The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, J 27, 1896 e e e o CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by Carri Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail Daily and Sunday CALL, SIX months, by m: . Dally and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one mouth, by mail.. Sunday CaLL, one year, by mail WEEKLY CALL, 00e year, by m THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacation * It 40, 1t 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will Toiss it. Orders given to the carrier oF left At Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARG BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. +e..Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: B17 Clay treet. ....Main—1874 Telephene... BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery wireet, corner Clay; epen until 8:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street: open until 713 Larkin street; open until 9:80 o'clo €W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; motil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 118 Ninth street; open untll 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 82, 34 Perk Row, New York Cltt DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent- SATURDAY THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. | DENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Obio FOR VICE-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey B FOR P LECTION NOVE , 1896. This is the day you leave orders for THE AY CArL. Register at once. 1f you begin waiting you may wait too long. There are evidences that even Wall street is inclined to boom silver a little just now. Wherever there isan intelligent work- ingman who needs work there is & worker for McKinley. Mr. Irish will not bolt the Democratic party, but he professes to be willing to let the party bolt him. In trying to straddle Mr. Whitney has let himself drop between the two stools | and finds himseli floored. Patriotism, protection and prosperity; America against the world. That is thy battle-cry of the campaign. To re-establish the era of prosperity we must re-establish the legislation which made that prosperity possible. Popular assurance of McKinley’s elec- tion affects the stock market like an as- surance of the revival of trade. It seems we are about to return to the practice of calling prize-fights boxing- matches, and letting them go at that. Republican organization is being rapidly effected and those who wish to start even with the procession had better join a club 8t once. Without protection American wages will goon sink to the European level, and the comfort of the workingman’s home will vanish forever. The popular voice which callea for the nomination of McKinley muakes it certain that the chief issue of the campaign will be the restoration of the McKinley tariff. The attempt of the Democratic party to evade the tariff issue by talking of free gilver will avail them nothing. The peo- ple are going to vote for work and wages. Silver isrising in the stock market as well as in politics and on Wednesday was pold in Wall street at 70 cents, being #n advance of 1){ centsduring the present month. The refusal of the Populists to combine with Democracy means simply that the American farmer has too much sound eense to play into the hands of the British free-trader. California will never reach a complete development until she manufactures her raw material for home use and for export, and she can never hope to do this and pay good wages without protection. Since England has appealed to us to as- rist in settling one of her quarrels with Venezuela it seems clear the Monroe doc- trine has begun to get in its work in the right place and with the right effect. Itisseid a movement has been started in Kentucky to repeal the Southern Pacific charter, but after the experience of the last movement of that kind it is hard to believe the present one will be much more than a wiggle. There isa probability the gold men at Chicago will take a firm stand on Cleve- land’s record as a platform, call them- selves the *‘regulars,” take possession of the party band-wagon and let the silver men snort, kick, rear and bolt if they will. In bis telegram of congratulations to McKinley Senator Aldrich of Rhode Isl- and spoke the general sentiment of the country in saying, “I believe the victory will be so emphatic that the policy we contend for will be accepted without ques- tion for a generation.” The number of young men and “first voters” who are joining Republican clubs is one of the most encouraging signs of the times, inasmuch as it assures the prev- alence of protection sentiment, not for this generation only, but for that which is now rapidly coming to the front. 1In 1860 Hersche] V. Johnston of Georgia ran for Vice-President as a Democrat on the Douglas ticket, but his son this year went to St. Louis a Republican to vote for McKinley. Thus does the South grow in wisdom and virtue and the sons of this generation prove themselves better than their fathers. The freight-rate tariff of the Valley road is notonly lower than that of the Southern Pacific Company, but it has the further advantage to the shipper of abol- ishing altogether the switching charges which the Southern Paciic Company makes always vexatious and sometimes extortionate. Truly for the peaple of the $an Joaquin the better times are at hand. REGISTER AND ORGANIZE. The time has come for all Republicans, for all protectionists, for ail friends of American industry, to prepare for the coming campaign by putting themselves in a position where they can be helpful to the party and the cause from the first stage of the canvass to the last, Itisof advantage to the party that as many men as possible shall enroll themselves in the Republican clubs and take part in the work of the canyass, and it is of the high- est importance that every member of the party should register so as to be able to vote. The duties of Republicans at this time, therefore, can be summed up in the phrase, “Register and organize.” | Every Republican should Tregister as soon as he can find time to go to the regis- tration oflice, and if he cannot find that time very soon he should