The San Francisco call. [volume], May 26, 1904, Image 8

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Poor man . has suffered another serious reverse in his
unequal battle with the new woman. One of the gentler
sex is suing her husband for a divorce on the ground that
he destroyed her wifely affection for him by poisoning
her dog. It has generally been conceded that the dog
was on a plane of equality in the sphere of matrimonial
emotions, but this suit indicates with disagreeable cer
tainty that in a contest the dog has the better of it, dead
or alive. _ .,'
One policeman, one fireman, one doc
tor, one volunteer school teacher and
one naval militiaman will be on hand
July 4 to guard each of several mimic
theaters of war that have been ar
ranged for by the managers of the
public Fourth of July celebration in
Chicago. The programme proper will
begin upon the morning of the Fourth,
and free firecrackers and torpedoes of
the harmless variety will be supplied to
all small boys for the asking. In the
afternoon bands of the National Guard
will give concerts in the parks and a
military promenade will take place. In
the evening the United . States ship
Dorothea will fight a sham battle off
the lake front with a condemned hulk,
and will blow up the foe with a tor
pedo; there will be rockets, searchlight
display and martial maneuvers, and
the day will close in a grand pyrotech
nic outburst. A committee upon medi
cine and science, to have charge of the
work of providing safeguards for per
sons Injured by toy pistols or fireworks,
and to prepare statistics on lockjaw,
ha's been appointed.
'Precautions.
It appears" that Germans of known
bad character are allowed to escape
on condition of leaving the country.
England. is practically the only refuge
open tcTtrTSm, so they flock here, and
among them the expert German burg
lar_visits us in ever increasing num
bers. It is said that Germany is the
country of specialists, and the crim
inal but intelligent Teuton makes a
specialty of his business, to which he
applies the latest scientific methods.
The extent to which the art of burg
lary has been developed is evidenced
by the fact that ingenious riousebreak
ing tools are manufactured, such as
portable ladders, portable phosphorus
and electric lamps, ratchet drills, sheet
iron cutters, adjustable jimmies, pick
locks and various kinds of skeleton
keys. Some of these are, of course,
legitimate and necessary tools, not
necessarily nor mainly used for feloni
ous purposes.
Any given house once entered, the
scientific German can open the strong
est cast iron safe by means of an oxy
hydrogen blowpipe, which produces a
beat so .intense as to melt any metal
Scientific Burglars.
WE recently had something to say * about the
assaults, and violence that have appeared in the
stablemen's dispute with their employers in this
city. These assaults are of an aggravated nature. A single
victim is selected and watched, as he goes about his busi
ness, and is attacked by a number of men in a manner
that renders successful resistance impossible because of
the numbers that assault him. He is endangered in limb
and life and is usually left lying in the street disabled and
ur.conscious to be taken to a hospital to endure long
suffering from his wounds.
These assaults arc in the eye of the law aggravated
by being committed in cold blood and not as the result
of an altercation and sudden access of temper. They have
all the abhorrent features of lying in wait and stealth that
make aggravated thuggery of the offense. When those
( who commit them are recognized and arrested they enlist
the most arrant perjury to establish an alibi and this is
too often accepted by the Joo complaisant officers of the
law. In court the weak and wounded victim is usually
treated with harshness, asif he were guilty of some of
fense or had outlawed himself by believing, that he is
entitled to the peaceful use of the public streets in 'pur
suing his vocation.
It is an evil that spreads by official toleration. It is
a monstrous condition, for which there can be no pallia
tion nor excuse. Its victims are men who are living and*
working strictly within their legal and constitutional
rights as American citizens. They have broken no law
natural or statutory. The license claimed by their assail
ants is a grave breach of both. If the law cannot be en
' - ' « ' ' '
MORE VIOLENCE.
Until a year or, two ago the Em
peror of Japan was an enthusiastic
wrestler. He threw out challenge after
challenge to the members of the court
and his council and advisers and de
feated fairly and completely every one
who tried conclusions with him until
he met Count Tetsu, who proved one
too many for him. Since the encoun
ter, although he encourages the sport
in every possible way, he has kept out
of the arena. "Count Tetsu is now
champion." he would say; "I have
failed to throw him! Some one else
must try."
