The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 25, 1896, Page 6

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This week has put things into shape and next week the procession begins to move. When Populism and Democracy become firmly yoked together the kicking will be lively. A Democratic gold -ticket would hardly admit the holder to eyen so much asa sideshow. Leave orders to-day for Tar Suxpay CaLz and assure yourself of good reading to-morrow. —— ‘The remonetization of silver cannot be safely entrusted to the hands of Bryan and Altgeld. We must have statesmen to per. form the task. Labor and capital, Esst ana West, are united in the need of a return to the pro- tective system, and will work together for the party of protection. The middle-of-the-road Populists have come to the place where the road forks, and they must either turn to the right or follow the Democratic band wagon. It has been evident for some time that Cleveland has lost control of his Cabinet as well as of his party, and it may not be long before he loses control of himself. Dana charges the Populists with play- ing a green-goods trick on the Demo- crats; but we notice the Democratic bosses seem very well satisfied with the goods. The best thing in Senator Allen’s speech was the suggestion that the Democratic goldbugs nominate Charles A. Dana and Herr Most. The ticket would be a daisy. Wherever McKinley goes the working- men greet him with cheers, for they know him to be the champion of American in- dustry and the advance agent of pros- perity. When California woolen-mills are being moved to Japan it is time for the working- man to begin askicg himself whether Re- publican protection is not necessary to his ‘welfare. The workers in nearly every industry in America were injured by the Democratic tariff, and to ask them to vote the Demo- cratic ticket again is to add an insult to the injury. Senator Dubois has served notice on the Democrats that he has joined them on the silver issue only, and now they are won- dering if that kind of thing can be called a ratification. The intelligent workingmen of this country will never throw away tbeir sab- stance of work and wages for the purpose of filling themselves on the wind of Bryan’s oratory. So long as trade languishes, industry is unprofitable and labor cannot find em- ployment the chief issue before the people is necessarily that of promoting prosperity and restoring work and wages. The men who won in the Republican convention, in the Democratic convention, in the BSilver convention and in the Populist convention are all clean shaved fellows. It seems that whiskers must go, I rassi ke Any Republican who will stand squarely against the refunding scheme can carry the Fifth District in an easy walkover, for the Democrats will be too busy washing Kelly’s dirty linen to have any time to make a race. — The style of government which results from the success of combinations of Populists and Democrats bas been tried in Colorado, in Kansas and in Oregon, and judging from the results in those Btates no sane man can be willing to try the experiment on the Nation. Conservative Democrats who will vote for the election of McKinley should unite with the Republicans for the election of 00od business men on the municipal ticket, Now that gond citizens are getting together for the benefit of the Nation they should also act for the benefit of the City. ALLEN'S BILLINGSGATE. Senator Allen was made a delegate to the Populist convention to help betray the party into the hands of the new Democracy, and he tried so hard to accom- plish bispurpose that it would haye been a reflection upon his apility to play false— to murder as he smiled—not to make him chairman. No valid excuse could be offered for trying to sell out the party to the Democracy, and hence a man who could deal in billingsgate was needed in the chair to divert attention from the conspir- ators while they were putting the fimish- ing touches upon the coffin which it was hoped would hold the remains of Populis; Mr. Allen was for many years an Iowa middle-of-the-road Democrat, but some way or somehow he got himself arrested for a eriminal offense, and when the elo- quence of Horace Boies opened the meshes of the law for him Mr. Allen migrated to the wilds of Western Nebraska, where he subsequently turned up as a Populist. Thusit will be seen that Mr. Allen was the right man in the right place while the conspirators were making out the papers which were to give the Democracy a bill of sale of the Populist party. Nearly one. half of the convention was composed of farmers, mechanics and other honest sons of toil. It may-be said of them that they are patriotic and sincere lovers of the country’s institutions. They truiy be- lieve that their theories would better the conditions of existence of all the people, but their honesty and sincerity have been played upon by the, professional politicians under the leadership of Alen. Never was a convention so dominated by the professional politician—the politician who makes his living out of politics, Chairman Allen’s purpose was, while diverting attention from the cunning work of his agents, to so magnify the influence which Wall street exerts upon the busi- ness world that a bitter hatred might be engendered on the part of Bryan's ‘‘com- mon people” toward the larger of the business enterprises of the country. No man ever labored harder to set section against section, neighbor against neighbor, than did Senator Allen in the Populist convention. He presented no argument, but hurled chunk after chunk of rhetori- cal mud at every reputable man in the country who is not 1n accord with his own revolutionary purpose. Without even claiming to have an excuse for it he ebused