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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, HURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Prozric‘tnr. Dally and Sunday CALL, One wee! Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, Dafly and Sunday CALL, six months, by ma! 00 Dafly and Sunday CALL, three months by mail Lg: | Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by ma Sunday CaLy, one year, by mail.. WEEKLY CaLL, ODe year, by mall. THE SUMMER MONTHS. i u going to the country ona vacation? It ‘:?fi'fm froubie for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss {t. Orders given to the carrier or left &t Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone....... ceivienseses, Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. Main—1874 | BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untfl 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 713 Larkia street: open until 9:30 o'clock. EW . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open ontll o'clock. s 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THURSDAY -.-A UG THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. | FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohlo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey The country has confidence in McKinley. New York expected Bryan’'s oratioh to be dangerous and found it to be only a bore, About all Bryan will get out of the cam- paign is a vast amount of free advertising as a lecturer. If there is no sting in the tariff issue why does Democracy dodge it as if it were a hornet? Business will revive with the restoration of the protective system that gave us good business beforz. The gold Democrats are getting vicious, but the people will not forget that they have cause for it. A party that cannot organize for a cam- paign certainly cannot conduct an organ- ized Government. Bryan is already on the cefensive and the aggressive campaign he promised has gone a-glimmering. Cockran’s attack on Bryan was very bitter, but then Cockran is a Democrat and he knows the breed. The Democrats may not listen to Tom ‘Watson, but the Populists will, and what is more they will heed him. Workingmen will remember they were doing pretty well on the gold standard until free trade was introduced. The people of California are for iree silver, protection and prosperity, but not for free silver, free trade and disaster. Let us first open our mills to labor and then when we open our mints to silver the workingmen of the country can get some of it The workingmen of America never felt the money stringency so long as there was a protective tariff to maintain work ana wages. It is the soldier candidate whose record inspires the patriotic youth of the coun- try, and it is for him they will vote on election day. A Bryan administration, even at the best, would be a risky experiment, but a McKinley administration woutd be a cer- tainty from the start. The reason the Democratic National Committee is so slow about opening the campaign is because they know there is nothing in it for them. Those who think Tom Watson cannot | pull Sewall down will have a surprise party when they see how the straight Populists voted on election day. 1t may be questioned whether Cockran answered Bryan, but there is no dispute about the fact that he knocked him down and mopped the floor with him. All Republicans should join a campaign club so that they can take an active part in the work of the campaign and have a good right to rejoics in the glory of the victory. Republicans will have no fighting to do in this campaign. They can march to the music at ease and let the gold Demo- crats and the silver Democrats mangle cne another. In all the Democratic camp there is not one orator or writer to explain to Work- ingmen what will be the benefit to them of the free coinage of silver and free trade with the world on the Democratic pian, 1f you'wish to know what the silver men of this country think of Bryan’s chances of election you cen find it in the fact that no speculator however bold thinks it worth while to buy silver at present prices. A Republican victory will place the Gov- ernment in the hands of a well-organized party, while a Democratic victory would place it in the hands of wrangling factions, whose leaders cannot agree upon a single measure of National polic; The Eepublican pledge to bring about | the free coinage of silver by international agreement is all that the intelligent advo- cates of bimetallism ask for. They know that Republican pledges can be counted on and that McKinley will do all that the platform has promised. The rapidity with which Republican or- ganization has been carried on during the campaign is an unmistakable proof that the rank and file of the party have confi- dence in their leaders and will support them with ardor in the great battle for sound money, protection aud.prospurity. | THE WORKINGMAN'S FRIEND. Cne characteristic of McKinley’s rela- tions to workingmen is his thorough sym- pathy with their work as weil as with themseives. He not only makes speeches to them during political campaigns, but he goes into the shops and factories, talks with the workers as