The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1903, Page 6

E SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1903. 6 TH fl% i THE OANAL TREATY. % %__:ll‘ | T is quite definitely announced that the Colom- e 'ama canal. In this connection it is given out from D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. JOHN Acdress All Communicotions to W. S. LEAKE. Manager. T TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Oarriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. . Including Pestage: Ll fe23 8% Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. subscribers in ordering change of address should be give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order Ms past 1118 OFFICE. ..Telephone North 77 Manager Foreign Adver- e Building, Chicago. “Central 2618."') BERKELEY 2145 Center Street. GEORGE KRC tising, Marque JRRESPONDENT: 1408 G Street, N. W, YORK REPRE: N TATIVE: NEW STEPHEN B. SMITE { NEW TORK CORRESPONDENT: | C. C. 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This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented sy a local agent in sll towns on the coast. = THE PURE FOOD LAW. cement of the existence ral appropr n bill of a Government m-prcvcnt aduiterated, falsely labeled e ¥ where they keen interest in Eu- coun dency to look upon the act as a scheme devised by the Government to wrong the foreign producer, and taking that view of it pro-| o roundly denounce both our law and our , however, no reason why any producer | properly labeled goods should be | The object of the law is merely to prevent atry of articles of food, drink or medicine t are either injurious to health or are iraudulently sold under labels that deceive the pub-: At the req the Department of Agricul- | e the Secretary of State has sent to United States | parts of the world a letter of instruc- their on with the Agricul- ing such exports from | co-op Department in to our = the course to be pursued by the offi- cials of the Bureau of Chemistry, who are to pass judgment upon all suspected articles sent up for| nation, it has been stated byga report from | ngton that in every instance the standard of!, e health regulations of the countries| the goods are exported, will be taken as | comparison, and the shipment of any | not be legally sold at home will gal by this Government. The re- on to say: “Itis a recognized fact | that the pressure of competition, unrestricted by the | forcement of adequate pure food laws, has re-| the addition of harmless but cheap sub- | mown as “fili ’ to many food products, | with a view to increasing their bulk without adding materially to the cost. On the other hand, the pres- ence of some foreign substances is almost inevitable | where food products are manufactured on a whole- | In determining whether these ingredients | are present to such an extent as to warrant a deci- | sion that the goods are adulterated, the purity stan- dard will prove of inestimable assistanee.” A feature of the report that is of special interest to California is that relating to the adulteration or! false labeling of various spurious fruit products lhati come into competition with the products of our| orchards. On that point it is said: “There is another | class of goods which it is most desirable to exclude | from commerce, however, both for the health of the public and for the reputation of American manufac- turers. In this may be included the various ‘fruit jellies’ made from apple pomace, the refuse of the! cider mills, with perhaps three raspberries to the | jar of ‘raspberry jam,” three strawberries to the jar of ‘strawberry jam,” etc, also the fruit butter made from | saccharine, glucose, etc, and which are sold to the | poorer trade labeled to suit the demands of the indi- vidual customer. None of these products perhaps con- tain substances actually injurious to health, but all are frauds, purporting to be other than they are, and, apart from the injury they may do to a weak or immature digestive apparatus, they almost invariably command a larger price than they are worth from a nutritive point of view.” The operation of the law applies of course only to foreign imports, but it is the belief of the Wash- ington authorities that when once the Department of Agricuiture has formulated a standard of purity for all kimds of articles of food, drink or medicine, and duly published it, the various States will enact lzws to conform to it and thus bring about a uni- form system of pure food regulations for domestic trade. The prospects of the legitimate growers and producers of the country are therefore decidedly en- couraging. The time may not be so very far distant when the consvmer in the United States will be able to buy food, drink and medicine with a clear understanding of what he is getting. ex cou! be regarded as port then goes stances, sale scale |it made, and repudiates all obligations | Tripoli. | Colombian sources that the people are unalterably | opposed to the treaty! This causes a smile among | those who know anything about the people of | Colombia and the other so-called republics in Central | America. | The public affairs in those petty | controlled by a lot of dishonest, swashbuckling, cut- throat