The San Francisco call., 1898-12-25

V v V @ @ e e e Q @ Q e e S his kind, he makes it appear more than ordinarily offensive.
 AS to the guilt or innocence of the Botkln woman there is nothing which may with propriety be now said, but as to the morbid females who flock to her trial, craning their neeks to catch each particle of filth set af1oat, com ment IS permissible They are all guilty or 1ndeeency, and each one, as she scfambles for entrance, lays aside her claim to respect. The perverted mas cullne intelligence which similarly pro- claims its nastiness is as bad but less shocking.
 Liliuokalani asks that the lands taken from her be restored There may be nere and there a tendency to sheer at the request, but l do not understand why She was robbed of the land as surely as she would have been robbed of her watch through the act of a pick pocket in extracting that article from ner pocket. Nobody had any right. to deprive her of her holdings, If the peo- Die of the United States have persuaded themselves that the overthrow of the monarchy against the fearful protests or It's subjects was justifiable they surely have not gone so far as to think that larceny is a virtue.
 
 Writing of the theft of the sh ull of Lillian Brandes an Oakland paper says the 1nsinuation that the relic may be tampered with is tantamount to say ing that the attorneys are capable of becoming accessories to murder. So it s What of it2
 Enterprise is commendable. but to make a hit it must have something more than the attribute of cheapness notice an evening paper out openly ana boldly to advocate a welcome for the California troops when they come pack from Manila. As such a welcome will be as certain as the rising of the sun am waiting with curiosity to see the paper in question take to itself all the credit for this. No easier path to glory was ever blazed When the boys arrive there will be such a demonstra- tion as the city has never witnessed. Nothing could prevent this, nothing
 n. | will not be the least inclination to try. And after it is easy to imagine the paper in question proclaiming with ju- bilation the result of it's endeavors.
 
 The anarchist howls for the abolition of law, and we regard him as a rogue or idiot. Yet good people must some times wonder what law is for unless to be degraded. Certainly those persons who are guided by base instincts, and at the same time have money. can safely defy it. In the absence of money, pull is potent Here is the Welis-Fargo Express Company, a cor poration headed by godly man burst ing with scriptural quotation, and vet every day cheating it's customers de- hberately, systematically, and making the pretense that it thinks itself abid- ing by the statute, Here is d school board, many of whose members. for ex- ample, Waller and Ragan, deserve to De in the penitentiary as felons, rob- ping the public, pilfering from the pockets of the teachers and laughing ga1ly at any attempt to check them. Here are seekers after office soIemnly making oath that their election ex- penSeS have been a trifie. certainly within the legal limit, and knowing. as everybody else knows, that when they so swear they commit willful perjury. Here is Board of Supervisors bound to protect municipal interests, and do- ing everything but this. Here Is Grand Jury helpless or unwilling to bring the rascals to account. Nothing hn caid of ha ch a1o +,-ox of almost every trial for murder. the gambling, secret only from the police. the plundering of public funds. In broader way this same disregard for the law may be observed all over the country. What does Huntington care for the law? How much does it con- cern Yerkes? Why should Standard oil be permitted to burn it's books The truth is, wealth and influence have the power to trample law under foot. The poor and friendless, transgressing, catch the full force of the penalty Had Rosser been the son of poverty, his victim a millionaire, he would have died in the penitentiary of old age. Had Figel been pauper the cases against him would not have been dis missed and police energy would never have been devoted to establishing his innocence. Contemplation of the truth as it appears every day in local his- tory and the history being made all over the country is enough to excite grave misgivings.
 Mrs. Mary Haman of Sacramento sends out circular setting forth that she has been ordered of the Lord to an- nounce that he is not colning during 1899. While this may not be ofticia, there is evidence that the lady is sim cere, and I willingly contribute to the spread of her information.
 There is something brutally strange in the indignant charge that there has been no suffering in Monterey County and that the kindly impulse to send provisions to the hungry there is born of a wanton desire to give the locality bad name. In all probability, how ever, the citizens whose stomachs are experiencing the first satisfactory dis tention in many days will fail to in. dorse the peculiar view.