well as with the pro- prietors, and, making self directly acquainted with the men whom he seeks to benefit, learns also enough of their in- dustry to know just how the Government can aid it and what legisiation is required to advance it. | In the practice of this habit of visiting | shops and factories McKinley has talked | with more workingmen than any other statesman that ever lived in this country. | He is also in all probability more familiar | with the industries of the country than any other man. As a consequence the workingmen of all our great industries look upon bim as their special advocate and champion. They have conversed with him about the trades in which they are | engaged, and they know he is more inter- | ested in their wages than in their votes. He seeks to build up the industrial system of the United States, because by doing that he can add to the welfare of the people and provide them not only with homes but with the work and wages necessary to keep the home in comfort and prosperity. A clear evidence of the close, thorough and mutunal understanding there is be- | tween McKinley and the workingmen of | the East is shown by the number of dele- ations of workingmen that call upon | him at his home at Canton to pledge him their support during the campaign. In | his addresses to these delegations McKin- ley speaks with the freedom of a man talking to an audience with which he1sin | full and complete sympathy. He uses neither the words, the tones nor the man- | ners of a demagogue. He tells them of the inseparable interests of capital and labor and points out how essential it is to the Nation that both should be protected from the strain of foreign competition. The keynote of every speech he makes is sounded in the words, protection, patri- | otism and prosperity, and the one prom- ise he has to make to them is that if they will restore the Republican party to power that party will restore to the country the industry and prosperity it enjoyed before | the days of Democratic free trade and dis- aster. This feeling of sympathy and confidence which exists between McKinley and the workingmen of that section of thecountry | where he is best known is firmly based | upon a mutual esteem and respect. The workers in the field of American indastry and the great champion of that industry | know that each is seeking no selfish pur- | pose when they unite to re-establish the | protective system. There isas much patri- | otism in a loyalty to the American home as |in a loyalty to the American Nation. | When the Nation was in danger Mec- | Kinley left his home to fight for the pres- | ervation of the Union, and now in time | of peace he devotes his life work to pre- ! | sault that may be made upon the indus- tries that support and sustain it. ONE OF THE FAMILY TALKS, Ata Democratic mass-meeting held in Madison-square Garden, New York, last Wednesday evening, Bourke Cockran, one of the leading Democrats of the country, told his bearers and through them the veople of the United States that their | highest duty to the Nation at thistime | was to work against and vote against the | Decocratic candidate for President, W. J. Bryan. Mr. Cockran pointed out how the | election of the Democratic candidate would | be a calamity to every business interest in this broad land, and how his elevation to the Presidency would be a blow at Ameri- can labor. The speaker analyzed Mr. Bryan’s recent utterances and showed how the candidate of the Democratic party meant to drive this country into a revolu- tion and overturn and overthrow every agency which the people employ in the conduct of their business concerns. Mr. Cockran himself being a dyed-in- the-wool Democrat, and in a position to | know the ins and outs and pnrpose of his | party, it will be conceded that he speaks | with an authority which is conferred by a | thorough knowledge of the aims of his party’s candidate, and that what he says may be accepted as the truth. Had it been a Republican who sounded this warning note there would be a suspicion that the danger to our institutions which lurk in Mr. Bryan’s candidacy bad been magnified to draw votes away from him, but the warning comes from a member of Mr. Bryan’s own political household who sees and knows whereof he speaks, and the danger must be alarmingly great when one Democrat arraigns another Democrat before the bar of public opinion and charges him with being a conspirator against the well-being of his fellow-eiti- zens. In advising his fellow-Democrats to re- | bel against the party’s chosen leader Mr. Cockran knows very well that he 1s en- compassing Mr. Bryan’s defeat, but when as intense a partisan as Bourke Cock- ran calls upon the rank and file to rise in their might and rebuke the perfidy and revolutionary intent of the party’s leader there must be something unusually dark and damnable in the purpose of that leader. No Republican asked Mr. Cock- | ran to point out how Mr. Bryan’s election | would be a fatal stab at labor and a death blow to all business enterprise. He saw the danger himself, and as between loy- alty to the party’s machine and loyalty to the Nation’s institutions he does not hesi- tate to not only throw