politicians, and the people are without voice or influence. It is flattery, indeed, to call those gov- ernments autocracies. They are bandit governments, |in which ®e successful gang that murders its way {to power immediately proceeds to rob the people and all foreigners whom it dares to despoil. The defeat | of the cagal treaty is not the work of the people, most of whom have probably not yet heard of it and know nothing of its terms and conditions. caused by a quarrel and jealousy between the ruling robbers and those who want to rule over a division of the money the United States will pay for the privi- lege of building the canal and benefiting the country. The Government of Colombia actively sought the treaty. It is a revolutionary government, put in | power by the sword and not by the forms of the { Colombian constitution. It is liable to overthrow 1to-morrow by the same means which it used to attain autocracies are | power. Its faith was pledged to the ratification of | the treaty. But Central American faith is less re- |liable than the wind. The Government of Salva- dor makes a solemn treaty to arbitrate the issues arisin { - | g in its robbery of Ame { lican citizens. It selects a majority of the arbitral court and goes to trial before a bench of its own choosing. Beaten in the judgment, it brazenly re- fuses to recognize its obligations under the treaty Venezuela, milar processes, repudiated in like manner and by s { its international obligations to Germany, Italy and Great Britain, and had to be brought to terms by a blockade. en then Castro, after bringing the issue upon himself and making it an international question affecting the Monroe doctrine, said that he had started the war and “el tio Samuel could fight |it out.” American patience is getting exhausted. Senti- mental writers talk ignorantly about “our ter re- publics” when they might as well talk about the re- public of Afighanistan or Russia. The repudiation of obligations under treaty is especially vexatious. the Whether the predatory | chiefs of Colombia are influenced by Castro of Ven- ezuela, as some suspect, or whether they have taken | bribes from Europeans, as is alleged in some quar- ters, they are standing in the way of a fac worl lity for the ization and are wantonly United States. Our Government will some time and somewhere have to teach those petty tyrannies a lesson. . Every year they commerce and civ snubbing and insulting the rob, insult, imprison and humiliate American citizens with an impunity begotten by long avoidance of their international responsibility. They have a con- ception of the Monroe doctrine which gives them license to do the same to the nationals of Europe, | and we stand between them and effective and admoni- tory punishment. It is significant that the announcement of the de- feat of the canal treaty follows so close upon the de- feat of Matos and the revolution by Castro. He has had a wild dream of the incorporation of Colombia with Venezuela under his government. To this end he first equipped filibustering expeditions to Colom- bia, which were slaughtered. Then he resorted to intrigue and bribery among the corrupt “patriots” of Colombia. It may well be that he thinks it pos- sible to annex Colombia and then get for himself the American gold which we are to pay for the canal. He differs from the other Central American scoun- drels, called Presidents, only in hig ability and the desperation with which he gambles with chance. If the rejection of the treaty compel us to fall back on the Nicaragua route we will have not only lost much time, but our defeat by Colombia will bring into action all of the talent for lying and evasion that exists in Nicaragua and Costa Rica among *aeir small ruling class. In this view of it it would per- haps be better to grip Colombia with the strong hand and show all of those semi-civilized governments that the United States at last fixes a limit to their bad faith and repudiation of international obligations. Such a policy would perhaps shock the American sentimentalists, who look at names and not at facts and think that naming a despotism a republic makes it a free country. But the vast majority of our countrymen will look at facts and not at signboards and will applaud their Government for at last up- holding its dignity and the rights of its citizens. When one talks of the tenderness of Colombians for their sovereignty and freedom it is talk that might as well have been uttered in behalf of the pirates of No sovereignty has any title to the respect of other nations that repudiates its international ob- ligations, oppfesses its own people and robs for- eigners. e e st The Philadelphia Record is trying to cheer up the Democrats over the prospects of next year by say- ing: “There is no denying the great popularity claimed for President Roosevelt, but there is noth- ing more uncertain and transitory than popular favor.” Perhaps some Democrats will like that, but neither Mr. Cleveland nor Mr. Bryan will find it amusing. GOOD WORK WELL DONE. NE of the best examples of American illustra- O tive newspaper work that has yet been pub- lished appears in the recent “house-warm- ing elition” of the