The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1896, Page 22

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EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent, SUNDAY...& LAUGUS i CALL SPEAKS .FOR ALL. e e e e e PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESID { WILLIAH McKINLEY, of Obio | FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— | GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey CTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. on are twins, Fusion and conf Where there is harmony of sentiment union comes of itself. and Populism don’t even pretena they will ever be wedded. Read the Eastern weather reports and | rejoice that you live in Californis. The people unite for properity while | politicians try to fuse for, the spoils. i R | { The people may talk of this man or of that, but their eyes are on McKinley. i There may be some uncertainty in trade this year, but there is none in politics. anvass whether to a standstill. - | - | We shall see in this * rhetoric can tatk busine The people would like fewer léssons in money and more money to practice with, While you rest, the campaign for pros- | perity goes on and better times draw nearer. It is the evident intention of the boy orator to make not only a circuit but a circus in the East. Life is short, but fortunately Presiden- tial campaigns are shorter, and we will all survive this thing. Even the caricaturists have had to draw the line at McKinley; there is no way of.| distorting his record. Democrats and Populists may run a cam- paign together, but how could they runa government together ? n 5 . s . | There is no occasion for .a panicky feel- | ingin business. Bryanism is only a wind and will soon blow over. Cleveland not only says nothing, but | sends telegrams to the press announcing that he has said nothing. 3ryan goes to New York like a rocket coruscating on the way, but we all know what happens to rockets. You can never cure the inveterate Demo- crat, and accordingly some ot them are still talking of reviving the income tax. Democrats insist the iariff issue is not loaded in this campaign, but whenever they see it pointed at them they scatter. The gold Democrats are in doubt what to name their party, but the voice of the people will not hesitate to call it Dennis. 1t is well enough to sympathize with the Eastern people over the excessive heat of their weather, but we needn’t sweat about it To the heart of the patriotic and to the mind of the intelligent the record of Mec- Kinley is more eloquent than the tongne of Bryan. Woman®euffrage would nndoubtedly strengthen the cause of home industry, and all who favor the one shonld support the other. If Chairman Jones wobbles a little he is not to be blamed, for it is very hard to carry water on both shoulders while walk- ing a slack wire Every mask behind which the free-trader has tried to conceal himeelf in this cam- paign is so thin thateven dim-eyed people can see through it. ‘There may be some who think a Demo- cratic gold ticket will fill a long-felt want, but as a matter of fact it will be dropped in’as cavity and lost. You will find it an invariable rule that business men are hopeful of prosperity exactiy in proportion as they are sanguine of Republican success. Those who were clamoring for a home market for home industries last year should remember they have a chance to work for it and vote for it this yea It 18 said that Sewall’s stable is finer than Watson’s house, but what pleasex Democracy most is that Sewall’s barrel is bigger than Watson’s brain. The only sabiding sentiment in politics is & patriotic desire for the National welfare, i ple Enow better. and it is that sentiment which inspires the people to support McKinley. The Bryan notification meefing in New York ought to be held in Tammany Hall, as that is the only institution in the city that is giving him any support. Bryan says “‘the people are teaching the newspapers,” and, if so, the papers have learned their lesson well, for very few of them I THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE. Asiae from his distinguished position as his party’s candidate for President, Wil- ham McKinley is a conspicuous character of the times. He is an ideal citizen of the United States by right of lus lofty patriot- ism, true manhood and intellectual strepgth. For more than thirty years he has been promifently identified with his country’s name as soldier or as statesman, and every public trust that has been com- mitted-to his keeping profited by his ad- ministration of it. Mr. McKinley is a natural leader of men, and because his own conduct of life is true and faultless, bis influence is necessariiy for good, whether in social, political or commercial life. That he is ambitious to be President there is no doubt, but who would turn away from an honorable opportunity to be the chief executive of the most powerful ot the nations of the earth? Certainly Major McKinley would Jike to be chosen President of the United States, but his ambition is born of a desire to be in a position where he can put in operation such economic policies as are sure to ma- terially aid all the people in their strife for higher and better conditions of exist- ence. It is ambition to help his fellows rather than ambition to be conspicuous the pelitical and social world. Mr. McKin- ley