The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-13

make the world cleaner is to be good.
The way to inculcate admirable princi-
pies is to make home influences en-
nobling, to teach children the loneliness
of virtue. No woman can go upon the
rostrum and exploit her theories con-
corning the fallen and either be better
| for it or make anybody else better
| When the feminine instinct does not
| shrink from the path which leads to
| shame fair words are not able to WOO
| it Alright. The mother who cannot ex-
ercise upon her son a benign influence
| tending to teach him to honor her sex,
cannot learn how to do so by attending
a congress and listening to the yaWp or
a lot of spinsters, of childless wives, or
mistaken matrons, who imagine that
| by being nasty they are elevating the
race. The whole business is a sort or
! theoretical Summing, and stunning,
done in the name Of reform, Is crime
which has never vet resulted in any
thing but the debasing of the summer
| Among the things to wonder at is the
cheek of Attorney Philbrook in run
ming for a place on the Superior bench
! or anywhere else, except out of sight.
Philbrook has been suspended from
practice because his practice was so
| raw The story is too old to be re-
hearsed. Enough to say that papers
| he filed were insulting 70 the Supreme
Court, that his assertions were repudi-
ated by his client, and that after care
| full consideration of his case he was
barred from appearing as lawyer 1t
! is not easy to SC how a man unfit to
| be a lawyer should be regarded as fit
| to be Judge. Yet in this intelligent
| town more than II, 900 people voted for
| Philbrook If they took this method
of declaring that he had been treated
unjustly they certainly had neglected
to ascertain the facts. II they sup.
ported him without any knowledge as
to his standing they cannot be rated as
high grade thinkers A Superior Judge
is a parsonage of Importance. He has
to pass upon the acts of lawyers every
day His decisions necessarily reach
the higher tribunal. 1t would have
been a peculiar circumstance If Phil
brook had been elevated above the men
who had decided him to be. unfit to as
sociate with themselves, and his de-
cisions had in due course reached that
high tribunal which he has denounced
as crooked, purchasable and vindictive-
Yet it is my opinion that PhilbrooR
has wheels, and the people who voted
for him extended this sympathy be-
cause similarly afflicted.
Politics is in need of cleansing In
its moral aspect one party is no bet
ter than another. There are good men in
each, earnest men, who desire better
ment in the administration of affairs.
do not believe, however, there is any
excuse for having in the ranks of the
| active workers a lot of rascals, rap
scallions, jailbirds, thieves and toughs.
About the polling places last Tuesday
were many whose real place is San
! Quentin. These precious scoundrels
toll not, neither do they spin, and yet
they are tolerated and employed dur
| ing campaigns. They boast of their
pull" and not idly, for without a pull
the hand of policeman would be on
the collar of each. There were drunken
rows at the polls, officials who saw dou>
BILE, or could not see at all; fights, dis
plays of pistols. There is no sense in
this. One side is as culpable as the
other. AT election time respectable cit
liens hobnob with riff-raff who at an
other time they would not trust in the
presence of an unguarded 10 cent piece
or a secluded clothesline. 1 do not
think this proper, and will hold the
high and holy gentlemen who make
business of politics in higher esteem
when they quit it.
With a desire to indorse everything
which is good, I say a word about
Elizabeth Lois Struble, who makes her
home in Portland, and I doubt not
sheds upon her environment the frag-
rance of spiritual perfection. Not that
there is a distinct smell to perfection,
either, but the occasion is one calling
for a figger of speech. Lizzie Il hope
may be permitted to term her thus,
Elizabeth being so stately and distant)
| Lizzie has the goodness to publish a
magazine to which she has given the
title of The Nautilus. AS to the general
scope of the publication there is moth
| ing to be said here. I desire to notice
| only an editorial in which Lizzie adj
verts modestly to her treatment of peo-
pie for harmony in the home" There
are many homes in which such treat
ment'is needed and if Lizzie is the pro-
prietor of a panacea for domestic ills
she is doing the world a kindness for
| trotting it out, and at the reasonable
rate of 81 per month per home. She
will also give treatment for success in
all kinds of individual undertakings.
AS there are many individuals and all
have undertakings, the field is large.
She refers to the First Psalm in which
is given a pretty good rule for the pro-
duction of the result she advertises,
| and while cannot see that the wisdom
therein becomes of a higher grade for
having filtered through the mentality
of Lizzie, it may be I am sitting in
1.-The seat of the seornful,' of which the
same Psalm makes mention. If so
there are no perceptible lacks in the
cushion. AS the mission of the lady
seems to be to sell advice, will donate
dose of her own medicine. If she has
a method by which individual effort
can be made to succeed she would be
wise to apply it to the scheme of float
ing such an enterprise as The Nautilus
Assuredly it will never float unless sus-