The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1896, Page 6

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Telephone.. # Main—1868 < EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. cereeenee Main=1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open untfl 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. &£W , corner Sixteenth and Mission sireets; open eatil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open untl 8 o'clock. 116 Miuth street; open until 9 o'clock. Telephone. — | OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadwiy. EASTERN OFFICE: 4 Park Row, New York City. FOLTZ, Rooms 31 and PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR.PRESIDENT— WILLIAY McKINLEY, of Ohlo { FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey | | 4 | NOVEMNBER 3, 1896. | EL¥CTIO gn moving. ¢ Keep the cam Tom Watson, you got there; now stay | there. Profection and international bimetal- lism is the cry We must organize victory if we are going to have victory at all. Every Republican is needed in the pro- cession, and all should be there. A AT | Democracy is as incapable of giving us | sound money as sound business. -4 Tom Reed has led the way in Maine, | and the whole East will soon be roused. Every Republican of energy and infiu-; ence is counted on to helpin the canvass. | The Solid Seven no longer sneer when | they ask; What are you going to do | ‘about it? 5 | Protection to industry means wages to | labor, and that is the money question in | California. | Free silver with no work and no wages | would bring no comfort to the homes of the people. . .Democratic talk threatens a panic, and if that party should win the talk will not be in vain. 3 Bryan cannot carry Nebraska; Sewall- cannot carry Maine; Watson cannot carry Georgia, and there you have it. The gold Democrats of Nebraska ‘will -not trust Mr. Bryan. They have had their. eyes on him along time and know him well. . ° 3 The tax-shirkers may have & mass-meet- ing to indorse the Solid Seven, but it will be in a backiroom, and the people will be excluded. ~ The Teller bolt was not big enough to ghut the door fast on Colorado, and she is coming out strongly for McKinley and protection. With fifteeh months in jail before him, Jameson hasa chance .to repent at leis- ure; but there is danger the villain may write a book. e 1t is worth noting that even the wildest bolters- from the Republican party are not bolting so far but what they can k eep one foot on the protection plank. As one result of the Chicago platform gold hoarding has begun, and thus Has the Democratic party once more inflicted an injury upon the trade of the country. A man must be a silly rather than an intelligent advocate of free coinage of sil- ver who is willing to intrast it to the class of men who control the Democratic party. If the gold Democrats carry out the pro- vosal to nominate J. Sterling Morton for President the climax will be capped, and Nebraska will immediately become a storm center, —— The absence of any sign or sonnd of a free-trader in this campaign is one of the cheering proofs that even a& Bourbon Democrat can learn a little sense if you let him have his fool way for & while. Taking the taxes off rich corporations and piling them on the homes of the people, ‘us the Solid Seven have done, may be a means of enriching somebody, but it certainly won't enrich the community. |of it is worth 100 cenis anywhere in the | but how many ceuts to the dollar would | money medium of the country? These | think about too seriously. | maintain that parity. | thrust the country into he said: THE WAGE-EARNER'S FIGHT. The wage-earners of the country are more interested in the issue of this year’s campaign than in any former struggle for politicsl supremacy. To be sure all classes are vitally interested, but it so happens that . the Democratic party’s declaration is a direct attack upon working people. The inventors of that party’s platform did not seem to appreciate the strength and influence of the laboring men of the country when they made what is the equivalent of a declaration of war upon them. The impetuous appeals of orators to labor to join in the revolutionary movement are better calculated to make labor suspicious than submissive. In fact, so antagonistic to the best interests of Ja- bor are the purposes of the Democratic and Populist corcbine that the campaign might be called the wage-earner’s battle for home and opportunity to earn wages. It is a mistake to suppose that capital, that rich people would suffer most were the economic vagaries of the Bryans adopted for the rule and guide of the Na- tion’s affairs. The rich can always adjust their holdings to new conditions. In fact they can retire altogetber from the activ- ities of the business world, but notso with wage-earners. When their hands are idle their income ceases, and if they have put by a little money for use when the rainy day comes it has to bedrawn upon for cur- rent expenses. But that is not all the mis- fortune that would come to the wage- earner were the principles of the Bryans practically applied in the public concerns of the country. He would have to deal with an unsoind and treacherous mone- tary system which would deprive his wages of putchase power, stability and certainty. S Theé wage-earners of the United States