The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1907, Page 6

DITORI. L. P A G E FesrUary 27, 1907 The San Francisco Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS. .........ccoveenn.s Proprietor CHARLES W. HORNICK General Manager ERNEST S. SIMPSON . .. Managing Editor Address All Communications to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Telephone, “Temporary S6"-—Ask for The Call. The Operator Will Cornect You With the Department You Wish. ESS OFFICE. Open T EDITORIAL ROOMS. . | rket and Third Streets, San Francisco very Night in the Year. .Market and Third Streets .1651 Fillmore Street, Near Post .Telephone Oakland 1083 OFFICE—1435 Telephone Alameda 559 | Y OFFI ..Telephone Berkeley 77 2169 Sh k Avenue. .C. George Krogness, Reprasentative ) OFFICE—Marqu RK OFFICE—20 Tr GTON CORRESPONDENT tte Bldg ine BlAg...Stephen B. Smith, Representative Ira E. Bennett SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by Carrier, 20 Cents Per Week. 75 Cents Per Month. Single ples § Cents. »stage (Cash With Order): PRRE. (Lt T coanrae 6 months. ... Terms by Mail | Y CALL (including 2 ..$5.00 $4.00 Tsc 2.50 1.00 | LY CALL, 1 year ceoabes Dally .$8.00 Per Year BExtra Sunday. v sosts . 4.15 Per Year Extra Weekly cesssnennsensbsofbsnssssare 1.00 Per Year Extra | at the United States Postoffice as Second Class Matter. ALL POSTMASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS. e Copies Will Be Forwarded When Requested. in ord change of address should be particular to W AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt their request. FOREIGN { { TWO OF JOHNSON'S VICIOUS BILLS the palm must be given to the Hon. Grove L.! ithorship of the two most vicious bills that| red in the present session of the Legislature. A own record. The bill to permit crimi- s to choose their own judges finds ready response and sympathy e breasts of the scaly crew sent from this city by Ruef to rep- tl inal element in San Francisco. No other demonstra- and purpose of this bill is needed. The bill had | support from the Ruef gang. | The other bill with which Johnson surpasses himself is designed to enlarge the powers of the State Railroad Commission. As that 1y meglects absolutely to use the large powers now intrusted to anything whatever but draw salaries, the purpose of ust be to relegate to innocuous desuetude the func- that he wants to assign to the commission. Those functions performed in more or less satisfactory fashion by local under the public eye. Tf they were put in charge of the Rail- Commission they would be neglected altogether or fulfilled y to the extent directed by Mr. Herrin. The constitution confers wide and vital powers on the State Railroad Commission—powers whose exercise is badly needed in California. There is work enough in the revision of local freight rates to keep every member of the commission busy for four years, t they do absolutely nothing. They do not even make pretense of doing anything. Imagine a body of that kind sitting on the grant of spur tracks and franchises in Los Angeles or Bakersfield or Yreka! Then the commission might do a useful turn for Mr. Herrin by fuddling the evidence of negligence in railroad accidents. Such are some of the new functions that Mr. Johnson would like to assign to the com- mission. The result would be that these duties would be per- formed only to the extent that they might be injurious to popular rights and interests, because as now constituted the State Railroad Commission is a public enemy. D OUBTI hnson beats h nan s st or to d MR. HARRIMAN’'S BREACH OF TRUST easy for Mr. Harriman. This state of mind is one-of the remarkable features of a most ingenious person’s makeup. He does not in the least realize that it was wrong to issue bonds of a railroad company to himself and his friends at 65, so that he might sell them later at 96 or thereabouts. This transaction in Chicago and Alton securities is character- istic of Mr. Harriman’s methods. He does not realize at all that the office of a corporation director or president is fiduciary. In his moral code the president of a railroad owns the prope-rty abso- lutely, and