The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1896, Page 16

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUYN 25, 1896. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION AND PROSPERITY. THE CAUSE OF AMERICAN LABOR, It Finds Its Earnest Cham- pion in the Repub- lican Party. INTERESTING PROBLEM. Relations of the Two Great Par- ties to the Toilers of the Land. THE LEADERS COMPARED. The Future Prosperity of the Country Is in the Keeping of the Workingman. There are in the United States fifteen millions of men and women who earn their living by working for wages as dis- tinguished from salaries, and it is the existence of this great wage-earning class which makes the maintenance of society a problem. So long as this great body of men and women are employed steadily and at good wages they and those de- pendent unon them are large consumers of the product of factory and farm, and | this makes the factory prosperous, the farm prosperous and every department of business prosperous, for the wages of working men and women are poured at once into the channels of trade, making money abundant and business good. It used to be said that ‘“when the farmer is prosperous everybody is prosperous,” but it has more recently been discovered that when the laborer is not prosperous no one is prosperous and that the cause of labor | is the cause of all. It will be remembered that in the par- able of the householder, when the pro- prietor came out to the gate at the eleventh hour and inquired, “Why stand ve here all the day idle?’ the answer he received was, ‘‘Because no man hath hired us,’”” and from that day until now there has ever been the same answer to the same question. If there are idle people it is because there is no one to employ them, anda therefore in order that there may be work for those who want something to do there must be something for the employers of labor to do also. When there is nothing that capital can do to make money there | is nothing that the laborer can do to earn | money, and again the “cause of one is the cause of all”’—the cause of the laborer is the cause of the employer, and the canse of both becomes the cause of the Republi- can party. Those parties and politicians which profess great iriendliness to labor and hostility to capital are demdgogues. | They champion labor’s cause only that they may get labor’s votes. If there isto be work to do there must be some one to furnish that work, and if there is no one to hire labor then labor stands all the day idle, business is dull, money tight, prices are low and labor troubles convulse the social system. A ship sails out of the Golden Gate bound for Liverpool and it carries away 3000 tons of wheat grown in the San Joaquin Valley. The labor cost of pro- ducing a ton of wheat in the San Joaquin Vali y is about as follows: Plowing, 30 cents; harvesting, 80 cents; hauling to the railway station, 30 cents; total on board cars, $130. This wheat when placed on board ship at Port Costa will be worth about $18 per ton and the 3000-ton cargo will be worth $54,000. Of this only $3,900 will have been paid to farm labor and $50,100 will go to other American in- terests, among which is the labor attend- ant upon hauling to Port Costa by rail and loading aboard ship, for which seryices 50 cents per ton may reasonably be allowed, half to the railroad men and half to the longshoremen. This brings the total sum paid to American labor out of the product of 3000 tons of wheat up to $5400. “All the rest—$§49,600 goes to other interests. If we estimate a day’s wotk on a California farm to be worth §$1, then that cargo of wheat sent out of the Golden Gate represented 5400 days’ work done in America and whose product is to be exchanged for the product of days’ works done in some other country. Suppose that this cargo of &merican wheat is taken to Sydney or Melbourne and is there exchanged for scoured Aus- tralian wool. Of the cost of producing scoured wool, baled and compressed ready for shipment, 80 per cent goes to labor, and therefore the exchange, otherwise fair and a good barzain for both countries, would nevertheless mean $43,200 paid to Australian labor in producing the wool | against $5400 paid to American labor in the production of the wheat; 43,200 days’ work done in Australia at a dollar a day and only 5400 done in America, and yet free-traders would have workingmen believe that such an exchange is no injus- tice to American labor! Or, suppose that this cargo of wheat were sent to England instead of to Austra- lia, and there exchanged for Bessemer pigiron. The total labor cost of producing a ton of pigiron at an ordinary