are ihe principal supporters of building associations. : They have mrore than $500,- 000,000 invested in them, and every dollar world. Wagé-earners together with other classes have over $13,000,000,000 placed in life insurance companies, to say nothing of the millions that are invested in fra- ternal life insurance associations. A great deal of this money will be due and pay- able in the not very distant future, and it is a imatter of the greatest importance that it retain its present purchase power, for in proportion as it is paid in unsound money will the insured be a loser. The latest statistics show that there are 1017 savings banks and institutions in this country with -individual depositors aggre- | gating nearly 5,000,000, with total de- posits reaching the enormous sum of, in round numbers, $1,900,000,000. Ot course these banks and institutions keep the money loaned for the most part on reat estate mortgage security, and it is payable in money worth 100 cents to the dollar, these savings of wage-earners be worth if Bryan's wild, uncertain and fluctuating fiat dollars were to become the circulating are matters which wage-earners cannot Bryan says if his plan should fail it would be an easy matter to try another, and keep on try- ing, but are wage-earners ready to have their wages made subject to experiment at the hands of theorists? Every dollarin this country is as good as its face value in gold, and it is Mr. McKinley’s purpose to It is his purpose, 160, to make gold and silver interchange- able on their own merit, but by agreement and not by the fiat of martial law. REED'S POINTED QUESTION. Speaker Reed has opened the campaign for the party in Maine and founded a new keynote for the party in every State. Re- ferring to the plight the Democrats had “If they blundéered in business with their best men present, are they going to be a success on finance with their best men absent?” Here is a questian that every voter in the counfry shouid feel was put to him per- sonally. If such men as Cleveland, Hill, Vilas, Vest, Voorhees and Palmer proved themselves unequal to the task of giving the country a business administration, what is to be expected from such men as Bryan, Altgeld, Debs and Sovereign? - To answer that guegtion correctly is to vote correctly, or for McKinley, which is the same thing. 2 Mr. Reed is quite right in holding Dem- ocratic incompetency as well as foolish legislation responsible for the terrible financial panic of the last three years. Times were good and business active until Democratic tinkering with the cus- toms revenue created the .suspicion in "business circles that there was likely to be a greatdeal of blundering, and after that it did not take long for confidence to withdraw from commercial circles. It could not be otherwise than that a disas- trous panic should follow such eonditions, The administration forfeited the confi- dence of the public in its ability to man- age the affairs ¢f the country on business principles, and naturally enough capital and industry were driven into hiding. Now, if the greatest men of the party failed to see what the needs of commerce were, what would be the consequence of Democrats of the smallest caliber getting possession of the government? Cleve- land and his advisers forget more every day about the science of government than Bryan would know in a lifetime, and yet nothing but commercial and iudustrial wreck and ruin is sure in their path. “If this nation has thrice at the polis con- demned this party when it was better, are we going now to place 1t in power when it has got worse? If they blundered in business with their best men present, are they going to be a success on finance with their best men absent?” FREE TRADE AND RUIN. | The student of practieal polities will find much to interest him in Tre CALL's Republicans should make this cam- ‘paign everywhere with the protection ban- ner full advanced to the front. It was under that standard the people prospered, and they will carry it.to victory this year all along the line. There is no chance of Democratic sue- cess in this contest except the one chance of overconfidence in the Republican ranks, and it seems by their factigns and their wranglings the Democrats ~trying to increase that chance by every means in their power. “For my part,” said Tom Reed, in open- ing the canvass in Maine, “I want a pros- perity which by good wages to ail is shared by ail. We want broader life, broadening every day for all our people.” This is the true Repablican aspiration and the people share it. The important question which includes all other questions of the campaign 1s that which Tom Reed asked of the people of Maine on Wednesday: *Ii this Nation has thrice at the poils condemned the Democratic party when it was better, are we now to place it in power when it has become worse? If the Democrats blun- dered in business with their best men present, are they going to be a success with their best men absent?” third article on the wool industry in to- day’s issue. The salient point brought out by the bistorical sketch of wool under the Bryan-Wilson policy is that William Jen- nings Bryan is hardly a kindergarten graduate in the science of economics. In his defense of the Wilson bill the “Boy Orator of the Platte” predicted that iree trade would enable American