The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL Proprietor TOHN T . sfamager FOIN McNAUGHT. ... THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER.. - there must be partics and ther This necessity n: y to each other. held opinions. Y, ided by one si that is mere opportunism. When | victory is won by an opportunist | nions, anding in opposi ded by permane f the c The Democracy ! s no policy permanent and | but stands objecting to and to the policies rooted | red. acceptance puts the case 1 out irom the utterances of | 1 vpon which they propose to is not unfair to say that, having abandoned | ave insisted during the last; loss, both as to what it is shall assert their be-| th they venture resolutely to y shrink from it an attitude is the inevitable re-| ictions, for when thus improvised uld be he 1 tentative manner.” { 1866 and 1000 abandoned, deserted and re-| iples it had advocated and the policies it had up to that time. It turned its back upon ving - that it had steadfastly held since Jef- t of sound money. Its adherence to that issue under 1§ 1 secured for it the confidence of the | Though it was perverted after the | eland attempted to bring it back to e. and it turned and rended him. When eeded to repudiate its one special principle and n issues, which, beginning with unsound | from that vicious center of attacks upon » constitution, the right of contract and upon every safe- and property rights. Now it comes, saying | e new issues of the last eight years, refusing to re-| ng held principles which those issues repudiated, and | nting itself, an amorphous mass of opposition, relying | y ise one they of nt speaks out with entire frankness for himself and in describing such an abnormal condition of politics. He n so exactly that all men, friends and foes. After citing the acts of the administration to ¢ objection is made, and making that description not a an attack. he turns from the overt to the covert phase g: “In addition to those acts of the administration 1e situ, ustice they dare not overtly or officially attack and yet | bring forward as reasons for the overthrow of ain great centers and with certain great interests every effort to show that the settlement of te coal! strike by the individual act of the President and essful suit against the Northern Securities Company—the —undertaken by the Department of Justice, were acts for the present administration should be thrown out of power. they dare not openly condemn either act. They dare not in any thoritative or formal manner say that in either case wrong was ne or error committed in the method of action or in choice of the for putting that action into effect. But what they dare assert in open day they seek to use furtively and | g cial agents. It is perhaps natural that an attack so con- »d should be made sometimes on the ground that too much, | imes on the ground that too little, has been*done. Some of | opponents complain because, under the anti-trust and interstate mmerce laws, suits were undertaken which were successful; others were not undertaken which would have been *un- make ts because success That is just, truthful and frank and discloses the exact position f the Democracy, a position which no good citizen is willing to de- | fend openl he body blow by the President at the party and David B. Hill, its manager, the inventor of Judge Parker, is hit in the next sentence: “The Democratic State Convention of New York dealt with the anthracite coalsstrike by demanding, in deliberate and for- mal fashioh, that the national Government should take possession of the coal fields, vet champions of that convention’s cause now con- demn the fact that there was any action by the President at all. though they must know that it was only this action by the President | which prevented the movement for the national ownership of the| * coal fields from gaining what might well have been an irresistible | impulse | We invite sustained attention to that paragraph of the letter. Mr. Hill wrote that expropriation plank of the New York platiorm. H the coal strike had continued his candidate for Governor, who stood on it, would have been elected. Then does any one doubt that the present Democratic national platiorm would have declared the main issue to be the right of governmental expropriation of pri- vate property whenever its' owners were denied its use by the presence of a superior physical force? The President, as an individual, settled the strike, and public | exasperation, relied on by Mr. Hill, rapidly evaporated, and