The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Fi Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..20.15 Dally and Sunday CaLL, one year, by mal 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. .00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, oue month, by mail.. .65 Bunday Carx, one year, by mail.. 1.50 WXEXLY CALL, one year, by mall. 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the cduntry on a_vacation ? It 0, 1t is Do tromble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do no let it miss you for you will miss it. Oners given to the carrier or left at ‘Business Office will recelve prompt attention. ¥O EXTRA OHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone..... <.ve..Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone......... ....Maln~1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streeis; open antil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 8 o'clock. 318 Ninth street; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Reoms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Citp= THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohlo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTI The voice of business is for protection. Chicago expects a circus, but she may see 8 hara-kari. Leave no straw around your premises to show where the firecracker fell. See the Glorious Fourtn in San Francisco and take in Monterey next week. From the fact that Altgeld is bossing the job we may be sure it will be a bad one. The silver bolt at St. Louis may be more than matched by a gold bolt at Chicago. The only way tor Democrats to escape the tariff issue is to get out of the country. Ask the dairymen and the lumbermen what they think of free trade and Democ- racy. It will be silver monomietallism at Chi- cago. Democracy always overdoes the thing. The people have learned now that what is called free trade is simply the stagna- tion of trade. The California delegation to Chicago is not solid for free silver. Boss Daggett put a joker in it. The nearer Democracy comes to anarchy the better Boss Alteeld will like it. is what be favors. Altgeldism is only Clevelandism re- versed. They are the two sides of the same abomination, There are a good many wool men who call themselves Democrats, but they are not free-traders any more. Cleveland once wished a renomination, but he would now be glad to-¢ompromise on a complimentary mention. —_— The Chicago convention is expected to be a long one, but it may close with a slam before it is three days old. By way of idle cuariosity the peopls would like to know why all these Federal officials are hastening to Chicago. ‘When Altgeld gets through with them the Democrats will probably be willing to accept Buckley as a National leader. The careless firecracker will be very apt to drop into the yard that hasn’t been cleaned up, and then it will make a clean sweep. The cruel remarks of Chicago about St. Louis convention weather will now be re- turned from the latter city at Chicago’s expense. New York would not mind the lossof | her prestige with Democracy so much were it not for the fact that Chicago has found it. This is the time to remember that a little carefulness in guarding againsi fires is better than a great deal of work in put- ting them out. Having done their worst to ruin the in- dustries of the country, Democracy can see no issue before it except to whirlin and try to ruin the bankers. It will avail the country nothing to re- establish bimetallism until we have re- vived our industries and put into circula- tion the idle money of the land. It was all very well for Cleveland to urge the Democratic gold men to fight 10 the end, but to those who are in the fight it seems that the end has come. After he leaves the White House Cleve- land may go to Engiand and get an honor- ary degree all the same as Bayard, for he certainly deserves one just as well. There are plenty of gold Democrats, silver Democrats and bimetaliic Demo- crats everywhere, but there are no longer any free-trade Democrats in any part of the country. —_— With the Demoeratic convention fairly under the control of Altgeld and his Chicago anarchists it is only the accident of birth that keeps Herr Most from getting the Presidential nomination on the first ballot. It is the aim of the Republican party to provide every American workingman with a chance to have a comfortable home and to give him steady work and good wuges to maintain it. It is for that reason the people support it. Rl S Harry E. Wise, one ot the California delegates to the Chicago convention, is quoted as saying: *I want to see a tariff on all raw and manufactured wool. I was for free wool for mapy years, but 1 have got sick of it.” There are many more Democrats in the same fix. In fact the whole party is sick. That | THE COST OF IT. | The exhibit of the operations of the National treasury for the three fiscal years of the Cleveland administration show ex- penditures to have been $137,000,000 in ex- cess of income. In addition to that large sum, there must be added $262,000,000 of Government bonds that have been sold to maintain the gold reserve. The revenue deficit for the first month of the fourth year, July, is estimated at $10,000,000, but it will not average more than one-third of that sum per month during the coming year. Probably the deficit for the whole four years of the present administration will reach $175,000,000, which the people can make up their minds to pay as the price of the operation of the Wilson- Gorman tariff lJaw. In addition to the enormous deficit, there must be added Government bonds and interest thereon issued already, aggregating about $500,- 000,000. Tnis 1s on the supposition that no more bonds will be issued, but the way the treasury gold is shrinking, another is- sue of at least $100,000,000 will have to be made. That would make tne total bond issue, including interest, fully $700,000,000, which, when added to $175,000,000 representing the deficit in the income account, will give the people a pretty correct iaea of what the Cleveland administration has cost them directly. Indirectly the cost has been enormous, but there is no way of even approximating the amounts. 