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

7 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1896. Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall 6. Dally and Sunday CALL, #Ix months, by mal Dally snd Sunday CALi, three months by mall 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall. .66 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail. W EXKLY CALL, One year, by mail THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going to the country ona vacation ? It | 50, it 18 10 trouble for us to forward THE CALL t address. Do not let it miss you for you will ¥ou T Orders given to the carrier or left at miss it. Busipess Office will receive prompt attentlon. | NO EXTRA OHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 ket Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone ...Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 580 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until : open until 9:30 o’clock. cet; open until 9:50 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Minth street; open until 8 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE 3 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 4 Park Row, New York City. DAVID 2 Special Agent. 1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOER PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. e —C ey Never trust a fool with fire, business or government. | | occasion GROSSLY MISREPRESENTED. The Popocrats grossly misrepresent Jef- ferson and Jackson when they declare that their declaration of principles are in harmony with the utterances of those dis- tinguished statesmen. Nowhere in the speeches, proclamations or messages of Jefferson and Jackson will be found so much as an intimation of a principle of government that is in accord with what the Popocrats are demanding. Andrew Jackson especially was outspoken in his denunciation of schemes and plans to give the country unsound money, and nodoubt Jefferson would have been equally so had required. Jackson always thought of the workingman. He knew the rich could get along until the tide hanged, no matter how disturbed the business situation might be by a flood of cheap and fluctuating money, but the man who worked for daily wages must have a sound basis for his compensation. He must have money that is as good on Sat- | urday night when he receives his wages as it was on the preceding Monday morn- ing when he sold his services for the week. Speaking of the effects of unsound and | uncertain money upon the working classes President Jackson said: ‘“Engaged from | day to day in their useful toils they do not | perceive that although their wages are nominally the same or even somewhat higher-they are greatly reduced in fact by | the rapid increase of a spurious currency which, as it appears to make money abound, they are at first inclined to con- sider a blessing. It is not so with the speculator, by whom this operation is better understood and is made to contrib- ute to his advantage. It is not until the prices of the necessaries of life become so dear that the laboring classes cannot sup- ply their wants out of their wages that wages rise and gradually reach a justly proportioned rate to that of the products of their lavor.”” Does any one suppose that if Andrew Jackson were alive he would be found supporting the nominees of the Chicago convention? The Popocrats are for a policy of money debasement. They want quantity without reference to quality, but Andrew Jackson taught no such economic fallacies. He was a sound- money man. But the Popocrats cannot fool the wage- earners. In every industrial center wage- earners are organizing themselves into | working clubs to aid in electing a man to the Presidency who represents and stands for good money and continuous employ- ment at satisfying wages. The working- The lumbermen join the woolmen in | Mmen of this country know that the enter- their opinions of free trade. trade the more they think of protection. prises which give them employment are | intimately connected with the trade and The more the people think about free | commerce of other countries; that the business of the commercial world is inter- woven and inseparable, and that it must Ask the raisin-grower what he thinks of | have a uniform measure of value as it free trade ana you wili get wisdom inlarge | must have a uniform measure of quantity. chunks, Protection Democrats had better drop the last word from the title this year and take a better name. Every speech of McKinley promises [ | | Hence it is that pretty much all wage- earners are for bimetallism on the lines laid down by the Republican party, which is international recognition of silver's parity with gold. The workingmen of the United States are not like the pauper labor prosperity, while Bryan threatens a panic | of China and Japan. They possess good com- and financial disaster. mon sense, and therefore they agree with Thomas Jefferson that “the proportion No Republican has a good reason for | between the values of gold and silver is a bolting this year and no Democrat a good | mercantile problem altogether,” and that reason for not bolting. As there must be work before there are | f.o¢ meet and solve the wages, so there must be protection before | jem,” we begin to deal th the money question. The Democratic bogyman has frightened business a little, but as soon as the elec- tion is over the trade revival will be im- mense. It is hard for the business Democrat to stay with his party when the party refuses | to stay with any business proposition whatever. Let it not be forgotten by any voter that the Republican party is pledged to woman suffrage in California and must make it win. It is pleasant, of course, to know itisa walk-over, but all the same it is a pity we cannot hurry 1t up a little and get through with the job. Every one interested in the advance- ment of the industries of California will be gratified by the privilege of voting for Claus Spreckels as a Presidential elector. Senator Burrows says the Chicago