The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 19, 1896, Page 6

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Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICE: 530 Montgomery street, corner C 9:50 o'clock. 7 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. &W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Minih street; open until 9 0'clock. 3 open untll OAKLAND OFFICE: dway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms S1 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. 'Z, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. —— PATRICTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohfo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. Even in his moments of rest Bryan talks too much. There is no need for McKinley to take the stump; his record speaks for him. Revive American industry and more than half the money tronble will be over. The New Yorkers are having their own fun with Bryan, but he hasn’t sense enough to know it. Reducing the value of the dollar to 53 cents will injure the wage-earner and won't help silver any Democracy y hide itself from the tariff issue, but it can never hide the tariff issue from the people. 1f all that the Democrats promise were good for the people, who could be sure they would keep the promise? Bryan is rolling around in the sunshine now, bat it goes without saying he will strike a frost before November. Bryan taffy may please for a time, but as a permanent thing people would rather have McKinley and prosperity. The home market is the best market for the American producer, provided it is pro- tected from foreign competition. It is possibie that in his secret thought Bryan decided to make his first speech in new York by way of trying it on the dog. The free coinage of silver on the Demo- cratic plan would virtually reauce the wages of svery workingman by fully one- half. 1f Tom Watson submits to Bryan's scornful treatm :nt much longer he will be either niore than human or something de- cidedly less. Some Democrats profess to believe that Bryan will be elected, but none of them can be found going around buying silver on,a speculation. Under Democratic conditions all prod- ucts are necessarily cheap, because no one earns wages or profits enough to buy them and keep the prices up. ¢ Every vital issue of the campaign was summed up in McKinley's terse state- ment: “Better open our mills to the workinzmen of America than our mints to the silver of the world.” The Platte River is over 2000 miles long, but is nowhere deep enough to float a flat- boat, and itisquite appropriate, therefore, that Bryau's speeches should have won bim the title of the Boy Orator of the Platte. Before the campaign progresses much further the people will understand the money question as well as that of the tariff, and then the silver monometallists in the country will be about as scarce as the free-traders. In preparing Bryan’s Chicago speech for ‘use as a campaign document it is said no less than 118 changes were made in the re- vision, and now the question arises whether the document when issued will be the speech that was made or another speech masquerading under an assumed name. The Chicago convention stole the name from the Democratic party and the plat- form from the Populist party; and the men who managed the double robbery now have the impudence to claim that both Democrats and Populists should condone-the fraud by supporting the Chi- cago ticket. ‘Woman’s Republican clubs are expected to do some of the most effective work of the campaign in the East this year, and it goes without saying those of California will be equally helpful. No class of people have a better understanding of the meed of protection to home markets and home industries than do the women who keep the homes. Men who have money in savings banks, men who have life insurance policies, veterans who have pensions, creditors of all kinds, clerks with fixed salaries and workingmen with regular wages will all be suiferers should the Democratic policy of sitver monometallism be carried oui— unless, indeed, it should be carried out on a stretcher in November and buried. The proposed raising of the assessment of San Francisco by the State Board of Equalization is something in the nature of an outrage and the evil is all the greater because the Board of Supervisors having allowed rich corporations to shirk their taxes, the increased burden will {all wholly upon thie honest taxpayers, many of whom are already taxed as heavily as they can bear. McEINLEY AND WAGE-EARNERS TUndoubtedly the managers of the Re- publican campaign know their business. While the Democratic managing commit- tee is “‘running a show’’ with Bryan as the chief attraction, McKinley clubs are being formed wherever there is an industrial vlant or other business enterprises that give employment to men. It is doubtfut if such enthusiasm was ever before seen in labor circles this eariy in the campaign, and what is more, the request for organ- ization comes from labor. *“McKinley clubs,” numbering a thousand or more members each, are