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GEBHABD HAUPTMANN.
The Sheriffs of the State, in annual session, have
given us a new genesis of the tramp. - He is an un
ruly boy sent out to hustle for himself. No one will
be more surprised at the definition than perhaps the
tramp.
The young man who used two revolvers in an effort
to blow out his brains must have been deluded by
some phrenologist into an exaggerated notion of his
brain capacity.
A climax of horror seems to have been reached at
Cape Nome. Destitution has become so general that
men can find no profit even by preying upon one
another.
WORTH ONE CENT.
One Man's Character.
San Francisco Call Pays the Price of
Santa Barbara (Cal.) Press.
Some time ago a dapper youth. Charles
"Williams by name, made his appearance
in the San Francisco social world and pro
ceeded to cut a big splurge. This he did
for a time and finally succeeded In becom
ing engaged to a maiden whose father
counted his money by" dollars like other
people count theirs by cents. A few days
previous to the wedding the San Francisco
Call discovered that Williams was not
what he cracked himself up to be, and ac
cordingly published an article showing
him up in his proper light. The wedding
was Indefinitely postponed and young "Wil
liams was promptly ostracized.
"Williams brought suit against The Call
in the Circuit Court before a Jury for
defamation of character. In other words,
he asked the jury to put a price on his
character. Last Monday The Call placed
with the clerk of the Circuit Court a certi
fied check for one cent, in full settlement
of the verdict. Insult was added to Injury
a little later when Williams had to pay
.the costs.
HERE IS ANOTHER SUGGESTION.
Editor The Call: As a foreigner so
journing In your beautiful city may I be
permitted to make a suggestion as to a
fitting Inscription for the handsome Band
S^nd, so liberally given by one of your
most public-spirited citizens, Mr. Claus
Spreckels? '¦ ,
The lines thought of are quoted from
"Cue for Music on Saint Cecilia s Day,
by Pope, and are:
"Hark, the numbers soft and clear
Gently steal upon the ear;
Now louder, and yet louder rise.
And nil with spreading sounds the skies:
Exulting in triumph now swell the bold notes.
In broken air. trembling, the wild music floats
Till by degrees, remote and small.
The strains decay.
And melt away
In a dying, dying fall.
"ny music minds an equal temper know,
Nor swell too hlnh. nor sink too low.
If In the breast tumultuous Joys arise.
Music her soft assuasive voice applies;
Or when the soul is pressed with cares
Exalts her in enlivening airs.
Warriors she fires with animated sounds.
Pours balm Into the bleeding lover's wounds;
Melancholy lifts her head,
Morpheus rouses from his bed.
Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes,
Listening Envy drops her snakes;
Intestine war no more our passions wage.
And giddy factions hear away their rase."
Faithfully,
ANDRE IVAXCOVICH.
Over Mr. Hearst's Signature.
The San Francisco Examiner said, over
Mr. Hearst's signature. November 10, 1B96:
"The vote of this election* Is a vote
of approval for the war and tne principle
of expansion.- It is both. right and reason
able that the administration which, de
spite some mistakes, carried this glorious
war to a successful conclusion Bhould re
ceive a vote of confidence. It is both right
and reasonable that the policy of expan
sion, ever. the policy of the American peo
ple since Jefferson annexed the Loulsi
anaa, ehould receive che approval of the
American voters, Republican and Demo
cratic." — Exchange. * .-,....¦..-
Salem Statesman.
A FAMOUS VEBDICT.
A reputation estimated by a jury at one
cent, with the privilege of paying the costs
of having tho appraisement made, 19
scarcely a valuable asset In either the
business or social world. Such was the
verdict of the Jury In the damage case of
Charles A. Williams, the South African
mlne y owner, against the San Kranclsco
Call for Its attack upon him two years
ago, made, as The Call said at the time,
"to protect an Innocent girl from the
clutches of a villain and to rid society of
an offensive member." Contrary to th«
usual practice In such cases. Tho Call had
nothing to say about the matter prior to
and during the trial, thus honoring by Us
breach the custom of making' damage
suits serve as an advertisement for th©
paper against which they are brought.