English furnace is $3 30, and a ton of pigiron at the furnace will be worth about as much | as a ton of wheat on the cars at any inte- rior station in the San Joaquin Valley, therefore our cargo of California wheat will exchange for a cargo of pigiron ton for ton. But in the production of that 3000-ton_cargo of English pigiron there was paid out $9900 to English labor, whereas in the production of 3000 tons of California wheat and putting it on board the cars in the San Joaquin Valley there was paid to American labor only $3900, a iifference of $6000, The production of e wheat gave the American workmen 00 days’ work at a dollar aday. The EW D. COVERED WITH SCALES Eczema made its a) ce on my head i its worst form, and it continued sypmndin: until my face was covered with scales and be- came a horridsight. Ihadafinehead of hair, seven years’ growth, and had to i was in d even to face was smooth and my and finer than it had ever been before. ., Miss MARION A.SMITH, Sunbury, Pa. BPEEDY CoRE TREATMENT. — Warm baths with CUTICURA BoaP, gentle applications of CUTICTRA (ointment), and mild doses of CoTz- OURA RESOLVENT, greatest of humor cures. Bold, the world. Price, CUTICURA, 80e.; Boar, 25c. 3 4%, s Resouves, bic. and 81 Porrzx brue |} o~y nmm’v'v’unu-n."-ufm. production of the pigiron gave to English labor 9900 days’ work at a dollar a day, and yet the wheat was exchanged for the iron *‘even up,’’ cargo for cargo, ton for ton, and American labor was wronged by tbe exchange. So we see that every ship that comes to our shores laden with goods made in an- other country brings not so much goods as davs’ work done in the country from which the ship sailea. Days’ work done eisewhere are not done in America, and when they arenotdone in America that Jeaves just so many less days’ work to be done in America and by American work- men. [f those days’ work cculd not bave been done profitably in America, then no wrong has been done to American labor; but if they could bave been done in America to a reasonable advantage, and were not because of a free-trade tariff policy, then American labor has _been wronged, and grievously wronged. When- ever a raw product is exchanged for a finished product American labor is cheat- ed, for the reason that less labor is re- quired to produce the raw than the fin- ished product. To quarry a block of marble out of the ground and putitona car may consume a day and cost a dollar and a half, but to fashion that marble into a piece of statuary will require many days and command many hundreds or | even thousands of dollars. The one is a raw product of labor, the other isa fin- ished product of labor and art; and when- ever a saipload of American farm prod- ucts—wheat, corn, cattle—is sent abroad and exchanged for scoured wool or woolen goods, pigiron or steel rails, the exchange means few days’ work done in America (for machiaery does tlie most of it) and many days' work done in some other country by other workmen. Now the McKinley policy is to safeguard American labor in the only way possible— by producing at home all the things which can be produced at home to an advantage, | all those things in the production of which | the most labor is employed—and the things which cannot be produced’ in this | country to advantage, why, they are to | come 1n free of all duty, so that peoplecan | zet tuem just as cheap as possible. If was because Mr. McKinley stood most promi- nently for this policy that the rank and file of the Republican party demanded his nomination, and never ceased their de- mands until he was nominated by over- whelming numbers. Mr. McKinley is a thorough American, and, while he wants 1o see all the world happy and prosperous, he rightly believes that it is America’s duty to lcok out for Americans and for the interests of American lubor. Other coun- tries can do the same. If Mr. McKinley is elected—and the laboring men of America | must say whether he is to be elected or not—the tariff on wool will be restored, so that the sheep tenders, shearers, wool | scourers and pullers of America and not | Australia shall find something to do, | instead of “standing all day idle.” The | tariff will be raised on woolen manufac- tures so that the woolen-mills of America, | 70 per cent of which are now idle, may go | to work, and whatever other industry needs protection will receive it. Every cargo brought to our shores to be sold will pay for the privileges of our markets, and not be permitted to grind American labor down to the foreign standard of wages and | of iving. Money will be kept at home | which now goes eisewhere, and days’ work will be done at home by American