The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1896, Page 6

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Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICE 630 Montgomery street, corner Cl 9:30 o'clock. 539 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until § o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until § o'clock. open untll OAKLAND OFFICE 3 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: | Booms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. 21, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e e e PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oble FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBE 18986. If the tariff is not an issue how about the deficit? The common-sense of the country will vote for work and wages this time. The country is still waiting to hear what Bryan will do for the workingman. Democracy fooled the people once and may do it again, but not this time. What did Democracy ever do for the producers of this country, anyway ? What the farmer needs is a home mar- ket and protection will give it to him. There is no profit for the farmer in Bry- anism nor in any other kind of Democ- racy. This country needs an adequate reve- nue, and it will never get one from the party of bunglers. Bryan has not even as much sense as Cleveland, for Cleveland d1d not go fishing until after election, The worst charge Bryan will have to meet in the campaign will be the rebound of his own wild talk. Buckley's lambs retire from politics in one vlace only tobreak out in another, and there is no rest for the Junta. Now that Bryan has shown up as a fisherman we koow how to account for the length of his campaign ns. There was no slump in prices in this country until after the free-traders got into power, and don’t you forget it. The pressing question of the camvaign is whether we shall have our raw material manufactured at home or in Europe. All the championsof discontent are with Democracy this year and have sncceeded in making it discontented with itself. St Cockran did not bore a very big hole for free-traders to crawl into, but perhaps it is big enough for what is left of them. Bryan may hide his free-trade card up his sleeve during the canvass, but if he ever gets elected he will play it for trumps. Bryan may have made his play of a fishing irip simply to catch Grover’s vote, for a fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kina. As a matter of practical politics the chief issue before the people is to turn out the fiasco fellows and put statesmen in office. Every silent mill is ‘a warning against Democracy, and every idle man who wants a job in it knows what the warning means. The Republican party promises protec- tion to your industry against low wages and low prices, but what does Democracy promise? With the election of McKinley the re- turn of prosperify will be a certainty, and that is the reason why all business men are for him. 1f Bourke Cockran’s speech wasa sample of the talk of the gold Democrats it is not strange the free silver fellows gave them the grand shake. i When the election is over and Bryan is no longer running all the mills will be running, and then we shall have more money and less talk. Genuine bimetallism will be good money everywhere, but the Democratic proposition is only & counterfeit that wouldn’t be accepted anywhere. i = it Altgeld, Tillman and Bryan captured the Democratic camp easily enough, but they did not manage to capture the stal- warts and won’t get their votes. Between labor and capital there is a broad unity of interest, and to maintain and advance that unity is the 2nd and aim of all the economic legislation of the Re- publican party. A political party whose leaders cannot agree on & plan of campaign certainly could not agree on a policy of govern- ment, so what would be the good of in- trusting them with it ? The campaign of education for genuine bimetallism has been so well received by the people that there is now good reason for believing Colorado will forsake Teller and stand by Wolcott and McKinley. *‘For the cause of genuine bimetallism,"” says Tom Reed, “‘there 1s much to be said, but this thing which is now proposed is against all that makes for the peace, com- fort and prosperity of this country,” That is the money issue in a nutshell, | ticket. REPUBLICAN EMETALLIBH. Speaker Reed addressed the Lincoln Club of Portland, Me., the other evening. The beauty of Reed’s speeches is that they always have the ring of true Republican- ism. Referring to the money question he said: “For the cause of genuine bimetal- hism there is much to be said, but this thing which is now proposed is against all that makes for the peace, comfort and pros- perity of this country.” Mr, Reed might have said that the*only true bimetallists— the only true friends of silver in this coun- try—is the Republican party. The Demo- cratic party practically demonetized silver in 1853. Not more than 8,000,000 standard silver dollars were coined by our mints until the Republican party took the work in hand, and sfter 1877 it coined over 450,000,000 standard silver dollars. True, it reduced the output of the mints as soon as the danger point wasabout to be reached, but in every month since 1877 the mints have turned oat more orless