so we | escaped in our politics an issue based upon the declaration that pri- | vate property is robbery. t The whole letter is vigorous, a charge from beginning to end, | and appeals to all Americans who believe in their country. | U election. According to the officials in the office the great register | shouid contain 80,000 entries when its covers are finally closed On; September 2R, vet there are 23,000 citizens that have still neglected to | qualiiy for the highest privilege their rights command. | But 2 week and a slight margin over remain before the laggards | n registration will be deprived of the right to cast a ballot in No- | vember. On September 14 and 15 books will be opened at precinct | registration places, thereby accommodating those who feel it too | ome to make a trip to the City Hall. Besides this opportunity | of régistering, to be offered in 320 booths throughout the city, addi- | THE CITIZEN'S DUTY. P to the closing of the Registrar’s office on Saturday night last | there Ahad been recorded but 56,315 names of voters desiring to exercise the prerogative of the franchise in the coming national | 1 ional fa s will henceforth be presented the hurried business‘ atan by the Registrar, who announces that from now until the close ! oi registration his office will be open from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock in the | evenings. y { It t=so much to the party man as to the citizen of e\'ervE party injunction to register is made. Besides the issue of he Presidency there are candidates for Congressional honors and | local questions of charter amendments to come before the will of | the people. Viewed from party standards, a vote niissed is a vote for the other side: in the light of the duties of citizenship the right | of iranchise neglécted entaiis by just so much a negative influence in | governme As citizen primarily, as party man likewise, let evervf man see to it that his name is on the great register before the 28th | of the month. i | —— In Alameda.g horse went to sieep on the car track and suffered the inevitable penalty. All of which goes to show that animals may acquire human character: s from their environment. el iy A Kentucky savant has discovered that beer is an excellent rem- edy for mosguito bites. This from a Kentuckian! | . | re must be a variety of ps two leading | Jut these normally | They cannot be, | ly object- | he people do not know what | | hc"' re to assail only after misrepresenting them, there | | RIDER HAGGARD'S STRANGE DREAM IN CONNECTION | clares that dEcopy, | “SHALL WE INVI FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY SEPTEMfiEk 1.3 1004, TE i LA Bt WG/ Pair 7 s VA COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRAN BR YAN TO SPEAK?" | Sk M 't ke bt A oAy ':,1’ o ¢ 2 o 4 iy iy 1 7l ! GEMENT WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL AND THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. -+ WITH HIS DOG, AND MRS. PRAED’S COMMUNICATIONS Reincarnated Maiden . Write Novel. — liar Partnership : Are Given. RS RS ACIE S 5 ONDON, Aug. 26.—Rider Haggard L queer dream in connection with his dog Bob. In fact, he hasn’t béen allowed to, people from all over the country having been writing to him whether this animal, in dying, com- municated with its sleeping owner, is still being discussed in the news- papers, and a few days ago it Research Society intended to investi- gate the matter. Meanwhile the author of “She” in a letter to the Times de- the many letters he has question that telepathic intercourse does exist between man and horses, dogs, cats, and even birds. But by far the most interesting part of Mr. Hag- he puts forth as to the possibility that the same sort of soul exists in both human beings and animals. there,” he asks, “to show that man has such wonders? Surely the daily in- creasing store of science indicates that revelation is progressive and continu- ous. May we not still have much to Detalls of the Pe- has not stopped thinking about his concerning it. The question as to was announced that the Psychical received seem to prove almost beyond gard’s second letter is = theory which’ reached finality in his knowledge of learn as to the fugdamental oneness i of animal life, or, indeed, of all life? A flame set in a vase of pure glass shows brightly; in a vase of porcelain, dih- ly; in a vase of rough clay, not at all, or only through'its cracks and imper- fections. Yet the flame may be. iden- tical—of the same heat, light, power and size; it is but the surrounding ma- terial