The San Francisco call., 1898-12-11

A talented newspaper woman of New York writes to talented newspaper woman of Denver and asks: What do you intend to do about creating public sentiment for purity of life?" Ii must be remembered that the query is addressed by one who has not the blessed privilege of voting to one who has. The idea is, clearly, that the vot- ing woman has, In respect of the creat- ing of sentiment, an advantage over the other. AS to the regulation of morals the ballot gives no additional power to woman. Her influence must be exerted through her individuality and inn pressed by the spotlessness of her own life. If she votes to close the brothel, two of her soiled sisters will vote to keep it open. Let her be pure, upright, teach her children modesty and honor. Let her shut her door in the face of the libertine. This is her privilege, her duty and her only method of creating sentiment"
 It is good news to lovers of animals that the Royal Agricultural Society, which gives the biggest horse show in England, will hereafter grant no prizes to horses exhibited with docked tails. AS horse shows in this country are imi- tations of those of the Royal Society this benef -ent ukase will doubtless have wide effect, and result in visible reform. The docking of horses tail is cruel, unnatural, disfguring and idiotic. There is for it absolutely no ch 10 If al liation for a crime so brutal worked upon so fine an object as the horse. To cut the equine ears close to the head or to pluck out the eyes would be as sensible and in the view of Cod and of thinking men as forgivable. When I see a noble horse, comeliness and strength in every limb, beauty in every curve, yet marred tv having in place of tail miserable stub and futile wisp fastened so as to point skyward I confess my blood boils. A horses tail is one of it's chief ornaments, as well as a protection against flies and similar pests. The process of removing it is shocking, the effect inartistic and crea- tive of disgust. If I had my way every man conniving at the outrage would go to jail for a year.
 I learn. with surprise, from the Mecca, published at Denver, that Hon. Samuel M. Shortridge was recently elected to the Senate of this State. It is a duty to inform Editor Clara Foltz of the paper mentioned that the man elected was another Shortridge. How ever, as they are brothers, it is not strange that so far away as Colorado their identities should have become mixed.
 A gentleman named Fisher, a news paper man, favorabIy known, recently died after having made several absurd requests as to the disposition of his body. I was glad to notice that the requests were disregarded. A dying man has right to the tender minis they must, as he is doing, pass to an- other world. But a dead man has no rights, beyond decent respect, and certainly any demand he may have made upon the living to ignore existing conventions and subject themselves to remark or ridicule is so unreasonable
 
 thrust aside. Mir Fisher did not want a casket nor hearse. He got both and by providing them relatives showed that they had for the deceased more genuine consideration than would have been demonstrated through abiding by his whimsical dictates.
 The youngest child of the late Jay Gould has come into possession of his share of the estate That is to say, he has come as nearly into possession of it as his father allows. To be sure Jay Gould is dead and turned to dust, but the skeleton fingers still keep a clutch upon the millions they heaped up before the great financier was called. I do not believe that the prin- ciple involved in this is right nor wise. If every man who by shrewdness or theft gains a great fortune has the right to regulate it to the end of time, there is only a question of years as to when the greatest thief or the shrewdest finan. ciep shall have all the earth and rule it from his moss grown tomb. I re- joice in the spectacle of segregated mill lions being scattered. I would like to see every abnormal hoard cast to the winds. In my estimation such for tunes as that of a Gould, Rockefeller or Sage have no warrant for exist ence, constitute menace to our insti- tutions, and the sooner dissipated the better.
 Writing in the Critique, little sheet published at the national capital, a wise man says, and with a fine show or scorn, that newspapers are run for money. Observation forces me to a similar conclusion. Not only are newspapers run for money, but so is everything else that is run. I suspect railroads, factories, banks and farms. Even the office-seeker has not always in view the lofty purpose of elevating the nation. At least, if there were no salary attached, he would leave the task of elevation to somebody else. The preacher expounds texts for money, and when the money be not forthcoming, the text will remain un- expounded and dust gather on the pull pit cushion This is not said by way of reproach. Things are so ordered that money is a necessity. The fact is so