The San Francisco call., 1898-08-11
EASTERN ASSURANCE.

| ITH show of impartialty and fairness the \XI Chicago Tinss Herald comedies 1t is natural that the California State Board of Trade should ask for the appointment of citizen of the Pacific Coast to the Peace Commission which is to decide upon the future disposition of the Philippines but follows this concession with the emphatic ment that the request should not be granted
 The argument of Chicago contemporary is It says that while the greater part of American trade with the islands be carried through the Pacific ports, yet the who selected to range for the settlement of the Philippine question will be confronted by trained diplomats 1t is neces- saTy that they should be of marked ability and that consideration, it claims bars out all Conlms- soners from this portion of the Union for it declares There are no great international lawyers on the Pacific Coast, but the best all be found east of the Rockies"
 The arbitrary exclusion of Pacific Coast men from the diplomatic service of the nation would be an in- jury, but exclude them the ground taken by the Times Herald would be the addition of insult to in- jury. That widespread ignorance of Western con ditions prevails in the East is made evident by the frequency with which this assumption of superiority in ability, intellect and learning is put forward by the people beyond the Rockies It is an ignorance that should be dispeed and of the best ways to dispe 1t is that of giving Pacific Coast men chance to demonstrate in conspicuous field their fitness for the highest work
 No achieve repute an international law yer unless he is ntrusted with the performance of work which affords an opportunity to display his ability to deal with international questions It was thought in the East that we could not build warships until contract was given to shipyards to con- struct several of them, and then it was shown by the Olympia the Charleston the Monterey and the peer less Oregon that can surpass competition in that work
 In the East itself and in recent years there have been abundant instances prove that high order of ability may exist in men and be unknown to the na- ton at large for years simply because the possessors have never had opportunity for its display on great occasion Neither Clevelands Secretary of State MT Olney of Massachusetts the present Secretary MT. Day of Ohio had any fame international law yers before they tried There the Pacific Coast who are just as competent to serve the nation with distinction in diplomacy as these men of the East.
 There may be good and sufficient reasons why no member of the Peace Commission should be selected from this section of the Union, but if so they will be widely different from that assigned by the pre- sumptuous folks of Chicago In this California beat the East in promptness and efficiency in furnish ing men in response the Presidents call for vol unteers; warships built in San Francisco have passed those of the fleet built n the Eastern yards, and if fair opportunity IS given we will show that we equally capable of matching Eastern men in maintaining the honor and the interests of the nation in the fields of statecraf and diplomacy.
 
 As every has the right to think his own wife the best in the world, each State in the Union may claim to have first sent its National Guard to respond to the call for troops And most of them doing it. We violate confidence in saying that all of them except California are mistaken but matter.
 There is no surprise in the fact that the Supreme Court of the State has declared marriages at sea- tracted with an express view to beating the law il- legal. Nobody ever thought they anything else
 California knew all the time that when the boys of the First got on the firing line they would give good account of themselves.
 Aguinaldo is said to be losing popularity, but he is not losing any with