that varies, or, in the case which I strive to ilmstrate, the gross or leas gross physical body of the particular creature whereby that flame—l. e., the animating and inspiring principle which comes we know not whence and goes we know not whither—happens to be inclosed 7" NOW COMES MRS. PRAED. Certainly English writers have been baving weird.experiences.of late. Mr. Haggard's dog story was run close by the ghostly experiences of Stephen Phillips at Egham, but they are both outclassed by the things Mrs. Campbell Praed has to tell about her communi- cations with a reincarnated Roman maiden. When Mrs. Praed's new book, “Nyria,” which has to do, with the Eternal City, appeared recently, there was a statement in ‘the Introduction that the romance had been practically cedicated by an English girl in whom the soul of an early Roman damsel evidently dwelt, but, of co:ke. no one tock the thing seriously. Mrs. Praed, however, declines to be disbelieved, and now she has givan the exact details of how she made the acquaintance of [ WITH A “What is | T BRITONS I i i | ks N ANCIENT ROMAN GIRL, INTERES WHO HAD A DREAM IN WHICH, ' English Writers Creaté Talk. . —_—— fend,” a New Book | by Crawford. — | |be Mr. Crawford's thirty-eighth ro- ! mance, one or more of them having ! |appeared every year since he began !novel writing with “Mr. Isaacs” in 188 H. G. Wells isn’t going to lose any- thing as the result of his recent trou- ble with the executors of the Ilate |George Gissing. Gissing's two little boys, however, are to be the poorer because of it. The thing is especially unfortunate for the reason that Gis- sing left little or nothing, in consider- ation of which fact, it may be remem- bered, h children recently were granied a small pension from the civil H. G. Wells was one of Gissing’s t friends and soon after the latter’s th Welis offered to write an intro- to Gissing’s posthumous novel, which is a romance of ntine empire. The offer was accepted by Algernon Gissing HE SAYS, HIS DYING young lady, who moves in excellent so- ciety,” but who doesn't care for per- sonal publicity.” p Mrs. Praed and her “find” met at a hotel abroad, so the’writer says, but nothing was said about old Rome until der discussion. In these Mrs. Praed is deeply Interested. ow,” she gaye, “it" so happened that.I had with me two stones. One of them was a stone that I had myself picked- up from the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus at Rome. The other came from Cevrion. I showed them to her. She instantly astonished me by telling me exactly where the stone must have come from in the Tempie of Jupiter Capitolinus. About “the other—from Ceylon—she was hopelessly wrong. pecially as I knew that my young friend had never been in Rome, so I asked her to tell me more about the temple, about which I knew most of what can be known, as I had been working u» the subject for a-book I | wrote a few years before. | FURNISHES THE LOVE STORY. “Imagine my wonder when she de- scribed the whole temple as it must hzve stogd in the days of Domitian, telling me to the minutest detail where everything was—north, south, east and west. It was all exactly as I knew it must have been, and some details I have verified since. | “After that first talk I made a point of seeing, her again and of getting her to speak about ancient Rome. The more I heard the more I was amazed. Nearly everything she said about the place I 2 one day antiguarian matters came vn-; “Naturally, 1 was quite amazed, es-| 1 CANINE COMMUNICATED WITH HIM. HE 1S NOW BEING BOMBARDED Collett, Gissing’s executors, WITH LETTERS FROM ALL DIRECTIONS ABOUT 1 a London publisher was e < | prepared to pay quite a decent price the reincarnated one and how they bhave verified. She snoke to mfe even|fOF the movel on the strength of the Wrote el 7 diip; The reat | aboyt. suel thi & tal's littte | “foreword. When the intreduction ; 4 novel in partnership. al | hings as Martial's little | was submitted, however, though it ‘Nyria” it séems, is a “well brought up | houge br ‘the Tiber—you know the house, mentioned | Juvenal's jenlousy “Gradually I in his epigrams —and | of Gissing's friends, it did not at all | please the novelist's executor They I began to find in her talk |refused, in fact to have it incorporat- | references to a certain Domina—the |ed in the book. Wells, for his part, of the no and ‘Nyria's’ mis- | declined to alter what he had writ- I asked her about this, and so, | ten, so matters reached a deadlock. ittle by little, drew out of her the|“Veranilda” is'to appear minus the e love story told in.the book.” |introduction—in place of which there Iy enough, apoarentiy, for Mrs.