The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-08

at Metropolitan Temple last night to pro-
test against the passage by Congress OF
such a matter.
Long before the hour for the meeting to
be called to order arrived thousands of
people had Assem- bled about the entrances
10 the building and hundreds had already
taken their seats. As prominent men
who were to act as vice presidents or speak
against the bill made their appearance,
they were cheered and followed into the
hall by their admirers.
When Mayor Sutro, who acted as chair
man, raped for order not q chair in the
vast hall was unoccupied and the aisles
and spaces under the galleries were
packed. The gallery itself was crowded TO
its utmost capacity, many being seated on
the steps that lead from the entrances to the
railing that faces the platform. And 1t
was an enthusiastic patriotic audience
that listened attentively to the speakers
and applauded to the echo references to
the country's welfare and the efforts
being made TO bring the railroad to
G realization that its debts must be
paid. As each of the prominent citizens
who spoke was introduced by the chair
man he was cheered and applauded un-
til it became apparent that he was ready
stantly. The vice. presidents who occu-
pied the platform in addition to the speak
ers and the chairman were:
Judge +. w. McKlnstry, Oscar Lewis, j.
Richard Freud, Charles Ashton, Joseph
Britton, I. J. Truman, Stewart Menzies,
H. L. Dodge, George K. Fitch, John t.
Doyle, T. Y. Gator, DR.. Frank Cornwall,
Max Pepper, E. 5. Barney, W. NJ. Bunker,
\. P: Cole, J. +. Scott, Joseph Leggett, W.
W. Thompson, NJ. McGiynn. George T..
Gaden, W. NJ. Coward o. D. Baldwin,
Charles NJ. Sutro and George w. Monteith.
Mayor Sutro opened the meeting with
an address, which was as follows
Fellow-citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen-This
is the third year that we have assembled in
funding bill. Twice the snake has been
scotched-not killed. 1t rises up again like q
hydra-h headed monster, this time confident
and sure to thwart the viii of the people.
There is sack in Washington which is ex-
pected to accomplish that result; whether it
will or not will soon be ascertained.
We are on the eve OF President al election.
Will any party dare TO 60 before the Nation
under a suspicion and charge that it has been
bribed to commit the greatest outrage ever
perpetrated against the American people?
If a burglar were to appear before court of
justice and propose to pay for the stolen prop
erty, provided the court granted him sufficient
time 10 make the payment, would that be
tolerated?
railroads ask Congress to do.
After having juggled everything Of value be-
longing TO these roads into their pockets these
corporations declare they are willing to pay
the debt on the exhausted, drained property,
provided they are given forty-four years in
which TO do II, trusting OF course to future
legislation to wipe out the debt altogether.
If poor farmer mortgages his land he must,
when the debt becomes due, pay IL or the
mortgage will be foreclosed viii the Congress
of the United States establish the principle
a q n pG 90 n n Dad hal t,nfh a
foreclcsed, and thus discriminate between the
poor and the rich man? Shame upon the
American Congress that would indorse such a
The law must take its course in the one case
as in the other.
The greatest of all tribunals, the people of
the United States will in November next sit
in judgment on the proposition and this re-
funding question Will be made the foremost
plank in the platforms of all parties. Is there
any party that would dare TO go before the
people for their votes on any such proposition :?
say no. The people, in the might of their
outraged rights, would wipe out such party
from the face OF the EARTH
This is not question OF dollars and cents;
IL is a question OF honor. The honor OF the Ma
lion is at stake. II any one has the temerity to
insult the American flag, do we not resent it?
DO we ask what 1t will cost TO protect our flag :?
Would we not send armies and navies, at the
expense of millions, TO avenge the insult? II a
criminal is brought before court do we ask
what the trial will cost? No; justice must be
dealt out and the accused, if found guilty,
must be FINISHED
c. P Huntington has issued a manifesto to
Congress, in which he attempts to show that
the Nation will profit by the passing of the
funding bill. Shame on such plan when the
honor OF the Nation is at stake!
We. the people of the Pacific Coast, are slaves
and have been made towards by the terrorism
toswhieh we have been so long subjected. This
arrogant and insolent corporation has doml-
neered over US until our liberties as American
citizens have been nearly destroyed By the
aid OF corrupt judiciary and venal press, and