1f one could figure up the losses to trade, com- merce and industry that the panic which came upon the country soon after Cleve- land was inaugurated forced the people to bear, the sum total of the cost of elect- ing a Democratic President in 1892 could be ascertained, but it cannot be done; be- sides, money would not compensate for the hunger and other kinds of distress which tens of thousands of the peopie have been atilicted with during the last three years, No one supposes that Cleveland or any member of his ofticial family has enriched bimself to the extent of a farthing during | all these years of trial and trouble. The difficulty has been gross incapacity. The substitution of the Wilson-Gorman tariff law for the McKinley act was a blunder that will cost the country by the time it can be repealed nearly $1,070,000,000. That is to say, the Government will be in debt $1,000,000,000 more when Mr. Cleveland | vacates the White House than when he | moved in. The people thought they would } give the Demoncracy & fair trial, and they | did; but the bill of cost for the experiment | is yet to be paid. nor is there any way of | avoiding the payment of it. In view of the fact that all this trouble has come upon the country as the result of a tariff monstrosity, which is still playing havoe in all lines of business, it would seem that ‘xhe reasonable thing to do would be its repeal at the earliest moment possible. It would seem, indeed, that every business man and wageman in the country should ignore all other public issues until that heavy weight had been removed. Itneeds | no argument to prove that had the tarift | act of 1890 been left as it was there would { have been no occasion for issuing bonas, nor would a revenue deficit have been | possible. The reports of tue income ac- | count of the Government while the Mc- | Kinley law was in force show that the | people’s financial troubles have come as the direct consequence of the present tariff law. A GOOD THING FOR OALIFORNIA. It would have been impossible four years ago to find a protection Democrat in Cali- fornia, but the **woods are full” of them this year. Atleastone of the delegates now | en route to the Chicago comvention will insist that the piatform declare for better protection to the industrial and agricult- ural interests of the Pacific Coast. That one left here firmly of the opinion that the money question was of minor importance as compared with a little higher fence around the iron, sheep, fruit, wine, tobacco, glass, grain and other business enterprises of California. In this connec- tign it may be saia that the same feeling prevails to a considerable extentin Pacific Coast Democratic circles. Delegate Wise voiced the sentiments of | all California Democrat wool-growers when he told Tue Cau “I want to see a tariff on all raw and manufactured wool.” He said he was for free wool a while ago, but he finds that it won’t work in business, Mr. Denigan, who is the head of a large San Francisco wool house, is also & repre- sentative business man of the Democratic persuasion in California, and what he says may be relied upon as correetly reflecting the opinion of ali Democrats who are en- gaged in business pursuits that need to be protected against unjust and unreasonable outside competition. To be sure they still talk of a “‘revenue tariff,” but not the kind Wilson and Gorman inflicted upon the country, and meanwhile they want a tariff that will protect their own revenue, The striking thing, and the thing to be observed in the declarations of leading Democrats on the tariff question, is that business men of all parties in California | are getting closer together on the tariff question. Their experience in the last three years in the world of commerce has demonstrated to them the fact that Cali- fornia must have ample protection to her industries if she is to prosper. Itisnot sentiment nor politics with the business men hereabouts. It is business operations for profits, and since protection is neces- sary to profits, why, as sensible busines: men, they want protection. Party lines' are being obliterated so far as that cues. tion is concerned, and it is not now so much a question of party as it is a ques- tion of to whom shall California turn for succor. z It is not at all likely, however, that the Chicago convention will listen a moment to the California delegation on a proposi- tion for something comforting and strengthening to their business enterprises. Altgeld holds the whip, and he is an ultra free-trader; besides, he intends that the silver question shall dominate all others, and thpt if his candidate is elected, the present tariff schedule will be attended to on the basis of not less than 50 per cent reduction—after the'mints are running full time on 16 to 1 silver dollars, all of which will be good for the party of protection and prosperity in California. THE TWO-THIRDS RULE. From the present outlook it seems prob- able that the great fizht in the Chicago convention will take place over a motion to abolish the rule which requires a two- thirds vote to nominate & candidate for the Presidency. The silver men, havinga strong majority, can organize the conven- tion and frame the platform, but lacking a two-thirds vote cannot uominate a can- didate under the rule without compromis- ing with the gold men. The issue is, Will they make the compromise or abolish the rule? The establishment of the two-thirds rule in Democratic conventions dates as far back as 1832. At that time there was no contest in the convention, the delegates being virtually unanimous for the nomi- nation of Jackson, and the rule was adopted simply as 8 precautionary meas- ure to prevent the party from nominating