The morning call., 1892-06-06

every CuuGd9 dIleILUOA tllL tAS AN-s" "a '-'N
dives is over; so much was decided yester-
day.
And as long as they continue their pur-
pose viii be sinGle-the suppression oil the
dives
No other topic VIII be discussed. It has
been wisely decided that only in the utmost
concentration Of effort can The good result
be accomplished.
The meetings viii continue to be entirely
secular IN character and no religious services
OF preaching VIII be INDUCED.
Down with tile dives! ~ is tie cry, and 50
loud and strong it is that the Supervisors
and al good citizens must hear and take
cOgHiz3nce.
Tie Rev. Dr.. 4. c. Hirst was chairman
Of the ct, az msss-meeting yesterday alter
noon, and beside him on The platform sat
many prominent citizens. lawyers, business
men, c,ersymen.
The meeting was opened by the entire
congregation singing, My Country, lis Of
Thee"
II think there are great many evidences
hat these meetings are focusing putuc
thought and action in tile right direction,
said Chairman Hrst Then lie lntodJceI
Nh. Gear, VINO, IN the absence o. Inc h5Y'
DIT. Buck, reported the following committee
of 90:
Michael Flood Chairman, S02 Montg0m-
cry street
j. o. Donahoe. 526 Harrison street
;. ". Beaver, 1909 Taylor street.
Adam Grant. 1Il2 Bush street
John Birmingham. "a California street.
John g. Burnett, 500 California street.
Lowell White, 1916 Clay street
Captain j. VI. Mcdonald, SO Pine street.
q. =. Hutchinson, 1910 Howard street.
Andrew b. Forbes, t41 California street.
Colonel q. II. HenGeil, 553 hearny street.
A. 5. H-lHdie, 1926 Washington street
/. B. Benchley. - FlCcd building
=. T. Butler, S15 Eddy street,
j. g. Eastisnd, GA Commercial street
Henry T10mey, Sale DEPOSIT building
L. j. Bowen, So Sansome street.
IS. A. Beatty, 3lS Pine street.
Reuben Tucker. 4I3 Washington street
l.. Il. Bouestel, 40l S5ns0ue street.
J. 5. Burnett. 26ll Pacific avenue
Charles Ashton, All Montgomery street
Thomas AsIvorth. 500 MCAllster street.
George L. Marve, pa Montgomery street.
c. O. BuTtin. Eddy street
W. b. Wood, 1852 Jackson street
Joseph MoscTop, 1920 California street
j. ". Ellsworth. $40 keaTny street
A. O. Smiley. 5O7 KeaTBy street.
u. J. 1Oaby, Pnelan building.
j. ". Whiting; 22l SansOme street
l.. A. GiTFlu, 5lI DeyIsaderO street.
John +. Myers, SOB Market street.
v. s. ZeiiH. $50 Market street.
j. K. Jones, 40 Oak street.
F. /. Turpiu, 20 Bartlett street.
w. T. Gibson, a SausOme street.
II. L. Gear. oil SansOme street
Robert Thompson, $50 Pine street
K. h. Mcdonald, Sl3 Suffer street.
Ira i. Rankin. rs GFaTV street
William Cham beTisin, GOO Bush street.
Nathan Bruce, 29lS Sixteenth street.
Colonel Charles NJ. Blum, 1927 Post street.
George II. Moore, 80 Cough street.
J. O. Leveusaler, q Mission street.
James Hos5urg JT, 1917 Washington st.
George ~. Gibbs, - Fremont street,
James b. Wilson, 2l10 Broadway.
When the above committee had been rati
fed BY the mass-meetng II. l.. Gear ex-
planned some length the legal phases of
the proposed change in the existing ordin-
auce which IS now pending before the SUPER
visoTs. he showed clearly that the board
had the entire right and power TO make
such changes IN its police regulations as it
saw TT, providing 10 infTinged no cons;Itu-
tional right That question had been de-
cidrd by the Supreme Court of the United
States In case involving this very 0rdin-
ance. In conclusion he advised that the
committee of fifty should secure signatures
Of voters TO monster petition 20 the Board
Of Supervisors asking tie board to take the
power Of granting licenses to dives out of
the hands II i pToperty-oWHers. Such a
petition would prove to the Supervisors
that the voters Of the community demaded
the proposed change.
The Eureka quartet rendered several fine
vocal selections at this point and were
loudly applaudcd.
Henry L. Highton then spoke:
Under our system Of government" be
Baid, there Is but one thing requisite To So
cure any needed reform It IS the action n
the respectable citizens of both sexes. Such
action, when properly worked, has never
vet failed 10 the history of our government.
The suppression Of human depravitv is
within the scope Of the law. ! never heard
in philosophy, in the talk Of statesmen or
IN anything else.of any constitutional or in
herent right which permits the violation f
the moral law. Applause.l We are neither
bcathens nor pagans, and We occupy a DO ST.
ton where the moral law is the funda-
mental one upon which our statutes rest.
Tine dives Of San Francisco are the most
prolific manufacturers Of that animal which
Is called the San Francisco hoOdlum. There
Is no creature so near being body without
q soul as the San Francisco toodlum. There
Is not human element in him. He is a
coward, and is false to his own kind, and
be Is the product of the dives.
w hat IS IL that has created this condi-
ton OF humanity? NOinfiuence but that OF
the dives. Suppose coyotes should be raw
ishng humanity throughout our city.
should tue police not be permitted to use
their clubs on them? With the backing OF
law We order ocean steamers In quarantine,
lest an epidemic should spread into our city
Why, then, should we take away from the
police the power 10 prevent tile spread OF
moral diseases throughout our CITY? I am
bere ana everywhere else TO say that the
people nave the power, and that the Super
VSoTs, when confronted by 1t, are bound ia
perform their duty as public servants
nheh you ueslle TO accomplish a great
legal point you must support your constI.
tuted authorities by expressions of public
opinion"
Though the CremOrne is not dead vet. &"
said Father Montgomery, wien he mad been
introduced, 1T Is in a very cOmatose state
from which hope and pray it will, never
be resuscitated laughter and applsnse1 A
correspondent has written to me to say TIA
we should fight all the dives Instead of con.
ceBtrating cur efforts against the Crem5rne
Now | differ with him. No one ever hear
Of a general, except the man who sur
rounded 40 men himself, who would at
tempt TO fight more than one battle at
time. My correspondent says that if we d.
close the CremoTne OH Market street it vii
IFyp II SUM- " AEAS SioNs anu say IA nc az
cOmplsh that much We have done well, in
deed. have been studying the genesis 0
this word dive. / only hnd 1t IN the die
tionarIes as a verb. Originally it must hay
meant to go down. Here in San FranciSe
they have come ont Of their holes into Ih
second and third stories, and they haven
stopped at tn S, but one Of them has the an
dacity to locate on the Leading thorough
fare of the city and hire brass band to ad
Vertise itself.
Another thing my correspondent adVo
Gated was the passage OF State law max
ing it felony for property~Owner to rem