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The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
DEVOID OF RACE PREJUDICE

But it may well admit of doubt
whether. in the case of any race, an
appointment of one of their number
to a local Office in community in
which the race feeling is so widespread
and acute as to interfere with the ease
and facility with which the local gov
ernment business can be done by the
appointee is of sufficient benefit by way
OF encouragement to the race to out
weigh the recurrence and increase of
race feeling which such an appointment
is likely to engender. Therefore the
executive in recognizing the negro race
by appointment must exercise q care
ful discretion not thereby to do it more
harm than good. On the other hand
the mere pretense of race feeling man
ufactured in the interest of individual
political ambition.
Personally l have not the slightest
race prejudice or feeling, and recogui-
tion of its existence only aWakens in
my heart a deeper sympathy for those
who have to bear IT or suffer from it,
and question the wisdom of a policy
which is likely to increase it. Mean
time. if nothing is done to prevent, a
better feeling between the negroes and
the whites in the south will continue
10 grow, and more and more of the
white people will come TO realize that
the future of the south is to be much
benefited by the Industrial and intel
lectuaI progress of the negro. The ex-
ercise of political franchises by those
Of his race who are intelligent and
well TO do viii be acquleSced in, and the
right to vote viii be withheld only
from the ignorant and irresponsible Of
both races.
There is one other matter to which
/ shall refer. 1t was made the subject
of great controversy during the cleo
ton, and calls for at least q passing
reference now. My distinguished pred
ecessor has given much attention to
the cause of labor, with whose strug-
gle for better things he has shown
the sincerest sympathy. AT his in
stance. congress has passed the bill fix
ing the liability of Interstate carriers
10 their employees for injury sustained
in the course of employment. abolish
ing the rule of fellow servant and the
common law rule as to contributory
negligence. and substituting therefor
the so called rule of comparative negli-
gence II has also passed a law Ak
ing the compensation OF government
employees for injuries sustained in the
employ of the government through the
negligence of the superior IT also
passed a model child labor law for the
district of Columbia. In previous ad-
mfnfstrations an arbitration law for
Interstate commerce railroads and their
employees and laws for the application
of safety devices to save the lives and
limbs Of employees OF interstate rail-
roads had been passed. Additional leg
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
TWO POLICEMEN
MURDER TRIALS ON
Thomas j. Jordan, Soldier,
Charged With Killing
Sergeant Noting

Two of the criminal departments of
the superior court were engaged yes
terday in the trial of murder cases in
which the. defendants are charged with
Killing policemen. In Judge Cabaniss'
court the Introduction of testimony
was begun in the case of Thomas j.
Jordan, soldier accused of the mur-
der of Police Sergeant Noting. Judge
Dunno devoted the day to impaRel-
ing of a jury to try Thomas O. Young,
charged with the murder of Policeman
William H. Helms.
In an opening statement Attorney
Hiram w. Johnson, who is associated
with Assistant District Attorney Han
ley In the prosecution of Jordan. an
nounced that verdict of murder in the
first degree, with the death penalty.
would be asked of the jury. The chief
witness examined was John Krolikou-
ski private in the One Hundredth and
Forty-eighth coast artillery Kroli-
kouski was with Jordan on the night
of the shooting and heard the report of
the revolver shots, but did not see
Noting killed. He testified that he ran
round the corner of Montgomery street
into Clay before the four shots were
fired.
Krolikouski testified that Jordan
was very, very drunk that night.
Tney had been going from saloon to
saloon in Sausalito and in San Fran
cisco, he said. The prosecution claims
that Krolikouskis testimony as to Jor-
dams degree of drunkenness varied
materially from that given by him at
the coroners inquiry The trial will
be resumed this morning.
In the Young case six jurors were
sworn in. and the case went over to
Monday for the jury to be completed
The killing of Policeman Helms took
place on the night of June 4. Thomas
o. Young and his brother, James O
Young, had been turned out. of a Pa
cific street resort after some gun play
There was fighting on the sidewalk
and Helms came along flourishine his
gun. 1t is claimed by the prosecution
that Thomas Young, who was on the
ground, was handed revolver by his
brother, and with 1T shot Helms. The
policeman was wounded in the lungs
and heart and died almost immediately
Both the Youngs are charged witt
murder. Thomas Young has been tried
once, but the jury disagreed. He is
being defended by Attorney Joseph w
Patton.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
NEGRO ENTITLED TO FAIRNESS

