The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1905, Page 8

1905. g FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 THE SANFRANCISCO CALL ; eheer s RN — — | MARRIAGES ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO PUBLICATION OFFICE......000000¢ THIRD AND m}:r STREETS, SBAN FRANCISCO b ot el vt ctneeidrates oot o B adioss o el Dok o e oty b e veeeesss . APRIL 18, 1805 THE SAN FRANCISCO REPUBLICAN LEAGUE. WEDNESDAY. . HE Republican League of this city, formed out of the committee Tof 250, is already in action. The primary election is in August, and the time until then must be improved in organization and preparation. The difficulties in the way are by no means underesti- 1ated by the league. It will not do to form a league for good gov- ernment and then assume that it will come without effort. Men can- not conjure the next administration. They must work for it. The push has no politics. It enjoys the extraordinary advan- tage of being without political principles or a conscience. At the pri- 1ary it votes the ticket that promises the most graft. It can thrive under one administration as well as under another, provided the system is unchanged. At the primary it will be found probably con- centrating its vote and plumping to get control of the Republican convention. When bad men conspire, good men must combine. It is the object of the Republican League to effect such a combination by offering such a ticket at the primaries as will put the good men 1 parties in combination against the conspiracy of the push of all | parties. . There is a Republican majority in this city, therefore that party is the most promising instrument for the destruction of the system. Thousands of Democrats who are shamed by the noisome conditions | re want only the best possible instrument. Such men voted for President Roosevelt last year because under his leadership the Re- | blican party seemed to them the best instrument for the destruction | f a system that had grown like a fungus in national affairs. The urse of the President has amply justified their confidence in him. They are glad that they voted as they did. They recognize the ex- stence of an offensive system in San Francisco that makes use of | 1 administration. They want to destroy it. They want here the ansing spirit that the President has made the mo- e of the national administration. It is the purpose of the Republi- Leagu exhibit a policy, purpose and plan, and select indi- iduals to make them effectual, whereby the municipal administra- tion shall be lifted out of the gutter, set in the light and be made above reproach and suspicion. i syst muni It is a great task? Yes, and the league is the only force in sight that offers to undertake it. Look where one will, there is no 1ovement but this. It is not for personal aggrandizement. It is ble that the candidates selected will have to be drafted into service by this vigilance committee in politics. Personal am- on cuts no figure in the movement. The men who are enlisted it seek only the credit of giving San Francisco the best municipal government in the Union. We have the best of everything else, why at? The achievement is possible, and what is possible is at- tainable. That the ground will be fought inch by inch no one; ibts. The daughters of the horse Jeech never let go till they to. The system extends everywhere. It is the municipal described by Dr. Jordan as consisting of an appetite and power of reproduction. It can be killed only by separating each ker from the substance on which it thrives. t patriotic citizen will refuse to give his time and support e league in the high task it has sét for itself? One needs no . royance to read the signs of the far reaching alliances of the upport of the system. Its stake is the control of $18,000,000 be spent in two years by the city departments for government and $18,000.000 more to be spent on public improvements. It is the taxpavers. They are the stockholders in this munici- A majority of them want an honest and clean istration. A minority want the system perpetuated and graft rofitable. If the well wishing majority fail to act together, | ty will prevail and graft will become a recognized munici- e minori ution. business man and taxpayer think of himself as a is corporation. If it were a private corporation, and 000,000 of the stockholders’ money was to be spent for a definite in two years, and it was known that a minority of the rs were in conspiracy to elect a board of directors who nive at the dishonest diversion of the money, to the g of upon favorites and grafters, would the majority lders take the risk of dividing so as to let the dishon- inority get control? No men of sense would do so in their pri- They would feel that they had but one duty, the election of an honest directory that would spend the money honestly make every dollar produce 100 cents’ worth of benefit to the | corporation. | Now that is just what the Republican League proposes. It s to get the majority of the stockholders together to plump their act for the common interest, elect honest directors and spend the money