The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-18

day would run Is times us, or 10
times 10 will give US the number OF
hours. How much is that? Nine nun
dred and eishty-one thousand. one nun
dred and twenty-five car hours per
year-95S,159 cars hours per year. for
F1T5 cars. What Is the platform eX-
20 cents an hour for each man. the
lowest, so cents an hour, one-half; IL
II was 81 an hour on 95S.1 25 car hours
II would make saving OF 1851 20. 1t
is half of that, so cents an hour. That
is S479, 062.50 year saved in the wages
OF platform men alone. and the cost
Of operation is Just about double the
cost OF the platform men. which would
make 1t close up to 100000 of actual
saving by runningf IS cars less than
they were running before the fre. No
wonder they were willing to pay 5000
900 for the right TO make this change.
DENoUNCES BOSSES METHODS
Heney turned TO a brief description
of conditions existing in San Francisco
under the Ruef schmitz administration
prior TO the fire, and describing the
methods employed by the boss and city
officials and the system of Sunday night
caucusses, ne cried:
What a spectacle for American citi-
zensi The history OF the country shows
that the only serious menace to Amer
, lean liberty and TO the perpetuity OF
our institutions lies In the large cities
of the country. Everybody knows that
corrupt bosses. Most Of the people are
in the habit of thinking that the bosses
create the conditions; they don't. They
merely take advantage of the condi-
tons that have been created by whom?
| Two classes of people create these con-
ditions. Both classes want special priv
neges- One class is known as the
tenderloin. They want to- be able to
commit crime and not be punished for
it. The kind of crime they want 10
commit is the kind that merely en-
haf =
want 70 have opium joints where peo-
pie who have become addicted TO the
habit may spend their money; they
want to run dance halls in connection
with saloons, where foolish men may
squander their earnings on poor,
abandoned women They want that
men who come in there instead of
waiting for them TO spend il all. and
not be arrested for the crime. They
T sbn IN that h, the policeman on the peat
as murder or some heinous crime is
not committed.
Those people are preying. preying
the birds of the prairie They create
the first requisite for a political boss
in a large city. They are willing to
who is willing to give them the privi-
lege OF committing these crimes undis-
turbed Well. a political boss. with
that kind ~of backing, must have little
Il
vast majority of good citizens. He
would have very little chance to win
IL the people knew what they were
doing when they went to the ballot
box. But most of the time IL is like
that juror who was examined here on
this panel; he went as a delegate TO
| a state convention. but he didn't know
whom he voted for as the nominee for
governor because he was voted by Abe
Ruef. And when a man has once been
nominated on the republican ticket, or
on the democratic, when he comes on
the platform the orators say: Vote
for this man because George Washing
ton was a member OF this party and
look at the great things George Wash
ington did for this country: Abraham
Lincoln was a member of this party,
and look at the great things he did for
this country: Theodore Roosevelt was a
member Of this party. and look at the
great things he did for this country.
Do you blame Nate Coghlan or any
other man nominated on the republica n
ticket by a political boss for running
upon the record of George Washington
Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roose-
Welt, instead OF on his own record III
he can get people to vote for him upon
those records?
WHO WANTED THE DOODLE
Do you suppose that a majority of
the people OF the city and county OF
San Francisco wanted boodlers in of
fee? OF course not. But these tender
loiu people wanted them. Why7 Tnev
were interested in the mayor; they