|are to be some remarks by Frederick Harrison on the period in which the romance takes place—and as a result the publisher is going to pay $750 less for the book than he originally of- fered, a dead loss for the two little Gissing boys. - Meanwhile Wells has had no difficulty whatever in dispos- i ) Praed continues: “When I once had ccnvinced ‘Nyria] that she had no need {to be frighiened about my betraying [ her beloved Domina, I mercly had to sit at iy typewriter, and it was as much jas I could do to keep pace with her. | That wae later on in the course of the story. We Rad a ‘Roman talk’ nearly|ing o jevery day for two or three months. | 2opeared, without a ward of abridg- At first T held ‘Nyria's’ hand. Then [|ment, in Henry Newbolt's Monthly used to take notes in a shorthand of | Review. my own and transcribe them the next{ day. Finally I used to typewrite from ‘Nyria's' dictation almost straight away."” Mrs. Praed 'is hurt at the skepticism with which her story of these doings has been rec d, and, like Mr. Hag- At the African Bethel. Parson Johnson—De choir will now sing “I'm Glad Salvation's Free," while Deacon Keicham passes de hal De congregation will please to "'mem- bah dat while saivation am free. we bab to pay de choir for singin’ about e gsard, she “welcemes all investigation.’ Meanwhile—horrible prospect!—she is ALK DRV SHIIULe actondtie: W@ getting ready to publish the “actual|’® means—Puck. notes” of ‘her confabs with “Nyria® to Marked. demonstrate that she is no myth. “Has he shown you any marked at- CRAWFORD'S NEW NOVEL. F, Marion Crawford, who spent the “Why, yes, he left the price tag on months of May, June and July infthe ring he gave me."—Cleveland Rome, has left the Eternal City for! pjain Dealer. his villa at Sorrento, where he is fin- | —————— ishing his new novel, *“Whosoever Townsend's California Glace fruits in Shall Offend.” - This is a story of pres- | artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* ent day .Jife in Rome and Sicily, its hero being a bright Italian child, of whom, “however, certain persons at- tempt to maite a criminal. This will tention?" ’ Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 230 - ifornia street. Tclephone Main l.llc“l \Weird Experiences of | | “Whosoever Shall Of- | had been highly approved by several ! 7 his introduction, which has just | ———— Special information supplied daily to iness houses and public men by the | breaks out over apparent trifles. but | THE WORLD'S NAVIES | B . | In tuture battleships none other than | armor-piercing guns are likely to con- | stitute the main batteries and British "n-\'al designers are seriously consider- ing the idea of the Italian chief con- structor, Cuniberti, to have the main batteries composed of 12-inch guns solely. Italy, as usual, was the first in | thus improving the fighting efficiency | of battleships by discarding suns of | 6-inch and less caliber and substituting guns of S-inch caliber, the penetrative | power of which is about 5.67"inches of IKrupp armor at a range of 5000 yards. | Four battleships, the Vittorio Eman- :uelc III, Napoli, Regina Elena and | Roma, of 12.425 tons and a calculated | speed of 22 knots, have been laid down | for the Italian navy since September, | 1801, and two of these are nearly ready | for commission. The main battery of | these ships is composed of two 12-inch and twelve $-inch guns and the sec- ondary batteries consist of twelve 14- | pounders and twelve 3-pounders. Their hull protection varies from 9% inches | to 4 inches of armor and that of the gun positions from 8 inches to § inches, { so that neither the hull nor gun posi- tions would be seriously hurt by the | | fire from guns of less than $-inch cali- ! ber at 2000 yards range. Sacrifices | have undoubtedly been made in order i to attain the great speed of 22 knots and the advantage of guns that are | effective even beyond three miles range, but the vessel that can choose its distance from an enemy and can shoot farther and hit harder than its | opponent would seem to have decided advantages over the slower vessels, the | guns of which are ineffective at very long range. The Vickers 6-inch gun of 50 calibers |and a muzzle velocity of 3220 feet is 'snid to be the best gumy of its caliber {in any navy and its penetration is fig- ured at 5% inches of Krupp steel at® 3000 yards. United States naval ord- | nance, of 6-inch and 50 calibers, claims a velocity of only )0 feet and a pene- on of 4.24 inches of Krupp steel at ards. The actual performance of both guns is subject to a reduction in practice, in which our naval gun will suffer more than the other. The Bu- jreau of Ordnance, on February 8 last. issued orders reducing its velocity to ! 