being organized in all the Eastern and Middle States business centers. There is no beating of drums or “I'm bound to blow my horn if I don’t sell a fish,” but simply & burning desire on the part of wage-earners to help bring about conditions that will secure to them steady employment at satisfying wages. It is business with them. They have had a hard time to live during the last two and a half years, and they are satisfied that there can be no change for the better untit the cause which bhas brought all their troubles upon them is removed. For two and a half years the Wilson-Gorman tariff act has been a good school-teacher, and business and labor have been very apt students. It is doubtless true, as has been asserted, that more people bave informed themselves on the tariff question since Cleveland’s inauguration than in all the previous history of the country, and un- fortunately for Bryan’s candidacy the people are now thoroughly convinced that protection is the basis of prosperity in this country. ‘We said it is unfortunate for Bryan that the people are now so well informed on the tariff question, but we do mot mean Bryan regrets that he is a free-trader, for however much or little sincerity there may be in his advocacy of free-silver coin- age, there is no doubt about his friendship for free trade. There is no doubt at all that Bryan believes it to be the duty of the Government to place the Nation upon as near free trade as possible. In fact, Mr. Bryan believes any kind or form of protection is contrary to the spirit of the religion he professes; that it is better for the nations to have free and unrestrained trade relations, and that the law of the survival of the fittest should prevail. Mr. Bryan is a sincere belieyer in the right of every man to buy and sell in any country without paying tribute to any one, and no doubt his well-known public utterances on the tariff question are having much to do with persuading wage-earners all over the country to organize McKinley clubs. But, any way, industrial operatives are getting in line for protection and good wages. “TRUE DEMQOCRATS.” The appeal of the executive committee of the National Democratic party to ‘‘all true Democrats’” to repudiate Bryan and Sewall and send delegates to the Indian- apolis convention comes of necessity from the action of the Chicago convention. There is no doubt that the Chicago eon- vention was dominated by Populists, nor is there any doubt that the traditions and | principles of the Democratic party were made to give way to the most glaring political heresies and fallacies, but it was all done in the name of and with the party’s machinery. It cannot be said, however, that the bolt- ers withdrew because they could not them- selves secure any of the loaves and fishes, for none of them were candidates for any office. If the old traditions and principles of the party are to be preserved, the ne- cessity for holding another convention is clear, for aside from the tariff question, the Chicago platform declares for theories of government which the Democratic party has been fighting against all its life. The Democratic party has always stood for the gold standard. It has declared repeatedly for an international agreement to open the mints to silver in unlimited guantity for free coinage, but it never made any effort to secure an international agreement. Itis true enough that the Democracy has always held that silver should be in- cluded in the monetary system, but that the Government should coin it on its owa account so as to keep the volume of siiver dollars within the ability of the treasury to maintain them at par by indirect re- demption in gold. In view of the fact that the Chicago convention atandoned the leading principle of, the party it became necessary for theold leaders to either hold another convention and thus prepare to rebuild the party in 1900 or abandoa Democracy altogether. It would be hard to say how much the Indianapolis ticket will hurt Bryan, but if the National Democracy fuses with Republicans where- ever they could by compining elect a Con- gressman, and in States where by fusing McKinley’s chances would be removed beyond the danger point, no doubt Bryan would be considerably damaged. But aside from all that, the Simon pure Demo- crats had to provide for another conven- tion or go out of the business of being Democrats. THE ENEMY OF LABOR. If Bryan and his managers were actu- ated by pride of country in demanding the adoption of a financial system inde- pendent of other nations, and were they moved by true patriotism whex they insist that the United States are big enough and strong enough to legislate for the people without asking the advice or soliciting the assistance of other countries, they shoula be commended for their zeal, however mistaken their policy might be. But they are not so actuated and moved, and they themselves prove they are not every time they appeal to the people to'indorse their wild, reckless and selfish theories—wild because they reject sober thought, reck- less because they are indifferent to the