The San Francisco call., 1899-07-19
THE EXAMINERS oVERCOATs,

THE CALL sincerely hopes that the Oregon
volunteers who are among the hardest soldiers
that were furnished by the northern part OF the
United States may attempt to protect themselves
from the winds and the ogs incident to the climate
OF San Francisco by wearing the undercothing the
oyercoats furnished by the Examiner So far as we
are advised we are unaware that any OF these articles
has ever become visible to the naked eye But can
assure the volunteers that il they should maerlaze
under atmospheric or other Influences they will turn
out TO be things OF shreds and patches, without
warmth and open to all the cold and driving mist5
that occasionally float through the Golden Gate,
The Government the press and the people are
united in deep appreciation OF the valor, the endur-
ance and the intelligent patriotism displayed by Our
volunteer forces in the Philippines. The bright c1tl-
zen soldiery OF Oregon have deserved and have re-
ceived conspicuous honors But they did not require
the insolent preensions OF the Examiner to secure
for themselves ordinary protection against the
weather. for which there is the most ample provision
in the army regulations and in the Government stores
in San Francisco Each OF these representatives OF
Northwestern devotion to national institutions Is
entitled to exercise his option by taking Overcoat
or the sum OF $II 90, which represents its cost
Many OF them have preferred to the money, and
have made other arrangements for their own COM
fort and for their health entirely satisfactory to
themselves There is and there has been no red tape
No action OF any kind by the President of the United
States or by General Miles, by any department or
officer OF the Government, outside OF the usual rou
tine was necessary to facilitate them in any precau
tionary measures they may have desired to take.
The Examiner is we'll understood on the Pacific
Coast, and in its vulgar assumption OF some mys-
terious power il could exercise for the benefit of the
Oregon volunteers it has simply added il
lustraton to the volume it has already produced OF its
ineradicabe delusions Its entire stock in trade ap-
parently consists OF virulent egOtism, displayed in
hysterca type Each successive incident in its
has been d phase Of paresis 1t offered reward OF
fifty thousand dollars for the discovery OF the GRIM
inal who destroyed the Maine. 1t appointed COM
mission Of its regulate the official representa-
tives OF the Government. 1t adopted a national
policy, the essential point OF which the incor
poraon OF the Philippines American territory and
of the Fiipinos as our fellow citizens 1t then pro-
claimed an internal policy" which still parades its
glarng absurdes the head Of its editorial page 1t
has produced fabricated interviews with some OF the
potentates OF the earth having both terrestrial and
spiritual functions, in which it pretended to deal with
them on the footing OF independent power.
The latest aspect of this extraordinary lunacy or
idiocy is the publication OF editorial letters addressed
to President Mckinley, usually signed by the pro-
prietor OF the Examiner, through which unread in
sructions are conveyed to the Government. In this
category the absurd telegram about the overcoats is
included The performance was interesting on ac-
count of its grotesque absurdity In the daily walks
of life examples OF vanity egotism not
mon but it is rarely that those diseases the only
characteristic features of daily newspaper.
The Oregonan volunteers will not shiver in this
ba1ny climate where popular enthusiasm alone would
almost keep them warm but they would certainly find
the Examiner overcoats in the nature Of wet blankets