The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1904, Page 8

8 THE éAN FRANCISCO CAL THE SANFRANCISCOCALL, JOHN D. SPRECEELS............ - ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT.. _THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO .....DECEMBER 6, 1904 THE UNIONS AND SOCIALISM. HE large Socialist vote in the labor centers of the country con- T inues to attract attention. The Socialists were in considerable strength in the recent meeting of the American Federation of Labor in this city, and Mr. Gompers claimed that he defeated them at every turn. Since the adjournment, however, the Socialists claim that they secured all they wanted in the passage of a resolution re- at all labor organizations open their lodge rooms to lectures grand struggle for better conditions and higher culture| for the enlightenment and advancement of the proletariat.” It is strange that it escaped the attention of Mr. Gompers that s requirement is cast in the exact terms of Socialism, and that 1 of collectivism and collective bargaining, as against the | of individual contract, is held by the Socialists as the prelim- to their whole programme. A Socialist labor organ in this | $ s that the opening of the labor lodge rooms to the Socialist | ropaganda will be the means in four years of swinging the great of organized labor into united political socialistic action, and t “the sun has set on the day of Gompers and Mitchell, who have o other solution.of the differences between capital and labor than the strike and starvation.” the Socialists are not reckoning wildly was shown by an- lent. The Federation rejected the socialistic resolution emning the militia, but it did not order the raising of the boy- | cott in San Diego against a militia officer which prevents his earning a living as a punishment for belonging to the National Guard. This is distinctly a case in which the unions have the theory but the Socialists have the practice. Another incident is claimed by the Socialists as strengthening their side of this great conflict. The Western Federation of Miners was fellowshipped by the Federation. It is notoriously a socialistic | organization. So the leveling propaganda issues from the meeting ! with head high in the air. Mr. Gompers made a speech at Vallejo | in which he said that before union organization the American work- | ingman lived in a hovel, but now his condition is superior and his | cry is for ever more. To this the Socialists reply that labor | lived in hov in this country in the Eastern coal mining districts only, and lives there vet, and has no hope except by the confiscation and division of capital, as declared in Mr. Jack London’s late procla- mation, on which The Call has commented. All these claims indicate that the Socialist activity has suffered no relapse. It drives at a definite solution of the issues raised by ther ir conc m the Federation and fastens itself upon the labor unions as the rep- resentatives of class solidarity, loyalty and prejudice, upon which the levelers depend for final victory. The trouble seems to be that Mr. Gompers contents himself with antagonizing the Socialists in the annual meetings of the Fed- eration, but leaves them unopposed in the subordinate unions be-| tween times. In such a war between the House of Want and the House of Have, instinct strongly leads man toward the party that promises an equal division of wealth. A new cult in politics must be expected to avail itself of the strength of existing organization. | to be expected that the Socialists will try to enter the | Bankers’ Association to control it in the interest of their movement, r tha will seek strength in a country club or other organization which composed of those whose property is to be confiscated. They naturally spread their theories before those who want what others hay i The strife in the unions is watched with keen interest, which promises finally to be greater than that felt in any other of the phases of unionism. When it comes to such a pass that the Social- ists in the unions dispute Mr. Gompers’ statement of the benefits | of mere unionism it will be seen that an acute stage is approaching. When Mr. Gompers takes means to compel the capitalist, the em-| plover, to give up part of what he considers his own, and socialism follows crying “make him give up all,” it enjoys a distinct advantage, because it makes a radical and distinct issue. In its political aspect Mr. Gompers is contending theoretically for the preservation of representative government and institutions, and he should be careful to conform practice to theory, as long as he remains the exponent of the principles he has elected to propagate and preserve, for his watchful antagonists have shown their mar- velous capacity for taking advantage of any margin between theory and practice. i A a meeting of representatives of the zemstvos, the district and provincial assemblies, there was sent up to the Czar a me-| morial expressing “the hope that it is the wish of the Emperor to ! summon a national assembly.” Not only has a meeting with an avowed programme been sufiered to assemble by the Government, but the unanimous