is not a politician in the common ac- ceptation of the word, but he is a political economist of broad and comprebensive views, and, moreover, his theories'of gov- | ernment include the betterment of the con- dition of every person and every interest in.all this broad land. The evidence that Major McKinley stands close to the hearts and well in the confidence of the peoplé is that more than two years before the St. Louis conventiou | the people themselves selected him for the | next President, and however much Demo- cratic newspapers and orators may try to make it appear that Mr. McKinley owes his nomination to Mark Hanna, the peo- Had the party held no convention at all, Mr. McKinley would stlll be the people’s candidate. The man’s career for a third of a century was known to the people, and the industrial situation was such that the times demanded his services. Mark Hanna did not ‘‘discover”’ Major McKinley, and the St Louis con- ! vention merely obeyed the voice of the { people when it officially commissioned him to lead the country out of the sloughs and marshes of industrial and commercial | staguation. . That Mr. McKinley will be the next President no observer of the signs of the times questions, but it is the strong per- sonality, the honesty of purpose and the splendid record ke has made in the ser- vice of the country that will elect him. Mr. McKinley isnot greater than his party, but his party selected him by command of | the people for its best man to administer the affairs of the whole country. There never was a Presidential candidate who more nearly representea the choice of the | rank and file. Mr. McKinley’s nomina- tion came in answer to the call of the peo- ple, and the people demanded him because his record in private and in public life sat- | isfies them that he possessed the qualities needed to restore.confidence in the busi- ness world, and remove the depressing i fluences which Cleveland’s administrati had caused to settle upon the channels and highways of trade, industry and com- merce. A WORD TO FARMERS. However important farmers may deem the money question, it is very evident that they should be moredeeply inter-‘[ ested in the question of good markets for their produce. It is no fault of the farm- ers of the United States that the bread- stuffs acreage of the other grain countries has been multiplied in recent years. Itis not their fault that their competitors in the gr. consumption markets of Europe till their fields with labor that cost not more than $3 a month for wages and board. Itisnot their fault that such con- ditions have been forced upon them, but the consequence of such competition need not continue if they will assert their inde- pendence of the food-buyers of Europe. The time was when the old country af- | forded the American farmer a most profit- | able market, but that was wben this country was Europe’s chief source of food suppli No such necessity for the product of our flelas exists in Europe to- day. To-day the wheat-grower in Cali- fornia finds that prices for his grain in Liverpool are fixed by the cheaper produc- tion of Argentira and Russia, and he must sell at that price or not sell at all. Russia, South America and Australia can now be relied upon by Europe for not less than 150,000,000 bushels of wheat annually, and very much more when the crop islarger. All this wheat comes in direct compe- tition with the American farmer, and as the cost of production under a pauper- labor system is so much less thsn under the high-wage schedule of this country it follows that our farmers areat a great dis- advantage. But there is a remedy for these ills, We must give capital the needed protection to establish industrial plants all over this country. When plants are established there will come armies of skilled and un- skilled working people to operate them, which will build up communities of con- sumers of farm products. That is all that 1s needed to give our farmers a home de- mand equal to their marketable surplus, There is no reason why a single American farmer shonld have to go to the expense of shipping his grain and provisions to for- eign lands, but if the farmer would have a market right at bis door he must aid and abet the proposition to protect labor and capital that they may be able to establish and maintain a market for him. There must be reciprocal relations existing be- tween tbe tarmer and those who would provide home consumers of his produce. So the whole matter resolves itself into this: If farmers will help to give labor and capital protection against foreign in- dustrial plants and cheap labor American labor and capital will make good markets for American farmers at their own home. The proposition is a simple one, and is easily undertaken, CALIFORNIA MUCH INTERESTED. Over 18,000 men are now working nearly 2500 mines in 34 counties of California; besides there is a small army of prospec- tors ransacking every nook and corner that gives an indication of concealing either one or both of the precious metals. More than twice as many mines are in operation than there were last year and there are more than twice as many men earning good wages. All this is indicative of something. There is no more metal in hiding than there was last year, nor have prices in the metal markets under- gone a change that weuld warrant such activity