good of the people, and selfish because they aim at enriching those who dig silver from the mountain at the expense of those who dig grain from the valley. ‘When notdivested of its hypocrisy the sentiment tbat we should manage our financial and other affairs independently of other countries appears to glow with the enthusiasm of deep-rooted patriotism, but when the sentiment, as expressed by Mr. Bryan, is stripped of its veneering there appears the -most glaring inconsistency and insincerity of purpose. He tries to arouse a patriotic feeling in the people that they may assart their financial inde- pendence of othercountries thatthe :prod- uct of American silver mines may be elevated to ihe importance and value that gold sustains, but he refuses to adopt a protective policy that the wage-earners of America may assert and maintain their independence of the pauper labor of other countries. Mr. Bryan glories in the power of the United States to double the price of silver bullion, and with an assumed patri- otic toploftiness demands that ¢he Na- tion’s power be so employed, but he de- nies the rizht of the Nation to use its power to secure to its own people employ- ment at living wages. - Mr. Bryan demands that the property of the Bimetallic League shall be made highly profitable by National legislation, but he denies the right of the Government THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1896. to exercise its power in the defense of shops, mills and factories against similar industrial enterprises in other countries. He insists thut American wage-earners shall face the low-wage labor of Europe and go to the wall if they cannot stand the competition, but owners of silver mines shall have their profits doubled. He demands that our farmers shall stand upon equal footing with South American and Russian farmers in our own markets, but those who happen to own silver- producing land shall be made the Govern- ment’s favorites. Itis not free siiver coin- age to increase the volume of our money that Mr. Bryan wants, but to increase the market price of silver. Mr, Bryan is the friend of silver mine owners, but hAt isnot the friend of any other business interest of the United States.” What Mr. Bryan demands for Americans is free silver coin- age without any safeguards; free Ameri- can markets for the world’s pauper labor product; free American markets for foreign farm products and wool, and free American markets for the finished product of the industriesof every country on the earth. - If American farmers, mechanics and labor are desirous of conditions of that kind they will be sure to have -them if they will give Bryan the chance to “‘raze the National custom-houses to the ground.” — THE COUNTY ASSESSMENT. The action of the Merchants’ Associa- tion in appealing to the State Board of Equalization against any increase in the assessed valuation of San Francisco prop- erty is a matter of no little importance to honest tax-payers. The association asks for an extension of two weeks' time n which to prepare statements and evidence for submission to tise board, and this being granted the case of the county is by no means hopeless, for on the very face and open showing of theé facts there are valid and sufficient reasons why the assessment should not be raised. The resolutions adopted at the meeting in the assembly-room of the Mills build- ing on Monday make a clear enough state- ment of the main facts involved in the issue. They set forth that the assessed valuation of property in this county ex- ceeds in many instances its actual value, and that in spite of the general hard times and depression in values of all property the assessment roll has been raised in the present fiscal year about $30,000,000 over that of last year. The valuation of prop- erty in San Francisco is comparatively higher than in other counties of the State and it would be a manifest injustice to add anything further to the burden of taxation upon property-owners. . The evil of the threatened increase of taxation is the more serious because the Board of Bupervisors has permitted sev- eral of the richest corporations in San Francisco to play the part of tax-shirkers. thus throwing an undue proportion of taxation upon honest taxpayers. This wrong of the Supervisors cannot be reme- died by the Board of Equalization, and therefore if the assessment of the county is raised it will still be the -honest tax- payers on whom the burden will fall and many of them are already carrying as heavy burdens as they can stand. The action of the Merchants’ Association is in the direction of protecting the interests of the county and therights of honest tax- payers and is entitled to the most respect- ful consideration from the Equalizers. THE CITY CREDITORS. One of the worst features of our munici- pal affairs is the debt owed by the City to creditors whose claims are in every re- spect just and fair and yet which the City, by the technicalities of law, cannot pay, even though 1t wishes to do so and is abundantly able to do it. It would be hard to find a greater travesty upon