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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDQE, Editor snd Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Dafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 Dsily and Sundey CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 8.00 Daily and Bunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sanday CaL, one year, by mall. 1.50 W ERKLY CALL, 0né year, by m: 150 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on & vacation ? It 9, it 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your sddress. Do not let Jt miss you for yon will miss ft. Orders given to the carrier or left at Office will receive prompt sttention. NO EXTEA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telophone.. ..Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. BRANCH OFFICES: $20 Moutgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkia strest: open until 9:80 o'ciock. 6W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open untfl 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until § o’clock. 116. Minth street; open until § 'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway, EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 84 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. Main—1874 ..... AUGUST b, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ] PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Obio FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of Rew Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. “Gorman and reform’’ is the latest bray of the donkey. We might as well allow the Democrats to claim Alabama. They have the count. We have observed no Democrat this year in the attitude of pointing with pride to anything. Free coinage is the only plank in the Chicago platform that Bryan talks about, but there are vthers. ‘We fooled them with free trade, say the Democratic bosses, and now watch us fool them again with free silver. The news from Alabama i3 not of a character to add anything to the joy of the Populists in fusing with Democracy. There was a time when Bourke Cockran was a hero in the Democratic drama, but they are now calling him a heavy villain, The workingmen of the country have had enough of free trade and free rest and now they will vote for protection and work. Findmg that all business men are de: serting the party the Democratic organs have begun to denounce every man of property as a plutocrat. It goes without saying that if Gorman gets his hands on the Democratic cam- paign funds it will be a boodie canvass for the Maryland machine. It will not be long before California will add to her world-beating glories the big- gest sugar refinery on earth and the profit of it will be as great as the glory. Every man interested in California in- dustries, and all who honor the men who promote 1industry, will find no little satis- faction in voting for Claus Spreckels as a Presidential elector. Gorman is willing to bandle the Demo- cratic campaign provided he is permitted to do it from a back seat. He doesn’t in- tend to put himself in front where there is danger of getting hurt. A nine-year-old boy has offered his ser- vices to the Republican National Commit- tee to debate the money question with Bryan, and now the campaign is certainly in good shape to begin. The campaign at one time threatened to be very complicated, but it is now becom- ing one of the simplest issues between prosperity and disaster that we ever had submitted to the people. When the full meaning of the Chicago platform is understood by the people there will be hardly a single State in the North or the West that can be counted surely for the man who standson i The people know there was never any trouble about maintaining the gold re- serve in the National tieasury solong as we bad a Republican tariff tosupplya reveuue to the Government. A nation with a deficit revenue never has good credit in the world, and that is one of the reasons why capitalists have exported gold from the United States dur- ing the Cleveland administration. Business men of all parties are coming togetber this year and McKinley has the satigfaction of knowing that not only does he represent all the industries of the country, but ds being supported by them all. WG TR The men who are leaving the Demo- cratac party are not all of them advocaves of the gold standurd. Many are leaving it because it stands for free trade and many more because of the attack on the Su- preme Court. 1n many States the Populists have good cause to be unhappy, but in North Caro- lina they have a soft snap, for both the Republicans and the Democrats offer to fuse with them on the electoral ticket, and if they accept both offers they are bound to win no matter what happens. A lesson for all Californians is to be found in the proposed establishment of the biggest sugar refinery in the world at Monterey. To make that enterprise suc- cessful nothing is needed but protection from the competition of foreign cheap labor, and that will be assured by the elec- tion of McKinley. FASE AN You can keep your Eastern friends posted on California topics by sending to them Tre WeekLy CaALy, which is dis- * tinctively illustrative of the West and its peculiarities. The news of the West, the {arms, the mines, theorchards, the homes, all receive attention in every issue, and the number which appears this morning will be found interesting to every reader.