any profits that may come from manipulation of its se- curities or the use of its capital belong to him and his backers. The Chicago and Alton transaction is only a repetition of the scanda- lous methods by which the funds of the big life insurance com- panies were used to make profits for the insiders. In the case of Chicago and Alton, Mr. Harriman was using funds borrowed by himself on the security of Union Pacific to finance a syndicate, which, when it got control of the Alton road, issued $40,000,000 of bonds to its members at a price about 40 per cent less than the market value. Presumably the excuse for this transaction would be that the syndicate, having bought 97 per cent of the stock, virtually owned the road, and, therefore, had the right to mortgage it at any price it pleased. There might be some justice in this plea if the stock had not been sold later to innocent parties, who had neither knowl- edge nor part in the mortgage. Not only was the stock sold, but it was watered to a degree that staggers the imagination. Mr. Harriman seems to be incapable of understanding that when President Harriman sells securities of a railroad in his con- trol to Stockjobber Harriman he commits a criminal breach of trust. THF, process of making a clean breast of it appears to come | COMMISSIONER WOLF'S MODESTY TH.E CALL congratulates Insurance Commissioner Wolf on his modesty, but concurs in the judgment of the Senate committee that this quality should not be permitted to hurt him. The wise men of the Senate have decided that Mr. Wolf’s modesty might safely be divided by two. - There is more than enough for one man. In the solution of these perplexing equations official mod- esty is the unknown quantity. Usually when it can be discovered at all it equals zero. In Mr. Wolf’s case modesty attains abnormal development. It is shocking. g Speaking seriously, Commissioner Wolf has more than earned the moderate increase of salary that the Senate committee thinks he should have. It was a fortunate circumstance for San Fran- cisco that we found so capable a man in charge of insurance supér- vision at the greatest crisis in our history. Mr. Wolf worked night and day to straighten out the perplexing tangle that attended the settlement of insurance losses after the fire. He did great work and California is not too peor to do him reverence. The Call’'s Fight for Direct Primary’ ~ . . o - . Cols T Y| Gossip in Railway Circles O the credit of the sitting Legislature put down the fact that, willing or unwill- 4__‘_________’_‘;m-: ing, it has taken the first step toward the greatest reform yet undertaken with o YA Rl e B e the railroad right on your own land respect to the politics of California. It has done 4ll it ean do toward making im-romzin i the city for some time. ‘the el B 10 Goult” now. 1t the possible other Legislatures as bad as itself—and there has never been one worse. |5t resards san Franciaco o5 bis nome Westers, Faol0e N0 Would aay, Gen- It has opened the door out of bondage for the people of this State, and, if The Call mis-|has lost none of nis old characteristics, Homen, Yoy tre dofas me : T I;"l take not, the people will choose to be free; there will soon be an end of serfdom; the there is nothing new to 4ot vou” we"r’;‘_’,.fi‘;..’.“‘,’;;l}:‘;“‘,,'e"’;,',;,,:"’:“" 2 next Legislature; willing or unwilling, must complete the deliverance of California.|Agsand Amesica =~ © 0 o (W what would you ot fie ssked The direct primary is assured. e s eatant matea. o hits hess ratiroad to come oa ey This fight is The Call’s fight—to strip the bosses of power dishonestly acquired | asitated tor the past mongh, 0. N8 @ e i rich and elderly and he always and abominably employed; to restore to the people that self-government which they|¢ral increase in the rates’ That Was takes the 4:40p. m broad B wred wiit joy 7 i : i i th t- > # the boat and now enjoy only in theory; to give the governed something to say about how and by|, Stubbs was eloquent on other mat; the last person gets off the hoat and | ters. v i i 1 i o | have b for si , and I I 11 the Stray newspapers that whom they shall be