any time a candidate who had only sec- tional suvport. The object was to insure the selection of a candidate who would be fairly acceptable to Democrats of all sec- tions of the Union, and its adoption was made without notable opposition from any quarter. Only twice in our history has the rule seriously affected the proceedings of Dem- ocratic conventions. Once in 1844, when Van Buren, who had an easy majority in the convention, drawn mainly from ihe Northern Btates, was defeated by the Southern men and a compromise effected by the nomination of James K. Polk. The other was the famous instance of 1860, when compromise being impossible the convention at Charleston failed to make a nomination and the party divided and pnt two tickets in the field; the Northern or majority wing being headed by Douglas and the Southern minority by Breckin- ridge. In both of these instances the Demo- crats from the Northern States had a ma- jority in the convention and might have repealed the two-thirasrule but forbore to do so. In the Chicago convention the con- ditions will be reversed. The South and West will have the majority and the North-Eastern States will have to invoke the rule for thieir protection. It remains to be seen whether tne followers of Till- man and Altgeld will be as loyal to Dem- ocratic precedents and rules as were those of Van Buren and Douglas, or whether they will virtually destroy the party by destroying the continuity of its principles and practices. Itis by no means sure that the rule can be overthrown, even if the extreme silver men attempt it. The Democratic mind is naturally conservative, and nota few silver men will refuse to vote for the abolition of a rule that has so lone borne the test of time. To repesl it will seem to many Democrats a virtual dissolution of the party. It would give the minority a good excuse for deelaring the nomina- tion irregular and undemocratic, and would almost certainly result in an East- ern Democratic ticket running in opposi- tion to that from the West and the South. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. E. Harrow, an Englishman who has lived in New Zealand for tie last fourteen years, ar- rivedon the Mariposa yesterday with & fine specimen of the apteryx, or kiwi, the wingless night bird found only in New Zealand. The strange-looking cresture is about tne size of & small domestic fowl, and is covered with what is epparentiy a hairy eoat of mot- tled brown. This apteryx probably has the honor of being the first one of its kind that has ever breathed the air of America, though live kiwis have been obtained for botanical and zoological gardens in Europe. 1f there 2ver was any founastion in fact for the notorfous filleyloo bird, the kiwi must have furnished the suggestion. It is most active onty at night, and then it goes about rapidly thrusting its long slender bill into the earth in search of worms on ounce, yet the price of wheat per bushel in ton was as follows: In 1798, 60 cents, ex- changing for less than half an ounce of silver builion; in 1803 wheat was 70 oems’gor bushel, in 1819 wheat was 80 cents, in 1! it was 60 cents, in 1821 wheat was 43 cents per bushel, in 1824 wheat was 48 Mnllrl‘ bnllleld in 1835 it was 53 cents, in 1828 it was 5: cents, in 1834 it was 66 cents (see McCul- lough’s Commercial Dictionary, article Prices). To-day a bushel of wheat will exchange for practically an ounce of silver builion, showing that Wayland correctly saw the future, and that silver has continued to fall as against ‘wheat. Now it is proposed to resist the natursl forces and to artificially force silver to ex- change for more wheat—in other words, to allow a public law to be enacted to have us hire the silver mining multi-millionaire cor- porations to conduct their own business for their own profit at the 'gnbllc expense, and especially atthe cost of the wheat-producers. It, therefore, clearly appears that silver and wheat follow their own markets and have no Apteryx, or Kiwi, the Wingless Nosturnal Bird Found Only in New Zealand. MAKE THEM THE OFFIOIAL RATES The presumption is that freight rates were too high to permit a large movement of traffic before the S8an Francisco and 8an Joaquin Valiey Railway reduced them, and it is reasonable to assume, too, that they were not reduced to where the rail- way would sustain & loss. A railway isa business enterprise for the one purpose of making money for its owners. Rates are always made so that the traffic will yield ample revenue to provide fer all expendi- ture ana leave a margin of profit. It fol- lows, then, that when a railway volun- tarily lowers its charges it admits that they were unjustly high and that reduc- ing them does not mean a loss to the car- rier. A railway is in no sense a charitable institution. On the contrary, it is as soul- less as a boulder in the mountain, and it does nothing that does not promise ade- quate compensation. Moreover, when a railway reduces its schedule of charges for its services it does so because, first, they are higher than tne traffic can bear, and, second, because by reducing them traffic can afford to move, which in turn increases the volume of the carried tonnage. Do not think for a moment that a railway ever voluntarily establishes a rate-sheet that provides for less revenue than is required for the expenditure and profit account. In announcing a horizontalcut in traffic tariffs the Valley road proves without tne asking that the charges that are permitted by the Railway Commission are too high. No other evidence of - that fact is needed. Th: road admits by its own free act that there is a reasonable profit in carrying tonnage at its reduced charges. That is all the Commissioners need to warrant them in making the Valley road’s new schedule the official maximum rate sheet, not only in the territory covered by that particular road, but for every mile of rail- way in the State. The Southern Pacifie has met the Valley line’s cut, but under