The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-17

| cupied acres admirably adapted to the
use of soldiers. Why are they not
utilized? 1 do not know, but in the
present arrangement there is a shame
| less job. Out of the Kansas regiment
alone six men have died. The colonel
begged to be allowed to go to the Pre-
sidio, and the request was refused The
New York men arrived smelled the
situation over, and demanded to be
given place on the reservation. They
got it. The New Workers have more
money than the Kansans. They came
here with a pull so strong that the rep
| utation of it preceded them. But in
patriotism the Kansan is the equal of
the New Yorker, to his country his life
is as valuable. The distinction made
| between them is nothing but an exhi-
bition of red tape. Technically, the
| New Yorker belongs to the Department
Of California, and the Kansan to the
Philippine expeditionary forces. In
reality they are both soldiers who have
volunteered to serve their country, and
1t is not fair that either should be
obliged to take up quarters on the
reeking sands of Camp Merritt Their
| D.
the country no excuse for throwing
them away. Camp Merritt should be
| abolished, not when the last fleet has
sailed for the islands, but to-day.
| According to Chicago paper, a Bos-
| ton minister recently advertised that
| he would speak in the morning on
| Reasons for Resting in the Loving
Arms of Cod and in the evening on
ITO He'll With SPAIN" 1t is the priv
ilege of any man to look on the Chi
cago paper with suspicion, yet the
name of the minister Is given, and his
| address. 1 refrain from mentioning
them here, for the reason that the adj
vertising rates are not so arranged as
to cover matter appearing in this col
| umn. If there is such a preacher, he
| is blackguard.
| "Publicola' has written another let
| ter to this paper. Like the first, it
| was an able production within narrow
lines. 1t is plausible reading, but can
| not bear the test of analysis. 1t sim
ply argues that the United States hav-
ing been successful should not pre-
| sumo to reach out to greater. things.
I cannot acquiesce, but being only an
| individual, this makes no material diff
| ference If the rules laid down by
| ''Publicola" were to be followed there
would be an end to progress. Apply
them to personal effort, and their fall
lacy at once becomes apparent. He
would have the nation do now as it did
4 whom n infant AoPnrHincy RI hic i'll on
logically worked out, we should still
be carrying grist to mill with a stone
| in one end of the. sack I do not see
how he reconciles himself to advance
ment as displayed in private life, while
SO strenuously Directing to anything
akin to advancement in national life.
He would build a wall, across which
| the liberty and civilization we some
| times seem to enjoy could not pass.
This strikes me as being at once self
| ish and suicidal. 1t is all very well
| to say we have sufficient territory for
| three hundred million people, but
notice that with something like
seventy-five million there are strong
men begging vainly for work, women
hungry and girls crowding boys out of
chance to earn bread. The common
people cannot develop the country, be-
cause it does not belong to them. 1t be-
longs to corporations and money loan
ers, who in turn are to a great extent
| the property of the devil. The
people cannot develop it's indus
tries, because monopoly has seized
these, and perhaps does not want
them developed. "Publicola" is
misled by the notion that the United
States is place of sweet content. 1t
is far from it. There are threatening
murmurs There Is an energy that
| finds no outlet Therefore, ] believe
in enlargement. Perhaps in distant
lands there may be a chance for the
poor man. If our civilization is better
than the savagery of the Philippines
! let it expand. If 1t is not, let 1t re-
main at home and accustom itself to
half rations, and the reign of Rookie
fellers, Hannas, Huntingtons and
Sages. But 1 believe it is better.
|
Any contractor deliberately furnish
ing the army with bad bacon deserves
to be shot. The war thus far has been
conducted on such humane principles
that this course has not been taken,
and yet shooting would be mild. The
sternest justice would demand a rope
There Is demand for a new national
song, which does not seem likely to be
| adequately met by the poet, because
the American poet is either mostly
dead or unborn. Meanwhile the task
of being fairly we'll satisfied with such
as we have is not difficult 1 like
America" both words and tune being
an inspiration to patriotism 1t is
true, alas and alas, that God Save
| the Queen" is sung to the same air,
and that here and there the narrow
ness Of a human mind has shown it.
self by Directing to it on this account
I call attention to the fact that the
same sun which shines on England
throws his beams benignly on this land
also, and that the man who would
| dodge them as unfit to warm him and
| light his pathway would have his