take iv even at the cost of some other occupation. There can be no voting without registration. If a man does not register he disfranchises vimself—deprives himself by his own negligence of the rights of citizenship and puts himself on a level with aliens, who have no voice in the selection of pubiic of- ficials or in determining the course of pub- lic policies. The time allowed for regis- tration and the provisions for registering are ample, provided citizens will attend | to it. If any one, however, delays, hesi- tates ard postpones the performance of the duty, he may be toolate, and find him- self debarred from the privilege of voting when election day comes round. Under the law enacted by the last Legis- | lature registration begins 160 days before | the general election and continues for sev- enty-five days. It began at the City Hall on May 27 and will end August 3. The fifth day of precinct registration will close Aueust 9 and that will betheend. Inthis | it will be seen that ample time is given for | all. It must be borne in mind, however, “ that in the later days there will be a rush | | | | | at the registration office, and consequently the duty can be most easily perfcrmed by being performed promptly. Having registered his name and secured the right of voting, the next step of the Republican should be to join some club convenient and congenial to him, and | make ready to take an active part in the | campaign. Party organization isatall times essential to party success but it was never more so than at this time. Democracy alone, Populism alone, or free Silverism alone would be powerless against the pop- ular sentiment demanding protection, but there is danger that these may combine and by their joint and vociferous shout- | ings confuse the minds of those whose po- | litical opinions are not firmly founded on | great party principles or who may be igno- rant of the supreme importance to all | classes of people of the immediate re-es- | tablishment of the protective tariff, | It will be a walk-over campaign if Re- publicans perform their political duties promptly and with ardor. It will be a hard fight, however, for the stalwart and | the loyal if the general mass of the party | should be affected by any indifference or | carelessness. This fact should inspire every member of the party withk a resolve to do his share in arousing popular enthu- | siasm and keeping the tariff issue to the front in spite of Democratic dodges and | evasions. The real issue of the time is that of American industry against the | world. Every American home is con- cerned in the contest. The result will | virtually determine whether weare to have free trade or protection for the rest of this generation. Republicans and protection- ists should need no urging, but they must not be too sanguine. Register and organ- ize. | | PROTECTION DEMANDED. After all 1s said and done, the fact re- mains that the platform of the Republi- can party always is an expression of the best judgment of the majority of the rank and file, It declares for what the people want done and what they want left un- | done. In the great heart of the majority is always written what is best for the | country, and there is no turning away | from it. All a convention can do, if it | obeys the voice of the people, is to give expression to their will in a declaration of principles and put in motion the machinery that is to carry into practical operation what they deem best for the whole country. If cliquesever tried to run counter to the will of the people they were short-lived, and if the commissioned agents of the party ever failed through trickery or ignorance to give full expres- sion of the sentiments of the people they were repudiated. The St. Louis convention was conspicu- ously under the influence of the majority of the rank and file,and in selecting a standard-bearer and formulating a plat- form it was simply working out the will of the people. It is very true that all the people were not fully satisfied, but the strength of the Republican partyis ina cheerful acquiescence of all its members in the work of the party as a whole. From the foundation of the party the policy of the rank and file has been to sink or swim united. So, when the majority commanded the convention to make the tariff question paramount to all others it at once became the duty of every Republican who has the best interests of the country at heart to | say, amen! No doubt very many be- lieved, and still belieye, there are other issues that are of equal 1f not of more importance than the tariff, but the majority tbought otherwise and bas so declared itself, There is but one safe road, therefore, for the party as a whole and for its individual members to go. It must be a united cry for protection first ‘and with an immovable determina- tion that whatever else may be good for the country shall follow. TWO0 DECLARATIONS. The underlying principle of protection is self-preservation. There is perpetual strife between individuals and nations for financial and commercial supremacy. It matters not whether it be selfishness or something else, the fact remains that man by nature is inclined to not only gain all he can, but protect that which he has in band and opportunities for more from in- fluences that are calculated to lessen the one and circumscribe the other. Man nor nation can have industrial independence it his or its field of operation can be tres- passed upon at the will of any trespasser. Mill, ractory nor farm can have a certain value if all the world is free to undersell at its own door that which it produces, There can be no independence of person or property where there is not adequate pro- tection against whatever woula tyrannize the one or impair the stability of the other. This very important fact was emphasized by the founders of this nation when they followed the declaration of American in- dependence of July 4, 1776, by a protective tariff act on July 4, 1779, He who denies that protection to the people of the colonies and to their indus- tries against outside infringement upon rights and interests which they them- selyes had acquired, knows very little of the political and economic prin- ciple which incited