protest. The protest, however, is an ex- pression of the road’s inordinate greed, as is #hown in its action in the premises. The Southsrn Pacific was not obliged to meet the Valley road’s cut. It had a per- fect right to hold fast to the charges estab- lished by the Commissioners. But in meeting the reduction the Southern Pacific either proves that the old rates were too high snd that the new rates are profitable. or that the managément of the road is false to its employer. The man- agement has no more right to entail losses upon the owners of the property by reducing rates below the cost of service than it has to entail losses by burning station-houses or wrecking trains. Hence, if the Southern Pacific’'s owners are losing money by the management cutting rates below what the law permits it should be arrested for malicious destruction of a trust. On the other hand, if the cut rates are reasonable they should be made the official maximum rate for the whole State. A COINOCIDENCE. It might be considered a curious coinci- dence that Hannis Taylor of Alabama shouid be Minister to Spain and Fitzhugh Lee Consul-General to Cuba at this particu- lartime. Both Taylor and Lee were raised in un atmosphere that was always burden- ed with the ides that if not annexed, Cuba should at least be freed from Spanish au- thority. Alabama has been conspicuous on many occasions for her zeal for Cuban independence, and no doubt Mr, Taylor imbibed plenty of it in hisyoung days, and the same holds good of General Lee. There neyer was an effort made by Cubans for independence that the South was not ready to extend a helping hand. But there is another reason why these representatives of the United States to Spain and Cuba should feel very kindly toward Cuba—that is, if it is assumed that human nature runs right along in the same old rut and that gratitude continues. During the war of the rebellion the Cu- bans were very friendly to the South. Confederate blockade- runners always found hospitable harborsin Cuban waters, and a great many'Southern families found pleasant bomes in Havana while the war was raging at home. Of course Cuban iriendship and hospitality-was not alto- gether without profit to the islanders, for they made a great deal of money shipping army supplies into and cotton out of the Confederacy, and on the whole a kindly feeling prevailed, between the better class especially, for slavery was a strong bond of union in those days. p Itisnot at all likely that either Taylor or Lee would color facts or too openly ex- press their sympathy with the cause of the Cubans, but on general principles they may be relied upon to not omit any in- formation in their reports to this Govern- ment that would be calculated to at least set the revolutionists in the true light of their purpose. 1t is not at all unfortunate for Cuba that Taylor is in Madrid and Lee in Havana. —_————— No sooner did the delegates to the Chi- cago convention find themselves together on the train than they began to fight over the question of instructions. It is ever thus with Democrats, which it feeds. While thus hunting it keeps up a continuous audible sniffing, its nostrils being located very near the end of the upper wandible. The kiwi, for by this name it is best known in New Zealand, is sluggish in the day time and seems to have great difficulty in seeing. At nignt it often catches the large luminous fire worms, crushes them against the ground and swallows them. During the operation phospherescent particles adhere to the beak, and the hermit-like bird can be seen in the darkness continuing its search for food. A remarkable thing about the kiwi in »ddi- tion to the absence of wings and regular feathers is the great size of the egg it lays. The kiwi egg weighs over 12 ounces, or & quarter of the bulk of the bird itself, This kiwe Mr, Harrow long 8go accustomed to & meat diet, aud that isthe reason he has ®ot it here alive. He hoped to dispose of it for $25 to the Park Commissioners, but was told that they would willingly accept it for nothing. Mr. Harrow lived in South Africa for sixteen vears before he went to New Zealand. He says he was one of the first togo to the South Af- rica diamond fields from England, to which country be is now golug on a visit to old scenes. Gold mining and the digging of kauri gum, used in the manufacture of varnish, are the principal industrits about Auckland. The kauri gum is found in the earth in resinous lumps, located by tapping with pointed iron rods. It is one of the principal exports to America and elsewhere, Four miles from Auckland, which isa city of about 50,000, is Lake Takapun: fresh water lake only 200 yards from the ses, a condition that does not maintain anywhere else in the world. The waters of the lake, now used for XNorth Shore, are soon to become the main sup- ply for the city of Auckland. “The class of '96 at the Apnapolis Naval Academy was poted for 1its social functions,’ said Ensign Wurtsbough yesterday as he sat on the edge of the bureau in his room at the Oc- cidental. “We were the deuce for the society part, but not much for ‘savoir,’” remarked Ensign Tozer from his position on the foot of the bed. “‘Everybody said,” continued Wurtsbough, “that "96 was just such a ciass for good times as was the class of '69, and that was always held up to us as & model in its way. *‘There was one fellow,” interposed Ensign Lincoln, and then he paused and hurriedly scanned the faces of those grouped about him, “who was the equal of your Lucky Baldwin for winning the fair sex. He's downstairs now with one of the other fellows checking our bazgage, for we are oft for Santa Cruz on the next train to join the Philsdelphia. “Well, ‘the major’ was the spooniest fellow in the class. He took the lead as & ladies’ man from the first, before the rest of us had got over feeling mean because of the soap the upper classmen made us eat and the ink they compelled us to drink when we entered the academy in the summer of '92. “At Annapolis there is a place called ‘the mortar.’ It's just a big mortar surrounded by & number of old cauton, but it's & regular lovers’ rétreat. All the spooney couples make that a stamping ground. “One night there was a big party on, and some of the lower classmen went ‘rubber-neck- ing’ round the mortar, and they heard ‘Doubled-barrelled Jr.'s' voice saying tenderly, ‘Ob, don’t call me Mr. Call me Arthur.' His name is a double-ended affair, and that's why ‘the major' has another nickname. “But that wasn’t & marker to the light inci- dent,” put {n another eusign who had only a short time before been discussing Sharkey and what work on the Philadelphia had done for him in a pugilistic way. “One night there Wwas a cruiser in the harbor. Itwas a deuce of a dark night, but ‘the major’ was on daty at ‘the mortar.” All of a sudden the cruiser flashed her powerful search light right on ‘the mortar.” The officer knew from experience in his own academy days what it might strike, There were two heads on one pair of shoulders. Some fellow spoiled what might after all have been a match by letting out & hoarse iaugh and giving our presence dead away.” LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. WHEAT AND SILVER. THE DECLINE IN THE PURCHASING POWER OF PRECIOUS METALS. To the Editor of the Call: In reply to an article written to your influential journal in"relation to wheat and silver a correspondent named Nelson saw fit to reply thereto alleging that an ounce of silver bullion now will and ever ‘would exchange for a bushel of wheat—that the two rise and fall together. The article of mine contained the argument that the price of wheat is and will be at g1l times in the future | charge faithinlly the duties that have called as long as we export & surplus of wheat fixed in the Liverpool market and, therefore, will be fixed in the single gold standard. That, there- fore, it is the Interest of the wheat-grower to insist on the single gold standard here—to buy, &s he sells, & single gold standard market, ? It was further contended that the fluctua- tions in silver during the transit of the wheat to Liverpool would constrsin the Liverpool hu‘ver to {hn than he would pay on a single gold basis of payments here. It was contended that the free. independent and unlimited coinage of siiver would produce silver mono- metaliism hee. That, therefore, to the extent of the :mmn luctuation the wheat- (rower here would gei less for nis wheat. ‘Wheat and silyer bave no relation in value to each other, They each d‘s“'d on their own market. They each de; on the cost of pro- ;-:u.t.‘lon 85 eornehdg the supply and de- The two commodities have never ed in value; silver has for hundreds of years tended to exchange for less wheat. Wayland in his “*Poiitical Economy" of 1841 writes the following: *‘The quantity of wheat in France which was excha in'1520 for 512 grains of silver was exel in 1536 for 1063 ns, ll:.l‘. l'lqu In-::d in 1789 for " He rophetically says: "Now?':; the progress of .3.,1 ,muzgud mineralogy obably n-:lg increase the rudllcl’l‘ol;. of t%a:i‘o&n. °moull a‘l the luture ’Nh rices con- “'l:‘ll“mlm" the price of silver h:'liu Te o per cunce was from 4 o 6 per cent from $1 29 per relation to one another. In relation to silver monometallism, it may be briefly asserted that if the mint price of gold builion is fixed at on‘? 16 ounces of silver bullion for 1 ounce of gold, that the owner of the bullion will not send his gold bullion to the mint, but will send it to the metal merchaunts of his own country, who will send it away where the laws of nature vrevail, and where they will give nearly twice &s much silver as the mint does. This is the reason why holders ot gold bullion sell none to the Mexican mint, but sell it tothe mer- chants who overbid the mint, and why Mexico has silver monometallism. Respectiully, JoHN HEENAN, A WINDY DAY. The giant powder in the blast Isb owing up the bowiders: The daughter with pneumatic sleeves Is blowing up her shoulders. The baker to the kitchen maid Is biowing up his crumpe! The milkman in the lower hail Is blowing up the trumpe:s. The gentie zephyr from the south Is biowing the narcissus; The cook who thinks she knows it all 1s blowing up the “missus.” The father, down upon his knees, 1s blowiuz up the fires; The daughter n her bloomer suit Is blowing up the tires. —Yonkers Statesman. A LARGE APRON OR ROBE. A full apron that will cover the entire dress, and with large sieeves that fit comfortably over dress sleeves, is a garmen: indispensable to every woman. Thisdesign is in three pieces, besides the sleeve. Front is seamless, hanging straight from the shounlders. The back isin two pieces buttoning in center. The sleeves are the bishop shape. Plain or striped ginghams make most ser- viceable -gx;onl. Such fabries as lawn or nain- ;no%: m used if something more dainty is esired. Immglng or bath robes can be made after this same design by cutting the back in one piece and cutting the front in two, and aliow- ing a hem on both sides. It is desirable also for night dresses, which are dainty and com fortable, made in this way. A dee‘y irill of lace or embroidery may be used to finish the neck, and may be substituted for cuffs on the sieeves. For amateur artists’ aprons denim is often used. This also makes a serviceable aress for housekeepers to wear in the kitchen. CONVENTION OF THE FUTURE. Chicago Tribune. It was the afternoon of the third dey of the great convention. The chairman recognized the delegate from Maryland. Coming forward to the platform the states- men mounted it and turned slowly and im- pressively toward the audience. “Fellow-members of this convention,” he said, deeply moved by the solemnity of the occasion and the importance of the mission he had been selected by his constituents to fulfill. “I can hardly express the emotions of my heart as I survey this vest and attentive assem- bly and realize the momentous issues of the campaign ?nn which