' * VER fince accepting the nomination for the
Presidency Bryi'n has done his best to uphold
— * the declaration of the Kansas City platform
concerning the "paramount issue" of the campaign.
Tie has dodged the money question as nimbly as he
could and has said little or nothing about trusts to
disturb the ice monopoly of New York and the Wclls-
Fargo Express Company. His efforts, however,
have met with indifferent success. In the Eastern
States the people persist in holding him to his free
silver record; in the South, where nearly everybody
is an expansionist, they mock at his paramount
babble, and it now appears that even in the Missis
sippi Valley States the managers of his campaign
have found it necessity to make the fight along some
other line than the one they started on.
A recent report from Chicago announces that
Chairman Jones and his associates of the Democratic
National Committee have put into circulation about
30,000,000 documents on the "paramount" issue, but
have found the people more or less indifferent to
them. The Bryan literary bureau has therefore been
set to work to prepare documents on another issue,
and it has selected the trusts as the object of attack.
The report says: "The Democratic managers imagin
that they are preparing a masked battery. They are
secretly printing millions of pamphlets and leaflets
upon the trust question, which they intend to put into
the mails about September 10, but both the contents
of these documents and their quantity are perfectly
known to the Republican generals, who will have their
own literary artillery trained to meet and silence this
Democratic volley as sure as it is discharged. This
plan to switch from 'imperialism' to trusts is only
another example of the rapidity with which Bryan is
ready to shift from one utterance to another."
It is certainly high time for the Bryanites to make
a change of some kind. Up to this time the only ef
fect of the campaign against so-called "imperialism"
has been to demoralize the silver forces, which con
stitute the main strength of the Bryan movement.
Many of the stanchest silver men of 1896 have refused
to follow Bryan since he undertook to sidetrack the
A VARIEGATED CAMPAIGN.
The prospect of the future is bright. The cam
paign will soon be over. Bryan will be out of poli
tics and politics will b« out of the field of American
activity. Then the fall revival of industry will begin.
Capital will seek investments and homescekers will
be looking for a place to settle. The golden showing
of our banks will then attract the attention of the en
terprising, and the year to come will make an even
better showing of prosperity than that over which we
now rejoice.
One of the significant features of the subject is
that this increase has taken place at a time when there
were many adverse influences operating upon the
rural industries of the State. There had been a scries
cf dry years, which seriously impaired the fertility of
field?, vineyards and orchards, and, moreover, the
farmer had hardly made up for the low prices of farm
products following the depression of the panic of 1893.
That so much of improvement is noted in a single
year, under such circumstances, may be taken as a
conclusive proof of the solid foundation upon which
our prosperity rests.
.Within the State there are 178 commercial banks,
53 savings banks, 37 rational banks and 19 private
banks. The greatest gain in deposits has been in the
savings banks, and that in itself is an encouraging
fact, since it proves that the wage-earners and per
cens of moderate means have shared abundantly in
the prosperity of the time. When the welfare of labor
is assured, that of the whole community follows of it
self. The augmented deposits in the savings banks
mean that the workers of the State have been able to
pay off old debts, live better than before, and Ftill
esve more than ever by way of providing for the fu
ture.
rIGURES compiled from reports made to the
State B^nk Commissioners show that since July
31, 1899, the deposits in California banks have
increased by the sum cf $22,973,693. That showing is
an effective refutation of the calamity arguments of
the Bryanites, but it has a value greater than that.
Political discussions will be over in a month or two,
and then will come a time when people will begin to
talk business again. Then the record of the increase!
savings and deposits of our people will be an en
coaTagernent for new enterprises in all lines of trade
scd industry.
SNCREflSED BflNK DEPOSITS.
Then tho poor old soul wept as If her
heart would break.— Chicago Tlmcs-IIcr
ald.