governed. To this end the direct primary. is the way and. the|heve been away for six yeus S0 © gathers up all the o awn. practical r this fi 7] in Cali i ! ! ; or, rather, I had t e out jok Mond: 1ght went on board means. By this t‘l’xne anybody in California who reads any newspaper knows tha? The’ o et T o Lot Ao Sott Call has from the beginning led the campaign for the direct primary. There is no|the State. The development has been tered them on the benches, Seme of | something wonderful. from various citles. The innocent old For - 1 1 1 1slg-! “We ‘busi: itudy- need for The Call to seek the credit for what has been accomplished—in the Legisla-|, We have been pretty business study- from various oo o very carefully 1 1 i i i .| h at d took th h . ture, in the last State conventions, in the press of California and among the people;|mission was as much at sea 28 we were, ang took thom o joker has planned redi - 3 i3 jgg | w 4 t llect all the Chinese, Japanese, that credit has already been fully bestowed where it belongs. But it is not ANSEIVOERBE EE L ot Welh. 46 SvoulEn - Prench sad Tialek soeee is ti ol g i i i ieni i g know, th & time when my and strew them about on the boat. at this time briefly to review the history of this vastly significant campaign, the filSt,Xifign‘z’é’; T e ; el s rhic just P | coming, and I would set a time and J Foley, commercial agent of the battle of which has just been won for the people. S R e B S R IR D ey Pl i 7 . P 1 oint of thei ver asking me when i to his b Immediately after The'Call passed to the control of its present management, on|point of their never asking me when yesterday on his way to hia home {July 15, 1906, preliminary arrangements were made and plans were carefully prepared |never ask me how long [ will stay. T¢ some 1200 miles more than he intended tell you frankly, I would like to spend to reach his destination. He was In AT 3 i i i i 1 i th th of March in the State, but I South Nevad. bust for his to secure for California the adoption of the direct primary system. An exhaustive e NN i T heNE Soatiun Favedn a5 -busfuens for R study of the direct primary laws in force in other States was begun and an immense| calling me away.” Lake on the Salt Lake road when he . . | - . . was confronted with a washout near quantity of data on the subject was procured. On August 19 The Call made the first| on rriday the colonist rate win go Meadows Lake. As the delay threat- 3 3 3 & % 4 & i % o 3 | into effect and the railroad people be- ened to be of long duration he turned formal announcement of its campaign in an editorial, in the course of which it said:™ |iicve that there will be fully 7000 to back and proceeded to his home by way n . . . . ‘. % & § 8000 people starting for the coast on Of Los Angeles and this city. ['he time for the direct primary by law established has arrived in California,|tnat day. The gucsses are that the & eule : : * * ® 2 G . . . . . month of March will see an immigra- President E. T. Jeffery of the Western and, indeed, is overdue. The direct primary 1s not an infallible speclfic for| tioninto California of fully 50,000 peo- Pacific Railway Company has issued . N aps o ple, and that in April the number will a circular announcing that F. W. M all the ills that afflict the body politie, but it is a long step of advance to that end. It|belarger. Never betore has there been Cutcheon of New York would become & e 3 o s | so great an inquiry as to the possibili- general counsel of the Western Pacific puts the power in the hands of the people, where they can use it effectively and with| ties of a man's making a comfortable and assume charge on the frst of living in San Francisco, and these in- March. Cutcheon, it will be remem- the least possible trouble if they so desire. * * * |auiries are coming from all parts of bered, was out here last year as the : : . s . A icularly f th - 2 tativ t! A “It is the purpose of The Call immediately and actively to promote a campaign| chanic ciase. o o e e ving the Fight of the Western Fa- : . > . . : . . . cific to reach the bay over the territory of education that will not end until the