'A Royal Wrestler.
The Board of Education has decided that with the*
next fiscal year teachers in the public schools will receive
an increase in salary.* 1 No better recognition of public
service, well done, could have been made. Instructors
in our public schools are poorly paid even with the in
crease that has been granted. The spirit of the School
Board may be accepted, however, as a precedent for bet
ter things. •
A LETTER has been received from one of _ our
,. readers _itating that "The soldiers' graves in the
San Francisco and . Oakland cemeteries suggest
nothing but the care that is given to all other graves"
and that "a very cheap monument of no nobility marks
something or other," but does not designate the location
as being the resting place of a soldier. The letter refers
to the fact that many great works have been accomplished
by the general subscription of but a* penny each and
suggests that the press advocate the collection fof a vol
untary pittance at the cemeteries on Decoration day and
at patriotic exercises or dinners and that such collection
be continued year after year until the amount be sufficient
to mark every soldier's grave with a proper monument.
The suggestion is timely. It is but right to foster
and perpetuate gratitude to those who have forgotten self
even so far as to die that their country might live. The
sacrifice is all the more'complete in that it is usually made
by the young and vigorous, with manhood just com
menced, and it is not just, therefore, that such be soon for
gotten. With the coming of Decoration day, when our
sorrow mingles with admiration for the honored dead 1 it
is well to ponder whether our manifestations of honor
shall be as short lived as the flowers we strew, or whether
some more substantial memorial shall remind the
stranger, of thf ir devotion to country and our de
votion to their memory. , If there be merit in the senti
ment which prompts us to observe Decoration day and
to remember the sacrifices which' were the cause of its
creation, there i« reason to properly and decently mark
the spot made sacred by the bones of the men that made
A SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.
Here's a St. Louis editor's view of
the fair, taken on the spot:
"All the beauty of fancy becomes
reality at the fair by night, when from
frozen music the rare architectural
creation turns to a poem in flre. A
drawing of infinite grace in lines of
myriad lights, the purple heavens
overhead, the fair is a dream in
realization, a picture to madden poets.
Lalla Rookh never saw stained webs
of such beauty as the fabric of light
there. Kubla Kahn's stately pleasure
dome and sacred river and measure
less caverns never achieved such fairy
loveliness. No feast of Cleopatra in
all its "oriental gorgeousness ever at
tained the like. Aladdin's magic lamp
could not produce it. Portia's heavens,
studded with .patines of bright gold, as
seen from her luxurious balcony, were
as ' fireflies to suns compared to the
illuminated vista of light and sky from
the plaza. Milton never dreamed any
thing approaching it In his fairest in
spirations; nor Dante, nor any other
who transcribed the vision of a mind's
eye."
Meanwhile, they are still busy open
ing the packing boxes.
Honeyed Words.
As far as truth may be expected from the scene of
war's operations in the East it appears that one thousand
Japanese soldiers were killed in the initial land effort
to reduce the gigantic fortifications at Port Arthur. A
few more incidents such as this may "possibly convince
the fighting men of the Mikado that war is a desperate
game in which good guns and better gunners count more
than patriotism.
Purple In the face, his jaw wagging
and his eyes bulging from their sock
ets. Captain X went to the bow and
dragged aft the old fashioned, pat
bellied cannon used on rare occasions
for firing signals at sea. When he
had lashed it to the shore side of the
boat he went below to the galley, ap
pearing soon with an assorted armful
of groceries. .
Powder he rammed Into the broad
mouth of his old culverin, then he
shotted it with a can of tomatoes and
a can of condensed cream. Carefully
training the ancient piece upon the
walls of the Swede's place, not fifty
yards distant, he fired. Then he quick
ly charged the cannon again, this time
with more tomatoes and a bottle of
olive oil, wapped in a rag. More con
densed cream, next a bottle of vase
line from the medicine chest. The
bombardment was a thing of rare
beauty.