"No. Last week T saw a piece In our
farm paper that said if I sent a dollar I
could find out how to Ret rid of rats and
roaches. I sent the dollar."
"Yes?"
"Here's what they •wToto back: 'ilova
away.* "
"David."
"Yes. Martha."
"Something dreadful has happened."
There was a tremor in her voice an>1
the old man straightened up. He noticed
that she held a letter.
"What's wrons?" he asked. "Is any 0*
the children sick?"
ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE.
ONE of the unexpected results of the worl I's
competition at the Paris Exposition is the an
nouncement that the Jewish colonists in Pales
tine have obtained a gold medal for exhibits of wine
and cf grape brandy, and a silver medal for fruit trees
and fruit.
There has been a good deal of scoffing at* all at
tempts to settle Jewish colonists upon the lands of
the ancient home of their race. The scoffers have as
serted that the soil of Palestine is exhausted and in
capable of making a profitable return for any exten
sive cultivation, and that the Jewish race is not fitted
for agriculture. Assuming their assertions to be true,
they have concluded that a Jewish colony would fail
at farming anywhere, that any colony would fail at
farming in Palestine, and that a Jewish colony farm
ing in Palestine would have to quit after the second
year and start life over again as dealers in rags and
junk.
. The success achieved at Paris by the agriculturist's
in such a high grade of farm work as that of produc
ing wines and fruits is sufficient to prove that the
scoffers are likely to have the laugh turned against
them. Palestine was once one of the richest countries
in the world so far as soil is concerned, and its pro
duction in the way of grapes astonished the Hebrews
even after their long experience on the rich soil of
Egypt- The destruction of forests has largely but not
wholly destroyed the old-time richness of the Pales
tine hills and valleys. There remains a basis upon
which to restore something at least of the old-time
fertility, and upon that the Jewish colonists arc
building. That they arc having an encouraging
amount of success is proven by their exhibits at
Paris, and it is quite probable the future may see a
wealth of production there which will startle many
folks who have believed no good can come out of
Nazareth.
HORTICULTURE IN PALESTINE.
FUZZY ENDS OF BRYAN'S
SO-CALLED EPIGRAMS
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So- Called Epigrams Front Bryan's Address at Keyser Repro
duced From THE EXAMINER With Comments by
Dr. E. A. Bohm.
"I practiced lair until I became so busy prosecuting the Republican
party for grand larceny that I did not have time to defend people
charged with petty larceny."
•*^*~ Answer— This gave you plenty of time to prove and more
so to show your ability. If Colonel Roosevelt ever really ac
cused Democrats of cowardice, do you get even by calling
Republicans grand larcenists?
"I want all the avenues kept open «o that every child born into the
world will have something to hose for."
JtJfli Answer— Democrats have always given hope. Republi
cans have given prosperity and opportunities to every child
born into the part of the world we call the United States.
"This Republican system of private monopoly la condemning the
1 ' young men to perpetual clerkship."
Answer— Therefore Coxey aimles have been extinct! no
need of crying out for work.
"If the Republican policy continues you will be pounded until you do
T->RStrmiS 'enough.' "
"^ -^ . Answer— If the Republican policy continues you will be
pounded until you do holler "Enough."
TTT"VPTM1 '•The poor men will furnish sons for the army, but th« contractors
-* 1J p^ ly and the exploiters will reap the profits."
f Answer— Bryan's father furnished a son for the array, a
Ui poor colonel, who contracted that honor to exploit and reap
SUGGBSSi profits for political reasons.
A reputation estimated by a Jury at ona
cent, with the privilege of paylr.fr the
costs of having the appraisement made, is
scarcely a valuable asset in either tho
business or social world. Such was the
verdict of the jury In the damage case ot
Charles A. "Williams, the South African
mine owner, against The Call for Its at
tack upon him two years ago, made, as
The Call said at the time, "to protect an
innocent girl from the clutches of a vil
lain and to rid society of an offensive
member." Contrary to the usual practice
in such cases. The Call had nothlr.gr tr>
say about the matter prior to and during
the trial, thus honoring by Us breach th«
custom of making damage suits serve ast
nn advertisement for the paper against
which they are brought.