Memphis Scimitar. The occa- sior of the publication was the establishment of the Scimitar in a new and spacious building provided with ample accommodations for all departments of newspaper work. The number contains 112 pages and is richly illustrated with views of picturesque homes and park scenes in the city, as well as por- traits of a large array of prominent business men. A striking feature of the edition is the handsomely illuminated cover showing Fernando de Soto view- ing the Mississippi River from the Chickasaw bluffs near Mempbhis. Had the country needed any assurance of the prosperity of Memphis and of the progressive spirit of its people this edition would have furnished it. Even to those who have followed the rapid develop- ment of the cities of the South of late years this summary of what Memphis has done and is doing will come as something of a revelation. A significant feature in the history of the Scimitar is disclosed in the statement: “Some of the success- ful dailies of our time claim to have been set going It is| to fill a long-felt want, political, economic or com- mercial. The Scimitar gives no such reason for its existence. It was born of a desire simply to create a daily newspaper, and it has grown and flourished in that aspiration.” No better excuse, or rather no better reason, can be given for the existence of any successful business. It means simply that the Scim- | itar was started to do good work and has succeeded solely by doing the work well. A Washington report says that Roosevelt enjoys | the cartoons that caricature him as much as the car- toonists themselves. That, however, is not saying much for his joy, as the chances are that the cartoon artists so far from enjoying them deem the whole thing a grind and go about complaining that they are not paid half enough for the job. D e SR F all the months of the year, with the pos- A MONTH OF DISASTERS. O sible exception of May, that whi¢h has most excited raptures in poets and nature lovers is the genial month of June. The June rose has ever | been deemed the fairest of flowers, and in the East- | ern States the June apple is the joy of the summer. ‘Lowell sang that nothing is rarer than a day in | June, while the nights of June have been celebrated | in some of our sweetest songs. Altogether June has | been a sort of Elysian season in the hearts of the | people, and a man who is not happy in June is sup- | posed to be a curmudgeon who couldn’t be happy |at all. | This year June has come to the United States as a z month of disasters. Hardly a single one of its rare days ratified by its Congress, | has passed -without bringing news of some outburst ; of the elements sweeping away property, destroying |life and leaving whole communities in mourning. | First came the floods along the Missouri and the Mississippi and the streams contributory to them in Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa. Next came the droughts and the forest fires in the Eastern seaboard States, | ravaging the rural districts from Maine to Western | Pennsylvania. Then in quick succession came the | cyclones devastating Northern Georgia, and the | cloudbursts and floods sweeping away the mill towns "m' Northern South Carolina, and now the Pacific | Coast has to share the gemeral calamity—a torrent }nmre destructive of life than any in the East carries away nearly a whole community in Oregon. | Against such disasters there seems no way for hu- Emanit_v to guard itself. | clones occur every year man could devise some means of avoiding them, if not of checking them, but canal | they come so seldom to any given locality that no | | one can make provision against them. fit It may be years before there occur again in Kansas and | Nebraska such floods as those which have swept along the rivers this year. The region of Georgia’ and of South Carolina that has just been stricken by | cyclones fas been in times past regarded as one of | the sections of the Union that are freest from any i kind of storm. Perched high on the hills or the !:nountain slopes of the great granite backbone of | that side of the continent, the dwellers in that fa- | vored regicn have believed their homes to be safe from anything that could happen. The calamity has come upon them once in a lifetime. A similar thing may net oc again for a century, but on the other hand it may occur to-morrow. The causes of these abnormal disturbances are as yet unknown to science, but by steady application to the study of such phenomena we are approaching a knowledge of the laws that govern them. The theory that atmospheric disturbances here are the result of gigantic eruptions in the mighty orb of the sun has not been proven, but there are many reasons for believing there is some connection between them. It may be that eventually we shall find some definite connection between our atmosphere and that of the sun. Should that be so it might then be possible for astronomers to give warning of the coming of ab- normal conditions and so put mankind on guard against such storms as have occurred during the present month. In the meantime all we can do is to give help to the stricken ones and rejoice that we have escaped calamity in