The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1896, Page 6

CHARLES M. SHORTRIDG Editor and Proprietor, Daily Daily Dail Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by and Sunday CAL, three months by mail 1.50 Sunday CaLL, one year, by mail... WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mall THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are ¥0u going to the country ou a vacation * 1t 50, 1 1 1o trouble for us (0 forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will niss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGL 710 Market Stree, San ¥Francisco, California. Telephone. . 7 i ... Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS : B1T Clay Stre 2 T clephone. .. Main-1874 ssion atreet 6 Ninth street; o open until 9 0'clock. until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFIC US Broadway. FASTERN OFFICE Rooms 81 and 32, 54 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Ages 3 TUESDAY JULY 7, 1898 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohio FOR VICE-PRESIDENT GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEM 1896." This is another holiday. Here's hoping that Yale will win the boatrace. Monterey is now prepared to r: thing in sight. every- Don’t leave the City for your holidays before you register. You will find your happiest friends at Monterey this week. Commodore Sioat raised the flag and it is our duty to whoop it up. Chicago awoke this morning without the faintest idea where she is at. All that is left chance to be ring-maste do we allow the Chicago conven- d then stop a priz to Senator Teller is a in a sideshow. The E bat Califo celen: isanship, busy with patriotic Cleveland’s favorite songis: “Had [a donkey that would not go I would not lick him, oh no!” It is becoming more evident every day that Whitney is made of a kind of stuff that shrinks in the wash. Cleveland will treat the Chicago conven- tion like the Gorman tariff and let it pa: without bis indorsement is White. Senator Hill has bad experience in lead- ing forlorn hopes, but that affords him laking and pub- lic bolidays together, we hardly have time 10 do any work between recreations. Whitney was a great man four years ago, but now he i b enough to overlook even such a tas Altgeld. The mouth of Pennoyer of Oregon will be as good a bore as any for the Democ- racy to use in making its last blowout. 1f you wish to count as a factor in the campaign for prosperity you must join a Republican club and help in the work., Democratic bos: might as well begin advertising for men to attend the ratifica- tion meetings if they expect to have any. The brevity of Cleveland's Fourth of July letter is & pleasing proof that the tired feeling is getting in its work in the right place. The real is: before the country is whether we are to have s government at Washington or a continuance of the mis- government. A party cannot conduct & Na- tional cor ion with decency certainly cannot conduct the affairs of the Govern- ment with hono Planks enough have been taken to Chi- cago to make s bridge, but there isn't bramns enough in the party to make a bridge out of them. The Chicago convention cannot agree in approving anything, but it counld be made harmonious in & minnte on 8 plat. form denouncing Cleveland. The return to bimetallism would be of 10 benefit to any class of people if it were intrusted to the meddling and muddling of Democratic incompetenc It is asserted that Boies had a brother in the Union army. but Msjor McKinley was himself in the army. This country has had enough of men who were patri otic by substit This country took a long step backward when it intrusted the Government to a re- campaign it will recover the lost ground and hereafter the ery will be always—forward. While Democrats are splitting their fac- tions to fractions, Republicans are every- where uniting aad getting into line, and, 4% a consequence, business has an assur- ance of coming prosperity and looks for- ward to a speedy revival of trade in all departments of ind The frequent visits to McKinley's home by delegations, not only of men but of carnest-miaded women, show the per sonal popularity of the man and attest the esteem in which be is held by the whole people. This popularity will have its influence in the campsign and the voters will cast their ballots for the man they honor as well as the measures they advocate, |ot the THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 74, 1596. THE INDIVIDUAL'S WORK. The importance of individual effort in a political campaign is not sufliciently con- sidered by most people. This is especiaily true of Republicans when it is pretty gen- erally believed that their party will have a “walk-over.”” rKver since the St. Louis convention there has been a feeling in the ranks of the party