The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-20


death. In it's dens contamination turks.
There cannot be a sharp dividing line
The malign influence of Chinatown
passes any imaginary bound Whlcn
may be fixed. It's brothelS do not tempt
alone the people of that race, but the
| poison of them spreads. fight among
the tongs. so long as the Ratchet men
shoot straight, is not lamentable- Let
them kill each other as freely as they
like. The real calamity is that they
form a source of corruption and dis
ease. The presence of the Chinese has
been productive of no good, but OF
much Ill. Even the convert, so called,
is an arrant fraud, and if there is any
| Chinese above another undeserving OF
confidence it is the one who pretenos
| to have become a Christian, for ne
never reaches a stage beyond that or
| making love to his Sunday schooi
! teacher, and when fantan game Is
raided, there he is, proclaiming h1mseiT
a regenerated and saved specimen or
| the race. The Chinese defy the police,
the courts, the laws of decency. The
better ones among them are murdered,
and all the rest will swear to an anDl
1t is notorious that the oath of a chi
nese is worthless, and yet 1t must be
accepted in court. There is no way to
control the Chinese. They are as far
| beyond the reach of statute as is the
sewer rat. They cannot become part
of civilization. They do not wish to do
| so. Civilization, having respect for it
self, does not wish them to do SO. They
constitute a problem beyond solution.
| They ought to go.
| The presence of the father of young
Rosser is a pathetic incident. Rosser
| will be remembered as the Tennessee
soldier who, while maddened by liquor,
killed worthy and inoffensive man.
The father is here merely to comfort
| the boy during the trial. The murder
was wholly unprovoked. There was an
! absence of malice. Rosser might nave
| killed any other citizen as we'll as the
one whom his irrational passion select
ed as a victim. 1t seems to me such
cases as his are the most difficult with
! which the law has to deal. For the de-
| liberate assassin I have no sympathy,
and would shorten his path to the gal
tlows. But here is boy who under the
stimulus of whisky committed deed
which, whatever the outcome, must
forever darken his life. He is to be
pitied. So is to be pitied the widow of
the man he slew. But can the severity
of the courts in any measure lessen the
burden of her sorrow?
A Iady whose intentions evidently are
| amicable sends a letter to be delivered
| to the contributor who signs his or
her name Henry James" Naturally
the letter reached me. As to the ques-
ton of sex, there is no public concern,
yet since the subject has been brought
up 1 will say that as a husband and
father have strongly suspected myself
of being masculine.
There is an institution known as the
| Sabbatarian League. Its members
| think it is for good purpose, but 1t is
not They think thew are doing some
| thing to make the world better, but
| they are not. 1t is their idea that on
| a certain day Of the week the human
race has no right to do anything but
| listen to a salaried gentleman expound
! a text of scripture concerning which
! he has nothing new to say, ana
wouldn't dare say it if he had; but 1t
has Of all the cranks 1 ever met per-
sonally or through the mails, the acute
Sabbatarian is the most distressing and
offensive He has the spirit of snail,
| the intelligence Of a fossil toad. Re-
| Gently there has been series OF Sun
! day concerts begun in Boston for the
| benefit of poor people to whom no other
| time offers available leisure. Uprises
| the Sabbatarian and threatens to sue
out an injunction. New England was
I'll. lcrO
when it reverently burned the witch,
or, with solemn eyes turned to an ap-
proving heaven, bored the tongue of
Quaker Let this particularly pestifer-
Gus form of crank attend to the bust
ness of saving his own soul. if he think
it worth the trouble, and not interfere
with those whom a benign providence
has blessed with better sense and
broader humanity.
Miser Berberich has died. To give
him credit for this good act would be
pleasine. but there is reason to believe
that he could have died long ago If he
had really wanted to.
Compliments to GEORGE A. Alexander,
and can the young man present any
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of all who love decency in one sex and
purity in the other? I do not know
Alexander nor wish to but 1 know his
kind They cumber the earth with
their unclean presence. The man who
| will take advantage Of the love and
confidence of girl and then desert her
in her trouble constitutes as low a type
as is to be found among moral de-
generates When he tries then to
blacken character that had been con-
taminated only bv contact with his
own, he reaches a degraded depth to
which no words at my command can
follow him. Miss Durie Heithier, be-
trayed, miserable, despairing, attempt
ed to kill herself. At this writing the
success of her effort Is in doubt. Had
the man who worked her ruin had in
him the first instinct of nobility he.
would at least have shielded her with
his name. He had declared his affec-
| ton won her heart conquered her