laborers | which are now done elsewhere by foreign | laborers. This is what McKinley stands for. | On the 16th of March, 1892 (page 2355 of the Congressional Record), Mr. Bryan said: “1 want to say as emphatically as | words can state it that I consider it as false in economy and vicious in policy to attempt to raise at a higher price in this country that which we can purchgse | abroad at a lower price.” | _ Again on the 20th of March, 1892, Mr. Bryan assailed the protective theory as follows: *“I am not at this time complain- ing of a revenue tariff. What I denounce is a protective tariff, levied primarily and solely for purposes of protection. It is false economy and the most vicious polit- ical principle that ever cursed this coun- try.” On the same occasion Mr. Bryan took pains to declare his position more ex- plicitly by saying: ‘‘When we give fo the manutacturer free raw materials anc free machinery we give to him, I think, all the encouragement which a people acting under a free government like ours can legitimately extend to an industry.” In other words, Mr. Bryan is a pure free-trader and if elected will do ail in his power to abolish the protective system, which strives to aid American labor by | having, so far as possible, all the things consumed 1n our country produced here by our own workmen and substitute for that policy a policy which will seek to have our wool all grown, scoured and baled in Australia, taken to England and | manufactured into clothing and brought | here and exchanged for food products | which are created with little manual labor | and much machinery and horses, leaving our American laborers to “stand all the | day idle”” because ‘‘no man hzth hired | them,” the hiring being done in another country and the wages being paid to another people. Workingmen of Califor- nia, can there be any question as to which of these men is your friend and represents your interests? | Under which banner are you going to | enlist for this campaign? Will it be under the banner of a hybrid organization which has abandoned principle and ven- tured all in a desperate effort to retain office? Will you intrust your welfare and that of your country to a leader who is an avowed iree-trader; a man who does not believe in protecting home industries or | home labor, and so declares; a theorist, a | dreamer and a man without practical ex- perience in the executive affairs of gov- ernment? If so, Bryan is your man and the ‘‘popocratic” party is your party and its ticket is your ticket. Or will you enlist under the banner of a party which for thirty-five years has de- fended the Nation and the credit of the Nation against assauits from within or without? - A party which, having freed the slave, also made free from a competi- tion which wouid have degraded and per- haps enslaved the workingman of America, and raised his earnings from a y-arly per capita of $288 in 1860 to $484 in 1890, makinf the American workingman at once the largest producer and largest consumer of products on the earth? And what manner of man is William McKin- ley? He is a man ripe in years, ripe in experience, both as a legislator in Con- gress and as an executive of one of the E"" States of America; a boy soldier, | but a man orator whose weighty declara- tions tor a score of years have been potent in the conncil halls of his country; a man who has made a profound study of the well-being of those who toil because early convinced of the supreme truth that the Nation could not fare well while the toilers who do the Nation’s work were ‘hu:mg ill, the cause of the workingman | being the cause of all. The only guaranty lor the future is the past, and the only warranty which any man or party can give to the people who are asked for their suffrages is the record which such party and its candidate has builded up. The record of the Republican party and the record of William McKinley are both open books which those who run may read, and this party and this man are the only party and the only candidate for the Presidency who are running on their record in this campaign. Therefore, you who toil that you may live, work and talk and vote for McKinley and prosperity. Your own future and that of your country is 1 your keeping. —_— The Phillippine Conspiracy. MADRID, Seary, Aug. 24.