The San Francisco call., 1897-10-14
OUR SPIRITED MONARCH.

IVt cry in Cuba presents US with a of the
inner workings of his tempestuous mind, which
is at striking and interesting He thinks the
exploit of the yellow journals in breaking into Wey-
lers prison and berating Senora Cisneros exce-
lent example to lazy dgntaes at Washington In other
words chief of San Francisco believes that Jail
breaking good substitute for the slow processes of dom'
ay and should be esoed whenever those fail to
yield quick results in the administration of what he probably
calls justice.
The people want decision and action in their officials,
the Mayor they given red tape The Government
should speedily verify and every abuse reported by the
but invariably it prefers to wait Justice delayed, how
is justice denied The State Department makes de-
mand for redress The national honor of humanity
the may be- then presumably satisfied and the
done The victim becomes martyr This too often the
story of our diplomacy"
This utterance discovers 70 the world the leading trait in
Mr.. Pheans character. He is hotblooded His youthful
ardor is of the Warwick description. Were he merchant
his motto would be, "Quick sales and small profits He
cannot wait If he thinks innocent person. by some unto
ward legal accident has got JAIL his Immediate impulse is
to tear down the bastle and berae him. he Board
of Supervisors in power which the people should not have
elected, his plan of operation call out the police and dis
perse the members to their several homes He puts the word
decson before the word faction" but imagine he
siders action of paramount Importance Certainly in the
OF the Solid Eight, his founded upon another
maxim-namely, action without decision.
The observe and famiarize ourselves with the
wonderful mechanism of Mayor Phean's mind, the
become convinced that he born late. The Almighty
should have created him feudal baron the governor of
Roman province This thing of setting hotbooded knight
OF the middle down in prosaic city like San Francisco
and investing him with the Limited authority of Mayor is
plainly mistake of No wonder his wild and
tanned spirit finds vent in dspOssesng Supervisors of their
offices and paiSing jabeakng noble achievement But
tor the restraints of his environment he would long prob
ably have cried havoc and let slip the dogs of the
cry should have been nothing than screeeh
and the dogs of war mere household poodles.
Communities, said Victor Hugo, like men-hey some
times stop to scratch their heads and think it not time for
San Francisco to begin scratching its head and thinking about
its Mayor Would not be we'll to keep weather Mr.
Phean during the remainder of his erm He will yet have
many opportunities to give his untamed spirit the rein. He
might call out the militia to suppress the trouble between
Police Commissioner Gunst and Chief Lees. H4imight
cude that the reach the Governors office would
be to sink the Polywog with Mr. Budd board He might
think gooi the late decision of the Supreme
Court in the Supevisoa would be and feather the
members OF that august tribunal 1t is but step from dis
pesng officials by force and uphodng aibreang in Cuba
these very things
Perhaps in his would be we'll for citizens to
Initiate the example of certain royal combine which many
years ago is said to have controlled wul and unuly Euro
pean monarch Whenever the King showed signs of discon
tent or became petuant the coues provided him with
toy or mad somebody shot for his amusement In dealing with
MAYOR Fhean why would it not be good idea to ask the
bohemian Club to appoint special committee for divertng
MS HonorS mind and reducing by the usual methods the
temperature of his overheated bood The taxpayers might
consider it profitable to pay the BILL