The San Francisco call., 1899-10-15
HAVE YOUR PICTURE TAKEN
SHAKING HANDS WITH AID
MIRAL DEWEY-12 FOR 25c.

Those who went into the gallery found
there man with a false mustache and
gray wig, who was made up to imper-
senate the admiral during the photo
graphing process. The photographer made
barrels of money
Several of the New York papers have
been calculating to what amount that
city is glad Dewey came home by way of
that port instead of San Francisco. The
Sun estimates the number of outsiders
who visited the city at about million
and calculates they expended an average
of IS each, leaving the city $1,000, 900
richer for the celebration. OF course all
that was not profit. The Herald, with
out attempting to determine exactly how
much the city made out of the reception,
estimates there was a total expenditure of
$20, 600, which it distributes in this way:
For railroad tickets to New York. s., ,0Oo, 900
For fares on surface and elevated rail-
roads 250, 600
For hotels, restaurants and boarding
houses and seats for naval and land
parades S'VVV'V0O
For decorations OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1,00o, 900
For baggage express ................ 500 900
For providing accommodations and
transportation for city and State
guests and for covering special public
decorations 275,O0O
For merchandise souvenirs, etc.,. 5000, 900
If the estimate of the Herald be correct
there is a coincidence of figures worth
noting. We paid Spain $2O 100000 for the
Philippines and now we eXpend an equal
amount to welcome Dewey home. Let us
hope the rest of our imperial career will
be cheaper. We ought to conquer Agui-
naldo for half what we paid for him, and
the welcome home of Otis ought to be put
at less than half the Dewey price.
Now that the high court of interna-
tional arbitration has decided the dis
pute between Great Britain and
Venezuela there should be another
court of arbitration to review the
work and inform perplexed world which
party to the controversy got the stakes,
since it seems conceded neither of them
won the game.
According to one set of reasoners the
award is in favor of Venezuela because it
confers upon that republic the control Of
the Orinoco. According to another set
the lions share goes to the British, for
although the Venezuelans get the river
they receive with it only tract Of worth
less swamp, while the British get a vast
area of the richest and best land in South
America. Some people think the United
States is a clear winner because we forced
John Bull to arbitrate, but there are other
folks who say we are losers inasmuch as
Uncle Sam claimed under the Monroe
doctrire the right to determine all Amer
lean questions without interference on the
part of Europe. while in this case Europe
did interfere and fix boundaries without
giving us anything more than casual
hearing before the court.
Perhaps the best judgment on the deci-
sion is that pronounced by eX-President
Harrisons ut might have been worse"
Justice Story, who served on the bench
of the Federal Supreme Court in the days
when the great John Marshall was at the
head of that tribunal, is credited with tell
ing a story of the customs of the Justices
in those early days which illustrates the
advantage of living in a country of wide
area, and indirectly tends to the conclu-
sion that if alive to-day the venerable
Chief Justice would be an imperialist.
In describing the social life of the men,
bers of the court Story is reported to have
said:
1--WE dine once year with the Presi-
dent, and that is all. On other days we
take our dinner together and discuss at
table the questions which are argued be-
fore us We are great ascetics, and even
deny ourselves wine except in wet wealth.
er. What l say about the wine, sir, gives
YOU our rule, but it does sometimes hap
pen that the Chief Justice will say to me,
when the cloth is renewed: Brother
Story, step to the window and see if it
does not look lilrc rain And if 1 tell him
the sun is shining brightly Judge Marshall
will sometimes reply: All the better, for
our jurisdiction extends over so large a
territory that the doctrine of chances
makes 1t certain that it must be raining
somewhere
What more would any free-liver and lib
eral citizen have? Let US annex all the
lands in sight, and then If we wish to
drink wine or practice polygamy or hold
slaves or loaf all the year around it will
be easy for us to find justification. The
custom is sure to be law and religion in
some part of our dominion.