ticket is like a bumble-bee, which makes the most noise when it is first hatched, and there is a whole lot of comfort in the thought. By the time the Democrats get the mud- dle between Sewall and Watson straight- ened out the Populists will have recovered their sense and gone back to the middle of the road. ‘When the thinking people of this coun- try get time to read the Chicago platform in full and think it over at leisure the last chance of Bryan will vanish from the face of the earth. The renomination of Mr. Loud assures Mr. Kelly that his dirty linen will be washed in the Fifth District by a tidal wave, and he will find it waiting for him up Satt River. —_———— Even silver Democrats hesitate to accept a platform that denounces the Supreme Court or to support for the Presidency a man of no business experience or politi- cal responsibilit; Let us restore prosperity to our indus- tries, put our idle capital into enterprise and our idle men at work, and then it will be easier to see exactly what the money problem is and how best to settle it. The only way to bring about interna- tional bimetaliism is to put the Govern- ment of this country into the hands of men who know how to govern and who will have weight and influence in dealing with European nations. The personal factor can never be elim- inated from practical politics, and the con- trast between the splendid character of McKinley and that of his opponent will determine the way in which many a patri- otic voter will cast his ballot. Those who vote for Bryan must vote for the whole Chicago platform, including free trade, the attack on the Supreme Court and the denial of the right of the Federal Government to protect Federal property when threatened by riots. The Galveston News bolts the Chicago | ticket and declares that to label it Democ- racy is as bad as putting a whisky label on a bottle of benzine; and while the simile is distinctively Texan, it is good enough in its way to be appreciated even in this neck of the woods. R L LIRS The main trouble with the country is that the revenues are not equal to the ex- peiises and consequently the Government has to borrow gold to keep up its credit. The establishment of a Republican tariff will remedy that condition of affairs and at the same time provide work and wages for the people, so that the Democratic de- vression will be ended and the money question made much easier of solution, | Bryan. nations proposing to use gold and silver in settling international trade balances must ‘““mercantile prob- MIDDLE - OF - THE- ROAD DEMO- ORATS. That two Democratic tickets will be in the field there does not seem to be any reason to doubt. The middle-of-the-road Democrats will hold a National nominat- ing convention early in September, with delegates from every State and Territory, and nominate a candidate for President and Vice-President, in whom no Populis- tic or free-silver guile can ba found. This is as it should be. Itis of paramount im- portance that there always be two great political parties in this country. Our sys- tem of government provides that it shall be conducted by the people through a political party, and were there not always a strong party “out’”’ watching the party that is “in,” it would not be long before the tead- ers of the ‘‘ins” would dispense with the form of holding elections. The middie-of-the-road Democracy is the natural opponent of the Republican party. There is no difference between the Democratic party proper and the Republi- can party in purpose. The betterment of the condition of the people is what the Democratic party strives for, and the Re- publican party strives for the same object, but they are widely different in their views as to how best the position of the people, socially and commercially, may be strengthened, and although experience for a third of a century or more testifies that the people prosper when Republican economic principles prevail in the con- dnct of the Government, and that applied Democratic principles are hurtful to trade and commerce, the need of the Democratic party, as a factor in the Nation’s political life, is evident. It is a self-evident fact that the combine between the Populistsand the Bryan wing of the Democratic party must win in No- vember or go to pieces. It could not sur- vive a defeat twenty-four hours, and were it to win it would not survive one admin-. istration. Its basic principles antagonize the spirit and the purpose of the founders of the Nation at every point, and it will not listen to the voice of warning. It is not surprising, therefore, that all true Demo- crats and all true Republicans are of one mind that the election of Mr. Bryan would be a National calamity, nor is it surprising that true Democrats would want to strengthen the hands of the Republican party for this one time by nominating a ticket that would take votes away from To be sure it would be better jf all anti-Bryan Democrats would come out for McKinley, but the next best thing is to have their own candidates. WHAT SAN FRANOISCO NEEDS. San Francisco is the natural and legiti- mate point for the accumulation and dis- tribution of a large percentage of the inter- national trade and traffic of- China, Japan, Australia and the islandsof the Pacific, but she will continue to.be the natural point without the business until the Gov- ernment at Washington is persuaded to make it possible to keep enough first-class steamships in comwissior between San Francisco and the Orient and intermediate points to accommodate commerce. The business men of Australia and Samoa have repeatedly given our merckants assur- ances of a large volume of business if they would acquire the necessary facilities for transporting the articles of commerce. Itis admitted that we have the advantage of Europe in location, but what does that signify if we have no way of improving it? Fourteen subsidized steamship lines ply between Australasia and the trade centers of Europe, but theré is only one steamer a month plying between America and that country. No doubt the 2 