that Mr. McKinley would have a majority so large that the Democracy would have reason to doubt that it was in the race. Now, it is just this kind of wild and foolish talk, and act- ing npon it, that will defeat the Republi- can ticket, if it is defeated. And, ugain, the Republican rank and file and leaders had better make up their minds that vic- tory next November is not to be secured by lounging upon rosy beds of ease mean- while. No matter who is nominated at Chicago, the Democracy is going to put unas good a fight as it knows how. The new bosses who have got hold of the machinery of the Democratic party are boiling over and will continue to boil over with enthusiasm, and of a kind that is so contagious that it is sure to inoculate pretty much all the rank and file, Then, again, there is a disposition on the part of a great many Republicans to console themselves with the belief that the public has suffered so severely under Democratic rule that everybody wants a change and that everybody will vote for McKinley. The very next belief that will be entertained by such reasoners is almost certain to be that “‘the Republican major- ity will be so great anyway I will take no active partin the campaign.” Only one or two of that kind in each neighborhood would be enough to insure the defeat of the Republican ticket, and all such people would be less harmful to the party if toay were to go over to the enemy. Moreover, it will not do to put much faith in dissensions in the Democratic party. Democrats will pull hair and de- uounce everything and everybody. but it is a “valler-dog” party and any kind of a ticket goes on election-day. A large East- ern contingent will bolt the Chicago nom- ination, no doubt, but their States wouid g0 Republican anyway, while in the al- ways Democratic States the party is as likely as not to hold its own. It will not do, therefore, for Republicans to permit themselves to become apathetic on the ground that the Democratic party is dead and that the election of Mr. McKinley will be merely a matter of easy-going form. The Democracy is far from being dead. The new leaders of the Democratic party are wagering their political salvation upon the contest, and Republicans everywhere had better make up their minds that they have work to do. To properly organize for batile every member of the party should not only go on duty, but feel that he is aosolutely nec- essary to victory. Itisthe enthusiasm of the individual that starts and Keeps alive party spirit, and it is the individual who votes. If it is the desire of Republicans that William McKinley should be the next President they will have to work in their individual capacity as well as collectively. Parading the streets and attending public meetings are notonly necessary but obliga- tory, for great good comes of that kind of campaign work, but victory is oftener due to the efforts of the individual in & mis- ion ort of way. It is not good pol- ities to wait until the *“‘formal” opening of the campaign. Tet the informal work of the individual be begun now, and let him grow in enthusiasm for the success of the Republican party from day to day. There will be no room for apectators in the “holy show" that s to be made of the Democracy. THE GOOD OF DEMOCRAQY. In their appeal to the honor and seli- respect of delegates to bold fast to the tra- ditions of the party, Mr. Whitney and his confreres do not exaggerate the dangers which threaten it. It is true that the Eastern delegates are centering their ef- forts upon the money question that there may be no departure from the theory that gold and only gold is the natural metal of which to coin redemption money; but the real struggle is to save the party from the bands of the Tillmans and the Altgelds of practical politic They see, as do all thoughtful people see, that the ascendency of such men in any party would be a menace to the political and social safe- guards of the Nation. So long as such men are restricted in their hurtful influ- ence to organizations of little numerical strength their power for evil is not so great; but when it comes to dominating one of the great political parties of the country it is time the better element of that party was pointing out the danger of such leadership and warning against it. But every advocate of individual free- dom and liberty under law should pray as fervently as Mr. Whitney and his con- freres that the Democratic party may be delivered from the influence which is just now dominating its deliberations. The Democratic party is as necessary to the Republican party as the Republican party is necessary to the Nstion, and the freer it is from uowholesome theories of govern- ment the stronger is the Republican party and the better will be its administration of the sifairs of the country. Were