The San Francisco call., 1905-05-07
UNCLE SAM WILL
ACT AS ADJUSTER
Rates on Panama Railroads Shall Be
Fixed, Declares Secretary Taft
Heney's Work in Breaking Up Oregon
Land Ring Brings Him Reputation
BY JAMES S. TYLER.
srAFLt CORRESPONDENT OF THE CALL


portant office for years under the Fed
eraf Government and who has openly
espoused political organizations that
boast Repubicanism when it suits
them, but which would not stop to turn
a democratic trick If it suited their
convenience
Attorney Heney's evidence, which
was secured with the splendid assist
ance OF one of the cleverest men, in
Government detective employ, Secret
Service Agent Burns, is said to involve
mlilionaires who reside in Southern
oregon. Minnesota and California. One
OF the principal offenders has been
connected with the acquiring of timber
lands for one of the largest lumber
concerns in the West. and hundreds Of
thousands of acres that have been
franduiently obtained Will be restored
to the Government when the final
trials are over.
Heney has certainly made reputa-
ton for himself in the East as well as
in the West The biggest men in ma
tional affairs regard the plucky San
francisco lawyer as one of the coming
great men of the country.
The destruction of landmarks around
Washington has given the people some
cause for anxiety, yet Washington
seems to have the landmarks move
ment well in hand. The Daughters of
the American Revolution have strongly
advocated the preservation Of land
marks, and the Government Is making
every effort to get control of relics of
historic days that they may be cared
for by Federal officers
Speaking Of landmarks, there is q
most interesting relic of the SOS on e
street, near the Post building, and it's
a saloon. During the war many diff
cult military problems were solved
there over a nip or two, but the most
striking thing about this place to San
franciscan is its resemblance to old
Dave Werner's resort at North Beach,
where the spiders held sway for fifty
years and nary a bit of dust was
touched until an auctioneer's crew
cleaned it out with one sweep. A San
Francisco man said the other day.
There are too few Dave Werners, too
few landmarks and those assembled
agreed With him. Perhaps it was
stretching a moral point to apply this
declaration to place where liquor is
sold. Yet San Francisco does feel
keenly the passing of North Beach
the beach as we used to know 1t In our
childhood. The proprietor of "Shoo-
ker's"-that's what thSy call this
Washington Dave Werner's-says that
he is going to keep the place Just as
old Major Shoemaker left it, In 1858
1t was established and was the pride
of the town. Nobody but the very
best of them drank there-and do to
this day. In the old saloon hang tan
gled skeins that spiders by thousands
must have spun and then died their in
sect deaths. The smoke of brainy
mems pipes have blackened the dirt
burdened cobwebs that dangle from
sagging rafters. and the hand of man
has not been allowed to prove that
cleanliness is always next to godliness.
Men of national repute have measured
here their glasses in the light of tall
low candles. oil lamps and the incan-
descents-now strangely incongruous
The rickety shelves hold mold covered
bottles through which the vintage of
years long passed sparkles from leaden
settings. Who shall dispute that the
tiny beads reflect the long ago scenes
of conviviality about the old oak ta-
BILE. and this, perhaps. when minds as
clear and bright as the gurgling hochs
were moved to even greater deeds by
the cup that cheers.
H. A. Isenberg of Honolulu, the we'll
known plantation owner Of the islands,
is stopping at the New Willard Hotel.
Mr.. Isenberg seems to regard the labor
situation in Hawaii as deserving of
careful study by the Government He
said:
THE prosperity of Hawaii will de-
pend in the future a great deal upon
the labor market. At present we have
been doing well on account of the high
price of sugar, but I am afraid that
Cuban competition will be sure to alter
the market If our labor supply is cur
tailed.
Recently large numbers Of Japanese
have been leaving the islands for the
mainland on account Of the better
wages offered in Central and Northern
California for farm hands and railroad
workers. There is no way OF stopping
this emigration, and the Federal laws
do not permit of the planters bringing
In Chinese, who have also been taking
notions to leave Hawaii. The one weak
spot in the annexation of Hawaii was
the exclusion Of Chinese labor. The
white man will not and cannot work
in the sugar fields. We have been de-
prived of the most faithful class of
wage-earners for the business in which
we are ngaged-the Oriental.
Cuba is right at our doors and has
great advantage over the Hawaiian
sugar planter. One must remember
that our crop for the Eastern and
European markets has to be sent via
Cape Horn or the Straits Of Magellan"
Every actor is not diplomat, and it
is seldom that diplomat has time to
become good actor. This sounds
somewhat paradoxical. The Minister of
the Netherlands inspires the conflict of
opinion. NJ Van Swinderen has given
almost as much attention to dramatic
art as he has to the rise and fall of the
Dutch republic, and the society ladies
and gentlemen Of Washington say that
he is success both as a Minister and