manu- facturers of woolen goods to build up an export irade that would call for more workmen at higher wages. Let us see what the cold facts say. In every department of the wool in- dustry, from the sheep-grower to the eirl who attends the weaving-machine, there is general paralysis. Sixty per cent of the American mills are idle, and American wools are to-day 33 per cent under the Loudon market, with a slow sale. Under the MeKinley bill they were 44 per cent above the London market, and sales were active. The loss to American woolen-mill em- ployes and others engaged in the wool industries of the country amounts to & third of a million dollars each day. At Lawrence, Mass., 50,000 emvployes are idle and bungry. How do these facts comport with William Jennings Bryan's prediction that more people would be employed than nndo; protection and at increased wages? The reports show that the Wilson-Bryan THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 31. 1896. policy has greatly helped the English woolen industry; that English mills are busy making $20,000,000 of cheap shoddies every year for the American market, as against $1,250.000 a year under the Mc- Kinley biil. Under the benign effects of that Jaw all the factories were busy, work- men were happy and a million flockmas- ters were prosperous. They dispensed $24,000,000 annually in wages, but they have now become mere producers of mutton. More startling still is the showing that the entire saving for all this destruction is but 88 cents on each suit of clothes of the finest quality and less on the working- men’s clothing. . ‘We commend the reading of the story of the ruin wrought by free trade to all im- partial students of the signs of the times, It is apparent that without protection American industries must perish ana American laborers go hungry. “ORGANIZE” IS THE ORDER. - A general meeting of the managers of the Republican party has been held and vlans agreed upon. That this will be the most vigorous eampaign the party has ever waged there does not appear to be any doubt. It is understood that it is the wish of Mr. McKinley that the best possi- ble educational work be done, for the questions at issue mean so much that no one should be left to doany guesswork. The honor and prosperity of the nation are attacked, and dir. McKinley is anxious that the people should know exactly what the election of the Democratic-Populist combine's candidate would mean to them, and what the return of the Republican party to power would mean. Mr. McKinley is no doubt directing in a general way his campaign. At all events it looks that way. Mr. McKinley believes the tariff and financial questions should not be divorced, but at the same time the fact should be paraded that the financial depression of the country is due almost wholly to Democratic tinkering with the tariff. He believes that no substantial prosperity can be counted upon until a tariff is adopted that will insure enough revenue to meet the expenses of the Gov- ernment. Let the fallacy of Democratic monetary theories be shown up on every occasion, but the tariff guestion should not be minimized. 'The tariff question should be made the rallying point, but in doing that the importance of giving the country a sound and safe circulating money medium thould not.be overlooked. But what was urged most at the general meeting of the party’s lenders was the im- portance of local organizations. TLere should be a well-organized club in every school district, even if there are not more than a balf-dozen voters. It is from the neighborhood organization that the coun- ty, Congressional and State committees get the “‘forecast.” Itis to be hoped that the Republicans of California wil! see the importance of conforming to the wishes of Mr, sMcKinley, and organize so perfectly that every Republican voter in the State will be an active member of some sort of a campaign club. TAX-PAYERS AND TAX-SHIRKERS The action taken by the Grand Jury to bring about the prosecution of seven mem- bers of the Board of Supervisors, and the mass-meeting heid to denounce the con~ auct of those officials, have been beneficial to the public mmasmuch as they have served to call attention to the great wrong done to the taxpayers of the City by the seven Supervisors in showing undue favors to tax-shirking corporations. It is not the province of a newspaper to prejudge cases that are to be tried in the courts, and Tug CaLy will not attempt to do so in this case. Whether the indict- ment will stand or whether sufficient evi- dence legally admissible to convict is ob- tainable are questions we do not care to enter upon. These are matters for the courts. There is, however, a broader issue than that which will be carried into court, and one on which {here will be accepted all evidence that carries a moral convic- tion to fair-minded mer, That issue itis the province of mewspapers to present over and over again and to press insist- ently upon the people. Itis the issue of the gross wrong done to honest tax-payers when officials, whether from corruption or from favor, allow dishonest tax-shirkers to escape their share of the common tax necessary to maintain the municipality. That the favored tax-shirkers in this case are rich and powerful corporations well able to bear their due share of the public burdens is