the weight of his personal influence against the party, but to call upon all Democrats who love their country to destroy the political microbes that bave secured a footing in the party’s organization. The information that Bry- sn’s election would be a National calam- ity comes from members of Bryan’s own political family and hence it must be true. ON THE DEFENSIVE. If Bryan were a good politicai general he would not have allowed himself to be put on the defensive before a half-dozen shots had been fired. He started out bold and defiant enough, but for a fortnight nearly all his speeches have been efforts to explain that the Chicago platform is not hostile to the business interests of the country. He appears to be desirous thag the country should not have any anxiety on account of the radical departure his declaration of principles takes ifrom the old beaten path. | But, unless his platform does mean dan- ger, why should he feel called upon to as- sure the country that he would be a con- servative President? The fact of the mat- ter is the Chicago platform means Alt- geldism, and Bryan® now sees that expla- nations and apologies are necessary to as- sare the people that he .is not nearly so bad as the platform pictures him. He should have so annoanced himself before he started East—‘‘to the enemy’s coun- try,” as he put it—for it will be hard for him to make the people believe that he is friendly to all sections of the country. But it is too late now. He may-explain and apologize until doomsday., By his | | | | | | | | | serve the American home from every as- ' own utterances he has convinced the peo- ple that be isa shallow sectionalist, and that he regards all as enemies who are not for him. No doubt he looks upon Califor- nia as the ‘‘enemy’s country,’”’ and if be- cause the people of this State are not will- ing to indorse his wild and reckless theo- ries of government they are his enemies then indeed is California the ‘‘enemy’s] country.” Mr. Bryan should get it out of his head that he is specially appointed to rule over the United States and that who- ever is not for him is an enemy of his conntry. THE AMERICAN FARMER. The reasons why American farmers are making no money are not many. . In fact, there are just two reasons. In the first place the production of wheat in Russia, rose from 169,000,000 bushels in 1891 to 366,000,000 in 1894, and wheat productior in Argentina increased in the same period from 32,000,000 to 80,000,00. In the sec- ond place, in ratio to the increase in wheat production in other countries have our farmers met with competition in the food markets of Europe; that is to say, Russia and Argentina have a large surplus of wheat every year which they throw upon the markets of the old country, and the cost of production being less in these countries and the anxiety of their farmers to make prompt sales inducing them to secure the preference by lowering prices, it results in keeping values dewn to their profit line, which is below what American farmers can sell at to return a profit. Now, the American farmer has two rem- edies for the disadvantage under which he labors. He can successfully compete with Russian and Argentina farmers by con- forming to their way of living and reduc- ing the wage$ of the farm labor to the schedule of those countries. As for him- self he will have to scorn all social rela- tions; maka it the duty of his life to devote all his time between daylight and dark to hus fields; have no horses or vehicles on the farm other than those required to till the soil; have no clothing other than “‘work clothes”; have no ‘‘day off’’; have none of the modern house conveniences; have, in fact, nothing but a life of toil and coarse food. Thatis the only way he can successfully compete with the farmer of Russia and Argentina in the markets of Europe, and in this connection we desire to remind the American farmer that he has no market other than the European mar- ket to seek buyers for his surplus. The other remedy the farmer has for the disadvantages under which he labors is to help the wage-earner establish a sys- tem of customs duties which shall increase tbe number of home industrial plants to the point where it will require all the sur- plus of his farm to feed the producers of goods and wares. If he shall do that the farmers of Russia and other countries will not bother him in the markets of Europe, for be will have no occasion to go abroad to find buyers. In other words, the des- tiny of the American farmer is a condi- tion of degradation and poverty or of affluence and independence. If he con- tinues in the unequal struggle to com- pete with Russia and Argentina in the food markets of Europe he will drift intc conditions such as environ the farmer in those countries. if he *‘stands in” with American labor in its effort to secure con- tinuous employment at good wages, labor will take all the surplus producte of his farm and pay him highly remunerative prices for ttem. These are the two reme- dies, and there is no half-way place be- tween them. FOR A MEROHANT MARINE, One of the great needs of California is lines of ocean craft sailing between San Francisco and the coast trade centers of all