When the Swede had at last suc
ceeded in digging up the town con
stable the side of his shack looked
like the kind " of crazy quilts that
grandma used to make and Captain
X was rolling on the deck of the Silas
Peters in gales of laughter.
CAREFULLY TRAINING THE
PIECE UPON THE SWEDES
PLACE HE FIRED.
. The valley chosen by the ancient
dwellers on the Septimontium as their
place of burial was a still, marshy,
tranquil place. No trace has been
found of any path leading up the hill,
and yet after burial the relations of
the deceased used to return once a year
<>n % the anniversrry of the death to
the tombs, where they dug Email pits
and poured in roast corn, milk, etc.,
buf* paved roads and wheeled vehicles
were probably not in existence at such
e.n early period.
The cremation tombs are earlier than
th£ graves and the earliest of all is
considered to date from 1300 B. C; the
other are mostly of the eighth and
ninth centuries B. C. In the fifth or
sixth centuries B. C, after the sepul
oretum was abandoned, primitive
houses were built over its Bite: three
Email tumuli, composed f the ashes of
email huts, have been excavated, at a
eilghtly higher level than that of the
tombs.
Another really magnificent discovery
Another was that of a little girl, with
three slabs of tufa covering it inclined
Jike'a roof. It also contained vases
¦with remains of the funeral feast.
Beads have also been found in the
tombs of blue, black and white glass,
<i copper belt, amber ornaments, an
Ivory armlet, bones of a fish called the
cephalus or great mullet, grape seeds,
etc, the last being smaller than those
of our day.
ornaments, weapons, food, etc., which
they contained, some slight knowledge
can now be obtained cf these ancient
people, their mode of burial and also
" to a certain extent their mode of life.
These torr.bs must have been outside
jj the walls of the town" of the people to
"whom they belonged, and fcr that rea
son alone It is certain that they exist
¦ cd before the building of the Servian
" ¦wall and the incorporation of the seven
hills into one city. But apart from this
Ihe mode of burial, form of the tombs,
" vases, ornaments, etc., all prove their
Eti'.l greater antiquity. Both cremation
end inhumation have been employed in
these tombs, twenty-three of which
have been opened. Eleven were of
persons cremated and buried in well
tombs, of which three were adults, the
rest children.
The ashes of those cremated were
.placed in small hut-urns, resembling
the houses in which they had lived.
These small urns were then deposited
In large terra cotta vases and the
whole lowered to the bottom of a well,
about three feet deep, sunk for the
purpose. The well was then filled In
•with the ashes of the funeral pyre.
The graves dug for the reception of
. -whole bodies were filled In with th<=
earth out of which they had been cut,
'and the bodies were inclosed in primi
tive oak coffins, formed out of the
trunks of trees, in the shape 'of boats.
The graves contained vases with food
for the deceased on his journey to the
spiritual world. The contents of these
vases have been analyzed and found to
have consisted of meat, fish, milk, wa
ter, honey, beans, grain, perfumes, etc.
In one grave eight vases were found;
in others vases which had been used
"a; drinking cups, one In black pottery.
many of them dating from the my
c-enean age, before the eighth century
B. C. One tomb was that of a little
"boy, containing email brown bones
an'd part of the skull, together with
"carbonized beans, grain and a small
lance, probably a toy.
SCENE OF RECENT IMPORTANT
EXCAVATIONS ON SITE OF THE
KOSIAX FORUM.
NEW YORK at the present moment is occupying a
position among^American commonwealths as anom
alous as it is gratifying. Under 'the sway of Tam
many, when everything is supposed to be "wide open" and
the grafter and the gambler should be flourishing as the
green bay tree, the conscientious efforts of a few of the
city's officials have interposed to make the name of clean
government arid the honor of a clean city two things to
be accounted for in New York. These men are Attorney
Jerome and Police Commissioner McAdoo.
Under the administration of Mayor Low "Jerome began
his strenuous fight against the gilded gamblers. Work
ing against the opposition of some of the most influential
papers and in direct contravention of the unwritten laws
of police graft, Jerome began his series of crusades against
the "parlors" of some of the most noted gamblers in the
country, sending Canfield to Europe on the run and forc
ing many of the smaller fry to take to cover with great
celerity. Under the Tammany administration, synony
mous as that term has always been for police "pro
tection" and the unseeing eye in matters shady, Jerome
has abated not a whit his'former efforts and New York j.s
rapidly becoming, enough, an unhealthy place
for "short card men" and faro bankers.