jus- tice and law than is exhibited in this sit- uation, and it certainly is most desirable that some remedy for the evil be found and the debt be paid. Whatever course the lawyers of the creditors may be able to find for getting their clierts and the City out of the tangle will in all orobability find a cordial sup- port from the people generally. There will be certainly no opposition from fair men to any policy that promisges a fair set~ tlement of these municipal obligations. It is believed that a direct vote of the peo- ple- would, if given in the affirmative, be sufficient to authorize the payment of the debts. If that is so then by all means let us have one. San Francisco cannot afford to defraud her creditors even when the curiosities of law seem intended to pre- vent her from paying her debts. She justly owes the money and her people will vote to pay A FREE MARKET NEEDED. The demand for a free public fruit and vegetable marketin San Francisco is about great enough to brush aside all objection. The enormous receipts of fruit in the last few days, and the dumping of tons of it in the bay because there were not buyers enotgh at standard prices to consume the supply, have created a sentiment for a free market that is bound to grow until a mar- ket is established. The poor are not al- ways able to buy fruit at standard prices, and until there is a place where tbe fruit- grower can take his goods and deal direct with consumers the bay will continue to be a depositorys for fruit. It is a reflection upon 8an Francisco to have tons and tons of the best fruit in the world wantonly destroyed, simply be- cause there is no way by which the fruit- grower can reach the consumer; besides, if there was a free market the poor could always supply their needs at prices which they could afford to pay, but they are be- ing denied advantages that should acerne to them, and growers are being deprived of the right to sell, because the consumer and the fruit-grower have no common meeting ground. It is to be hoped that the agitation of the question, which seems to have begun in earaest, will increase un- til ample free market facilities are pro- vided, FARMERS AND FREE TRADE. It is a fact known to every man who ever stopped for half an hour to glance at the census of the United States that farmers conatitute abous half the popula- tion of America. It is shown in an article in the local columns of to-day’s CALL that the farmers of the country always suffer under free trade and that the McKinley bill offered them so much protection that it was called “a farmers’ bill.” A close study of the question shows that tile competition of India and Argen. tina is of such a character as to affect the American farmer seriously. Falling prices are seen to be due to free trade, and the conclusion becomes inevitable that no class of the population is more benefited by protection than the farmers. DIFFICULTIES. ‘Washington Star. “One of the hardest things in making a speech,” sald the old campaigner, *“ia to say B T the soply, “that's hard. T et 3 MR T T0 Sha IR A L mean just what you say. % AROUND THE CORRIDORS. The American miners who went to far Alaska are not all convinced that it is a wise thing to leave so good & mining country as the Paclfic Coast and run the chances of striking & fortune in the bleak and ofteptimes frigid regions of the Northland. Henry Smith, who has been in the Vicinity of Forty Mile and Circie City for the last seven or eight years, and B. C. Stickney of Montans, who went to the Yukon four years ago, have lately arrived here and are at the Russ. . 4 I wouldn’t advise anybody one way or the other,” said Mr, Smith. “No matter what you say, they won't believe you. Better let them go and find out for themselves. That'sthe best way. “Probably, for men who merely labor and have no hope of doing anything else, they can 5%05.792 957 in favor of American labor. ring the first year of the Wilson law we sold Euro) worth of goods and bought Ell)x.nm products to theé value of $431,514,024, leaving & balance of only $202,- 989,468 in our favor. The difference between the balence under the McKinley law and the balance under the Wilson law is ,803,489, oneof the “crowns of thorns” that have pressed down upon the brow of labor. This gives but a faint su; ion of the size and weight of the “crown of thorns” that has }wen pressed down upon the brow of the armer. Mr. Bryan will find that the “crown of thorns” ihat will be cast aside by American labor next November is the oue that was fi \‘lpon the brow of labor by the Fifty-third Con- ress. ¥ PROTECTION FIRST. Redlands Citrograph. We believe just as firmly in the coinage of ot SR B Henry Smith, the Gold Miner of the Yukon, Who Has Heen Eight Years in the : Wilds, and Who Is Now at the Russ. [Sketched from life by a * Call’ artist.] do betterin Alaska than here. They can get $10 a day there—that is, good miners can. But the best they can do they can’t work over fifty days, the seasons are so short. Frost ¢omes on and shuts everything down. Fifty days is & big average. “‘Then, it costs & man $200 