per cent of the trade of S8ydney which now comes this way could be increased to 50 per cent if our Government would give a bonus of one-quarter the amount that for- eign ships are getting. The trouble is, it is everybody’s business to make San Fran- cisco a great export and import center, and, generally speaking, what is every- body’s business is nobody’s business. But we have commercial and labor organiza- tions possessing great influence, and were they to take hold in earnest, no doubt the powers that will be at Washington after March 4, 1897, could be made to see the importance of a merchant marine of am- ple tonnage sailing regularly between San Francisco and- every trade point on the Pacific Ocean. ARE YOU, MR. BRYAN? For two years, that is to say since he has been in the employ of the Silver Mine Owners’ Association, Mr. Bryan has in- sisted that the fall in prices and the stag- nation iu business is dug to the demon- etization of silver and the appreciation of gold. But before Mr. Bryan hired nimself to the Silver Mine Owners’ Association to lecture on the beauty and stability of a monetary system built upon an unlimited issue of silver he was very sure it was the inventive genius of American mechanics that caused prices to fall. In a carefully prepared speech on the tariff question Mr. Bryan asserted very positively on the floor of Congress that the fall in prices was due ‘“to the inventive genius that has multiplied a thousand times in many .instances the sirength of a single arm and enabled us to do to-day with one man what fifty men could not do fifty years ago. That is what brought the prices down in this country and every- where.” ‘Whether Mr. Bryan’s pay as lecturer for the combine of silver mine owners and speculators was enough to justify sucha flop and flat contradiction we do not know, but the presumption is that it was. No doubt he sincerely be- lieved what he said when he told Congress that the great fall in prices was due to inventive genius, for all the facts in the case confirm the statement; but the same state of affairs prevailed when he engaged to advocate the opening of the mints to the unlimited coinage of silver and proclaim that the demonetiza- tion and not inventive genius was the cause of prices falling, so 1t is incumbent upon Mr. Bryan to reconcile these contra- dictory statements before asking the people to ‘‘trust me,” as he puts it. Mr. Bryan should inform the public con- cerning his contract with the Silver Mine Owners’ Association, If he isstillin its employ and is making tbe race for the Presidency in the interest of that combine the people should know it. At Jeast he should not protest if the people believe it to be true in the absence of any denial on his part. He¢ is just as enthusiastic now for free silver without safeguards as he was when he first entered the employ of the miners’ combine, al- though the fact still remains that the fall of prices is attributable to inventive genius. Mr. Bryanowes it to the people to take them into his confidence and tell them frankly why he now says that the fall of prices 1s the result of the ‘‘crime of 1873,”" when he did not discover that it was a crime until 1894. And while Mr. Bryan is explaining the business connection he has with the mine owers’ association he might explain how it bappened that his employers made no complaint because of the demonetization of silyver until several years afterward— until the price of silver bullion went be- low par. These are little matters, but as Mr. Bryan proposes to conduct an ‘‘edu- cational campaign’’ answers to these ques- tions would be well calculated to enlighten the public on the silver question. As late as 1893, and only the year before he hired himself (o the Silver Miners’ Association to advocate the free and unlimited coin- age of silver—mark yvou, unlimited coin- age—he declared on the floor of Congress that “'if the number of dollars increases more rapidly than the need of dollars—as it did after the gold discoveries of 1849— the exchangeable value of each dollar will fall and prices rise.”” Evidently there isa wide difference between Mr. Bryan as the paid agent of silver mine owners and Bryan as a teacher of economics. But is Mr. Bryan still in the employ of the mine owners’ association? That is what the people want to know. LUMBER UNDER FREE TRADE. It isshown in yesterday’s CaALL, in the first of a series of articles, that the Demo- cratic policy of free trade has done great injury to the lumbering interests of the country; that the lumbering interests are the most extensive of any industries in America, and that the shrewdest opera- tors are embarrassed under Canadian com- petition. Free trade in lumber was another one of the hobbies of William Jennings Bryan, by which he sought to convince the coun- try by speeches in Congress that free trade would be a panacea for industrial and commercial ills. Any one who will read TuE CaLL's account of the practical down- fall of lumbering interests under free trade will conclude that Bryan knew as little about what could help the lumber men as he did about what would benefit the sheep-growers. That is, he knew nothing about either business. ‘Without protection the American mar ket is open to the competition of lumber from British Columbia, where crown lands are practically free, where lumber men have no investments of consequence and where it is common to hire Chinese and Japanese labor at so low a price as sixty cents a day, the workman boarding him- self. Against the competition of goods made under these circurstances the American producer is powerless unless he reduces the wages of his workingmen to even a lower standard than that obtaining in Canada. The thoughtful student of the times will reflect as he reads the story of the ruin wrought by free trade—a blight wherever it touches. Yet such is the pol- icy of the Democrats, and Harticnlarly the volicy advocated by William Jennings Bryan of Nebrask OOAST EXCHANGES. The Pomona Beacon will next week issue a 5000-edition pictorial