silver dollars. ‘When the silver coinage reached near to the volume of gold dollars it was deemed the wiser course to keey it about so until an agreement could be had with the com- mercial nations for a larger use of silver in international trade. It was no faultofthe United States that the other nations de- manded that trade balances be paid in gold orits equivalent, nor would it have been an exhibition of good business sense to jeopardize our foreign trade as well as our gold by keeping on making dollars that would not be acceptable. So long as we could protect our silver coinage wiph gold commerce everywhere was willing to take our silver as the equivalent of gold, and lest our silver coinage should go beyond | the point of protection the mints were directed to keep the issue of dollars within the limits of the treasury’s ability to hold them on a parity with gold. Now what the Republican party aims to do isto have the commercial nations take our silver dollars in trade settlements, without any reference to gold. That is to say, recognize a silver dollar of and by itself as the equivalent of a gold dollar. By such an arrangement the volume of our metallic money would be increased in proportion to the silver dollars we coined, and that, too, without any restriction being put upon the output. Meanwhile, however, the Republican party proposes to keep the coinage of silver dollars down where their parity with gold can be main- tained. The Democratic party proposes to throw the mints wide open to silver and make dollars as fest as they can be made. The consequence wouid be wé should have to employ gold in all our foreign com- mercial transactions, and, as no gold would be coming this way, the country would soon be upon a silver basis with all foreizn trade destroyed, SICKLES AND COCKRAN. The speech of Bourke Cockran in New York on Tuesday evening, while in its way an eloquent and massive oration, is hardly likely to have much effect on the campaign. It appeals only to that small class of the American people who believe in the gold standard and free trade,who would reproduce in this country the conditions of England, and who rejoice when the prices ot all products are chesp, no matter how heavy may be the burden of that cheapness upon the wage-earner and the producer. The people of this country will turn gladly from the sonorous periods of the great advecate of free trade to the simpler but more effective speech made on Wednes- day at the National Encampment of Union veterans at Binghamton, N. Y., by Gen- eral Daniel E. Sickles. The old veteran of | the war is not so renowned an orator as the gifted lawyer who spoke for the gold Democrats, but to the people his words will seem more elogquent, for they gave utterance to sentiments of a true Ameri- canism and will find a response in the hearts of all patriotic citizens. General Sickles, like Bourke Cockran, is a Democrat who refuses to accept the Chi- cago platform or to support the Chicago His opposition, however, is not based upon the ground taken by Cockran in his much-heralded speech. In the re- { poris that have come to us of his address to the veterans there is no suggestion of a desire for cheap products. ; His argument seems to have been dirécted solely to broad considerations of public weifare and National honor. He is reported to have appealed to his old comradesof the war for the Union to come forward again and unite for the purpose ‘‘of putting down the new spirit of rebellion and repudia- tion” as raised by the men who dominated the convention at Chicago and are now seeking fusion with the Populists. The logical outcome of Cockran’s argu- ment is the nomination of a gold wing Democratic ticket. There can be no place in Republican ranks for free-traders and those who seek to lower still further the prices of American products and the profits of American producers. Such men must perforce organize a party of their own, and they might as well take the dis- tinctive name of Mugwump and make it a permanent thing. Very different is the conclusion of the argument of General Sickles. He advocates no new party and seeks no new ticket. He will support Mc- Kinley. As the issue of the campaign pre- sents itself to his mind, the old soldier sees but onecourse to pursue. In the out- come ot the Chicago convention he be- holds a grave danger threatening the Re- public be loves, and he feels that at such a juncture there should be no division of the loyal forces. He is for the people, for the country, for the flag, and will fight under the banner of McKinley now as toy- ally as McKinley would have fought under bim in the old war days, when McKinley was a private in the ranks and Sickles was a general in command. POPOCEATS IN TROUBLE. It is very evident that the Democracy committed a great blunder when it cap- tured the Populist National Convention, or rather when it failed to capture it. The nomination of Bryan ard the rejection‘\of Sewall 1s giving birth to new complications every day, and the differences which dis- turbed the convention are growing into bitter hatred. The Populists are deter- mined that Sewall shall withdraw, as the price of their support of Bryan, and no doubt Bryan would like to see Sewall taken off the ticket, but Bryan’s managers will not countenance the