The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 29, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1896. SATURDAY. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrler. .§0.18 Dally and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daly and Sunday CALL, stx months, by mail. 3.00 Dally snd Sgnday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .68 Bunday CALL, one year, by mall 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mi 150 THE SUMMER MONTHS. . = ou golng to the COUNITy on & Vacation ? ..“?nf 7o tronble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let It miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californla, Telephone. (ain—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephome......... Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untfl 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth: and Mission streets; opea until § o'clock. 2518, Mission street; open until 9 o'clocks 118 Niuth sireet; open until 8 ¢'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway, EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohlo FOR VICF-PRPSIDENT- GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. e e Cleveland is certainly not saying any- thing, but 1s he sawing wood ? —_— As the Republican platform is a guar- antee of prosperity every citizen should ndorse it. The people wish silver and gold, not sil- ver only, and that is why they will vote for McKinley. No law-abiding Democrat will support an attack on the Supreme Court, in order to please Altg8ld. In practical politics the only way to up- hold Republican principles is to uphold Republican leaders. There is no interest of this country that isn’t threatened in some way by the declarations of the Chicago platform. A short time ago the Democrats were mocking at McKintey because he did not talk, and now they are howling that he talks too much. Before we trust Democrats with the task of revising the currency we had better consider a little what success they had in revising the tariff. When the boy orator started on Lis career.the people put the emphasis on the orator, but they are now putting tne emphasis on the boy. The aim of all true Republicans at this time is to solidify the party, and those who have any other aim are not worthy to be called Republicans. More money in circulation, and not more morey in the mints, is what isneeded to make business good, and so all the busi- ness men of the country are supporting the Republican ticket. ‘We do not mean to say that all support- ers of Bryan would like to see serious dis- turbances in this country, but it 1s certain that all who are seeking to make disturb- ance are supporting Bryan. No one can read the Chicago platform without seeing how grave is the crisis the party behind it has forced upon the coun- iry, and the candidate is every bit as radi- cal and dangerous as the platform. McKinley stands on the money question to-day exactly where he has always stood, and his attitude on that issue ason the tariff has always been consistent with it- self at every stage of his political career. “The future is written in blood crushed out of you by gold,” said Bryan in a speech at Erie; and now the people have to con- sider whether a man who talks like that 1s fit to be President of a well-ordered re- public. Don’t forget that this is the day to leave orders for Tae Suxpay CaLr, and make sure of good reading to-morrow. It will be found to contain matters of interest to every member of the family, including the children. The people have begun to see that Brran is supported by the worst element of the Democratic and Populist parties; and it appears that Bryan sees it also, for it is to. those elements he appeals in ail his speeches. Major McKinley's letter of acceptance put all the issues of the campaign so clearly and so strongly that the voter needs no other campaign document. It points to prosperity and shows the way to get there. “My friends,” said ex-President Harri- son, “as a Republican Iam proud of many things, but I can sum up as the hignest satisfaction I have had in the party and its career that the prospect of - Republican success never did disturb business.” By the time the people begin to under- stand that the Republican party stands for genuine bimetallism as opposed to silver monometallism the Brranites will begin to dodge the money question as eagerly as they now dodge the tariff, The gold Democrats who wish the Re- publican party to drop the tariff issue in this campaign have been well answered by President Harrison in the declaration: “They must not expect that the Republi- tan party will reorganize-itself because the Democratic party has disorganized [tgelf.” ] In 1892 when workingmen had good wages under the McKinley tariff the people of the United States consumed ver 386,000,000 bushels of wheat and over 1,983,000,000 bushels of corn, and the farmer was proaperous, but in 1895 under Democratic conditions the peaple con- jumed but 315,000,000 bushels of wheat ind 1,184,000,000 