number, in magazine form and containing between forty and fifty pages of descriptive maiter and engravings. Those Southern California people understand the value of newspaper advertising, and they have learned how to stand in with each other for their mutual interests in the support of the medium through which the world has largely become acquainted with the advan- tages of thelr paft of the State. Austin Wiley, a veteran journalist, who in early days was an owner of tha San Francisco CaLy, now directs the course of the Arcata Union, which has just commenced its eleventh year. The Union is in favor of a 100-cent dol- lar, and is putting in some telling work for McKinley and Hobart. The Santa Cruz Penny Press has been dis- continued for the present as & daily paper, but the editor, Phil Francis, promises to be on deck during the campaign with a live weekly. The Penny Press was an able, fearless paper, and was apparently prospering, but decided differences among the owners made aiscon- tinuance the preferable road to settlement. The San Diego Vidette has assumed metro- politan airs and now appears asan illustrated daily. J. W. Ferguson, the founder of the Fresno Ezpositor, has so far recovered health and strength as to warrant him in once again put- ting on the editorial harness. He will now control the Fresno Watchman, 8 paper which hasbeen heretofore edited by Senator G. G. Goucher, F. H. Owen, formerly of the Haltmoon Bay Advocate, has purchased the Winters Express from H. C. Rust, and may be counted on to do 800d work for that locality. The Fresno Populist has been Bryanized. It has buried its jdentity, politically and other- wise, in the Fresno Ezpositor, and W.M. Gill, Who formerly catered to the “middle-of-the- road” peopie through the columns of the Populist, will now try his hend at framing apologles for the new Democracy and the “boy orator of the Platte.” The clergy seem to be taking advantage, in many quarters, of the fact that the editorial pulpit commands the best audiences at all times and everywhere. Down at Porterville Rev. J. G. Eckles has started the Weekly Review, and will work with the object of bringing into the true political fold such of the brethren as have been misled by free-trade error. Repub- licanism is the religion of the Review. Up at Winters Rev. B. J. Waugh, formerly of Sutsun Valley, has commenced the publication of the Independent. The Downey Champion is eight years old, and its prosperity is only & just requitement for the services it has rendered the people of Downey in making their town favorably known near and far. The Los Banos Enierprise informs its readers that a hotel containing 100 rooms will shortly be built at Mercy Hot Springs. The new hotel company evidently wants things presty much its own way, judging from this “warning note” of the Enterprise: “A proposition that our hotel men should understand and study on for their own good is this: Los Banos will be headquarters for patients from all over the State, who visit the springs, and such people are generally good customers and very desira- ble at hotels. The company will run a daily stage each wav from here to the springs for the accommodation of the patients. If they put their rates down as reasonable as possible on all such customers and not try to charge ‘all the traffic will bear,” the company will be satisfied and let them have the trade; but if, on the other hand, they do not do this, the company will probably erect & hotel of their own here and accommodate all their cus- tomers,"” Milton McWhorter, the pioneer of Fresno County’s oil-fields, has informed the Ezpositor that the country around Coalinga isstill being prospected. People are finding new wells and filing claims every day. The area of territory S0 prospectea is quite considerable. The re- ported discovery of oil in the vicinity of Panoche is verified by Mr. McWhorter. The Panoche wells are in San Benito County, although there are also indications of oil east of the divide. Mr. McWhorter says he was the first man on the ground when the Panoche wells were discovered. He reports that very few new baildings are being putupat Oil City, Coalinga’s new rival. It is still a mere camp. The flow of oil from the wells has been ex- aggerated. - Mr. McWhorter sets down thirty to forty barrels as the utmost yield of any well likely to be discovered in the belt, but con- siders the supply permanent. Tuolumne and Calaveras counties will soon be supplied with new motor energy. A com- munication from Murphys to the Tuolumne Independent states that ‘‘a project is now under way for the erection of 8 power plant on the middle fork of the Stanislaus River, about eight miles from that place, to supply power to the mines along the mother lode, in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties. The owners of the water-right, Messrs, Linn and Batten of Mur- phys, have had a survey made, and with a ditch and flume 133 miles long can obtain & | head of 1280 feet, which would be equel to three horsepower per miner's inch; and the river will supply 5800 inches of water in the driest season of the year, which would mean 17,400 horsepower. By the addition of & reser- voir this could be increased to 20,000 horse- power, and by stepping the voltage up to 20,000 or 30,000 volts any surplus of power coula be transmitted to Stockton. “That the projectors mean business can readily be seen, as they have a complete map of mines in both counties, showing position of power plant, have men working on'their ditch, have taken steps to-secure a franchise from Tuolumne County to run power wires along the public roads where necessary, and have al- ready obtained one from Calaveras County.” The citizens of Modesto are making a strong pull for the Yosemite Railroad. The company is sald to be desirous of building from that city, but to do so would make their road twelve miles longer than originally contemplated. The Modesto Herald, in discussing the matter, speaks as follows: “If the conditions imposed are complied with (subseription for $100,000 