in the mining industry. ' There is, however,’a more confident feeling in all lines of ‘trade and business, and naturally the mining interest of {he Stete would re- spond to it. - The fact of the matter is, no intelligent man who is not warped by party preju- dice believes otherwise than that Major McKinley will ‘be the next President, and that with thé incoming of his administra- tion the wheelsof commerce will begin 1o ! roll forward over highways of trade and | traffic that are free from obstruction. So sure of it are the people generally that hesitation is giving way to & desire to re- vive all lines of business. Capitalis now willing to seek employment in developing the resources of the State and to widen |and extend enterprises already estab- lished, which in turn would give labor all needed opportunity for profitable and con- tinuous employment. It is believed that California will pro- duce $20,000,000 of gold the coming year, and the same confidence in the future of btisiness conditions which is stimulating the mining ihdustry is bound to promote all lines of legitimate trade overatioas and give such a stimulus to business enterprises and business operations us the coast country has not seen since Grover Cleveland was inaugurated. There is, nevertheless, such a thing as a slip betwixt the cup and tbe lip. This re- vival in business activity which is work- ing its way through all the avenues of mdustry tomes of & well-grounded belief that the principles of the Republican party, which are sound and altogether trustworthy, will be put into operation in the conduct of the affairs of the country in the near future. But.while all the in- | dications certainly point to the election of | Major McKinley, he is not yet elected, nor | will he be unless every man who is inter- ested in having his business enterprise placed upon a sure footing participates earnestly in the work of the campuaign. November will surely come, but it will give no promise of encouragement to business enterprises unless business men see to it that the party of repudiation and sectionalism is routed, horse, foot and dragoons. TARIFF AND IRON. | A further study of the iron question shows that free trade is ruinous to em- | ployer and employe alike in the mining | industries of the United States. | Itisshown by the testimony of experts, | published in to-day’s CarL, that without a reasonable protective tariff American wares are on a par with those of the cheap- labor regions of Furope, and this in- evitably results in a lowering of the wages of American workmen. For such reasons as these the thought- ful citizen will be slow to abandon the safe | ground of protection and prosperity for the uncertain dreams of Bryanism. It was Bryan, more ardently than any other man, who argued for the Wilson bill as a healthful measure for the country. In his most celebrated Congressionai effort Bryan argued for free coal, free iron, free wool and free lumber. TaE CarL has now shown conclusively that business ruin and industrial disaster have followed in the wake of the Wilson bill in every one of these great industries. TRUE CITIZENSHIP. In his speech at Des Moines, Towa, last Friday night, Mr. Bryan uttered a great truth when he said, ‘‘Grave are the re- sponsibilities of citizenship,” but he failed to say that it isnot all of citizenship to | enjoy personal liberty and the protection of property and reputation. True citizen- | ship stands for a government that is an extension of the conditions of an ideal | family life, with the right of every mem- | ber thereof to participate in all accruing | good, and with each one feeling itto be ! incumbent upon him to resist the ap- | proach of whatever 1s calculated to give | one member advantages at the expense of | the community. Citizenship in this country means that the citizen is the sovereign and not those who are chosen from ‘time to time to ad- minister the public affairs of the people as awhole. Citizenship also imposes the duty upon the citizen to join with the other citizens and choose and commission cer- tain ones from among their number to make laws and otherwise supervise and direct the operation of a government which stands for them collectively and which protects them individually, Class legislation deprives the citizen of his sov- ereignty and personal liberty in propor- tion as he is made to sustain a class with- out himself receiving benefit therefrom. But Mr. Bryan has a very different standard by which to fix the duty of citi- zenship. Assuming that he sincerely and truly believes that bis economic theories are based upon the highest and soundest principles of government it does not neces- sarily follow that in practical appiication they would benefit the people in any ave- nue ‘of their social or business life. On the contrary, it is a fact that issubstan- tiated by the experience of civilization that Mr. Bryan’s theories of government in application would encourage a spirit of sectionalism which would culminate in the establishment of favored and unfa- vored classes and the deprivation of the unfavored of the strength of their own citizenship. Mr. Bryan's test of true - citizenship would be unhesitating willingness on the part of the citizen, no matter in what part of the country he might be, to exercise his sovereignty in advancing the best inter- ests of the