an aggravation of the offense, inasmuch as this favoritism to those who are well able to pay compels a heavier tax upon those who are less able to do°so. That the reduction in assess- ments for taxation of those corporations was made by oflicials who had themselves fixed the valuations of the same property at millions of dollars more when estab- lishing the rates of charges to be made upon the public was also an aggravation, inasmuch as it showed a shameless disre- gard for even a pretense at fair dealing. These two aggravations of a wrong origin. ally serious enough to fairly justify the term robbery have raised it to a point where the absence of public indignation would imply the absence of & public con- science. To protest against such offenses is the duty of every citizen and of every journal that cares anything for the public welfare or its own good repute. All protests and resolutions should tend to some action. The case of the accused Supervisors can be left to the courts. The issue of securing better officials in their places must be carried to the polls, If we are as a people to profit by the lesson taught by this exhibition of official favor- itism to tax-shirkers we must begin to do so at once. A municipal election is ap- proaching. Good citizens and honest tax- payers must unite to make sure of the election of honest men. That is the broad issue before us. Let us unite, work to- gether and win. The men who have had to pay more than their share of taxes because the Solid Seyen favored the big tax-shirkers bave a just right to kick, and if they do not land the kick with vigor the shirkers will cinch them again. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 30.—At the West- minster, J. W, Foster; Grand Union, L. Good - child: Netherland, G. Whittlett. PERSONAL. Alfred Bouvier will leave for New York this evening. Dr. P. F. Upham and wife of Dixon are guests at the Grand. Dr. J. M. Lang and wile of Chicago are guests at the Palace. W. H. McClintock, & mine-owner of Sonora, is st the Lick. Dr. George W, Robinson of Los Angeles isa the California. G. R. Agassiz of Boston, Mass,, is registered at the California, J. A. Cooper, a lawyer of Ukiah, is a late ar- Tival at the Grand. General N. P. Chipman, the lawyer, of Red Bluft, is at the Palace, George Mainhart, a Grass Valley minipg man, 1s visiting at tae Grand, C. H. Ordway of Reno, Nev., is one of the latest arrivals at the Grand. : F. J. Rae, a land-owner of Auckland, N. Z., is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. . Dr. J. H. Glass of El Paso de Robles is one of the Iate arrivals at the Grand. William Miller, who is in the stage business at Ukiah, is a guest at the Grand. Dr. W. G. Cole of Guerneville is at the Cali- fornia with bis wife and danghter. H. C. Nash, librarian of Stanford University, arrived at the California last night. O. E. Graves, principal of the Red Bluff High School, arrived at the Grand yesterday, Bishop Broyer of Samos, en route to France, arrived here on the Monowsi yesterday. Aaron Smith, a raflroad man from Los An- geles, is making a sLort stay at the Grand. J. K. Leaving, proprietor of the Hotel Vin- cent, of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Baldwin. Henry M. Ayer of San Jose, who owns a large cattle range in Arizons, is registered at the Lick. W. M. Baldwin, a wealthy business man of Cleveland, Ohio, is a guest at the Cosmo- politan. Dr. Amos Graves Jr. of San Antonio, Tex., registered at the Palace yesterday with Miss Olive Graves, H. M. Talbott of Minneapolls, manager of a large theatrical cireuit, of which that city is a center, is at the Palace. William H. Alford of Visalis, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, is staying at the California, D. Burkhalter, division superintendent at Bakersfield of the Southern Pacific Railroad, is at the Grand with his wife. J. H. Ahern, the Bakersfield attorney and ex-District Attorney of Kern County, is in town on & visit to his relatives. 0. J.Smith of Nevada, whose business is buy- ing ores from different California, Arizona and Mexican mines, is at the Palace, 8. G. Wiider and wife of Honolulu arrived from the 1slands yesterday on their bridal tour and are staying at the Occidental. Hugo Fisher Jr., a newspaper artist of Hono- luly, arrived here yesterday on a visit to his brother Harrison Fisher, the artist of this City. Europe and Asia. One, “Trans Caspisa,” deals with a long horseback journey; the other, “Eastward to the Land of the Rising Sun,” is of a popular descriptive and reminiscent char- acter. Both books are illustrated by pictures taken by the author while traveling. PARAGRAPHS A«OUT PEOPLE. The parents of twins recently born in Butler, Me., have named them Gold and Silver. Count Leo Tolstol thinks that the English and the Zulus are the two most brutal nations on the earth. Rudyard Kipling was recently offered a handsome price for his Vermont residence, but refused to sell. He intimated that he would occupy it permanently after next year. Eugenie has returnea to England from a trip to the scenes of her chiidhood in Spain. She had not been in Granads for some years, but recognized many of her old friends and was delighted by her visit to her birthpiace. The ex-Empress is in excellent health. A remarkable individual named Fontenay has just died at