of bonds, 1and for buildings and right of way through the city), the company will not only make Modesto the terminal, but establish the machine shop and roundhouse here and make this city the headquarters of its employes. The road would cross the Valley road and thus placeus in airect communieation with that line. ‘Judge Hewell, representing the Town Trus- tees, has quite thoroughly considered the proposition, studied the engineer’s report and is satisfied that the road will pay and that it will make much business for us—not for a year, but for all time—and give the town in- valuable advertising. He favors a united effort to secure these advantages, and ashe is & hard-headed business man his counsel will carry great weight. “If we meet the terms the company will place engineers in the field within ten days thereafter and will complete the road to Ben- ton Mills, forty miles from Modesto and oppo- site Coulterville (seven miles distant), within three months.” According to the Stockton Record, a new boat, and a fast boat at that, isa certainty on the San Joaquin. The designers and builders ‘Who have been at work for the Californis Nay- igation and Improvement Company for the past three months think they have planned a craft that in high or low water will make rail- road time from here to San Francisco. Had the San Joaguin River been improved by the Government as it was expected it would be, and as it certainly should be, there would have been little or no trouble in designing a boat that would make the time desired, but in view of the fact that the present generation of tots in pinafores will be grandiathers and | grandmothers before the Government aids in- land navigation in California, the old line company hes concluded to build a boat for passenger traffic based upon low - water draught. The boat will carry some freight, of course, but it will be designed for passenger tnval‘ without taking anything else into considera- tion. Inall probability the new boat will be of the twin propeller pattern, It will havea magnificent cabin, a few elegant staterooms, a bar, restaurant and every convenience that the x?odaxu up-to-date passenger steamer of the hl’:;er:i rivers can boast of. ¢ idea of the new boat is to com, the Sonthern Pacific in getting the Vn‘fi:;:::: Passengers to the bay, at the same time com- fort and convenience will be added to the rige, The old line officials have nothing to say about the new boat just now, but do not deny that satisfactory plans have been submitted. To tell the truth, the old line is about as busy as it can be with their old bosts in the steamboat War just started. They are carrying all the freight and passengers the boats will float, but they will undoubtedly have the fast boat ready by the time the Valley road has its passe trains running, " * iz There is a dearth of dwelli ng-houses in Sum- merland at present, the town being unable to furnish shelter to would-be settlers seeking homes there. The Summerland Advance de- clares that “more houses will have to be built, and atonce. All thatis necessary is for some- body who knows a good thing when he sees it tomake a start and the houses will be rented before the foundations are laid.” “Summerland,” remarks the same paper. “lostits opportunity to become & fashionable and aristocratic resort for retired millionaires and one-lungers with a heetic flush when it opened its first oil well, but it will console it- self by doing the next best thing and become an oil depot and manufacturing town, where it will be possible for the man with no other capital than his hands and his craftsman’s skill azd a guarantes of good faith in the shape of wife and babies to get & chance t a livelihood.” it Ty AROUND THE CORRIDORS. e In tie whole history of the New York Law School previous to this year but five women had received the degree of LL.B. With the class of '96. however, six out of the 106 gradu- ates were women, and one of them was & grad- uate of Mills College in this State. Her name 1s Mrs. Fanny Hallock Carpenter, the wife of a prominent York. She received high young lawyer of New scholastic honors and Mrs. Fanny Hallock Carpenter, LL.B. was & general favorite in her class, of which she was vice-president. Mrs. Carpenter is a Daughter of the Revolution, and is a direct descendant of Jonn Alden and Priscilla. She is the second graduate oi Mills College to re- ceive the degree of bachelor of laws. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter have just sailed for Havre, and will spend two months eycling in France. On their return Mrs. Carpenter will commence the practice of her profession. “There is a law in Mexico called ‘la ley fuga,’” said Peter Negro, an old mining man from Mines Prietas, Mexico, as he sat by & window in the Baldwin Hotel and watched the cars and the people come and go qu Powell street. ‘It is the runaway law for the execu- tion of murderers. The man is escorted out into the hills and then he is set free. But all about secreted in convenient places are armed men who shoot him down before he can escape. They do not hang murderers in Mex- ico. Then they dig a bole and bury the men right where he fell. The whole country is re- markably lawabiding now and this practice has not been resorted to very iately. Thereis little crime, and robbery, except petty thefts, is almost unknown in my part of the coun- try. Minas Prietas is seventy-five miies from the port of Guaymas on the Gulf of Cali- fornia, and is fifteen miles from Torres, & station on the railroad to Guaymas. Every month I make long trips on horseback, often with large sums of money, to pay the men “The money is all in Mexican pesos and I carry it in saddle-bags. Iride alone thirty or forty miles through & mountainous country without any fear of being molested. That is what I mean by saylng there is little crime, It is known, too, that I carry money. The Presi- dent of Mexico has succeeded somehow in se- curing & condition of peace that cannot be found anywhere in this country. “Yes, the Yaqui Indians fight, but