The San Francisco call., 1909-09-05

and finish these prosecutions, that
would be her shame, and every man
who says the prosecutions should stor
knows in lis heart that it would be
San Francisco's shame if they did stop
! Since these cases have been under
way an organized effort has been made
! by these indicted men and their friends
in a financial way to prevent the laws
from being enforced. Coupled with that
/ they have thrown abuse on your dis
| trict attorney and his assistant for
performing their duty. Those two
/ gs-the attacks on justice and the
/ torrent of ahuse--make it necessary to
show at the coming election that San
Francisco is not less virtuous and is
| not more corrupt at this time than in
the palmiest days of the Schmitz re-
gime.
ISSUE is PLAIN
| Il stopped off for couple of days
! on my way back TO San Francisco to
prepare this speech by taking a good
rest. 1 have been away now for about
| two months and a half, and it is the
! longest and practically the first vaca-
| ton l have had in several years. /
! have been away so long that | hardly
know how TO talk about the graft pros
ecution. I have almost forgotten how.
But the issue is so plain that not even
| a child could misunderstood it. The
| women of San Francisco understand it,
thank God, and, my friends, it is more
! important that they should understand
| it than that even the voters should un-
derstand it, because San Francisco will
continue to grow and prosper even If
| things should go wrong at this cleo
/ ton, but the city is doomed as place
| of residence just as the standards of
our nation are doomed, if honor
righteousness and honesty do not pre-
vail And it is the women-the
mothers-who must instill these prin-
/ ciples into the breasts and hearts OF
/ the growing generation which is to
| take it's place in the future as the cit
| izenship of this city and this country
II have no patience with this talk
| that we hear from merchants and bank
ers that the prosecution is hurting
business. They heard the same talh
| in Boston when our revolutionary sires
! threw tea overheard. 1t would hurt
business, they said, to have a war will
! England / can see the picture, wher
! Thomas Jefferson was signing the dec
Iaration of independence, of a large
| man, who looked like the cartoonist's
representation of a corporation official
| coming through the door behind hin
and shouting, Hold on, Tom, you'll hurt
business And when Washington was
! spending that terrible winter with his
! army at Valley Forge, the same class
/ of men who are now crying at us ir
! San Francisco were shouting for the
| war to stop. Damn principle, they
were crying IT'S hurting business
This war must stop
tAnd some of you men are ole
! enough to remember that during the
/ civil war there were snen who said, Tn
/ for the union, of course, but this things
lasting too long. 1t ought to stop
| It's hurting business. Besides, don't
like Grants methods of fighting. He
wins too many battles.'
BUSINESS NOT HURT
Il say, If this prosecution is hurting
business, whose business is it hurt
ing? Is there man in the house
whose business it has hurt? Why
James ID. Phelan is popularity credited
with the prosecution, yet he had no
difficulty in borrowing $4,000. 600 in the
east to bring out here and put into
one building to help build UP our
city. He didn't have $4,000. 600 OF
bonds and $20,000,000 of preferred
stock to offer as security. either He
had only the lot on which this building
was to stand, yet so great was the
confidence of the east in San Fran
cisco that he had no trouble in get
ting this money. And Rudolph Spreck
els had no trouble in borrowing ST ,o00.-