- LAWLESS DEMOQRAQY. By the incessant beating of their free- silver drums the Democrats and such Populists as they have managed to entice from the middle of the road are trying to distract the attention of the people from other features of the Chicago platform which are worse even: than the demand that the remonetization of silver shall be intrusted to the management of an inex- perienced orator dominated and controlled by men like Altgeld, Tillman and Peffer. These frantic attempts to mislead the veople are not likely to avail much. A long compaign is before usand every voter will have abundant opportunity to study the Chicago platform as s whole. Atten- tion will not be directed to the free coin- age plank to the exclusion of every other plank. Workingmen will be reminded that the platform declares for a continu- ance of the Clevelana tariff policy and de- nounces protection to American industry and wages. Men of capital will be re- minded that it declares for the odious in- come tax and calls upon Congress to take steps to procure a reversal of, the decision of the Supreme Court against that unjust taxation. Good citizens of all classes will note that the right of the Federal Govern- ment to suppress riots that endanger pub- lic property is denounced, nor will they overlook that the denunciation of the Su- preme Court is followed up in another plank by a declaration against the prin- ciple of life tenure in oftice, which strikes a blow at the constitution itself and threat- ens one of the bulwarks of the Govern- ment. In all of these planks are to be found traces of that discontent with American institutions which savors of lawlessness and threatens anarchy. The industries, the money, the laws, the courts, the Gov- ernment and the constitution of the Re- public are all assailed more or less directly in this extraordinary platform. An at- tempt to carry it out would mean a grave disturbance of oar whole political, indus- trial and financial system, and success would be nothing short of revolution. Nor can there be any doubt that the men who controlled the convention and framed the platform intend to carry it out if they can. The rhetoric of Bryan was fashioned of fair seeming words, but in the speeches of Tillman and Altgeld no attempt was made at concealment. It was on their part a distinct declaration of an intended war against property and law. The conservative element of the Demo- cratic party has taken due note of these revolutionary declarations. The men who are leaving the party are not all of them advocates of the gold standard. Manya free silver Democrat refuses to support a platform of such measures when intrusted to such an irresponsible man as Bryan. Thus itis that all the better elements of the people are coming together in this campaign. It isin the fullest sense a con- test of law against disorder, prosperity against disaster, and he bas but little patriotism or poor intelligence who does not see which side he should take in the conflict. REPUDIATING BRYAN. There isa stampede of old-line Demo- crats to the support of Major McKinley at Los Angeles, but ‘for this campaign only.” The men who are going to sup- port the Republican ticket deny that they have deserted or intend to desert the Demo- cratic party, but they claim that as the machinery and organization of their own party has been captured by men who are not Democrats, they deem it their duty to join hands with the party that stands the best chance to annibilate the captors of their organization. It is not tha¢ these bolting Democrats have changed their political opinions, but they are business men engaged in business enterprises, and they see that unless Bryan is turned down there will be a panic, just as Bryan him- self says there will be if he is elected. But what is true of Democrats in Los Angeles is true of them in all the trade centers of California. They are not talk- ing much, but when asked they do not hesitate to say that no self-raspecting Democrat could countenance Bryan’s pro- posed attack upon the Supreme Federal Court nor any other of his communistic theories, and that as a business and as a patriotic proposition the wise thing to do is to help the Republicans drive the Bryans and Altgelds into political oblivion and then rescue and reinstate the old Democratic organization with true blue Democrats on guard. Not a few Democrats regard a coalition of the old timers of their party and the Republicans as the surest and safest way to recapture their own organization and meanwhile to prevent the economic mon- strosities of the Bryans taking more defi- nite shape than threats. Itisa mistaxe to suppose that Democrats of the old school are coming to the support of Major McKinley for the one reason of Brran's position on the money question. They regard his threat of a sectional adminis- tration, his threat to revamp the Supreme Court on Populistic lines ana his threat to bave the civil service law repealed so that his henchmen may be provided with fat offices as far more dangerous to the com- merce and industries of the country than his monetary system. It is because the platform upon which Mr. Bryan stands is hostile to the traditions and principles of Democracy and therefore un-American and dangerous that Democrats are going to help the Republicans send him into everlasting defeat. THE ALABAMA ELECTION. Alabama goes Democratic by an im- mense majority, while the Populists show a surprising weakness. However, the campaign was one of men rather than of principles, and in no sense did the Na- tional issue exert any influence for or against either party. The manufactuning districts went Democratic in the face of the fact that the majority of the voters are protectionists. The counties which have a large negro vpopulation rolled up Democratic majorities, but to what extent the tissue ballots and other methods to se- cure majorities for the Democratic candi- dates were employed would be hard to say, though it would be quite safe to assume that the negro vote was manipulated with- out the voters being consulted. The Silver Demacrats are claiming it as a Bryan victory, but it is nothing of the kind, noris it an anti-Bryan victory. In State elections in the South the Demo- crats are united. Thy want the loaves and fishes and the exclusion of the negroes from public office. On these two propo- sitions all local electipns are held. Nat- urally the neyro vote is Republican, but as between the Democratic and Populist party the average negro would side with the former. The wealth and the aristoc- racy of the South are not found in the Populist party, and as a rule the negro will bave nothing to do with ‘‘poor white trash,” and that is the reason he does not care much whether there is truth or not in the charge of election frauds