countries. Next to the kind of protec- tion that would encourage capital to un- dertake the development of the vast re- sources of the State, 8 merchant marine service equal to the demands of commerce is wanted. There is no doubt at all that California is badly nandicapped by inad- equate ocean transportation faciiities, but, on the other hand, it would be impossible to persuade capitalists to put lines of ships in service unless they were assured of reasonable profits, but that commerce could not alone guarantee for many years. The next best thing then would be for the General Government to make 1t to the interests of capitalists to undertake the enterprise by giving financial aid, and that the Goverpment will do if Major McKin- ley is elected, but that the Government will not do if Bryan is eleeted; besides, if the Nebraska man is elected there would be no use for a merchant marine, because China and Japan would supply our mar- kets with manufactured goods and nat- urally enough they would want to employ ships of their own. Concerning the question of building up lines of American ships the Republican platform is very clear, and the promise there made will be carried out to the last detail if Major McKinley is elected. The Republican party’s declaration is tnis: “We favor restoring the early American policy of discriminating duties for the up- building of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American ships— the product cf American labor, employed in American shipyards, sailing under the Stars and Stripes, and manned, officered and owned by Americans—may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce." The Democratic party is opposed to all that sort of thing because, so i says, it macks of protection; besides, discrim- inating duties would not build up a mer- chant marine.” The Seaboard gives some figures on that question which Democrats might study with much profit to themselves. Under the discriminating policy American ship- ping grew as follows: can® s2sl e YEAR. Ho 3 zs.; 1853 | N 9 °% 1 414, 208,04 526,649 | 37,008 675,046 | 19,669 No better proof than these figures is needed to show that the epublican theory of discriminating dutiesis the correct one. Let California Republican speakers keep the merchant mariné question prom- inently before the people. A PILLAR OF STRENGTH Berkeley Herald. The San Francisco CaLt, which has, during its present management, made its way to the front rank of metropolitan journalism, is do- ing ver{teflmlve work seven days in the week for '.hoi epnhun?wnin Thumexeel'l;m news- paper is a ve: of strength o the party, an, sl;glg‘d ;y"p. “lu g.mr;fid nwn‘rg. in t=e support of eve ue Republican on the Pacific Coast who ll:rb"l to afford & daily or weekly paper. ‘What Might Have Been. Tulare Register. Had Democratic newspapers thought of it two years ago when their party was in full coutrol of the executive and legislative branches of government they might bave had & few trusts smashed just for samples—but that would have deprived them of much of their sheet-iron thunder this trip. ~ MUSIC AND ‘The Bayreuth performances terminated July 22, having- been entirely successl They commenced on the 19th with “Das Rhein- gold.” A fanfare of trumpets @ssembles the public in the hall with a short and incisive blare, which forms the motive of Donner, the g0od of the elements. -A second Dlast is sounded intended to stimulate the laggards, but there are none; every one is -in his place silently seated, and a little. shiver, which alweys precedes great expectations, runs through the audience. It is night; the cur- tain opens, and one sees the bottom of the Rhein, with the three nymphs swimming, and singing their rhythmic chant. The light is periect, and the movements of the swimmers managed in a manner to produce the most complete. illusion. The voices are. beautiful and harmonious; the gnome, Alberieh, replies to them with rude energy, and this is the first scene which introduces the audience into. the middle of the mystery in which the work is enveloped for four days. July 20, “Die Walk- ure.” The scenes in this piece are perhaps the most touching and exciting of the whole play. They represent the loves of Siegmund and Sieglinde, and the punishment of Brunhilde. MUSICIANS, Minister and his cortege approached by the PERSONAL. R. H. Lucas of Melbourne is at the Palace. H. F. Blanchard of Alaska is at the Grand. James Wigan of London arrived here yester- antique pathway and went first to the Pom- | day. peiian Theater, where M. Silvain recited a com- position called *Paris-Athenes.” Mlle. Mo- reno of the Comedie Francaise, surrounded by other actresses looking very beautiful in the costumes of the ancient flute-players, recited & poem entitled *‘'L’Ame Antique.” The cortége then re-formed and visited the Notre Dame Porch, and afterward went through the vari- ous sections where numberless curiosities of musical and aramatic interest are gathered together. Arthur M. Abell, writing from Berlin about the exposition of stringed instruments, says: “I was much interested in the Egyptian band in- the special Cairo Exposition. I was not aware that the land of the Pharaohs could Dr. A. M. Gardner