them to rebel against the mother country. The tariff of July, 1779, was a doclaration of American in- dustrial, commercial, financial and agri- cultural independence, and without it the declaration of July, 1776, would have availed the people nothing. The great- ness of 2 nation lies in its commercial and industrial strength, and its strength is measured by the protection the nation es to its commerce and industries. Hence, the meaning of the ‘“American idea” is protection to each sovereign against non-American or foreign individ- uals and agencies that are calculated to impede him in his right to reap the full of his effort. There is nothing mysterious or uncertain about the principle of pro- tection any more than there is in the principle of political independence. It was the fear of the industrial inde- pendence of the colonies more than their political separation that made England strugdle so hard to retain jurisdiction over them. Since their independence was rec- ognized by Great Britain no stone has been left unturned by that country to nullify the declaration of industrial inde- pendence by the adoption of free trade. Free trade would give England commer- cial and financial supremacy, and not only so, but so long as free trade prevailed the United States would be m debt to her, and since the debtor is always curtailed in in- dependence of action he is,in a sense, a slave. Commerce is void of sentiment, and has no conception of the meaniug of philanthropy. It fights always for the supremacy of that nation which promotes it, therefore in ratio to the protection this country gives to it is this country’s su- premacy established. This is all that pro- tection means and stands for, It isnot born of superstition, of sentiment, nor of any religion, but of common business sense and experience in commercial opera- tions. THE SUNDAY CALL. Just by way of illustrating what Cali- fornians can do in thatline TuE CArL will to-morrow present a full page of native- born fish stories. They come from all quarters of the State. Some of them are true—all of them are interestine. While it isn’t necessary that you should believe them all you will not care to miss reading one of them. There wili be other pages in THE SUNDAY CarL, and other striking and attractive features. A novel pags is entitled “Who Are They?” When you read this you will realize that thereis aiways something new under the sun in modern journalism. There are 2 number of novel features to interest women in particular, and more than a feast of the best reading matter, for men, women and children. In science, literature and art, all that is new and in- teresting will be found in THE SUNDAY CarL, McKINLEY IN DEMAND. The demand for Mr. McKinley from all parts of the country to orate on the Fourth of July should not be understood as meaning that it comes from curiosity to see the next President, nor because his name is William McKinley. It is because be has been designated by the Republican party as the proper man to administer the aifairs of the General Government and lead in the work of oiling the wheels of commerce and industry that they may roll ahead again without friction, The veople are hungering for better times. For three years they have fed upon the husks of prosperity. They have planted and reaped, but no increase has come to them. Their labor has brought no compensation. They have been obliged to stand in help- lessness and see their savings wither and disappear, They are in distress, but they see the dawn of vprosperity, and they know it is the party which William Mc- Kinley represents that is pushing aside, by the mighty principles of true Ameri- canism, the debris of torn-down industry that good times may come again. It is natural, therefore, that the people should want the next President, who is to lead in this mighty work, to help them celebrate the day which stands in the calendar of time and marks the beginning of the political and industrial inde- penddnce of the United States. To be sure, Mr. McKinley represents in himself the highest type of American manhood. As a citizen he stands for whatever is cal- culated to better the condition of the people, but it is as the chief representa- tive of the political organization that is to deliver the whole country from the thrall- dom of bankruptcy with which Demo- cratic perfidy and incapacity environ them tkat all want to see and hear him. The coming Fourth of July should be a day of thanksgiving for the good that is about to come, as well as a day of outpouring of patriotism. RAILWAY SWITOHING OHARGES. The act establishing freight rates without switching charges by the San Franciscoand San Joaquin Railway was a bold and deadly blow against a system of robbery that has prevailed ever since the Southern Pacific went into the monopoly business. Of course shippers know that switching rates are additional charges; that is to say, the rate-sheet quotes the cost of transporta- tion, which ostensibly includes all charges between the initial and destination points, but when the consignee comes to pay the freight and remove the goods he finds a “switching’’ charge has been added to the card-rate. For tearing down this system of plundering shippers, the Valley road is justly entitled to the thanks of every busi- ness man in the State, the more o because there never was, nor ceuld there ever be, any excuse for such unjust methods to ex- act money from the public. A stagecoach might just as well stop on the outskirts of the town and demand extra pay to deliver its passengers at the hotel. In the early days of railroading when transfers were made by wagons there was an excuse for such charges, for the term- inus of the road was its destination point, but in these days of connecting lines the switching charge means that the shipper is in a position to be squeezed with no power to prevent it, and the custom was not only introduced in railway manage- ment at an early day, but it has kept its itching palm hard down upon all the traffic of the State ever since. A single switching charge does not exacta great deal of money to be sure, but in a year's business it amounts to a great deal of money to every large shipper, and very often a shipper would