Etc. [pp. 487-492]

Discharged soldiers' food and trans portation................
Drugs..........................
Expenses, including labor, draying,
postage, etc., office Post street....
Expenses, office Spreckels Building.
Furniture, tents, cots, and mat tresses.......................
groceries: canned goods, vegeta bles, fruits, provisions, wines, etc..
Glassware, lamps, and crockery....
Hardware, tinware, stoves, etc.....
Hospitality Committee, including
expense of lunches at ferry......
Medical treatment of soldiers......
Medals and badges...............
Miscellaneous, including expenses
ETC.
731.03
3,639.-o4
1,508.4l
847.09
1,252.81
3,863.2I
I28.63
485.65
3,230.'I4
I40.62
2,470.73
THE superiority of Chi To nese political methods over
Learn from our own has just received
China. a striking illustration. Cer tain high officials, having
been convicted of gross
stupidity in that they wished to introduce into
the perfect land the barbarous ideas and methods of the outer nations,- an inverted sort of
Algerism, so to speak.- were promptly seized
and beheaded. One of the ringleaders of this
baneful conspiracy escaped to a British warship, and told us all about it. But for him,
we should never have heard that there had
been a conspiracy of reformers, that their dire
machinations had been thwarted, or that the
lord high executioner had nipped their criminal aspirations in the bud. It would have all
happened quietly and quickly, without any
unnecessary advertising, and without any
chance for the culprits to make any "backtalk."
How different it is with us. We find a
group of high officials guilty of gross stupidity by which many hundreds of valuable lives
are lost and still more permanently injured.
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South
Surgi
ss Society of San Francisco.. I,049.I3
Cross tent and committee on
ses........................ 497.8
Cross nurses, Manila......... 225.00
Dakota, Ist Regiment Infantry 200.00
cal instruments and ambulance 2,738. Io
Total disbursements.........$43,364.54
Cash on hand to balance.... I9,I57.83
$62,522.37
Respectfully submitted,
WILLARD B. HARRINGTON,
Assistant Treasurer.
Do we adopt the prompt and vigorous methods of the nation whose philosophers wrote
ethical treatises, when our ancestors were eating their meat raw because they did not know
how to make a fire to cook it? Do we draw
wisdom from a font which was open when
Moses smote the rock in the desert? Do we
seize the criminals and hurry them to the executioner? Far from it. We do not even shove
their heads through a cangue- except the
metaphorical one which tlhe newspapers make.
We leave them at liberty to practise all the
shiftiness which a long life in politics has developed, to squirm and wriggle out of our
censure, to capture and sacrifice scapegoats
among their subordinates. And when, like a
parcel of whimpering schoolboys caught pilfering in an orchard, they piteously beg to be
forgiven "just this once," we let them go with
a caution. The results are such as to make
many,of us wish for the more radical methods
of the Chinese.
Ever since the conclusion of peace there
has been an almost uninterrupted cry of indignation over the preventable suffering to
which our soldiers have been subjected. We