our own homes. ———— TH§ LAW IN KENTUCKY. T determined that the law shall be enforced, if it take all the militia to do it. But there are other people in Kentucky who seem determined to show that the militia cuts no figure at all. A court and jury are trying to punish an assassin, who shot a prominent citizen in the back and killed him at the first fire. The crime was witnessed, the assassin identified, but yet it is perfectly certain that he will {rot be punished. The crime was a feature in a feud, or vendetta. While the militia guards the courthouse feudists of the assassin are burning the houses of witnesses and serving notice on the members of the jury that their houses will be burned and they and their families murdered if they convict. The militia may stand guard, the testimony may be complete, the evidence of guilt be established, and the court may instruct in vain. The ability and the disposition to inflict pri- vate injury will control the verdict. It is another added to the long lists of cases which prove that the administration of justice is impossible in the face of a criminal purpose to take private vengeance. It is the odium of California that we furnished ex- actly such a case in Modoc County, where a num- ber of assassins went free because a community that approved their crime was stronger than the law. Militia and civil posses, courts and statutes cannot contend with such a situation. The only possible change must come by the education of the people in the ways of law and order. If they will not be edu- cated, then no reform is possible. All the troops in California could not have changed the verdict of ac- quittal in Modoc County, and all the military power of Kentucky cannot compel the conviction of Jett, no matter how clear the evidence of his guilt. It is an impressive lesson in the value and necessity of public enlightenment and of educated obedience to the law. Where these are not, orderly justice 1s im- possible. Fortunately there are not many places in the United States where the miscarriage of jnstir:e for such a reason is possible. These few localities are the dark spots in our country, and as they are not sought by law-abiding people their change to a better condition will be slow, and may never come. Each attempt to enforce the law in such places only seems to emphasize its futility, and perhaps they are better left alone, to burn and murder until the rem- edy comes through seli-extermination. HERE ‘are some people in Kentucky who are —— In the recent flurry in Wall street there was much to indicate that American financiers and speculators, shrewd as they are, had antagonists in Europe far cleverer than they. With all our boastfulness and spread-eagle style we still have much to learn from | the Old World. SEVEN HUNDRE WILL WITNES | i Did similar floods and cy- | i i I f CHARMING AND P SON THIS EV Qo MISS HELENE WiLSON D FRIENDS S NUPTIALS Leffingwell, matron of honor, anc ;Z?!l;'ehrldesmn!ds. Miss Ruth Clarke, Mi Ethel Baechtel, Miss Charlotte Rixon Los Angeles and Miss Paine of Orego Elmore Lefingwell will be best man. The bride will wear a creation of white crepe de chine with garniture of point lace. The bridal veil will be worn w orange blassoms and the bouquet will liltes of the valley. The maid and matron of honor will be gowned in pink accordion pleated chiffon over silk and the brides- maids will wear cream silk net over pink All of the bride’s attendants will carr shower bouquets of bridesmaid roses. The young couple will reside in this city a ter a wedding trip of two weeks. Among other weddings to be held to- day are the following; The Newhall-Taylor wedding at residence of the bride’s parents at high P Fhe home wedding this evening of Miss Catherine Sheldon and Daniel M. Hanlon. The marriage of Miss Lucelle McBoyle and Frank Hazen Lewis of rortland, Or at St. Stephen’s Chu The wedding of Miss Mary Pellerano and Gerhard Wempe at St. Joseph's Church, San Jose, which will be largel attended by friends from this city The nuptials of Miss Clara Louise Ed and Dr. Carl N. Wilson at the home « the bride on Guerrero street. Mrs. David Belasco, wife of the famous piaywright, and her daughters, sie and Miss Reyna Berasco, in this city this_evening. w York home for the sum closed their ULAR SAN FRANCISCO GIRL WHO WILL BECOME THE WIFE OF SAMUEL M. WIL- ! G AND TWO OF HER MOST INTIMATE FRIENDS, WHO WILL ACT AS MAID AND { MATRON OF HONOR RESPECTIVELY. LARGE wedding of interest will take place at Grace Church this A evening, when Miss Ermine Thompson will become the bride of Samuel M. Wilson. The Rev. | Dr. Foute will officate. Seven hundred | invitations have been issued to the church, but only the bridal party and in- PERSONAL MENTION. T. Warren, a merchant of Eureka, is at the Grand. J. F. McGeorge, a grocer of Eureka, is at the Russ. J. Bodefield, a merchant of Colusa, is at tbe Grand. Dr. F. B. Whiting of Seattle is a guest at the Palace. H. C. Burmeister, a grocer of Prescott, is at the Lick. H. Tracy, a merchant of Placerville, is at the Grand. J. N. J. Heney, a mining man of Seat- tle, Is at the Palacé. C. J. Lehman, a merchant of Los Ange- les, is at the Grand. W. J. Woodrow, a business man of San