be satistied with the sum of the switching charges he has paid for the year's profit. But the management of the Valley road will have nothing of that sort, and shippery are under obliga- tions to it for overturning and annull- ing a most vicious snd unfair custom. PERPETRATING A JOKE. There always are amusing incidents and ridicnlous sayings in a political campaign, but 1t is doubtful if there is anything fun- nier seen or heard from now on to Novem- ber than the pompous announcement of the Cincinnati Enquirer that it is “‘princi- ples, not men,” with the Democratic party. It is too brazemly absurd to be twisted into & mnews item, for an item of news is obliged to have at least one thread of truth running through it to make it go. The funny part of the Enguirer’s declaration will be located without 8 microscope when it is known that it was made after the editor and proprietor of the Enguirer had put his private mark of ownership on an easy working majority of the Ohio Democratic State Convention and that his majority passed a resolution to the effect that the editor of the Enguirer is altogether the best man in America for the Chicago con- vention to nominate for Vice-President, although, as a matter of fact, he should be given the first place. The trouble with the Democratic party is it is devoid of principles as well as prin- ciple. Hitherto it has been supposed to be a party of office-hungry men, whose principles were like the chameleon—a member of the lizard family which has the faculty of changing its colors to harmo- nize with those of the thing it is for the moment the most intimately associated with.. Two sets of principles, so called, are now undergoing repair for use at Chi- cago, and whichever set shall appear to possess the greater number of deceptive qualities will be employed to beguile the unwary into the Democratic trap. If the Democratic party ever advo- cated a principle that did not contemplate the spoils of office for the bosses it has been kept under cover. At all events that is not the kind that is used in active ser- vice. The plan of Whitney to straddle questions which the people are deeply in- terested in may be said to be a genuine Democratic working principle, for it is composed wholly of intrigue, deceit and false pretenses. But ‘‘principles, not men,” is a joke—an idiotic joke at that. PERSONAL. W. R. Spalding, & lawyer of Truckee, is at the Lick. F. H. Conant, U. 8 N,, s registered ot the Occiental. G. Garibaldi, the merchant from Merced, is at the Grand. J. W. Oates, an attorney of Santa Rose, hasa room &t the Lick. H. C. Oswald of London arrived &t the Occi- dental last night. C. Crittendon of San Jose is stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotei. George W. Boggs, the grain merchant of Tracy, 18 at the Russ. S.W. Bright, a mining man of Jackson, is registered at the Russ. W. S. Wall, a business man of Woodland, isa late arrival at the Russ. L L. Delano, the quarryman of Portland, is among the Lick’s guests. Among the Palace arrivals 1s W. S, Hughes of the United States Navy. J. B. Fuller, the Bank Commissioner from Marysville, is at the California. Dr. J. M. Blodgettof Lodi is making the Grand his temporary headquarters. F. P. Wickersham, the Fresno banker, is among tnose registered at the Lick. J. P. Sheridan of the banking firm of Sheri- dan Bros., Roseburg, Or., is at the Lick. H. Tuckson, a business man of Redwood City, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. L. F. Garrand Jr. of the United States Geo- logical Survey, has returned to the Occidental. Peter Negro, & mining man from Mina Prieta, Mex., arrived at the Baldwin yester- day. Aaron Smith, who is interested in the rail- road business at Los Angeles, is a guest at the Grand. William W. Adams, L. Manning and T. Early, mining men from Montans, are guests at the Palace. Mrs. Dr. William Hammond and William M. Noyes of Livermore arrived at the Occidental last night. Bishop Nichols and his son came up from San Mateo last night and registered,at the Qccidental. 8. Thompson, a wealthy rancher of Angels, Calaveras County, is a guest at the Cosmo- politan Hotel. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- ten Hotel are H. D. Gelatt and wife, prominent residents of Towa. J. T. Peitis, a large clothier of New York City, arrived at the Palace last night and reg- istered with his wife. Colonel D. B. Fairbanks, the Petaluma banker and member of the Fifth Regiment, N. G. C., is a guest at the Lick. L. Gerlich of Stockton, who is one of the big cattlemen of the State, was among the ar- rivals st the Grand last night. Professor William Henry Hudson of the Eng- lish department at Stanford University is a guest at the California with his wife. D. E. Knight of Marysville, one of the dele- gates to the St. Louis Republican Convention, is at the Lick with his wife for a short visit. J.D. Culpof San Felipe, the man who has made & success of tobacco cuiture in Califor- nia, is among the latest arrivals at the Lick. John Sibbard of Nevada, who is extensively interested in the cattle business both in his State and in Californis, is a guest at the Russ. L. J. Belloni Jr., & son-in-law of Havemeyer of the Havemeyer Sugar Trust of New York City, isatthe Palace with his wife and two daughters. A. 8. Coover, the Santa Barbara Democratic Councilman, asphaltum expert and ex-County Surveyor, has returned to the Grand aftera trip to Bakersfield. Colonel Carlos-Gonzales of Mexico arrived at the Lick last night with a detachment, con- sisting of his wife, an interpreter and enough little Gonzaleses to make a baseball team and furnish an umpire for the game. Nick A. Covarrubias, United States Marshal for Southern California, is & guest at the Pal- ace. He is here on a short pleasure trip, although he brought with him from tne South & Chinamen who is to be deported. S. F. Thorn, manager of the Grand, has re- covered sufficiently from the severe injuries he sustained in a bicycle accident on March 30 in the park to be out again. He has gone down to Cragghorn, his pretty country place in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near Glenwood. 