honestly and legitimately. They do not want to retain a director in office who is under indictment for a felony, nor other | directors who try to help him evade the law. They want the| whole board to be above suspicion. This proper course of the league will be supported by the people regardless of party, as it will be opposed by the push and the ! system, regardless of party. Let no man think that the designing 1 vy will slumber and sleep. It is watchful, alert, skillful. It will invent new issues to divert and divide the majority. It has money, ingenuity, energy and no scruples. The fight is now on, and | will be fought to a finish. bounded by the United States, Japan and Canada. It comes iness. AN AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY. OMMERCIAL geography, written up to date, could state this | ‘ perhaps seldom realized fact: The North Pacific Ocean is| clearly into mind when we think of the big engirdling circle of main- land and islands, beginning at the Panama canal, whicfi the United States will control, thence west to Hawaii, Guam and.the Philippines, then north through the long string of those our new possessions to Japan’s Formosa, then Japan itself, stretching away to the far north- eastward through the Kurile Islands almost to the Aleutians, thence to Alaska and down the Canada coast to Vancouver, and then our own coast, Seattle, San Francisco and Southern California, complete the belting of the ocean which is to bear upon its waters the biggest development of commerce the world has yet known The situation has two features of note. ,Onc is that the willing receptivity by the Japanese of much of wiht is best and most pro- gressive in Anglo-Saxon ideals and methods should be fostered with the utmost tact in our Oriental dealings. The other is that America’s | opportunity in the East has been largely increased by the triumph of Japanese arms, and by Japan’s adoption of American priaciples, such as the open door and the square deal. f Baron Kaneko, ex-Minister of Agriculture and Commerce in Japan, says that Japan will be too much exhausted by the war to develop the immense opportunities for trade in Manchuria and China proper, but that his people have great advantages with the. Chinese because of racial ties, similanity of language. tradition, history, ctc., and so in co-operation with Japan lies our Oriental opportunity. To that end the first move is to create an American-Asiatic bank, centered in New York, and branched to Newchwang in ‘Manchuria, Chemulpo in Korea, and the circle of the big commercial cities in | the Orient. Then the railroad from Canton to Hankow, for which there is an American concession, should be built, for at pregent there is no good communication from south to north. It is further urged that the Chinese Development Company, now owned by Americans, send mining and railroad engineers and textile experts to China to study conditions and réport. Kanek'o\‘Ioinus out most forcibly by figures, comparisons and ensamples immense opportunity in Manchuria and Chiha for American capital and enterprise, provided China be not allowed to be dismembered and the open door policy be firmly upheld. Mr. Roosevelt's inclination is toward becoming the country~~New York World, branch. st | at 767 Market street on April 20, 1905, e p—— gt Sogtather of "'I " A'FAMILY OF ] “BUTT-INS” | N Thursday evening Walters called upon Nell Markham; on Friday evening Hendricks came to see her. Now Nell de- spises Walters to such an ex- tent that she is invariably extremely po- lite to him and ltkes Hendricks so much that she barely deigns to treat him with common courtesy. Her family shares her opinion of both the men, but thelr manner toward them is the reverse. They shun Walters as they would the plague and they welcome Hendricks with whole-hearted cordiality. Inverse- ly Nell should be expected to like this, but, strangely enough, she complains that it is only making matters worse. His sister was with her in the library when Walters was announced. “Ethel, won’t you come in with me?" she pleaded. “I can’t endure thdt man's “Fll buy you a box of chocolate,” promised Nell, “Given them up during Lent,” was the response. “I'll take you to the theater,” Joled Nell. “Too high a price,” was Ethel's com- ment. In the hall Nell met her mother. “Won’t you come in for a little while?” she asked her. “You know, my dear,” said the lady, “that I do not like to intrude upon your callers.” As she passed her father’s room she asked him if he would come down a lit- tle while to talk to Walters. Mr. Mark- ham replied instantly that he was go- ing to a political meeting. “You know that you all think Wal- ters a bore, and that is why none of you will come,” gaid Nell hotly, and none of them denied the charge, al- though all resolutely refused to sacri- fice themselves. Nell spent a dreary evening in the coldness of Walters' monotonous talk about himself, his tastes, and his achievements. She sighed with relief when he went, although she bade him a pleasant good-night and expressed the hope that he would come again. It was another one of those occasions