The colored men must base their
hope on the results of their own indus
try. self-restraint thrift and business
success, as Weu as upon the aid and
comfort and sympathy which they may
receive from their white neiEhbors of
the south. There was q time when north
erners who sympathized with the negro
in his necessary struggle for better
conditions sought to give to him the
suffrage as protection, and to en-
force its exercise against the prevailing
sentiment of the south. The move
ment proved TO be a failure. What re-
mains is the fifteenth amendment to the
constitution and the right to have
statutes of states specifying qualifica-
tiOns for electors sub bjected to the test
of compliance with that amendment.
This IS a great protection to the negro.
ought to be repealed. If IT had not
been passed. II might be difficult now
to adopt it; but with II in our funda-
mental law. the policy of southern
legislation must and viii tend to obey
#. and so long as the statutes Of the
states meet the test of this amendment
and are not otherwise in conflict with
The constitution and laws of the United
States, II Is not the disposition or in
the province of the federal govern
ment TO interfere with the regulation
by southern states of their domestic
affairs. There is in the south
stronger feeling than ever among the
intelligent, well to do and influential
element in favor of the industrial
education of the negro and the encour-
agement of the race TO make them
selves useful members of the commun-
ity. The progress which the negro has
made in the last so years from slavery
when its statistics are reviewed. is
marvellous. and 1t furnishes every rea-
son to hope that In the next 25 years
a still greater improvement in his con-
dition as a productive member of So
ciety. on the farm, and in the shop and
in other occupations, may come. The
negroes are now Americans. Their an
cestors came here years ago against
their viii. and this is their only coun-
try and their only flag. They have
shown themselves anxious to live for
it and to - for it. Encountering the
race feeling against them, subjected at
times to cruel injustice growing out
Of it. they may well have our pro-
found sympathy and aid in the strug-
gle they are making. We are charged
with the sacred duty of making their
path as smooth and easy as we can
Any recognition Of their distin guished
men. any appointment to office from
among their number. is properly taken
as an encoura cement. and an apprecia-
tion of their progress, and this Just
policy shall be pursued.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
NEW FIRE ALARM BOXES
AND STATION ARE DESIRED
Inadequacy Of Present System
Pointed Out by Chief

The inadeGuacy of the equipment
and the danger by FIRE to the entire
fire alarm service of this city was en-
Phasized by chief of the department Of
electricity. William J. Nixon, In an ac-
dress before the members of the Down
town association al d luncheon at the
Hotel ST. Francis Wednesday, Nixon
told the merchants that his department
was housed IN a temporary building in
Fulton street. There was absolutely no
protection 80 his building from crossed
wires and other sources OF FIRE. The
overhead wires were in a very pre-
carious condition and in danger of go
ing out OF existence any moment, he
said.
lie requested the merchants to aid
him in securing an appropriation TO
pat the fire alarm service in at least
working condition lie estimated $780,,
600 as a necessary amount 10 secure a
proper central location for a plant and
Tor the installation Of proper overhead
nixon told the merchants that s62OO
had been appropriated by the board OF
supervisors for the Installing Of the
latest type mountaineering fire alarm
boxes Some of these VIII be installed
I'm the downtown shopping district. At
the present time there are but two
boxes available in that section imme-
diately surrounding Union square.
The matter Of doing away with the
old style garbage cans now on the side
walks Of the shopping district was
fully discussed It is planned TO have
a receptacle either in the sidewalk or
the street to hold refuse. Designs viii
be drawn and ful details given of this
matter at the next meeting.
Robert A. ROOs told Of his experiences
while on a recent trip to New York,
and emphasized the necessity Of having
traffic police at the various contested
street crossings Of the downtown dis
trict He suggested that two mounted
patrolrnen be stationed at kearny and
Market streets as a beginner.
A committee was appointed to inter
view the chief Of police and report at
the next meeting
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
ARIEL LATHROP'S WILL
ADMITTED TO PROBATE
Bulk of Estate Given to Chari-
ties in the East