1. W. Woodruff, an octogenerian capitalist of Philadelphis, arrived on last night’s overland train. Hesaid that he had been noting the weather in this City from day to day in THE CaLy, on file in the Public Library at Phila- delphia, and had decided San Francisco cli- mate would do him good. He is at the Lick. Mrs. E. G. Hitchcock, Miss Hattie C. Hiteh- cock, Miss Mabel W. Hitchcock, Mrs. J. P, Sis- son and Mrs. I Wright arrived at the Occi- dental yesteraay from Hilo, Hawali. They made the voyage from the islands in the bark Annie Johnson. E. G. Hitchcock is the Sheriff of the island of Hawaii, the largestof the islands forming the republic of Hawaii, M. Wines is at the Grand with his wife. Mr. ‘Wines owns the mountain stage line, between Santa Barbara and Los Olivos, the pres- ent terminus of the coast railroad, some day to be buiit through to the ultra-mountain terminus at Elwood, twelves miles north of Santa Barbara. He also owns the stage line from Truckee to Tahoe and is now on his way to Lake Tahoe to make further arrangements for the season’s travel, now just developing into & full'stream that will continue until late in August. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y, June 26.—Hinrich Schroder arrived in on the North German liner Spree from Bremen. Dr. Rosenthal leaves the Plaza to sail on the North German liner Werra for Gibraltar and Genoa. At the Metropoli- tan—R. C. Meyers; Holland—Miss Lucelle, Miss E. Wood, K. Maddox; Gilsey—C. M. Goodall, J. Metcalf, R. P. Schwerin; Broadway*| Central—G. M. Stewart; Imperial—W. F, Goad Jr.; Hoffman—H. I. Kowalsky ; Westminster— F. G. S8anborn. A RECOGNIZED LEADER. San Pedro American. There are few papers that have made such wonderful strides into popular favor as the San Francisco CALL since Charles M. Bhort- ridge assumed the management of that paper. To-day THE CALL is recognized as a leader in coast journalism, and in the presenting of re- liable, clean and wholesome news it has no peer. ¥ 3 LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. PROTECTION THE ISSUE. AN OLp REPUELICAN PoINTS OUT HOW HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. Editor of the Call—DEAR S1e: As one of your readers interested in the success of the Repub- lican party at the coming election, and having implicit confidence in the integrity, executive ability and political sagacity of our candi- dates, I feel anxious, in common with so many others, to see every proper exertion made by pen and voice and press, wherever the people can be reached, to make our work effective and our triumph complete. While I feel that the protection of our industries, coupled with the Teplenishment of our depleted treasury, is the dominant issue before the people, our mone- tary affairs have so jostled the minds of many that new complications are lisble to lead some astray, if not properly enlightened or puton guard. The trivial dissenslons or false issues growing out of a mere difference of judgment in regard to coinage should not overshadow the leading Jao]luy for our political salvation, or the grand essentials for personal thrift and National prosperity. _ A native of Pennsylvania, I once resided in Lancester County of that State, bat a few miles from the residence of James Buchanan; but while there is no merit in that, I had the pleasure of casting my first vote for a member of Congress for that stalwart Republican, Thaddeus Stevens of Lancaster City, a man whose memory will be revered for his noble bearing, his forensic ability, his politicsl in- fluence and his many humanitarian deeds long aiter Buchanun’s good deeds shall have been forgotten. ¥ afterward lived and con- ducted & Republican newspaper in_the Co: gressional district represented by David Wil- mot of the anti-slavery territorial proviso {ame, and not irom the residence of Galusha A. Grow, the ex-Speaker of the House, who again represents nis district among the National I ivers. Now, I have noti that airs as well as in other transpir- the old saying is often verified, repeats itself, and I will cite little incident in proof. In 1857 the Demo- cratic party wes in power. with Bucbanan as our chief executive. Under Democratic rule, or misrule rather, our revenues from imports were reduced and our manufactures dwindled. A depression in trade énsued, and a financial crisis was experienced just prior to the re- bellion, much as we find it at the present day, although the President,with his Cabinet and Congress, did not have the same chance for lavish expenditures, for lack of fnnds, nor to increase the public debt under some plausible pretext, as is the lamentable case with our Clevelandish administration. 1have by me a copy of a letter written hy Mr. Wilmot to Dnvig S. Brown, September 28, 1857, in which he depicts the trouble so clearly and in & manner so apropos to present conditious that I think it would gratify many of your readers to reproduce it. By the date of the letter yon may see that it was ashort time prior to the formation of the Republican party, but after Mr. Wilmot had become dis- gusted with the pro-siayery domination of his old-political sssociates and had severed his connection therefrom. The sentiments and arguments he then expressed are in full aceord with those of the Republican party of the present day so far as the protection of hu- man “be"z and of honest industry are con- cerned, and the same you will rind sall along the line of our history marking out those car- dinal and distinctive features under which the resources of tne country haye been in- creased, its industries fostered and its general prosperity augmented. It is referred to now to show & similar condition of affairs to that of the country under the old Democratic execu- tive fossil whose free trade and pro-slavery symrutmen allowed the Government, under reckless engineers and petty despots, to ride on headlong to the verge of ruin. But to the extract. After deploring the financial conyulsions of the day aud exprexsinfi his deen sympathy with ‘the thousands of honest and industrious workingmen unexpectedly thrown out of em- ployment and deprived of ‘the means of sup- port for their families” he add: 'On our visit to the Gloucester Mills we had some conversa- tion upon the subject of the tariff policy of the country in connection with its influence