interior States by unlimited ex- venditure of the general public's money, to the end that the States of the interior might become the seat of the Nation’s wealth and political power. In that Mr. Bryan does not differ materially from the meaning of citizenship as taught by Cal- houn, Davis and Breckinridge, only that he would locate his empire in the valley ot the Mississippi River, which river he would transform into a perfect water high- ‘way at the expense of the whole country. Next to building up the Mississippi Val- ley by taxing the whole country, to help on in the work of confirming the doctrine of sectionalism, Mr. Bryan believes the test of true citizenship to be the entire willingness of the sovereign to aid owners of silver mines to oblige Lke Government to double the price of their product by making about 50 cents’ worth of it ths standard dollar of the country, without guarding the interesis of the people at any point. Mr. Bryan believes acqui- escence in a scheme to make a few mine- owners rich at the expense of the 70,000,- 000 people in this country is evidence of true citizenship. Silver monometallism is what silver-mine owners want, and to do as they want is good citizenship, ac- cording to Mr. Bryan. The responsibili- ties of citizenship are very great, as Mr. Bryan says, and because citizens know their responsibilities to be great they will notlend the rnghts and power of their sovereignty to Mr. Bryan to establish an oligarchy in the interior orin any other sections, or to build up & plutocracy of mine-owners. WEYLER WANTS PEACE. The news comes from Cuba that Weyler and the insurgent leaders are negotiating terms of peace, but most likely it is a rumor of Spanish manufacture. If the friends of Cuba in this country could be made to believe that such negotiations were pending they very naturally would cease gathering up munitions of war and providing ways and means to get them on Cuban soil, and no doubt that is exactly the foundation of the story. The Cubans have bad the best of it g0 far, and there is no resson to believe that they will not ul- timately win, while on the other hand Spain woula not agree to terminate the war without continuing her jurisdiction over theisland. It is possible that. the recent warning proclamation of President Cleveland may have discouraged the Cubans somewhat, but it should not, The proclamation was a mere matter of form, and Cleveland himself did not believe it would be re- spected when he issued it. Moreover. the agents of the Cubans in Spein are doing good work for the cause in the direction of creating the suspicion that Spain is in great danger of a powerful demonstration against the monarchy, which, together with victories in Cuba, ought to inspire the revolutionists with confidence in their ability to ultimately establish a republic. PERSONAL. Dr. W, H. Davis of Los Angeles is at the Grand. Dr. Baird and wife of Riverside are guests at the Grand. J. F. Dunne, the San Felipe farmer, is at the Palace with his wife. Francis J. Cox, an attorney of San Jose, is registered at the Palace, Joseph Dixon, merchant of St. Louis, is at the Palace with his son. D. J. Peters, a merchant of Stockton, is at the Grand with his wife, Dr, Jerome P. Porter of Angels Camp ar- rived at the Lick yesterday. George B. Small, a Sonomea merchant, is reg- istered at the Russ with his wife. H. L. Jastro, the banker of Bakersfield, is making ¢ short visit at the Grand. John W. Mitchell of Los Angeles, attorney, is meaking & short stay at the Palace. J. 8. Williams, a Cloverdale business man, is tered at the Grand with his wife. Ed R. Thompson, a young lawyer of Stocke ton, is atthe Lick on a business visit. Dr. Mary V. &. Glenton of Anvik, Alaska, is one of the recent arrivals at the Occidental. J. E. Walsh, an orchardist of San Jose, is at the Russ, with Mrs. D. Walsh and V. Walsh, Edgar Wallace, a mining expert arrived at the Pelace yesterdsy and registered from Yreka. K. R. Smith, & hardware merchant of Dem- ing, N. Mex., is among the late arrivals at the Palace. Dr. D. C. Clark of Tacoma, arrived here yes- terday on the Bertha from the gold fields of Alaska and went to the Grand. Joseph Bumiller, a well-known young bank- ing man of Los Angeles and brother of the champion tennis player of Southern Califor- nia, arrived at the Palace yesterday with his bride. Among the arrivals at the California yester- dsy were Professor R. E. Allardice of the de- partment of mathematics at Stenford Univer- sity; Dr. H. C. Myers of the department of chemistry, and Professor W. H. Hudson and wife, who have been passing some time at Lake Tahoe. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 8.