—A special commission hus been appointed by the Government to inquire into the matter of cohspiracy aiming at the separation of the Phillippine lIslands, which was recently discovered at Manilla, and is believed to have been organized by a committee of Phillippine refugees in Hongkong baving relations with the Cuban repels, ONE million will read “Mechanics’ Fair Daily.” Advertise now. Mysell Rollins,22 Clay,* |FREE TRADE 1S EUROPE'S FRIEND, Fallacies of Democratic Doctrines in a Strong Light. CALIFORNIA INJURED. Where Local Industries Suffer From Bryanism, Foreign Factories Thrive. PROTECTION THE ONLY HOPE Strangling Effect of the Wilson Bill Upon Home Trade as Shown by Statistics. As heretofore shown in a series of arti- cles on various phases of the tariff ques- tion, protection has always proved a great blessing to the manifold industrial inter- ests of this country, while free trade has been in the past, as it is now, a blessing to the manufaciuring nations of Europe. It may be shown by recurring to the commercial reports of the wool and other interests of the country that ever since the Wilson bill went into effect there has been great activity among the factories of Europe. It comes directly home to Californians to hear the opinion of one of their vwn business men on the condition of affairs in Europe. R. J. Techau, the well-known propriator of the Good Fellows’ Grotto in San Francisco, has just returned from a four months’ tour to Europe, and he says there is no doubt that Europeans are more greatly pleased with free trade than with any possible phase of American politics; that they ignore the silver question as having any possible bearing on their af- fairs, and hope for the continuation of a Democratic tariff that will enable them to manufacture for the American market. Among other things Mr. Techau said: The Europeans in general are running their factories day and night, turning out articles for export, and as soon as McKinley’s election is announced they will be shipped in immense quantities as rapidly as possible, in order to get them in before & high tariff law goes- into effect. Ispenta greatdeal of time in Copenhagen, Carlsbad, Ostend, Nuremburg, Brussels, Dres den, Berlin and Stockholm, and Ifound the same conditions prevailing everywhere. In Germany and Belgium particularly, where I traveled s great deal, I saw miles of factories running all night by electric lights; and to their full capacity. I inquired in every place as to the cause of the unusual acuvity, and was told that it was due wholly to the prospect of a high tariff in America. Mr. Techau learned that the Wilson tariff, while it has destroyed wages in this country, has helped the “condition of the workers of Europe by making & great de- mand for the multitudinous articles ex- ported thither. Another striking sign was that American importers were numer- ous. The bare possibility of a Democratic victory, however remote, pleases them, but the chances of McKinley’s success have stimulated business in Europe as it bas not been stimulated for years. Mr, Techau continued as follows: On an English railway train I found myself in & compartment with five other persons, and four of them were the agents of American im- orters on their way 10 Germany to buy goods or this year, and next as well, in anticipation of tariff legislation by the next Congress. All classes in Europe, {rom the laborer to the man- ufacturer, are discussing the tariff question, and all fear the results of a McKinley victory. The finencial question is barely mentioned there, and when questioned concerning the effect of free coinage Europeans simply shrug their shoulders and say: “That will hurt America alone, but & high tariff will hurt us” The condition of the laboring classes throughout Northern Enrope is first-class, by reason of the demand for goods for export Lo America. How does the present poor condition of labor in the United States compare with its condition under the McKinley law? The best authority is Joseph Nimmo Jr., Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, and like statisticians. At the end of the first year under the McKinley bill Mr. Nimmo was able to say without fear of contradic- tion that there had been renewed pros- perity. Ameng other things he said: The people of the State of New York have been deeply interested by the recently pub- lished annual report of the Commissioner of Labor. That officer shows that the net value of the increase in the production of the whole- sale manufactures of the State,since the pas- sage of the McKinley Act has been $31.315,- 130; that the increased wages paid to labor in those industries has amounted to $6,377,925, and that the increase in aunual wages during the last year has amounted to $23 11 per capita of persons employed. The Superin- tendent of Banking of the State of New York also reports simultaneously an increase of over $85,000,000 in the deposits of the sav- ings banks of the State, chiefly the deposits of