of Naps is visiting the City. Edward Sperry has gone on a visit to Puget Sound. - Sydney W. Phillips of New Zealand is at the Palace. J. H. Logie, a merchant of Los Angeles, is in the City. Captain R. W. Fuller of the ship Santa Clara is at the Russ. T, G. Hart of Fresno is among the arrivals from the south. Leopold, Albert and Edward Kahn of Paris are at the Palace. C. 0. Dunbar of the Santa Rosa Press is quar- produce among its dusky inhabitants musi- | tered at the Lick. cians who could play so well. I marveled all the more atthis after witnessing a perform- ance in the Arena by the Arab caravans and listening to the hideous noises that they con- sider music. Those fellows in the Khedive's band play like real musicians, with true in- tonation, good rhythm and intelligence. To be sure their programmes are rather light in el M. Plancon, Who Says That an American Cannot Be Taught to Sing. which lightens the whole work. It is & streak of light across the middle of the most tragic drama; it is, in the immense four days’ sym- phony, a scherzo between the profouna adagio of the Walkure and the powerful finale, which which is called “Goetterdeemmerung.”” The free and exuberant nature of the hero gives to the first act an extraordinary life and snima- tion. The second act is & scene of marvel- ous poetry, to which the music lends the most subtle elemeuts of color, and the most varied. Occasionally the mighty figure of Wotan, the traveler, the god, conscious of his undoing and knowing that the end of the gods mpproaches, passes with a ead and melancholy grandeur across the sceme. But above all, in the last act, where the human element retakes its supremacy, the music ac- quires an incredible richness and power; noth- ing could be more warm, more vibrant, more passionate than this long duet of love—this call to the light, to the joy of living, where the most ardent melodies, with o infinite variety, take turn andfurn between the voices and the orchestra, and achieve, in & fanfare of triumph, & passion almost savage in its intensity. July 21, “Goetterdaemmerung.” On this, the last day, is resumed the tragic séntiment which dominates the work, less mythical, however, since the gods no longer appear as acting per- sons, and the principal actors of the drama be- long to an epoch less distant from our own, already historical. The music and the dra- matic form are modified, and fhe second act approaches in many ways the usualstyle of opera. There are choruses, ensembles, proces- sions, all of which have been entirely absent on the other days. The privation was not Aelt—in fact, the second act was far from leav- ing the best impressions. But the entire third act is a sublime chef d’ccuvre, and attains at theend to the highest summit which 1t has ever been given to a human mind to reach. First, the ravishing tableau of the dsughters of the Rhein, so different from the first day— sunlight, cleer, delicate and harmonious, then Siegfried’s recital, afterward his death; then that sublime scene, the death of Brunhilde, by which is achieved the fall of Walhalla. At the end the music resumes, with astonishing clearness, the whole idea of the work, the three motils; of the gods, of the heroes and finally of human love, which henceforth should be the sovereign ruler.—Le Menestrel. The great singers, instead of accepting less pay, have formed a ring and are demanding higher salaries than ever. Poor Mr. Grau finds his position anytning but a bed of roses. The Musical Courier, however, says that ‘sooner or llbef he will be relieved from this terrible strain. It will be the usual simple remedy which the American people have been in the habit of resorting to on many previous occa- sions, when National impositions succeeded in iring their patience. They will cease altogether attending the opera.”” All Americansare ostra- cized by these foreigners, and it is impossible for & native to get a hearing. Grau would be willing to do everything in his power, but he is helpless in the hands of the ring. “The prejudice against American artists,” says the Courier, “Is s0 thoroughly deep-seated that ils eradication is. impossible. M. Plancon, one of the ring, is of opinion that there is notone American who can sing, or who can be taught to sing, simply because he is an American, and that is Plancon’s one and fundamental reason. He believes this on the grounds of birth, cli- mate, temperament and environment. Argu- ment 18 useless with such people; facts are not recognized by them. " Announcing recently the visit to Antwerp of Li Hung Chang, the Matin of Antwerp says that the garrison bands were detailed to study the national Chinese hymn. Then it adds: “This Chinese hymn is not without value, although the principal melody is repeated too often. Our orchestras cannot always play it as it is written, for Chinese music allows of quarters and eighths of & tone, so that not only our brass instruments cannot play it, but even viollnists would find it very hard to render, for our ears, insufliciently exercised, cannot perceive such slight shades of sound.” A Brussels paper, remarking on this, says: “This Chinese hymn, for which our poor mili- tary orchestras—evidently