Police Commissioner McAdoo has proven himself to be
an equally disagreeable customer to .the pool sellers. Only
on Monday last did this vigorous commissioner direct a
raid against the secret poolrooms which resulted in the
entering of three hundred suspected places and the con
fiscating of over a hundred telephones and paraphernalia
for the- recording of racing returns. In scores of places
that were entered after having been raided previously the
gratifying evidences of an entire suspension of business
were forthcoming. McAdoo is forcing the poolrooms to
the wall as surely as Jerome closed the haunts of the
gamblers.
The remarkably successful efforts of Jerome and Mc-
Adoo in New York, the work that Folk is doing in St.
Louis and Bonaparte in Baltimore all point to the grow
ing power of individual zeal in the matter of municipal
reform. These years have reform parties, so called, been
put in the field, elected in some instances, and failed of the
accomplishment of their purposes in nearly every in
stance. The reform party too often is the party of the
soreheads, whose shibboleth of good government, good
officials, good services serves only to land them into
power and then is straightway forgotten. But such
energy as Jerome and McAdoo are displaying in Tam
many New York, individual energy, the vigorous asser
tion of a personality given to the right, is productive of a
new and a hope inspiring aspect in the problem of muni
cipal government.
SURPRISES FOR TAMMANY.
against which it is directed. The fol
lowing plan is also practiced: A re
cent chemical discovery has produced
a preparation known as thermite. If a
portion of this is placed on the top of
a safe a heat is generated so powerful
that the toughest steel cannot with
stand it, and a hole is burned in any
desired portion of the receptacle.
Doubtless these are the men who are
now crowding Into England in such
numbers under the designation of Ger
man workmeir at the same time those
who have been already convicted in
Germany often adopt an English name
so as to conceal their identity as far as
possible. — Westminster Gazette.
Navy of Japan.
Ho! banner of the Rising Sun that glit
ters In the dawn!
Ho! warriors of the Empire, now let your
swords be drawn!
Proud Samurai! ye e'er have been our
nation's pride and boast.
Rise! rise, -as in the days of old. defend
our ancient coast.
That never yet has been despoiled by
any foreign foe —
Our shores that stretch for countless
miles from Kurile to Loochoo.
Though great and strong and many the
enemy's warships be.
Go bravely forth to meet them and sink
them in the sea!
The gallant sons of Nippon are born by
Heaven's grace
To have no fears, nor any peers in all
the Asian race.
Inured from childhood to the sea, they
dare all winds that blow;
In midst roaring billows they rush to
met t "the foe.
Though great and strong and many tha
enemy's warships be.
Go bravely forth to meet them and sink
them In the sea!
For loving: wives and children dear we
venture far at sea;
The storms may rage, the billows rise — ¦
undaunted still are we!
Why fear we foreign warships — we who
are ready to die?
"For Mikado and our country," shall bo
our battle cry.
Though great and strong and many the
enemy's warships be.
Go bravely forth to meet them and sink
them In the sea!
Our fathers sailed in frailest crafts, and
swooped on hostile shores;
Strange peoples feared, and called them
{rods — those dauntless sires of
yours.
If ye the spirit of those sires inherit and
retain.
Prepare for fight, defend the right, and
guard our loved domain.
Though great and strong and many the
enemy's warships be.
Go bravely forth to meet them and sink
them in the sea!
The trumpet sounds and. hark! the boon
from cannon's brazen lips;
Our boys are rallying to the guns, they
man our armored ships.
If there be enemies that dare Invade our
loved domain.
Come they o'er myriad miles, ye shall
chastise them home again.
The banner of the Rising Sun shall float
above the free.
And Nippon be the mistress still of all
the Eastern Sea.
— Boston Transcript.
Answers to Queries.
THREE DOLLAR BILLS— A. B..