—At the West- minster—L, W. Sewell; Everett—G. Allejanch; Grand Union—Mrs. L. F. Prior, R. H. Hirsch- man; Murray Hill—, . Reid; St. Denis—Mrs, W. and Miss Plerce; Broadway—Dr. C. G. Stroney and wife; Netherlands—M. Jeinnings. LITTLE GIRL'S APRON. A garment which combines beauty and utility is shown here. It1s made with a short or Gretchen waist, to which the skirt portion is gathered. The sleeve is novel and easily made, having a box-pléat at the top. Any washable fabric may be employed. White dimity, with a tiny edge of Val lace, makes the daintiest kind of &n apron, White China silk is pretty and serviceable. Cam- ‘bric, chambray, gingham, etc., is used for gen- wear. THE BEET-SUGAR INDUSTRY. San Diego Uniov. The beet-sugar industry, in which California is 80 specially interested,is.one that might under a protective policy afford almost bound- less possibilities. As matters are to-day a very large proportion of the sugar consumed in the United States is imported. But with proper encouragement—such as Enropean countries, umhll&GIrmnny and Austria, give to their sugar-makers—the United States should not only supply its home market, but should be a large exporter of this commodity. Mexico, Togaria ot Shipbed Toom Krinon. nd Gor shipped from France and Ger- many to New Orleans and sold on ‘mflrd the steamers to merchants in Matamoras, Mexico, at 33/ cents per pound, the freight from New Orleans together with all duties bringing the Price up to 43{ cents per pound. Of course the fact that the sugar can pa: for 50 long & haul and can undersell the prod- uct of American refineries, is due to the direct aid given to the sugar-makers in the country where it is produced. Under these RS this Sottry e iined e msorsn EE At s pl apparen e United States is excluded kom':uh with its next-door neighbor, and, what is worse, is ‘made dependent upon Eu; for a commodity that can be produced here in Dl‘lflfl(:lu‘ un- limited quantities. To California this subject is of peculiar interest. The beet-sugar indus- try has already made a very substantial be- ginning in this State. The next year or two will unquestionably see the erection of several new factories and an increase of many thous- ;mt;e%v:c::li“ '.fl"fi"}?f"‘ q’fide{n‘d s cy the field Jor the. indus! would be :lmaltybonndla-. o — e NO DOLLAR TOO GOOD. Chicago Chronicle. If there is any kind of a dollar to which labor 1s entitled in payment of wages it is the dollar ‘‘increasing in e.” If there could beany added curse for labor it wonld be & dollar de- creasing in value d as wages. The laborer paid i 00d. cis 106 bonsh of tisGucrency 8% £00d ss g0l e would suffer the constant increasing loss of 113 depreciation while in his pocket. No :}mu t00 good for an American work- GROVER .AND CLOVER. - The Damnumm in the cam 1802 were even larger than they are .lln of 1896. Farmers and = workingmen _generally were .oln%m have four mlh':fll:\ years of *Grover and Clover, to_know yhether c, Thes opght the; t them. They Democratio party, sad tortk relopmt. 10 e e e An authorized expression: of the views of Bismarck represents him as predicting that England must fight Franee and Russia, and as | doubting the ability of the successfully to detend herself Wo poweriul enemies, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. MUSTERING THE FORCES. "BRYAN DEMOCRATS AND POPULISTS ARE TRYING T0 GET TOGETHER. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The true character gnd entire reach of the con- spiracy entered into at the Chicago conyen- tion by General Weaver and his kind of Popu- lists there in attendance ana the silver Demo- crats in control of the convention to demoral- ize and finally absorb the People’s party by bolaly adovting & sort of Populist platform and nominating Bryan as & soft of Populist to fit that platform, may now be said to be pretty well understood by the public. Itwas a wise and deep-iaid scheme, as results abundantly prove. By asly intimation that Bryan was & Populist at heart they gave the gold Demo- crats a uh{nee to fall into their trap and begin to shout that the Populists had got control of the convention, and they did -take up the cry which was immediately proclaimed in reat sensational headlines by all the gold emocratic nam}upen and was repeated and re-echoed by all the Republican journals throughout the couniry. It was a great scheme and it worked well. Indeed, it swept the country as a kind of men- tal epidemic, and by the time the Populisis met in St. Louis in” National Convention so great was the furor over Bryan and silver that straight Populists were ?enly and wantonly denounced in speech and print as traitors to the people and in the pay of Hanna if they even ventured 1o protest against being rushed and stampeded at once and unconditionally into the Bryan camp and submissively takin, orders from General ver, Senator dun an Tom Patterson. But I do not propose to re- hearse the painful scenes of the Populist Na- tional Convention, the most trylng of all being the surrender of Populist “leaders” to the con- spirators and their active zeal in behalif of the conspiracy to turn the P}rulht National Con, vention into a Populist National ratification of Bryan Democracy. It failed, because more than two-thirds of that convention were straight Panlluu who refused to bow the knee to the new Democratic silver Baal, In the hour of apparent triumph of the Bry- anized Populists, with Allen chairman of the convention and Weaver chairman of the plat. form committee, though Weaver had won his place by one voie and Allen, the former idol of the party, had only won his place bya small mljor{ty over Campion of Maine, & man in utter obscurity and unknown to a dozen of the 13 delegates, the great mass of the convention rose as by a com- mon impulse and overturnea the whole scheme of the conspirators by nominating a true and genuine Populist for the Vice-Presi- dency, and thereby gave the conspirators no- tice of what would follow any further attempts to destroy the People’s put;,. But the infatu- ation