inferior to Chinese musicians—cannot execute the eighth of a tohe appears to us rather amusing.” It would be very amiable of the Matin1f it would kindly indicate the Chinese instrument which can ex- ecute the quarters and eighths of the tones in question. July 29, M. Andre Lebon, the Colonial Min- ister, inaugurated the Exposition of Music and Drama st the Palais d'Industrigy Patis, ThayL 8 July 21, “Siegfried.” This is the bit of comedy | character. It is universally admitted that this special Cairo Exposition is far ahead of any criental display ever yet exhibited at any European or American world’s fair.” Mme. Duse, the Italian actress, has just been condemned by the Milanese tribunal to the payment of 80,000 francs. The plaintiffs were her impresarii, MM. Cracchi and Moreno, who had engaged her for a dramatic tour in Bouth America. At the last moment Mme. Duse re- fused to set out under the pretext that “the political horizon had become too menacing in those countries whither they wished to take her.” The tribunal of Milan dectded that the reason Mme. Duse alleged was not sufficient and decided in favor of her impresarii. In the Wilder-Wagner case, tried in Paris July 30, the judge substitute, Seligmann, gave his decision the next day. He first regarded it from & moral point, and said he was sur- prised that, after all that Victor Wilder had done for the Wagnerian cause, as well by his articles of musical criticism as by the enor- mous work of translation, Mme. Wagner snould have treated him as she had done. But the tribunal was forced to judge from a purely judicial point of view, and he was of opinion thet the Wilder heirs had not the right to prevent.Mme. Wagner representing the works of her husband in France in any other than the Wilder translation, no priv- ilege having been conceded. A week wi given before judgment. 3 A French paper, Le Temps, gives an ac- count of how, lately, Mme. Adelina Patti promised to sing at a concert for the benefit of the poor at Swanses, South Wales. Upon hearing that the tickets were being sold for 10 shillings and 6 pence each, she wrote to the promoters declining to sing at all, as she refused to appear before an audience who had paid less than 1 guinea each to hear her, Tickets had been sold to the amount of 125, 000 francs. A GIRL'S HOME GOWN. This charming little gown shown nere is of blue linen, with lines of white. The cuffs are of white embroidery with an edge to match trimming the epaulettes, and used as a trim- ming on coilar. The skirtissimply gathered and hemmed. The waist has a plain lining on ’"“/ i <\ WA TN A which the front is gathered. The front when not made on the bias, as here shown, is seam- less, the waist fasten A gingham dress made in this way had epauiettes trimmed with a flat band of heavy yellowish lace. The belt and collar wers ot ‘white. % A blue e had rows of gilt braid on the epaulettes. y gilt butions were on the leeves, five set close together at the inner :;nm, ¥nd three on either side of the front of 3 collar. Alinen batiste had trimmings of the same batiste embroidered in white. Plain white lawn with fifig of Valen- ?""{;‘ lace on the epaulet simple and o 8. B. Caruth, s hotel man of Monterey, is at the Cosmopolitan. Wiiliam M. Lovell, & business man of Tucson, Ariz., is at the Russ. Leon Levy, & business man of Santa Barbars, is at the Russ House. Brainard F. Smith, clerk of the Folsom State prison, is in the City. Louis A. Sage, one of the owners of Congress Springs, is at the Lick. G. E. Goodford, & business man of Hanford, is at the Cosmopolitan. P. G. Cotter of Yuma, Ariz., is among the ar- rivals at the Occidental. J. M. Jacobs, a general store owner of Plains- burg, is registered at the Russ. . B. Kingsbury, & leading resident of Boise, Iaaho, arrived here yesterday. D. R. Dunlop, & prominent business man from Amador, is at the Ramona. Frank L. Coombs of Naps, ex-United States Minister to Japan, is at the Grand. T. H. Barnard, who is interested in the lum- ber business at Chico, is at the Grand. C. R. Bradbury, & prominent real estate man from Denver, is & guest at the Ramona. L. W. Moultrie of Fresno, secretary of the Frecno and sonterey Railroad, is in the City. Professor T. H. Crawford, a noted teacher in Portland, is making headquarters st the Ra- mona. Colonel J. 8. Templin, who is interested in mining in Idaho, is among the arrivals from Idaho City. C. E. Apperson of Santa Clara, who is inter- ested in cattle and ranch enterprises in Mex- ico, is at the Lick. Ex-Harbor Commissioner C. F. Bassett has gone to Northern California and Oregon for a fortnight’s jaunt. Colonel Charles F. Crocker, atter eight weeks in London, Paris and other European cities, has returned home. Colonel Tisdell, the Central American agent for the Pucific Mail Steamship Company, is at the Occidental Hotel. C. H. Phillips, the land dealer, of San Jose, is again in town. He was for & long time in the real estate and banking business in San Luis Obispo County. Richard Gird of Chino, long owner of the noted Chino ranch and interested in beet- sugar growing and the manufacture of sugar, is at the Occidental. Foster S. Dennis of Kingman and long iden- tified with the