to $400 fora year's outfit. He hae got to pay for his food and clothing whether he works or not. “Grub into the camps sometimes Costs as much as 40 cents a pound for freight. This is on top-of the original cost in Circlevillé or Forty Mile. There supplies cost about like this: Flour, $8; bacon, 30 to 35 cents a pound; sugar, 25 cents; tea, $1; beans, 12 to 15 cents, and dried fruit from 25 to 3Q cents, “Beans, bacon, flour, sugar and dried fruit constitute. the principal food. 1teil depends how short the supply gets whether you have to pay more. As the supply gets short the price is raised. “I suppose there are about 200 people in Forty Mile now. Last winter 500 men win- tered at Circle City. Of course there are a great many men scattered out in ‘the hills from these points. “At this time of the year, and for some time hitberto. the pine and hemlock trees are all leafed out, and the country looks well. There is grass of different kinds, too, but in winter all this is changed. AS Isaid, I wouldn't at- temps to advise anybody about Alaska. It is better that people do as they please.” THE HAYPIEST FELLOW. “hEeeN The happlest of the happy folks ‘That walk the world’s old way 18 the feliow who cau whistle Ona raiuy day. ¢ Who thinks not of the sunshine And never heeds the bay, But whistles, whistles, whistles On a rainy day. The same to h'm In winter As meadows of the May, He summons up his troubles And whist.es 'em away. He’s thankful for a sky of blue, But when 1t fades Away He’s thankful still, and whistles On a rainy.day. FRANK L. STANTON, in Atlanta Constitution. A FEW BOLTERS IN IOWA. Des Moines Reuister. With the abandonment of the Democrati¢ party and ticket by the Burlington Daily Gazette yesterday the list of leading Demo- efatic papers which have bolted the Chicago platform and nominee has grown to & quarter | of a hundred in this State alone. The Burling- ton Gazette is the oldest Democratic paper in | Iowa. For sixty-two years it has fought the battles of the party. But in this yeer of our Lord, 1896, it is forced, in sorrow and tears, to abandon the hulk which is ‘manned by Popu- lists. Below is a list of ,the Democratic news- papers in the State which have bolted the Chi- cago Democratic platform of repudiation and ticket of Populists: Sioux City Tribune, = ° . } Des Moines Leader. Sigourney Review, ? Marshall Couaty Statesman. Dayenport Democrat. 4 Burlington Tribune. Des Moines Staats-Zeitung: Keokuk Post. Davenport Demokrat. Dubuque Herald. Monona Leader. Fayette Postal Card. " Jones County Times. Waverly Independent. ;;V:;afl?: g‘nhune. s orte Progress-Review. Denison Builetin, : Keosauqusa Democrat. Williams Reporter. ‘Wright County Democrat. Charles City Citizen. Burlington Gazette. Denison Herald, Oxford Mirror, Carroll Germania. . LABOR'3S “CROWN OF THORNS.” Chicago Times-Herald. 1f the Boy Orator of the Platte had closed his fervid peroration with the words: “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this Wilson tarift crown of thorns” he would haveuttered a sentiment that would have found ringing response among the toiling thousands and his sacrilege would have been more par- donable. 4 Statistics, which are furnished in plenty, are not needed to prove that the Wilson tariff law has been a crown of thorns for American 1abor. The most superficial observation will suflice to {mpress & candid mind with this m’l“fi% ;exxl;eodn &l the Comn:lluion’:r of xmr for 8 tes wvering the T rom 1891 to June 30, Thod, liowg thupzuflnl the year and & half under the Wilson law the loss ©Of wages to employes was Sapining :‘h.lnn under two full years of {nley protec- , at I more emplo; were made ldle by strikes and 1ookouts Wader Wik son tariff than under two_years of protection, Five million spindles in Noyw England are idle. Statistics from fifty-seven trades in New York City, August 4, 1893, showed that 36,177 were out of employment in these trades elone. Re- turns from 100 manufacturers in the State of New York show that where 22,026 people were earning wages during 1892 there were only 17,480 persons employed during 1893, a_de- crease of 21 per cent. Coming down to 1894, steady work was given to only 12.650 persons, & decrease of 42} per cent from_1892. During the last year of the McKinley tarift Europe bought Joo.mm of our good: while we purchased s to the value $295,077,865 in E , leaving s balance of American silver into American dollars, and we believe in a lot of them, but we.will never vote to place in the Presidential chair any man that is a traitor to the great American principle of protection to American proauce tions. That is the first princinle in American politics, and we are ready to accept protection to American industries, coupled with Ameri- can bimetallism, which means that every American dollar should be equal to every other American dollar. WHEN McKINLEY WAS A COOK. Chicage Kecord. “Speaking of McKinley,” remarked a voy- ager from Kansas, did any of you fellows ever hear that he used to be a cook?” “No,” responded the chorus. “Well, he was,” retorted Kansas. “That’s straight. He wasonce