Alameda, Cal. The United States Gov
ernment did not issue any three dal
lar bills during the "days of 1S61-63."
FRENCH DUELISTS— W. E. F..
City. Information regarding celebrat
ed French duelists can be found in a
French volume entitled "Collections
des Memolrea Relatffs a 1'Hlstoire ds
France."
ROSE LEAVES— Mrs. C. L. F.. Ala
meda. Cal. Mrs. C. F. II. of Santa
Rosa, the h--~~ of roses, writes that
"rose leaves dried In a we!! ventilated,
darkened room will have a more nat
ural fragrance ~id will keep better,"
than when sun dried.
SUICIDES— Subscriber. City. The
following are the figures given as to
the number of suicides on an average
per 100,000 of '-opulatian in a number
of the veil krown European cities:
Dresden. Saxcmy, 51: Paris, France.
42; Genoa, Italy. 31; Lyons, France. 2D;
Stockholm. Sweden. 27; Chrlstlania.
Norway, 25; London, England, 23;
Brussels. Belgium. 15; Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. 14; Constantinople, Tur
key, 12; Geneva, Switzerland, 11; Ma
drid, Spain, 3, and Lisbon, Spain, 2.
INTERPOLATED . VERSE — Sub
scriber. City. This correspondent
writes: "I heard that some time ago
there was a complaint in some of the
Southern States that school children
were being taught, as a part of the
'Star-Spangled Banner,* a verse that
was not written by Francis Scott Key.
Do you know what it is?"
What the correspondent undoubtedly
refers to is the objection that was
raised In the latter part of last year
by the Confederate camps of Louisiana
to the following vers«. which was not
written by Key, but which appears in
the Music Primer, the standard music
book in the public schools of that State,
in which music is taught It 13 given
as a part of the patriotic song written
by Key:
When our land la Illumined by Liberty's
¦mile,.
If a toe from within strikes a blow at her
story.
Down, down with the traitor that dares to de
file
The Cas of her stars and the pac* cf her
story.
By the millions unchained, who our birthright
have sained.
We will keen her bright blazon forever un
stained.
T(mnsend*s California Glace fruits to
artistic flre-«tched boxes. 715 Market «t.*
Special Information supplied dally t»
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 230 Cal
ifornia street. Telephone Main 1042, *
Through excavation on the Sacred
Way the ancient "sepuleretum." or
cemetery cf the prehistoric tribes who
lived on the Quirir.al and other hills
before the Romulean age is belngr grad
ually brought to light. By means of
the tcmbs discovered, and the vases.
ROME. May 11.— None of the recent
discoveries in the Roman Forum has
been more important than that of the
prehistoric tombs, which proves con
clusively that Romulus and Remus
utre by no means the f.rft holders of
the site of tbe Eternal City.
Before Romulus Ruled.
First of all Umlauff made a model
in clay, which he used to guide him in
mounting the great beast. To describe
this labor in anything like detail would
be too tedious. Numerous measure
ments had to be taken and the skin
tanned. The real labor in connection
with the mounting was that involved
in building a suitable framework or
"manikin" to receive the skin. To ac
complish this a wooden skeleton was
made and firmly bolted to a stout plat
form. This was padded with excelsior,
on top of which was laid a thick layer
of modeling clay. This latter was a
close copy of the real animal on a
slightly smaller scale, to insure a per
fect, fit of the. huge skin.
The task occupied four months of in
cessant work and is regarded as one of
the greatest taxidermy feats on record.
After the gorilla had been mounted it
was purchased by the Hon. Walter
Rothschild for his natural history mu
seum at Tring. It is, of course, one of
the principal objects in that museum.—
Illustrated Mail. .
The daring hunter at once took out
his bush knife, and after considerable
trouble managed to cut a path to the
foot of the tree. His curiosity aroused,
the gorilla looked down through the
leaves, but at that moment Paschen's
gun was heard, the huge beast receiv
ing an ugly wound in the jaw. It fell
head first out of Its perch, but caught
hold of the branches before it reached
the bottom. But a second shot, well di
rected, had the desired effect, bringing
the monster to the ground at the very
feet of the slayer. It was not only a
giant, but a magnificent specimen of
its class. The skin was beautiful and
the teeth perfect. Twelve men carried
it back to the village — no easy task,
the monster turning the scale at e v ,out
500 pounds.