when the charge is made by Populists. The majority which the Democratic ticket received is not, however, a reliable indication as to how the State will go at the Presidential election, but it may be accepted as the fact that there will be no fusion of Populists and Democrats. The Democrats will now believe themselves strong enough to paddle their own canoe, which will tend to intensify the already bitter feeling between them and the Popu- lists, and the consequence is likely to be a coalition between the Populists amd the Republicans, the latter making the deal to add strength to their lines ana the former to get revenge for Democratic inso- lence and perfidy. Should such a deal be made the State could be put down as re- liably Republican at the November elec- tion, for all the sound-money Democrats could be counted upon to either support McKinley or the middle-of-the-road Dem- ocratic ticket that will be nominated next month, And, again, the manufacturing districts which gave Democratic majori- ties at Monday’s election are very sure to go equally as solid for McKinley on the ground that he is for protection and Bryan is not. SEEKING A PANIC. Itisto be hoped that Mr. Bryan will mount the hustings and not leave them until the evening of the day of election. He can be trusted to prove by his own words that he would be a very nn- safe man to direct the affairs of the Nation, In one of his recent “impromptu talks,” as his friends call them, he said, referring ¢o the remonetization of silver independent of the commercial nations: “I think it will cause a panic. But the country is in a deplorable condition, and it will take extreme measures to restore it to a condition of prosperity.” Ex-Governor Davis of Rhode Island, an admirer and supporter of Bryan, is in ac- cord with the Democratic candidate. He said the other day that the adoption of the policy to open the mints to the free and unlimited coinage of silver without waiting for the co-operation of the nations would cause ‘‘a great business panie,” “but,” he added, “when the panic was over there would be a readjustment of values and much greater prosperity.”’ A business panic is the fruit of the seed of hesitation and doubt when planted by the hand of suspicion. Therecould not be a business panic until confidence in the ability of debtors to pay their bills had been withdrawn. Panics come of fear. A business panic comes when capital fears for its safety and goes into hiding, The integrity nor the willingness of debrors to pay do not enter into the question at all as far as capital is concerned. Capital never becomes suspicious, however, except. when a radical departure from true and tried business methods is threatened. Now what Mr. Bryan means is that upon the introduction of his untried and at best doubtful monetary theories into the busi- ness situation a panic would follow, but the situation is bad any way, and extreme measures of a diametrically opposite char- acter to those in operation before confi- dence was lost in creditors’ ability to pay would restore confidence ultimately and induce the return of prosperity. A quack doctor said it he could throw the patient into fits he believed he could cure him of the disease prover, but the fits so aggra- vated the original ailment that the man died. This country has been in the hands of a quack since March 4, 1893, and all business men know how slowly and hesita- tingly trade and traffic moves in the arter- ies of commerce. Mr. Bryan is to be commended for his honesty when he tells the people that his election would cause a panic, but he is not to be commended when he says extreme measures, such as plunging the business of the country into a panic, are necessary to restore it to & condition of prosperity, for he knows it is not true. If Mr. Bryan is even a fairly close observer he must see that commerce, which has been 11l ever since Cleveland undertook to dosctor it, grows weaker whenever the suspicion that there is a chance of his election haunts the channels of trade, and that commerce begins to grow better and stronger when assurances are given that Bryan will not be allowed to dose it with his compound. No, the people will not accept Mr. Bryan’s plan to start a business panic as the safest and surest way to prosperity. But it is to be hoped that Mr. Bryan will keep on “educating” the people in his theories of government. It will do them good to know what to expect if ne is elected. RATIOS AND VALUES. The adoption of a monetary syvstem on the basis of 16 of silver to 1 of gola is an admission that gold is sixteen times more valuable than silver. But by what author- 1ty is that particular proportion adopted? It is not the market proportion of the metals, hence there would be just as much reason in making the proportion 8 tolas16tol. Inadmitting that gold is always the 1"’ or basis for measuring the value of silver, admission 1s made that it is the market value of the “1’’ that gives it the right to fix the proportiot, and it is also an admission that any ratio that is not fixed by the metal markets1s an arbi- trary proportion, or, in other words, fiat comes in when the ratio isnotin harmony with the difference the metal markets make. It follows, therefore, that if we are to have free and unlimited coinage of silver without reference to the market propor- tion of values there would be more sense in making the ratio 8 to 1 than 16to 1, for then not only would silver bullion be doubled in value, as compared with 16 to 1, but the coin would be very much more convenient to carry. In either case the Government's fiat makes good the deficit in the market proportion, and if the Gov- ernment has the authority and power to make good one ratio by fiat it has the au- thority and power to make another good. It is a mistake to suppose that money controls the price of merchantable articles. It does nothing of the kind, but the mare ket controls the price of the article (metal) that money is made of, and the metal that has the same value as bullion as it has as coin is necessarily the ““1’’ which establishes the proportion or ratio, but only when not