when the social white lie spared the feelings of a thick-headed man. When Nell went into the parlor the next evening to greet Hendricks ‘she found Ethel there before her. Kthel talked of her school and her dances and her individual preferences until | she felt that she no longer dared to ignore the lightning of Nell's eyes. Just as she went out, Mrs. Markham passed through the hall and came to the door. With not the faintest ap- | parent remembrance of her remark concerning intrusion she came in and talked to Hendricks for an hour about the time when his mother and she had attended the same boarding-school. Before she went Mr. Markham came in. He had just returned from another political meeting, and he was carried away with enthusiasm. He held the floor, to his own delight. His wife slipped out of the room and Nell won- dered if he would not soon follow her | example. But no, he remained until Hendricks departed. And all the time | he talked politics. “I did not have one word alone with | him,” groaned Nell to herself, as she | turned away. “I like that chap,” said her father, and wondered why her “It's very evi- dent” was 80 exceedingly sharp. ca- — prattle throughout the entire even- ing.” “This book is too interesting to leave,” was Ethel's reply. - g [ AN EASTER EGG TRAGEDY. — A maiden took an Easter egg And wrote upon the shell Her name \and age, and then described The man she’d like right well. The egg was shipped to market, and (Now mark the sequel sad!) It lingered in the grocery till Its good was to the bad. An actor at a one-night stand A “Hamlet” did essay, But when he strode across the boards That egg was hurled his way. The actor reached the lines, “Oh, my Offense is rank; it smells——" He never finished, for the “gods” Let go that egg with yells. Alas! the lass waits in the lane The signal of a hand; She knows not that the shell she sent Broke up a one-night stand. Frank H. Brooks, in New York Press. HEARD IN FAR OFF HONOLULU “I see,” remarked Dr. Wood with a far-away look in his eyes, “that they have found the trunk of a man in the street at San Francisco and the arms, legs and head in the bay. Pirst you know the San Francisco police will find that the man died from natural causes.”—Honolulu Advertiser. S e S, Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. 10 Kearny st. * ——————— Townsend's Cal. Glace Choice Candlies will start a Fruits and ore Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 30 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ The greatest miracle is the casting out of the devil of self. & o e o8 SO UNHAPPY, Ruyter—DId your new noved haye a happy ending? ‘ :Hblfla" — No; urned | it up. s PY. 1t |UNCLEAN STREETS MENACE HEALTH To the Editor of The Call: In this morning's paper you devote a few lines to the subject of s&prinkling the streets with salt water, which the Merchants’ Ice and Cold Storage Com- pany proposes to furnish gratuitously. This i8 an important subject and one that has never been adequately treated. Our streets at the present time are ter- ribly filthy, and necessarily a menace to the health of the residents of the town. They should be not only swept clean, but sprinkled and flushed at least deily. A nightly flushing, as is done now in New York and London, would work marvels in the appearance of our thoroughfares and would im- prove sanitary conditions wonderfully. At present the street filth dries and blows into our faces, into houses and fruit stands, fish stalls, meat shops and what not. And then we absorb it, eat it and drink it. Thorough sprinkling with any kind of water would help, but salt water is far superior-te, fresh. In the first place, it should be very cheap, an important desideratum. In the sec- ond place, it keeps a street wet four times as long as fresh water will be- cause of its salts, which absorb atmos- pheric moisture. It would kill all vege- table growth, whether grass, moss or bacteria, and, besides, destroy all odors due to street accumulations. Its good work would even be continued in the sewers, as a preventive of putrefaction and a deodorizing agent. My work takes me into ‘the dirty parts of the city, and I often shudder at the sight of stalls full of fruit and meat exposed to direct contamination from the unmentionable filth lying in the streets, drying and blown about by every breeze. Clean sweeping and salt water sprink- ling would go far toward removing un- favorable city conditions, I believe. ERNEST SCHAEFFLE, Deputy Fish Commissioner. City, April 18. BITS OF EARLY MO OF CONVENIENCE By Dorothy Fenimore OME one has written to ask if I do not think that the European marriage, which is arranged for young people by parents or guar- dians, turns out more happlly than the love marriage which obtains in our own land. So much more is involved in the matter than a mere comparison be- tween young impulse and mature rea- son as guides in affairs matrimonial that it deserves a longer discussion than my space will allow. But, as one who has observed the merits and evils of both systems at close range, I am ready to pronounce autocratical- ly in favor of the marriage