mercantile, mining and politi- cal interests of Arizona, arrived here yester- day, accompanied by his wife and child. They ave at the Lick. Arthur McEwen, the versatile nmewspaper writer, who for a few weeks has been at Caza- dero with his family, has been in the City for the lasttwo or three days. He left for Caza- dero again yesterday. R. E. Brown, formerly of the Cceur d’Alene district, Idaho, and for two or three years past interested in mining enterprises in the Trans- vaal, South Africs, is at the Palace, en route to Spokane. He is represented to bave made a good deal of money in the Transvaal. J. Duke Murray, business manager of the Grand Opera-house, New York, and represent- ing Augustus Pitou on the Pacific Coast, is at the Baldwin. He is here with the play, “Madame Sans Gene,” and will remain until after it opens at the Baldwin in this City. L. L. Balley of Denver, who has been inter- ested in mining in the Gunnison country and in other parts of Colorado, returned here yes- terday from Mexico, where he heas been exam- ining a large property with a view of purchas- ing it. He says he believes he has found what he wants. Owa Iwanga, president of the great Nippon Yusen steamship line, which runs steamers to all parts of the East, and which is the greatest steamship linein the world, has been seeing the sights here since his return from St. Paula few days ago. Mr. Iwanga is said to be a millionaire several times over, Hesaid yes- terday that Japan was guite prosperous now. The silver yen, which is the principal coin since the gola disappeared from circulation because of the free use of thesilver, is, he says, equsal to ebout 50 cents of our money. “It contains a few more grains of silver, how- ever,” said Mr. Iwanga, “than the Mexican dollar.” Mr. Iwanga will soon return to Japan. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 19.—Among to- day’s arrivals are: George P. Keeney, San Francisco, Shoreham Hotel; H. L. Barnes, Los Angeles, Riggs House. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 19.—Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steinegger and Miss Steinegger arrived in New York from Genoa, via Gibraltar, on the North German liner Fulda and left the West- minster for home. Mrs. De Young sailea on the American liner St. Paul for Southampton to-day. At the Westminster—Mrs. Bradford; Grand Union—H. G. Tanler; Continentai—Dr. H. I Jones. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE BASIS OF UNION. Nor oN SILVER ONLY, BUT ON THE WHOLE MONEY QUESTION. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIx: Well-informed readers need not be told that with all true Populists the free coinage of silver is only & minor factor in the financial problem now befofe the country for solution. Straight Populists are not greatly moved over the present clamor about free silver as the vital issue of the present campaign. They re- gard it as only a palliative, not asa remedy, for our National financial ills. Nothing short of the whole money question can satisfy a straight Populist. He hesitates to accept even that as an issue in a Presidential campaign, and forego the discussion of the transporta- tion and land questions as vital issues at the present time. They were vital issues four years ago and every year since. It was for the special benefit of all straight Populists that the four money planks were placed before the readers of THE CALL this morning. I trust they have cut them out of the paper and preserved them, for I now wish to show these readers the large signiticance of these money planks and how far they reach into the future. With the election of Bryan and & Congress on silver issue alone the moment that issue became & law by enact- ment and the signature of Mr. B as Presi- dent, the party would fall to pleces'and leave the sdministration without & party to sustain it—a pitiable spectacle to gods aud men. fer now to your money planks. Note how small & space the silver plank occupres in the Peopls dp.ny platform. It 1s about three lines and is piaced ‘“second.” The first de- mand is for “National money.” 1t is 10 be “is- sued by the Genersl Government only.” That cuts off all issues by our so-called “national’” banks or any other banks—‘issued by the Gen- eral Government ouly.”” As our private “Na- tionai” banks, in no true sense national ex- cept in name, cdnnot issue $old and silver ns, this ‘national money” demanded b, the Populists refers to paper money, the <econ: plank demanding the iree and unrestrained ‘coinage” of both silver and gold. The third lank relates to the volume of “the circulat medium,” meaning gold, silver and aper. 18 to be incre: speedily to meet. &e de- mands oi business and population. When that is done, the business of the country will not be done on ‘‘confidence” and “eredit,” the capital of bankers, as it is now; that is, so far 2¢ tere 1s any business done in these dull - oYow let us compare the money plank of the '!uvw. supposed 1o be silver Republi- cans, the Populist . OWe the power to mpfi"“ol “‘l’hll . money, and hence that all currency intended to ciréulate as money should be issned and its 'volume controlled by the tieneral Government only and should be legal