Major McKinley as no ove but s blackguard could and called him the tool of Great Britain, of Lombard street, of the Rothschilds and of Wall street. But, for that matter, no one who has the right to be called a gentleman escaped Mr. Allen’s vituperation. Either directly or by infer- ence he assailed every man in America who is not throwing up his hat for Allen’s kind of Populism, which is the kind that may always be found on political bargain counters. Those who bave not yet made up their minds to have nothing to do with a Democratie - Populist combine should read Allen’s speech. It will convince them that it would be political smallpox, FALSIFYING THE RECORD. If it were not that the people are too intelligent to be hoodwinked by the sophistry of the Bryans the daysof the Republic could very easily be numbered. For instance, the burden of the talk of such fellows is ‘‘the enormous shrinkage in values since the crime of 1873.” That there has been an enormous shrinkage in the value of practically all articles of com- merce since 1873 no one will deny, only that the wages of labor have not fallen in proportion to what labor has to pay for articles of consumption. But the Bryans deliberately lie when they say that these great reductions in values have not been highly beneficial to the people, ana they tell another lie when they say the silver legislation of 1873 exerted any influence one way or the other in lowering the range of pricesof general goods and wares. THe Bryans know very well that the per capita money in the United States has been steadily increasing since 1873, In 1873 the per capita money was about §$I8, and to-day itis over $22. Moreover, our sys- tem of doing business with checks and the accompanying clearing-house system is estimated to be the equivalent of $50 per capita, making the actual per ecapita money $72. But the per capita of cash is greater than in England. The ‘“‘enormous shrinkage in values,”’ which the Bryans try to make so much of, is because under protection inventive genius was stimu- lated to invent machinery that would make a pair of shoes in a few minutes which required a day‘s work in 1873, Clothing of all kinds has decreased greatly in the costto the consumer by reason of improved machinery, but wages have not materially decreased. Iron product, by reason of discovered chemical and me- chanical processes, has been reduced in cost to consumers as much as any other ar- ticles of trade, as has everything that goes into the building trades, but wages have met with no such scaling down, ‘When the *“‘crime of 1873"” was commit- tea it took a carpenter a whole day to make a panel door, but machinery now turns out a door in five minutes, but the carpenter’s wages are substantially the same. The cost of traveling on a railway or shipping freight is less than half what it was in 1873, but wages of railway em- ployes are still highly remunerative. And what is true of the articles of manufacture and transportation charges mentioned is true of nearly every department of indus- try. The éfficiency of iabor has been mul- tiplied many times since 1873, but wages have been subjected to little change; and, moreover, every dollar in circulation is worth its face in gold. Atno periodin the history of America was the circunlating money medium as uniform in purchasing power as it has been since that awful “crime.” GOING TO JAPAN. Bhipping the machinery of a California woolen factory to Japan because it does not pay to operate it here is a telling ob- ject lesson in economics. This State pro- duces a fine grade of wool, and our woolen- mill operatives are as capable as any in this or any other country, but what is the use of tryving to compete on practically equal footing with the cheap labor of Eu- rope and the Orient? The wool and woolen factory industries should te strong and conspicuous factors in California’s business life, and they wounld beif reason- able protective duties were in force. The repeal of the tariff act of 1890 was & hard blow at this State in more ways than one, and the struggle to stem the adverse tide has been heroic, but aithough the election of Major McKinley and the adoption of sufficiently high customs duties to warrant capital in engaging in industrial enter- prises is well assured, the fact remains that capital will not take very many chances. But the removing of industrial machin- ery from San Francisco to a foreign coun- try because ourown Government is hostile to its operation is certainly a reflection upon our system of government. In a little while we shall be receiving woolen fabrics from Japan. If we are curious enough to look beyond the goods to the factory in which they are produced we shall find that they are the product of the THE SAN FRANCISCO CAi'.aL, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1896. machinery that failed here because of the hostility of our own Government. It would seem, however, that the gountry has so many reasons to believe that the people will right all these tariff wrongs in November that it would not be an exhi- bition of unsound business sense to hold on a little longer. The people certainly know how disastrous the Wilson-Gorman tariff act has been, and we have faith that they will vote in harmony with their best interests and give the country the legisla- tion it so much needs. AS TO BEWALL. The president of one National bank; a director in a dozen other banks; a manu- facturer who wants kis products subsidized by the Government; an aristocrat who is aristocratic because he has millions of dol- lars; a monopolist because it swells his profits at the expenseof the public, and an oppressor of labor, is a good enough kind of a man in the estimation of some people, but on general principles such