(San Jbse Mercury.)
WTLT.TATYTS' PENNY. REFUTA
TION. '
denunciation, and then, by violent contor
tions of foather and by shrill cries of half
chulted expostulation. Society tries to
friphten away both specter and specter
summoner. Hut thi3 will not do to-day;
like Banquo's ghost, they will not down,
and I for one take off my hat to the brave
few who. like Dr. Jordan on the platform
and Hauptmann on the stafce. force us to
think about these questions and to try
and find for them an adequate solution.
Death and taxes are inevitable; these ex
cepted. two-thirds of human ills are
remediable— but only when we have the
courage to face them.
Hauptmann's mqst poetical play, "The
Sunken Bell." has gone through twenty
five editions in Germany and has run the
I round of all the principal theaters there.
Its failure when produced last sprinp in
New York by Mr. Soth«rn Is not entirely
due to our American refusal to take our
I theater seriously, but is partly attributa
ble to our natural lack of interest In the
folklore of a foreign nation and partly to
defects in the dramatic treatment. Sym
bolism is a dangerous element In a play;
it requires the nicest handling to make it
effective, and when freely employed, as
In "Maeterlinck." is sure to Induce ob
scurity. Now "The Sunken Bell" is full of
xymbollsm. and w.orse than this, a per
sonal symbolism that has no Interest for
those iknorant of the fact that the bell
which sank in the mountain lake is rup
po=ed to typify Hauptraann's historical
drama. "Florian Geyer"— a failure. The
strength of the play lies in the character
ization and in the beautiful lyrical pas
sages in which It abounds. Miss Mueller
pives the ptory at somewhat tedious
length; Mr. Archer, who saw the play at
Frankfort, has a plot statement briefer
and better proportioned. • • • Hem
rich, a famous bell founder, has macla a
great bell for a church which haa been,
built at the top of a mountain. As It la
being drapged up the mountainside a ma
licious satyr upsets the cart, tho bell toUa
down Into the depths of the lake and tha
bell founder either falls or throws him
self after it. Not Into the lake, however;
he falls into the arms of Rautenrieleln.
"an eUln creature." a sort of dryad or
nixie, who lives with hf>r witch grand
mother In the forest. The Priest, th^
Schoolmaster and the Barber carry him
off to his home In the valley, whore his
wife and two children awaJt him; but h*
i* on the point of dyinjr when liautende
lein comes down and breathes new Hfe
; Into him. He follows her up the moun
tain, and for some time flourishes sreatly.
H? is full of vast plans for artistic effort
and the regeneration of hi;manity; but
somehow or other (one do«3 not qtiitft
know why, for the machinery of the p^em
Is as vapue as its ethics) his plans all co
¦wronpr and he sickens of everything. Th»
1 end comes when he sees hla two children
toiling up the mountain earrylr.s betweea
them a heavy pitcher:
Heinrich— "What bear ye in the pitcher,
dear, my children?
Kirst Child— Salt water.
Second Child— Bitter water.
First Child— Mother's tears.
At the same moment the voice «f th*
sunken bell booms forth from the depths
of the lake: Heinrich casts oft Rautende
lein with curses and flees down the moun
tain. In the last act Heinrich comes back
to seek Rauthedelein and die. and th-i
plav ends with a really exquisite lyrical
colloquy between them.
What we should like to know, however, is exactly
how "Buggy Robe" S:.m got in with Phelan. If our
correspondent will ascertain this and send us word
¦we will promise to make only confidential use of the
information. Mere sycophancy, nor yet a buggy
robe, would never gain the favor of Phelan. That
autocrat demands Knight service, and a description
cf the nature of the yoke with which he has enci-cled
Eraunhart's neck would make an excellent story.