direct primary system has been enacted| | claimed by the Southern Pacific on the o g & o . Parsons ruluvutf’s cows and ralses Alameda shore. into full effectiveness and the people have the choosing of the candidates for whom milk in an inaccessivie valley of Ala- AR e ” = meda County. He is also a right-of- pqwarq Chambers, assistant freight they vote. way agent for the Western Pacific, and ¢raMc manager of the Santa Fe, will | has been gathering in strips of land jegqve this morning for Phoenix and Since that announcement The Call has been continuously and conspicuously|throush the lensth of the county for trom there will go on to Chicago to at- o ¥ | the passage of the trains of the West- tong the meeting of the Transconti- engaged in the direct primary movement, not only through its columns, but through|ern Pacifc. Parsons has a bland and pental Association on Mareh 4. {a winning manner and his endeavors to the labors of its management and its staff, sometimes publicly and very often otherwise.i get rights of way in many instances A new tourist car service was started have met with astonishing success. yesterday to and from Kansas City via On the evening of September 5, after some vigorous missionary work among the dele-| Stransers who have been acquiring ine Southern Pactfic and the Missours, land lately in Alameda County have Kansas and Texas. g gates, General Manager Hornick appeared before the committee on platform and res-|been hara customers to deal with, Par- i 2 % 3 | sons has found, His negotiations with When General Manager E. E. Calvin olutions of the Republican State Convention at Santa Cruz and presented to it thejone of them recently were as follows: was in ElI Paso last week he saw . . . . S . s P “Are you in favor of the steam car?’ eighteen cars of the United Railroads direct primary plank drawn up by this paper, with a strong argument for its inclusion eskea the Gould agent. | nd owner, 24 f0UF carloads of trucks. Ho ordered & %, £ . yes, . them sent on to this city at once on in the platform. Tt was adopted by the committee after amendment that did mnot| :Now. would you not like to have a passenger time. X { railroad train running through your . - vitally affect its purport, and was unanimously accepted by the convention. When the | property and see the engine puft across V. J. Shotwell, general agent of the 2 o land whicK is yours and feel as if you Denver and Rio Grande on this coast, Democratic State Convention met it speedily carried out the assurances given by its| really owned ihe railroad?” has left for Denver for the annual “Well, now,” replied the man, “if I conference. leaders to the management of The Call. want to see a railroad all I have to do P g is to walk about ten rods and see the Train No. 10, which was derailed on On September 10 was published the first of the series of studies of the direct|pufts of steam from a Southern Pacific Monday night at Elkhorn, near Pajaro, Jocomotive. was able to continue on its way yester- primary laws of other States by George A. Van Smith, who had been commissioned to| “That isn't the idea” slowly ex- day atterncon. get first-hand information for The Call on this subject. After visiting several of the direct primary States and conferring with a number of the leaders of movements like . . "I"h . S Se - B that which The Call had set on foot in California, Mr. Van Smith arrived in S8an Fran- . 6y ie c mal't t e PP ciseco October 1, and ever since has been actively engaged in writing upon this subject | +—— e SR T 3 s An April wedding of decided interest have left Claridge's Hotel In London, and forwarding the campaign. | will be that of Miss Ruth Morton and where they have been living since their On December 9 The Call published the amendment to the constitution which the|Farker Hoit whose ensagement was arrivel in England at the Gt of e whose marriage will be celebrated street, which they have taken for some Legislature has just voted to submit to the people, with the change of but a few words.