tender.” That is the language of the “Silverparty.” It is pretty fair Populist doctrine, for it is to be issued by the General Government only and is to be legal tender. They call it “currency,” which “‘eircu- lates as money,” and is a “legal tender.” That makes it pretty good “‘money,” especially as it is not issued by any private, “national” or other kind of bank. In a word, the Silver arty declares war on the “national banks” Justas the Populists do. We come now to consider the position by the “new” or Bryan Democracy on the issue of paper money or currency. They declare that “Congress alone has the power to coin or issue money.” Thatis pure Populism. They quote President Jackson and say he ‘“‘declared that this power could not be delegated to corpora- tions or individuals.” That, too, is rank Pop- ullsm. Then they proceed iosay, “We there- fore denounce the issuance of notes as money for the national banks as in derogation of the constitution.” That is a tritie mixed. The national bank notes are not “legal tender,” are already at a discount and are poor “money”; but they add, “And we demand that all the paper money which is made legal tender for public and private debts, or which is receivable for dues to the United States shall be issued by the United States and shall be redeemable in coin.” Jhat is decidedly mixed and is repugnant to *Populism so far as it is “redeemable” in any other kind of money. Of course, it would be too much to expect Democrats—even the “new” kind—to make a clear and sharp definition of a ‘‘National money” after the manner of the Populists, and hence, after declaring in plain terms thai “‘Congress alone has the power to coin and is- sue money,” and that they ‘‘denounce the is- suance of notes as money for the national banks as in derogation of the constitution, they hedge a litle and try to explain what they mean. The one point of vital importance to Populists, however, is that they, in com- mon with Populists and the silverites, openly declare war upon the “national banks” ss banks of issue. Thus it is seen that this tri- partite alliance of Populists, Democrats and silverites is fully agreed that the gigantic cor- porations known as the ‘national banks,” which, with their confederates, mean the ‘“‘money power,” must cease to own and o] ate the Government and must yield up their unconstitutional exercise of power {0 oppress the people. Thus, also, the silver question is but the initial step in the overthrow of the “pational bank” iniquity and the final de- struction of the predatory corporations and trusts which now rule the country. I say, therefore, to straight Populists that the whoie money question is necessarily and specificalty involved in the fight 10 elect Bryan and Wai- son. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, Aug. 18, 1896. SONG. The world's applause is a draught divine, Jts love is a precious prize; But dearer than boih are the vows that shine In the deeps of my lassie’seyes— Far dearer than all is the troe-love sign In the deeps of my lassie’s eyes. We twaln stray on with but empty hands, Yet our hearts with joy o’erflow; The gold that the spirit of youth demands Is affection’s ardent glow— Oh, youth, as ever, to-day demands But affection’s ferveut glow. What matter to me that far away The wealth of the Indles lies? A fig for it allt il watch the play 0Of thelight ia my lassie’s eyes— T'll bow my head to the potent sway Of the love in my lassle’s eyes. FBANK PUTNAM in Chicago Times-Herald. ALLEGED HUMOB. The Scientific Magnate had been lecturing the dinner party and they were feeling a lttle overwhelmed. B “It is a curious thing, said he, “that if I stand on my head the biood rushes to it. If I stand on my feet it doesn’t rush to my feet.” *Perhaps,” said the host, nervously, anxious to brealke the silence, “your head isemptier than —" The explanation stopped short.— Paris Messenger. #“Are you taking swimming lessons, Cadby?” “No, old fellow. It’s too much bother. My valet is learning, and, as I never go anywhere without him, if I fell into the watah he could rescue me.”’—Harper’s Bazar. Alice—Oh, Edith, the honeymoon is begin- ning to wane. Percy called me piain Alice to- day. Edith—And yet you are not o very plain, dear.—London Tit-Bits. PEOPLE TALKED A_BOUTA Joseph Cook. who has been for some time my his summer home, Cliff Seat, Ticonderogs, N. Y., is steadily gaining in health. The Indian sovial reformer and poet, Behr- aniji Malabari, is visiting London. When he was editor of the Indian Speculator he vigor- ously attacked the practice of child marriage and enforced widowhood. Dr. Samuel C. Bartlett, formerly president of Dartmouth College, Dr. Claudius B, Webster of Concord,N. H., for many years United States Consul at Sheflield, and the Rev. Dr. Leonara Parker of Cambridge, Mass., were graduated at Dartmouth in 1836, and are the only survivors of their class. They met last June at com- mencement time and indulged in appropriate reminiscences and sentiment. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend's.* ———————— Ir you want fine service, fine carriages, com- petent drivers, ring up 1950. Pac. 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