laboring people. These important statements fully confirm all that has been hereinbefore stated as to the benefits conferred by the Mc- Kinley Act. But even these statements are of small mo- ment in comparison with the transcendently important fact thatduring the last thirty years of protection, agriculture in New York has en tered upon & new life; that in all parts of the State an almost innumerable number of man- ufacturing industries of every conceivable de- scription have sprung up, the value ot the an- nual Ymfluct of which amounts to hundreds of miliions of dollars, and that these indus- tries afford employment to hundreds of thou- sands of men, women, boys and girls, at the same time supplying the invaluable advan. tages of reliable and persistent markets for a large share of the agricultural products of the State. Besides, agriculture and manufactures have become related and correlated in ten thousand different ways, the two branches of industry in many instances beine interdepen- dent parts of a single establishment. Ali this has resulted in a commerce which has greatly stimulated and increased the trade and financial interests of New York city, and of every other city in the State. It has also pro- moted the welfare of every ciass of laborersin the State, and of persons employed in clerical and professional occupations. One of the undeniabie results of protection under the McKinley act is that new industries are constantly springing up in this country and being transplanted to this country from Eumre. Hardly a week passes without public intelligence of such change of location by some important English, mmfh or Germany indus- try. The State of New York is securing her full snare of these acquisitions. But wuat could be more natural or prover than that manu- facturers should seek a loeation in the country in which they find their chief market ? ‘What has Bryanism to offer to compare with such a showing as this? The free- traders are helpless in the presence of facts, and whether it be the opinion of a careful statistician or that of a traveler from afar the conclusion is alike strong that free trade and ruin are as much synonyms as protection and prosperity. ashen s i SPANISH-AMERICAN CLUB. An Intelligent Audience Listens to Eloquent Addresses on Cam~ paign Issue Every seat in California Hall on Bush street was occupied last night by the members of the Spanish-American Re- publican Club. The principal speaker of the evening| was ex-Governor Romualdo Pacheco, who proceeded to enlighten his countrymen on the issues of the campaign. He said: *‘The fundamental sentiment of the Re- pubiican party is love for our country— our whole country. We are for the Union, one and undivisible, now and forever. *‘Our country is confronted by a peril, not between the North and South, but of a political nature and one of the gravest in its history since 1860. It is an attempt by the Democratic parcy to paralyze industry by using all the power of the Government to take property ?mm the hands of those who created it and place it in the hands of those who covet it. “The propositions submitted to ‘the American people by the convention are outragecus. The success of the ticket headed by Mr. Bryan would be an irrepara- ble calamity, not only to our country but to civilized society everywhere.” R. R. Duckworth, Sylvester Shaben and James Kidney made short speeches, after which the meeting was entertained with music by Professor Luciano Mojica and an orchestra oi mandolins and guitars and a piccolo solo by Marciano Nava. e MISS ANTHONY GLAD. The Veteran Suffragist Says She W s Charmed and Delighted With the Mass-Meeting. “I consider last Saturday night’s meet- ing in the Auditorium one of the grand- esc affairs of tne sort that I ever saw, and I have seen many.”’ Miss Susan B. Anthony was seated amid a group of ardent woman-saffrage work- ers, all, like their veteran leader, delight- ed with the enthusiastic formal indorse- ment which the suffrage plank in the Republican platiorm had received at the great mass-meeting. “It was a clean, dignified meeting,” went on Miss Anthony. “There was pothing about it that savored of person- ality, nor a single coarse allusion of any sort. Now, I know a little about political meetings, since I have been going to them for half a century or so, and for propriety, moderation and good taste this one seems the peer of any that I have attended and by far the superior of most. “Of course, my main interest in the gathering was to see how the woman-suf- frage plank would be handled. So much seemed to depend upon the party’s hearty sponsorship of the measure that I was on the