| Tiorsaay. Apcs 25, at the home of the time. |On January 14 Held of Ukiah introduced this amendment in the Assembly. Omn Jan-| P et s Peremte M e e strect. Mrs. James E. Robiuson and Mies It is to be an elaborate affair. Miss Ethel Cooper went down last week to {uary 17 Wright of San Diego presented it to the Senate. On January 29 it Was Unami-|3fortor nas chosms oo ot hor trionts Sania Darvere and o ooty ook to mously adopted by the Assembly. On that day General Manager Hornick of The Call, | 1o o o b eemaids and s e N rcine cn oy o who has Managing Editor Simpson, Mr. Van Smith and Attorney Albert M. Johnson appeared|Fsidins journey Mr. Holt and his bride decidedly better. % . . Miss Julia Lan, hefore the Senate committee on elections and election laws to support the arguments| > iige iy s e Mt W i —— of Senator Wright in favor of his resolution. The hearing lasted all afternoon and Was| qam s “wna see. bevern Matgs o thes wiil toave on Feitay Tor Comsante continued the following day, with the result that, after adding a proviso continuing in|aats Bartara of the marriage of theiz to spend the week of the polo tourna- . . : > 2 2 Sunday, Feb 3, t El b/ ” . effect the present primary law until the adoption of the direct primary, the committee | s, o i ooy v, Fhompses The deepest aympatiy 36 felt fee 3ive. . B . 3 t t visitl latl in this Charl P. Eells d he 1. reported unanimously in favor of the resolution. It was unanimously adopted by the | g ng relat s e e e tae menit o s e Senate on February 7. On February 11 the Assembly refused to concur in the added | 3ier & 5675 aftack of typhoid fever. Mrs. Shepard which occurred early in They will leave tomorrow for Santa -1 ‘g i 101 Barbara. goi little later to Bl Paso, th h.Mrs. Sh d h b proviso. On February 22, after the adoption of joint rules to clear the road to am|Jiularg Some s liie laterto L Base. 0 recka, e e e, 1l for 1011 . . . convalescent, and her death was sud- agreement, the Assemb!y adopted the joint conference report, and on February 25 the S e s e Senate took the vote which sends the amendment to the people. the Mmasked carnival te-he &iven by beloved by all who lknew her, and & % = the San Rafael Skating Club, to which ;h"' are many who will mourn her That is the short and simple story of a campaign that has been somewhat ar-|numvers of people wiil go from here. loss. SRR . " Burlingame and San Mateo. It is to y i 5 i b fancy dress affalr nasks will _ Willlam W. Carson was a t duous and often complicated, as well as beset with perils. Such movements are easiest be'a fancy dross aftalr and masks will | William W. Carsen was o guest at strangled in their infaney. Tt is a story that has been told in full and in detail day by he wax of costumes aro being planned, In& 1o the eity on Monday. i s i i v s ey Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Cornwall b day in the columns of.. The Call—a story that will be worth remembering after a while o o s Weciiee s e B B TS O when the final battle is won. leave shortly for Europe to spend sev- days’ sojourn in the country. They eral months traveling. During thelr Will leave shortly for the north, to be : o . . - L5 N 19 i ive Fair Oaks h. absent for six weeks t And now for the campaign of education. The Call will carry it into the last and juimins theleKeChating Faic Onls e TS ghentha least hamlet in California in such a manner that no voter will be in ignorance of what | exear. e fatfornia. and will remain there dur- the direct primary means when he comes to mark his ballot on the amendment in No-| captain Svaney A. Cloman, United AR SVile e | States army, military attache at the Mrs. J. O’B. Gunn been vember, 1908, and when he comes to choosing what candidates shall be sent to the Leg-| court ot st James, and Mrs. Cloman, Mrs. J. H. MeKuna g b By isla.ture Of 1909 ) & who was formerly Mr,m Flora Clement, a week or ten days. What it said on August 19 The Call repeats with new emphasis and new mean- ing, thus: s Pefsonal Mention R It is the purpose of The Call immediately and actively to promote a campaign of | «- |education that will not end until the direct primary system has been enacted into full| F, T, Grass, a banker of Yokohoma. who will g0 to Canansa to tnspect his is at