will of that meeting is to find its way to the autocratic ears of the Little Father. History is in the making at this moment. A survey of the constituency and powers of the zemstvos reveals the significance of this action of their assembled delegates. Spr ing from the ancient convention of communal government in Russia, the zemstvo is the representative assembly of the district and prov-! ince, in so far as any body of citizens under the domain of the Czar may be said to be representative. The body is composed of- repre- sentatives elected by the péasantry, the householders in the towns. and the landed proprietors; the few shreds of power allowed it are those of an advisory nature only in the matter of the economical administration of the district represented. The assembly of the zemstvos, the unit of government from which the present radical ac- tion comes, draws its membership from the elected members of the zemstvos themselve$ and heretofore has had no more shadow of authority than that delegated to the subsidiary bodies. With this knowledge of the nature of that convention which has had the temerity to petition the Czar for representative govern- ment, we are enabled to appreciate the true complexion of the ques- tion now pending imperial disposition. This memorial represents a direct blow against the bureaucrats and the reactionaries for whem and by whom the Government of Russia is administered. It comes from the masses. It voices the ambitions and-desires of a newly | awakened proletariat. The great potential force in the Russian state, which has remained immobile and yielding since the dawn of the country’s history, now stirs itself and takes accounting of its | strength. 2 “Bureaucracy promotes religious intolerance,” reads a report of the speeches made in the assembly of zemstvos; “it muzzles the press and stifles freedom of speech in order to give a spacious ap-; pearance of solidity to the structure of the state. The bureaucracy’s efforts to imprison the people’s minds inevitably lead to brute force. We want a free and independent administration of justice as an es- sential safeguard against this constant encroachment upon the life and liberty of the individual.” 3 Strong words these, and strange words to issue from the mouth of any Russian assembly of the people, however shadowy its power. What answer will be vouchsafed to them by the jealous Czar is not difficult to foretell. The significant fact is that they are spoken, and, fruitless as their mission may be, the spirit that phrased them still remains—a spirit portentous and gravely threatening for the future of the despotism which rules the puppet Czar. —— THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. SIGNIFICANT event recently took place in Russia. From For some time trolley cars have been running out from Cairo to the Pyra- mids and we have become hardened to hearing the station agent at Joppa shout: “All aboard for Jerusalem!” Sp perhaps we should receive with stoic- ism the news that the City Council of Venice has bought several electric | launches for use on the Grand Canal. Did not the Pope the other day remark that if he were a little younger he would buy a bicyele, and 18 not a London company threatening to set up stamp mills at King Solomon’s lnn-?—Newl' York | just across the table, at her! | that | piqued her a THREE TRSES TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1904. R. JOHN DUNHAM knew what he did not want. He could also instantly recognize what he did want when he saw it. These traits had been of use to him in working his way through col- lege, through medical school after that, and into a flourishing practice now two vears old. In love, as In business, it was the same, only the girls he had thus far met were undoubtedly the ones he did not want. Dr. John’s black-gray eyes were always on the silent quest of an | unknown girl, the thought of whom he linked with the thought of roses. She did not appear. He was 32, and begin- ning to think he had missed her, and was deciding to devote his spare time entirely to rose culture, when the no- longer-expected happened. In September, he went with a col- league, Frederick Mayne; M. D., to a medical convention in St. Louis. Seat- ed at the formal banquet, he looked up, And then he seemed to have always known that she was small and blonde, . with the sweet delicacy of a pink tea rose; that her head was poised like a flower, and | that breeding and courage showed in every feature and gesture. Instantly the thought of her as his mounted to his head his look met hers with an intensity that made her eyes droop. He turned coolly to Mayne beside him and said in a low tone: “Look carefully at this ring on my finger, and don’t glance up! I want to ask a question. Who is she?" Strangely enough, Mayne knew who “she” was. “Dean Carroll's daughter, Rose,” he replied. Then, as they both looked up careless| he continued: “I may as tell you that I shall try to get Choking back a senseless anger, trying to realize that good a right to want her as he, Dun- ham answered quietly: “And I may as well tell you that you have ma to work against. I shall do my best.” At the