After taking a snapshot of the gorilla
Paschen had it skinned. It was subse
quently mounted in Hamburg at J. F.
G. Umlauff's celebrated ethnological
museum by Willy Vmlauff after four
months of incessant work. When in
Hamburg recently the writer paid a
visit to this famous establishment and
was introduced to the man who stuffed
and mounted the finest and largest
specimen of the ape that has ever been
shot.
The largest gorilla ever shot Is to be
seen in England. It finds a resting
place in the Hon. Walter Rothschild's
private museum" at Tring. Incident
ally, too, it Is without question the
finest mounted specimen of the big ape
in Europe.
This giant beast was shot some little
time ago in Central Africa by a Ger
man hunter, H. Paschen. While shoot
ing in Yaunde, in Kamerum, a German
possession in equatorial West Africa,
he was informed by several natives of
Esonutown that a "big monkey" was
in the neighborhood, of which they
appeared in awe*
Paschen subsequently set out to find
the "monkey," accompanied by sev
enty-one natives. After about fifteen
minutes* walk they came to a dense
and swampy thicket, where the natives
said the beast was hidden. At last the
animal was discovered hiding In a tree,
so situated that no one could get at
him.
Stuffing a Gorilla.
The French Government has cast its protecting eye
like a great searchlight of wisdom over her~land specks
called by courtesy islands of the South Seas and by
Paris decree no more rum is to be sold to the inhabitants
of these tiny homes. The decree is just and the motive
of it good, but smugglers have sought before this more
difficult and more distant marts for their operations. The
cost of rum in the French islands will simply be in
creased.
This story has to do with the some
what fiery temper of old Captain X,
who used to run a little steam schoon
er between this port and Eureka sev
eral years ago.
On one of his trips, his boat
was tied up at the Eureka wharf un
loading. Captain X went ashore to look
through the bottom of several glasses
as was his wont when the weather was
fine and he cared to take careful ob
servation of the meridian before put
ting out frc-m port. In one of the
places where they keep such glasses,
only a stone's throw from where his
good BhiD Silas Peters was docked, the
captain entered into an argument with
the proprietor as to the relative merits
of sulphur and vermicide in the treat
ment of mangy dogs. The argument
waxed warm.' The captain invoked the
ancestors of the proprietor to come
from the nethermost pit and witness
the absolute cussednees of their prog
eny. The proprietor, a Swede and a
man of action, hit Captain X over the
head with a bung-starter and cast him
forth into the cold and cheerless street.
When Captain X clambered aboard
the Silas Peters the stevedores leaned
their heads on their hands In rapt
admiration at his stock of expletives.
They were wonderful, likewise the
countenance of the hardy sea-dog.
' Bombardment of Eureka.
EVERY Democratic State platform this year raised
a loud and accusing voice against the expenses of
the Federal Government and the rate of Federal
taxation. At the same time many of those platforms de
mand that the country embark upon government owner
ship and operation of railroads and other public utilities,
adopting the Socialistic policy of New Zealand and Aus
tralia. The statistics do not warrant the complaint about
Federal taxation. For the purposes of the general gov
ernment we are the lightest taxed people on earth.
These statistics show the tax per capita in the different
leading countries and colonies to be:
New Zealand $38 38
Australian Commonwealth 37 69
United Kingdom I 21 39
France 17 84
Belgium 17 40
Paraguay * 17 30
Austria-Hungary . . *.* 14 27
Argentina 12 68
Cuba %. 12 40 -
Netherlands 1149
Portugal 1145
Spain 10 09
Sweden 9 54
German Empire ' 9 45
Canada 9 30
United States ._ ¦ 7 97
Remember that this is taxation for the purposes of the
general and not the municipal governments. In this
country the rates of municipal taxation are directly con
trolled by the people through their Jocal governments.
Our people are the lightest taxed of any for the purposes
of their general government, while those of New Zealand
and Australia are the heaviest taxed for the same pur
poses.