I do not ‘mean them. About three months ago Colonel F. Privado met the Yaquis at Round Mountain and there was a regular hand-to-hand fight. The troops were traveling around the moun- tain one way and the Yaquis happened to be coming around the other way. Twelve Yaquis were killed and about twenty were wounded, not including those that may have been packed away by their companions. There are still about seventy Yaquis up in the mountains, about forty-five miles south of Minas Prietas. You see the Yaquis used to control the land along the Yaqui River, a very fertile valley, and for fifteen years now they have been breaking out and fighting to get it back. Well, there are just those seventy left. “Minas Prietas is & settlement of 5500 peo- ple and embraces several mining camps. Eight months In the year we have the finest climate in the world; for the other four months it is a regular hell. The temperature then is 114 and 115 degrees. This year I felt it more than ever before. “I would like to see silver go up, but I think there is too much of it for that. Itcannot rise in value. Mexico is full of silver and there are more mines than ars now known. Yes, there is money in silver mining. When you get fifty or sixty ounces of silver and some gold along with it it pays. Iknow a man over on the Yaqui River who is taking out $10,000 to $12,000 a month in silver and gold; pex haps $2000 of it is gold. “Everything is taken up around Minas Prietas for miles and a good deal of it is no good. The Minas Prietas and the Criston are the two big mines. The outputof all these mines is 300 tons a day right along. All the mechanics, engineers and foremen are Ameri- eans, although the Minas Prietas is owned by an English syndicate. The Criston has a shaft 1000 feet deep and is running two mills—one a forty-stamp and the other a thirty-stamp. It is owned by a Cleveland (Ohio) company.” PERSONAL. J. E. Stubbs of Reno, Nev., is at the Palace. R. D. Stephens of Sacramento is registered at the Palace. W. R. Mitchell, a rancher of Tulars, is at the Cosmopolitan. L. F. Moulton, a farmer of Colusa, is one of the Grand’s guests. N. E.de Yoe of Modesto is among the latest arrivals at the Lick. W. A, Gett, the attorney, of Sacramento, is registerea at the Lick. Ex-Congressman A. Caminetti of Jackson is recent arrival at the Lick. T. B. Richey, a cattleman of Carson, Nev., is at the Palace with his wite. F. H. McCullogh, & fruit man of Los Gatos, is & late arrival at the Palace, Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit of Stock- ton is at the Lick with his wife. F. A. Whipple, a lumberman of Fort Bragg, is making a short visit at the Grand. Robert J. Devlin of Sacramento, the State Prison Director, has a room at the Grand. George M. Hughes, a contractor and builder of Nevada City, is at the Lick with his wife. Ex-Judge J. D. Goodwin, a mining man of Plumas County, is registered at the Oceidental. John Donohue of the big Chicago publishing company is registered at the Palace witn his wife. G. M. Holton of Los Angeles, Chief Deputy District Attorney, is among the guests at the Grand. Dr. W. M. 8. Beatte of Stockton, who has re- cently returned from Honolulu, is visiting at the Baldwin. J. M. Kane and C. E. Heathcote, who are connected with Forepaugh & Sells’ circus, are at the Cosmopolitan. John F.Finn and wife returned to the Palace last night from the northern part of the State, where they have been foran outing. Mrs. Pheebe A. Hearst returned to the Palace yesterday from her ranch near Pleasanton, where she has been for nearly two weeks. M. M. Harris of Wadsworth, Nev., arrived at the Russ last night to be present at the Indian teachers’ convention that opens here to-day. John Muir, the geologist after whom the Muir Glacler in Alaska was named, is at the California registered from Martinez, near ‘where he has a fruit farm, George E. Thermond of Carpenteria, now and for years Superintendent of Schools of Santa Barbara County, arrived at the Lick last night. Though a Democrat in & Republican county he has held his position continuously against all other aspirants. Ralph Hoyt, the .single-tax advocate and veteran journa'is’, at the Baldwin, He says that after to-night’s single-tax meeting at Metropolitan Temple preparations will be made by the speakers to address the people of San Rafael on Thursday evening. Alfred T. Hartwell, who is engaged in the manufacture of supplies in Boston, Mass., ar- rivel at tne Occidental last night in the course of & pleasure trip that may include & visit to Hono.ulu with his uncle, who came up from the islands to meet him here, Charles W. Kilbourn of New Brunswick, N. J., vice-president of the Kilbourn Knitting- machine Company and treasurer of the Mid- dlesex Kuitung Company, arrived at the Palace yesterday with his wife on a pleasure trip. He is for protection, McKinley and the St. Louis platiorm. “WOMEN DO NOT WANT 10 VOTE” It1s often said that the majority of women do not want to vote, but who can say or know the number who ao want to yote? Tens of thousands have openly expressed their wish in the afirmative; still more thousands acknowl- edge that they believe the demand to be just, and that they cherish in secret a desire to have & voice in the electionof officials to govern them, but fear to come out openly because some male relative upon whom they are de- pendent is “bitterly” opposed—this male rela- tive being often a very decent sort of a man. It may be said that these women ought to be braver. Are they, however, less lacking in the “courage of their convictions” than men who acknowledge their belief in woman suffrage, but fear to let it be known on account of sup- posed injury to business or political interests? 