Montpelier, France. Despite the fact that he possessed 25,000,000 franes he was disgustingly'miserly. In the streets with his ragged dirty clothes he looked like & beggar. He was nearly 70 years old and had never been married. Miss A. M. Reynolds, the World’s secretary of the Young Women's Christisn Association, returned not long ago from a trip to the associ- ation houses in Cape Town, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Australia. She is a daughter of the Rev. William Reynolds of New Haven, Conn., and is a graduate of Wellesley College. She spent three years studying in Berhin and Paris, and can make fluent addresses in Ger- man, French acd Italian. George Zimmerman has compiled a book containing selections from the writings of roysl writers. Itisentitled “Princely Authors of the Nineteenth Century,” and contalnscon- tributions by William II, Ludwig II, Alexander III, and about forty other Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses. Nota few of the con- tributions are in vers Enrique Monoz and Jose Avila, successful coffee-planters of Guatemals, arrived at the Occidental yesterday on their way to the East. Colonel George W. Bell, United States Consul at Syaney, Australia, arrived here yesterday on the Monowai and is registered at the Occi- dental. 3 Moss Davis, a large merchant of Auckland, N. Z., is registered at the Occidental with his wife and three daughters. They are going to Europe. Lawrence Webster, superintendent of the East Indian Telegraph Company, is at the Pal- ace, baving arrived here yesterday on the Monowal. Dr. C. H. Haines, a prominent physician of Auckland, N. now on his way to Europe with his wife and Miss Isaacs, arrived at the Occidental yesterday. H. Z. Osborne, editor of the Los Angeles Record, and a prominent Republican of the southern part of the State, arrived at the Palace yesterday. Captain Hy Muller, a member of the pilot service at Bombay, India, arrived here yester- day on the Monowai in the course of & tour of the world for his health. Archbishop Redwood of the Catholic churches of Wellington, New Zealand, arrived here yesterday on the Monowal, and will soon resume his journey to Rome, Italy. Dr. F. A. C. Perrine, head professor of thede- partment of electrical engineering at Stanfora University, returned yesterday from Lake Tahoe and registered at the Palace with his wife. Miss Ciara Schwartz, daughter of H. J. Schwartz, the local watchmaker and jeweler, returned to her home yesierday from Auck- land, New Zealand, where she has been visit- ing friends. Henry W. Spalding of the law department of the S8an Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway will visit Stockion next week for the nurpose of getting stock subscribers to sign the trust agreement. H. T. Poindexter, a student in the geological department at Stanfcrd University, is at !hel THE DOCTOR He must not walk his rounds for fear his patients think him poor, And deariy do they love to see a carriageat their oor: And it his horse s fat “be must have little work to do,” And If he's lean the reason Is “he starves the poor old screw. Should he call upon his patlents every day when hey are il His motive plalnly 18 “to make a great big doctor’s i) It he visits them less frequently—thus less'ning their expense— The chances are he’ll be accused of willful negli- gence. He must work all day and half the night and never say he's tired, For the public look upon him simply as a servant bl And should ne takea hotiday he'll ind when he comes back Some patients have resented it by giving him “the sack.” Concerniug money he must seem indifferent to be. And folks will think he practices from pure phil- al ropy. ‘When we hear him boasting of the guineas that he earns We wonder if they appesr In his income tax retuins. About his own afflictions he must never say a ocls ord: The notion of a doctor’s being ill is so absurd: And when, perchance, from overwork he's laid upon thle shelf His sympathizing patlents say, “Physician, heal thyseit.” —London Lancet. PROTECTION. New York Press. Those people who are beseeching Republi- cans to abandon the issue of protection in the present camxpaign in order to attract the bal- lots of free-trade Democrats who favor & gold- basis currency mayspare their breath. The Republican party veither casts aside its prin- ciples in the fear of losing voters norsubscribes to false doctrines for the purpose of gain- ing votes, The Republican party in its plat- form adopted at the St. Louis convention de- clared for protection for the same reason that THE admimstration came to swell it enormously for the first time since the war. It was protec- tion that crowded our mills with workmen, filled the shops with customers aud supplied countless buyers for iarm products. 