an individual would not make = first-class Populist. Nevertheless, Arthur Sewall, Democratic candidate for Vice-President, who is exactly the kind of s man here described, is trying very hard to make farmers snd other working people believe that he isa Populist from center to cir- cumference. As a National banker Mr. Sewall looks upon a Populist as little better than a highwayman. As an owner of ships he looks upon his sailors as little better than cattle. Asa manufacturer he looks upon the Government as something that should pay a bounty to his products. Asa mil- livnaire he looks upon labor as the mud- sills of the aristocratic social edifice he lives in, but asa candidate for office Mr. Sewall would be a Populist, a laborer and 2 mudsill, The Devil was sick—the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well—the devil 8 monk was he. THE SUNDAY OALL To-morrow’s edition of THE OALL will be pre-eminently TnE California Sunday newspaper. It will, as it always is, be written, edited ana illustrated by Califor- nia talent alone, nor will it be second in any respect to the best of the Edstern pro- ductions. THE BUNDAY CALL is more at- tractive, more interesting, typographically and artistically more pleasing and more meritorious, more free from freaks and dis- tortions, more expensive and more read- able than any other Sunday newspaper west of Chicago—ana as to the truthful- ness of this statement the reader is merely asked to exercise his own good taste and judgment. More than all, however—let 1t be re- peated—THE Suxpay CaLn is everybody’s newspaper because its columns are replete with the incident, the poetry, the things of human interest that occur nearest home first of all, and then with the complete news of all the wide world. Some of its particularly attractive features for to- morrow are: “The Most Uncanny Spot on the Face of the Earth,” being a graphic description in ‘words and pictures of some of the weird wonders of Superstition Mountains. *Some of the Things an Idle Man Found in the Odd Corners of San Francisco.” “The One Trolley-car Without Fender.” “The Art Renaissance at Monterey.” “The First Pictures of the Beason."” “The Window Gardens of San Fran- cisco.” i “Thought Photography and the Finer Forces of Nature.” “The Probability of Future Long-dis- tance Vision.” “The New Prophet of 8an Lorenzo Creek and His Crazy Craft on the Mud Flats of Alameda.” “Tpe Kind of Women That Men Like Best.” “Why Does the Educated American Girl Prefer Poverty to Domestic Service?'’ pleasingly written, ont of the experience of one who took service. “It Is Better to Sleep on the Back, and Why." “The Poet Burns as a Mystic of the Fields.” “The Letter From Home.” A further instalilment of those stories the children wrote about the ducks and the peas. Novelties in things for men and women to wear. THE BEST WORK. Sacramento Bee. Common everyday newspapermen like Ned Hamilton and J. P. Cosgrave have sent better materia! from 8t. Louis and Chicago than have all the high-priced and much-advertised out- side talent like J. J. Ingells, Henry George and Tew Wallace. It i one thing to make & tpeach oue thing to write a book and is quite another thing to hustle up news, write it breezily and stop when you get throu, VERY READABLE MATTER. £an Francisco Post. Colonel Shortridge's bright young man, John Paul Cosgrave, is sending from 8t. Louis some :iehr’ le matter on the Populist conven- 0. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Aunt Hepsy, won't you come to Miss In. mett’s pink tea?” “Law, child, I've tried those fancy kinds, but I like green tea best.’'—Brooklyn Life. ‘Watts—I wonder if the water 1s fit to drink yet? Potts—I guess it is. An eel came through our hydrant this morning, and it seemed to e in good health.—Indianapolis Journal, “I think 81l children should learn early to No. " a “Yes, boys should, of course; but with girls there are times when they should be preparea to say ‘Yes.'”—Chicago Record. Dyer—Colonel Kaintuck hasn't laughed in yesars. Duer—Why? Dyer—Some one told him his laugh sounded ke rippling water!—Town Topics. ‘Teacher—Who was the wisest man ? Tommy—Noah. Teacher—Noak ? Tommy—Yes'm. He was the only man who knew enough to come in when it rained.—In. dianapolis Journal, He—Darling, we’ll have a lot to contend with when we are married. 8he—Yes, dear; we'll have each other,—Lon- don Judy. Fuddy—Snapshot was showing me s lot of photographs he has taken, They are only passable, butto hear Snapshot talk you would think them marvels of the photographic art. Duddy—Yes; Snapshot isn’t much of an artist, but then his views are better than his opinions.—Boston Trauseript. Mrs, Blinkers—Well, did you go to the doctor to see about that sting on little Jimmy? Mr. Blinkers—Yes. He ssld we should pat mud on it. He charged me $2 for the pre- scription, but he gave me the mud for noth- ing.~New York Weekly. “It's strange that Jane Goldie should faney that ‘l:'on Branscombe. I hear they ave en- gaged. ““Yes: she admires him for his strength,” “Ididn’t know he had strength.” “She thinks he has. She saw him raise a car window at the first attempt."—Cleveland Plain Desler. Doctor—You are suffering from & complica- tion of diseases, my dear sir—at least six. Humorous Invalid—How much discount do ;‘w ;‘ln me on half & dozen, doctor?—London t-Blis, PERSONAL. W, H. Allderdige, U, 8. N., 1s at the Palace again, Major E. P, Enright has returned home from Tocaloma, Joseph Enright has returned home from Tocaloma. 