2700 foot seconds, which, of course, ‘dimmishu its penetrative power. | Main Object of Guns. | The main cbject of guns is to disable the enemy by destroying his gun posi- tions, guns and crew. It is only by mere chance that a well directed shot could destroy a ship. Holes made by either 12-inch or 4-inch shell can be stopped and fighting still be carried on. When it is considered, however, that the penetrative power of a 6-inch gun is less than 3 inches at 5000 yards, while { that of the S-inch is 5. ches, the 9. inch 9 inches and that of the 12-inch over 12% inches, it appears worse than | useless to carry guns incapable of de- ng gun positions of 6 inches to 10 inches at ranges from 3000 5000 yards. In the latest American battle- ships of the Connecticut type, of which { five are building and two are shortly to be begunm, the 6-inch gun has been eliminated and the main batteries con- sist of four 12-inch, eight $-inch and | twelve 7-inch guns. The latter gun will | penetrate 413 inches of Krupp steel at 5000 yards and may be considered as a compromise. In the British navy the | eight battlesh of the King Edward | VII type laid down since 1902, the 6- | inch gun is still carried, the batteries including four 9.2-inch | and ten 6-inch. but in-the Lord Nelson | class, to be built, the armament will | consist ¢f four 12-inch, ten 9.2-inch and | 2 number of small guns to repel tor- | pedo-boat attacks. A similar re- arrangement of armament in armored | ervisers and other vessels is certain to follow, resulting in somewhat sim- plifying designs of ships, which for the | past ten years have been hampered by | vain efforts to give each class con- | glcmerate batteries regardless of their | logical destination as fighters. i Twelve-Inch Gun Cracks. | 'The unpleasant discovery has been | made that one of the twelve-inch guns lon board the British battleship Ex- | mouth has a cracked tube. This is the | first instance of its kind with modern ‘guns and a thorough investigation Is to be made to ascertain if there are other guns similarly affected. An unseemly row has been raised ! between the naval officers of the New ! York Navy Yard owing to their in- ability to agree on the invitations to be issued to witness the launching of the battleship Connecticut on September 2¢. An allowance of $1500 had been made by the Navy Department for the | entertainment of 600 people and a stand 200 feet in length was bullt at & cost of $400 to accommodate the in- vited guestd, which some of the officers intended to include chiefly prominent | naval officials and their families. A dispute arose, however, over the as- signment of seats and the argument became so noisy that it reached Wash- ington, resulting in an order from the Navy Department directing the erec- tion of a smaller stand, large enough to hold those directly interested in the launching, together with the official guests. The stand already built was demolished and the bickering officers will have to take their chances with ordinary citizens admitted to the yard to witness the ceremonies. This trouble at the New York Navy Yard is not so surprising after all. .It has for its basis that everlasting and ever oceurring squabble of precedence, this jealousy of line and staff preroga- tives, fancled or real, and in the com- plement of fifteen line officers and twenty-one staff officers attached to the yard there are quite a number whose ideas of naval precedence vary greatly with those of their opponents and who lack tact and toleranee. The coramandant of the yard, Rear Ad- miral Frederick Rodgers, unofficially known thraughout the navy as “Turk {Rodgers,” or “Bucko Rodgers,” is scmewhat of the Robley D. Evans type of line officer and nossesses none of {the qualities of his uncle, the late | Rear Admiral C. R. P. Rodgers, whose | sobriquet, that of “Chesterfield Rod- ' gers,” Indicated his tact and considera- tion for others, even if they were not line officers. Joseph N. Hemphill, cap- !um of the yard, is also a firm expon- ent of the line officers’ pre-eminence, and, as some of the siaff officers are now ready to discuss the subject, it is not surprising that internecine war mol to i which really engrosses m ttenti ‘mn the building up of :;::ulv-i. o