The San Francisco call., 1899-02-19


morrow" she said, and she kept her
word; for on the morrow she was founo
dead by her own hand. In all the nara
and cruel world, crushing the helpless
blaming the innocent, ever ready 10
cast stone, there ought not to be one
so pitiless as to censure her. l DO not
believe that suicide is always sin or
sign of insanity. People who are
horn IN misfortune and bred In sor>
row, it seems to me, have rlght u
Law their burdens down and the blame,
if blame there be, must rest on the So
ciaI conditions which living they could
not escape. or upon the 1ndennaple
source of all life. the failures as we'll
as the successes.
The bill introduced in the Senate 10
stop the practice of hunting oeer win
hounds suits me exactly. The houno-
ing of deer is classed as sport put II
ought to be cIassed as cruelty to AMI
mails. The impulse to Kill oeer Is
hard TO understand. This peautliu III
creature has committed no greater oi-
fense than that of being alive, and yet
at sight of it the average ci'iLen
reaches for his gun and turns loose iii'
dogs. The deer live in locahtles Wheie
they in no way interfere with progress
They do not, like the buffalo OF plesseo
memory, exhaust ranges wnlcn are
needed for domestic animals OF -oi
fields and orchards. They DO no hai III
and yet they are being killed SO last
that unless the process be checked the
deer will be extinct in short term ..
wears, slain for the human lust VI
blood, for the love of infilctlng torture
for the savage instinct there remains
in us. 1 would call off the dogs anu
the owners of the dogs, ana MAKE lne
pastime so costly that the hunter couiu
better afford to live on large pottles
and small birds than on venlson. VI
course, the deer supplies meat put peo-
pie who live in the country ana XIII lar
more than the fancy sportsmen VINO
go there once year do not need TINS
meat, and indeed would rather eat SAT-
pork. I think that if God had lntendeo
the deer for the amusement OF people
whom nothing but the spectacle OIL SUI
fering can satisfy, He would not nave
given to it expressive eyes capable Oh
accusing a man Of murder.
Justice, a quarterly magazine de-
voted to anti-monopoly, reaches my
desk. Being heartily in sympathy
with 1t. I regret the impossibility Oh lts
being a success. In the first place no
notification appearing but once in three
months can retain a following, for IL
will be forgotten between issues. In
the second place, this particular perlou-
icaI is too heavy to be attractive.
While 1t Is being issued once, the great
dailies, most of them aVoWedly lhe
creatures of monopoly, will be issued
a hundred times. There are many
truths in Justice. There are dire proph-
acies which are destined to be fulhlled,
hut neonIe do not care They think in
+be;r selfish blindness that life is short,
and the coming calamities are to fan
upon generations yet unborn linus
wealth will continue the process OF con-
centration into the hands OF the feW'
the toiler approach nearer and nearer
a condition of slavery. What is to be
done about it? Not thing. some
dsv there will be a crash and SMASH
hut that will be long time in the fu-
ture This country is not going on IN
definitely seeing all its wealth gathered
into the hands of the Rockefellers ana
the Sages and by them bequeathed III
bulk to posterity no better than that
Of the smith and the plowman- You
need not try to scare me about the
periIs of imperialism, serious as these
NAV he. For genuine menace 10 tho
welfare of this glorious country they
are not in it. If the rottenness OF our
political system does not get in its WORK
fret the rottenness of our commercial
and social system will get in ahead or
imperialism.
Certain farmers ask relief from taxa
ton Was ever such presumption?
Possibly they have observed that insu-
tutions of learning, richly endowed ana
dispensing knowledge for given sum-
have been made exempt. 1t is possible
thew have noticed that the churches are
wriggling nobly in the effort to aVolo
bearing a share of the common ourden
and think they have at least equai
claims. The average farmer WORKS IKE
a slave. He does not know what leisure
Is. All he can wrest from his acres goes
to nav the interest on his mortgage.
AS to paying the mortgage Itself ne
never dreams except in that vague way
II is permitted all of us to dream OF
heaven. The mortgage he bequeaths to
his son. together with an incumbered
plow and a harrow bought on credit.
The dollar that is not instantly de-
manded by his creditors he has been
wont to pay to the tax collector. Now
he follows the fashion and wants to re-
tain that dollar or apply it elsewhere.
Evidently the farmer of the land is
getting gay.
I am not surprised that Assembly
man Kenneally has been marring pro-
ceedings by projecting his personality
and ruffianism into them. Ever since
he knocked over an old man who un-
fortunately died Immediately sub
seauent to the experience / have been
prejudiced against him, and his man
ner at Sacramento while 1 had the
honor of being there in the capacity of
observer was uniformly offensive. He
would have about as much business in
gathering of gentlemen as pig in
a parlor.
Eliza hatI1 CraOniS Is aRitated. 'Will