We believe that Colonel Jim O'Brien named the
sycophantic Supervisor "Buggy Robe" Braunhart.
But that has nothing to do with the appropriateness
of the appellation. Colonel O'Brien names every
body. It was he who gave the late Senator Donovan
his title of "Pickle" Donovan and Max Popper the
.designation of "Street Sweeping Max." Our cor
respondent will probably remember that Popper was
fct one time a partner with Buckley in a street sweep
ing contract, and that later he paid Martin Kelly and
Phil Crimrr.ins $600 a month for the privilege of
keeping the same contract under a boodle Board of
Supervisors controlled by them.
Braunhart is a pap-sucking politician. He lives by
cff.ee seeking, nnd the principles he professes are all
besed upon 2. desire to serve the people in some po
sition to which a salary is attached. To him, there
fore, a political boss possessing power to confer pap
it always an object of interest. During Buckley's
reign Braunhart pastured on husks. That boss sized
the little sycophant up at his true value — which is
nothing — and persistently declined either to give him
zn o5ce or to aid him in getting one. In order tc
placate the boss, it is ?a:d, Braunhart presented him
with an expensive whip and buggy robe. Buckley
luid just made a vulgur display of his wealth by pui
chasing a fine equipage, and the gift went home.
Lraunhart was immediately taken into the fold arid
became an obedient lamb.
A CORRESPONDENT at the Potrcro, who
says he desires to keep posted on current events
in politics, writes asking us to explain our rea
tons for referring to Supervisor Braunhart as
•'Buggy Robe" Sam. Of course this is history. At
best, however, it is trivial history, and ordinarily we
would answer our correspondent by suggesting that
he address his question to Colonel Jirn O'Brien,
Supervisor Charley Kced. "Street Sweeper" Popper
< r some other person familiar with the reign of Boss
Buckley in this city. But Braunhart's late "reform"
I retensions seem to justify us in making a public
explanation of the origin of the name.
"BUGGY ROBE" SfJM.
Now. if tho object of dramatic art be
onlv to amure, it is evident that there is
no place in it for such a play as this, for
a more horrible subject cut hardly be
imaidned. But if the draira'ist may not
be denied the privilege of teaching granted
to the novelist and the i-ssayist. then such
a theme as that in "Refore Sunrise" 13
a proper subject for dramatic treatment,
rnd tho only question is: Has the dram
atist made his play interesting and has he
correctly solved the moral problem which
he presents? Yes, he has done both. The
interest is inherent in fche nature of the
question, hereditary alcoholism, which for
sill its admitted horribleness is a pressing
problem in that most vital and most mod
ern science. Sociology; the solution is cor
rect, for though the death of Helen is ter
rible, six times more terrible would have
bern her living to give life to half a dozen
children, each infected with the taint of
hereditary alcoholism.
When confronted with the specter of
such a question a.s this Society is apt to
hide Its head, ostriehlike, in the sand of
Hauptmann has two distinct manners —
the naturalistic and the idealistic. The
former is the expression of his fellow
feeling for the poor and the oppressed;
thu latter, of hi3 poetic temperament,
pure and simple. Classified accordingly,
nis best plays fall edslly into two di
visions; in the one come "Uefore Sunrise,"
'.ThO festival of Peace." '•L.onrly Lives."
"The Weavers" and '•Driver Henschel";
in the other "Hanm'le's Ascension to
Heaven" and "The Sunken Hell." Of
"Lonely Lives" and "The Weavers" I
have given some account upon former oc
casions; "Before riunrlse" may therefore
briefly detain us to-day. The plot as
plven by Miss Mueller is as follows: Loth,
a socialist; a man of badges, pledges und
principles, comes to a mining district near
Berlin to study the condition of the
miners. At the house of his former col
lege friend Hofmann he meets his friend's
sister-in-law Helen, a pure and lonely
flower rooted in the foul soil of an In
fested home. She is the youngest daugh
ter of a peasant, who, after suddenly be
coming rich through the opening of a
mine on his land, had, like all his neigh
bors, taken to drinking, and at the open
ing of the drama had degenerated into a
mere beast. The young people fall in love
with each other, and when Loth hears
that Helen's father is a drunkard and
that her sister has inherited this vice he
leaves Helen, sacrificing the splendid
creature for a future hypothetical race of
young Loths. Helen then despairs of life
and kills herself.