proposition. ‘Whether Bryan's refusal to be Mr. Sewall’s guest after having accepted the invitation is a straw showing the way the wind is blowing or nct, the fact remains that no denial has been made of the Populist charge that Bryan was nominated unaer an agreement that Sewall would be forced off the ticket and Watson made the nom- inee of both parties. In Texas, North Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana the Populists are throwing out feelers to see if they cannot combine with the Republicans on the basis of the elec- toral vote for McKinley and the State offices for the Populists. The Populists do not iriténd that such a trade with Re- publicans should be considered as any re- flection upon Watson, but they do not be- lieve the Democrats can be trusted, and think if they can secure the machinery of their State government by combining with the Republicans it is good politics to do it. The meaning of all this is that the Populists, of the South more especially, would rather see Bryan deleated than elected on a ticket with Sewall. . Senator Allen of Nebraska manipulated the convention so as to secure Bryan's nomination, and if there was a promise to crowd Sewall off the ticket he knows all about it, but if such a promise was ever maae it was not made in good faith; begides, the middle-of-the road Populists now know, if they did not know before, that Allen deserted the Democratic party for Populism at too recent a date to be trusted implicitly, and the same is true of Governor Holcomb. Chairman Butler of the Populist National Committee says in effect that he bas no knowledee of such a ticket as *Bryan and Sewall”; that the’| Populist ticket is Bryan and Watson, and that any fusion in any State with Demo- crats that does not indorse Bryan and Watson will not be recognized. Mean- while the treasury department of the Democratic National Committee is run- ning upon the rocks of bankruptey, and the outlook for relief is dismal and dis- couraging. The gods are “in 1t,” so to speak, and the grinding of Bryan and Sewall is begun. THE NEEDS OF LABOR. While it is a fact that the people will not be satisfied until silver is reinstated in our monetary system, it is conceded that no good would come of opening the mints to the free and unlimited coinage of the white metal unless there is a demand for money in the channels of trade and employment. It would not avail labor anything to have silver coinage if it could tind no work. It would not benefii the merchants to have the mints opened to silver if bis customers had no employ- ment so they could earn money to buy his goods. Just so long as we permit foreign coun- tries to supply our markets with commo- dities our own industries will have to re- main in idleress as will their employes, and consequently it would make no differ- ence how large a volume of circulating money medium we might have the people would get none of it. It is foolish to talk about coining more dollars until our peo- ple are put in a position to earn doliars. Foreign mills and factories send very few articles to this country that we could not manufacture ourselves, but if we do not manufacture them how is labor to be ben- efited by increasing our money supply? Lavpor cannot buy unless it has employ- ment, and it cannot expect emplcyment when its product could not compete with similar product that is permitted toc come in competition with it on the basis of the lowest possible wages. If American labor would stop and rea- son it would know that the industries of this country represent too much money to remain idle forever. It is altogether to the interest of our mill and factory own- ersto pay very high wages. The ethical feature of social life in this country is of vast importance, for it is the wage class that is depended upon to stand between our institutions and foreign aggression, and unless this class is protected by the Nation against attacks upon its opportu- nity to labor at good wages, it would lose interest in the Government itself. Hence itis of the utmost importance to our in- dustries and commerce that labor be encouraged to maintain & high sense of duty to the Government. But if labor will not co-operate with the owners of industries to keep their schedule of wages at the highest pc:silzla point by supporting such public measures as will protect the industries against the product of the low wage schedule of Europe, it follows that our mills and factories will have to be abandoned, or else wages will have to conform to the wages paid in other countries. 