there no strong and in & measare worthy op- ponent of the Republican party it wounld be carried very far.astray from its true mission by the selfish designs of ambi- tious men. The country needs the Repub- lican party because its purpose contem- plates the betterment of National and in- dividual environment, but it would fall into degeneracy were it not continuatly threatened with overthrow by another party. Its leaders are not different from other humsn beings, and the closer they are watched by the leaders of anotber party, who are constantly on the alert for cause for their indictment and trial at the barof public opinion, the closer will they | keep to the standard of conduet which makes the Repubtican party, in its princi- ples of Governmeut, the strong right arm of the Nation's weal. If, therefore, the Democratic party should be captured by its Altgelds and Tillmans and their® theories of govern- ment adopted as the principles of the party, the Demoecracy would exert no more of a restraining influence npon the Republican party than anarchism now does. There would be but one great political party in the country—the Re- publican party—and through sins of omis- sion and sins of commission it wouald in time become the people’s master instesd of their servant. As we hate said, the Democratic party is needful i1n the strength of its highest and purest motives to the Republican party, just as the wise, prudent and patriotic motives of the Be- publican party are needed in practical application in the conduct of the affairs Nation. Hence no Republican should look with satisfaction upon the surrender of the traditions and 'the prin- ciples of the Democratic party to men whose theory of government gives the lie to the Declaration of Independence; whose definition of “liberty” is “every one shail be a law unto himself,” and with whom the greatest “‘patriot” is he who most successfuily resists the authority of the courts. Harm!ul as the Democratie party has been to the country, it would be a thousand times more dangerous in ! will not if Bryan can help it every way were its power for evil given over to the Altgeld and Tillman school of practical politics. M'KINLEY AND THE PEOPLE. In the frequent delegations that now almost every day visit the home of Mc- Kinley we csn see an unmistakable mani- festation of the tendency or the people of the country at large, These delegations are made up of all classes of persons. Men who have hitherto been known as Democrats or as Populists are among them. They represent, in fact, the gen- eral sentiment of the country and express the common esteem among the people for McKinley as a man as well as for the champion of protection and prosperity. These evidences of & personal liking for McKinley show the hold he has upon the popular heart. The people regard him as one of themselves. They look upon him as a friend and have a friend's desire to see him, to hear him talk and to take him by the hand. He receives them in that same spirit of Americanism. He is not exclusive. Ie meets them with a wel- come which they recognize as coming from the heart, and talks to them of work and wages, of honest labor and its right- ful rewards, of the comfort and the wel- fare of the Americsn home and of the duty of the Government to provide by adequate legislation to protect the work- shop and the home against foreign com- petition. These friendly gatherings and friendly talks as of one neighbor to another will have a great influence upon the public mind. Eve workingman cannot go to see McKinley, but ail can read the story from day to day of how he receives other men and what he says to them. Thus the effect of each of these meetings between representatives of the people and the great leader will be widely felt, and the popular mind, already inclined toward the soldier candidate and patriot statesman, will grow more and more favorable to him as they see him revealed as the plain-spoken, honest-minded, simple-mannered, true- hearted American that be is in all his dealings with bis fellow-man. No one ever hears of delegations of working people calling upon Grover Cleve- land. There is a sign warning the people from the grounds at Buzzards Bay. A policeman, stops the way at the gate of Woodley to all but the favored few. The bond-dealers of Wall street find easy ac- cess to the home of the Democratic leader, but workingmen are shut out. It is not accidental that the Democratic leader is so widely different in this respect from the great Republican. Democracy does not stand for wark or wages, for labor well paid and the American home. Therefore it has no use for the leadership of a man whose sympathies are with the people. *“Keep off the grass™is a good enough sign for Democracy. Republicans throughout the Union can find abundant assurances