cities approaches the enormous | sum of $300,000,000 annually. Of course the Armour Institute is not to be a| pioneer in the way of studying the best means of preventing and of checking fires, for the subject has long engaged the attention of municipal authorities and insurance companies, both in this country and in | LEurope. Still, after all that has been done, there re- mains much to be accomplished. No such thing as an absolutely firepraof building has yet been de- vised, nor with all our efforts have we developed a system of fighting fire that adequately guards our cities. The heavy losses every year bear witness to our deficiencies in both respects. There is there- FIRE PREVENTION [ ROM Chicago comes a report that the Armour !ficn(. and yet, in pursuance of certain feasible the-| In its | in E money | JISCO CALL, FRIDAY fore a big field of work before the Armour Institute in its new departure, and if the course can be made of practical value there will be no lack of opportu- nities for its graduates to find employment. A review of the scheme of instruction to be given in the course says the requirements for admission will be the same as those for electrical, mechanical, civil and chemical engineering courses, and the in- struction will embrace a series of lectures by emi- ment architects, contractors and insurance officials upon the practical features of the work. Such a system of training will be a novelty in the way of college work, but there is no reason why it should not be successful, and Chicago is an ideal city in} which to carry it on. Uncle Sam has been forced to send another war- ship to South America to straighten out the politi-; cal tangles of one of our southern wards. Thisl time it is Chile, generally peaceable and rational. It might not be a bad proposition to station a fighting ship on police duty in every South American harbor. A SOUTHERN SUGaESTION VER since the adoplmn by several of the Southern States of constitutions providing by one means or another for the suppression of | the negro votc there has been a feeling that the sit- | uation imposed upon the General Government one of two courses of action—either the disfranchising clauses of the constitutions would have to be set | aside.as violations of the fifteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States, or else representa- tion in Congress from those States would have to be reduced to conform to the number of mitted under their constitutions. There has been an unwillingness on the part oi the people of the North to take up the issue thus raised, any- thing of the old-time sectionalism that so long dis- turbed our politics. It was hoped the Supreme Court would settle the question when test cases came before it. The court, however, in a case that appears to have fairly presented the whole issue, has decided that the question is one of-politics and not subject to the court’s jurisdiction. Thus, if it be dealt with at all, it must be made a political question and become a subject of partisan controversy. Such being the condition of the question.it is in- teresting to find that a considerable number of repre- sentative Southern men are in favor of submitting to a reduction of representation in Congress for the sake of getting ‘the negro problem out of party politics in both the State and the nation. A striking expression was given to that phase Southern sentiment by Representative Humphreys of Missis sippi in an address at the decoration of the graves of the Coniederate dead He is quoted as saying: “Let us appeal to our brothers of the North to help us remove this incubus which they put upon us in their anger, and which is sapping up our liberties. Let us say them: Re- peal the fifteenth amendment and with the same stroke of the pen reduce onr representation in Con- gress to the basis of our white population firm convicti voters per- because of a desire to avoid reviving of to It is my om that when we convince the people of the North by frank and honest arguments that the ference can it make how long the bow was drawn if the arrow hit something and nailed it for public in- spection and condemnation? SHIP—B. M., ( The proper way to | — divide shipping is ‘“ship-ping,” ‘and hipped, “ship-ped.” A QUESTION OF TASTE. giaiss: P e ATOM-I. C. G., Salinas, Cal. Any dic-| | WRITER for the New York Press reports| tionary will give you the definition of | A that a good deal more native wine would be | Molecule and atom. used in that city if the prices were higher. At| STAGE COACHES-Enq., City. Stage | least that is the conclusion he draws from informa- tion given him in the locality where he sought for it—that is among the wine men of the city who pur- vey to the members of the Stock Exchange. He states that when he asked a dealer why he did not handle more native champagne the reply was: | “Because it is too cheap a business for my customers. | Personally. 