The San Francisco call., 1909-11-01

lent popular party, nor sneers nor
falsehoods, nor men nor wicked
laws can put asunder.'
1.-The churches of San Francisco
are to be commended and congratu-
lated upon their united stand for
the honor of their city. They are
not responsible for those. who. vio-
lating every religious and moral
law. have brought their city to the
dust in the sight of the world.
But now that the battle Is between
the city's. betrayers and the city $
defenders, 1t would be to the ever
lasting shame of the churches II
they did not array themselves
firmly and indivfsibly, as they do.
against the forces of civic lawless-
ness and moral anarchy.
1.-The only hope of the forces
of evil is to divide and scatter the
ethical and religious bodies in a
community. If there ~, a moral
uprising on Tuesday III your city.
graft is doomed. The only hope
of graft lies in the sleeping con-
science of the many and the want
of union among the awakened few
When the churches together es-
pouse the high cause of, civic re-
.demption, as they today are doing,
it becomes irresistible. None so
basely unjust as to hold the citi-
zenship of San Francisco answer
able for the misdeeds of a handful
of men.
"'But if 1t come to pass on Tues
day that San Francisco should :
stay, and not sustain, the arm of
the prosecution, the city would
thereby serve notice upon the anxt-
ously watching nation: Our gov
ernment can not be conducted hon
estly; graft and corruption can not
be g adicated immunity must be
the portion of every wrongdoer; 1T
is not polite to bring civic male
factors to punishment; it is more
eXpedient to tolerate the crimes of
looting and boodling, especially II
rich and powerful interests are in
volved, than to encourage honest
and fearless prosecutors to break
up the reasonable alliances be-
tween the contemplate bribe TAX
ers and the abhorrent bribe givers.
Such as urge that peace and
prosperity will not dwell within
the walls of San Francisco until
the graft prosecution, as well as the
disturbance and agitation inciden-
tai thereto shall have been brought
to an end, need to be reminded that
the only way to settle a moral
question is to settle 1t Alright. Men
may compromise, as Wendell Phil
lips said, on questions of corn and
cotton, but not on questions of con-
science and honor. The moment
an iota of principle be yielded,
there is nothing left to yield.
1T may be true that certain
would have nre-
ferred to deal .honorably with San
Francisco but deemed it necessary
to pay tribute to the Schmitz Ruef
blackmailing crew. In their de-
tense they say that they had to
have peace in order to carry on
their great transportation industry
and therefore they retained the IN
famous blackmailing company.
"'San Francisco must have honor
before peace. and therefore it will
retain Francis Heney to prosecute
the great public business of con-
serving the welfare, the security,
the honor of its people.
The slanderer of city is not
he who cries shame upon such as
wrong the city, but he NAose
shameful betrayal of the city
makes the cry of alarm needful.
who does not love his city honor
enough to loathe it's shame.
San E'ranciSco'S defamerS are
those who have put her to shame
by their evil deeds and not those
who have in earnest words clam
ored for redress. San Franciscos
defamers have been the grafters
and their defenders, but not Heney,
Spreckels, Older and their asso-
ciates. Heney stands before the
nation not as the defamer, but as
the defender of his city's honor.
Woe not unto the so called de-
famers who are the truth tellers.
but unto. those whose conduct
makes. truth telling seem defama-
tion, and even understatement
sound like calumny.. L would ask
those who lightly indulge in cries
of slander and defamation touching
the graft prosecutors whether we
ought to look upon men robbing
and betraying their city, and yet
not cry stop thief" and pursue
the thieves, who filch the city So
name as well as purse, until they
be brought to Justice. Shall men
be suffered to commit every in
fanny and then silence honest pro-
test by false cries of reckless fault
finders and untruthful calurnia-
tors.
1.-The citizen of San Francisco
as he enters the voting booth, must
ignore every consideration save
the welfare and honor of his city.
Voting neither as Christian nor as
Jew, neither as republican nor as
democrat, neither as employer nor
as employed. untrammeled by pref
udice or partisanship or private in
terest, he must vote at the bidding
:. of conscience for San Francisco.
"a vote for San Francisco means
such reinforcement of strength to
the prosecution as shall bury graft
beyond the hope of resuscitation.
Let no man or group of men
be deceived that the sgrafters are
helpful and friendly to their inter-
ests. Grafters are friends to none,
but foes to all, themselves included.
organized labor is everywhere
learning to spurn with righteous
anger the insulting professions of
friendship and good will made. to
them by the most dangerous enc
mics of the republic, the forces of
civic corruption.
1.-THE era of redemption for San
Francisco will be inaugurated on
Tuesday if every voter repeat the
"Freeman's Oath" of 1884, taken in
the early days of the colony of
Massachusetts,:
"..I do solennly bind myself
that / will give my vote and suf-
frage as I shall Judge in mine own
conscience may best conduce to
the public veal, so help me God"