of coming vic- tory in the evidences these visiting delega- tions afford of the spontaneous turning of the people to McKinley. ‘They make clear the fact that the leader of the movement for protection and prosperity 1s the type of man that the people delight to honor. They will follow him with love for his per- sonal character as well as loyalty to his cause, and g to the polls for him with the same ardor they now show in calling at his home. WAR DECLARED IN CHICAGO. The Democratic ational Committee, by a vote of 26 to 23, flung the gauntlet down to the free-silverites vesterday after- noon with as much viciousness and em- phasis as if they had fired it at them from a Krupp gun. The selection of Nenator Hill for temporary chairman by a vote of 27 to 23 was a defi to the majority, and it Wwas quite enough to give the silverites to understand that the goldites were ready to fight it out, but there was nothing in the selection of Mr. Hill that could be construed into meaning an affront to any individual, for custom gives the right to the National Committee to name the temporary officers of the convention. The real defi, however, was in seating the entire anti-Bryan delegation from Ne- braska. Brran has been working like a beaver for two years to secure favorable mention from the National Convention. Anything from the nomination for Presi- dent down to temporary chairman would swt him. By joining with the Popalists two vears ago to elect Holcomb Governor of Nebraska, he got enough help in return | to put hirself in as the boss of the irregu- lar Democratic State Central Committee, and yesterday, while he was marching his Nebraska followers from the train to the “Bryan headquarters,”” and while the Presidential bee was buzzing louder than ever, the National Committee voted that he bad no right in Chicago—that is, he had no connection with work of holding a Democratic convention. Had the goldites pulled Boies' nose, Bland's rnose, Alt- geld's uose and Tillman's nose, they would not have created any more trouble than they dia by refusing to recognize Bryan and his delegates as being eligible to sit in a Democratic convention. No doubt the affront put upon Bryan was in accordance with a deliberate plan to force the fight from start to finish, and in selecting Bryan the goldites knew they were siaughtering one of Altgeld's pet lambs. It was certainly a bold and daring deed and it means that neither faction will give or take quarter. Of course, the con- vention will seat Bryan and his delega- tion, although the courts have decided that his central committee is not the law- ful committee of the Democrati¢ party of Nebraska. It is quite safe to predict that Senator Hill will not be permitted to pre- side as temporary chairman. He certainly but then Bryau has no faith at ali in Boies' conver- sion to the cause of silver, which Boies and bLis following know, and on that ac- count the Iowa man’s friends might rally to the support of the National Committee in refusing to recognize the Bryan delega- tion. Anyhow, the fizht is on and no one wants peacs. BARBED-WIRE FORTIFICATIONS. General Weyler's generalship hasevolved to where it begins to dawn upon his obtuse miad that nis Spanish soldiers are greatly in need of a new device to protect them from asssult and barttery at the hands of the rebels, and he now proposes torun a line of barbed-wire fence along his trocha. A lime of barbed wire is a new kind of fortification, but it is doubtful if the insurgents will think that it cannot be overcome. Itwould be just like the rebels to send an advsnce guard to taxe down the fence and lay it away for farm use when the war is over. But that is not tne only evidence of Weyler's boundiess genius that bas been unearthed recently. His bank account was running low, and by permission of the Madrid Government he has oraered one of the Havana banks to “emit™” $12- 000,000 in paper. There does not appear to be any provision for the redemption of these notes other than about 20 per cent of their face value in silver bullion, whica Spain agrees to send over lster on. It the war ever ends in favor of Spain and commerce revives a cer tain percentage of the income derived from imports and exports will be applied to the redemption fund. But it makes no difference whether there is a redemption fund provided or not the notes are gooa and everybody takes them—except Wey- ler. To the edict which ordered the bank to “emit” $12,000,000 in notes there was attached an intimation that refusal to take them would be considered “‘an act of sympathy with the rebels,” which, being interpreted, means death by shooting to all who are not willing to receive the ‘‘emit” at face value. In this connection it is well to remind the public that President Cleveland can- not suspend his fishing