8. H. Burton, the Willows banker, has a room at the Grand. Dr. J. G, Baird and family of Riverside are guests at the Grand, A. R. Denicke of San Jose arrived at the Celifornia last night. Dr. J. M. Lang of Chicago is registered at the Palace with his wife. . Dr. F. 0. Leonard of St. Thomas, Ontario, ar- rived at the Grand yesterday. J. A. Cummings, a farmer of Prescott, Ariz., is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. E. Wallace, a business man of Dayton, Ohio, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. F. H. Folsom, & merchant of Everett, Wash., is making a short visit at the Grand. E. H. Breidenbach, a large manufacturer of 8t. Louis, Mo., is a guest at the Grand. Fred Mason, s fruitman of Sacramento, is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. Henry Teal, a young merchant of Portland, Or., is one of the guests at the California. Professor A. T. Murray of the Greek depart- mxn in Stanford University is at the Califor- n J. F. Devendorf, a real estate man of San Jose, is one of yesterday's arrivals at the Grand. C. G. Betts of Spokene, manager and one of the proprietors of the Gates comcentrator, is at the Lick. Captain O. C. Bertyman of the United States Marine Corps 1s one of the latest arrivals at the Oceidental. W. H. Cleary of Stockton, whose business in- terests are In a mine and a sheep ranch, regis- tered at the Lick yesterday, Adolpne Roos and George H. Roos have ar. rived in New York, They will visit ail the largest manufacturing cities in the East. Lieutenant-Colonel W. Sinclair of the Unitea Btates army arrived from the East yesterday with his wife and went to the Occidental. Judge J. M. Walling of Nevada City is at the Russ en a business visit to town in connection with the prospective municipal water works of Nevada City. L. J. Rose, the capitalist and racehorse- owner of Los Angeles, who has been men- tioned as a Congressional possibility, arrived at the Palace yesterday. Gustay Melchers of Shanghai, China, one of the great commercial firm of Melchers & Co., with headquarters in Germany, is at the Palase, on his way to the Orfent. W. H. Walker of Portland, Or,, one of the proprietors of the Distilling and Cattle Feed- ing Lompany, with works at Grant, or., is here on a business visit, and is registered at the Lick. Judge Troutt and wife and Martin Stevens, the attorney, and wife returned to their homes in this City yesterday from a short visit to Puget Sound ports in the course of a little va- cation outing, Detective J. M. Dorey of the New York potice force 1s in Ban Francisco, visiting his brother, Peter Dorcy. Detective Dorey is being shown round town by the detectives of the “apper office” at the City Hall, John Kelly of Portland, Or., formerly senior partner of the oil firm of Kelly, Dunne & Co, of that city, but latterly interested in marine insurance, arrived at the Lick yesterday on a week’s visit to recuperate his health, J. J. Gottlob, the well-known theatrical manager, returned to the Baldwin Hotel last night after a three months’ visit in the Eaat, Wwhither he went to secure attractions for the Columbla Theater a year in advance. L. L. Bailey of Denver, who has been looking over the Randsburg district,near Mojave, for an Eastern mining syndicate, and who is soon going to Alaska to investigate there for the same company, is staying at the Palace, James P. McCarthy, the well-known real estate man, has gone to Los Angeles and Southern California, to look after the large property interests of James P.and E. Avery McCarthy and their real estate corporations. — CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y, Jjuly 24.—Arrivals on the North German liner Spree were: Los Angeles—Miss Edna Bumiller and Miss Slotta, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Hickey. Sen Fran. cisco—Louis Heimburg, Theodore Lieberman. At the Plaza—W. M. Wormser. Astor— C. Hadenfeldt, Mrs, Fernald. Grand Union—W, B, Hanson, Albert—T, Liberman. Metropoli- tan—H. O. Bhueser, Imperial—A. Walter, WHEN WOMEN tAY THEY WILL, Maria rides a bicykile That's painted red and blue. An’ I reckon’ she'll be bouncin’ In them colored bloomers, too But what's the use in howlin'? Got to climb the hill t Ailn’t no good in growlin’ ‘When the women say they willy ‘The hoss is idle 1n the 10t— She’s let the old mule silde: he’s chungea compietely since she gof ‘That bicykile to ride! But what's the use in shontin? Got to ciimb the hill} Aln't no use in poutin’ ‘When the women say they Wil The world—it keeps a turn 're all the time at sea; It's left we in the kitchen Wher' Maria used to be! Bot what's the use in stogin’? Got to climb the hill! Aln't no good in eryin’ When the women say they wills —Atlanta Constitution. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Mme. Deschamps, who invented the popular Julienne sonp, died recently in Paris at the ege of 94. Dr. Lawson Tait of Birmingham has invented an instrument whereby the electric current may be applied for the arrest of bleeding. In the Duc de vemum‘l died the last Knight of the Order of Bt. Bsprit, which was estab- lished by Henry III, and finally sbolished in 1830, Dr. Wittstein, & botanist of Leipsic, Ger- many, has just issued a book on plants,in which he says that the White Mountains are in the State of Utah, Dr. Chauncey Lyer of Stamford, Conn., is the oldest living graduate of the Yale medical school. He was a member of the class of 1881, and was born in 1808, Milan's monument to King Vietor Emman- uel was unveiled on June 24, the thirty seventh annivery of the battle of San Martino, where King Victor commanded in person. A miniature of the young Duchess of Marl. borough has recently been painted by Miss Kussner. The Duke has ordercd two coples of the portrait, the total cost being some £300. A set of large drawings by Thackeray, made for the album of his friend, Mrs. Robert Bell, and described by her in Harper's Magazine five years ago, will be sola in London shortly. From Budapest comes the snnouncement that a daughter of John