The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-03
MAMAS, SEW 1T UP
Boys Should Not Use the
Hip Pocket.
THEY MIGHT CARRY PISTOLS
For Which There Positively Is
No Necessity.
THEY MIGHT CARRY PISTOLS
WHAT UNIVERSITY REGENTS SAY
The Practice Is Simply Perpetuating
Barbarism, and the Time for
Ii has Passed.

''Ought young men to carry revolvers?"
The question was asked yesterday dur
ing a discussion over the shooting of
''Brick" Whitehouse and Max RosenfeId
in Gobey's saloon on Suffer street by Alex
ander Loug borough Jr. on THANKSGIVING
night.
There appears to be general belief that
young men have no business with pistols
in their hip-pockets, unless they are on
the from tiers OF civilization or follow the
profession of arms or belong to the crimi-
nal classes. But young men with preten-
sions toward social standing. or even pos
sessed of self-res pect and cOmmon-sense
ought not to 60 armed in community like
that of San Francisco. Such was the con-
sensus of opinion brought out by the per-
tinent and at the present time sngularly
opportune question.
Regents and faculty of the University of
California and of Stanford congratulate
themselves that it has not been shown tn at
students of either establis hment have
brought disgrace on their fellows BIZ ap-
pearing in public as ugly characters.
Though 0ver-exuberant. as students have
been from time immemorial and are 10
every country having a university, they
he students of Stanf ri and Berkeley
we're very we'll behaved, all things con-
sidered. At least the regents say 80, and
as for a young fellow who will take
chances in an intercollegiate football game
having no confidence in his own ability to
protect himself with his fists, such con-
dition of mind cannot be conceived. For
it would be queer commentary on his
logic. Apart from these considerations.
however, the question is one that men of
affairs regard with special significance.
and ONE of them have gone into an analy-
sis OF the subject.
DR.. Hardness. a regent of Stanford,
holds very positive opinions upon it.
Young men should not carry re-
volvers," said he. 81 cannot see any rea-
son why they should go armed in San
Francisco. a man can take care of him
self. He should keen out of those places
where hOodlums congregate. Such places
are not proper resorts for young men,"
"1 on ask me about the crime OF carrying
revOlvers," said DR.. Hor9tio Stebbins who
is regent of Stanford. II have no hest
tatiOn IL giving my opinion on that Ques-
ton. A young man has no business carry
ing a revolver. There is absolutely DO
necessity for it, and his parents are in a
large measure responsible for H. What
kind of parents must they be who will
permit their boy to carry pistol-if they
know it? The young man who carries a
weapon in this community Is simply per-
petuating Misunderstanding alive the
warfare Of the passions instead of de-
veloping refinement and better private and
public conduct
This is altogether different from the
spirit Of the constitution giving US the
right to carry arms. The right To carry
arm'. mark you. is another thing. but this
m serabl- thing of going about with a
pistol In the hip pocket tends to degrade
society, and, as said before, Is perpet-
uating barbaric tastes"
George T. Marye, regent of the Uni
verslty of California, had a similar opin-
ion. 81 think" he said, that the prar-
tice of carrying weapons in San Francisco
is entirely unnecessary and highly objec-
tionabe. This community is peaceaole
and orderly, and the law affords ample
protection to every one. The effect of
carrying weapons is to make persons less
peaceable than they otherwise might be-
Very few go armed now; the time for
that has passed, and only the criminal
classes, | believe. have habit of carrying
weapons"
Speaking of the Loughb thorough affair a
prominent police officer said last night :
1T is almost impossible to regulate the
gran ting OF permits to neOple to carry re-
volvers. We have no ordinance to guide
US and have TO depend only upon all the
circumstances laid before us by the appli-
cant when making his application.
Owe make the most careful inquiry and
submit the result to the Chief before the
permit is signed Suppose a man came to
us for permit, giving as a reason that
his life has been threatened. We refuse
10 grant him permit and he is shot down
by the man who threatsned his life. We
would find ourselves in an awkward pre-
dicamsnt.
Regarding Loughborough, Ido not know
whether he had permit or not. l know,
however, that it is a common practice for
young men like him to carry revolverS
without having permit If they should
be arrested for carrying a cOncea led
weapon they trust to their fathers lnflu-
ence to get them out of the serape without
publicity.
There are lots of people beside them
who do the same thing SO as to be ready
tor any emergency. / mean gam blers,
thieves. burglars and that class. 1t is.
therefore, sometimes incumbent upon the
law-abiding citizen TO carry a weapon to
protect himself
Yes, l regret that the old-fashioned
way of settling a dispute with natures
weapons has given way to the cowardly
and uncivll zed way of the revolver, but |
don't just see what can be done to effect a
change. 1t de ends great deal upon the
public at large"
Mammas would probably do we'll to sew
up the hip-pockets of their unruIy boys.