MAY Co IQI3 MONDAY ( EQITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL Diogenes The Colyum San Francisco's Mintand the They're All Doing It By the POET PHILOSOPHER LEGEND OF OROVILLE who spent his A MODERN old philosopher sewer, growled in "We 11 lay a Mileage best years in a tub. and said Orovillc, Congressional Graft was a tire- THATpeevish discontent-he "because it is the thing some dub. in youth he the was high, That every town the house of representatives asked last week to landscape red and hit the places head, he in Christendom of members for age, with sore and aching should do." cut down the unreasonably high allowance in world, he raised a doleful cry. The So the click, click, was hooted off the floor. This men were pick, WHENmileage, the proposition said, was out of plumb, and click of the was pick, pick, runs times the actual cost of trans- mostly fakes, because his mouth mileage perquisite to about ten of aches. Was heard all feeling bum, and he was full the long day portation. It is usually as the "mileage graft," and the hogshead couch, and described He lay upon his through. house was asked to cut it down in the proportion of three-quarters. ranted, wept and sighed, and worked it has expected, up such a frightful grouch that They took a force Probably the fate of the proposition might have been surprising that of laborers, will- never died. It seems toil, supplies instructive ghost, won't ing sons of but the treatment that it received an comyientary his fame, like Banquo's And told them off wiser on the professions of economy in the public service which have been down, while men who played a to open up the game have failed of all renown. While street; I made the basis of the move to shut down the San Francisco mint. kicked and whined a Nine and twenty this old duffer shovelers, patient, hardy grov- never mur- If there had been any sincere purpose to save money by cutting million cheerful jays, who elers. went on their useful the job complete. where there is obvious and unjustifiable waste, the mured or repined, Bound to do down expenses ways, and they have moldered into dust. Maloney members might have denied themselves this very considerable item unhonored and unsung, while fame re- On the second day at 10 Tim dropped pick, cussed until he broke a his of "mileage graft."' Some members draw more than $1,000 on this warded him who Said he. "Me day at mucking work lung. "We should rejoice that times is done; thin, account, and there is no excuse for it since the salaries of congress- have changed; the chronic grouch today I'll go ancl git a shave, and bc- as one who is deranged, dad, I'll lave men have been raised. Is shunned For County Cork this very day at 1." whose head is full of whey. If the San Francisco mint is closed the whole gold mining region 190. *T quarter 2 P. Economop- liMI At a after will be put to heavy expense and inconvenience, but the "mileage Swrt* Ssttiuw olis Coyly laid overalls away, pretense machinery in his graft goes on just the same. The that the Advertising Pays Said in fluent, lucid Greek, such as insincere excuse that does not accord he alone could speak, the mint is antiquated is an "I tell you, advertising pays." "I am sailing for Thermopylae to- with the facts. If it -were true it would be no justification for shut- "Well, what is on your mind?" day." ago I advertised for a which exists in the center of the gold mining "Some time it was ting down the only mint bill, and a stranger who had Guido Erustini worked till lost $5 nearly 5, region. The whole proposition rests on the sort of spurious economy picked one up on the street restored it Then he gave a moat vehement looking that proposes to deprive an important industry of necessary facilities. to me. This morning while whoop: through an old suit I found the V I "I quit this Orovilla, go to Florence, Transcript. buy a villa. thought I'd lost."?Boston No man must speak of me as *Wop.' " Same Old Argument "Prisoner at the bar, I find you have One by one the nine and twenty left job day. _ been sentenced to prison twice before. the sewer ditch that , new. Similar conditions were made the sub- the foreman, in his anger you say why I While What have to should not raged and swore; How to Deal ject of protest and remonstrance by the asso- send you there again?" For he found that every lick of the "I urge, your honor, the generally shovel and the pick United ciation as long ago as 1907, when the body ore, With the accepted feeling against a third term.'' Loosened up a nugget of pure was represented by a committee headed by Railroads Baltimore American. 