The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-23
TEE MONARCH" VIRTUES
It Perverts the Truth and
Tries to Laugh.
A MALICIOUS FALSEH0OD.
Federal Officials Wonder How the Exam
insrp Could Have Been So Badly Beaten
On the Chinese Registration News

Like the kings jester. the merry Mon
arch" of fakes laughs lOudest al us own
jokes.
Here the analogy ends.
The kings lester was often original and
seldom malicious.
The merry Monarch" of fakes is original
seldom and malicious often.
Again. unlike the jester. the Monarch"
is over-reaching. Yesterday. for instance,
Il perverted the truth and then laughed
boisterously at the perversion.
Now it is wondering why other people
didn't laugh.
But audacity is not essentially humorous.
FaIsifying is hardly fun. So the Mon
arch of fakes found to lis sorrow yesterday.
Before the Monarch" laughed it lied
1t said that Collector Quinn and his Q FL
caIs connected with the Chinese Regstra-
ton Bureau were expecting a sarcastic
letter from Washington in reply to Inc
bogus" Chinese proclamation received
from THE CALL and forwarded as genuine.
This was untrue, for Collector Quinn and
his deputies had not yet forwarded single
document ia connection with the registTa-
tion matter.
The documents were mailed yesterday
afternoon.
But the merry Monarch" of fakes was
bound to laugh. To this end it lied again.
Il said that the Chinese proclamation,
which THE CALL published exclusively, and
then gave to the Collector to send to Wash
ton with his report. was only cholera clr-
cular issued by the Six Companies, and had
no reference to the Geary law.
Acting Collector Captain Youngberg said
10 CALL reporter yesterday:
81 have had all the documents presented
bvthe courtesy Of The CALL TO this depart
ment examined by competent translators.
"You can say for me that l find them
bona fde, and exactly as represented by
The CALL.
among them there Is so-called cholera
circular nor any paper treating OF cno!eTa ID
any way.
sarcastic letter from the Washington su-
tboritjps-frst because ii has forwarded to
Washington DO report Of this matter yet,
and secondly, because when our report IS
forwarded II viii contain no spurious QOcu-
ment.
THE Chinese documents presented to this
department by THE CALL are correct IN
every way, and the department. owes lis
thanks to that paper for the receipt OF TWO
very important proclamatiOns Issued by the
Six Companies.
Said General John McComb, chief Of tie
Registration Bureau:
WHAT else could the Examiner do but try
TO belittle The CALLS publications 10 THIS
Chinese registration matterY
at was q splendid beat on the part OF
THE CALL and it S no wonder that the tx
amineT UrIthes 81.
Yes, did say 1t was very good joke
The Examiner has quoted me- correctly
there, but tie application of that remark is
construed to suit It's own ends.
"By all means Il Is q good joke that any
metropolitan newspaper should be so badly
left on so important piece OF news as those
Chinese pTOclamatl0ns.
las to the Examiners statement that
The CALL did not print true translation
Of the proclamation issued by the SIX Com
pauies | think the SIX Companies reply to
Collector Quinn's letter is an ample answer.
'The very fact that following immedi-
ateiv on The CALLS exclusive publication
of the PROCLAMATION came a letter TO the col
lector substantiating in every detail the
published proclamation is sufficient IN my
mind to prove Its genuiaeness beyond all
doubt"
So the merry "Monarch's" fun is turned
into gall
And there is many wondering comment
In the Federal building, al least, as To how
The Monarch" could possibly have been so
very badly beaten.
Yes; the "Mouarch" feels the beat keenly
and lacks discretion enough to submit to the
inevitable with becoming grace.
Lacks also discretion enough to know
that those who live in glass houses should
not cast stones.
For instance:
In its Issue Of Sunday. September IS, 1t
made a futile attempt TO stem The TIDE Of
CALL beats.
How?
By permitting some designing person TO
insert in its columns a Chinese circular SO
filthy and obscene in language that its word
Ing dare not even be limited or implied.
So very obscene is the language of that
document that the Rev. Mr.. Masters, who
the Monarch" depends upon for its trans
lstions, positively declined yesterday to
after the words.
The CALL has had that document trans
lated by three different Chinese and par
TALLY translated by the Rev Mt Masters.
Chow Foo Of 1923 Stockton street, teacher
of English TO the Chinese, says it is so
filthy that only the very lowest Monaghan
would read or write such thing, and that
DO Chinese paper would print it.
Hing CheoBg of 813 Washington street
said the paper was very filthy and too OBJ
scene 10 be even suggested in public print.
Wing Chong Of 1921 Clay street declared
IL TO be the vilest thing be had ever read.
The Rev Nj. Masters started to translate
1t for THE CALL reporter, but when he had
got about half through the document he
stopped.
"You had better get some Chinese to
translate the rest" be said; Il shall 90 no
further"
The three Chinese named did translate
the circular. but that translation can only
be printed in a decent paper by most lib
eral use Of dashes.
1t is given below in parallel columns, with
tho Examiners translation merely by way
OF contrast.
EXAMINER's TRAEsLA-fAs TRANSLATED by
TON. THE CHINESE.
Moy jim Nun: Your MOy Jun Nun, you
life will be taken by my
hand, your life through Do you know that
my hand. your ii eiyour time has come 10
through my hand. dep
Pity. pity, pity, pity Your life is Ia my
pity, pity! hands.
You know whether Your life is In my
you act against the Chl-ibands
nese law not. Your life is In my
You know who / am. hands
Only the whole life Oh The
will please me. - il!
i received cash mi Oh, the
band $500. All thel- OF it!
Chinese are against you On. the -
redhot. 60 1 must take - Of III
vOuF Oh