The San Francisco call., 1897-06-21
HOW A DILEMMA
: ADJUSTED ITSELF
Two Celebration Committees
Are Infinitely Better
Than One.
Human Feelings Actuate Rich
Men as Well as Those in
Closer Touch With Lie.
Annfxltio1 Will Largely Tend to
Decrease Crime in Greater
oakland and Vicinity.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL !

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sos Broadway, June 20.
Everybody is 10 be congratulated on the
happy manner in which the trouble that
threatened 10 prevent both the July cele-
brations has ended. In the light of pres
ent circumstances it is difficult 10 see how
any other course but the present could
have been proposed. Oakland viii! now
have TWO big days, and each is being run
by an independent management 1t is, OF
course, right and proper that the Fourth
OF July should be celebrated, and it is also
right that Christian Endeavor day should
be properly recognized, but it is not ad-
visable that one committee should have
run both. The natures of the two duties are
so different that it should never have been
supposed that one iund should have been
founded for both.
Everybody can Join and wants to join
IN celebrating the Fourth of July. Every
body who can wants 10 give little toward
the fund and TO join in the shouting. With
Christian Endeavor day it is different
The purpose is not TO let off the accumu-
lated patriotism of a year, but to provide
entertainment ana 10 create the very best
impression among large body of visitors
who will go to the end of the earth and
Oakland. The nature of this entertain
ment will ce entirely different from that
expected on the Fourth, and will natu-
rally be more widespread ia its nature,
Including the whole of the county. a
week ago now it looked as though botn
schemes would fall through. Now both
celebrations are in good hands and each
Is assured of success.
The trial of the assistant chief of the
hre department last week shows that all
men are human beings, whether they are
mllIlonalres or less favored with wealth
The plant of the judges has always bscE
that the juries would not contine theni-
selves TO the facts, but would allow their
minds to take cognizance of outside cir
cumstances. Presumably nothing else
was TO be expected of the average Juror
who looks upon jury duty as a blessing to
help the passage of an idle day. But
something else was expected of the aristo-
cratic jury that tried Murdoch. The re-
sU!t, however, was the same.
There was no doubt that Murdoch was
guilty Of legal battery, and that there
was no imm ediate provocatiou for it.
There was. however, the fact that Rohan
j ad circulated affidavit rejecting of
Murdoch, and had incurred the latter's
Just wrath. The law certainly expected a
verdict OF battery. Human feeling ex-
pecied verdict OF acquittal, and that
arisl ocratic body OF bankers and mer-
chants did the latter. 1t would be inter-
esting TO know what the result would have
been had Rohan been bigger man than
Murdoch. The incident furnishes another
proof that the great UnwriCien law is
nearly always superior 10 that which ap-
pears on the statute books.
Does 1t increase the imm orality of terri
tory when II becomes part of a city? This
question has been discussed during the
past week in connection with the districts
that have Just been added to oakland
Chief OF Police LLOYD asks for a dozen ad-
ditional policemen TO guard the new ter
Titory, and it is certainly not too many
In the past, however, the district has
been attended to by a couple or so OF
sleepy Constables, who had to SEND to the
S eriff's office when any police duty was
required.
The answer 10 the question is very sim
pie. During the past five years many
crimes have been committed in the north
ern part of town, The perpetrators of which
have never been arrested, and this is be-
cause Of the start the miscreants had on
account OF there being no officers near.
The JudsOn robbers might proba bly,
have been headed off had the police de-
parIment extended al over the northern
territory, as it will o in the future. MANY
other crimes have also gone unpunished
from the same cause.
At the present time Berkeley is in much
the same condition regarding police pro-
tection was the annexed territory. 1t
has Marshal and possibly deputy, but
IS soon as there is a crime committed
word has to be sent to the Sheriff's office.
seven miles away and by that time the
thief has probably crossed to San Fran
cisco. One weIl-organized police force
along the bay shore would tend greatly to
minimize crime, and in itself is q power
ful argument in favor of annexation.
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