1 think we make the purest and best wines of any country in the world, and I aiways drink native wines at my table. There is no head- ache in native champagne, and you can rely upon the effervescence being the result of natural fermenta- tion. But offer it to my customers? Never! I can buy a case of the best native champagne for $11, and 1 wouldn’t have the heart to charge more than $2 a bottle for it. A two-dollar champagne for that Wall street crowd! Why, they'd laugh at me. If 1 could charge $7 a bottle they’d buy it by the case.” There is nothing new in that statement. It is only a repetition of an old story, and is interesting solely because it serves to show how persistent is the American habit of believing foreign goods to be bet- ter than home products. A French label and a high price will sell wine that finds no buyers under an American label at a reasonable price. Tt seems the New York crowd has acquired such a taste for money that they demand the flavor of it even in their wine. Unless the price is high enough to leave a taste.of coin on their lips after finishing the bottle they deem the wine unfit for their palates. A good many years and a long process of educa- | tion may be required to eradicate that taste from the New Yorkers, but patience and perseverance will do it. At any rate we can hope to eventually convince the Wall street bloods that there are some things they don’t know, and that when it comes to wine they would better- accept California judgment and cease making themselves ridiculous. — The pedagogues of Alameda County have been in- dulging in a series of unseemly quarrels of late, and neither they nor the children in their care have bene- fited. Alameda should leave such affairs to San Francisco, where politics, under the convenient guise of the merit system, gives variety and scandal to our public school system. JUNE 12, 1908. TROOPS WILL MAKE DAZZLING DISPLAY FOR MEMORIAL TO A FAMOUS CHAPLAIN ! PROMINENT MEN WHO ARE TAKIN G A CONSPICUOUS PART IN THE PREPARATION OF FOR THE MILITARY TOURNAMENT AT SACRAMENTO 1N AID OF THE FUND FOR THE MONUM THE PROGRAMME T IN ANSWERS TO QUERIES. | coaches were so called from the stages or inns at which the coaches stopped to refresh the horses and ("nangs‘ them. MONEY—A Subsc ribel City. As the United States does not issue any coin ex- cept such as is coined in the United States mints, the money that was recent- ly sent to the Philippine Islands was United States money REMOVING PROPERTY-J. i, City. | The right of an agent of a corporation to enter a housé which was sold upon month- ly payments, seize furniture and store the same and then take possession of the house depends upon the contract and is a matter for a court of law and not for the department of answers to correspond- ents to answer. OCCUPYING LAND-W. Nevada Coun- ty. Cal. If parties have occupied land uninterruptediy for twenty vears without objection from any one, it is probable that such parties would have the right to set up an adverse claim {o that of any one else. The particular case in question is one that ougit to be sub- mitted to a reputable attorney for his opinion, as much may depend upon the facts and the conditions under which the parties went on the land. WEST POINT—L. W. D., Milford, Cal. Appointees to the United States Military Academy at West Point must be between seventeen and twenty-two vears of age, free from any infirmity which may ren- der them unfit for military service, and able to pass a careful examination in reading, writing, orthography, arithmeti grammar, geography and history of t United States. The course of instruction, which is quite thorough, requires four years, and is largely mathematical and profcssional The principal subjects taught are math matics, French, drawing, drill regulations of all arms of the service, natural and experimental philosophy, chemistry, chem- ical physics, mineralogy, geoiogy and elec- tricity, history, international. constitu- tional and mflitary law. Spanish and civil and military engineering, and art and sci- ence of war and ordnance and gunnery. About one-fourth of those appointed usually fail to pass the preliminary ex- aminations, and but little over one-half | are allowed but one rect in conduct are given the particular ; standing in their ciass to which their | merits entitle them, while those cadets | deficlent in either conduct or studles are | discharged. H From about the middle of June to the | end of August cadets live in camp, en- | gaged only in military duties and receiv- | ing practical military instruction. Cadets | leave of absence dur- ing the four vears' course, and this is granted at the expiration of the first two years. The pay of a cadet is $40 per year, and, with proper economy, is suf- ficient for his support. The number of | candies, fifteenth amendment is an error. and by our conduct | | MEMORY OF THE LATE FATHER McKINNON. satisfy them that the negro disfranchised will be pro-| | s tected in all his civil rights and secure in his life, lib- | % - 4 erty and the pursuit of happiness, they will be as per ACRAMENTO, June 1l.