a cook and he got $13 a month wages.” “What are you givin’ us?” asked a quiet young student from Columbia College who had been out in the copper mines at Butte. ‘Whereupon there was a hearty laugh and several irrelevant suggestions were offered, when the Kansan resumed : “There’s a fellow by the name of Wagner out in our town who claims that William McKin« ley, who is now a candidate for the Presidency, used to cook for him and that he was the worst cook he ever ate after. His biscuits were as heavy as lead and his coffee was like the Mis- souri River—all color and no taste. He could fry bacon pretty well, Wagner says, but any- body can fry bacon. All you've got to do is to p);lt it in the skillet and turn it over now and then.” “Where was this cooking?”’ asked the Paw- !Efl? man, “They were camping out, weren't they 27 “Yes; down in West Virginia during the war, Wagner was a member of the Twenty- thira Ohio Infantry, which was McKinley's regiment, and belonged to Company K. Mc- Kinley was detailed as company cook, and the meu ki¢kéd so Hard that they got him pro- moted to commissary sergeant, so that he had to hustle for the grub, whils some one else cooked it.” A WAIST WIT4 VEST AND REVERS. Trim round or slightly pointed waists, well fitted with long revers and plastron or vest effects, are very popular for costumes of woolen fabrics. Contrasting fabrics and colors may e used for plastron and revers, making it pos- sible to give very stylish combinations. The back is fitted with the usual seams in the back, formed by back, side-body and under- &0 arm forms. There is but one darteither side front, of which the lining festens in the el 5 under the left revers. own afid 'lfl‘l“e had a plas with & !rm outlined in green ;pnnl‘lu and biown beads, uch & vest can be easily made at home, hav- ng the design namged. The revers and col- lar were of brown velvet. A cheviot in & mixtare of green shades of the sege tone had velvet revers of n, with plas- tron of white satin crossed wi nlfinn A very dressy waist of Dresden siik had the revers, collar and ?lmwn of white satin, with creamy guipure laid flat over it. A brown cheviot was made with revers of t! goods bound with light-brown leather, which the plastron also was made. A narrow belt of the same leather was worn with this exceedingly trim and -am suit. A dark-green cloth had revers and collar of the goods bound with ghold ‘braid. The plas. tron of {awn-colored cloth was heavily braided with gold, and three tiny giit buttons were set on d-eu.her side of the walst where the revers an 2 — i e DISCOVERER OF “THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD.” St. Lonis Republic. W. C. Shaw of Georgetown, Tex., Justice of the Peace, Precinct No. 1, is the author of the expression “middle of the road,” as applied to politics. He is independent in politics, and was elacted by a large vote on account of many good qualities as a man. The way he came to use the expression which is now in National use was this: o He was cslled on to make a speech. Inthe course of his remerks some one him, “How do you stand?’ He replied, Billis in the m&u, of the M“‘-” PERSONALS. Judge Ansel Smith of Stockton is in town. Dr. Charles E. Tuner of Solano County is in town. S L. 8. Scott of Colorado is among recent sr- rivals. Attorney W. H. Devlin of Sacramento is at the Lick, Dr. George Ivancovich of Petaluma is on 8 visit here. General J. W. B. Montgomery of Chico is at the Grand. E. J. Edwards of Arizona is at the Cos- mopolitan, o T. P. Bryaot and wife of Stockton are at the Cosmopolitan. Ex-Congressman T. J. Geary of Santa Rosa is here on a short stay. G, Cameron, a merchant of Buffalo, N. Y., is at the Cosmopo:itan. Superior Judge John F. Ellison of Woodland reached here yesterday. A. B. Jackson, the well-known banker of Salinas, is on a visit here. Editor R. A.Thompson of the Santa Rosa Democrat is at the Occidental. C. J. Stedman and Mrs. Stedman of Provi. dence, R. L, arrived here yesterday. Cyrus Grafiis has returned from the Alaskan gold fields, and is at the Cosmopolitan. The Rev. Samael Nusworth, Mrs. Nusworth and Miss Cleveland of Reno, Nev., are at the Occidental. Z; Judge Leicester Holme of New York, Mrs. Holme and Mrs. R. W. Tullman of New York are at the Palace. » John M. Vance, the railroad nian, sawmill proprietor and large real estate holder of Eureka, Humboldt County, is a¢ the Grana. The Rev. L. Wirt, who went to Europe sev- eral months ago with a party of New World pilgrims to Old World shrines, has returned here. Ex-Sheriff Ben Hawes of Calaveras, who is now making his home in San Francisco, re- turned yesterday from a visit to Calaverss, where he was looking after mining and other interests. > Mrs. J. H. Whited, wife of the division superintendent of the California and Oregon Railroad, with headquarters at Dunsmuir, came down from the north yesterday and is &t the Grand. Samuel McMurtrie of Lompoc and J. A. Mec- Murtrie of Colorado, both of whom are inter- ested in Southern Pacific Railroad contracts in the noted Laguna de Tache ranch in Fresno, Madera and Kings counties, and