1t was protection that gave us such an abundance of evervthing that we could send thousands of shiploads of our bounties for sale sll over the world. Theu there was no need to maintain the treasury reserve with forced sup- port. Then we did not drain ourselyes of the standard currency of the world to pay our obligations abroad, for, instead of sending our money to foreigners, foreigners seut their money to us. Talk, then, of abandoning protection when all this has been changed by free trade, when four more years of n“pouoy of bankruptey and ruin would mean misery and shame tenfold @reater than those of the free trade era! We say, rather—since Democrats who profess to be our allies appeal to us 1o 1gnore the tariff ques- tion—we say, rather, nail the colors of protec- tion as high on the mast as we can place them! Nail them ther d then, as io! as they float, flfhl for the ms?nlflcaut, the invincible principle of protection BRYAN'S KISS OF BETRAYAL. New York Sun, We calied attention yesterday to the appa- rent origin of Mr. Bryan's favorite figure of speech—that of the crown of thorns. The boy orator was preseut in the House of Representa- tives on January 26, 1894, when his Republi- can associate, Mr. McCall of Massachusetts, closed a speech on protection with an eloquent peroration containing this passage: Do you regard your bill with reference to labor? Ready as you have ever been to betray it with & kiss, You scourge it to the very quick, and pressa crown of thorns upon iis brow. This seems to have made a great impression upon Mr. Bryan’s mind. He appropriated the crown of thorns and has been ug it upon the brow of labor ever since. e waited, how- ever, for eleyen months, or untl December 12, 1894, beiore he used Mr. McCall's crown oi thoras in the House of Representatives. Not 80, however, with the kiss of betrayal. Four days after Mr. McCall’s speech of January 26, 1891, Mr. Bryan undertook to reply to the Hun. Bourke Cockran on the subject of the in- come tax, and he worked in the kiss of be- trayal thus: Oh, sirs: s it not enough to betray the cause of the poor—must it be done with & kiss? [Applause]. We should say that when the applause sounded, Mr. McCall was the proper person to stand up and make the bow. SCANLAN, THE ACTOR. Ir Is ProrosED TO PRonoNa HIS LIFE BY RE- MOVING HIS BRAIN. ‘Westminster Gagette. We give the following story, without com- ment, just as it reaches us through Dalziel's New York correspondent: ‘A remarkable ex- periment is now being made for the purpose of bringing relief to William Scanlan, a famous American comedian, who is now in an insane esylum. A number of doctors who examined Scanlan decided tnat his brain was dead and gradually decaying, with the result that death would probably take place shortly, his case being in this rel})ect unlike the usual course of paresis and idiocy. Professor Curtis of the New York College of Physiclans has n making & number of experiments upon the brains of dogs. In one case in which he removed the brain of 8 dog the animal lived a month; another which was similarly experimented upon lived three months, while another is still living, notwithstanding that its brain was removed IRON CHANCELLOR AND HIS GUEST. LI Hung Chang, who Is soon to visit San Francisco, was an honored visitor at Friedrichsruhe during his stay in Germany, and just before departure was photographed in company with Bismarck, Palace. He will in a few days join ageological party of six persons who are to be et work for two months in Calaveras County. Among the arrivals at the Grand yesterday were J. B. Irving and E. L. Irving, who have orange orchards in the 8an Antonio Canyon, a district near Ontario, an Bernardino County. They have returned from a fisking trip up the Kern River and have incidentally been looking for mines. They saw none. Ernest Lapt Lorne, a journalist of Berrigan, Australia, where he is proprietor of & paper, is at the Occidental. He was a passenger on the Monowai and during the voyage undertook, for amnsement, the publication each Saturday of a paper of which there was only the original weanuscript copy. These papers will, bowever, De printéd here and distributed to the passen- gers. . Percy F. Marks, spectal correspondent and one of the proprietors of the London Financial News, a large daily paper with a circulation of 200,000 copies, is at the Palace. 'He has been exsmining the mines of Australia and New Zealand for bis paper, and has also been cor- responding for the Glasgow Herald. He will now examine American mining regions, be- ginning with the Cripple Creek district. M. M. Shoemsker of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Ten Eyck Wendell of Cazenovia, two wealthy men who were.at the Palace for several days, left yesterday on the Chipa for Honolulu, whence tney will go to New Zealand. Mr. Shoemaker is s great traveler, and has written W0 books founded on bis experiences in it declared for sound money. In each-case the declaration was one of principle and not for the voters of any class nor the support of any body of men does the Republican party repu- diate its principles. The Republicans of this country will insist upon their voters deciding the result of the coming clection on the question of free trade, wi h a repudiation of the debts that free trade Yrings to every man, or of protection with work and trade for everybody, and the pay- ment of wages, debts aud all obligations an honest money that has a full value every- where. These are the living principles of the Republican party. We should have declared them if there had been no Democratic party. no Free Silver party,no Populist party, no other party under the sun.and to these mn- ciples we shall adhere asiong as good faith and honor prevail among men. 1f the Repub- lican party abandoned the principle of protec- tion it would cease to have a reason for exist- ence. It demanded the restoration of