reception following John Dun- ham accosted his old professor, Dean Carroll, shook hands and asked: “Doctor, please introduce me to your daughter.” “Certainly, my boy—with pleasure, But"—and the old man laughed—"1 warn vou!” “It's everlastingly too late, doctor. All T ask of you is not to tell her 1 wanted to meet her, and—not to praise me to her.” The serious eyes of the voung man checked the old man’s smile. “Upon my soul! I believe you're in earnest!” “I warn you that I am.” Dean Car- roll looked Dr. John Dunham over carefully, from head to foot; then he held ont his hands. “I wish you luck,” he said slowly. “You're as open now as you were dur- ing the four vears I knew you at col- lege and in your success since. Your tactice are worthy of a general, and victory. Come along—but perhaps vou'd like me first to suggest to her you're a dangerous character?” John laughed contentedly. “Better that than encomiums.” Rose Carroll met her father's old pupil none the less graciously because ! he was tall and strong and because the heavy, dark hair framing his handsome face was touched with gray; in fact, he was so interesting | that she met him with an armor of | protective resistance beneath her gra- cipusness. She was used to easy vic- tories over her admirers, but not anx- ious, though she was on the alert for her own Waterloo. There was time enough for that. John began well. While deferential, he was not adoring; while entirely ap- preciative, he was not insistent in his enjoyment of her society, which he accepted with a sort of seemingly transient spirit of camaraderie that little. Several times during the evening he drifted care- iessly back near her and watched with amusemert Mayne's breakneck en- deavor to make use of his time to im- ' press his rather ponderous personality upon the girl. Dunham asked per- mission to call next day. He did call and was carelessly en- tertaining; he let himself go, showing his real self, speaking of his youthful adventures in the West, of his roses like wine, and ! Mayne had as ' AND ANOTHER | BY JOANNA SINGLE. . pression that he was a man into whose life women haq entered little and that they were to him a sort of pleasant Telaxation from workaday cares. Rose found herself putting forth unusual efforts to please this man, who swas not, as others, apparently in the least subjugated by her charms. He did not stay long, but as he rose e | [ * “This is to remind you that some day I shall bring yom that red rose.” * * |to go he unwrapped a long. slender parcel he had been holding, crushed the tissue paper in his fingers and put one perfect white rose into her hand. He laughed down into her eyes. “I wanted to give you a red one, only—" The significance of his tone and his hesitation made her rise to his throw. “Only you didn’t dare for him. “Oh, she finished coolly,, I dared,” he rveplied “but I thought I wouldn't—yet! The best for the last, you know And he left her trying to decide whether he meant anything or nothing. As he went out he met Mayne entering with a large florist’s box, and during his call he had learned that she was leav- ing the next day for home. When he reached his office he looked up the northbound trains. Next morning at 7:50 he walked up to the station: just around the cerner on the platform he saw Rose Carroll, smiling at Mayne, who carried her suit case and a great bunch of pink carnations. - Before they saw him he stepped back into the waiting-room, bought a ticket to the next town north and kept out of sight till the train came in. He swung on the rear platform, while Mayne, triumphant in his moment of favor, put the lady into a seat, bestowed her luggage about her. As the train pulled out Dunham looked from his window in the smok- er and beheld the idiotically adoring face of Mayne, who was waving his farewell. | When he had smoked a long black | cigar John Dunham sauntered into the next car. About the middle of the aisle he stopped suddenly at a quick excla- mation: “Why, Mr. Dunham!"" He looked down and saw, with appar- ent surprise, Rose Carroll, blushing and smiling. He removed his hat, but made | no effort to take the seat which she | cleared for him beside her. | “Miss Carroll! So this is your train— ! how pleasant! Lovely day. isn't it?” “Won't you sit down?" she asked a little timidly. And he did, and went on talking so carelessly and yet so mean- ingly, so brightly and still so seriously, | that it seemed to her but a moment or two before he looked from the window and stood up. Drawing a slender parcel | from his pocket he unwrapped a single, long-stemmed pink rose. ¢ I must get off here in order to get back to an important case with your ! father. I only got on to tell you good- by. Didn’'t want to interfere with | Mayne at the station. I can't compete | the rose in her lap, “but this is to re- mind you that some day I shall bring you that red rose.” He was gone, with- out touching her hand in farewell. She sat gasping—pleased, astonished, half- angry, but completely interested. She looked at the pink rose. Then she tossed the carnations from the window and wondered how in the world John Dunham had managed to obtain her promise to answer