we are soon to enter. The responsibility that rests upon us to dis- us together is one cannot evade. The peo- ple will hold us to & strict accountability for our actions here. “The eyes of the Nation are wpon us. Trade and commerce awalt with eager expectation or with silent dread the ouicome of our delib- erations, Upon the wisdom or folly of the transactions of this bodv may hinge the des- tinies of the Western Hemisphere. It is, therefore, with no ordinary feeling of pride that I take occasion here and now to present 1o this conyention & gavel made from - tion of the fence that once surrounded is- toric -{m of ground where grew the cherry tree cut down by the illustrious George Wash- ington, Father of His Country, in the days of his innocence and trusting youth.” [Long rolonged applause.] ‘“The sergeant-at-arms will *ake charge of the gavel,” aunounced the chairman in & dis- tinci and somewhat monotonous tone of voice, ‘“‘and place it in the gavel annex of the con- vention hall. It is my duty now to state,” he under the reguls of gavels have now expired. next in order. Is the committee on a- nent organization ready to report?"” e — o The Best Man. Woodland Saturday Visitor. : The fight between M. H. deYoung and J. D. Spreckels for membership on the Republican Natfonal Commitiee was won by the latter, and Ierm&lo'ullelnm who will ‘,gr' choico was unwise. Spreckels is the best man. PERSONAL. Judge Dante R. Prince of Fresnoisat the Grand. J. Harris, & botel proprietor of Fair Oaks, is staying at the Russ. V. 8. McClatchy, proprietor of the Sacramento Bee, is at the California/ A. C. MeGehey of Sydney arrived at the Grand yesterday from Australia. Samuel Hoyt, & large dry-goods merchant of New York City, is atthe Palaces E. H. Winship, one of Napa’s merchants, is one of the arrivals at the Grand. F. M. Jennings, & capitalist of San Diego, is | registered st the Cosmopotitau Hotel. Rev.J. A. Wickman and wife of Portland, Or., are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. B. Sumner, who has an orange-grove at Fair Oaks, registered at the Russ last night. Samuel Allen registered at the Occidental yesterday with the arrivals from Australia. J. E. Rawlins, a rancher and stock-raiser of Hanford, is among thuse registered at the Grand. E. W. Kenyon, proprietor of the Windsor Hotel at St. Helens, is making a short stay at the Russ. Among the Mariposa’s passengers that regis- tered at the Grand was G. A. Chapman of New Zealand. S. C. Walker, a Tacome merchant, well known in the Northwest, arrived at the Palacs yesteraay. Mrs. W. H.’Avery of £ .moa was among the ocean travelers that registered at the Occi- dental yesterday. Mrs. L. A. Whitehurst of Gilroy, wife of State Senator Whitehurst, is registered at the Lick, with Miss Whitehurst. Dr. C. T. Hibbett, surgeon aboard the United States steamship Bennington, is making & short stay at the Palace. William B. Jones of Boston, ' Mass., returned yesterday from Honolulu, after conducting & Raymond excursion to Japan. R. P. Grear of the local ammonia works re- turned yesterday from Australia, where he has been establishing a big business. J. F. Martin, who is New Zealand mail agent, and Thomas G. Spies, assistant New Zcaland mail agent, are at the Occidental. Mrs. Alice Mills, wife of the United States Consul-General at Hawaii, arrived yesterday from the isiands. She ison her way to Wash- ingron. Among the arrivals at the "Palace yesterday were the following Londoners: F.Hazelton, Curtis A. Rider, R. Ernest Smith and E. W. Jansen. Martin Smith, a young man of this City, re- turned on the Mariposa from s trip to the Ha~ waiian Islands, Australia and New Zealand. He is at the Grand. Lew A. Norton, Deputy Sheriff of Sonoma County, is at the Russ. He is awaiting the is- suance of extradition papers for an embezzler in the State of Washington. Miss Fannie Campbell of Sacramento is in the City visiting friends. She will soon leave for Seaside and Del Monte, Monterey County, where she will spend the summer season. R. W. Dodge, & mining expert of Kansas City, Mo., returned yesterday from Australia, whither he went some time ago to take charge of a smelter for a big mining concern. Heisat the Russ. Charles H. Brown of Edinburgh, Scotlana, was among the passengers that arrived on the Mariposa yesterday. Mr. Brown Ison his way around the world and at present is a guest at the Palace. Herbert E. Salt of Coleman, Tex., was a pass- engeron the Mariposa. He has completed a long ocean trip, during which he visited the most prominent islands, and in a few days will leave the Occidental for his Texas home. 8. W. Collins, M.A., Staniord University, is | at the Grand. Mr. Collins is a physicist. While an undergraduate he wasa most suec- cessful business manager of the college daily paper, and was & Boss Buckley in his local sphere. E. Harrow, a resident of New Zealand for fourteen years and for sixteen years previously & resident of South Africa, arrived at the Grand yesterday from Auckland. He1son his way to England to visit scenes familiar to his boyhood. Dr. E. B. Foote, who came here recently with the excursion of eclectics, returnea to the | Grand yesterday after having visited the Yo- semite. He is a physician of long practice in New York City, and is traveling now aceom- panied by & private secretary for a sort of va- cation while his son is in charge of his prac. tice in the metropolis. Five ensigns came up from Santa Cruz yes- terday and went to the Occidental. They have been on board the Philadelphia, but owing to the recent arrival of six newly graduated ensigns from Annapolis these have been trans- | ferred to the Oregon. Their naines are: P. ) Bannon, R. Z. Johnston, J. P. Morson, F. D, Karns and M. J. McCormack. Mrs. Isabella Strong, wife of Joe Strong, the well-known local artist. and the adopted daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, left Samoa on the Monowai for Australia the day the Marjposs stopped at Apia. She purposed