The will of ARIEL LathroD. brother
of the late Mrs. Jane L. Stanford. who
died in Albany. N. Y October II. 1908.
was admitted to probate in this state
yesterday by Judge Graham.
This was necessary because. although
the bulk of the estate Is in New York.
there is s14,S76 belonging to il in a
safety deposit box Of the San Francisco
savings union. Donald McCredie and
Russell H. Johnston. executors OF the
viii, furnished the formal testimony.
They were placed under $4,000 bonds.
LathroD's estate is said 20 be worth
about $1.000.000 The great bulk of
it is bequeathed to charities Several
small legacieS are made to relatives
and the residue goes TO eastern insti-
tutiOns. The hospitals and asylums Of
Albany are generously remembered
Nothing is left TO the Stanford uni
versity. Lathrop was large stock
holder In the Southern Pacific COMPANY
He went east soon after the death Of
his brother in law. Senator Stanford
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
OUTLINES POLICIES
President Taft to Enforce POIi-
Cies Advocated During Roose-
yeIt's Incumbency
Continued from mage 2

Continued from mage
desired. The prosperity of Porto Rico
continues unabated. The business con-
oitons in the Philippines are not all
tnat we could wish them to be, but
Win the passage of the new tarlm Dill
permitting free trade between the
united States and the archipelago, with
such limitations in SUGAR and tobacco
as shall prevent injury to the domestic
interests on those products, We can
count on an Improvement in business
conditions in the Philippines and the
development of q mutually profitable
trade between this country and the
islands. Meantime our government in
each dependency is upholding the ira
%al.lons % OF clYlI liberty and increasing
popular control which mi"ht be eN-
pected under American auspices. The
work which we are doing there re-
bounds TO our credit as a nation.
look forward with hope to -
creasing the already good feeling be-
tween the south and the other sections
Of the country. My chief purpose is
not to effect a change in the electoral
vote of the southern states. That is a
secondary consideration. What l look
forward 10 is an increase in the toll
erance of political views of all kinds
and their advocacy throughout the
south, and the existence of a respect
able political opposition in every state;
even more than this, to an increased
feeling on the part of all the-people
in the south that this government is
| their government, and that its officers
IA lIeli states are InelE OIQC6TS.
The consideration of this question
can not, however. be complete and full
without reference to the negro race,
its progress and its present condition.
The thirteenth amendment secured
them freedom; the fourteenth amend
nent the due process of law. protection
OF property and the pursuit of happi-
ness and the fifteenth amendment at
tempted to secure the negro against
any deprivation Of the privilege TO
vote because he was a negro. The
/ thirteenth and fourteenth amendments
have been generally enforced and have
secured the objects for which they
were intended. While the fifteenth
amendment has not been generally OBJ
served in the past. it ought to be OBJ
served. and the tendency of southern
legislation today is toward the enact
ment of electoral qualifications which
shall square with that amendment. OF
course, the mere adoption Of a consti-
tutional law is only one step in the right
direction. 1t must be fairly and justly
enforced as well. In time both will
come. Hence it is clear to all that the
domination of an ignorant. irrespon-
sible element can be prevented by con-
stitutional laws which shall exclude
from voting both negroes and whites
not having education or rather ouali1-
cations thought to be necessary for
proper electorate. The danger of the
control of an ignorant electorate has
therefore passed. With this change
the interest which many of the south
ern white citizens take in the welfare
Of the negroes is Increased.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
BLAME LIGHTHOUSE
MEN FOR WRECK
Sybil MarstOn's Skipper Ac-
cuses Keepers OF ArgueIIo
Beacon of IntOxicatiOn