1 Rev. D. O. Crowley. At that time the blame For the streets of Oroville are but they are accredited. Otherwise they would promptly be handed veins of purest gold. ior inadequate service was laid on the short supply of power, and If I were its mayor you may be sure their passports and packed off home. Mr. Wilson virtually admits charge heavy fee to the promises were made, in the customary corporation habit, that as I would a that Madero is unable to handle the situation, because he has his HONESTY man who came to me as was remedied service To get a job digging in the sewer. soon this scarcity the streetcar would be hands full attending to Orozco, and in the meantime the outlying GEORGE FITCH improved. Author of "At Good Old Siwash" EATS 'EM ALIVE camps of banditti have a practically free hand. "PRESIDENT Taft ate oysters," says At the present moment the supply of electric current in San Fran- an ad in telephone book. V is so hard to define that the Now he's eating Oyster bay. cisco is much in excess of the demand, and the subsidiary power com- government finds a favorite field in Oregon. most people do not tackle the job HONESTexcept for of "CHAMBER OF COMMERCE pany owned and controlled by the United Railroads is doing a pros- The state is a thoroughly well equipped political laboratory -the benefit their ON CHINA" |j neighbors. HEARS DOLLAR perous business, as appears by the annual report of that corporation. for every imaginable device of government. If there is any- says a headline. Must have been get- The dictionary, which is one of our ting a good meal to leave that much in The report of the United Railroads likewise shows a notable increase thing new in legislation or polity/, they try it ? j most successful side steppers, says the crockery. of gross receipts, and if the company were not capitalized about Some Recent on Oregon. We have been hearing a great "honesty is freedom from fraud or Count Andrea Carnegglo four times"the value of the plant the stock holders would be in receipt Divagations of deal about the "Oregon plan," but this plan is guile." It forgets to mention that ROME, May s.?The American am- of large dividends. not only singular, but plural and multifarious. honesty usually means freedom from bassador has handed over to the di- the Oregon Plan money rector of the Bank of Italy title deeds comes having also. representing n.t'37,300 lires, being Car- It is by reason of this unfortunate condition that the Mission ? I Xo election along without to The proverb says honesty is the best negie's gift for the foundation of ar to on thirty to forty radical amendments to the state and every other residence quarter in San Francisco are made pass from poliev. it is amazing to see how many Italian hero fund. It is reported that king has Carnegie to accept suffer. The service is starved to squeeze out some sort of return people have a horror of playing policy. the asked the title of count. ?News item. on the inflated capitalization. The latest of these proposals is designed to wipe out the present The old Spartans admired honesty At least, he could qualify in the It is useless to appeal to the corporation for relief. It was state government bodily and substitute a commission form of the greatly. Stealing was honest in their count-ing house! eyes, getting caught Harvey Might Agreed useless in 1907 and the same thing is true today. The only possible customary sort, combining executive and legislative functions with but with the Col. Have apportionment of This amend- goods was a great crime. The recent TO THE editor of Harper's Weekly: means of relief lies in the regulation powers of the board of super- an extremely complicated powers. bribery investigations have revealed Let me thank you for your editorial page. It is, incomparably, the most visors. the powers to a ment is one of many to be submitted at the Xovember election. the things. It is within of the board make time table? fact that the United States senate Some men are honest in small skillful, the broadest, and the fairest within reason?for the operation of cars and so compel Probably it will not be adopted. The people of Oregon, having is full af Spartans. because there is no profit in piker pil- of its kind. As an editorial writer, I adequate wish I you Some men are so fering. had more of the toleration service. It has been demonstrated that the corporation will give been made the plaything of a generation of fad mongers, have honest that they Others are honest in large exhibit, more of tiie good humor thai will not steal a man's money'so long things, because there is less risk iv marks the course of your pen. More no relief except on compulsion. become cautions of late and they no longer swallow anything and power it. I sir, as they can get it by selling him stock small packages. to am, everything whole and at one gulp, they did in their early rage JAY E. HOT'S I?;. Instead of petitioning the United Railroads the Mission associa- as in a defunct gold mine. Other men Thus it is to be seen plainly that And Harper's Weekly took it seri- to ously: tion should go direct the board of supervisors. for upsetting things. would shudder with horror at the the standards of honesty vary as H lint Will Happen In fine, the "Oregon plan" seems to work at cross purposes. thought of selling decayed mining widely as plurality guesses by lead- SAX JOSE, May ». ?Mrs. Wil- It is a gun that shoots two ways. Senator Jonathan Bourne in the stock when the same results can be ers of opposite parties. Standards vary liam 1\ Curry, wire of William !' obtained in a perfectly legal manner la legislatures also. In some mem- Curry, clerk of the justice court of day political prosperity to aver perfect the township, has of his used his faith in the by borrowing the money and going bers are so honest that they will only San Jose been awbrn bankruptcy in as a deputy constable, to serve a we.come c\idence ot tiie good iechng that should exist infallible wisdom of "the composite citizen," but when he had the into with no visible assets. sell their votes for political support. without pay.?News Many men so Item. between two great nations bordering the to aforesaid citizen that