The San Francisco call., 1899-01-27
A LoAFER GOVERNMENT.

N 7 OTHING is more suggestive than the low
IN dudgeon OF the Examiner at the suggestion o.
Irving NJ Scott for the Senatorship
The Examiner is appalled, and views with alarm
in advance the possibility OF great builder hav-
ing seat in Congress, because that body egislates
in matters affecting his business and provides for
tracts on which his firm may bid.
This is bald proposition to exclude from Congress
everybody who has any remote interest in the
processes OF government Every statute is liable to
go before court for construction and out
OF the incident litigation lawyer gets fee.
Therefore, lawyers in practice must be excluded
from Congress. Manufacturers directly in
terested in revenue legislation, and are there
fore, ineligible. Merchants have a stake in the
same legislation, and are outlawed by the Examiner
theory Physicians have remote interest in legisla-
ton affecting their profession and must not sit in
Congress. If builders must stay out, so must
ship-owners, and farmer is ineligible because he IS
concerned also in legislation. Since the in
terstate commerce law declared constitutional no
one interested in transportation can legisate news
paper owner cannot go to Congress because the Gov
ernment contracts for advertising in the press.
1t will be seen, therefore, that the new rule OF the
Examiner excludes everybody except loaers who are
not manufacturing anything producing, nor buy
ing selling. 1t turns government over to the idle,
who have stake in the property, business indus
tries OF the country.
For long time the Examiner labored to prove
that Mr. Scott could not build a seaworthy ship 1t
smuggled reporters warships built in his yards to
come back from trial trips and write them up as death
traps that would fall into heap OF jackstraws in
middle wind rip apart from the jar OF firing one of
their own guns. This defamation OF his work went to
every ship-buider in Europe, to hamper Mr. Scott in
his business and give his rivals an advantage. This
was to his injury and to the harm of San Francisco.
II 1t had been true Mr.. Scott might have become
eligible to the Senatorship under the Examiner rule,
Tor he could not have been awarded any more Gov
ernment contracts. When the Oregon steamed 5000
miles and appeared in the Atlantic as fresh as jolly
boat ready for fight, without heating a journal,
starting seam or missing turn of her screw, the
lying OF the Examiner about SCOTS skill was filed
away in the same pgeonhole with the assessment of
the estate OF the late Mr.. Ananias
Being no longer able to misrepresen his ability
a ship-buder, the Examiner proposes now that Cali
fornia shall declare Irving NJ Scott ineligible to the
Senate because he has built the best ship that floats
and because he is of culture, position and
honor credit to his State and country
The Call is not making Mr.. SCOTS fight nor any
bodys fight for the Senate We simply want what the
Examiner does not want creditab1e representative
Of California to be elected The Examiner is doing
its best to get discredable representative chosen
California Republicans will do we'll to avoid adopting
the Examiners theory that man doing business or
practicng profession in the United States is eligible
to the Senatorshp, for it means a government OF
loafers, or OF men who doing business outside
this country-nning in Mexico for instance