in different enterprises in Colorado, are at the Palace. H.W. Hawley, publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, who was stricken with a sort of a paralytic shock in his lower limbs some two weeks ago and has since been confined 10 his home in this City, has gone to New York, par- tially for a change of scene. Mr. Hawley left on Monday evening. He was looking pale and 'was obliged to move by aid of crutches. P. B. Tod, ex-member of the Council of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and who has been for a long time one of the owners of the celebrated Jubilee mine, as well as its man- ager, left bere for home last night. Mr, Tod has been examining the Bunker Aill mine in | Ventura Couuty for a party of British capi- | talists, It is believed they will take the mine. Attorney A. C. Huston of Woodland is at the Grand. He brought down the papers on ap- peal in the 8. D. Worden ecase, and 1iled them in the Supreme Court here yesterday. “In Yolo and S8acramento counties,” said Mr. Hus ton, “there is considerable interest in the case. ‘Worden {is the only one of those who were ar- rested who was convicted, and the feeling is that he should not be hanged. If the caseis sustained as it is I have no doubt petitions will be circulated asking for executive clem- ency, and that the sentence be ebanged to im- prisonment for life.” A. B. Wood of Detroit, the widely known ‘Western mine manager and expert,is at the Palace. In the flush days of Leadville Mr. ‘Wood was one of the most conspicuous figures there. He bad much to do with developing | some of the largest deposits of silver car- bonates, and has since been identified with gold and silver mining in other parts of the country. In later years he has been the man- ager of the Montana Ruby and Sappbire Com- pany (limited), the shares of which are owned almost exclusively by British capitalists. The ‘ruby and sapphire mines are on the Missouri River, a lew miles from Helena. A large amount of the gems have been got out and have been cut and sold in different parts of the world. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 18.—Arrivals in on the North German liner Trave were: Ernest Klemmer, Stockton; Andrew Orms, Mathilde Schon, Oakland; Miss E. Smith, William von der Mehden, San Francisce. St. Cloud, G. A. Beattie, E. L. Chapman and wife; Gilsey, J. Dowell, D. J. Lynch ; Metropole, Dr. 8. 8. Kahn and wife; Park avenue, L. D. Jacks; Imperial, C. C. Moore: Grand Union, M. P. Muller; Astor, R. F. Pennell. ‘LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. AN S. P. IMPOSITION. UNFATR CHARGES MADE ON THE SAN PABLO AND TULARE EXTENSION. Los BANos, Cal., Aug. 11, 1896. Editor of San Francisco *Call”—DEAR SIR: About two weeks ago I wrote to the Board of Railroad Commissioners asking the proper method of bringing to their official notice an fmposition on the part of the Southern Pacific Compeny in connection with the road xnown as lEe gln P""‘:’a“&d Tulnlretelixtinntxg:.ml\{g tion was pai my_letter, no :;t:n““m oly acknowledging the reveipt thereof. I have tried for four years to have some notice taken of the matter, unsuccess- fully. The point in question is this: The road following the west side of the Banm Joaquin River from Tracy to Aurora, with a connection from Collis to Fresno, is called the San Pablo snd Tulare Extension. Why San Pablo and why Tulare the Southern Paeific Company not explain. The ‘‘exteusion” is ac- gomted ‘far y the “extension’’ of the pas- senger rate from 3 cents to5 cents per mile. For further particulars see extortion. This 1s called a “branch line.” Here is & list of its trains: No. 19, Atlantic express; No. 21, freight; No. 23, Sunset freight, limited; No. 79, way freight and ’puaennr; No. 119, freight. One local and four through trains each way is pretty good for & “branch,” and the Sunset limited to New Orleans, their crack fiyer, used to run over this “branch” also. 11 one buys a ticket from San Francisco to Fresno, one may travel at one’s option over the main line via Merced and Modesto, or over the *branch” at the &ame rate. It is only o when one stops ata point between Tracy and Armona that the “branch’’ gets into good working order. In thislatter contingency one must pay 5 cents per Southern Pacific mile for each and every mile traveled over the «“pranch.” Thus it will be seen that the «branch” is comparatively “‘innocucus” so long as one starts from no point om it mor stops. at any point within it. Something like the old story of the boy and the bee. The bo; was all right 80 long a8 the only walki over him, but when the bee sat down on him it was —. : After this explanation 6f the situatiom, if you will kindly inform me of the proper method of procedure to obtain relief, I, with several hundred other rmm. greatly obliged to you. Vours mlgi C. F. BerrHOLY, THE SIL' MARKET. Ir THE BRYANITES RIGHT THERE Is A GOOD CHANCE FOR SPECULATION. 