operations long enough to give Cuba a hearing. Perhaps he will get around to it after he hascaught all the fish that are willing to be caugat, but meanwhile the resolution of Congress urging the President to recognize the bel- ligerency of the patriots is getting rusty, and the indications are that the Cubans will have to manage some way to exist until Mr. McKinley relieves Mr. Cleveland of the daties of President. PERSONAL. J.H. Le Helcombe, U. 8. N., is at the Palace. J. 8. Mills, a Stockton business man, isa guest at the Grand. Dr. R. Paulin of Portland, Or., is at the Palace with his wife, Dr. J. N. McMurtrey and wife of Salem, Mo., are guests at the Russ. Joshur Green of the Jackson mine, Amador County, is a Lick guest. Dr. P. M. Menefee of Arcata, Cf &t the Russ 1or a few days. Dr. Albert H. Hayes of Boston is among the latest arrivals at the Grand. G. W. Boggs, the grain merchant of Tracy, is a recent arrival at the Russ. J. E. Tilden and wife of Sacramento are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. D.J. Stevens,a merchant of Elk Grove, is making & short visit at the Grand. Charles Erickson, the San Luis Obispo con- tractor, has & room at the Grand. J.C. Tice of Stockton, traveling agent for Wells, Fargo & Co., is at the Grand. H. N. Boggs, Mayor of Stockton, is making the Lick his temporary headquarters. W. H. Clary Jr., a mining man of Sheep Ranch, is smong the late arrivals at the Lick. M. V. Brown of Los Angeles, who buys fruit for Eastern markets, is registered at the Grand. James A. Hardin, & cattleman and rancher well known at Santa Rosa, is among the Lick’s guests. Dr. 0. Block of Berlii: is at the California. He was a passenger on tise Australia from the islands. N. E. Leek, official court reporter for Stanis- laus County, is atthe Grand registered from Modesto. ., is staying Dr. Joseph M. Topmoeller an1 B. Top- moeller of Cincinnati, Ohio, are registered at the Lick. Dr. G. W. Wood, United States navy, medical director at Mare Island, is here on & visit at the Callfornia. Countess A. la Marois of Paris ha ments at the Palace. with her maid. Richard A, Parker of Boston, Mass., 8 mining engineer, recently from South Africa, has re- turned to the Palace. P. T. Flaher! & well-known railroad man of Arizona, is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his family. Major Edward Field of the Fourth Artil- lery, U.S. A, is at the Occidental with hi wife and Alexander Field. Colonel Santa Maria and wife of Paris, pas- sengers on the Australia from Honolulu, are registered at the California. H. M. La Rue, the Railroad Commissioner, came down from Sagramento yesterday and took a room at the Occidental, Frank H. Short, the Fresno lawyer and at- torney o one of the big water ditch companies of Fresno County, is at the Palace. E. Z. Williams, a capitalist of Duluth, Minn., returned yesterday from Honoluln, where he has been visiting his sister, who lives there. Hiram W, Gray, & solicitor holding a llcense from the Supreme Court of Utah, has been ad. mitted to practice in the courts of this State. The Misses Cudahy ot Chicago, daughters of Cudahy the great pork-packer, are at the ' , accompanied by Miss Sullivan of Chicago. Joseph ner, proprietor of the principal confectionery-store in Honolulu, is at the Occidental, having been a passenger on the Australia, Dr. Renben L. Hale, a dentist of Martinez and s graduate of the local dental college, was among those who registered at the Occidental yesterda: Lieute apart. She is traveling only rant W. States navy is among yesterday's . the Palace. for the Fast, W. G. Wood of this City is in the South mak- ing & study of olive culture preliminary to setting out several hundred acres in the San Joaquin Vailey. Martin Smith, formerly well known as a ary- goods man in this City, arrived yesterday from Honolulu on business connected witha dry-goods house at Honolulu. C. du Roi, manager of & large dry-goods house in Honolulu, came uv on the Australia to spend about ten days buying goods here. He has a room at the Occidental. Le Chevalier Valere de Pienozykowski,cham- berlain to his Majesty the Rmperor of Austria, arrived from the East last night and his whole name appears on the Palace register, J. D. Hayne, who until recently edited the Hawsilan st Honolulu, arrived from the islands vesterdsy with his son. They are at the Occidental, but will soon go East. Major H. A. Bartlett of the United States navy srrived from Honolulu yesterday with Mrs. Bartlett, on account of whose feeble health the visit to the 1slands had been made. They are at the Palace. Miss Rice, Miss Shields and Miss M. Shields, Los; Angeles schoolteschers, on their way to Alasks for thelr summer vacation, arrivea at the Grana yesterday. They will continue their trip on the Walla Wails. *Colonel” Peter Sells of