It Is one of the crudest facts in this
stupid world that nearly every thinker
who is in advance of his age wastes ten
or fifteen of the best years of his life in
vain attempts to get a hearing. To this
rule Hauptmann is one of the few happy
exceptions. Hla first play, "Vor Sonnen
nufgang" ('•Before Sunrise"), written
when he was only 26, was far too uncon
ventional to be accepted at any subven
tior.ed the.-iter; It might, therefore, never
hnvft pot beyond the manuscript stage had
it not happened that just about this time
there was formed in Berlin an associa
tion known as the Freie Buehne (Free
Stage), the object of which was to encour
age originality in dramatic productions.
The Frelc Buehne produced "Before Sun
rise"; it was received with a storm of
mingled applause and -vituperation violent
as that which, sixty years before, had
raged around the devoted head of Victor
Hugo's "Herr.ani."
has to-day only four,' it may be
not unprofitable to follow Mips Mueller a
little distance into the field that she has
opened up for us.
OERHART HAUPTMANN, the Ger
man playwright, is the subject of
an appreciative study in the Sep
tember Atlantic by Margarethe
Mueller. As we have no dramatic
poets of our own, and as Europe
The letters from which these conclusions are
drawn were received from Illinois. Kentucky, Ohio,
Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska. South Dakota, North
Dakota and Montana. They are therefore fairly rep
resentative of the whole of the central portion of the
Union lying between the Rockies and the Alleghany
Mountains. Some of the strongest evidences of pros
perity come from Bryan's own State. Such argu
ments need no speaker to expound them. Prosperity
is an issue which the intelligence of the American
people perceives of itself, and, moreover, that intelli
gence has learned by experience how to value pros
perity when it sees it.
For the purpose of obtaining up to date facts con
cerning the conditions of that section the Republican I
National Committee recently sent out letters to a I
large number of representative business men asking '.
how the financial affairs of their communities com- '
pared with those of five years ago. A summary of
the replies shows that savings and commercial de
posits have increased from 50 to 120 per cent since j
1806; that municipalities are able to borrow money j
at a rate averaging more than one-half of one per
cent less than in 1896; that farm values in most sec- |
tions have almost doubled; that about 50 per cent of |
farm mortgages have been paid up, and the re- 1
mainder renewed only with "prepayment'' privilege? j
and at lower interest rates; and that from 20 to 25 j
per cent of the debtor classes, to whom 'Bryan four I
years ago vainly appealed with his dishonest propos*
tions for cutting in two the value of money leg?l»
tender in payment for debts, are now actually lending
money in competition with the business men writing
these letters.
The prosperity of the time is so notable among
the seaboard States of both the Atlantic and the Pa
cific that there is not the slightest prospect of Rry?n
carrying any of them. His fight is to carry enough of
the States of the Middle West to make up with the
solid South a majority of the Electoral College.
Even in that section of the Union, however, the pre
vailing prosperity is so great it is doubtful if the
calamity candidate will get as large a vote as he did
four years ago.
Four years ago the workingmen and the business
men of this country were almost at the end of their
resources. The long years of industrial and com
mercial depression following the panic of 1893 had
about exhausted the savings of the workers and the
capital of the merchants. Bryan's promise of an easy
way to pay old debts bv reducing the standard of
value of the currency was then a very direful threat
ii'deed. It was not known how far the people suf
fering from a lack of work and wages «vould be de
ceived by it, and as a consequence something like .1
paralysis of trade was upon the country for months.