his letters. Thereafter Dunham wrote her—not regularly, but when the fancy seemed to seize him—whimsical, vigorous, joy- | ful, masculine letters, wholesomely free from lovemaking. She answered, and | sometimes when he was very busy he | called her up on the long-distance {'phone in leu of a letter. Meantime Mayne had sent bushels of flowers, had written ponderously sentimental epis- | Twice he had gone to see his divinity, raised suspicion in his slow but relent- lessly logical mind. On his return he sauntered into Dunham's office. “Morning, old man.” ““Morning, Mayne. Enjoy your visit?” | How the deuce did Dunham know 'he’d been away? Mayne hazarded a guess. { “Yes, called on Miss Carroll. Write to | her, don’t you?" Taken off guard, Dun- | ham admitted the soft impeachment |and was instantly sorry. Mayne | laughed with unctuous amusement. | “Thought you were too astute for | that. But she’s got you going—has me! Stringing you for all she’s worth! Prac- ticed hand! Great girl—no end popula | Knows how to do it, Miss Carroll # Dunham’s anger rose, but he answered | | carelessly: “Look 1o vourself, M2-pe: gness T can take care of Johnny.” But after | Mayne went the tide of his anger {‘surged toward Rose Carroll. When he could stand it no longer, he went to the 'phone, closing the door of the In- Mies Carroll. After an hour's delay he | got her, and went straight to the point. “That you, Miss Carroll? Know who this is? Yes. Lovely spring day! I want to ask yvou something. Forgive my bluntness, but I must know. Miss Carroll, in your letters and all, have you meant everything? Or have you | while he listened intently. “No, I did not think so—I simply asked. I have not the time—nor the temper to play. You will forgive me for asking you? No, I can't tell you what made me think of such a thing. Yes, some day I will. Certainly, I belleve you! What? May I? May I come this week? to! Of course I want But I can’t reach you till Satur- day evening, and will have to start back Sunday morning. It's a long way, and connections are bad. All right—good-by—till Saturday!” At four in the afternoon of June 1 John Dunham stepped from his train at St. Louis and went to a hotel to get rid of his travel stains and appease his hunger. ‘About seven he emerged faultlessly attired, visited a florist, and took a cab to Dean Carroll's stately old home. Rose came to him in the dim candle light of the library, a vision in shim- mering gray. He had intended meet- !ing her in his usual easy way, but the clamor of his heart, and the wine of a certain proud yielding in the glance of her blue eyes, swept him in- to speechlessness. He stpod long look- ing at her, her hand still in his; then he dropped the small hand back at her side, and strode out into the hall. In a moment he came back and clasped her warm little fingers about the stem of a glowing red rose. “The red rose,” he said simply, “the time for it is now, isn’'t 1t?” he ques- tioned quietly, stepping back with his arms straight at his side to look at her. ‘“Isn’t it time, dear?” he insisted. “Yes,” she murmured; *“I—" And {as she did not finish, with a sudden longing he held out both his hands to her. “Will you come, Rose?’ With the vride of a small queen, Rose Car- roll lald her two hands in his. (Copyright, 1904, by Joanna Single.) ——e———— When a boy is extra good looking the women say: “Too bad he is not a ! | at home, and leaving a sort of an im- | with his floral generosity,”” and he laldl girl.” e ~ +d THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE b= +* RIS Caller—I'd like to suggest a name for She—Why, overcoat? The Magistrate—You say you are a |the new torpedo destroyer that is sup- | He—At my uncle's. farmer; how can you prove it? ‘The Prisoner—Wal, here's a package of green goods. an’ there's a gold brick in my carpet bag. posed to spread so much destruction. Clerk in Navy Department—What The Hired Girl. She—How’s that? He—Weil, you see, last spring I took it to my uncle in the ci I could visit my uncle in the m. ! tles and heaved many ponderous sighs. | | and on his last call her lack of interest | in his elaborate mention of Dunham | ner office, and called up St. Louis and | been playing with me?” A long pause, | | bo, Italy. Port Arthur was named for »THE SMART SET BY SALLY SHARP. spend the. holidays in Washington, D. C., visiting Lieutenant and Mrs. Fech- teler and Lieutenant and Mrs. Harry Miss Lillie V. O'Rvan will be hos- tess at the Sequoia Club this evening when her miniatures will be on exhibi- tion. A receiving party of the follow- | Roosevelt. ing people will assist Miss O'Ryan: R B Mr. and Mrs. William Keith, Dr. and Miss Carol Moore will be another young hostess who will entertain on New Year’s night. - A dance will be tha motif. The younger set are eagerly looking forward to the event. . . Mrs. Reginald Knight Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jewett,” Miss Frances Jol- liffe, Miss Ednah Robinson, Miss Mar- garet O'Callaghan, Miss Marie Wels, Mrs. Norris, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Graupner, Mrs. Fernando Pfingst, Mr. and Mrs. Marc Gerstle, Lieutenant and Mrs. Andrews, Miss Elizabeth Mills, Miss