Columbut, Ohio, one of the proprietors of the Adam Forepaugh and Sells Bros.” show, now in St. Paul and moving westward, arrived last night at the Baldwin. He says the circus will be here in September. J. H. Gibson, principal of the Government school Wsaimes, Kauai, the largest school on the island, arrived yesterdar from Homo- lulu In company with J. K. Burkett, a school- teacher at Kalos, Kauai. They are guestsat the Occidental. Ranney C. Scott, & well-known young man of Honotulu, where he manages his sister’s large estate, came up from the islands yesterasy and went to the Occidental. He ison his way to Boston on business and expects to return to Honolulu in about three weeks. Percy C. Tarbutt and E. W. Janson of Lon- don, the two representatives of the English syndicate formed to purchase Calaveras vals at He will scon leave Mare Island County mining property, have returned 1o the | Palace after looking over the ground with Prince Poalatowskiand Charles Crocker, at whose suggestion they eame to this Coast. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 6.—At the St. Clond —I. G. Wildeck; Murray Hill-A. Boymion; Barret—J, G. Eldredge; Metropolitan—F. Brem- mer, J. Dietrick. H. J. Lawrance; Stuari— E. Drertus; Holland—C. L Fair and wife; Park Avenue—0. W. Joces and wife; Imperial—Mrs. . C. Kingsley; Belvedere—E. G. and Mrs. chelson; Bariholdi—Miss L. Morris; Grand Union—S. P. Young; Everett—H. L. Younger. INCORSED BY HIS NEIGHBORS. Los Angeles Record. Five ihousand women, the life-long neighbors ol Major and Mrs. McKinley, visited them a few daysago. Thaishows how McKinley stands at bome, and the bome iding is the place to learn about_the man. "‘“x;.o ever ho:.rd of tha women of Erie County, N. Y., giving Grover Cleveland a reception? MeKinley will get about 811 the votes thai are cast in his county. Cleve land’s oW coURty turaed him down. Hughes of the United | | AROUND THE CORRIDORS. T. C. (“Tommy™) McCombe, the genial and popular purser of the Australia, is once more around town. He is a general favorite, and wheuever he appears in the corridor of any ©f the hotels a crowd is sure to gather. “I'll tell you an old-new story,” said he to a crowd in the Occidental yesterday. ““On the up trip we were hard up for something to do and somebody started conundrums. If any- body asked one and it was answered, he had to pay a fine. If he couldn’t give & satfsiactory answer himself, he had to treat the crowd. “ ‘How is it the mole can dig a hole and leave no dirt at the mouth of it? asked a jo- vial passenger. Everybody gave it up and the questioner said, with a laugh: ‘Why, he be- wan at the other end.’ The crowd was puzzled for a minute, and I,1like a fool, asked: *But how did he get to the other end? Then there kinds. Wages would rise considerably, but the experience of other countries goes to show that they could not rise in progurtio_n to the advantage which exporters would derive who sent their goods to a gold-using country, to wit, to the United Kingdom. The manuiaci- urers of the United States would not be quite in the same position of vantage as the agricul- turist of the Argentine nor the exporters in In- dis, but they would have a sufficient leverage over the manufacturers here to turn the scale in every trade where now there is a doubt which way the market trends. In tin plates, in many kinds of machinery, inclueing some of the very heaviest, {n leatner and in many sundry manufactures where the British pro- ducer ean with difficulty hold his own, the ef- fect of the change would be decisive. Then this policy [of free coinage of siiver]is also & bribe to the [American] farmers. American meat—Ilive cattle being prohibited—also wheat and all farm produce_suitable for exportation, could come over [to England] in greatly aug. mented quantities, for the difference in the exchange would mean such an sddition of T- C. McCombe, the Popular Purser of the Oceanic Steamship Company's Steamer | WAL IA T i i Australia. was a laugh when the conundrum-maker said: ‘That's your question; answer it youneu,’] The drinks were on me snd I paid for them | gracefully.” The crew of the Australia celebrated the | Fourth atsea and Purser McCombe was the life and soul of the party. He kept everybody on the move, and the sieerage passenger had } | just as much enjoyment as his more favored brother tn the eabin. | LAMENT OF THE LITERARY HACK. | 1 never met a crocodile, And ne'er have seen the River Nile Except upon an atlas page: Yet silil, since travel is the rage, My 10ilidg pen this evening writes Ubon “Egyptian Scenes and Sights.” To-morrow, wi:h the setting sun, “Glimpses of China” must be done: “Bulgarian Folk-Songs’ come on next, And much my weary soul is vex't To think [ have one day alone To read them up and write them down! Next week I do “Cingalese Pearls,” 'he Marriage Rate of College Girls, Wordsworth at flome, ustralian Flowers," he Fuiure of Our Naval Powers,” Che Genius of the Jupanese. And “Commerce Upos Iniand Seas” 1 ne'er have left my private land— No foreign tongue I understand: Yet, day by day and night by night, On ihings like these I sitand write. Hard is my task and small my fee: U, gentle reader, pity m; New York Tribune. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. McKINLEY'S IDEAL. ISH APPREN] N CONCERNING OUR SiL- VER AGITATION. | To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sim: | In common with all citizens who seek first the welfare of our country, I bave read with seri- ous interest the abie address of Major McKin- | ley to the notification committee on accepting the nomination of the Repubiican party as its | candidate for the Presidency. He has now spoken in well-considered terms on the finan- cial issue. As a Lincoln Republican and Popu- list I accept, with slight change, this pivotal | declaration: | “The American people hold the finsmeial | honor of our Government as sacred as our flag and can be relied uoon to guard it with the | same sleepless vigilance.” This was McKin- | ley's ideal. The change in this ideal which I desire as a Populist is this: “The American people hold the paper money of our Govern- ment as sacred as our flag, and can be relied upon to guard it with the same sleepless vigi- lance.” The time is drawing near whea this will be profoundly true, and then, like the flag, our National money will become, as Ce- sar's money siood for Cwmsar, an emblematic expression of the Natiou’s honor aand su- thority and patriotism and power and match- less resources. That is the Populist ideal as [ anderstand it, and I cisim that it is more truly American, more patriotic, more philosophical, and, in- deed, more Republican and more Democratic Excu | 85 Lincoin and Jefferson undersiood party vrineiples, than Major MeKinley’s really fue sentiment on “fnsuciat honor,” and 1 chal- lenge any goldite Republican or Democrat 1o say that itis not all I cisim, nay, far more. Even gold-blind prejudice itself will not deny that Major McKiniey's felicitous declaration is weak and savors fo0 mueh of Wall street as com; with my Populist modification of it. Atall events, my chatlenge stands snd is made without limitation. If this seems bold or indiscreet, let him con- sider well who inclines to acceps my cb for the decision wili rest wiih the peopi they begin to understand the money question. Butlwil go yet farther and say: Give the American people a paper money of that kind, | based on the sentiment that upholds the flag, and back i we do the fag by the henor, the authority, the patriotism, the power and the matchiess resources of the Nation, and give them enough of it 10 do the business of the country on & cash basis, and the “financial honor of the Governmen:i” will need no “‘sleepless vigilance” to “‘guard it’* against the gold-power of our own Souniry, or sgainsi sax gold-mad nation on earth. I 'challenge any EOlQite 10 say me nay fo that delegation also. These are some of the thoughts which came 1 me as I read ana then meditated upon | Major Mt&nk{'l address this Fourth of July | afternoon; bat I defer other reference to this | masterly adaress that I may ask sny Repub- lican wno fears thal the success of silver men at this time may be_fraught with danger to our commercial and Industrial interests 10 read with due care the prognostications of the great fipancial journal of England and the few lines of comment by the Philadelphia Item, from which I copy under tha significant titie, “Free Silver and American Progress,” as follows: An ednarur:dia m; xalndon Cohmlneirce, s recognized trade suthority, a champion of | gold monomeiallism 1or England, and chunis:! i the lurgest circulation in the worid, has cau: } considerable talk among business men. From | it the foliowing exirac: is taken: “Leaving the question of tarif fora moment | letus mmdu what & bimetallist America will | mean for us. In the first place it wiil mean am | immediate fum on American exports, The effect of ecoining siiver si the proposed ra- tio would, in all probability, bring about a great ‘boom’ in [American] manufactures of all | soon face the possil | to make is not alway: profit that an immense stimulus would be given all along the line [of American pro- ucts]. Asto silver mining, all that can be said is that there would be a rush. “The dimensions of the movement [in Ameri- can production and exports] wculd depend upon many things impossible to foresee. But these anticipations of what has become pos- sible [through the success of the free coinage movement] are not, it must be remempered, based on mere tneory. We know aiready too well what to expect from foreign traders in a