The very day Bryan's defeat was made known the
mills began to resume work. Since then there has
been such an activity in all lines of industry as was
never known before. Our home market has been
profitable to producers of all sorts o? goods, and In
addition thereto there has been found a way to ex
pand our foreign commerce to an extent undreamed
of four years ago. Those facts are fresh in the minds
of the people. There is no desire for a return of
calamity. We have hsd enough of that for the rc.;t
of the life of this generation.
STATESMEN and politicians are talking of the
Philippine question and the money question, but
it is probable that after all the sup. cine issue in
the minds of the people is that presented by the con
trast between the conditions of workingtnen and
business men in 1896 and those which prevail to-day.
General Prosperity isn't much of a talker, but his
silence is of the kind called golden and its influence
felt in every American home is more potent than the
eloquence of all the calamity orators from the Pa
cific to the Atlantic.
THE PRESERVATION OF PROSPERITY
SUNDAY SEPTEMB ER 9, vpn
JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor.
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GEORGE C .KROSNESS.
h'trt~er Fo-e^n Advertising, Varquette Building. Ch : C22o. •
<L«enc Dlrlance Telephone "Central M13."l
San Francisco opens all her dcors to those who
throng her streets to join in the celebration. She
has arrayed herself for the most magnificent festival
of her history, and in the glory of banners and the
ftarry splendor of innumerable lights displays the
jubilation she feels «ri receiving all California within
her gates. It is a time for exultation, for music and
for cheers, and everywhere in the city, from the ferry
to the cliff that overlooks the ocean, the joyous visit
ors will find occasion and opportunity to give voice
to the gladness, of their hearts in celebrating Califor
nia's jubilee.
To-day we can with gratification challenge the
world to show a land where industry is more amply
rewarded, where labor has better wages, where thrift
has more varied opportunities to prosper, where all
classes are more closely affiliated, where homes are
fairer or the home life sweeter than in California.
Humanity has attained here its highest level of civili
zation. The fruitful scil is not more prolific of fruits
and flowers than is society of brave men and fair
women. Among no ether people is there such hos
pitality of welcome to all or such geniality of social
intercourse. It is the land of lands in beauty and in
wealth — and the best land of all to work in, to play
in and to live in.
Out of this awakened spirit of State loyalty and
pride there will *omc an intelligence which will recog
nize and appreciate at their true value the larger in
terests of California. Such great issues as those of
irrigation, the preservation of forests, the conserva
tion of streams, the improvement of rivers, the de
velopment of better systems of municipal government;
and the advancement of manufacturing and commer
cial industries will occupy much of the thought and
engage much of the energy which in the past have
been given almost "wholly to local issues. California
patriotism will come to mean something more than a
willingness to celebrate Admission day. It will sig
r.ify a readiness among the people to work together
for the common good ?nd for the greater glory of tht
State and the Union.
It is right and proper that the achievements of Cali
fornia in the first fifty years of her statehood should
be celebrated with an ardor universal among her peo
ple. Her pioneers, her native sons and daughters,
and her children by adoption, have reason to rejoice
in her prosperity and her greatness. There is no
vanity in such jubilation as this, for it is not founded
upon emptiness or a mere conceit of superiority. It
is an outcome of a recognition of the thousand advan
tages which Californians enjoy over those whose
homes are fixed in other lands, and a consciousness
of the prevalence throughout the State of a feeling ot
patriotism among the people which assures a future
even more brilliant th.in the past.
The pioneers who laid broad and deep the foun
dations of the civilization of the State were worthy of
the mighty task committed to their hands. By the
arduous proof of things done they have attested their
right to the honor which Californians of all genera
tions, present and to conic, will give them, in tradi
tion, song and history. They knew how to employ
in the service of humanity every rich resource of cli
mate a:id of soil, an.i already the State is renowned
not more ior the gold that veins the mountains than
for the luxuries of wine, fruit and oil that blossom
?.nd ripen in vineyards and orchards. Hampered by
adverse conditions of traffic and transportation, these
same pioneers have provided the beginnings of a
varied industry along all lines of arts and crafts from
music to iron molding, and from the studios of art
ists and the shipyards of the artisans have come forth
masterpieces of beauty and of strength, that rightly
rank among the best that the marvelous century has
produced.