which then possessed Weaver and his co- conspirators still seems to urge them onina mad effort even yet to make their conspiracy succeed. The Alabama frauds by which it would be made to appear that Populists are losing large uumbers of voters, the refusal of the Missouri Democracy to treat with or even consider the Populists of that State, the foolhardy and un- provoked sneers of Chairman Jones against the Populists of the South, thé contempt ex- pressed for Populists by the great Democratic newspapers and the persistent refusal to con- sider the claim of Watson as the candidate of the Populist convention, backed by an offen- sive partisan zeal on behalf of Sewall, all go to show the determination of Democracy to ove ride and crush down the Populists as a party. But as the comriracy to form & silver De- mocracy and ride into power on the wave of popular disconteni with present oppressive conditions and at the same time get rid of the formidable People’s party by betrayal through its trusted and honored leaders at the St. Louis convention came to naught and failed utterly by the uprising of the mass of dele- gates, so the second atteinpt to destroy the party and consummate the consplracy by Alabama frauds, by ignoring the party’s exis- tence as in Missouri, by lneenns it down, as sttempted by Chairman Jones and by treat{ng it with contempt as practiced by Democratic newspapers, will certainly come to naughtand fail utterly, for I perceive that even in Ne- braska, the home of Bryan and-Allen and Holcomb, the straight Populists in State con- vention yesterday *‘very nearly overgurned all the carefully laid plans for fusion with De- mocracy”’; that in Kan##s there was a two | days’ struggle in the State Convention over fusion in which the straight Populists won about all they claimed; that in Iowa the Weaver fusionists came very near being routed, and that in Indiana the Populists re- fused to come to any terms of union with the Democrats. In the South the situation of the infatuated Weaver fusionists is even more unsatisfactory. Under the astute leadership of Tom Watson the Georgia State Convention has adopted a plan to checkmate the Democratic determina- tion to have Sewall at any cost or loss to Popu- lists, which will doubtléss be adopted by the whole South, namely, to put uponly Brvan and Watson electors until Sewall is withdrawn, and if he is withdrawn they will then give part of their electors for a partof the old Dem- ocratic electors. “We can’t vote for Sewa!ll,” is the cry. There is still another check on the scheme of- the conspirators. It comes from & new quar- ter. Notwithstanding the fact that such “leaders” of the silver Republicans as met in the little silver convention in St, Louis did all they could to help stampede the Populist Con- vention into the Bryan corral by nominating Sewall as well as Bryan, the rank and file of the silver Republican voters are not in favor of returning the Democracy to power even under the leadership of Bryan, but will vote for an honest and honorable session of Populists and silver Democrats. Like all Populists who are notaspirants for high office these honest silver Republicans find Iitle comfort or satisfaction in working with Tammany and Senator Hill for the suc- cess of Democracy; they, in common with ail straight Populists, would rather see McKinley elected, with the certain object lessons whic! would follow, than help to restore a 0on- verted Democracy 1n alliance with Hill and fammany in charge of the Government. These silver Republicans, as a rule, are genuine anti- monn‘xolms and hence they are in accord with Populists, agreeing with them that the rail- roads and the banks should not own and oper- ate the Government, as nnpresem under Cleveland and as proposed b‘y anna. Iconclude with a word of warning to arro- filnt Democrats and the no less arrogant silver epublicans who shout for Sewall and deride Watson. There is a limit to the patience and endurance of self-respecting Populists. Much more than halfof the true Populists feel but 1ittle satisfaction in the presentalliance with men who regard their echerished principles as impractical “isms," and are atrifie too bl in expressing their contempt for these * They gravely question the wisdom of goin; into partnership in the hazardous business o} conducting the Governmeut on such lines as may be found in common between such in- riners. They laok forward to the an adminisiration as would fol- low such unassimilated combination of discordant elements and they have their doubts. Will the end justify the means? Will not such an administration be followed by & reaction which will place the cause for which the People’s party stands ten or twenty years back of where it siands to-day? Iam sure all thoughtful Populists are far less enthusiastic over the present situation than the somewhat over-confident and aito- ther too arrogant silver Republican, and mocratic *'leaders” would be wise in desir- ln]lnlale Populists should be. These over- zealous sticklers for Sewall and the original conspiracy to get rid of the Populists as a party have shown but little political or even common sense in their artitude and utter- ances. They will do well to pause and reflect. 