Jose, is at the Palace. Commander H. Hutchins, United States navy, is at the Palace. M. A. Goldstein, a furniture dealer of Seattle, is at the Palace. A. J. Bonney, a business man of Seat- tle, Is stopping at the Grand. E. McLaughlin, a banker of San Jose, is registered at the Occiaental. A. F. Smith, a lumber man of Shingle- town, is a guest at the Grand. Benjamin K. Knight, an attorney of Santa Cruz, is at the California. A. E. Letts, one of Los Angeles' lead- ing merchants, is stopping at the Palace. L. J. Sage, a merchant of Ventura, is visiting the city and stopping at the Russ. Frank H. Buck, the well-known fruit man of Vacaville, is registered at the Palace. Among vesterday's arrivals at the Oc- cidental was J. D. Gray, a druggist of Stockton. Charles M. Cassin, a banker of Santa Cruz, is among the latest arrivals at the California. O. Reidel, a planter of Samoa, and his wife are at the Occidental. They are on their way hbme from a trip to Europe. Fred T. P. Waterhouse, a capitalist of Honolulu, is stopping at the Occidental, awaliting the departure of the next steam. er for the islands. A. Van der Naillen Jr., United States deputy mineral surveyor, departed yes- terday on the steamer Queen for Seattle and other prominent northern towns. His trip is one of pleasure and business. ‘The condition of United States Customs Collector Frederick S. Stratton was re- ported yesterday as somewhat improved. He was taken sick with a fever about two weeks ago, since which time he has been confined to his room by order of his physiclan, and up to a few days ago his illness had been of a very serious char- acter. General Charles A. Whittier of New York, representing the American interests in the American-Belgian syndicate, w! is financiering the construction of the miles of railroad between Canton and Hankow, China, and N. Cito of Belgium, an engineer who is also interested In the project, arrived from New York last even- ing and are registered at the Palace. They are on their way to the Orient to inspect the road. — Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June 16.—From San Fran- cisco—M. H. O’'Shea, E. K. Carion, at the St. Denis; B. J. Clinch, at the Kensington; G. W. timate friends, forty in number, will be after the cergmony. The bride is daughter of Mrs. Ellzabeth Thompson of 33 Pacific avenue. The groom is the m ington street. The bride will be attended by Helene Wilson, maid of honor; Mr: ittt @ G. F. Eberhard, at the Imperial; Mrs. Fitzpetrick, at ‘the Continental; W. J. . M. Grove, at the Murray vey and wife, at the Holland W. W. Zuckerman, at the H : F. C. Allen, at_the Nava T, at the Hoffman. From Los Angeles Maxson, at the Manhattan: Mrs. E. at the ‘Herald Square A. Cole and wife. Miss M. Waters, nhattan. From Santa Barbara—Y. , &t the Grand Union. From Clare- Brockett, at the Grand Union. —_————— Bale of Property to the State. Tax Collector Edward J. Smith an- nounced yesterday that the sale to the State of property upon which taxes are delinquent will take place next Tuesday | morning at his office. Taxpayers are ad- | vised to scan carefully the delinquent tax list on file at the City Hall and thus save themselves unnecessary trouble in Miss uare; F. aid Sq W. Fulle =H E Wilson, jat the P. Fithy mont—] State. It is quite possible that some have paid only the first installment, thinking obligation to the city. having their property transferred to the | entertained at the reception and supm’r: 2 the | of John Scott Wilson of 3% Wash- | THeodor El- | From Los | that they have discharged their entire | mer and will remain in this city for the next few montt During their stay they be the guests of Mrs. E. Friedlander, Central avenue. Theodore Welisch announces the e of his daughter, Linda, to A thur St. Clair Perry of Los Angeles. Th wedding will be a family affair ané will take place on July 1. —_——— This week! Look out 81 4th, front of bar- ber; fin eyeglasses. specs, 20¢ to 30c. * —————t———— Townsend's California glace frults and candles, 50c a pound. iIn artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bidg. * —_——— Specfal Information supplied dally to tusiness houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 230 foinia street. Telephone Main :ommmcm ART GRACE, ACCOMPLISHMENT COMBINED. SOCIETY DANCING MADE EASY. PROF. L. A. DREWS Z3maeg teacher, b e leave to announce that he has hus Studio for CULTURE at BROOK building, 36 3t.. room 43, PRIVATE INSTRUI JONS iIn Socl. ety Dancing. Culture of Graces, Hy- Eenic Exercises. WALTZING A SPE CIALTY. Reception daily. 9 to 13 a m.. 11 §p m Phone Hiack 3738 AFFARS LOOK UP A BIT By Sid B. Griffin. FOR TIDY TEDDY By F. M. Foller. CLARENCE THE COP GETS PROMOTED (To a new batch of trouble). By C. W. Kahler. ] THE PREMATURE PRAISE | PHYLLIS GAVE THE BABY Mswmmhfinma,h@u)mmu B L T — Will give you something really funny to laugh at. It is 2 brand new feature mdcmymofthefmmesishmhnfly illustrated in color by the cleverest funny artists in the world. -] “’mmmt'flmmfisfl)k&_ LADY BOUNTIFUL TAKES THE BOYS OUT FOR A HUNT (With awful results). By Gene Carr. THE OFFICE BOY'S LOVE | THE JOLLY JACKIES AL- MOST QUT-HOBSON HOBSON By Geo. Herriman. WHAT HE WANTED By Gene Carr.