1f American labor wants work at good wages, it must sustain the source of its employment and wages. It must demand as its right whatever pro- tection is needed to secure its paymaster against attack by those who would rob hin: of his opportu to pay. DEMOORATIO ADVICE. The advice of Democrats to Republicans is that the tariff guestion should be elim- inated from the campaign and the money question be made the only issne. The ad- vice is quite gratuitous, and will not be heeded. There are reasons plenty why the Democracy should want nothing said about the tariff, but there are too many idle wage-earners and too many idle indus- trial plants &ying out ‘o be delivered from Democratic tariff tinkering for the Llepub- lican party to be silent. Until the Wilson act became operative labor had all engagements it wanted, and wages were highly remunecrative, but for two years and a half the most conspicuous feature of America’s industrial Jife has been' cold furnaces, idle machinery and hungry men and women and chiidren. No, thisis not the time to “let the tariff question rest.” On the contrary, it is the paramount issue before the people, and without it the campaign would be as meaningless as the play of “Hamlet” would be with the Dane left out of the cast. The Republican party realizes fully the importance of the money guestion and it . proposes to give it all the consideration required, but it is good business sense to first start the money-making enterprise and look after the money when there is business to do. The Republican party is committed to bimetalism, but its first purpose is to get the commerce and the industries of the country in shape to use money. No doubt there will be great activity in shop, mill znd factory as soon as Major McKinley's election is assured beyond a doubt, for the people will know that the adjustment of the money ques- tion is sure to follow close uvon the heels of the resumption of business in the now inactive channels of trade and traffic. No close observer of events during the past fortnight has failed to detect a grow- ing sentiment that the tariff question needs the Government’s attention before anything else. Not that there is any yielding to the demand for the reinstate- ment of the silver dollar as redemption mouey, but labor and capital are begin- ning to see that free silver coinage alone would not start the wheels of industry, and hence labor and capital are now de~ manding that the present free-trade law be repealed and something as good as the act of 1890 be substituted for it. After that public sentiment will want a bime- tallic currency established as soon as possible, A RIGHT MOVE. The mercantile and manvfacturing as- sociations of San Francisco have started a movement to increase the foreign com- merce of this Oity. - It is a good and timely endeavor to secure that which legitimately belongs to this trade center, and no doubt the effort will have the substantial sup- port of all the business enterprise of San Francisco. The plan is to send represen- tative business men to the several trade centers of the countries that are nsturally tributary to San Francisco and solicit closer commercial refations with them. That the plan is feasible there is no dount whatever, New York and other Atlantic coast points, as well as Chicago and other interior trade centers, have built up an enormous commerce with South America, more especially by send- ing representative merchants and manu- facturers to explain the advantages of their cities as markets in which to sell and buy. The expense of such ventures is nothing in comparison to the good results that accrue, and 1t is to be hoped that San Francisco will profit by the experience of Eastern cities and speeaily undertake the enterprise. If a large commerce ‘were established between this City and foreign markets, the necessity for a merchant marine and new reciprocal trade relations would be the strongest argument that could be sub- mitted to Congress by Government en- couragement, both in legislation and subsidies. The possibilities of San Fran- cisco as a center for the accumulation and distribution of commercial commodities are practically without limit, but we must go and possess ourselves of the business if we would have it. PERSONAL. Franeis L. Lux of San Jose is at the Palace. Dr. W. C. Deane of New York City is at the Baldwin. E. N. Borg, proprietor of a store at Enreka, is in town. George E. Houskin, a business man of §tock- ton, is here. J. B. Ferguson, the horseman, has returned from Montana. v George B. Simpson, the mill-owner of Stock- ton, is in the City, C.V. Daily, & merchant of Eurexa, Humboldt County, arrived here yesterday. A. B. McDonald, a business man of Sonora, registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Thomas E. Dwyer, the steamboat-owner of Sacramento, is here on a business trip. H. C. Woodrow of Salt Lake, who is interested in mining in Utah, is at the Occidental. H. A. Unruh, manager of E. J. Baldwin's Santa Anita Rancho at Arcadis, is at the Bald- win. Dr. F. C. Alnsworth of Los Angeles, surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad, is at the Grand. A. C. Jeffries, father of A.Jeffries Jr.of pu- gilistic renown, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his wife. Robert Devlin of Sacramento, member of the State Board of Prison Commissfoners, is at the Grand Hotel. F. W. Bradley, who is interested in mining at Wardner, in the Ceeur d’Alene country, Idaho, is at the Palace. W. H. Palmer, cashier of the First National Bank of Houston, Tex.,is at the Occidental accompanied by Mrs. Palmer. W. J. Dickey, one of the earliest settlers at Fresno and who has acquired s competence from fortunate investments there,is at the Occidental. Adolph Meyer, the money king of Guatemala, is at the Palace. Mr. Meyer is interested in banking, railway and coffee enterprises in Guatemals. ‘He has been on a visit to the East, Mrs. Pheebe A. Hearst, who has been sbsent in the East and Europe for some months, re- turned here yesterday accompanied by her niece and Dr. William Pepper and his three sons of New York. E. R. P. Moore, member of the Australian Parliament, who has been in the East and Eu- rope for several months past and who arrived here yesterday, left in the evening for home on the steamer Monowai. Superior Judee E. A. Belcher returned home yesteraay after some five weeks’ vacation in Trinity County, where he was trout-fishing. The fish there are very plentiful and of good size. He says hide-hunters are busy in that part of the State, and that much injury is re- sulting to the big game. Hunters are killing the deer for the hides alone. The Judge is of the opinion that every exertion should be put forward to stop the havoc of these hunters, otherwise the game of that part of California will be materially Jessened. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 20.—At the St. Cloud—W. A.Whitney; Imperial—L, Bine, J.T. McCrosson; Hoiland—P. L. Miller, Miss Mil- ler; Ashiand—J. F. Sheridan; Cosmopolitan— A. G. Wilton; Savoy—W. Loaiza and wife, W. Y.and Miss Loaiza; Marlborough—T. P. Spitzy; Netherland—Miss Henshelwood. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 20. — Among to-day’s arrivals are: R.S.Terrill, Los Ange- les, Shoreham Hotel; D. R. Lownder, S8an Fran- cisco, Briggs House. ADJOURNED FOR TEN YEARS. New York World. Justice Elmendorf of Hurley, Ulster County, had 8 remarkable case before him yesterday. For some time past a trespass suit has been in progress before him and the lawyers were fighting every point. Yesterday, when an amended answer was put into the complaint, time was asked to pre- pare an acswer. The Squire asked how long & tims was desired. “Ten years!” was the raply. Surprising asit may appesr, the opposing lawyer agreed, and the court announcea: “Then, be it understood that this case is ad- journed to August 11, 1906, at 9 o'clock in the jorenoon, and members of the ’ur{ can depart hence, to appear again promptly ai that time.” ALLEGED HUMOR. 0ld Party (highly moral)—Do either of you ‘boys say naughty words ? Littie Jim—Well, yer see,Iain’t muchof s band at jt, but Bill isa dendy. Cuss for the lady, Billl—Life. A man may be excused for bLeing supersti- tious when & cross-eyed man tries to borrow $13 of him on Friday.—Minneapolis Journal, “One moment,” said the fated Queen of Scots as ghe perused at the footof the seaffold. I have a last request to make. When you come 10 bury me, and are about to restore my head to my body, be sure to remember one thing.” “And what is that?” quoth the impatient warder. “Just try your best to put it on straight.” And the cortege swept on.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Vortex of Power—What are you going to be when you are Willie ?” asked the men who always asks that question. “se? I'm going to be a policeman and stop trolley-cars right in the middle of the block.”— Indianapolis Journal. Gandler—Did you make much of an impres- sion upon Miss Gneissleigh ? Dumleigh—I did upon her fatner. Heap- parently took me for & great gum. At all events, he fired me.—Boston Transeript. QUALIFIED FOR ONE. Atlanta Constitution. “Iwouldn’t have nary office on the topside of this airth,” said the deacon as he whittled :(::: piece out of the pine box by the grocery “Not guv'nor?” ‘No!” “Ner Congress?” “No, gir!” “Ner President?” ‘‘Well, on second thoughts I mout take Pres- ident, for ef thar's a man livin’ kin’ beat me ketchin’ catfish or killin’ ducks I hain't set eyes on him yit!” AN UNRELIABLE FINANCIAL BA- ROMETER. Los Angeles Times. In 1892, when Mr. Bryan was opposing the McKinley tariff, and indulging in mixed met- aphore of crosses of gold and crowns of thorns, he asserted that one of the many sdvantages that would result from free tradé would be to rlower prices” on ail the necessaries of life. To-day he is vociferating with all the of & foghorn that the country must have silver 10 ‘“raise prices.” One year he is for lowering prices, and the next for ices. One year he knows this, and the e knows that, all of which goes to show Mr. Bryan knows nothing at all about if is the veriest tyro in statesmanship that thisor a:y other known country bas ever yet p. g AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Deputy Sheriff Earl Daggettof Tulare, the youug official who had the terrible hand-to- band gunfight with Bandit Dan McCallon a Southern Pacific engine, near Visalia, last March, is at the Lick. 3 Mr. Daggett is the youngest deputy sheriff in the world, so far as is now known. He was formerly a student at Berkeley, and completed his freshman year there in 1893. He was too young to vote for his chief last election, not being 21 till November 13 last. He went into office in January after,and had the thrilling ex- perience which made his name famous over the coast exactly five months agolast night. Daggett is a spare built, tall and beardless young man. He told how he and Deputy Sheriff G. B. Reed had heard that Bandits Dan McCall and Si Lovren were 10 attempot to rob the train that night, and they got on the engine expect- ing the highwaymen-would flag it. Instead of this, however, they had boarded the train and came on the blind baggage to the engine. » “‘They covered the engineer and fireman,” Deputy Sheriff Earl Daggett of Visalia, a _time when the dent administration of affairs