pro- tective duties on the dn‘ that the Wilson law went into effect. Since the election of Grover Clevelaud in 1892 the country hes indorsed this Republican demand at every State and Congress district election. The mgn have seen the debt of the Nation increased by half a billion of dollars under a free-trade administraiion. They h: our credit impaired until we are compelled o send abroad miilions of gold monthly to pey for our purchases of in foreign lands. They have séen the market shrink to insignificance because the wages that should iCADS have gone to Americans went to foreigners; because all classes have earned less money than in years before. It was protection that off the National debt without intermission until a iree-irade fifteen months ago. It sppears to be well so far as its ordinary bodily health is concerned, but it is quite devoid of intelligence. It has lost the senses of smell and hearing, but it ap ars to retain thatof taste. It is, 100, per- ectly able to retain its balance, and when iying down can recover its feet 1f it wishes to arise. 1ts temper remains and it resents teas- ing. If the experiments are successful a trial wfil, it is proposed, eventually be made to re- move Scanlan’s brain, in the belief that he will thus be assured years of lile, although without intellect o1 any kind.* A QUESTION OF RAISINS. When the Wilson bill took $20 & ton off the duty on_raisins whom did in benefit —Kern County Echo. Not the domestic grower, certainly; and if the consumer got any benefit from it he got the foreign goods below the cost of production in this country, which is cheaper than any American citizen has & moral right to get any- thing. That $20 a ton simply represents a loss of badly needed revenue and a little more advantage to the foreigner in retaining his hold on the market.—Fresno Republican. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CriBBAGE—A Reader, City. In the game of cribbage four threes and a six count twenty points. . ta Cruz, Cal. There the representative of the f ail nations. is no flag emblems DANIEL WeBsTER—S., Santa Barbaras, Cal. Daniel Webster was born January 18, 1782, and died at Marshfield, Mass., Ociober 24, 1852. WEIGHT OF METALS—G. §., City. One cubic foot of pure gold weighs 1208.5 pounds; of sil- ver, 653.8 pounds; of lead (cast) 708.5 pounds; of copper (cast) 537.3 pounds. CALIFORNIA Oaxs—C. J. W., Seattle, King County, Wash. The picture called #California Qsaks,” by Jules R. Mersfelder to H. E. Hunt- ington, is not the original painting of that name. The original was painted by Keith and the one by Mersfelder is only a copy of it. THE PoLITICAL PaRTiEs—P. 8, Sants Crus, Cal. The theories of the different political parties are best expressed in the platform of each., These have been pubiished in fullin the columns of THE CALL, and if you will read lhemlon will be able to talk politics unles- standingly. BoNES IN THE Bony—N. N,, City, The num- ber of boneés in the human body vatles at different periods of life. Many of them are in two or more pieces in the child; yet, they after- ward grow together, forming but one bone in the adult, The number of bones usually given is 208, besides the 32 teeth. Of these 30 are 54 in the trunk, 64 in the upper limbs and 60 in the lower iimbs. BLACK COCKADE—G. ., Uity. The black cock- ade was & badge worn by the American soldiers Quring the Revolution, snd later by the Fed- | eralists during the hostility toward France occasioned by the X. Y. Z. dispatches in 1797. Its meaning was the fact that it had been part of the Continental uniform, and itserved asa contrast to the tri-colored cockade of France, which the Republicans had affected. “Black Xkade Federalists” was & term of reproach applied to the members of the Federal party in the days of its declin: BRYAN'S Ace—Dom, City. William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate for the office of President,was bornfin Salem, Marion County, 1L, March 19, 1860. A maa is always 36 years of age until be hasattained his thirty- seventh year, that is in the ordinary sense of defllllnghlt he is s0 many years old. A man wishing to give his age at the time he desires 10 be registered, for the purpose of enabling him to vote, if he were born on the 8th of Jan- uary, 1860. wouid declare his age to be 36 years. STRAITS OF MAGELLAN—G. C. L., Golden Gate, Cal. The Straits of Meagellan are three miles long and vary in width from three-guarters of a mile to fifteen miles. On account of the fogs, precipitous shores, numerous hidden rocks and dden squalls it has come to be avoided by iling vessels, which find the cireuit of Cave Horn far less perilous. Careful observations made by the masters of steamers of many na- tions, in passage, have been recorded to an ex- tent that makes it at present comparatively safe tor steamers. There are no towboats in the straits. —_— NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Aren’t there & great number of sugar plan- tations in Cuba 7" “Yes. Sugar piantations to burn.”—Life, “Davie, do you know Mr. Bradley?" “Is he th' feller that's troubled with in- growin’ hair?’—Judge. Tommy—Pop, do soldiers ever sleep on duty? Towmmy’s Pop—No, my boy. Tommy—Then why do the; k) sacks?—Philadelphia Record. it B It is all very well to be able to right thing at the right time; butit h':’gm deal better to be able to refrain from saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.