anxious seat all the time until I saw how things were going. Little by little the subject was reached. One or two kindly, resvectful references to it were made by those grand speakers, and then Mr. Scott spoke so feelingly and so truly of woman’s proper sphere in the social fabric that I felt like cheering him at the top of my voice. However, the crowd saved my lungs that exertion. “And then came Mr. Shortridge’s clear, well-defined, flat-footed statement of his party’s position, given with all due pre- cision, as so formal a statement of a great issue should be given, yet with an enthusi- astic friendliness so evidently real and so contagious thatthe whole audience seemed to be of one mind with him. I could not cheer, I could not applaud. All I could do was to restrain the tears of joy which seemed determined to force their way from eyes which had never gazed upon a grander scene. The loud plaudits of that vast as- sembly, cheering the cause to which I have devoted my life, seem still to be ring- ing in my ears, making me feel younger and bappier than ever before in my public life. To me it is no small matter that thils great State seems to be about declaring for the right. “*As to Mr. Knight’s introduction of Miss Shaw, it was, in my opinion, the acme of surpassing refinement. He displayed the delicacy of a gentleman presenting a lady, and at the same time there was in his words and manner every indication of that comradeship with which the truly high-minded man treats his equal. Mr. Shortriage had sounded the keynote of the campaign in clarion tones. Mr. Knight seemed to take up the strain as one instrument responds to another in a grand orchestra. 1t was a fitting intro- duction to Miss Shaw, and she was plainly enthused by it. And then the cheers that greeted her, and the bursts of applause that compelled her to interrupt her ad- dress at (requent intervals—the whole thing was simply glorious. “I must, however, exercise an old woman’s privilege and find fault with one thing—there were too many women there. Bonnets filled the house and crowded upon the stage, while thousands of men— voters—were turned away. I felt like get- ting up and telling the women to go home and stay there until after the campaign is over. What business have the bonnets at a political meeting while their owners can- not vote and merely deprive voters of the seats to which they havea right? Next year party leaders will welcome bonnets as gladly as the now welcome bald heads, but until then no woman should go to a political meeting and usurp a voter’s seat. “‘However, bonnets and all things else to the contrary notwithstanding, the memory of that great meeting will be one of my brightest recollections in the time when I ghall be able to work no longer. I doubt if the innate nobility and chivalr; of Californian manhood ever shone 10::{ with brighter luster.” S A Noted Fenian. Captain Thomas Desmond is a candi- date for the Republican nomination for Superintendent of Streets. Captain Des- mond in 1876 chartered the whaling vessel Catalpa from New Bedford, and, with a number of picked men, rescued six Fe- nian prisoners from Fremantle, Austra- lia, and landed them safely in New York. These men had been sentenced to death for treason by the British Government and their sentences had been commuted to imprisonment for life. TELEPHONE LITIGATION The Western Electric Company of Chi- cago Secks Protection in the Courts. It is reported that the Western Electric Company of Chicago, constituting the manufacturing branch of the American Bell Telephone Company, has insti- tuted suits against the Standard Tele- phone Company in the United States Circuit Court for the western district of ‘Wisconsin, on the infringement of the fol- lowing patents: ¢ 22&258, 309,617, 303,714, 209,926, 27,522, These patents are said to cover tele- phone connections, bell apparatus, switch- board appliances and general office mech- anism, upon all of which the American Bell 'felepnonu Company holds unexpired patents. The apparatus of the Standard Tele- phone Company is used at Marquette, Mich. ; Jacksonville, Fla.; Madison, Wis.; Portland, ‘Or., and San Jose, Cal., all of which companies are vitally interested. These suits are independent of the Ber- liner case, covering the basis patent of the transmitter, now pending in the United States Supreme Court. —_———————— Hailed the Chief. The Rincon Hill Outing Club climbed to the top of Mount Tamalpais last Baturday night and on Sunday morning, as the sun climbed lazily over the Berkeley hills, they ran a banner to the top of the flag- staff on the eastern peak and the sun ilded its folds as it