by Republican Presidents and Con- gresses had created a yearly surplus. It accom- plished its purpose by reducing or repealing tariff duties on such manuifactures as by a long course of ?roleonon had become wholly or partiaily seli-sustaining and by adding to the duties on industries that evidéntly, needed more protection. Thus it increased the duty on tinplate, and by so doing created an American industry that gave emgloyment to thousands. It reduced the duties on most forms of manufactured iron. It increased the duties on pottery ware and gave & new impetus to ceramic art in the United States. Itincreased the duty on wools and multiplied the flocks and fleeces of the country. Itadded tothe duty on shoddy and by so doing well nigh banished that filthy and disease-engendering substitute for wool from the American market. It repealed the duty on sugar, and by so doing it brought sugar down to *‘twenty pounds for a dollar,” for the first time in American history. But while cheapening the price to the consumer by re- peal ot the duty, it stimulated the production by & bounty upon every pound of maple, beet, sorghum or cane sugar made in the United States; this bouuty, virtually, if not specifi- cally, was payable out of the surplus of rev- sn\x‘e that remained after the reduction of uties » It cannot be too ciearly understood that the Who Fought and Killéd the Desperate Train-Robber, Dan McCall. (Sketched from life by a “Call”" artist.] said Daggett, ‘‘and shot Reed through the left shoulder. As I turned around McCall shot me, and I shot him with forty-two buckshot, letting go both barrels of my shotgun at once. “Did he ever know what was the matter with him? Never. He never feltit. Imaaesa hole in him that you could stick both arms through. He didn't know I hit him. “As to his shot which struck me, it hit me on the right side, broke two ribs and carried a piece of one and several thicknesses of cloth through me, grazing my liver and passing out about an inch from my backbone. “The thing didn’t hurt me at all at first. It felt just like a splash of icewater, the lead was 80 cold. ButIthought the wound was iz my groin, and as I contemplated it I thought it ‘was all day with me. But later, when I found out where I was hit I knew I was all right, for I had studied anatomy enough to figure out that my vital parts had not been struck. “Did I suffer afterward? Yes, a thousand deaths. They fed me on morphine till no amount had the slightest effect on me. But I got through it at last, and I had the satisfae- tion of seeing Si Lovren, who survived and who was arrested, sent to the penitentiary for life. Deputy Sheriff Reed wasn’t hurt much. He was up and arourd in three days.” Deputy Daggett is taking a rest here and en- joying the cool weather, under whose influ- ence his wounas are fast healing. PESSIMIST AND OPTIMIST. How foolish is the pessimist, Desponaent and foriorn, Who always, when he gets a rose, Goes hunting for the thorn. ‘The optimist has better sense; The charm of life he knows. He doesn’t mind a scratch or two, If he can get the rose. 8o do not be a pessimist, Cankered with discontent ; ‘The optimist bas heaps ot fun ‘That doesn't cost a cent. —Somerville Journal. PRESS THE TARIFF ISSUE. New York Recorder. There is & consensus of opinion among the shrewdest political observers in the West and in some of the Southern States that the people are turning to the question of protection as the paramount issue of the campaign. The Recorder has all along predicted thatsuch ‘would be the fact when the Populist clamor at Chicago and St. Louis had expended its wild, unreasoning force and the tornado of talk was atan end. Not a day should be lost in pressing the tariff issue. Itshould be heard in the press and on the platform from now on foreibly, vigorously, eloquently. The vicious teaching of the Dem- ocratic organs and orators on this question for four years is the poison that must be eradi- cated from the mindsof the voters—farmers and artisans alike. Grover Cleveland, more than any other man, disseminated the economic leprosy of free trade. Itisidle to hope that he and his friends will move a hand to remedy the evil they pro- duced. It would mean self-stultification on theirpart. They are now playing into Bryan's hands by discussing issues which they and they alone have been instrumental in raising, WANT ADS IN LONDON. The following advertisement appeared in the London Truth: “Wanted by a dowager too aged to ride a cycle (84), an experienced lady cyclist accus tomed to the very best society. Must be able to ride twenty miles an hour, so &sto keepin sight youngest daughter, who is agile and in- judicious. Apply to A. B. C., 62 Belgrave Bquare. qln other advertisement in the same paper a tfll jperone wants a position, and says of her- self: ‘A lady, highly connected, is prepared to chaperone (on a cycle) the ambnronnmd-ngh- ters of a miilionaire. "Is an expert in all paces (cycling). Can be trusted to-keep alongside of the swiftest detrimental, and to lag dls- creetly in the rear of an eligible younger gon."” WILSON LAW AND McKINLEY LAW. Chicago Inter Ocean. The title of the McKinley law is: “An act to reducerevenue and to equalize duties on im- ports, and for other purposes.”” Nevertheless, it was sssailed by the Democratic press