—Bos: Transeript. " o +One good thing is," Iaughed young Racket, “I've got a cork leg, so 1 P 8 shall never be “‘No; but a cork leg won't prevent ycu from being hanged,” growled a bystander, “What you want is & cast-iron neck.”—Chips. *Do you sell good, honest goods, my many*® asked the fussy mac. . r: “Well," sald the baker, thoughttully rubding | flour on theend of his nose, “I have an idea that the sods’ crackers are square, but to tell you the truth Iam almost sure that the pret- zels are cmoked."—!ndinnu.pom Journal. e A DAINTY FROCK. Dresses of fancy wool mixtures for young girls are very effectively trimmed by plain cloth of one color. Thst shown above is of a material in which numberless colorsare mixed haphazard in wen:u:g. the trimming being of en lady’s cloth. "f;'&m. 3’1 bluet and dsrk green hada dark green cloth trimming, edged with bluet spangles. A plain blue serge was made into a stylish go‘wn by the use of fancy silk for the trim. ming. A dark green rcmfn cloth nad a top of printed velveteen on which greens and pale blues blendea ver{ harmoniously. A dainty little frock for dressy wear when days are cooler was of a mixed goods in a rue- dium 1ight shade of blue, with the top of vels vet of the same shade. From the top of the velvet collar stood a ruff of biue ribhon to match, the ribbon being simply gathered, but of heavy weight so it stood out and did not hang over the collar. The top of this gown may be made separate to be worn with other gowns, and to allow a variety. Or the gown may bé made perfectly plain, to be worn with a ribbon beltand collar, CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend's.® ——————— FPrCTAL nformation daily to manufasturers. business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery, * ——————— Architect (showing plans)—This room will be your library. Mr. Porkchopps—My lib'ry? Oh, yesl—of course! Imusthave a place to smoke,—Puck. ——————— Cheap Excursion to St. Paul. The Shasta route and the Northern Pacific Rall- road has been selected as the officlal roue to at- tend the National Encampment of the G. A. B. st St. Paul, 10 be held there September2to5. The excursion will leave San Francisco and Sacta- mento August 26 at 7 .. Rates $67 90 for the round trip. The above rate Is open to all who wish 1o make the trlp East. Send your name and ad~ dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Market treel, San Francisco, for sleeping-car reservaiions. ——————— Are You Going East? The Atlsntic and Pacific Rallroad—Santa 7s be coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to ita elevation and absence of alkali dust. Particularly adspted for the trans- portation of families because of its palace draw- ing-room and modern upholstered tourist sleeplag: cars, which run daily, through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour avd la charge of attentive condnctors and porters. Tick- etoftice, 644 Market street, Uhronicie building Telephone, Matn 153 B *“*Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrun' Fas been used oyer 50 years by millions of mothery . for thelr children while Teething with perfsct sus cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, sllayy Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and isthe best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. Forsale by Drag- gists in every part of the world. Be sure and asc 10r Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 23 # vOidla —————aa CoRONADO.—Atmosphers is pertectly dry, sofs and mild, being entirely free from the mists come mon further north. Round-irip tiokets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days’ board ac the Hotel lal Coronado, $50; longer siay $250 perday. APMT 4 Aew Montgomery st., SanFrancisca. e e HUNDREDS have testified to the curative prop- erties of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in colds, coughs and other throat and lung troubles. ——————— Clara—He says I sing more beautifully than any girl he knows. What do vou think of that? Maud—I think he should extend his ac- quatutance.—London Tit-Bits. NEW TO-DAY? L THE: o (1 TEA HOU, on Fruit Jars 45¢ PER DOZ. PINTS 55¢ PER DOZ. QUARTS 75c PER DOZ. HALF GALLONS 80c PER DOZ. JELLY GLASSES DEERE OCOUOT PRICES Crockery, Chinaware and Glassware, Come and Get Posted. (sreat American [mporting Tea (. MONEY SAVING STORES: 1344 Market st. 146 Ninth st. 2g10_Mission st. :‘ua Third st. 140 Sixth st. 2008 Fillmore st. 617 Kearny st. 965 Market st. mery ave. Second s 333 Hayes st. b Mission st. 52 Market st. (Headquarters), S. F. 1053 Washington st. 616 E. Twelfth st. 135 San Pabls aver ~ ovy Broadeas ¢ 1355 Park st., Alameda. “Cheap” furniture hasn’t a ghost of a chance against“Red Letter Days.” Good furniture, quick prices. And we’ll send for it if you don’t like it. CavLirornia FurniTuRE COMPANY (X P. Cous &Co) Geary Street. Chamber of Commerce of San- Framcisco. SPECIAL NOTICE. ‘The members of the Chamber and the citizens of San Francisco are respectfully invited to attend & poblic meeting to be heid ai the ball of the Cham- M ios Exunu:.dlzglll TO-D. Commerce the c.’’ The important i subject will ted, and we Tequess our citizens to prove iheir interest by tices to our members. HUGH CRAIG, Pregident. W. L Mzazy, 2 g