upon American enterprise and labor. That the tariff policy of the Government has much to do with the revulsions that periodically conyulse the country is doubtless true, intimately con- nected as that policy must ever be with all our financial and industrial interests. The very considerable reduction in the tariff at the last session of Congress must have had a disastrous influence in bringing upon us the present state of things, as it greatly stimulated importa- tions, causing heavier drafts upon the country for its precious metals. “It is a great misforiune that our tariff policy cannot be wholly removed from the party conflicts of the country and fllaced upon & permanent and reasouable basis. Aside from partisan prejudice there is not, I imagine, a very wide difference of opinion upon this sub- ject among intelligent and reflecting men. I have always !ooked to our policy as settled in the respect that the ordinary revenue is to be provided for by duties upon foreign importa- tions, and I have ever favored the policy of such discriminations as would afford adequate ana ample protection to Americdn interests and American labor. “We have an immense revenua to raise. Al- ready the expenditures of our Government reach the enormous sum of sixty millions of dollars, and it is rlpidl‘ increasing under the Kofliglm and demoralizing expenditures cf mocratic administrations. In raising this vastsum there is ample room, by judicious and proper discriminations, to afford to our great industrial interest ample protection and o American labor a just and adequate reward, I have never intentionally violated this sound American Koucy and would cheerfully unite to-day with the reasonable and judicious men of the country in J»llclng our tariff poliey on a basis that would secure to American enter- prise and labor fair and just measures of pro- tection. “The great struggle in which we are now en- gaged and in which m{ feelings are so de%ply embarked isa struggle to maintain the dig- nity und rights of free labor against the de- grading competition of the labor of the slave, and I am equally in favor of protecting our American labor against a ruinous oom?ednon ‘with the cheap labor of the Old World.” This isolated excerpt is gvell as a sample only of the expression of thousands, for such were the views of the leading Republicans thirty and forty years ago, and the same code of political ethics is enunciated through the National and Btate platforms of the pll‘g to- day. Itisthesame grand underlying prinei- ple of protection which permeates all branches of trade and commerce, the stimulus to home manufacture by a discriminating tariff both for revenue and protection until we shall grow 1n skill and power to become self-supporting, independent and truly free. All minor topies of home or international importance may be discussed or molded to the popular will, and need not oe ignored, but let the word go forth to every fireside, farm, town and hamlet in theland that protection is our Tallying cry and will be until viestory shall perch tipon our banners, prosperity be restored and the people can cry out amen! WILLIAM BURGESS, San Francisco, June 25, 1896. THE GRADUATION GIRL. ‘When you read your fareweli z3ay, when yon step upon the stage And tell us what the country needs and why tke heathen rage; ‘When 1n phrases so majestic your oplnions are ex- presse That we hardly understand you 'if the truth must be confessed - Perhaps you'll solve this puzzle which so unrelent- ng c ings And teli us why one girl has three or four engage- ment rings. We l:nn: it is a problem. that has baffled every ane To keep supply exactly in accordance with de- And philosophers inform us that a great deal of our care Is caused by s shan theisshase; -, ¢ o e o, when you speak of ethics, sociology and things, Pray tell n“why one girl has three or four engage- ment Fngs. —Washington Star. folks getting such a lot more SHARP AS STEEL Gilroy Telegram. . What & change from the old CALL to THE CaLLof to-day. The mosshas gone and it is now as sharp as steel—clean, bright, truthful, enterprising. Special trains to Santa Cruz and the paper delivered at 5 A. M. Brother Short- ridge, the laurels rest nobly on your brow. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Hiram Maxim, the maker of many guns, is glited with no little skill as an artist. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Con- naught are the first knights of the new Vie- torian order. Grant Allen, it is said by those who know him well, invariably looks as if he were just recovering from a severe iliness. Some English reviewers have named Herbert Spencer and James Bryce as the possible au- thors of the reply to max Nordau, entitled “Regeneration.” Hansen, the Norwegian ski-runner, is going to the new Siberian Islands to inspect the de- pots of provisions left there for Nanseu, and to search for traces of the expedition. Mrs. Langtry, famous for her dresses, made her debut in society in a simple black frock, which she wore all through one season. Im- mediately after her picture appeared she be- came the rage, and duchesses themselves did not hesitate to stand on chairs to catcn & glimpse of her as she passed. The young Duke of Manchester, says & 0or- respondent, may be expected to soon follow the example of his fellow-Duke, Marlborough, and visit the United States for a bride. His mother is an American woman. The Princess Kadiajeh Hanem, widow of Prince Hassen, son of Ismail Pasha, former Khedive of Egypt, is undergoing imprisonment in her palace at Cairo, by virtue of & judgment of & high tribunal. She was convicted of wast- ing and dissipating her fortune. Sir Frederick Abel, the inventor of the much- talked-of cordite, comes of a family which is really German by origin, although himself born in England. He is a great diner-out and & brilliant talker, and is numbered among the intimates of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. i Queen Victoria still wears the style of shoes of thirty yearsago. Her children still address her in the way which was fashionable when they were little things. No member of the up- per class ever said *‘Mother” then, and from the oldest to the youngest they still calithe Queen “Mamma.” There is hardly a city in the civilized world from which the Mikado of Japan does notre- ceive letters, many of his correspondents an- ticipating that through him they can gain an entrance to the Japanese market, The num- ber of inventions of all kinds offered to him for sale is enormous. According to the Jewish Chronicle Baron Edmond de Rothschild has established an- other colony in Palestine. The new colony, which is situated in Gallilee, not far from Damascus, consists of a village of 3000 acres, with many springs and the sources of the River Jordan. This settlement will be colon- ized by fifty farm laborers of tried experience. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Doesn’t it seem strange that the peasant woman should ask King Arthur to cook her cakes for her?” *Oh. I don’t know. woman.”—Truth. Perhaps she was & new Hoax—Does Sillicus know anything about music? Joax—Noj; he doesn’t know the difference be- tween a string orchestra and & rubber band.— Philadelphia Record. Reginald—I hear, Miss Dolly, that Miss Wild- rose is called the flower of the family. Miss Dolly—Well, I thonght Isaw something that looked like pollen on her face the other night.—Harper's Bazaar. Young father (anxiously)—Is it a boy or a girl, nurse? Nurse—It's three of’em, sir. boys. Young Father—Good gracious. This comes of marrying & girl whose father was in the wholesale line of business.—Woonsocket Re- porter. He (tauntingly)—Your father was in trade when I married you, wasn's he? She (bitterly)~I suppose so. He was sold, in any event.—Chicago Dispatch. Three lovely Wheeler—I see by the papers that a Chicago bicycler was held up by two men. Sprocket (feeling if the court plaster was in place on his face)—I wish to gracious it had been me.—Yonkers Statesman, S0 you enjoy belonging the the Fat Men’s Club?” “Oh, yes; it is delightful.” “What are some of the pleasures?” “Why, every fat man in the club discovers atonce that all the other nen in the club sre fatter than he is.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. He (before marriage)—Some of your angel cake, darling. It is “‘angel cake,” I suppose, pecause an angel made 1t, 1sn’t it, sweetheart? He (after marriage)—Umph? Angel cake! You eall it that, I suppose, because it’s soggy enough to make a lot of people into angels if they were fools enough to eat it!—Somerville Journal. always feel so brave,” she ‘When 1 the 'cycle pedals tread. Like some world-conquering cavaller, I ride unconscious ali of fear!” A field mouse crossed our winding way— A grasp, & sCream, a swerve, a sway! ‘And roadside gully did reveal A pot pourri of muld_and wheel. —Richmond Dispatch. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Another Kicker. Pasadena Star. There is & new Arizona Kicker—Lady Sholto Douglas has settled there. Quite a Difference. Contra Costa News. The slogan is “Protection and Prosperity”— nor free trade nor free silver, The Rebellion That Is Unabated. San Jacinto Reglster. If affairs in Cuba continue much longer as they are at present Weyler will soon be a wailer. A A New Idea for Huntington. Oakland Enquirer. If the Southern Pacific Company wants a harbor at Santa Monica why should it not build 1t itself ? Punishment Deferred. V/oodiand Mail. It took some pretty hard pleading to prevent the recent Democratic Convention from cen- suring Cleveland. Unwise Wailers. Pomona Beacon. Some San Diego people who think they know what they want and don’t are setting up & wail for State division. From Snowbanks to Sunshine. Pasadena Star, People who got in here to- out of the snowdrifts by the stormbound trains that are just arriving are pretty well pleased to get into sunshine and flowers again. Is He Serious? San Berpardino Index. A San Diego dispatch says that Mayor Carl- son has announced himself as an independent candidate for Congress in this district. Is it serious or a real estate advertising dodge ? No Indorsement by Rank and File, ‘Yreka Journal. The Democratic party of this State indorsed the administration of President Cleveland, with the exception of his financial policy, His indorsement was mainly brought about by the Federal officials, who used their patronage for that purpose. The rank and file of the Demo- cratic party of the State do not indorse the ad- ministration of President Cleveland. Taxed for Living. Stockton Independent. The abominable polltax law should be re- pealed at the next session of the Legislature. Itis asource of much more abuse and vexa- tion than revenue, and is wrong in prineiple. It virtually taxes a man for his mere existence, and is e the means of oppression and an: noyance by unscrupulous men who care noth- ing for the results 8o long as they get the com- mission for collecting. The Oppressive Poll Tax. Stockton Mail. The Stanislaus poll-tax gatherer is about the meanest man on record. If there is any other ‘| community that has a meaner we should like to hear from it. Still, the fault is, after all Wil the peaple. 1 they Sould reqtito cands dates to the lature” to pledge themselyes to secure the submission to the people of an gn:m})::alnot‘tgh ;hgd c’:nna;fi:':n providing for e Tepea us e: g be rid of the oppressive burden. Sy T Room for Reform. Riverside Enterprise. There never was so much suicide, erime, murder, insanity and dishonesty as there is now. Part of it is traceable to the horrible prominence pews s have Eiving to thewo things. Por reporiors, oo managing editors, for all mankind there is a dire need to take deeply into their souls the command, “Whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are lovely and of good report, think on these.” Advice to the Yosemite Commission, Los Angeles Express. The price of entertainment in the park at the hotels should be limited to $2, or at most $3 a day, and the stage fares should be cut in 'l\m a::n if the pn'u has torun them itself. ere is no reason for the enormous ch: that ere demanded now,snd there hnm surdity in the State ing tho l:m t:! keep up a park for a few persons, motl visitors from abroad, to enjoy. ~The fari should be as free asapark in this city, und every effort should be made to encourage Cui- fornians to visit it. The Commissioners hiye a splendid opportunity to oblige their