Were the full importance of the admission of Cali
fornia as a free State duly known to all Americans
the celebration would be national. The East would
rejoice as cordially as the West. It would be a day
which ill the estimation of patriots would rank second
only to the glorious Fourth of July, for it was a day
which assured to the nation and to freedom a State
of commanding importance, fronting on the greatest
of oceans and possessing the richest and most varied
resources of any equal area of land on the face of the*
globe. It opened to the East of the Atlantic coast
a golden gate to the older East of China and India.
It made the republic truly continental, and gave to
patriots a field of activity broad enough for the reali
zation of their highest aspirations and most splendid
dreams.
CALIFORNIA awakes this morning to the fif
tieth anniversary of her admission to the
' political rights of a State in the American
Union. The celebration of the event virtually began
yesterday, and is to continue to-morrow and the day
after to-morrow. It is to be a four-day festival— the
greatest in our annals and one of the most notable in
American history.
silver question, and little or nothing has been gained
to offset the loss. It is therefore not unlikely there
Will be a complete adoption of the plan proposed by
David Bennett II ill — that of making the fight on dif
ferent issues in different parts of the country. Democ
racy will make a variegated campaign. In the East
it will be said the money question is not at issue; in
the West it will be said free silver is the chief issue;
in the Mississippi Valley the clamor will be for the
suppression of trusts, and in the South the cry will
be "anything to beat McKinlcy."
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1900.
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THE FIRST OF GERMAN POETS
AND PLAYWRIGHTS
CALIFORNIA'S JUBILEE.
An Important Announcement.
To accommodate the citizens of Stockton an1
the San Joaquin Valley the Santa Fe rout's
will Hart their Bakersf.el^ local from San
Francisco at 19 p. m- on Sunday. Monday an1
Tuesday nights instead or S p. m., tha usual
leaving time.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Discount on Books
Current literature, fictldn,
standard authors, belies
ltttrcs, children's books.
,-::i Mail orders filled.
ELDER &~SHEPARD,
Paulsen, the Danish Inventor, has pro-
duced a successful telephonogTaph. It
records all icoxsasos received during th«
absence of a sur>3rrir>or and fftves them out
hours or days afterward, when he holds
the trumpet to hla ear.
Special Information supplied dally to
business houses and pubUo men toy ta«
Press Cllppln* Bureau (Allen's). 6M Mont-
gomery st. Telephone Mala 1MX *
Townsend's California glace fruits. 50c a
pound In fire-etched boxes or Jap baskets,
633 Market street. Palace Hotel. •
Ice cream by the gallon at Townsend's.*
Pure fruit Juices used at Townsend's. •
Ic© cream and soda at Townsend's. •
AMUSEMENTS.
V.vc'.i— "Cs-rmer ."
Alcazar— "The Mafc-erafiers."
Columbia— "A Great Obstacle."
jVU.fi.ir.tra — "Shli' Ahcy."
Orpbecxa — Vaudeville.
Grand O^era-houfe— •"Trilby."
OlrajiU. corner Mason cr.d XjAly «tr*et»— Specialties
Chutes. Zoo and Theatwr— Vaudeville every afternoon and
F-.fcher'e— Vaudeville.
AH& Theater, Grove Ftreet— "On the Trail."
fail's Battle of Tar. Juan. Folscm ar.d Sixteenth street*.
n«*cr«:stir» Park — Baprball.
Central rark— Tie Sled-SUO*.
1 :.¦ r. Coursing l"ark— Courslst to-fiar.
futr-i Bath?— Oven r.ichts.
ZUnglinc llro*.' World"* Greatest Fhr>T«-«. Sixteenth asd Fol-
»om streets. CMaaday evening. Spj/tember V>.
Tar.roran Park— TJ.e Great Fair. September 14 to October 6.