charges that the government light
house keepers at Point Arguello were
asleep and intoxicated at the time of
The wreck OF the steam schooner. Sfbyl
Marston and the loss of two lives near
surf January - We're made by CAPTAIN
schulinszy and members of his crew at
1he Investigations into the cause of the
loss OF their vessel. conducted by Local
steamship Inspectors Bolles and Bulger
yesterday
p Captain Schllinsky was represented
al the hearing by Henry Taylor He
said that Jacob Nelson, his second mate.
who was on watch with him at the
time the vessel struck. was incom-
petent and gave him incorrect sound
ings which led him to believe that he
was well out from shore and in no
danger The second cause he attributed
TO the presence of the bright and steady
light a the Surf railway station which
caused him TO mistake it for the light
house at Point Arguello, the only light
on the chart in that vicinity The third
cause was the alleged absence of the
Point ArgUello light and fog signals
due. the captain said, to the incom-
petence and neglect Of the lighthouse
keepers.
Commander Lopez Of the navy. super
intendent Of lighthouses on the Pacific
was present at the hearing and said
that the confusion arising from light
houses being indistinguishabie from
other coast lights was the cause OF
many serious accidents to vessels and
that he had recommended to the
authorities at Washington some months
ago that all lighthouses should be
either revolving or colored.
officers and members of the crew OF
the vessel testified that after they had
reached Surf station in the boats the
telegraph operator there had told them
that he had wired TO the wireless
operator at Point Arguello informing
him that a vessel was on the beach, and
that the official had said in reply that
he would 90 and awaken the light
house tenders. Later the men came to
the Surf station and appeared to be the
worse for liquor
The investigation was put over un-
III the testimony Of Jacob Nelson, the
second mate. can be secured Nelson
is now in the north. a member Of the
crew of q lghtship.
Those who testified yesterday were
Captain SchillinslIy, Il. Baumann, first
mate; John Helander. lookout; Frank
Mclean and Alex Mcdonald, engineers
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
DISCUSSES INJUNorIoN LAW

Another labor question has arisen
which has awakened the most excited
discussion. That Is in respect to the
power of the federal courts to issue
injunctions in industrial disputes. As
to that my convictions are fixed. Take
away from courts, If 1t could be taken
away. the power to Issue iniunct1ons
in labor disputes and 1t would create
a privileged class among the ,laborers
and save the lawleSs among their num-
Der from a most needful remsdy avail
able to all men for che protection of
their business against lawless invasion.
The proposition that business Is not
a property or pecuniary right which
can be protected by equitable injunc-
precedent or reason. The proposition
is usually linked with one to make the
secondary boycott lawful Such a
American instinct and will find no sun
nort. in my Judgment. when submitted
to the American people. The second
ary boycott is an instrument of tvran-
ny and ought not to be made legiti-
mate.
The issue of temporary restraining
order without notice has in several in
stances been abused by its inconsider-
ate exercise. and to remed- this the
platform upon which ] was elected
recommends the formulation in stat
ute of the conditions under which such
temporary restraining order ought
to issue. A statute can and ought to
he framed TO embodv the best modern
practice and can bring the subject so
closely to the attention of the court
2 s TO make abuses of the process un-
likely in the future. American people.
If understand them. insist that the
authority of the courts shall be sus-
tanned and are opposed to any change
in the procedure by which the powers
Of a court NAV be weakened az tho
fearless and effective administration of
Justice be interfered with.
Having thus reviewed the questions
likely to recur during my administra-
tion and having EXPRESSED in a sum
mary way the position which expect
to take in recommends tions to con
eress and in NV conduct as an execu-
tive. T invoke the considerate sympat hr-
and support of nv fellow citizens and
the aid Of Almighty God in the dis
charge of NV RESPONSIBLE duties.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05

gilty as charge.
Wv. PHILLIPS,
Foreman Of the jorey."
The above verdict handed down by a
iurv in a justices court in MADEIRA and
upheld by the superior court of that
county was up before the supreme court
Yesterday afternoon in the application
of f L McCapes, the defendant, Tor a
writ Of habeas corpus.
McCapes was convicted or having
lighted a fire within the city limits
without first securing permit. Nc
Capes testified that he had been boring
= well on his property and that he had
found IL necessary to blast
Fearing that a blast would set IRE TO
the dry grass in the vicinity Of the
well he first burned It. He was arrested
while burning the grass.
The Justice Of the peace entered the
verdict on the minutes Of the court,
only he corrected errors. McCapes ap-
vealed to the superior court Of MADEIRA
county and that tribunal upheld the
verdict Of the jury
Yesterday McCapes applied for writ
OF habeas corpus, cOntending that he
rad tried TO protect the community by
burning the dry grass near the well.
and that the Justice had not entered
he verdict Of the jury as rendered in
fbe minutes Of the court
The justice OF the peace hned Nc
canes only S26. but he declines to pay
n iinless ordered by the higher court
The writ was granted and made re-
furnable April 5.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
Roosevelts First Article on journalism