established on the basis of the market proportion is the fiat of th Gnvernment employed. Hence, as we have already said, if the market propor- tion is to be abandoned, and a ratio estab- lished by fiat, 8 of silver to 1 of goid would be far better than the heavier dollar of 16 tol. But would the difference between the fiat ratio and the market proportion be made good in fact by the Government commanding that it be so? There is no doubt that so far as the local trade and commerce of the United States are concerned the Government's fiat could be enforced, but it so happens that we have enormous and most valuable commercial transactions with other na- tions. We of America know it to be a fact . that were we to “fiat” '8 to 1 silver dollars the people of other nations would accept them for only 27 cents each, and that if we were to make the ratio 16 to 1 they would be received for only 54 cents each, because we had ignored, the market proportion. The consequence would be that we would have to do our foreign business on the *1"" basis, permit our silver dollar to be taken at the market proportion,-or quit doing business with outside people. v Now, the plan of the Republican paity is for all the nations that are doing busi- ness with the United States to meet and establish a proportion which shall place silver and gold side by side upen their own merit, with equal purchasing power and to be interchangeable merely upon in- vitation. That is to say, adjust the ratio 50 that the one would be as acceptable as the other without compulsion. That wouid be bimetallism. PERSONAL. Dr.G. A. Hare of Fresno isslate srrivalat the Lick. J.W. Belknap of Stockton is 8t the California ‘with his wife. H. A. Martin of Santa Ross is a guest at the Cosmopolitan, George Wilson and wife of Santa Cruz are at the Cosmopolitan. J. J. Hebbron, g catfle-raiser, isat the Grand, registered from Salinas. Ira Crane Boss of the City of Mexico arrived at the Palace yesterday. D. C. Morgan, a mimng man of Sacramento, is registered at the Lick. J. W. Mason, a planter of Olas, Hawaii, is staying at the Occidental. Dr. J. W. Trueworthy and wife of Los An- geles are guests at the Grand. J. P. Vandenburg of West Virginia is among the arrivals at the California. John F. Gilmore of London arrived at the Palace last night from the East. John M. Maxwell, a miniog man of Lead- ville, Colo., is at the Occidental. Frederick Cox, a banker of Sacramento, is making a short stay at the Grand. E. H. Vance, proprietor of the Vance House at Eureka, is 8 guest st the Grand. Lieutenant J. H. Lee Holcomb of the United States army is & guest at the Palace. James Woodbun, a merchant at Sacramento, t00k & room at the Grand yesterday. - Frank H. Buck, the Vacaville orchardist, is one of the late arrivels at the Palace. C. O. Bennett, a merchant of Stockton, is one of the recent arrivals at the Grand. H. E. Adams, manager of the Stockton gas works, is at the Grand on & business visit. J. B. Peakes, proprietor of the Yosemite House of Stockton, is a guest at the Paiace. Frank Bartlett, the contractor of Livermore, is among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. G. W. Beakman and R. B. Brown, orchardists ot Lower Lake, are guests at the Occidental. L. T. Hattleld, lawyer and Assembiyman of Sacramento, is making a briei stay at the Lick, Dwight Hollister, a large orchardist of Court- land, is one of the latest arrivals at the Grand. W.J. Niggeman, a lawyer of St. Loujs, Mo., arrived at the Occidental yesterday with a party. Professor 0. P. Jenkins, head of the depart- ment of physiology at Stanford University, is at the Lick, 0. McEntee and G. Crellon, who are inter- ested in Idaho mines, are registered at the Cosmopolitan, Mrs. J. H. Whited of Dunsmuir, wife of Divi- sion Superintendent Whited, is at the Grand ‘with Miss Whited. W. H. McKenzie, the Fresno banker, arrived at the Lick yesterday with his wife and Alfred McKenzie of Fresno. Thomas A. Farr, a manufacturer of hardware in New York, {8 making the Grand his head- quarters for a few days. Colonel John T. Harrington of Coluss, a member of Governor Buad’s staff, is registered at the Lick with his wife. Dr. F. W. Bliss of Santa Cruz, who is & mem- ber of the State Board ot Dental Examiners, is in the City for a few days. J. M. Morehead of Santa Clara stopped at the California last nighton his way to the Peta- luma races, in which some of his horses are to compete. o Y. M. Pollie of Chewaws, Or., arrived from the Northwest last night and went to the Russ. He has come to attend the teachess’ convention. Allen B.Lemmon, editor of the Santa Rosa Republican and a delegate to the National Republican Convention, registered at the Cali- farnia yesterday evening. John M. Vance, who is interested in lumber- ing near Eureka and who is also connected with the railroad from Eureka to Arcats,is visitink at the Grand with his wife. Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Flint Jr. ofSan Juen returned yesterday from an extended Eastern trip which took him as far eastas Maine. He is registered at the Grand. Colonel John Lane of Spokane, Wash., chief of the Indian Supply Warehouse in this City, returned to the Occidental yesterday, bringing his wife and daughter from the Northwest. Frank Lincoln, the humorist, who has just concluded a series of appearances at the Chau- tauque assemblies of the Pacific Coast, has arrived at the Baldwin for a few weeks prior to & second tour of the world. W. D. McDonald, cashier for thélast six years of the First National Bank of McMinnvilie, Or., arrived here yesterday on his way to Sen Diego in search of health. He says that he feels sure that McKinley will carry Oregon. Mr. McDonald is at the Lick with his wife. State Treasurer Levi Rackliffe of Sscramento returned from Bartlett Springs yesterday and will remain at the Grand until Saturday, when he will start for home. Mr, Rackliffe says that protection for California isan issue much more important than the silver question. J.F. Graham, accompanied by his wife, ar- rived from Portland a few days ago to spend a well-deserved vacation in this City and vicin- ity. Mr. Graham is the general master mechanic of the Oregon Railway and Naviga- tion Company. He isstoppingat the Lick, Miss Beatrice Harraden of London, the author of “Ships That Pass in the Night,” re- turned to the Occidental last night with her companions, Mr. and Mrs, John A. Kendell of El Cajon, San Diego County. The invalid author is apvarenty considerably improved in health after her visit in Blythdale. _ 8. Asano, president of the pruspective Japan- ‘ese Orfental Steamship Company, that is to make 8an Francisco, Portland or San Diego its terminus on this coast, left the Palace yester- day evening for San Diego, accompanied by H, 0. Kowa and S. Tymioka, whose fluency in speaking English has aided their chief mate- rially in his conferences here with the powers that be, commercially. H. Habayashi, another member of the party, will follow his com- panions this forenoon. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 4—At the West- minster, F. H. Gorman; Astor—L. R, Hare, R. L. Dunn; Vendome, A.Walter; St. Denis— Mrs. E. Burr, Mrs. L. B. Holman, Misses Burr; Albert, G. B. Cramer; Broadway Central, Cap- tain Franklin; Warwick, Miss L. Royce; Bar- tholdi, W. H. Leahy. Mrs. Barney and two children left the Westminster to sail on the Paris for England, GOOD NOMINATIONS. San Joge Mercury. The nomination of Claus Spreckels as Presi- dential elector from this district is a graceful recognition of the sturdy qualities which have made him one of the most popular eitizens of California, for which State he has performed such splendid service. James R. Luwe, alters nate, is & well-kno ¥n resident of San Jose and a life-long Republican. THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY. : Amador Record. A Russian author announces & new book calied ‘‘Autobiographies of Unimportant Peo- pie.” It would not be safe to write such a book 1in this country; before it could be pub- lished some of the characters wouid be almost certain to have become personas of imporiance, in one or another way. DANGER OF SHIPWRECK. Fl Barbareno. _ The end of the Democratic party may be not yet, but it will have to drum the “faithful’” together pretty soon 1f it hopes to sail through the political seas of 1896 without going to plenll :n & mighty big rock with a silver sheen upon ALLISON GIVES SAFE COUNSEL. Pasadena Star. Senator Allison sounds a note of true Repub- licanism. Heisone of the old guard of the Pparty, 10 whose counsels 1s always found safety, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. DEMOCRACY IN THE PAST. It HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE PARTY OF MISRULE AND REVOLUTION. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Much criticism is indulged in by dissenting Democrats for the couduct of the Chicago con- vention. Itissaid thatit was a howling mob; that it attacked the Supreme Court, and thatit was anti-Jeffersonian. In all of these it was strictly Jeffersonian and Jacksonian. When Hamilton was laying broad and deep the foundation of the Nation upon principles that thanks to the immortal Marshall prevailed Jefferson was receiving instruction in mob- ocracy from the “red-fool fury of the Seine.” He taught the virtue of arraying the masses against the classes. In regard (o the Supreme Court he was bitter in his denunciation, characterizing the courtroom as the cave of Trophonious. About the court he wrote as follows: “The Judiciary of the Unitea States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners con- stantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our coniederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from & co-ordination of a general and special Govern- ment to a general and supreme one alone. * * * Having found from exrerlence that impeachment is an impracticable thing, & mere scarecrow, they consider themselyes se- cure for life; they skulk from responsibility, An opinion is huddled up in conclave, perhaps by a majority of one, delivered as if unani- mous, and w.th the silent acquieccence of lazy and timid associates, by a craity chief i,udge. ‘who sophisticates the law to his mina by tne turn of his own reasoning.” Letter to Thomas Ritehie, December 25, 1820, Jackson wasin accord with Jefferson. When President the great case of Worcester vs. Georgia wasde- cided. The Governor refused to obey the man- date of the United States Supreme Court, and on the threshold of a threatened conflict Jackson said: “John Marshall has made the decision; now let him exccuteit.” So that the Chicago convention can appeal to the fathers for their incendiary utterances and revolu- tionary conduct. BEX MORGAN. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. How THE ENTERPRISE OF CLAUS SPRECKELS WILL BENEFIT THE STATE. MONTEREY, Cal., Aug. 8, 1896. Editor of the San Francisco Call: Kindly allow me space to amplify a little on the cursory remarks time permitted at Saturday’s mass-meeting in Salinas City. The successful launehing of so vast an enter- prise is of more than local interest, as every productive industry benefits the whole com- munity. The turning logse of $17,000 a day in Salinas Valley in good gold coin helps the San Francisco dry-goodq market, the Palace Hotel and the Bsldwin Theater. The farmer’s good times are the good times of mechanic and merchant, prescher and teacher. This sugar industry assists the farmer in so many ways in which Le has looked hitherto in vain for help that its immediate practica- bility seems almost too good to be true. The weak pointin Californian agriculture has been that no rotation of crops seemed possible. The eternal over-production of cereals was the bane both of the farmerand his farm. Low prloel:. and exhausted land were its inevitable Tesults. Every acre sown to sugar-beets helps to diminish the area devoted to cerealsand to lessen the glut in both wheat and barley mar- kets. Every acre in beets means that much land left thoroughly cultivated and free from foul growth for the succeeding crop. More- over, if the beet refuse be fed out to stock on the farm with such additional provenaer as economy dictates, the land may be enriched rather