for love, which, I believe, promises best for the evolution of the race and for the development of the most worthy ideals of womanhood and home. The divorce statistics of the United States would seem, perhaps, to re- fute such an argument. Nowhere else in the world, except in Japan, is the divorce rate so high. Yet, according to Professor George E. Howard of the University of Ne- braskg, who has made an exhaustive study of the subject, never before in the history of our country has mar- riage been on so elevated a moral, so- cial and economic plane as now; and the family life in America is the pur- est in the civilizations of the world. Loose marriage laws and general lack of education concerning the mar- riage relation are mainly responsible for the divorce evil that now exists among us, he declares. And this opin- ion of his is supported by another au- thority, Judge Kavanagh of Chicago, who has stated that more than 50 per cent of the 1100 divorces granted in his city annually take place within two years after marriage, because of disillusionment and lack of common sense. The present unfortunate con- ditions can hardly be considered, then, as irremediable. The BEuropean marriage of conveni- ence does not exclude the possibility of love, as many believe who have viewed it only from afar. European parents desire that their children shall be suitably mated; the education that a girl receives abroad teaches her to expect that she will love her husband; and usually a young man falls in love with his wife, either before or after the ceremony. The fact that a money provision has been made for their Jife together tends to create domestic harmony. But, on the other hand, in coun- tries where marriages of convenience are the rule beth sexes learn early. through observation, through litera- ture and through public opinion that if one does not love one's life partner it is in accordance with nature to love some one else and therefore justifiable. Thus many young péople come to re- gard intrigue as a part of marital ex- perience, \ It is unlikely that the marridge of convenience would thrive in American soil if transplanted. Our standards of womanliness would be enough of themselves to prevent it from taking root. As W. C. Brownell has defined the national feminine ideal, with us a wife i8 a companion first and a wom- an afterward—the exact reverse of the type developed under the patri- archal marriage system. Besides, both our men and women RNING + THE SMART SET | - -BY SALLY SHARP. The affair at the Alhambra next Mon- |land in a few days. They will spend day night for the Seamen’s Institute is attracting widespread attention. And no wonder, for not only the good of the cause is in view, but the participants are all favorites in the public eye. MH Helen Colburn Heath, of the sweet voice, will lend her talent, along with several others, including Mrs. J. Wilson Shiels, Miss Helen Wagner, to give a one-act sketch under Dr. J. Wilson Shiels’ skiliful management. A foregone conclusion'is the success that will follow. Soclety will be well entertained, and that the monetary re- sults will be quite satisfactory is as- st Ll . . Mrs. A. W. Foster of San Rafael will be the guest of honor to-day at I’ luncheon at the Claremont Country Club, given by Mrs. William Hlnclle| Taylor. ' Mrs. Henry Butters will entertain several San Franciscans at a ncheon at her home in Pledmont in the near| future. . = . Mpys. Harry St. John Dixon announces the marriage of her daughter Rebekah to Arthur Francis Chambers. The cere- mony took place very quietly at St. Luke’s Church on April 12, no one but the two families being present. The bride is a sister of Maynard Dixon, the artist. Mr. and Mrs. Chambers will live in Sausalito. ¥ Miss Sydney Davis will entertain ata luncheon during Easter week, having for her honored guest Miss California Cluff. o e Mrs, John I. Sabin is spending the week in San Jose. Tk Sas Mrs. C. O. Alexander, with the Misses Brewer, will leave for Switzer- Thomas | friends informally yesterday Eastland and Courtney Ford. They are | ROOT. several months in Geneva and travel elsewhere Before returning to this continent. i - Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holbrook are ss | expected home to-morrow. They will reside at the Marie Antoinette. Miss Elsa Draper entertained a few after- . Miss Jennie MecMillan sailed on the Manchuria yesterday for the Orient, where she will spend several months in travel. gty Mrs. Alista Shed Langstroth and her son, Ivan Langstroth, will eccupy an ark at Belvedere during the sum- mer. « o Mrs. Walter Scott Hale will be at home April 28, from 3 to 5. at her home on Washington street. o g o Mrs. Gaston Ashe will entertain 2 tea next Sunday at her home in Sa salito. % Zaid Miss Anita Meyer, who has bee the guest of Miss Juanita Wells, has gone to Southern California em route for her home in Seattle. C otk Colonel and Mrs. Thomas Waln- Morgan Draper are entertaining the Misses Shortridge. ¥ e Mrs. Frank Richardson Waells ex- pects to return to her home in Bur- | lington, Vt., within a few weeks. A e Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bancroft will spend most of the summer on their ranch in Alameda County. CRE R Bliss Herman, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Herman of Vallejo street, is spending a short vacation near Mer- ced. —_—_----e % THE MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN. A Citizen Offers Some Suggestions on the Situation. To the Editor of The Call: There is no thinking man but belleves that if the ideas expressed by the Re- publican League were carried into ef- fect by men of caliber of those present it would be greatly to the Interest of our city, but it struck me to-day that the good citizens of the Republican League forgot that there are also some good citizens of the Democratic League who may possibly feel hurt that they were not invited to assist in furnishing a better government here. I think the action of Saturday night is exactly what the present administration would most desire.” The Democrats will and must keep up their organization. The lukewarm Republicans, who are going to “walt and see,” will howl for the cunning, cute and crafty Republican who “‘made every dollar he possesses from his profession,” and the same crafty leader, by dropping the present head of the city administration, will be able to make such a showing when backed by the police force, the fire de- partgnent and the sporting element, in- cluding gamblers, poolsellers and sure thing men of all kinds with all of their followers, not to speak of the in- trenched army of taxeaters and graft- ers, whose ranks they are so solicitous of swelling and whose salaries they pine to increase—with all of these forces at their command and with the two old parties—one already on record as the cream of the earth, and the other no doubt to be heard from in a few days as the entire universal dairy— fighting for supremacy it-will not be a very difficult feat for the. Union Labor party under the guidance of the men now in control to capture every office in the coming municipal election. They can send out eloquent speakers, who will tell the dear people of the good and great things done in the last two years and of other good and great things that would have been done only for the jeal- ous and contemptible conduct of un- friendly boards, that prevented them from carrying on work as they would like to do in the interest of the city and in the interest of labor unions. The re- tallation of the workers south of Market street mentioned Saturday night would have still all the independence which marks a ploneer civilization. We have inherited the spirit of our forefathers Who dared to cut out paths\for them- | selves in the primeval forest. be quieted by eloquent speeches on the expenditures of the tens of millions of dollars during the coming year and the benefit to the workman to have men of his own kind disbursers, and not the adherents of either of the old parties, whom they would picture as politicians seeking for an opportunity to get their fingers in the fat pie of millions from the sale of bonds and the collection of taxes. “The people are ready to fol- low.” Yes, but I doubt the people will at the present time follow any particu- lar party, but if a purely independent ticket could be placed before the people by such men as the men of the Repub- ‘lican League in conjunction with simi- lar high-class men from the Demo- cratic League and also from the Union Labor League, then I am satisfled the words of the speaker Saturday night would be prophetic and that the inde- pendent movement would have the largest following ever seen in San Fran- cisco. A J. B. City, April 17. ““YANKEE DOODLE" FROM GERMANY ? In the publication Hessenland (No. 2, 1905) Johann Lewalter gives expression to his opinion that “Yankee Doodle” was originally a country dance of a district of the former province of Kur- Hesse called the “Schwalm,” says the Frankfurter Zeitung. It is well known that the tune of “Yankee Doodle” was derived from a military march played by the Hessian troops during the war of the Revolu- tion in America. In studying the dances of the Schwalm, Lewalter was struck by the similarity in form and rhythm of “Yankee Doodle” to the music of these dances. Last year, at the “kermess” of the village of Wasen- berg, when “Yankee le” was played the young men and girls swung into a true “Schwaelmer” dance, as though the music had been composed for it. During the war of 1778 the chief re- cruiting office for the enlistment of the Hessian hired soldiers was Zlegenhain in Kur-Hesse. It therefore seems probable that the Hessian recruits from the “Schwalm™ who served in the pay of Great Britain in America during the Revolutionary War, and whose military-band instruments con- sisted of bugles, drums and fifes only, carried over with them the tume, known to them from childhoed, and it as a march. MERRIMENT A CALL DOWN. Mrs, Shutem—Do you re- mmhn—y,h-ln last Thursday Mr. Shutem (hesitatingly. ‘Why—er—four, I believe, - » TRAJT OF THE SEX, T hat will &'ihe Hret o take "J“ S iggers— ¥ ? Figgers—S) he will be so rious to see what's on ‘other side of the moon. cu- the