The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-14
his well known love Of notoriety than
anything else.

his well known love Of notoriety than
anything else.
The Examiner appears to think that
the world is to be stuffed with any
folly it may choose to perpetrate. 1t
publishes what it calls copyrighted
| dispatch" from Berlin which begins:
1.-THE Spanish ambassador here COM
plains bitterly that there are some half
a dozen United States cruisers lying off
the coast of Spain, practically block
aiding all her ports That may be
good news, but he who dreamed it
knows as much about the relative geo.
graphical positions Of Bilbao and Bar
celona as he does of the color of the
gentleman who will open the gates of
darkness to him later on.
| 1t would be cheering If we had
cruisers enough in foreign waters to
| blockade at any rate one port. But we
have not. Yet we talk of empire! We
want to annex Cuba, we have a craving
for Hawaii! If the S50000,000 in the
| Presidents hands is not Immediately
urgently needed (and it is not likely to
be) it's expenditure in sensible but
celeritous way on our coast defenses
out of place. Look at Great Britain.
| With no immediate menace that is
worth calling attention to, her annual
appropriation for defense for this sim
gle year is five times greater than the
amount of money which has been prop
erly voted in order to promote peace.
A wiser step than this, by the way,
has never been taken in our history.
There are those who cavil at the Pres
ident; he is spoken of as "a tool Of
Mark Hanna" and maligned in various
other ways, but In this crisis he has
abundantly proven his right to hold the
chief magistracy. He has shown an
aversion to strife, which is a mark of
courage rather than otherwise, for he
who last cries fight is ever foremost in
defense.
Possibly no one will believe what fol-
lows who has not observed the folly Of
which the Bulletin is capable, but 1
aver that in it's fatuous desire to fasten
the Sandwich Islands on California it
argues that as the commerce Of the
world is moving East from Europe"
and is in twenty years going to reach
the land of lepers, we should proceed
to take time by the forelock and have
our leprosy a quarter of century
more or less-before we get our COM
MERGE (The next reason" for annexa-
ton will have a glass case and be
placed on exhibition in Barnum & Bal
ley's "Six big shows in one.O 1mbe-
cility in the conduct of the little paper
has existed for a long time am aware.
but if this last display be not supreme,
l confess I have sights yet to see.
The evening organ of the railroad Is
Informed that Ananias when prefixed
to Lewis must not appear in its col
urnns That expression was copyright
ed in 1898, and all rights are reserved.
"Tom Pepper" might do. That gem
was not kicked out Of Cuba for telling
lies, but place slightly warmer man
aged to get rid of him on that account.
These are three of the Examiners
findings as to the loss Of the Maine.
They are republished here simply to
show what an unconscious faker yell
low journal can be:
A hole was found just above the keel on
the port side, where a torpedo or mine
was started.
The powder magazines and shell rooms
are intact.
Where the hole was, which was
"blewn off," how the magazines could
be intact when 'her bottom is all
gone" seeing that they are always as
close to that part of the vessel as pos
sible, are things to guess at. But when
a rascal has the audacity to say that
"this outline of some of the findings of
the Board of Inquiry is authentic" he
overreaches himself. The members of
the Board of Inquiry are gentlemen
men of honor, none of whom would for
any consideration divulge a single item
of the proceedings before them, nor
Judge of what they have heard until
the evidence is all in. Still the idiotic
space-maker has found" what it is
impossible to find. By what means? I
scarcely suppose the trickster will
again assert that great journal has
methods of getting news which are not
generally known" The last time that
moroccan appeared it was followed in
about a week by a compelled admission
that the Examiner had bought from a
poor clerk news which cost him his po-
sition. Yellow Journalism must under |
stand that officers of the navy are
built of sterner stuff than was that I'M
fortunate. And it must understand
too, that any slur on the general char
acter of members Of that or any other !
branch of the national defensive serv-
ice will not be permitted.
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