fellyy- citizens by acting promptly and wisely in tis matter. A Commercial @cean Current. San Diego Sun. There is & scientific or nautical fact involed in the drifting of the big barge from Sin Carlos, Lower California, to the Marshall ‘s lands that the sea experts should gl’cfl“y_ The barge is & heavy one and would only e carried by heavy ocean currents. The ds. tance is estimated at mearly 5000 miles aid the time in traveling was about eightem months. Itappears to us thatunder the cox- ditions that is 8 big speed. As to the barie the Marshall Islanders can keep it until called for. San Diego thought once it wanted it, bit there has been & change of mind on the sul- jeet. — LADY’S TEA GOWN OR WRAPPER WITH FITTED LINING THAT MAY BE OMITTED. A graceful model which is fitted in back and hangs loose over a fitted lining front is much liked both for simple and quite elaborate tea gowns. The front is gathered to a yoke. The ack is fitted. The sleeves are short puffs with aruffle cut in one or & short puff, with rufle of lace or other trimming. A plain standing collar finishes the neck. A gown of Persian lawn had collar and bow of green ribbon to match the predominating color in the lawn. One of grass linen on_a flax-colored ground, with flowers of rose color and natural foliage worn in, had rose-colored ribbons. The sleeve rufles were buttonholed in scallops with rose- colored floss. A white and blue strlged lawn had yoke of white embroidery, with biue ribbon eollar and belt, A gown of brown and white challis had the yoke outlined with lace of a yellowish tint over white satin ribbon. The same lace was 1nid in double box pleats that flared out from the stock collar of white ribbon. —ee Ir you want fine service, fine carriages, com- petent drivers, ring up 1950. Pacific Carriage Company. > el LU S PEMBROKE, jeweler, removed to Aleazar build- ing, 118 O'Farrell street. Watches, jewelry, ians, etc., repaired. . e EPECIAL iniormation daily to manufacturers. business houses and public men by the Pres3 Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * o dEs b andnemE A Little ¥icycle Prophecy. Santa Rosa Republican. The time 1s coming when there will be a smooth bicycle path on each side of every com plete public highway in the country. The law will provide for the construction of such paths and they will belong to the wheelmen as much as the sidewalk belongs to pedestrians, Future streets should be 1aid out of & width sufficient to admit of such path. Wheelmen themselyes should be willing to have imposed upon each wheel an annual tax of from $1 to $2 for the pur, of constructing aud maintaining these paths. Omcial Route to Demoecratic National Convention, Chicago.: Central Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago ano Northwestern lines. Train cerrying California delegates will leave San Francisco July1at 6 p. M. Speclal rate for the round trip to Chicago $72.50. Tickets on sale June 30 ang July 1. Sleeping-car reservations npow om sale at Union Pacifie office, 1 Montgomery street. Call early so a8 to secure best accommodations. D. W. Hitch. cock, General Agent, San Franeisco. (i S Excursions to Grand Canyon of the Colorado. An excellent opportunity for seeing this wonder- - ful scemery at a nominal expemse is afforded through the excursions to leave San Franctsco June 20 and July 1 over the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Fare includes stage trip from Flagstaff, meals en route and hotel expenses at Canyon, $75. - For full - particulars call on or address Thos, Cook & Son, excursion agents, 621 Market street, under Palace Hotel, or aay agent Atlantic and Pacific Eallroad. H. C. Bush, assistant general passenger agent, 61 Chronicle building, 8. F. > Northern Pacific Railroad. Pagties attending the Democratic National Con- ventiop at Chicago, the Christian Endeavorers at Washington and National Educational Associa- tion at Buffalo should go or return via the North- ern Pacific Rallroad. For particulars inquire of T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agt., 638 Market st.,, S. F. — THE use of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters ex- cltes the appetite and keeps the digestive organs in order. : WHEN you feel “as cross asa cat,” a dose of Lyer's Pills will make you as good-natured as a xitten, Iry them for billousness. NEW TO-DAY, REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Magee & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular." 4 Montgomery Street, UNION TRUST BUILDIYG, CORNER MARKET. $7000—Modern flats; north side of Oak st., bet, ‘Webster and Fillmore; 5 and 6 rooms. 900 each—lots 26x100: on Lombard st.. bet. Franklin and Gough; street graded, sewered and m: lamized. $1450—NW, cor. of Franklin and Lombard sts.; 27:6x100. lé&w—xm 87:6x187:8; Franklin st., nr. Lom- NW. cor. of Lake st. and 24th ave.; 50x100; $1250; elegant marine view. Corner California st. and 22d ave.; 57:6x100; $1750 only. INVESTMENTS. Polk st.—Brick bullding: best business center ot the street; 3-story and basement; $20,000, ird st., near ‘Mission—Brick ‘building; leased at $145: $22,500. Clay st, near Davis—Brick bullding; rents $150; Geary st.—Business corner: 8 frontages; rents $142 00; near Taylor: $25,000. CHEAP AND REDUCED PROPERTY; EASY TERMS. Reduced to 85000; corner Jones and Chestnut sts.; 36X137:5; elegant view of bay. % Corner residence reduced to $4500; 3 blocks from Market st., corner Octavia st. and Hickory ave.: 10 rooms, bath, and modern conveniences. 2..Bulll st., lr’lol-l‘ Fllln‘:nn: %z:lxlfl'f:fl and fine tory and basement house; 10 rooms, bath, etc.; B o Saakine viaw: Tike asm;oo - ery cheap; marine view; X100 each; Devisadaro st bet. Broadway sad | ‘vhileg "our fine flats, corn loward, near H $ 100; rents §72: only $11,500. ex g00d irontage; only $28,000. Lots $600 each; Lombard, between d Piorce: J0x100; street gradon, macadamaizes snd sewered. Lorner 800: Lombard and ; nlyurm‘ i e i Sl el ot 3575 to $625, bet. Filbert and Greenwich: v‘l’;th!l%w terms. Lots 34:4x137:6 81000 each or 37:6x60 $900: bet. Pl Scott; good view of lerce and i street sewered; easy terms. er Plerce and 1 block from Unlon- ot cable.cars: 93x80' 3000 ‘or 46-10530 deep $1475; easy terms, e g