—Agricul- sion trains will be run into Sacramento ised. Company B, Wirst N. € - o o S . & “lural Park will be the scene Sun-| from a]l difections. The committee fig- | C.. of San Francisco will rate the sistent in their efforts to correct the errors oi, re "1”“‘ A ; ‘” 'm st elab. | UTeS on an atiendance of between 12000 | war-time bridge buflc A sham h $ ay next of one of the mos - £ : construction as they were relentiess in commifting i G O s ever | 874 15 ons. battle will ‘he carried out’ with ooy ur- - orate military entertainments ever The business of the committee has | fort at realk and the specta them witnessed in California. Tt will be | crown 1o such extent that has been | tors will witness an engagement between Of course the suggestion has no value as a matter | given under the direction of the Father | obliged to open headquarters with an of- | conflicting forces, in which the roar of a of practical politics: a majority of Southern men | MeKinnon memorial commitiee, headed | I,‘f g h'\,,‘ 1‘";—”“‘(‘ ook = = = & 4 : by Govermor George (. Pardee and Sec- | of the committee and Fran vien | heaxd would not sustain it, and the North would never| - "0 " ") avles F. Curry and in- | Secretary. Besides and ‘;Hw--v..r‘ A dress parade with all the troops pres consent te 2 f s 2 g 5 £ 2 7" | Pardec and Sec ate Curry the | ent, commanded by Colonel ‘H. L. § consent to repeal the famou dmt‘mlm.en' that s}a_nrls cluding & number of other prominent cit- | (oot 05, W, J. Hanna. ) or Wil “easitinds. (e . Cubtvtoinins as one of the records of the war for the Union. | jzens who have interested themselves in | Geperal T. W. Rev. J. 1. | The visiting orgs tions will be enter Still the suggestion is not without its value as an evi- | {he movement to erect a suitable memo- | Major ¥. D. Lieutenan: tained by pitol Couneil, Y. M. L, of A s g 4 x Skel & o ¥ e Cal- | Moore, Rev. C. vlonel H. Wein- | Sacramer assisted Sacramento dence of the trend of Southern sentiment and of a :::' ;‘ ::‘;h::‘:(w:h h"l'l' ‘1“;“"(h‘h;-m;:,. !uu ek, "Cantain ijoe . 3| Cousell 1 id Youin Radias’ Taskts L i rnia re ¥ o die o & i . % . 4 . o willingness on the part of a considerable number of | pi's | Long, J. Alexander. T. A. Cody. Willlam | tutes Nos. I7 and 4 7 4 S ) 3 SRS 5 B {i W. Douglas, W. J. Hamm. J. 8. Bowden, | The young women have opened head- x'nflu(‘nna! men r\.v that section to meet the issue The idea originated with Capitol Coun- | p.'5 "Douglas, Dr. T. J. ¢ ¥. A. Griffin uarters at Masonic Hall, the better to | fairly. If that spirit prevail a way will be found to | ¢il No. 11, Young Men's Institute of Sac- | (. V. Schneider. James Lengshore Jr ertaln the guests. Stockton Counci S s i R 1 A ramento, but it expanded to such propor- | Florence J. O'Brien, W Murphy, A.| Young Men's Institute, has sent word do ju tice to all (‘U»m(‘rn?i without precipitating an- | yjons that it was decided to have the al- | A. Killen and Thomas S that it will run a special train to Sacra other racial or sectional issuc into our political con- | fair take on a semi-public character. The National Guard ~flnnvmlf~ will come | mento for the entertainmeft. The First ¢ suggestion met with instant favor and | from Woodlardd, Placerville and San | Regiment band will accompany Company the State, county and municipal authori- | Franci to take part in the | B, First Regiment Infantry of San Frar - 4 — 4 ties have tendered their aid to the proj- | ent M!nm»‘m Al of the local | eisco and will give a free open alr concert Governor Taft is of the opinion that General | ect. Military companles from outside | m companie: will appear and |at the Plaza next Saturday night in com- Miles drew the long bow in his description of ai- | Cities Will participate and special excur-| some striking evolutions are prom- | pliment to the people of the capital cits fairs and conditions in the Philippines. What dif- | @ sielrdeiieieiieirivinin injmieiriieinideinideiriviieiriiib bbb @ students at the academy is usually about four hundred and twenty-five. Upon graduating cadets are commis- sioned as second lieutenants in the United States armv. —_———— Townsend's California glace fruits and 50c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bls PR, 2 x Special Information supplied daily n Ltusiness houses and public men by th Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’, l). 9 C-h- fernia street. Telephone Main 102 By Jack From Santiago to despair or——2 the remainder are finally graduated. The discipline is very strict—even more o than in the army—and the enforcement of pen- alties for offences is inflexivle rather than severe. Academic duties begin September 1 and continue until Jupe 1. Examinations are held in each January and June, and s found proficient in studies and cor- Bcst 1da everprcscntedbyAmaxznncw;papa Something new. You may choose any locality from Catalina to Puget Sound, Aad here’s something good for you to take along to read. “At the Rainbow’s End” London. The Gnomes’ Daughter Fable. “The Mississippi Bubble”