sensationalism, which appeals to
people of taste and intelligence, may
nevertheless do them grave harm
and be within its own rather narrow
limits an element of serious mis-
chief. For ii may habitually and
consistently practice a malign and
slanderous untruthfuiness which,
though more refined, is as immoral
as sensationalism.
"a cultivated man of good intel
ligence who has acquired the knack
of saying bitter things, but who
lacks the robustness to fight alone
among men, is apt, if his nature has
anything of meanness or untruthful-
ness, to sit In cioistered aloofness
and to endeavor by an unceasing
output of Islander to bolster up his
own uneasy desire to be Considered
superior.
Now a paper edited by men of
this stamp does not have much pop
uler influence, but 1t may exert
real influence for evil by the way in
which it teaches young men of good
education that decent and upright
men are as properly the subjects of
foul attack as the most debased cor
ruptionist; that efficiency and wick
edness are interchangeable and that
the correct attitude to adopt in
facing the problems of our time is
one of sneering and supercilious un-
truthfuIness"
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
MECHANICS, INSTITUTE
HOLDS ANNUAL ELECTION
Rudolph j. Taussig Again
Chosen President

Rudolph j. Taussig was reelected
president of the Mechanics Institute
at the annual meeting of that organi-
zation, which was held in the library
for a number of years and was elected
without opposition. The remaining Of
fees were filled by the following:
Vice president, Livingston jerks: re-
cording secretary, James G. Spaulding:
corresponding secretary, James H
Lyons; secretary. James w Cummings.
According TO the report of Secretary
Joseph NJ. Cummings the membership
OF the institute amounts to $3.50. There
are 83,043 books in the library. and
the institute has deposited In various
banks s42,4S2.S1.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05

n T Ew YORK. March 4,-The first
N editorial article from the pen
of former President Roosevelt,
which appears in the March
issue of the Outlook, deals with the
subject of journalism" 1t says in
part:
Every owner. editor or reporter
of conscientious newspaper is an
asset OF real value TO the commu-
nifty. We have many newspapers,
big and little, of this kind. But we
also have many that are emphatieal-
ly not of this kind.
During the last few years it has
become evident that certain news
papers are controlled by men who
have gained wealth in evil fashion,
who desired to stifie honest public
opinion. and who find an instrument
in the purchased mendacity of those
who edit and write for such papers. "
Mr.. Roosevelt then pays his re-
spects to "the apostles of that hid
eous yellow Journalism which deifies
the cult of the mendaeious, the SEN
sational and the inane."
In conclusion he refers to another
type of temptation which has great
fascination for men of cultivation
and which is quite as fatal to their
usefulness as yellow Journalism"
He says of these:
"A newspaper which avoids vulgar
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05

islation of this kind was passed by the
outgoing congress.
1 wish to say that in so far as
can I hope to promote the enactment
of further legislation of this character.
am strongly convinced that the gov
ernment should make itself as respon-
sible to employees injured in Its en-
ton is made responsible by federal
law to it's employees; and 1 shall be
glad, whenever any additional reason
able safety device can be invented to
reduce the loss of life and limb among
railway employees. to urge congress to
require its adoption by interstate rail-
ways.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
No Chemicals for Anty Drudge.

Mrs Neigk5or-''Anty Drudge, I'm you must uss
chemicals in your wash I've boiled my clothes and
rubbed them till my fingers blistered, but they
look yellow beside yours.
Anty Dr7,dge-'No, didn't chemicals, nor didn't
boil them nor rub them hard. used Fes-Naptha IN
lukewarm water Fels-Naptha took the dirt out Of
my clothes while you rubbing dirt into yours
That makes the difference"
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
What soap will you use to wash clothesi

What soap will you use to wash clothes'
If you insist on weakening your clothes
by boiling them, wearing them out by
hard-rubbing, putting up with all the
inconvenience Of hot fires, nauseous
steaming suds and yellow clothes, it doesn't
matter which you use.
But if you want to do your washing
comfortably, in cold or lukewarm water,
without hard work and in half the time
then there is only one soap for you-and
that soap is Fels-Naptha.
The reason why is in the different way
Fels-Naptha is made The results speak
for themselves. Get Fels-Naptha fro m
your grocer and try it. But be sure and
use it the Fels-Naptha way-no hot water.
Follow directions on the red and green
wrapper