The San Francisco call., 1910-07-02
new ORLEANS HURLS
ABUSE and LIES
Southern City, Lacking Better
Argument, Desceuds to
Mud Singing
viIification and Glaring I'M
truths Circulated in Effort
to Steal Exposition


Outgeneralled in diplomatic maneu-
vering, its battle array of argument
scattered before the onslaught of San
Francisco's facts, the city of New Or
leans has executed a flank movement
IN the hope that victory may be
snatched from defeat in the fight for
the Panama Pacific 1915 exposition.
New Orleans IS using now a fire of
invective. It is hurting at its Pacific
coast rival torrent of vilification.
And in this torrent it is mixing, un-
consciously or otherwise, number of
glaring untruths.
The literature being circulated by
the New Orleans exposition committee
has been ffnIing its way into the
hands of the directors of the local eX-
position company. At first surprised,
they soon became disgusted
WILL PROVE BOOMERANG
New Orleans will gain nothing by
its new method of campaign" said "a
member of the board of directors yes
terday THE attitude of the southern
people is surprise to us, but it will
in the end prove boomerang. we
shall take no action upon the scurrli-
1t is worthy only of silent contempt.
To use the same weapons in return,
and they lie handy to our reach, would
be beneath the dignity of San Fran
CISCO
Among the pamphlets given coun-
trywide circulation is one containing
an excoriation of San Francisco by one
Stephen H Taft of Sawtelle, Cal In
this. San Francisco is painted as a
city of undesirables, a municipality
populated and governed by human vul-
lures, reveling in social and political
degeneration.
"At the last election says the
pamphlet, "the city was placed in the
hands of the criminal class"
San Francisco Is Modem Baoy-
lon' Is is tit:e. Under the supervision
of such moral degerates,' it continues,
"an exposition in San Francisco would
be a repetition of the feast of Belshaz-
Ear" Quoting this efffusion from saw
telle the New Orleans boosters ask II
San Francisco's moral, social and poll
tical status is of character to make
it fit" to be the site of an exposition.
WANTS FEDERAL AID
In another pamphlet the city boasts
of having raised 100000 in subscrip-
tions in one week and of having
nledged $4,000, 900 at a mass meeting.
AS a COMPARISON san Il oiiSioNo
s4.0S9 900 in two hours, has now raised
nearly $4,000, 900 and has pledged
$500, 900. =
New Orleans boasts that because 1t
has pledged $1,000. 900 the government
will be glad to contribute an equal
amount San Francisco has informed
congress that it wants no federal finan-
cial assistance.
1t boasts of the naval pageants it
can handle, despite the acknowledged
fact that men Of war visiting New Or
leans have to be towed UP the river
TO anchorage. They can not move un-
der their own steam, for the dangers
are too great.
A startlingly unique argument ad-
vanced Is that New Orleans is nearer
than San Francisco to Newfoundland
as well as to the Cape Verde Islands on
the coast of Africa. This argument is
put forward in all seriousness, as If
the wealth and population of the world
centered there.
ammunition New Orleans wastes some
powder on San Diego. With a disre-
gard for geographical facts II declares
San Diego to be five miles inland, with
a populationTof $4,000 souls. San Diego.
nevertheless, is an actual seaport and
boasts a population of some $4,000 or
more.
With picture drawings of San Fran
cisco and New Orleans decorated with
huge circles the pamphlet takes occa-
sion also to distort the population fig
ures to the advantage of the latter city.