the Baltimore. mining interests there. effectiveness and the people have the choosing of the candidates for whom they vote. oS, G, Mitcherl, o merchant of Spo-° Dr. I & Minor ot £ Bursks le visicing : : e £ Wi E. Robert ¢ Mad of Dr. R. O. O'Connell Devisa ferer from that }ragug disorder described as “nervous debility.” It L e e S g i > P & m is not the sort of thing that interferes with his i prevents H R. C. Turner, a business man in Chi- _Howard S. Johnston and tamily him gding about his bgusiness in charge of a de;gf;t;t:e:&f? but, in Answers tO ueries cago, is registered at the Hamlin. New xork are at the Hamlin, n:; b 3 2 3 — | George W. Hazen, chief of the secret pleasure fine, the prisoner is almost on the ragged edge of hysterics. MARTIAL LAW—J. J. B, Marys.|5eTvice of the coast, is at the Savoy. The pretense is merely i § 3 ib-|ville, Cal. As the ecivil authoriti W. H. Routledge, 2 mining man of E i y impudent. The BRAIE plea mfght lib- were constantly in power “b:::re:: Tonopah, is a guest at the St. Francis. o f e o Joung, architects for erate any prisoner who felt confinement depressing. Collins does | April 18, 1906, and the time the troops| Attorney Shirley C. Ward of Los is at the not feel any worse than he deserves to feel. If he really thinks| 3¢’ withdrawn, the city and county | Angeles is registered at the JefféFson. his health is suffering we recommend a change to San Quentin. of San Francisco was at no time in : Judge Abercrombie Smi Dr. T. W. Harris, a well-known Port- ith of Hong- that period pndér martisl law. - It was|jyng (Or.) physician, is at the Hamlin. <08 Who is on his way home to Lon- The fresh air, regular habits and hom\:st toil of that resort have for & Hoie Nnder milltary protactlon, J. W. Sackett, a mining man from dn‘:"n‘:::lm?;fum. week in this. city. been-known to work wonders. They are especially good in cases| NATIONAL _HOLIDAYS — Readar, | Montana, {s registered at the Hamlin. e City. There . R. H. Peage, of “nervous debility,” although a year ago we should not have|in the United Siatesnot evor iis T S ey Aaid aarres, Tean Beabbas Company:. and TR suspected Collins of any weakness of “nerve.” Such are the won- f.?flé‘;'s.‘."-’-"z"ée;'}‘.'.'.'. N Y Jegal|at the St. Francis. on a trip to !'G,:;‘;”om‘ e clared a national holiday. Mr. and Mré. T. R. !'h.nlu of Edin- . 0! burgh, Scotland, are :0“ e Pecant n&flhfll)-nn. owner of the Denney ders of science as exploited in the testimony of experts. WAR—Reader, City. If you have |arrivals at the Haml Seattle, and his family, re- COLLINS HUNTING AN EASY JUDGE EORGE D. COLLINS is still hunting for an easy judge. He |and 21,468 pairs, respectively, enteral| half of these came to the United States.| A€ i P City. seems to have an idea that Hebbard will suit. Collins is labor-|in 1904. This statement s furnished | There is talk in G L ing to persuade Judge Hebbard that the County Jail should be (but is not) a health resort. He is not exactly sick, but he has discovered a physician who is ready to diagnose him asa suf- {5 m the foot Whfl W - t turned from a pleasurs Hono- The German Consul General at The exports of potash salts from Ger- :Wtr” :f,’ 1‘:‘ y_;. fl‘rn‘;ll;“:.uhn:; 'i‘ :y.,:uuu :l;l:.::!:. glp to the Y oy "“ s :’?nt: Bant- Shanghal reports that last vear there|many, used as fertilizers, increased in|read a number of books' on the uc:m are at the St. Franics. . Glass, were imported at said port 129,405 pairs | three years from Shbject and Jraw your own conclu-| . M. Heintzelman, S e e ot “‘.’."”'"’l-. - of rubber shoes and 46,643 pairs of|tals (metric quini :lym’:!h' or d‘&u?:‘ M SUP° | the Southern Pacifc shops at Company, has nt-n:‘ !Ih:- Oroville, i cloth and leather shoes, against 22,916 ’ S e T Secsemantae I of She BORMML g ~ To ascertain how | Honolulu arrivals at the Jefferson B a Tuary 29, 1864, wit] |are J. T. Morgan and George W. Smith, : cal- Robert Campbell e of Cananea. Mex- FRFHE S by Consul General Guenther, who adds|an export - u that this shows that the wealthier part | Inasmuch duty upon o of the Chinese population is grad r 2 ico, just returned from mn: 2CInce Honorote,