he (not the senator) was are honest that they In others the members will not accept j on temerity tell the will not steal a pin. But they would money ancl would indignantly return When the red and gory murderer Japan Promises Pacific ocean, and it is an example that other "on trial" and necessarily, therefore, would be condemned if the hold the coat of a personal friend the bundles they find in their pockets Has gone away to hide. while he stole a battleship. they The sheriff will say: "Missus re-elected, composite Still others if had time and could remember Currycomb !Big Exhibit countries will hasten to follow. senator were not why then this of all the wis- decline to steal anything at all. pre- to do it. In still others, when a mem- the mountain side." can America, ferring to leave the job to ber pawn his chair, Japan learn much from and doms took it in snuff and incontinently turned the incautious candi- litigation, doesn't desk and Then if the bloody murderer for the Fair which usually gives excellent he runs for re-election on his good ! the United States can learn a great deal from date down and out. Xo man did more to promote the "Oregon satis- Should get out of his scrape. faction. record. We all could join *n chorus, Japan. This, indeed, has been the purpose of all international expo- plan" keep it always moving at a fast clip than Bourne, There are also men with whom you It will not do for us to judge the "What a Hairbreadth escape." and Jonathan could trust your watch with honesty of others by perfect our own?for A. sitions ever since the first one. held in London some sixty years ago. and even now he appears to have been the victim of a runaway by safety, but who would a others are judging our by G. WISHON is manager of the Sai take stock honesty Joaquin Light and senator company away from you with a merry theirs and are looking at us with Power company. his own machine. The should read Wolsey's reflections on r How convenient. On his circuit you laugh. j horror as they do M. » \u25a0 next thinks of don't have to switch, just AVishon the ambition and its perils, and the time he telling his (Copyright. 1912, by George Matthew Adamsl light. modern life. composite citizen that he is "on trial" he may remember that "lowli- GENERAL AA'ILLFAMT. Sherman. El San Francisco is commercially interested in the markets of the ness is young ambition's ladder." his younger days, was admitted to th< orient and in the creation of a reciprocal trade. To that The Call's Good Work bar by a Kansas judge on the qualifi- end we Answers to Queries cation of his "general intelligence." require a better acquaintance with both the supply and demand that From the Palo Alto Citizen It's a pity that test isn't invoked m often nowadays. must govern the international exchanges. Both parties to the trade I tura county has agreed, at the suggestion of the federal depart- IN ALABAMA-R. M.. City. Is there any The San Francisco Call is deserving law in the state of Alabama that deprives a At Santa Rona'a Show should learn what there is to sell and what there is to buy on either ment of justice, to reorganize on a basis not obnoxious to the negrr. of the right to vote because he Is a i the good will of the entire peninsula Flower * negro? region for its efforts to call the at- What's the matter with the queen's side of the Pacific. Foreign trade is not conducted with ?i Sherman 'law against trusts. Doubtless asso- little page? money, but There is no special law that deprives tention of ttie public to the a negro natural up by the exchange of commodities. If there is a balance either way Asso= ciations of farmers and fruit growers can be because of the fact that he is advantages He mixed his letters. He started jGrowers'j is pro- and charms of this region. to sit on the throne and on a such. There the constitutional given generously landed it is liquidated in money, but no trade can be prosperous that is Comply organized whose operations do not conflict with vision regulating the franchise which The Call has of its thorn. Iciations valuable space for several weeks to mutual. the provisions of the federal law. Many affects all alike. This provides that in ACTUATED by the gradual extinc- not I such order vote in that state the this work. Both in its editorial and With the Law to indi- news tion of pure blooded Indian tribes, and This is one of the advantages that San Francisco hopes gain organizations are now in existence in Cali- vidual must have resided in the state columns it hag supported the ef- to J forts the towns the intermingling in marriage of re- two years, -one year in the county, of different to secure maining from the world's fair. It should be a wedge to open new markets fornia, doing a most useful work. equitable transportation rates from the red skins, a well known Da- three months in the town and three kota chief is preparing an in the precinct; must Southern Pacific railway. article on for California products, and a prime means to that end is the cultiva- Special examiners employed by the government have investi- months have peninsula "Whose Sioux, anj Why?'' ability to read write any article of The is the natural outlet tion of cordial relations countries. of co-operative and, and expansion of with foreign Japan has made the gated the operations these bodies, as far as we the constitution, must have a property f
San Francisco's Mintand