One does not have to hunt far for the reason of that
heavy taxation. It lies in the adoption of Socialism as the
policy of those governments. They own and run rail
roads, insurance and other business enterprises. They
have laws for the employment of labor by the government
at a statutory wage whether such employment is needed
or not and regardless of any profit to the government.
They have a pension system by which everybody at a
certain age may be supported out of the public treasury.
In prosecuting all of these experiments there is a deficit.
The government railways are run at a loss which is
charged off to the taxpayer. Government insurance does
not pay, its losses are charged to the taxpayer, and so on
to the end of the long list of addlepated experiments.
The final result is the heaviest taxation in the world and
without any resulting benefit. Those governments have
borrowed to the limit of their credit and no one can fore
see anything in their future but a complete collapse of
public and private credit and an explosion of the ill
starred experiments in which dreamers and theorists have
predicted the coining of a social millennium.
Now it is a strange obliquity of view that leads the
Democrats in California and elsewhere to attack the Re
publican policy and rate of Federal taxation when that
rate is the lowest in the world, and at the same time to
demand the installation here of a policy that has made
New Zealand and Australia the heaviest taxed countries
in the world. It proves the careless system by which the
Democratic leaders operate their organization. They
hope only to get votes by impeaching our rate of taxa
tion, probably not knowing what it is or how it compares
with the rates of other countries, and also to get Social
ist votes by advocating experiments which, wherever
tried, have produced a tax rate more than five times
greater than ours.
It is pitiful that the rank and file of a great party
should be led by men who arc reckless of what they
adopt as party principles or favor as party policy. In
Australia and New Zealand the industrial shrinkage has
obsoleted the use of labor so that the opportunity for em
ployment is greatly restricted. Instead of abandoning the
policy that has brought this about those governments are
proposing that the right to be employed at all shall be by
law restricted to the working people who belong to cer
tain organizations, outlawing all others and making it a
penal offense to employ them. This again reacts upon
the taxpaj'ers, who must support the outlawed labor in
pauper establishments and stand the increased cost of
criminal justice which is sure to result from such a
system.
It is all the direct effect of introducing meddling arti
fice into the affairs of men, instead of leaving them to the
operation of natural law under conditions of civil liberty.
Americans who value our institutions will find it incon
sistent with American principles to support the pro
gramme of artifice and Socialism which seems to be the
present purpose of the Democratic party.
has been the foundation stone of the
celebrated equestrian statue to the
Emperor Domitian, raised during the
first century of our era. A great block
of tufa was hoisted and lying under it
were several vases, absolutely pre
served, with the colors as fresh as the
day the vases were made. There is,
however, a very remarkable feature
about the vases. They are archaic,
and belong to the era about 1300 B. C,
and the largest and most beautiful is
chipped at the mouth.
The theoiy is that either they were
precious antiques at the time of Do
mitian and for that reason used in the
cornerstone, or were copies of ancient
vases then existing. This point has not
yet been decided, but is of Immense in
terest.
cannot be too quickly removed. If this is not done our
people need not be surprised if mob meets mob and vio
lence is opposed to violence.
forced because of the supineness of those who should
impartially administer it the community is simply thrown
back upon the primitive right of men to defend them
selves. We will then see the city disgraced by citizens
being compelled to turn themselves into walking arsenals,
carrying weapons openly and publicly to protect their
lives against mobs organized to make the use of the
streets dangerous to citizens who are living and working
to support themselves in a lawful and proper way.
We affirm that there is no issue that can arise between
men that can justify conditions which compel citizens to
take upon themselves the duties of defense which gov
ernment is organized to discharge. That such conditions
exist here is the odium of San Francisco and a stain that
ABOUT TAXATION.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, ..MA Y 26, 1904.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
JOHN D. SPKECKELS, Proprietor ? .^. . . .'¦; . .\ Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager
Publication Office r ......Third and Market Streets, S. F.
THURSDAY . . . s . .MAY 26, 1904
TALK OF THE TOWN
AND TOPICS OF THE
TIMES
MEN AND MATTERS IN
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