than impoverished, as the actual sugar is derived from the air. The deep plowing re- quired for beet culture is the very thing most of our farmers need, as the same fouror five inches has been turned to and fro for a quai- ter of & century until it has become a wonder that it produces anything at all. Then it furnishes that great desideratum—a means of employing the ;onl.h of the country and gives the farmer a chance to keep indus. trious all through the year. It furnishes food for his stock—succulent food—when such food is not easily obtained 1n California, A ready and a steady market is aiso brought to his very door. He needs the intervention of no middleman, and he knows beforehand juss what price he will get, and when he sells e is sure of his United States gold coin, which, if he wants silver, he ofn change for about two Mexican or Chilean silver dollars and buy himself rich. Then the innumerable employes of the fac- tory create & home market for an immense amount of garden sass and beef, etc., and thus enhance the price of other farm produets. The eccruing benefit to all classes in Mon- terey County will be so ‘great tiat, instead of Claus Spreckels adopting any such undemo- cratic title as was suggested at the Salinas banquet, I think it would be more appropriate to call him the more lovely and attractive name of *Monterey’s Santa Claus.” So mote 1t be. EpwARD BERWICK. LITTLE GIRL'S DRESS. A dainty frock for little girls of 2 to 6 years isshown here. It is designed to wear with guimpes, without sleeves, the dress itself hav. ing bishop sleeves with cape-like tops. A dress of blue and white challis, with trim- mings of bands of white lace, was cool and stylish for a best dress. A gown of mixed wool, of 0ld blue and black, had {mndc of piain blue satin, overlaid with rows of black soutache braid. A blue and pink gingham had bands of pink gingham, embroidered in blue. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. He’s All Right. Fresno Republican. . A mean who applied to a Ban Francisco Judge to be naturalized, in response to a question, saia: “I'd fight for the United States against England and all the rest of the world together, but I couldn’t fight poor Ireland.” The Judge naturalized him, and he dia right. The man who _is loyal to one country will be equally Joyal to another. Mr. Reilly of San Francisco Wi be a good citizen of the United States. How It Will Work. Visalia Delta. The ardent free-silver Democrats think the nomination of Watson for Vice-President was an exhibition of nerve, for it would have made the free-stlver cause stronger to have indorsed both: n and Sewall. They should, however, thank the Populists forgiving them the bigges! . And it looks now as if Mr. Sewall will have to come off the perch, for Watson says he will not. For both to remain will give Mr. McKinley an overwhelming majority in the electoral college. \ Quite Practical, Amador Record. The Chicago man who advocated the forma- tion of “Democratic McKinley elubs” through- out the country didn’t intend to be humor- ous. MRS. STOWE'S SERVILE TO THE NOVELISTS Comment is made ou the work performed by “Uncle Tom’s Cabiu” in breaking down the prejudice against novel-reading. The novel was, prior to the day of Uncle Tom, pretty generslly tabooed by religious pcople. “Uncle ,”” says the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, “brought s change.” To be sure it was with many profound explanations that they read it. They salved their consciences S Tacia They imprassed upon the minds of their friends the moral 4t and Teatures of ‘the work. But they read 1t with delight, the more eagerly doubtless because they had rigidly starved themselves by in- ing from all literary diet of an imaginative character. Clergymen, deacons, devoui wom every clsss of religious minds, rave ously devoured that story. To be sure they had previously read that beau- uiful narrative' about the * Prodigal Son”; but that was a parable. They had read *Pilgrim’s Progress,” but that was an allegory. A novel, pure and simple, was ranked with theater attendance, dancing and card-playing. It was always spoken of by the pious in that connection; but “Uncle Tom" broke the spell. From that day to this novel-reading has been one of the deiights even of evangelical circles. Every large private library contains stacks of fiction. A large proportion of the books in the Sunday-school librariesof our day is com- posed of novels. The popularity of Dickens, Thackeray, Col- lins, Reade, Victor Hugo and other famous writers of fiction gave an impetus to the pas- sion for that class of literature. Those writers never knew, perhaps, how greatly they were indebted for their great army of readers to Mrs. Stowe for breaking the icein thousands of homes that {rozen out every work of fietion before her extradrdinary production appeared. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Austin Corbin has sent word to the New York Park Commissjoners that he will carry oul the iatentions of his 'ate father by sending a herd of buffalo to Central Park. It is rumored that M, James Tissot, the Eng- lish painter, when he has quite completed his plan of illustrating the gospel by his water colors, will enter a Trappist monastery. A woman pilot has taken charge of the trad- ing steamers between Bristol and Cardigan for some years past, and “Betty,” as she is called, is a familiar figure on the Cardigan rivers, The German Empress possesses a unique tea service. The tea tray has been beaten out of an old Prussia helfpenny, the teapot is made outof a German farthing, and the tiny cups are made from coins of difrerent German prin« cipalities. Mrs. Ebenezer Humphrey has presented to the town of Oxford, N. H., the original war- rantissued by King James of England for the collection of the town tax. It was issued to H. C. Gray, King’s collector, and is dated De« cember 31, 1671. L. G. Tait, the golf champion of England, isa #on of Professor Peter Guthrie Tait, who holds the chair of natural philosophy in the Uni- versity of Edinburgh. The professor has writ. ten a treaties on the dynamics of golf ball, which his son has followed in his playing. NEWSPAPER JOKES. He—1I hear that small waists are going out of date. Bhe—TI think not. He—Laura Flagg. Bhe—Yes; poor Laura is getting quite stout of late.