Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-22 | Page 12 | Poor San Francisco is Still in Need

POOR SAN FRANCISCO IS STILL IN NEED. The dally papers of San Francisco have held out the hope that the worst in that city was passed, and that it Is on the up grade. The Argonaut tells the truth and shows that statements to the effect that the destitution was about passed were cruel in the extreme. - ' It says the fool statements of the dally press have' stopped the sending to San Francisco of millions of dollars that was and Is sorely needed ; that the Impression in the East was that $20,000,000 had been forwarded to. San Francisco In cash, and large amounts of mqneythat had been raised for San Francisco were tied up under the impression im-pression that there was no occasion to send it; that $800,000 supplied by the Chamber of Commerce of New York City was placed in the care of J. P. Morgan, Jr.. wno placed It where It would draw Interest subject to the call of the president, Morris K. Jessup, and the treasurer, Mr. Morgan; that learning of this two. Calif ornlans. Franklin K. Lane and Hermann Oelrlchs, who were in New York, telegraphed Chairman James D. Phelan, asking him to wire how much money had really been received. To this Mr. Phelap replied under date of June 2: "Actual "Ac-tual cash receipts to date. $4,243,000"; that on the same day Gen. Greely reported to Washington 126,970 destitute people in San Francisco alone and 30,000 destitute outside of San Francisco, and the Argonaut says that "the freely gushing fountains 'of benevolence flowing from all over the United States a few weeks ago were checked by the false reports of hysteric boomers." Then It viys: "And the destitution over! With 100,000 peoa living on the bitter bread of charity? Do you know what 100,000 people means? Do you know it means the population of a hundred villages, of fifty towns, of half a score of small cities, that all these people, men, women and children, have no food to eat, no roofs to their heads, no shoes to their feet, no clothing to wear? And this Is the appalling kind of situation which the hysteric boomers have so misstated as to mislead the warm hearts of the benevolent people of this great, rich and most prosperous country." Readers will see that San Francisco needs relief as much today as It did on the day earthquake and fire destroyed de-stroyed it; relief in money, relief In food, relief In clothing all the kinds of relief that 100,000 destitute Americans need, Americans who have not sufficient clothing to wear, no food to eat except the bitter food of charity, and no roofs over their heads. The appeal is as pathetic as ever was made to a prosperous nation.