to visit her son, who is in college at Welling- ton, New Zealand. Mrs. Strong has been writing reminiscenees of Robert Louis Steven- son for Harpers' Weekly. E. Valentine, & recentarrival at the Grand from Juneau, Alaska, where he has lived for the last ten years and where he is interested in many large business enterprises, says that the Sharkey-Corbett fight could easily be pulled off at Juneau, as the National laws gov- erning Alaska do not prohibit prize-fighting. He says that they have had a number of hard fights to a finish near Juneau and nobody ob- | jected. William Alston Hayne Jr., son of Cclonel Hayne of El Montecito, & suburb of Santa Bar- bara, and an older brother of Judge Hayne of this City, is at the Grand. He, too, is & proud desceudant of *‘the South Carolina Haynes” to ‘whom lawyers occasionally refer in court when attempting toruffle the serenity and dignity of the little Judge in his position as counsel. Mr. Hayne has long been considered one of the re- liable gallants of Santa Barbara and it as well known to fair visitors asis Don Carlos de la Guerra, & scion of a historical Spanish family that wasin the zenith of its glory during the early days when {rijoles and hides were the principal products of California. H. Fischer of Bengel, Indla, is at the Palace on his way to hisold home in Germany,on a leave of absence. He has been in India since 1874, and latterly has aoted as manager of the Central Dooars Tee Company, of which he | is a stockholder. The plantation covers an area of over 1200 acres, all of whieh is covered by flourishing tea plants. The aver- age yield, good condition maintaining, is from 600 to 800 pounds of tea to the acre, with a profit of about $300. Tea will grow anywhere there except in moist land, and as the annual rainfall is 200 inches, level undrained lands are not the best: The plantation requires the services of about 1000 native laborers to keep down the weeds and handle the crop. There are numerous wild elephants in the country about,but there isa Government fine of over $30 for shooting one. They are being cap- tured and sold by the Government. an elephant over seven feet high being worth from $100 to $400, the highest price being paid for one that will unflinchingly stand before the tiger's roar. They are used for hunting, and are the only means by which the thick jungle grass can be penetrated in journeys across country. —_— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y, July 2.—At the St Cloud—J. H. Mahoney. St. Denis—E. C. Burr, Union Square—W. Emerson. Imperial—A. D, Perry. Grand Union—W. R. Kimberiee and wife, R. Foster. Vendome—W. F, Holden. Broadway Central—W. G. Holcombe. Amster. dam—S. Howard and wife. Miss Gertrude E. Paine of San Jose left the St. Cloud to sail on the North German line steamer kulda for Genoa. — THE FINANCIAL PLANK. Would the S20ts Crus Sentinel. A "oul © passage by & Republican Congres: of a law for the frée coinage of silver nme-‘ ure calculated to debase our eurrency or im- pair the credit of our country. . We are, there- 1ore, op;)uaa 10 the frec coinage of silver, ex. cept by international agreement with the lead- ing commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and untilsuch an agreement can be obtained the existing #old standard must be preserved. All our sil- ver and paper currency must be maintainea at parity with gold.” This is the substance of the financial plank. It will be observed that the party vledges itself to maintain the silyer and papercur- rency of the Nation upon & plane of equality with gold. This is what the party specifically promises to do. The party also says that ic opposes the free coinage of silver except by agreement with other nations, but it expressly that opposition upon the hypothesis that such independent free coinage would tend to depase the currency or impair the credit of the country. The opposition to such coinage is predicated upon the mere opinion or belief that the currency would thereby be debased. There is no pledge that such opinion or belief will remain unchanged. The only positive Ppromise made is that the silver and paper cur- rency shall be kept equal with gold as money. This'is the grand objecs t0 be accomplished. 1he party says thatitdoes not bolieve that this can be accomplished if free silver coinage were restored iu this country at the present time, and therefore it opposes such action. Now, if during the progress of the financial discussion that will agitate the connu-)l- be- tween now and the time when the Republican party takes possession of all branches of the Government, it should become clear and plain beyond the possibility of reasonable refuta- tion that the only way to prevent the debase- ment of the currency and the impairment of National credit and to maintain the silver and paper currency equal to gold, is to restore free silver coinage without waiting for other na- tions to act in the matter, it would clearly be the duty of a Republican Congress to passa free coinage Jaw and the duty of a Republican President to sign it, and if it were done there would not only be no violation but a faithiul observance of the main pledge in the financial El.nk of the platform, to wit: the promise to eep all kinds of the Nation’s currency at a parity with gold. If it becomes as plain to & majority of Re- putlican members of Congress as it now is to thousands of logical thinkers that the Cleve- lana-Carlisle plan of borm'hlf gold to keep up the parity of the currency is powerless to accomplish that object snda_tends directly to the destruction of such parity and the conse- quent debasement of the currency and impair- ment of the Nation’s credit, and that free silver coinage is the only possible means of keeping every doliar of the Nation’s money as good as any other dollar, it would be incurmbent upon those members 1o act in accordance with their convictions; and if they did so and passed a free silver coinsge law they would act