1t requires unusual moral courage, as well disinterestedness in a woman, to express opinions favorable to woman’s enfranchise- ment, until at least there is a fair prospect of obtaining it. The comfort of her individual life and her social eonsideration usually de- pend upon the good-will of those who bold the undue power. Women will never express a “general desire” for suffrage until the men ot their littie worlds have ceased to ridicule and despise them for it. Senator H.W. Blair of New Hampshire expresses himself very fully on this point: There are many reasons why some women declare themselves opposed to the extension of suffrage to their sex. Some well-fed and pampered, without serious experiences in life, are incapable of comprehending the subject at all. Vast numbers, who secretly and earnestly desire it, from the long habit of deference to the wishes of the other sex, upon whom th are so entirely dependent while disfranchised, and knowing tue hostility of their ‘“‘protec- tors” to the agitation of the subject conceal their real sentiments and the “lora” of the family referring this question to his wife, who has heard him sneer or worse than sneerat suffrgists for half a lifetime, ought not to ex- pect an answer which she knows will subject her to his censure and ridicule or even his un- expressed disapprobation. George William Curtis, the editor for so many years of the “Easy Chair” in Harper’s Monthly, touched upon the same point in his genial, witty way in one of the last issues be- fore his death. He gives a supposititious con- versation between an elderly wit and a comely young woman in a crowded omnibus, the wit having asked his son, sitting in his lap, why he did not get up and give the lady his seat. If the comely maid had suddenly and sweetly asked the elderly wit whether he was a true American, and believed that taxation and representation should go together, he Sotia Rave piomitty rpled *YesNa s> But if she had then whipped out her logical rapier and thrust at him the question, “Are you, then, in favor of giviug me & vote?” his cleverness and his courtesy would hayve blended in his rugly, “Madam, when women demand it they will have it.” It is the uni- versal reply of the ingenious patriot, who is aware that the argument is against him, but who is still unconvinced. Mr. Curtis then makes the comely maid bring forward in rapid successjon the queries: ‘‘Has it been the general custom of Legislatures to wait until everybody interested in a reform asked for it before granting it?” “Whether imprisonment for debt was abolished because poor debtors as a body requested it, or becavse it was deemed best in the general interest that it should be abolished”; “Whether hanging for stealing a leg of mutton was renounced be- cause the hapless thieves demanded it, or be- cause Romilly showed that humanity and the welfare of society and ot respect for law re- quired it”; ‘“Whether the slave trade was stopped and the West Indian slaves emanci- pated by England because the slaves peti- tioned, or because Parliament thought such reforms desirable for the interests of Eng- land.” But, even if a large number of women do not desire any change In the constitution, that would be & very bad reason for withholding the elective franchise from those who desire it. Senator Blair says: If the right (of suffrage) exist at all itis an individual right, and not one which belongs to a class or to the sex as such. Yet men tell us that they will vote the suffrage to womeu whenever the majority of women desire it. Are, then, our rights the property of the ma- jority of the disfranchised class to which we may chance to belong? What would be said if t were seriously proposed to recall the suffrage from ail colored or from all white men because & majority of either class should decline or for any cause fail to note? I know that it is said that the suffrage is a privilege to be extended by those who have it to those who have it not. But the matter of right, of moral right, to the franchise does not depend upon the indiffer- ence of those who possess it or of those who do not possess it to the desire of those women who wish to enjoy their right, and to discharge their duty. If one or many choose not te claim their right, it is no argument for depriv- ing me of mine or one woman of hers. From all points of view, the argument that women 40 not want to vote proves to be no ar- gument at all, because if the right to vote is gained they can exercise it or mnot, as they choose. It is not a comipulsory exercise of power on their part. It is not' proposea to “force suffrage” upon any one, but only to give every qualified woman the option or not asshe pleases, just as a qualified man has the option. Aad which is the more creditable to womanhood, the attitude of the suffragists who say, “Let each woman do as she chooses,” or that of the remonstrants, “Make all women do as we choose”? It seems fitting to close with another quota- tion from the “Easy Chair”: “The fabled stream that sank from sight and emerged far away, still flowing, isan image of the course of all progress. The argument which establishes the reason the benefit of reform does not, therefore, at once establish it, still less complete it. There are obstructions, de. lays, disappearances; but still the stream flows, seen or unseen, still it swells, and reap- “patriotic and conscientious citizens to make common cause in resisting the proposed de- basement of our currency, the degradation of our country’s honor,apd in upholding the continued supremacy of law and order—the strongest pillar of free government.”” Suc uent and patriotic appesls to the ence, honor and self-respect of tha ople cannot fail of their desired effect. Wil. m McKinley speaks from his heart and con. sequently reaches the hearts of his hearers, He speaks in_the language of Lincolu, and, like Lincoln, he will prevail with the great body of the American people, who have never gone wrong and never will go wrong on any supreme issue involving the safety and honor of the Nation MR. BRYAN AND HIS METAPHOR, New York San, One thing is tolerably certain: Bryan will not bring nis crown of thorns to New York. Congressman McCall of Massachusetts might . hafipen to be in the sudience. It would be awkward for a candidate for President to be caught with a stolen metaphor about his per- son. col DIMPLES AND