1f they should discourage or disgust 100 many straight Populists, their vaulting ambition will o'erieap itself and fall on'tother side. They will not get these straight Popnlist votes. That means rout and defeat. If they simply stay at home Mr. Bryan will stay at home, too. ‘While I earnestly desire ~honorable union with men o{poud to the rule of gold and monopoly, I have little faith in a union on lver alone, for the moment that issue isen- ted into 1aw the party 8o to pieces for ant of an issue to which all are committed, and for which they will stand together. A failure to secure a broad and honorable union on permanent issues will rest upon De- mocracy with all its consequences, if those be a failure. /OSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. San Franeisco, August7, 1896. —_— WORTHY 07 CELEBRATION. _ Fresno Republican, If Fresno had no other importantachieyement to celebrate’ the coming of the Valley road 'would in itseli constitute a sufficient cause for a public demonstration which would fitly ex- press the buoyancy and hopefulness of public sentiment and giye notice to the outside world thata great step in the industrial history of the community had been taken. Making due sllowance for over-estimate of benefits the saving which will be realized by the producers and consumers of Fresno County through com- tition In transportation will make itself felt dlmtly or indirectly in every branch of in- lus! Various interesting estimates have been made of the lhuéiu in the smount of the old tnilhlélluw the new by reason of the ‘building < The San =g ‘the competing road. 10 be oot%'.':fnmn “;’. A'?;:HT nl:&. dent e et oT i e At Stockron, says that the difference in reason of the operation of the tariff rates of the new railroad will amount to $4,000,000 lnnuu{y. T"'J}'”‘" :Iflm::lon “l; :: L Imou n ! 'm. a'& of ldd.s“vulfll ?:'fll‘ll valley; the an amount equal to 5 per cent the road up to _this point 250,000 annually that wunld‘ have been?;tld out in freight: this | lican at 5 per cent is interest_on £5,000,0 extension be e, for instance, to twenty-five miles, or ome-fifth of 125 miies, the distance from here to Stockton, on the ‘basis made by the Examiner, there would be & saving of 5 per cent on $4,000,000, or $200,- 000; if Ms. Buell’s estimate be correct then there would be leit as the difference annually among the ranchers between here and Reedley reason of the extension of the road , or 5 per cent on $16,000,000, which must be considered as so much added wealth to Fresno Coun\ly. ‘Why not celebrate, indeed? ALLISON AND BIMETALLISM. Chieago Inter Ocean. There is no public man in this country who stands more squarely for the genuine pimetal- lism of the Republican party than Senator Wiltiam B. Allison, or who has had more to do with monetary legislationin this country for the last twenty years. He helped pass the legal-tender act whioh gave us our greenbacks, and the resumption act under which they were made and are now as good as gold, but nis prominence in finance began with the remone- tization of silver, the act as it finall; sed bearing the hyphenated name, Bland-Allison bill, and that with entire pro)pflely. 1t was Senator Sherman’s ill fortune in 1890 to have his name linked with a monay bill that he did not personally approve, but Mr. Allison was thoroughly satisfied with the bill ‘which bears in part his name. Mr. Bland never was, any more than he is now. He was then and is now a free or single silver man, but Mr. Allison was opposed to either single standard. He was always an earnest lnpgorter of the policy adopted by the United States at the first, and never sbandoned, namely, keeping both metals on substantially the same mone- tary basis. And now Mr. Allison has entered the arena of current financisl discussion through aletier to & Republican editor in his State, Harvey Ingham of the Upper Des Momes. He con- cludes the letter with the observation that the silver question is a vital oue ina world-wide sense, and that international bimetallism is making progress in Europe, The greatest ob- stacle in the way of apparent progress has for the last three years been Grover Cleveland. The international conference simply 100k & recess, expecting to convene again in 1893, or at the farthest 1894, but Mr. Cleveland ut the whole matter in the vault, shut the oor, turned the knob, and let no one else have the combination. It is true, however, &s Senator Allison claims, that bimetatlism is making rapid progress in Europe. Itis rea- sonable also to conclude, as the lowa Senator does, that ““if we make no mistake now itis likely to ;rodm:e & practical solution whereby silver and gold will again eirculate at a prac- tical parity in value at an agreed ratio.”” This is a timely message from a statesman of Mr. Allison’s prominence, It1s just the kind of & message to head off the mlsrugre&enunon of the Republican position by those, mostly but not ail Democrats and Populists, who as- sume, if they do ot insist, that the Republi- can party is now pledged to the single goid standard. On the contrary, its triumph atthe polls is necessary to prevent practical mono- metallism. THE BEET-SUGAR INDUSTRY. Los Angeles Times. In 1890, the year before the McKinley bounty law took effect, about 8,000,000 pounds of beet-sugar were produced in this conntry. Of this all but 850,000 pounds were produced in California. Under the stimulus of the bounty the production of beet-sugar rapidly increased, until in 1894 (in