con- sistently with the spirit of the financial plank of their party platform. Republicans should understand that inde- pendent iree silver coinage advocates, ine ternational free silver coinage advocates and honest bimetallists of ail shades of opinion can consistently stand together on the Republican platiorm snd each in his own way fight the common enemy, the gold monometallists. A PROGRESSIVE DAILY. Portland (Or.) Universal Republic. THE CALL (3an Francisco, Cal.) is keeping up its record asone of the most progressive dailies by advocating the enfranchisement of women. It says: “THE CALL, desirin g to represent the progressive spirit of the age. and believing it to be the duty and opportunity of the Republi- can party to assume this position of advanced enlightenment, urges that the value of women in politics be recognized as equal to that which they exercise in ail the other affairs of community life, and to this end, that they be iven & sulfrage equal to that enjoyed by men. order that the readers of this psper may have anopportunity to study an intelligent exposition of the women’s cause—which is the cause of all—the services of Miss Ida Hi T, whose able communication sppeared in last Sunday’s issue, have been enlisted, and com- munications from her will appear ‘from time to time hereafter. Theefforts of THE CALL will not stop there. It will uureservedly advocate the movement and promote by every means in its power the earlge:uccen of this great re- form, which has siready too long de- 1ayed in so progressive Californis.” NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Anxious Inquirer — The Prince of Wales' mottois “Ich Dien” all right enough, but it aoesn’t mecessarily follow that the Czar's is “Czar Dien,”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Life is short,” said the man speeding before & prairie fire, “and grass is long.’—Wichits Eagle. “I love you unspeakebly, Molly.” ‘‘But perhaps you might speak te mamma."” Fliegende Blaetter. CALIFORNTA glace fruits, 50¢c Ib. Townsend's." Fost ) SR e BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend's.* - FamMous bn;ken, mixed candies. Townsends.* - — SOFT Baby €ream 15c¢. 1b. Townsend's. * D e MOLASSES crisp popcorn. Townsends. b e e A NICE present—Townsend’s California Glace ¥ruit, 50c¢. 1b,, in Jap baskets. ' 627 Market. * e To enjoy the Fourth take a basket of Town. send’s Cream Mixed Candies, 25¢. a pound. * —————— “MANZANTTA Hall, preparatory school for boys, Palo Alto, Cal. Send for catalogue.” * ——————— EPECIAL iniormation daily to manufacturers. business houses and public men by the Pres: Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— Dr. W. Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield England, announced recently that he had burned one of Thomas Hardy’s novels in order to mark his disapproval of it, and now numer- ous good church people in his diocese are reading the novel in question to see how bad it is. Are You Going East? The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad—Santa Fe route—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing 0 its elevation and absence of alkali dust. Particularly adapted for the trans- portation of samilies becanse of its palace draw- ing-room and moaern upholstered tourist sleeping- cars, which run daily through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving at & seasonable hour and in charge of attentive conductors and porters. Tick- etoffice, 644 Market sirees, Chronicle building. Telephone, Main 1531, Official Route 1o Demoeratic Nations Convention, Chicago. Central Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern lizes. Traln csrrying California delegates will leave San Francisco July 1at 6 v a. Special rate for the round trip to Chicago $72.50. Tickets on sale June 30 and July 1. Sleeping-car reservations now on sale at Union Pacific oftice, 1 Montgomery street. Call early so as 10 secure best accommeodations. D. W, Hitch. cock, General Agent, San Francisco. e Northern Pacific Railroad. Perties attending the' Democratic National Con- vention at Chicago, the Christian Endeavorers a: Wasbington and National Kducaiional Associa tion at Buffalo should g0 or return via the North- ern Pacific Rallroad. For particalars inquire of T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agt., 658 Market st., 8 F. ——————— ““Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup'* Has been used aver 50 years by millions of mothers for their children whiie Teething with perfec: suc cess. It soothes the child, sofiens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels sl isthe best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drug- gisls in every part of the world, Be sure and a3& for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25¢ & botle. —————— CORONADO.—Atmosphers is perfectly dry, ot and mild, being entirely free from the mists com~ mon further norch. Round-trip tlokets, by steam- ship, lucluding fifteen days' board a: the Hoisl lal Coronado, $60: longer stay $2 50 perday. APAT 4 New Mouigomery st.. San Francisco. BTt Sty o BEGIN to use Ayer's Hair Vigor now, and by the next Fourth of July your hair will be “a thing of beauty," -—— Chou Han, who was the author of many vio- lent attacks on foreigner¢ which incited the Chinese in the Yangtse Valley to attack Euro- peans, and who escaped punishment through the Chinese authorities reporting that he was insane, is now in Hunan studying Christian books and asking for missionary instruction. NEW TO-DAY. INFANT HEALTH SENT FREE vendently of the action of other nations be ir- reconcilably inconsistent with the financial plank in the platiorm? Most people, after a casual reading of the plank, would probably answer this question in the affirmative. But we think it i notdifieult to show that the :;::lhn Teasonably admits of s negative an- “We are unalterably opposed to every w A little book that 1d be in every home. Issued by .&?mmuuctwn ¥ Gail Borden Eagle Brand i