The daily sentinel., 1906-11-16
HUMAN JACKALS.

What sort of human hyenas must
those individuals be, connected with
the municipal government of the city
of San Francisco, that they would
graft of the money sent to the RELIEF
OF the sufferers by the great earth
quake in that city.
That the money sent to the relief
of sufferers never reached them, l.
now positively assured by the investi-
cations being made by the govern
ment.
The whole country is shocked at
the moral depravity Of the gang con-
nected with the government Of thai
stricken city. They can hardly con
ccivc that any set of men in high Of
fetal position would rob relief funds,
sent to relieve the sufierings of the
thousands in one Of the worst cata
cla.ms that has ever visited this ma
tion.
The national government has en-
tered into the crusade to unearth
those who robbed the sufferers in
that city. Ii is said that no amount
of money will he spared to bring t"
light those connected with the damn
able steal. From almost every ham
let in the land. by mail and express
and generally in the care of some Of
fetal OF the city government OF the
city of San Francisco money was
sent for relief.
The Red Cross society, IL has now
been ascertained, has received but
money and IL is the purpose of the
governbnent to find from whence the
money was sent and into whose hands
II fell. Mayor Schmitz is even charged
with some of the shortcomings in the
disappearance of this money, as vast
sums were sent in his care and these
sums of money never reached the aid
societies for which IL was destined.
The newspapers are working with
the national government in the city of
San Francisco and also with the citi-
zens committee, consisting of many
James Phelan and Adolph Spreckles
at their head, which is guarantee
that no guilty CRATER will escape.
Ii is almost impossible to believe
that sums of money and great sums
mt that, should have been diverted
from the purpose for which 1t had
been collected and have gone into the
pockets of the worst set of political
thugs and grafters ever connected
with any city government In this
country.
What makes the crime even greater
than IL ordinarily would be is that the
money was for the relief of actual
suffering. The same men who stole
/ that money, would have doubtless
robbed the dead or have become van
dals, prcying upon the dead in San
Francisco streets, had not the strong
arm of the government interviewed to
protect the property of the dead and
dying on that terrible day and days
after the earthquake.
Sometimes we believe that there is
II race of men, allied to the hyena
. whose purpose is TO destroy and tax,
advantage of their fellows i'm life and
death. Following this thought ont
that men reappear on earth. their
bodies and spirits the incarnation oi
dead animals, one can readily believe
that those devils who stole the relief
funds of San Francisco are related
to the dead iackals and hyenas who
have lived ut sotne time before.
II is nasty scandal. II Is more sO
that the purpose for which the money
was sent, was for the relief of Il
gricf-striclIcn city and its inhabitants
The gifts were the outpoui-ings oi
the hearts of tens of thousands oi
their fellow countrymen. II follows
that the American people will be
more chary of their relief hereafter.
Mayor Schmitz has but one thing "a
do. when he reaches home from hi,
tour. He must clear his reputation oI
the charge that he has stood in with
J the grafters, in stealing this money,
or ever afterward be bounded as the
2 most despicable official In American
municipal life.