floated out on the %reen. There was upon it a picture of McKinley, the Republican candidate for President, and as the crowd on top of the mountain saw it they burst into a cheer that started the birds from the trees in the canyons far below. There were nearly 200 people waiting to see the sun rise and they divided t‘hnlr attention between the rising orb of day and the picture of the leader upon which its rays glinted. There was not a Bryan man in the crowd. e e———— The Plumed Knights. The Plumed Knights’ Drill Corps, organ- ized twelve years ago, under the leadership of Captain John E. Klein, and at that time a crack organization, has been reorganized for the present campaign with a roll of seventy-five names, composed mostly oi members of Companies C and G, First Regiment, N. G. C., the “Nationals.”” The officers are: Captain, John E. Klein; first lieutenant, J. A. Christie; second lieuten- ant, Elmer E. Parmalee. Drills will be held on Wednesday and Friday evenings at 815 Ellis street, National Guard Hall, at 8 o'clock. e o T T The Labor Unions. At the meeting of the Sandstone-cutters Union last evening the report was made of a rumor that stone-cutters on the new ferry depot would be required to work over eight hours as soon as the stone work begins. A committee consisting of George Wright, Theo- dore Sutton and Daniel Howard was appointad to interview the Labor Commissioner to-day and ascertain how long it will be before the stone work begins and how many hours the men will have 1o labor. At a meeting of the Golden Gate Lodge of Plasterers last evening the entertainment committee reported that nearly every prepara- tion has been made for the ball that will be held on the evening of Saturday, September 26, in B'nai B'rith Hall, Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union 483 last evening decided to accept the invitation of the San Francisco Labor Council to partici- ate with that body in the Labor day cele- ration. —————— A gentleman must, by custom, kiss every lady he isintroduced toin Paraguay. NEW TO-DAYXY. mossssssssse! SPECIAL SAVING SALE FLOWER POTS. To make room for large shipments now y arriving we have di- (f \ W[f vided our entire stock ( of English, Rich Solid a) fiColor Jardinieres into A >/ o three lots, regardless of ~7 Dg price. They go at 35c, '._ 55cand 80c. A splendid & Flower-pot cheap. Forty Black Wrought-Iron Stands, suita- ble for holding above pots, also go at 75 cents and $1.50 each—worth just double, chance to buy a pretty H H Ah hold Family Measuring Jars, necemics for measuring liquids, sugar, flour, etc., on special sale at 25 flfl“ts THAT BIG CHINA STORE— A Quarter of a Block Below Shreva’s. WANGENHEIM, STERNHEIM & CO. 528 and 530 Market St., 27 and 29 Sutter St., BELOW MONTGOMERY. sessssssssse LEVIN BROS Leading Grocers Special For TRis Week, CHAMPAGNE CIDER. Carbonated Sweet Cider (non-alcoholic), se- lected and pressed from hand-picked pippin apples, bottled expressly for us by the New Jersey Cider Co., Camden, N.J. We have re- ceived the agency for this celebrated Cham- pagne Cider, and in order to introduce it to our trade have placed the price at Full quarts 15¢; $1.80 a dozen. Regular price $3. ZWETSCHGEN WASSER. Direct importetion from Germany of Zwet- schgen Wasser (prune whisky), from the Black Forest of Germany. Bortle 81. 2 5—regular price $1.75. CLARET AND ZINFANDEL. Pearl Vineyard, Napa County, Cal.: vintage 1890. Zinfandel, qts., $2.50 doz—regular price $3.50 Zinfandel, pts., $1.75 doz—regular price $2.75 laret, quarts, $2.00 doz—regular price $2.756 Claret, pints, $1.50 doz—regular price $2.00 LOVERS OF GOOD COFFEE. Fresh arrival of our celebrated Mohammed Fancy Roast Coffee—35¢: 3 pounds, $1.00. Regnlar price 40c. COAL OIL. Standard Ol Co. 5-gallon can _ 85¢c Star Coal Ol .5-gallon can $1.00 ...5-gallon can $1.20 BUTTER. Choice Point Reyes Creamery— Squares 35¢; three squares for $1.00. Telephone South 398 Send For Monthly Price List Free. Country orders promptly attended to, Freight paid by us when within 100 miles. 1324-1326 MARKET ST. Opposite Odd Fellows’ Hall AND 134 SIXTH ST. & SAN FRAncisco. C00R. 10tk AND WASEINGTON ST, 1784-1736 SEVENTE STREET By Our Shoes OAKLAND BRANCHES You Shall Know Us. Every Shoe that goes out of our Factory carries our reputation with it; we stand or fall by what we seil. Look at a few of our store full of bar- gains in Ladies’ Fine Shoes: Ladies’ Fine Vici Kid Button Boots, patent tip, Needle, Opera and Yale toes........$2.50 Ladies’ Fine Vici Kid Button Boots, patent tip, cloth top, Needle, Opera and Yale . m ..82. 