—Indianapolis Journal. ‘Who told you? Confectionery and Ice-cream Man — We'll lose ten of our pest customers next week. Assistant—We will? Are they going to Eu- rope for their summer outing? 0; they're going to get married.”—New York Weekly. Sadder Still—For of all sed wordsof tongue or pen,” he murmured, “the saddest are these: ‘It might haye been!"” Young Spooner's lip quivered. “You've never heard a girl say ‘Nit,’ have yon?” he muttered.—Puck. AN ANECDOTE, NOT A FABLE. Fresno Republican. A Democratic Alexander sat down and wept. *‘Why do you weep}"’ asked an observer. “I have captured the Populists, the Silverites, the Prohibitionists and the Union Labor party, and there are no more worlds left ior me to conquer.” “There is the Republican party,” the Ob- server suggested. “Isaid to conquer!” the Democratic Alex- ander indignantly responded; ““why don’t you notice the words that are used in your presence?” ARREST OF A FAKER. New York Fourth Estate. Charles McIntyre was arresf recently for giving the Syracuse Evening Herald and Even- ing News a “fake’’ story about the ‘death’ of John L, Sullivan, He pleaded guilty to the charge, and, aiter & warning, was discharged. The arrest of Mclntyre suggests a novel method of dealing with fakers, and if this cus- tom sball become general there may be g in more than one newspaper office, CRITICIZING METHODS OF THE BENEVOLENT. Stoekton Mail. The height ot 1mpudence would seem to have been reached when the professional un- employed held a convention to protest against the manner in which the money for their re- lief wasto be applied. PATRIOTISM MUST BE PRACTICAL. San Jose Mercury. Patriotism is manifested in many ways, but the Republican who fails to register will not show it in any way. A POOR TUNE, Bodle Mining Index. The Democratic party has stolen Populist thunder and is trying to make a tune out of it, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, CREMATION—R. F. W., City. The body of an adult that has been eremated will leave a residue weighing from three to five pounds. No PrEMIUM—A. 8., Castle Crag, Shasta County, Cal. Coin catalogues fail to show that hv premiuin i offered for either a dollar of 1894 or one of 1895. Los ANGELES—Eddy street, City. According sus of 1890, the ulation of Los fl;’;’ie": ‘:uu 50,395, now i‘;o s claimed that the population of that city is 65,000. “BLUE JACKETS"—D. W, C., City. This de- mint is unable to discover any rlmccl party that is or ever was known as “The Blue Jackets.” ‘WooL, WHEAT—J. A. McM. In 1892 the low- est price for wool was for fall wool from the south, 6 to 7 cents; the lowest price for wheat in 1891 was $1 27} and in 189293 it was $1 38, UNcLE Tox’s CABIN-—S. M. T., City. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” in book form, appeared for the first time on the 20th of March, 1852. It Lad before that appeared as & serial in the Na- tional Era. SIXTEEN TO ONE—J. L., and a Subscriber, City. The term 16 to 1,asapplied to silver, means that in a dollar in silver there shall be by weight sixteen times as much metal as there is metal in & gold dollar. McKmNLey—J. F., City. When William Me- Kinley was Governor of Ohio he was almost financially ruined by the acts of 8 man whose notes he had indorsed. He did not go into in- nlvsn:(. Offers of financial aid came to him from all parts of the Union, but he respect- {fully declined them all, THE CREAMER MURDER—A. R. 8., City. Jen- nie Creamer was murdered in New Haven, Conn., August 6, 1881. Walter E.and James Malley and Blanche Douglass were indicted on a charge of having caused her death and after a trial which commenced April 19 and con. tinued untilJuly 30,1882, they were acquittea, Post AND HALF CENTs—Subscriber, City. No, the Evening Post of this City never was sold for half a cent, When 1t was started, with Henry George as editor, in December, 1872, the paper was sold on the streets by the news- jed In ihe United Siates in 1763 moig st coins - tinued until 1857. ! st Ooémlm—s,kl.. P, Alamedas, Cal. The pres- ent Congress, known as the fifty-for the Senate ahd House of Reprosentetiver 345 Democrats, 287 Republicans, 12 Populists and one lonely silver man, The mmfl'n of the Cabinet do not vote on matters that come be- et s mpasbie sy i S an of Cabinet officers may luvg. s THE FENIAN RA1D—R. F. W,, City. What 18 commonly known as the “Fenian raid into Canada” occurred in 1866. On the 4th of March of that year a mass-meeting was held in the city of New York and threats were made to invade 8. On the 2d of June, Colonel and others crossed the Niagara and entered Canada. On the same day Generals Grantand Meade arrested a number of indi- viduals who were charged with being part of e inyading army.” On the 7th of e dent Johnson issu=d a proclamation in regard to_the raids, and a few daysafter that the whole affair came to an end. NAVAL A¢ADENY—C. C: B., Belmont, Cal. An applicant for admission to the Naval Academy &t Annapolis must be not under 15 nor more than 20 years of age. He must be physically sound, well formed and of robust condition, He is, if accepted, required to sign urticles binding himself to serve in the United States navy for eight years, inciuding the term of probation in the Nwemy. ‘WeppINg ETIQUETTE—M, P, City. Ats wed- ding the groom and bride at the breakfast or dinner, as the case may be, occupy the head of the table, the bride’s mother snould be seated alongside of the groom and the iather along- side of the bride, the groom’s mother should sit alongside of the bride’s father and the groom’s rather alongside the bride’s mother. The bride cuts the cake after the meal. DESERTING' HUsBAND—Postman, City. If a man deserted his wife and unborn child ten years ago, came to this State, murried again without having been divorced, she couM, if the first wife commenced an action within three yearsafter discovering the fact of second marriage, have him prosecuted for bigamy. If he is a resident of this City report tne case to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and he will be made to support his deserted ehild. AsSESSMENT WoRK.