8AN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 17, 1896, Editor of San Fraucisco *‘Call”: If the elec- tion of Mr. Bryan and the sttendant conse. quu;eu of Im" cloinsga at 16 to 1 and full legal tender of silver are assured, as is so Hoontly claimed by many, and if these lhfi: will firmly establish theé parity of silver and s;ld on the 16 to 1 basis, why is it that the rewd ones are not buying silver bullion which is now worth 69 cents per ounee and will then be worth $1 29 &t ounce? Our sil- ver dollars, sustained by the credit of the Gov- ernment, are nOW worth the same as gold dol- and the advocates of free coin argue t with free colnage they will nm'?. equal to gold dollars. They can now take silver dol- Iars and buy nearly doubie the-quantity of silver-bullion the silver dollars contain, and Thcie ‘Daition onimed tres of emeree SicsYe coing of char -ann:.hlmdo ?oll.n. A e an investment which will realize nearly 100 per cent profit in & few months is & good thing in these dull times. If all these things are as certain as the Examiner would have us bel! why does not_the silver mar- ket show some sign ofit? 8, N, WyCxoF¥. Se—— The Unly Earthly Paradise. * Sacramento Bee. Men and women who have spent a brief e e e e e e 56850! the Golden State will never be satis- fled s: l’ir:e in any otber countty. snd surely the native sons and daughters of this peerless clime can say, a8 none others can, *I was torn in the only earthly paradise.” — VIEWS 'OF WESTERN EDITORS. One Political Certainty. Crockett Record. The name of the next President will be Wil- liam, at any rate. A Voice . >m Tulare. Tulare Register. It must be that there is a hell when thers is 50 much urgent necessity for it. A Warning ¥From Woodland, Woodland Democrat. It sometimes happens that the value of har. mony is not appreciated until it is too Iate. Experience a Good Schoolmaster. Stockton Independent. Experience has proved that prosperity comes with protection and distress with free trade. The Best Cartoons. Crociett Record. The cartoons of the San Francisco CALL are the best published. Tney illustrate principles ‘without resort to personal abuse. And There Are Others. Los Angeles Express. There is & man in this town who has con- scientious scruples against paying 50 cents on the dollar with the silver dollar when he can make an assignment just as well. NEWSPAPER HUMOR. “This,” said the editor, not half bad—" “Oh, thank you, kind sir,” exclaimed the Ppoet. “It,” continued the editor, “it isall bad. In fact, it is positively vile.” The door slammed violently as the poet made his way out in the cold world.—Prince- ton Tiger. One exceedingly warm day in July & neigh- bor met an old-man and remarked that it was very hot. * “Yes,” sald Joe, “if it wasn’t for one thing I should say we were going to have a thaw.” “What is that?” inquired the friend, “There’s nothing froze,” said Joe.—Tit-Bits. «And you really have such a thing as a Pro- hivition party in Kentucky, colonel 7" “Yes, sah. It is an organization, sah, de- signed to stop the manufdeture and sale of rye whisky, sah.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Count Adam Moltke, who has recently be. come engaged to Miss Louisette Bonaparte of Baltimore has' an American aunt in the daughter of Benjamin Hutton of Orange, N. J. It is said of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the noted teetotaler, that he was once disconcerted at a political meeting. *I must tell you,” he shouted with emphasis, “that I am & party man.” Snarill voice: “Yes; a tea-party man!” Mr. Blackmore, the English novelist, has just celebrated his seventy-first birthday. George Macdonald is his senior, being 72. Mr. Meredith and Mrs. Oliphant are each 68. Miss Braddon is 59, Sir Walter Besant 58, Ouida 56 and William Black 55. A Bath pastor recently prayed in his church that if Arthur Sewall were elected he might support such measures as would be best for the country. But that same pastor made the state- ment alter he came down from the pulpit that he should not voté for Mr. Sewall himself, and couldn’t consistently pray for others to do so. ‘BesT peanut tafly in the world. Townsend's.* —— SpPEc1AL information dally to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ——————— Trunks Moved 25 Cents. Commercial Transfer Co., 43 Sutter street. Telephone Main 49. Keep your ciecks for us.* ————— A Political Soup Tablet. Los Angeles Times. : The Placerville Nugget preaches a whole sermon in a single sentence when it says that; “Free silver now means free soupin the near future.’”” It is not every couniry newspaper that can condense a National question into such brief space. TALK WONT DO IT. Baltimore American. It will take more than Bryan's oratory to m-;a people believe that the wrong is the right. Cheap Excursion to St. Paal. The Shasta route and the Northern Pacific Rail- road has been selected as the official route toat- tend the National Encampment of the G. A. R.at St. Paul, to be held there September 2t05. The excursion will leave San Francisco and Saora mento Angust 26 at 7 P.a. Rates $87 90 foriny round trip. The above rate is open to all who wisa 1o make the trip East. Send your name and ad- dress to T. K. 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