50 toes. Ladies’ Extra Fine Button Boots, patent tip, all styles of toe. $3.00 Ladies’ Extra Fine Vici Kid But ton 8, cloth top, patent tip, all styles of toe....$3.00 Same style as above in Lace. Big Shoe Factory, 581-583 Market St. (NEAR SECOND). Store closesat 6:30 P. M. SGaturdays, 10P. M. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOOD:! A CLOSING-0UT SAL ATRACRDINARY MAGNITUDE | 5300,000 WORTH DRY 600DS. FANCY G008 CLOAKS TO BE SACRIFICED! A Few of the Prodigions Bargains Comprising This Week's Offerings! DOMESTICS, WASH GOODS, ETC. At 5¢ YARD | THE HEAVY-GRADE TENNIS FLANNELS, full assortment, all new and serviceable. At 40 YARDISHIRTING CALICOES, the full standard cloth, large line of At 5¢ colorings. YARD | WIDE-WIDTH HEAVY PERCALES (light grounds only), about 25 pieces in all (were 10c). At 70 YARD | YARD-WIDE FRUIT OF THE LOOM MUSLIN, soft finish. At 5¢ At 20¢ T227| YARD At 40¢ Al $42 FAE At $1oEAcE At bbe FE At 6o 22 At 4e YARD EXTRA SPECIAL. YARD |GOOD GRADE WHITE SHAKER FLANNEL; also UN- BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL, nice grade. BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK, well made and durable (s great bargain). 50 pieces EXTRA HEAVY CREAM TABLE DAMA’SK, 60 inches wide; a close, solid weave (was 60c). 2 cases SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT HIGH-GRADE LAMBS' ‘WOOL WHITE BLANKET (value for $7.50). 2 cases 12-4 HEAVY ENGLISH MARSEILLES SPREADS, already hemmed, in several new patterns (value $2 50). 4 cases 10-4 WHITE BLANKETS, nice and fluffy, well made (were $1). GOOD GRADE TWILLED CRASH, Irish Linen, well made value for 10c. TWILLED COTTON BLEACHED TOWELING, a nice fabric— and serviceable. A large accumulation of Remnants of FINE AND MEDIUM TABLE DAMASKS to be placed on sale at large reductions. HANDKERCHIEFS AND LACES! At 5 Cents Each. LADIES’ WHITE HEMSTITCHED LAWN HANDKERCHIEFS, plain and with open work corner and initial, worth $1 20 per dozen, will be closed out at 5¢ each. t 124 Cents a Yard. CAMBRIC, NAINSOOK AND SWISS GUIPURE EMBROIDERY, regular grics 20¢ and 25¢, will be closed out at 12}4c a yard. At 18 Ceonis a Tard. BUTTER AND TWO-TONED POINT &’IRLANDE LACE, 6, 7 and 8 inches wide, regular price 30c, 40c and 50c, will be closed out at 15¢ a yard. LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS. At SO Cents. LADIES’ WAISTS, made of good quality percale, in all fancy shades, latest styls goods, with bishop sleeves, worth $1 and $1 25, will be closed out at 50c each. LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS, in fancy lawns and At 7S Cents. rcales, latest styles, laundered col- lar and cuffs, regular price $150 and $1 75, will be closed out at 75¢ each. LADIES’ LAUNDERED SHIRT WAISTS, in di : ured percales, this season’s goods, regular price $2 and $2 50, will be ¢ $1 each. At S1.00. es, lawns and utrii)ed dnud fig- osed out at RIBBONS AND PARASOLS! NO. 7 ALL-SILK At S Cents EXTRA QUALITY COLORED SATIN AND GROS-GRAIN RIBBON, in assorted colors, will be closed out at 5¢ a yard. t SO Cents. A UARRIAGE PARASOLS (unlined), in black only, will be closed out at 50¢, worth $L t 78 Cents. A CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in black only (unlined), worth $1 25, will be closed out MEN’S FURNISHING GOODS! at 75¢. 10 Centss. At 110 dozen LARGE-SIZE LINEN CAMBRIC COLORED BORDER HEMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS, warranted fast colors, regular price $2 a dozen, will be closed out at 10c each. 18 Cents At N PER-WEIGHT SEAMLESS NATURAL GRAY WOOL HALF HOSE, = dr‘;?:h%?ariee $3 a dozen, will be closed out at 15¢ a pair. t 25 Cents. A 290 dozen LATEST STYLE CONSUELO TECKS AND GRADUATED FOUR-IN- HAND TIES, regular price 50¢, will be closed out at 25¢. HOSIERY AND CORSETS! t 12% Centms. A 93 dozen CHILDREN’S BLACK RIBBED SEAMLESS COTTON HOSE, double heels and toes, fast black, regular price 20c, will be closed out at 12}4c & pair. 20 Centss. At 75 dozen LADIES’ 4THREAD BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, high-spliced heels, double soles and toos, Hermsdorf black, regular value $4 per dozen, will be closed out at 20c a pair. At 60 Cents. 75 dozen LADIES’ SATEEN CORSETS, extra long waist, high bust, two side steels each side, guaranteed perfect fitting, regular price $1, will be closed out at 60c. . LADIES’ KID GLOVES! Centss. At SO 300 dozen 5-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in black, regular value $1, will be closed out at 50c a pair. At 300 dozen 4-BUTTON ENGLISH WALKING colors navy, red, 75 Centms. i KID GLOVES, embroidersd backs, brown, tan and mode, also black, regular value $125, will be closed out at 75¢ a pair. / Mkl S, camer of Joes MURPHY BUILDING, SAN FRANCOISOO.