Wansmaker, the weil- known millionaire of Philsaelphia, 18 to marry Count Felix Haroncourt, & wealthy noble. Sir Walter Besant has declared in & speech at Loudon that he does not helieve that Can- ada, Australie and the other principal colonies will continue the ficticn of dependence upon Great Britain for any great length of time. The richest man in New Hampshire is now said by the Boston Herala to be the Hon. Charles E. Tilton of Tilton, The tragic death of .:ln‘;un Corbin has left as his su in Wi this reputed possessor of a fortune of $21,000,000. Prince Colonna Sclarra has made & compro- mise with the Italian Government, All of the family pictures peinted by Italian artists are placed at the disposal of the Government, and will not leave Italy; pictures by foreigners the Prince may sell to whom he pleases. Senator Vestin his younger days, they ll.y. Wwhen he was a plain lawyer, wore bear’s oil on bis hair and went to the dances in Pettis County, Missouri, as the “'slickest” bean on the fioor. . In the Virginia reel he was the poetry of motion, and when he tackled the heel-and- | buthnot. In the satire John Bull is repre- toe polka everybody who didn’t carry accident policies got off the floor. Sir David Salomons, an English writer on apparatus for electric-light stations, has singu- lazly varied gcientific tastes. Heis & member ‘;!llvlotlofl, microscopical and astronomical societies, and is particularly prominent among civil and electrical engineers in Great Britain. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE FALLACY OF FREE TRADE, THE EFPECT OF PROTECTION IN UPHOLDING THE STANDARD OF AMERICAN MANHOOD. To many persons the case in favor of free trade comes with the force of a mathematical demonstration; two and two do not more clearly make four. The erection of any artifi- cial barriers to the free exchange of commodi tles seems to them childishly foolish. Let ev;ry article be made, they say, and all food an tural facilities; in other words, where they can be manufactured or grown cliéapest. Thus the labor and capital of the globe will be at their highest efficacy; all arti- cles will be available at & minimum cost and the general welfare of mankind promoted. If it be objected that the first effect of free trade is always to throw & large number of peo- Ple out of employment, to destroy capital and Qisarrange industry the free-traders have their answer ready, smile in & superior way and an- nounce ex cathedra that the objection is founded on an ignorance of economic laws. Capital, they say, is not destroyed. It betakes itself to more profitable industries, "‘““’5 creating a new and probebly greater deman: for labor, resulting, of course, in higher wages and the mllennium for the workingman. ‘What wonder that an agreement so strong holds many scute minds in thrail? And the “free-traders are right if we make One concession. If man is a mere instrument for money-maxking, if the individual man is only a |Eoke in 8 huge wealth-proaucing machine, having no hlihar duties, aspirations nrtnun’ than those involyed in earning a living, if it makes no difference what raceor color he is of, in what country, and under what conditions be labors, then, indeed, they are right, for that is the logical outcome of their position. Protectionists, on the other hand, do not al- ways defend their position wisely, or under- stand how complete and far-reaching is their case. They are haif la)vlo‘e!l& They appear to have a haunting doubt that perhaps, after all, those loud-shouting, dogmatic iree-traders are right Let them take heart of grace and they will find their opponent’s doctrine uc- patriotic and monstrous. It 1s unpatriotic because wo cannot hold it a watter of indifference, e. g., whether England sbould make all the iron gouds, ships and ma- chinery for the world; or whether all the spindies must go to In Chins or Japen; Whether California must devote herself ex- clusively to fruit and the great North to wheat, Noj; it 18 good for & State to have a diversified life, lflnmin{opfonunmaa for different kinds of talents. Ciyilization itseif dependson it, for it takes all sorts to makea nation. The United States must hear the music of the ship- builders’ hammers 1o less than the “gee” and “haw" of the plowman. And it is a monstrous doctrine, beeause it re- gards the workingman as s mere pawn ina game. He is thought of as an hn({acrson-l ab- straction. Your true economistdoes not even speak of him as & man, but tickets bim “La~ bor” or “Wages,”” and nabitually argues about him as an incident in the production of wealth. What & monstrous perversion this isl Industry exists, or ought to exist, for the workers. Wages are not 8 mere item in the cnP!ulln's weekly payroll. They are them- selves, in & much truersense, the object for Which production gues on, For, whether is more lm{ortnnt—flul vanderbilt should add million to million, or that 100,000 families should live in comfort and deceacy, raising 00d and sturdy citizens ? FiThe tendency of free trade is to throw more and more power into the rich man's_hand, to place the poor man more hopelessly in his power, to promote these giganuic rings and trusts, the specisl eviis of American civiliza- tion. It is an exiension of the doctrine of di- vision of labor, and would result in the deg- Tadation of the worker, depriving him of his godlike faculty of all-round development and putting him into one little niche, out of which De could not stiron peril of being ground to powder by the world-girdling machbine of ‘Wwhich he is the merest atom. Even the contention that the displacement of industry due to the adoption of free trade does, at worst, but a temporary harm will not stand close examination. The displaced work- ers, according to the theory,go