WRINKLES. The deepest of dimples to wrinkles have run Since Mary was twenty and I twenty-one; But dimpled or wrinkled, my sweetheart's the same, From the sunburst of life to its last little flame, The cheeks that were roses areshrunken and pale, But thelr velvety purity never will fail; ‘And lips that were flushed with the red blood of outh Are Warm with a love as undying as truth. The blue of her eves is fading to gray, And the gold of her hair Is silver to-aay : But the soul Is the same thal was orbed In the blue, And silvern is golden when love lights the view. And, dimpled or wrinkled, a blush will confess The happiness born of a lover's caress— g For the heart of a woman 13 tender as true And the passion it cherishes ever is new. With Mary at twenty and me twenty-one, Than dimples nsught sweeter was under the sun; With Mary st sixty and me sixty-one, Why, dimples were made so that wrinkles might Tun, CLARENCE OUSLEY In Texas Siftings NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “I suppose,” sald Willie, as he saw a fricas. seed chicken for the first time, “that if a hen laysan egg, & fricasseed chicken would lay a scrambled egg.”—Harper's Bazar, Lafayette Parke—So Measurer lost his situs. tion in that dry goods store? 3 Ellicott Squeers—Yes, he was too brusque, They looked on him as a counter-irritant, Buffalo Times. “You do not join us in any of our little par. ties, Mrs. Schermerhorn. Are you husbanding your time here?” “No, but I am husbanding my three daugh« ters.”—Town Topics. Mammea—I think the baby isgrowing very fast, don’t you? Papa—Decidedly. I thought he welghed three pounds moreat 4 o'clock this morning than he did at 2.—New York Truth, Doctor—My dear madam, I can do nothing whatever for you. Lady—Graciouns! me? Doctor—Nothing.—London Tit-Bits. The sweetest peach The highest grows; The sharpest thorn Lurks near the rose. What is the matter with But no man any Pleasure reaches ‘Who shuns the rose Or scorns the peaches. AL Constitution. CHILD'S NIGHT DRAWERS. For midseason wear, where flannel is dis- carded, outing flannel is used by many for this sensible garment. Heavy cotton or drill are the most sensible of the white goods, but for liitle tots of two years lighter muslin is used. Centon flannel is much liked, and agood uality wears indefinitely, but many mothers clothe children in flannel night robes the year round. If mothers would insure themselyes against sewing buttons on continually, they should use the bone buttons provided with two slits, that are put on by means of a stout tape. —_— ScHOOL Books Exchanged, King's, 15 4th st. * —————————— TowNsEND'S famous broken candy, 2 1bs. 250 ———————— TYPEWRITER agency moved. Smith Pre- mier Typewriter Agents, L. & M. Alexander, moved to 110 Montgomery street. . pearing far from where it vanished, moves brimming to the sea.” ELIZABETH SARGENT. McKINLEY AS A SPEAKER. New York Mall and Express. It is a noteworthy fact that every speech de- livered by William McKinley in this campaign only serves to more clearly demonstrate the strength of his candidacy and his complete mastery of the great issues now agitating the Nation. It is also evident that the recent speeches of thischampion of protection and sound money have had the effect of cooling off the fiery eagerness of Bryan for & joint discus- sion. The Free Silver-Populistic candidate is beginning to appreciate the fact tbat his top- loftical style of harangue and extravagant rhetorical figures would suffer sadly in com- rison with McKinley’s logical statement of &‘em in the plain language of the wrla Mejor McKinley’s speech to_the delegates of the National Convention of Window-glass ‘Workers waa characteristically strong in argu- ment, perspicuous in style and stirring in appeal. His audience was a typical boay of intelligent American workingmen, represent- ing eleven States of the Union, and connected with one of the great industries of the country. Their spokesman, in addressing the people’s candidate, said, ‘We want the protective prin- ciple restored. We are satisfied with the uality of our dollars, and have no fear as to the volume of our money if the tariff is regu- lated and levied on such principles as best to protect American industries, and to secure sufficient funds to meet the ordinary expenses of government.” This simple and siraightior- ward expression of the people’s wants and needs furnished the text tor lge Major’s cogent. and inspiring response. he ever-alert and always-ready champion of the cause of the people outlined the entire situation and stirred the hearts of his hearers by a few clear-cut and ringing words., He compressed a volume within & single sen- tence by declaring that “the credit of the Goy- ernment, like that of the individual citizen, is best subserved by living within its means, and providing means with which to live,” He summarized the Republican programme as follows: ““To put upon the statute books of the munufi- law under which the Government Wwill collect enough money to meet its expendi- tures, stop debts and deficiencies and ade- quetely protect American labor. This will re- ;?rl‘-: g,unfldnnoo and revive business pros- ity He declared for an unequivocal maintenance sound money and elo’gnenfly called on all ————————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. ———————— He—I never look at you without thinking of & menagerie. She—Sir! . #Your dear face and tapir fingers, you know. Cincinnati Enquirer. et S AR Cheap Excursion to St. Paul. The Shasta route and the Northern Pacific Rall- road has been selected as the official route to at- tional Encampment of the G. A. B. at St. Paul, to be held there September 2 to 5. Tha excursion will leave San Francisco and Sacra- mento August 26 at 7 P. M. Rates $67 90 for thy round trip. The above rate isopen to all who wish 1o make the trip East. Send your name and ad- dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Markei treet, San Francisco, for sleeping-car reservailond. —— e Are You Going East? 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