country where silver is a standard currency. Indis, Japan and Argentina are all bearing 10 the insidious effect on British [alse Americen?] trade of conditions similar to those now in prospect in the United States [in the event that the free silver forces should succeed next November] , we cannot too nd realize the true significance of the position as it is” [with th possible success of free silver in the United Stati The Item then adds: Among many of our local [PLiladelphia] business men this is con- dered a su! gold would give us the markets of the world, both for our manufsactures and agricultural products. Ibave nospace for a word of comment, but 1 thiuk it is not needed. JOSEPR ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, July 4. 1896. LADY'S JACKET BASQUE, WITH| FRENCH BACK A shape atonce stylish, becoming and easy attainable. The model shown here boasts all these qualities. The basque or peplum being Sewn on separate, saving much worry over the fit at the waist line, and takes less material than a basque cut in one with the bedy. The French or seamless back, with side gores, is very stylish, The leg o' mutton sleeves are finished by cuffs that flare in the proper style. The double revers are chic and aamit of & variety of trimming. Separate waists of silk are made in thisshape, as well 8s waists of costumes. A silk of black and white in many stripes had revers of em- Lroidered batiste over apple-green satin. The rest was of whnite embroidered mull. The belt was of the green satin. The collar of silk had 8 box-pleat of the satin overhanging at both sides of the back. Cuffs of batiste over the green satin, A brown mohair nad vest of brown snd white fizured silk. The revers and cuf were of brown covered with heavy white lace. Pearl buttons overiaid with gold filigree finished the edges of coat below tie revers. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Billy—Blest if I think that last lithograph sgrees with me. Nanny—Serves you right! I told you not to eat the pink trees or yellow sky, but to confine yourself to the blue grass.—Puck. Fair Patient—Is there no wsy of telling ex- | actly what is the maiter with me? Dr. Emdee—Only a posi-mortem examination would reveal that. Falr Patient—Then, for heaven's sake, make one. Idon’tsee why I should be squeamish ax such s time as this.—Pick Me Up. Showman—This is a picture of the Isrseli crossing the Red Ses. One of the Audience—But I don't see the raelites. Showman—Oh, they've just crossed over. One of the Audience—Well, where are the Egyptians? Suowman—They've just gone under. Say, how much will you take t0 take your money back ?—Pick-Me-Up. Roadster—Is Bikely = man of means? Scorcher—Is he? Wby, he owns three differ- ent makes of wheels!—Philadelphia North Americaa. He—So you visited Pompeti ? She—On, yes! He—How dia you like it 7 She—Well, I must say I was awinlly dissp- pointed in the place. Of course, it was beau- tes Is bstantial acknowledgment that | | free silver coinage at_the ratio of 16 to 1 with SRSy e e e : twas dread- tifully located and all that, but i A fully iut of repair.—Halifax Chyonicle. e ————— PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. i 14 is said The largest sheep-owner in the wor to pe S. lg:l:nughey of the Coonong station at Jerilderie, New South Wales. He has 3,000,- 000 acres of land, and last season shearcd 1,000,000 sheep. & : illiam” legrap! Emperor William’s latest fad is tel 3 and hr:(s spending several hours a week lea ing to read messages by dots and dashes. He has already made considerable progress as an operator of the key. ‘he Czarina has been appointed to a col;nnclcyln the Prussian army, and the regi- ment thus honored will hereafter be known as the Second Dragoon Guard Regiment of the Empress Alexandra of Russia. The Emperor of Austrialikes spaetzle, akind of mn(‘arolsli. and apple wine, while the goad of the Empress consists of cold meats, fruits, the juice of raw beefsteak and tea. She is very careful of her diet, as she is solicitous to pre- servener figure. . BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend's.* E Sagee S Ir you want fine service, fine carriages, Gt petent drivers, ring up 1950. Pac. Carriage Co, e SPECIAL injormation daily to manufactarers. business houses and public men by tha Pros; Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. ——————————— VisITING Cards printed 60 cents per 100. Engraved $2 per 100. Printed from plate $1 per 100. Invitations printed or engraved. First-class work at popular prices. Stationery Department, Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Mnrk.es street. ——————— King Oscar of Sweden likes the national dish of raw salmon preserved in earth, ana a soup composed of boiled barley and whipped cream. 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