where their services are in greatest request. Admirable! According to the fact, they sink into the ranks of and compete with unskilled labor, Many of them {n lower stili, and no longer as “‘wages” or “labor,”” but as men and women are trampled in tne mire. Andjtheir children— poor, wee devils—what becomes of them? Nor does the capitalist come off scathless. He is supposed to remove his capital joyfull to some more profitable Investment. ndeedyl Yet these same armchair philosophers remind us, truly cnough, that & manuisctuzer's capi- tal consists of his factories, workshops, ma- cmmré, ete, Let the capitalist then take com- fort, He can transfer his ready money to Hamburg or London, and his dismantled tac- tories and plant willlook interesting as ruins! This question 18 not only an econoiic but a moral one. Good economics and good morals will not be found at loggerheads. There was once an archbishop who madea wise remark: In moral questions two and two do not al- ways make four, E. 4. WrIGHT, Bryant street, S8an Francisco. TUCKED SHIRT WAIST. One of the season’s novelties is the shirt waist of batiste, dimity,lawn and even or- gandie—in fact any sheer fabric, tucked across the top of sleeves and waist. The cuffs and collar are cutlike the usual shirt waistapd may be stiffly starched, while others are of rows of insertion and the fabric and are not starched. Still others have asimple band on neck and sleeves, and are worn with ribbon collats and fold of the ssme ribbon on sleeves. The lhnzlen method of making these waists 18 to tuck the material first ana then cut after our plain pattern, which 1s marked toshow where the tucks are placed. Such waists are made of any sheer fabrie for separate waists, and are also made into cos- tumes with a skirt to mateh. A waist of natural colored linen batiste had the cuffs and collars made of rows of narrow Valenciennes insertion anda the goods, the efl;uh finished by a narrow frill of lace to match. A waist of figured dimity in green and pink has a folded collar of pink ribbon. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CusTRR CITY—C. R., City. Custer City, in the Btate of Pennsylvania, is in McKean “County. Diue OF '95—R. R., Ukiah, Cal. A dime ot 1895 coined in San Francisco is worth exaotly 10 cents, A GowD DOLLAR—A. §,, City. A gold dollar of the United States minted in 1849 commangds & premium of 1 cents. U2 REAL—A. C. R, City. Tn real, ora 124 cent piece, is worth, selling_price, from 85 to 60 cents. No premium is offered by coin deal- ers for such. Tre TarwFrs—C. D,, City. Any bookstore will furnish you with copies of the McKinley and Wilson ‘tariffs. If you care to do so you can see both at the Free Public Library. - CALIFORNIA'S REPRESENTATIVES—R. C. M., Glenbrook, Csl. California has seven Repre- sentatives in the lower house of Congress, of which six are Republican acd one Democrat. JouN BULL—A. C. R, City. The term “John Bull,” applied collectively to the English na- ‘tion, first appeared {n a Tnm called **The His- * which, tor a long time, it ad han:hr‘lmn by Swift, but reality was from the pen of Dr. Ar- W83 su) which rnud as a bluff, kind-hearted but eaded farmer. SILVER 1IN THE WorLD—C. B., City. Accord- ing to the latest money tables prepared by the Bureau of the Mint of the United States the amount of silver in the world was, in the lat- ter part of last year, $3,931,100,000. GoLp Doruar—Mrs. F. A., City. The pre- mium offered on gold dollars of 1852 and of 1833 is 15 cents, This department has repeat- edly announced that it cannot advertise the business location of dealers in oid coins. SILVER IN THE UNITED STATES—W., W. P, Pasadena, Cal. According to the report of the Director of the Mint the approximate amount of silver in the United Ehtpepu is $624,000,000, ng %ount of silver in the world is $3,981,- GEORGE OsBOURNE—J. H. C., City. George Osbourne did play the part of the Coxswain in ‘The Ensign” at the Columbia with the Fraw- ley Company. Mr. Arbuckel, who was cast for the part, was taken sick, and Mr., Osbourne Al his place for one week. THE BoLtoN EXPLORATION—M. B., City. The expenses of the Rev. W. W, Bolton, who has goun North on a tour of exploration, are paid y & publishing firm in the northern part of the coast, which has engaged him to write a full description of his discoveries. No Suck ProuIBITION—MTs. H. F., City. There is no law that declares that none but American flags shall be carried through the streets of San Francisco, but there is & law which de- clares that no military com pany while on pa- rade shall carry any but the American flag. §)MET THE ENEMY-B. Y. M, Osakland Cal. ““We have met the enemy and they are ours,” was the memorable dispatch sent by Commo- dore Oliver Hazard Perry, U. 8. N.. to General William Henry Harrison after he had captured the Britisa fléet near Putn Bay, Onio, Sep- tember 15, 1818, < DR. DILLE'S BIBLE—G. A., City. Dr. E. R. Dille of the Central M. E, Church of this City uses both the King James and the revised eai- tion of the Bible, but for ordinary use he pre- fers the King James version, He uses the re- vised Bible chiefly as 8 commentary on the au- thorized version, CHICAGO’S MASONIC TEMPLE—R. M., City. The Masonic Temple in Chicago, at State and Ran- dolph streets, having a frontage of 170 feet on the first named street and 114 on the last named, twenty stories in height, with an ele- vation of 260 feet, was commenced in 1890 and finished in three years, It ecost THE VOTE OF 1894—] . M., Glenbrook, Cal, The total number of Votes cast in the several counties of the State at the election held in 1894 was 284,548. The vote for Governor will show the complexion of the vote: James H, Budd (D.) 111,944, Morris ‘M. Estee (B) 110~ 788, Henry French (Pro.)10,561, J, V. Web- ster (Pop.) 51,304 THE MuLcT LAw—J, H. N. W., Modesto, Cal, It was during the twenty-fifth session of thg Legislature of Iowa, which was in session from January 8 to April 6,1894, that the mulct tax law was passed. The Legislature of that State for 1894-95 was 34 Republican Senators, 79 Republican Assemblymen, 15 Democratic Sen- ators, 21 Demovratic Assemblymen and 1 Inde- Bpudeflt Democrat. The Legislature of 1892- 8 on joint ballot was 77 Republicans, 71 lr}amocnu, 1 Union Labor an arty. THE PARKMAN TRAGEDY—J, H. R., Piks City, Bierra County, Cal. Dr. Joseph White Webster 'was professor of chemistry and mineralogy in the medical school in Boston connected with Harvard University. He was born in Boston May 20, 1793, and was hanged August 30, for the murder of Dr. George Parkman, The latter called at the college to collect a debt of long standing from Dr. Webster, who, irritated by the language used by Dr. Park- man, struck him a fatal blow and then en- deavored lo conceal the body of the murdered man, THE TEXAS MIDLAND--J. E. M., Oakland, Cal. Edwin H. R. Green, the son of Hetty Green, the richest woman in the United States, is president, general manager and purchasing agent of the Texas Midland Railway. This road was built as a branch of the Texas Cen- tral Railway, but separated from that property ou February 29, 1893, and was turned over to the new company, of which Mr. Green is a member. The road runs from Garrett to Roberts, Texas, and the Jrincival office 1s at Terrell. " The distance is 52.06 miles, but since the transfer other branches have been added l.n‘il the mileage of the road is mow 75.47 miles. ExGuisE MoNeY—E. P. B., City. In an Eng- lish sovereign there are 123.27447 grains of standard gold. The standard gold is eleven- twelfths pure gold and oned.welfczl alloy and the fineness is 916.66. One ount O‘LR““ gold, Troy welght, {s worth in London 3s 11%4d, while standard gold is worth £3 17s 10’fid. The tender of Bank of England notes is fegal in England and Wales for every pur- pose_except at the bank. No one, however, can be compelied to give change; that means that such notes are legal tender for any amount above £5 l!erlln‘. Gold ot above the least current weight is legal tender for any amount. Silver is pot a legal tender for any amount ex- ceeding £2 sterling; and bronze, including farthings, is not a legal tender for any amount in excess of 1s. BURNED ALIVE—T, J. P., Mare Island, Cal. On the 29th of October, 1895, Henry Hilliard, a colored man, was slowly burned todeath in the public equare in Tyler, Tex. He murdered and then mutilated ihe body of the 19-year- old wife of Leonard Bell, a farmer, and as he was escaping he was captured by & mob num- bering about two thousand. Officers attempted to rescue him, but they were powerless. - liard made confession, in which he admitted killing Mrs. Bell, and gave as an excuse that he met her on a lonely road and he was airaid that 1f he let her pass she would, when reach- ing her friends, charge him wita having at- tacked her, therefore he made up his mind to 1 People’s kill her. was taken to the public square, placed on ile of wood and chained to i after which t.ge murdered woman's husban set fire to the piie and the miserable wretch slowly burned to death. A SMER BATTERY—J. G., City. The following are the airections laid down for maxing a Smee electrical battery: Use either.a jar orlarge earthen crook for a large or a tumbler for a small battery. The battery consists of a silver plate, or sometimes a lead plate, which is coated with & fine powdery deposit of platinum which gives the surface a rough character so that hydrogen will not adhere to it, sus. pended between two plates of zine. The two zincs are connected with each other, forming one pole, and the silver or léad forms the other pole. Care must be taken to prevent the zines from touching each other or the middle plate, The solution used in this battery is composed of one part sulphuric acid to twenty of water. This battery is useful where a strong constant current 18 required. The zincs should be rubbed frequently witn mercury to prevent wasting. BROTHER JONATHAN—A, C. R., City. Inthe United States Jonathan Trumbull, who was Governor of Connecticut from 1769 to 1783, was the first one to whom the term ‘Brother Jonathan” was applied, and the expression is said to have sprung from General Washing- ton’s habitual use of it to designata the Gov- ernor. Washington had such confidence in the Governor that whenever he was in doubt or difficuity he would say, *‘I must consult Brother Jonathan.” Since ‘then it has become tone accepted térm to designate an American. This is the generally accepted origin of the expression, but it was used long before that date. In 1843 there was lauhmhed a pamphlet under the title of ‘“The Reiremado,” gnnisely characterized by a transformed churchwarzen a8 vestry, London, and in_that occurs the following passege: “Queen Elizabeth’s monu- ment was put up at my chargewhen the regal government had fairer credit among us than now, and her epitaph was one of my Brother Jonathan's best poems before he abjured the university or had a thought of New Eogland.” BLACK FRIDAY—O. C. R., OCity. History records three Black Fridays, The term was first applied to the Friddy on which news -was recelved in London that Charles Edward, the young pretender, had reached Derby, the 6th of December, 1745. The announcement cre- ated a terrible panic in Englanl. The term ‘was again used in London on the 11th of May, 1866, when the failure of Overend, Gurney & Co., :innu“ ))l“lflo‘ul day, occasioned wide- spret inancial ruin, T Friday of the United Siates socomms on 2ek 24th “of h&mmhr. 1869. The cause of the panic was the attempt of Jay Gould and