Edith Henrici, Mrs. Lewis Long, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin K. Lane. The miniatures will be on view to the public in the St. Francis during the week. The St. Francis Musical Art Saciety has arranged a box plan for selection of seats for the concerts to be given in the white and gold room. This plan may be seen at the information bureau of the hotel and members will be ac- cepted until the seats are disposed of. The capacity of the concert room is only 400, and there is a persistent de- mand for seats to hear the coming artists, among whom are Gadski, Bis- pham, De Pachgpann, Kreisler and the Kneisel Quartef. Amdhg the society people who have airgady joined the Musical Art Soc¥ ~ § W pod Mrs W. B. Thomas, Mr. and Mra. Sydney Liebes, James D. Phelan, John Par- rott, Richard Tobin, Dr. Grant Seif- ridge, Mrs. C. A. Seifridge, Judge and Mrs. R. C. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs Frank Deeripg, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gerstle, Mr. and Mrs. William Gerstle, Judge and Mrs. M. C. Sloss, Mr. and Mrs. J. Downey Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Von Meyerinck, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kal- isher, Mr. and Mrs. 1. W. Hellman, | Mr. and Mrs. Heinemann, Wakefleld Baker, Latham McMullin. Mme. Gad- ski will give the opening concert. Miss Anita Harvey, who has played the role of honored guest so consecu- tively for the past fortnight, yesterday | assumed the dignity and pleasant re- sponsibilities of hostess at a tea for a large number of friends. Several buds were in evidence, and among the happy group were: Miss Margaret Hyde-Smith, Miss Gertrude Hyde- | Smith, Miss Marjorie Josselyn, Miss ‘Dnr(llhy Eells, Miss Edna Davis, Miss | Linda Cadwallader, Miss Christine Pomeroy, Miss Gertrude Josselyn, Miss ?Alk‘e Sullivan, Miss Coleman, Miss Margaret Newhall, Miss Maud* Bourn. . . | . Mrs. Gerrit Livingston Lansing en- | tertained iss Wells and Mr. Hanna | informally at dinner last evening in her apartments at St. Dunstan’s. . s+ . The Twenty Minute Society will hold its annual reception and sale to-day and to-morrow in the parlors of St Luke’s Church. A particular feature of the society this year will be the children’'s enter- tainment, this being held to-morrow | afternoon from 3 to 6 in a building near St. Luke’s, and will be strictly for children. Whatever benefit accrues from the juvenile entertainment will be accredited to the children and called the children’s fund. The proceeds of the sale in the par- lors will go toward the organ fund, a very superior instrument having been selected by Wallace Sabin in London | Mrs. Longstreet of Los Angeles, who | is at the St. Francis, entertained the | following guests at lun¢heon on Sat- | urday: Mrs. Hancock Banning of Los Angeles, Mrs. J. Downey Harvey, Miss Eleanor Martin, Mrs. William Tevis. Miss Edna Davis gives a tea party to- day to all the buds and some of the es- tablished belles. A very merry time is expected. Miss Davis is also preparing to give a dance at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Davis, in January. An affair that is to be strictly for the charmed circle within the military | during his recent trip to Europe. | lines will take place to-night in the Mrs. Philipr Caduc organized the | hoproom of the Officers’ Club. Twenty Minute Society seven years Leap Year's conditions will prevail [ ago, and it has been provocative of ex- and be strictly enjoined, so more than | cellent results, each member devoting the usual amount of pleasure always|twenty minutes a day toward the mak- attached to these army events is ex- |ing of articles to be sold annually for pected. the church’'s benefit. : . e . - SreiOn Mrs. Eugene Freeman and her| The wedding of Miss Marie Ruef, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Ruef and sister of Abraham Ruef, to School Di- rector A. Altmann will take place on Sunday afternoon, December 18. The ceremony will be performed at the Cali- fornia Hotel at § o’clock. T_MIRROR OF DAME FASHION | B | i | daughter, Miss Maud Paine, will enter- tain at luncheon on Thursday of this week. Judge and Mrs. W. W. Morrow will i HE broad shoulder is perhaps the only novelty offeréd in the winter shirtwaists, as far as cut is concerned, and in place of the pouch front the blouse now drops softly into the belt without any undue sagging or puffiness. Soft materials are needed for this; and for win- ter wear the soielaines or silk flannels are eminently adaptable, for they have all the warmth and smartness of a fine flannel with the luxurious quaiities of silk. In the iliustration the smart cross-stitched designs are shown, these looking just as though they were done by hand on the soft pink background. Both front and back are deeply pleated into the long shoulder seam, Lhe front closing invisibly under the box pleat, and the sleeve follows the regulation shirt pattern, with just a little fullness added above (h;‘ straight band cuff that is caught with gold links. “_—'_\4 ANSWERS TO QUERIES. PORT ARTHUR—A. G, San Colom-, two years or it will be outlawed. 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