as though it were an act to increase revenuesat McKinley law did not add to the volume of revenue; it reduced it. Its merit lay in its wise and equitable readjnstment of tariff duties. It admitted a larger number of ar- ticles to the free list than any previous tariff law had done. It strengthened the weaker in- | dustries, while it withdrew some measure of aid from the stronger ones. It was the most eq}uluble revenue law ever devised. he men that repealed it nave brought a deficit where there previously wasa surplus, and thev have donme this by crushing the weaker industries while leaving the stronger ones as well protected as they found them The McKinley law was constructive, the Wil- #on law is destructive in character. LADY'S NINE-GORED SKIRT. The skirt shown here has nine gores—one front breadth, two gores on either side and three for the back. It is snitable for separate skirts, as well as to wear with a waist or basque fo match. A rough brown cloth, with & multi-colored coat waist of velvet, makes a handsome calling gown. Plain tan cloth skirt, with green velvet jacket, is another combina- tion. : A red and black crepon, with round waist of ron of the crepon, r Swhich s & plas red silk, over'which is & p! is suitable for call- with sl‘;eves oi‘the erepon, ing and general wear. or & tgi'lor-mme dress the skirt may be trimmed with braiding at the foot of each seam extending up to the knee in a pointed design. A heavily braided coat is usually 0. : w?l‘l?e model is also suitable for skirts of even- ing dresses. TRUTH INADVERTENTLY SPOKEN. Realands Citrograph. The Los Angeles Herald heads an article, «Goed Times Coming with the Manufacture of Beet Sugar.” True enough. Good times will come with the operation of all our manufac- tories, no matter of what cBaracter. But the Heraid and its political confreres have done all they could to stop factories—beet sugar and all other kinds. Its free trade heresies open up and run factories—in foreign coun- tr‘f& ‘he Republican protection policy opens and runs factories on American soil and by American citizens. Which is the true policy? THE HYDROCYCLE. Most people prefer to call the hydrocycle the water bicycle. The first factory for its manu- facture is in operation in Washington on the ‘banks of the Potomac River. L. V. Moulton, a Grand Rapids (Mich.) man, invented it, says the Chicago News. He is also the inventor of the machine for sewing but- tonson shoes. The hydrocyeleis & machine about ten feet long and carries two passen- rs. The lower part is two cigar-shaped cylin- :rs of galvanized steel painted black. Atthe end of the cylinder 18 & small rudder, which can be moved at will by the person on the seat. The cylinders are light and are fastened to- gether b? transverse steel bars on which is laid a floor of galvanized zine curving up in front like a toboggan. A few feet behind the curving prow is the seat, which is nothing but a strong chair of wood firmly fastened in ?lm This is the passenger’s seat, and of itis the bicycle seat, where sits the driver, his fect resting on pedals, whose chains run from the cranks to the wheelhouse in the stern of the machine. The handlebars in front of the driver are used At the rear of the ma- e is the wheel which Kro‘p!lu the affair, It is a double one, with eight paddies fashioned like the paddle-wheels in river steamers. There are lights for use at night and the pas- senger can help the driver by working cranks with his hands. The whole affair weighs 225 ounds and can attain a speed of ten miles an Koux without much exertion on the part of the riders. The machine cannot be upset ou ac- count of the distance between the cylinders. —_— PEOPLE TALKED, ABOUT. It is anndunced that Baron Hirsch’s widow has donated £4,000,000 to promote the emi- gration of Russian Jews to Argentina. This use of Baron Hirseh’s vast wealth is in har- mony with his own benefactions when living. to guide the rudders. chife “El Tito.” a famous Spanish toreador, was recently killed in a bull-fight at Perpignan, France. The animel that killed ¢‘El Tito” had taken part in many battles and had in conse- quence became abnormally artful, often trick- ing his foes by wholly unexpected means. Thomas Wilson, assistant commissary gen- eral of subsistence, is now on the army’s re- tired list. He wasa West Point classmate of McPherson, Phil Sheridan and Schofield. More than twenty members of that class of 1853 lived to hear themselves called “General.” The last letter written by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was written to the Ladies’ Home Journal. Mrs. Stowe did most of the literary work whieh made her name famous before the death of her husband, Professor Carleton E. Stowe, which occurred in 1886. The Queen, through United States Embassa- dor Bayard, will send an expression of her thanks to the citizens of Ocals, Fla., for the kindly sentiment contained in an address ac- companying some leaves from a magnolia tree which the people of Ocala recently planted and dedicated to her Majesty. A curious blunder was made on a tablet in the public library building in Kansas City, which tablet was unveiled last week. It is in memory of Horace Greeley and his name is spelied “Greely.” A mew tablet will at once be substituted. When that eminent educator, Dr. Wayland, became president of Brown University, he began expelling at such a rate that the trus- tees were alarmed. To their remonstrances he replied: “My resignation is at your dis- posal, gentlemen, at any time; butif I remain here I am going to have good order in Brown University if I expel every student!” George T. Angell of Boston says: “That is the kind of backbone wanted to-day in many of our irre- ligious institutions of learning.