Show BUE AND XU TilE THE EARTHQUAKE Eo Ono One gets gels a line on the different typo type of or men at Galveston Gal Gal Gal- veston and at San Francisco when one reflects on what wha the people of or the two Iwo cities did In the day lay of disaster At Galveston the best men inca took tool charge charse of or affairs devoted devoted devoted de de- de- de voted themselves night and day to devising a simple am and direct plan Illan of o government Insured safety ty of life and property property prop prop- erty for the first period of confusion and then continued the lie reign of law and order permanently In Iii San Francisco the men In control devoted themselves themselves them them- selves with an even en greater grealer energy to lo the despoiling o othe or of orthe the people t to tho the fattening of ot themselves and their powers po to lo the enslavement of or the whole holo cit city in a reign of riot It Is In evidence that Abe Ruef received five eighty five thousand dollars boodle from a single tran transaction action In which the rights of the people were bartered away I It ItIs Itis is in evidence that Mayor profited In like lIko manner manne at the expense of or the people over o whom ho he had been bee called to rule In the day of or devastation they took look advantage ad ad- vantage of a community helpless shattered and suffering a. a as s few communities have suffered in all the thc history o othe of the world At Galveston a n strong hand was laid on the few unprincipled who unprincipled who men tried tOt take ah advantage ase of oC tho 1 I 1 f r j 1 i. i I Itu u vt 1 L. L fj 9 jl t o b. b J. J victims of disaster As those who strip Jewels rom tho ho dead these vampires were hustled out of a world which the they had lied disgraced In San Francisco a tribe of or officials made mucIe bol bold by power stripped both bolh lead dead and living and went their way defiant of nil all correction Toda Today It k is not so much a question lUe of Abe Abc Ruef gelling getting Jet get ting ling the thc punishment which lie he deserves as whether tho Iho people of San Fl Francisco aro are of the quality which de deserves de- de 8 serves C 1 to be robbed There Is a t type pc of or man that thai can not be trusted to take inke care of oC himself He lie is ono one o of tho the burdens burdens bur bur- dens of society Are San Francisco men of or that stamp Are the they worth woith saving sn Arc Are the they of the timber limber which invites In despoiling or 01 arc aro they of tho the fibre which makes maltes robbery impossible and chicanery a peril The Tho trial of oC the boss hoss and the accused mayor will settle a bigger question than the guilt or 01 Innocence of or the Iho two Iwo men II It will ill determine tho manhood or ignominy of or the citi- citi of San Sai Francisco |