—D. W. 8., Robinson’s Ferfy, Cal. . Assessment work on a mining claim must be done within the calendar year after location, and after that within the first and last day of the year. In other words, ifa claim is located on the 1stof August, the first assessment work must be done within the year ending July 31 following.: The next assess- ment work must be doné within the January and the December following the date of loca- tion. Sosays an individual versed in the law. THE ELECTION OF BoNes—W. L., Kingman, Ariz. J. W. Bones was elected on the 22d of January, 1878, to succeed Nathan Porter, & State Senator from Alameds, who died on the 6th of that month. - The Journsl of the Senate of January 80, 1878, says: J. W. Bones was presented at the bar of the Senae by Mr. Curtis as Senator-elect from Ala- meda County, to succeed the late Senator Porter. r. Bones presented his credentlals, wherenpon the oath of office was administered t0 him by Mr. Lewis, president pro tem, of the Senate. CONFEDERATE MoNEY—B. J. C,, City. There no longer being any Confederacy there 1s no one nor anv funds with which tp redeem the notes that were issued by it during the period offthe Civil War. Near the close of the war,whan Jefferson Davis committed the keeping of the treasury chest to General Joe Jobnston, it con- tained, according to that officer’s statement in his narrative of the rebellion, but $39,000 1n silver, a considerable portion of which he took and divided among his troops. A Confederate “greenback” is worth just what un{ one wish- ;‘l;ldnch a curiosity would be willing to give T it. Sorr Baby Cream 15¢. Ib, Townsend's. * e SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and publi¢: men by the Press Clipping Buresu (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * ——————— SANBORN, VAIL & Co. have framed up a large number of pictures to sell at 50c, 7e, $1, $1 50 and $2 each that are calculated to revo- lutionize the pieture trade. Nothingequal to them have ever been offered for double the money. They also have lines of etchings framed up in quarter-sawed oak and white and golds to sell tor $2 50, $3, #3 50 and $4 each that usually bring from $5 to §8 each. These low prices are made by purchasing and mak- ing the frames in lgrge qusutities. Every one is cordialiy invited to see :these new things that are on exhibition and sale at the store of Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . THE BLIGHTING PESSIMIST. Salinas Owl. A loud-mouthed chronic kicker does mare harm in a community than the smallpox. Cheap Excursion to St. Paul. The Shasta route and the Northern PacificiRall- road has been selected as the official route to at- tend the National Encampment of the G A. B.at St. Paul, to be held there September 2/ 5. The excursion will leave San Francisco anu Sacra- mento August 26 at 7 ». M. Rates $67 90 for tha round trip. The above rate is open to all who wish to make the trip East. Send your name and ad- dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Market treet, San Franéisco, for sleeping-car reservations. ———————— Are You Going East? The Atlantic shd FPacific Railroad—Sante route—{s the coolest and most comiortable sume mer line, owing to its elevation and absence of alkali dust. Partfonlarly adapted for the trans- portation of familfes becanse of its palace drawe ing-room and modern upholstered tourist slesping. cars, which run. dally through from Oskiand o Chicago, leaving st a seasonable hour sud la charge of attentive conductors and porters. Tick- etoffice, 644 Market streer, Chironicle bulidiag ‘Telephone, Main 1581. —————————— “Mrs, Winslow’s Soothing Syran' Fas been used ovér 50 years by millions of mothery for thelr children while Teething with perfect sus cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allayy Paln, cures Wind Colie, regulates the Bowels ani isthe best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teeching or other causes. For sals by Drug- gists in every part of the world. Be sure and asg for Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrap. 280 & LOls ——————— i CORONADO.—Almosphers is pertectly drv, ity and mild, being ‘entirely free from the mists come mon furiher north. Hound-irip tickets. by sieame ship, Including fifteen days’ board a: ths Hotal Lol Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 30 perday. APXY 4 Dew moutgomery ., SanFrancisco. ——— AYER'S Cherry Pectoral gives prompt rellef That’s why It excells all other preparations for colds and coughs. . EXTREME IDEAS UNSAFE. Visalia Deita. The mere coinage of a vast amount of silver will not alone 'make it ciroulate abundantly among the people, and if & large amount were put into cirenlation at once it would bedi- verted into the same channels of trade in which all money flows, We could accommo- date & larger amount than we have now, but too great a stock would cheapen it as a surplus of wheat in the markets of the world reduces the price. NEW TO-DAY, SUMMERSHOE SALE. The one event in Shoe Selling this year is our SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE Now in progress. Look at these prices, and come early to avoid the rush. Child’s Pebble Grain Button, stylish and serviceable, sizes 515 to 7145, Sizes 8 w0 1014 . ll-.;‘l"fl‘ p‘l:‘ehhle G;All]: B,ulwlni spring heel, Ladies’ Tan o uate ng heel, sizes 215 to ced to. . ity i diamond- “Button. square toe and ti] egviar 45 Kid Button, spring regular $2 shoe. or Souchern Ties, latest style, pointed toe, regular $4 tie, during this sale only....... Men's Best Husset Calf Lace, Jatest t0e, either narrow, square or ihe new- style round toe, reguiar $5 shoe, durigg this sale only., St Boys’ £chool Shoes, 82 Button Shoes, all sizesup to 6, will be closed out at...... Ladies’ $2 Tan southern Ties, square or pointed toe...... i 2 eee 140 orders promptly filled. ~Cannot ceharges on reduced goods. Send for wfiog’::-‘.w y g sasts 7388-740 Market St. Headquarters for Buckingham & ~ Hecht's Shoe 850 115