wkich year the bounty was repealed by the Wilson bill) the production smounted 10 over 52,000,000 pounds. About four-fiiths of this quantity was produced in California, and the remainder in Nebraska, Utah and Virginia. Nearly onme- half of the product of this State came from Chino. The advantages of this State as compared with other States for the production of beet- sugar as shown by official reports are very great. The average yield of sugar per acre of beets in California was 2838 pounds. In Utah it was but 1491 pounds per acre, in Nebraska 1327 pounds, while in Virginia it was only 1012 pounds per acre, The beet-sugar factories in California are three in number, one located at Watsonville, near Mouterey (the Spreckels factory), one at Alvarado, near Sau Francisco, and the other at Chino. The s\;})erlorlty of Southern Califor- nia as the home of the sugar-beet is manifested by the fact that the average yield of sugar o the acre of beets at Chino was 3611 pounds, as against 2488 pounds at Alvarado and 2432 pounds at Watsonville. The lvern%e propor- tion of sugar in the beets grown at Chino was over 13 per cent, far exceeding any ofper Eer— centage shown in this country, and, probably, unequaled in the world. We import annually about 3,500,000,000 pounds of sugar, in payment for which we send gold out of the country to the amount of $1%6,0W,M. Would it not be better to pro- duce the sugar here and keep this money at home to be paid to_our farmers and laborers ¢ Would it not be desirable to cover Southern California with prosperous villa; l,degending on a crop which has an unlimited home market ? The provisions of the McKinley bill which aimed to do this were ruthlessly re- pealed by the Democrats in the Wilson bill. and now the same party has presented for the suffrages of the people of California a fanatical free-trader and & deadly opponent of all bounties and all protection to home 1n- dustries—which his name is Bryan. Can there be any doubt that the material interests of our people demand the election of McKinley ? NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. She—Dearest, am I the first girl you ever loved? He—Little sweetheart, the man who could look into those trusting blue eyes and tell a falsehood is not fit to live. So prepare your- self to hear the truth.—Cincinnati Enquirer. “Then you look on marriage as only a civil contract?” #Yes; acivil contract with privileges of in- ecivility.’—Indianapolis Journal. Young Mrs. Jack Potts—Why should you hold your club friend accountable for any- thing improper his aunt might have done, Jack? Jack Potts—I—I—I dow’t understand you, Marcella! Mrs. Jack Potts—Why, last night you talked in your sleep, and said: ‘‘I’m sorry, old chap, ‘but you can’t stay unless you make your ante good.”—Brownixng, King & Co.’s Monthly. Bill I. Due—Jones was hit by a live electric wire the other day. Will E. Tumble—Was he huzt? Bill I. Due—Yes, very badly; but the electric company sent him a bill for the electricity he used up, and he was shocked gt the idea of his being charged with electricity.—Up-to-Date. Smith—Who is that young man over there? Sones—That's the husband of Mrs. Jingle- daw, the celebrated authoress. Smith—Ah! And who was he before he was married?—Harper’s Bazar. Stranger—Is there a law in this town against selling liguor on Sunday? 0ld Resident—Yes; but don’t let that worry you, my friend; there’s no law against buying it.—Roxbury Gazette. e PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs, Sidney Lanier, the widow of the late poet, is giving readimgs from her late hus- band’s works, and is meeting with success. Mrs. May French Sheldon, the explorer, has lately been telling Iowa assemblies about her traveis and experiences in Africa, ' It is sald ‘that the serial rights in Mr. Kip- 1ing’s new story have been sold for $15,000, or at the rate of $250 per 1000 words—the Eng- lish rights slone fetching $175. Queen Victoria has only four grandsons who have taken wives unto themselves, namely, the Duke of York, the German Emperor, and his brother, Prince Henry, and the Grand Duke of Hesse, When the Princess of Wales intends to visit photographers she usually arranges that her sitting 11 take place in the morning. A special studio is set apart for the Princess other mebers of the royal family, it ~ Miss Catherine T. Smith has been presented with a gold medal by the French Goemmnt in recognition of her services in establishing and conducting the Jeanne d’Arc Home for Friendless Immigrant French Girls in New York. a —_— A cross of gold for the peninsula campaign, with the gold clasps for “Taiavera,” “Sala- manca,” “Victoria” and «st.Sebastian,” was sold recently in London for $2750. A medal given to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Seymour, who commanded the Twenty-third Light Dra- goons at Talavera in 1809, brougnt $250. It is announced that Bishop Potter, who is now in has been sppointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury s member of the mmittee of arrangements for the Pan-Ang- e nod, which will meet next May in ). _If the Palace. Hoodlyy | LAmbeth 8 E. H. BLAcK, painter, 120 Eddy strest. e e TowNsEND's California glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. in Japanese baskets. 627 Markat st. - ool ¥ 2 pomet Dr. C. O. 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