oth- ers to corner the gold market gv buying all the zold in the banks in the city of New York. For several days prior to that date gold rose of the specuiators to 1t from 144 t0 200. On the Friday nam the whole city was astir, and the ban! wc.r‘z rapidly selling gold, which had reached 16 and it was still rising. Men became franuge, and the wildest excitement prevailed. For & time it seemed as if all the business houses Would have to close ou account of inability to know what price to charge lor their In the midst of the G AR o4 panic George S, Boutwell, tary of the United States Treasury, 81,000,000 of gold on the market, (he the lrnln came 10 &n tion, however, Gould leared something like | | FO0D FOR MIND AND BODY Woman Suffragists to Have a Booth at the Alameda County Fair. The Association’s Badge Is Growing in Favor, Requests for It Being Numerous. At the forthcoming Alameda County Fair, which 1s to open on the 3d ot August, the woman suffragists are to have a booth, which will undoubtedly be the center of much admiring interest. Light refresh- ments will be served free of charge to all visitors, who will be given qnnx_fl.mu of suffrage literature to take away with them and digest at leisure. Mrs. Wood, a well- known over-the-bay equal suffrage apostle, visited the Woman Suffrage Bureau yes- teraay and waxed eloquent over the pro- ject, in which she is a leading epirit. i “In that booth,” she remarked, ‘‘we intend to show all visitors, particularly the menjthat the women who want to vote are not unmindful of their home duties nor unversed in housewifely arts. We shall show piles of the finest needlework and pyramids of toothsome preserves, be- sides many other products of home toil, and not a wellshemmed handkerchief nor a jar of jelly shall be seen in the place unless it be the actual work of a suffra- ist.” = & Requests for hadfas are daily increasing, and a few tons will soon have to be kept, 80 to speak, on tap, The budge represents the stripes of red and white, but there are only toree stars, representing the three Statesin which citizens of both sexes have the privilege of the ballot. A suggestive space is left for California’s stellar em- blem when she shall be entitled to one. The Emporium management has caused a number of artistic hand-painted pla- cards to be piaced in every prominent por- tion of the interior of the buiiding, bear- ing the following inserintion: You are invited to visit the rooms of the Woman Suffrage Association, rooms 563, 564 and 565, fifth floor, this bullding. Take Wwest front elevator. e .. RANDSBERG GOLD. Owners Ask Too Much and Discourage Needed Uapital. L. L. Bailey. a mine expert of Denver, Colo., arrived at the Palace yesterday, Recently he was in the Randsberg dis- triet, down near Mojave, looking over the ground for an Eastern syndicate repres senting New York and New England cap» ital. In sbouta fortnight he wili start for Alaska to look over the field near Juneau and to the southward. He says that the Randsherg district is not & poor man’s country, Large ca ital is necessary to develop the mines, which are principally quartz, although there coultrbe some placer mines if there was water to work them. Everything hasbeen taken up, and laigely by men who have neither experience as miners nor capital to employ those that have. In the principal camp, the town of Randsberg, there are about 300 persons. Perhaps fifty men are actually engaged in mining. Ever since the nominations capital has been stagnant, waiting to see which way to move, Mr, Bailey’s advices admon- ished him to do nothing. Recently, he says, $75,000 was paid on a $300,000 prop.o- sition in Utah, but the company aban- doned it as soon as the nominations were made, preferring to hang on to what eap- ital it bas until the elections shall have been decided. Mr. Bailey is a silverite, but he thinks that the effect of the election of McKinley upon the movement of business through- out the country can be predicted as bene- ficial, while the result of Bryan's election is problematical. —_——— BoFT Baby Cream 15¢. Ib. Townsend’'s. * ———— BesT peanut taffy inthe world. Townsend's* T e A A NicE present for Esstern friends—Town- send’s Cal. glace fruits, 50c 1b. 627 Market st, * Sl Sl I you want fine service, fine carriages, com- petent drivers, ring up 1950. Pac. Carriage Co,* . — FPECIAL Iniormation dailr to manufaota; business houses and public men by ths Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomary. * —————— “Iwish we were rich, John, and could do something for the world,” Mrs. Clericus re- marked, half devotedly, half impatiently, “But, my dear, we can do good in a quiet way now.” “‘Yes, but no ope will ever hear of it."’—Lon. don Tit-Bits. Cheap Excursion to St, Paul, The Shasta route and the Northeru Pacific Rail- Toad has been selected as the official route toat- tend the National Encampment of the G. A, 8, at St. Paul, 10 be held there September 4t0 5, The excursion will leave San Krancisco and Sacra- mento Augusi 26 at 7 P. M. Kates $87 90 forihe round trip. The above raie is open 10 all who wish tomake the trip East, Send your name apd ad- dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Market treel, San Francisco, for sleeping-car reservaiions. ———————— Are You Going E The Atlantic and . Facific Railroad—Santa Fa Toute—is the coolest and most comfortable sam- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence of alkall dust. Particularly adapted for the trans. portation of families because of lts palace draw- ing-room and moaern upholstered tourist sieeping. cars, which run daify through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and ia eharge of attentive conductors und porters. 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