The San Francisco call., 1897-03-10

extend the journal might recip
Many wongmen this and other cities have been
subscribers to this newspaper In return that they
garrote legitimate industry and honest labor
What of the reckoning Willie? What of the resolutions
against competition labor which business and labor
adopted during the and which poesed
sympathy doubecoumn type? What the honeyed
you this City when the fight against
the pedestal for the Grant monument in Golden Gate Park which was
heWn at the Folsom quarries?
falling itself ingratae itself
among wongmn that time, surely the that
your newspaper then the most important and of the only
made San Quentin pisonf What will
these worngmen been basey hoodwinked
say in replyf
And lastly, Wanon Willie you copyrighted this
necton yours with prison jutem records
but yourself has made application for fen goods when similar
article n of business houses this City
little history at this particular juncure appropriate On
Friday May during the agitation the labor against the
pedestal for the Grant which had been hewn the
Folsom quaes by convc the following editorial appeared the
Examiner:
The Grant Monument in Golden Gate Park be built
by free labor.
That much settled already. The Examiners offer
help out the Monument Association if by repac
ing the with others by honest
made it certain that the demands of the public would be
needed Mr. OConnor, the chairman of the committee
has taken upon himself the responsibility of making
desired change any deficiency incurred thereby be
good by the Examiner.
The labor unions took up this because
erests involved though it would have demanded
just workingman protested. 1t
is, first of ALL question sentiment If pay
attention sentimental considerations
monument? A monument represents sentiment
nothing else.
1t is not useful Its only value is that stands for
something tells the beholder grateful people
paid tribute gratitude a great soldier who
offered his sword his country need, and
who led army of vounteers-free men them
selvesto bring freedom those who bondage
Union that the hope liberty
world.
ghaStlV be to a TO all
up such memories with inscription by
fingers of burglars and murderers under rifles of
prison guard
No, if we to honor Grant, let honor him. If we
could not have offered great could have
had small but great small no stone
that stands for crime its punishment.
Now let the curtain be pulled aside and glimpse of the true
be shown Let the prison rerords the lutte
MILL tell the real truth On May fourteen days haunt
ing the foregoing editorial there shipped Mr. Hearsts paper
consignment of four bales San Quentin. May O.
second shipment 62 pounds twne followed What ques
ton of sentiment in its columns was not question of sentiment
the real genuine policy of the paper
What 'ghasy mockery worngmen did notben
know that the Monh the Fakers the newspaper
product uen fingers burglars and murdeers
vnder the rifles of prison guard P'
hear the harlatan this question convict labor:
'.shall the conviccut pedestal to the monument to
Gate Park?
the the dead hero be set UP on monu.
ment carved by prison labor?
The Examiner feels that it sentiments of the
people when it says NO
What more, Examiner is not merely willing to
the peoples mouthpiece, but proposes take the
initiative in substituting for the great granite pedestal hen
figured by the Folsom feons not bear
the marks of prison TOOLS but those of free labor.
The Examiner offers to place at the disposal of the
proper authorities granite block, properly and in.
cribed by free workmen, at the earliest
tunity
This offer is the outgrowh of the feeling gen.
orally expressed by citizens and particularly
aborng clement that it would be discreditable San
Francisco if the Grant soon to be