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MisstoN Rocg—J. W., City. Mission Rock, in the bay of San Francisco, is owned by the Cali- fornia Drydock Company. QUEENSBERRY—S. C., City. The Marquis of Queensberry rules that govern the prize rings were drawn up by the elder Marguis, ScieNTIFIC NAMES—E. G. 8., Livermore, Cal. The botanical name of yerba santa is Eriodyc- tion glutinosum and that of barr or heart clo- ver is Medicago maculata LorD RAYLEIGE—E. G. 8., Livermore, Cal For a letter to reach Lord Rayleigh it should be addressed *‘Lord John William Strutt Ray- leigh, Royal Society, Burlington House, Lon- don, Eng.” TrEES—J. F., City. Yes, there are male and female trees. Take, for instance, the date palm; the polien of the male tree has to be carried to the female flower by insects or the ;Vln‘fili in order that the female tree may bear ruit. To GERMANY—P. E. W,, Kelsey, Cal. The fare to Germany from San Franecisco varies accord- ing to the style in which a person wishes to travel, running from about $80 to as much as & traveler wishes to pay. The time occupied ranges from sixteen to eighteen days. CrviL SErvICE—Inquirer, City. There is no newspaper published in the United States that is devoted to the eivil service, but there isan annual publication issued by'the Government that is known as the report of the United States Civil Service Commission, which tells all that has been done during the year. PoLiIcAL—S., City. In the United States Senate there are 44 Republicans, 39 Demo- crats and 1 People’s party; in the House of Representatives 246 Republicans, 104 Demo- crats, 6 Populists and 1 Silverite. The Re- publicans are in power in the State of Cali~ fornia as well as in the City and County of 8an F’rfilncisco—lhut is, they hold the majority of offices. SAN FRANCISCO PAPERS—P. E. W., Kelsey, Cal. The foilowing is & list of the papers pub- lished in San Francisco: The San Francisco CaLL, Abend Post, Sontags Post, Breeder and Sportsman, California Demokrat, Sontags- blatt, California Staats-Zeitung, Chronicle, Commercial News and Shipping List, Commer- cial News and Record, Bulletin, Evening Post, Examiner, Journal of Commerce, Voce del Popolo, Law Journal, Le Franco-Californien, L’[talia, Report, Tageblatt, Le Petit Califor. nien Argonaut, Bien, California Christian Advocate, The Fruit Grower, California Journal, Orchard and Farm, California Turf, California World, California Volks- freund, Coast Seaman’s Journal, Eleva- tor, Field Sports, Grocer and Country Merchant, The Hebrew, Jewish Times and Messenger, Livestock and Butchers’ Gazette, Mining and Secientific Press, Monitor, Music and Drama, Occident, Pacific Chrisdian, Pa- cific Methodist Advocate, Pacific Rural Press, Pacific Town Talk, Political Record, San Fran- cisco News Letter, Vestkusten, The Nation, Wasp, Wave, Pacific Churchman, Wine and Spirit Gazette, Book and News Dealer, Com- mercial Traveler, Golden Gate, Pacific Coast Wood and Iron, Pacific Educational Journal, Record of Medicine and Surgery, Medical Journal, The Workman, Foresters’ Advocate, Druids’ Journal, Our Country, The Sentinel, Institute Journal. BesT peanut tafly in the world. Townsend's,* —_————— Glasses 15¢. 738 Mrkt. Sunday Kast shocstore.* ———— DR. C. O. DEAN, dentist, formerly of 128 Kearny street, has reopened at 534 Kearny. * ——— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, ‘business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * Gold or Silver? One of the best publications on the great question which is now absorbing the attention of the people is the production of M. A. Miller, entitled, “Gold or Silver?” It is the most logical and clearest exposition on the subject yet to hand, and should be read by every man who has the welfare of the nation at heart. Price 15 cents. For sale by The Bulletin, 623 Montgomery street. . REMEMBER IT. Modesto Herald. Remember “Cleveland and Dollar Wheat.” Don’t be bamboozled again. Cheap Excursion to St. Paul. 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. B. as St. Paul, to be held there September 2t05. The excursion will leave San Francisco and Sacra- mento August 26 at 7 P. M. Hates $87 90 for the round trip. The above rate Is open to all who wish tomake the trip East. Send your name and ad- dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Markes treel, San Francisco, {or sleeping-cak reservacioas ———————— Are You Going East? The Atantic and Pacific Rallroad—Santa s route—is the coolest and most comfortablesnm- mer line, owing to its elevation and absencs > alkalidust. Particularly adapted for the trans- partation of {amilies because Of its palace draw- ing-room and moaern upholstered tourist sleeplag. cars, which run dally through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and ila charge of attentive conductors and porters. 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