bushels of corn, and the {armer had hard times and a lesson on the jariff guestion, THE PEOPLE AROUSED. More than 30,000 people applied for ad- mission tickets to Carnegie Hall, New | York, Thursday night, to hear ex-Presi- | dent Harrison discuss the political issues | now before the country. It could not haye been mere curiosity to see and hear the speaker that prompted so many to want to participate in the meeting, for Mr. Har- rison has talked to New York audiences many times and he is by no means a stranger to the people of that city. He is a good platform speaker, but not nearly so pleasing and interesting as Depew, Cockran and a dozen other citizens of New York. It must be, then, that Mr. Har- rison would have something to say which the people were particularly anxious to bear that caused so great a demand for admission tickets. 1t was known that Mr. Harrison would analyze the platform of the Bryanites and point out where and how it made war upon the fundamental principles of the Government, and how the social and in- dustrial strength of the country would be weakened if Bryanism prevailed at the November election. The people of New York feel, as the people everywhere feel, that the country is approaching # crisis almost as serious as the one which con- fronted it in 1861, and it is but natural that they would want information and advice from such a conservative and wise statesman as Benjamin Harrison. The ex-President is never an enthusiast, nor is he ever blinded by prejudice, but he is always a cool, level-headed, logical reasoner who places the general good of the country above everything else. In reading Mr. Harrison’s speech the people will know that if he sees danger to our institutions in any of the declarations of the Bryan party it may be taken for granted that there is danger. If he sounds the alarm it is not because he is an alarm- ist, but because there is cause for alarm. If he warns the people that their institu- tions are threatened the people may rely upon it that they are threatened. When it comes to an issue such as is now before the country, Mr. Harrison reasons along the cold and exacting lines leading from cause to effect, and his deductions may be | accepted as economic truths. Perhaps no man in the United States watched with keener interest the proceed- ings of the Chicago convention than did ex-President Harrison, and this is his con- clusion: *The atmosphere of the Chi- cago convention was sarcharged with the i spirit of revolution. This platform was | carried and its nominations made with accompanying incidents of frenzy that startled the onlookers and amazed the country. *‘The courts and the President were ar- raigned for enforcing the laws, and gov- ernment by the mob was given preference over government by the law, enforced by the court decrees and by executive orders. “The spirit that exhibited itself in this convention was so wild and strangely en- thused that Mr. Bryan himself likened it to the zeal that possessed the crusaders when they responded to the impassioned appeals of Peter the Hermit to rescue the sepulcher of our Lord from the hands of | the infidels. | “His historical illustration was more | potent and more forcible than he knew, | for the zeal of the crusaders was a blina and ignorant zeal; they sought to rescue | the transient and ineffectual sepuicher that had held the body of the Son of Go3d, while they trampled upon the precepts of love and mercy which he had left for their | gnidance in life. | *Hetold us that the silver crusade had arraigned father against son, and brother against brother, and severed the “ties of love. | “Senator Hill, watching the strange | proceedings, had to extend thag brief po- | litical code from which he has gained so | much renown. He felt compelled to say: ‘I am a Democrat, but I am not a revolu- tionist.” “‘Senator Vest, realizing that they were inaugurating a revolution, reminded the | convention that revolutions did not begin | with the rich and prosperous. | “Mr. Tillman felt that the change in the management of public affairs was to be so radical that he proposed sulphur fumigation for the ship before the new crew took possession of it.” WKINLEY AND BIMETALLISM. It is dishonest of the Bryanites to charge Major McKinley with being a gold standard man, for they know they do not tell the truth. There never was a time when Major McKinley was not a bimet- allist. No one can point to a public utter- ance of Major McKinley that could be in- terpreted to mean that he was jor a simple gold standard monetary system, and when he is charged with being an enemy of silver he is grossly and wickedly misrep- resented. In an addressin August, 1891, Major McKinley said: *“If we could have aninternational ratio, which all the lead- ing nations of the world would adopt, and the true relation be fixed between the two meials, and all agree upon the quantity of silver which should constitute a dollar, then siiver would be as free and unlimited in its privileges of ccinage as gold is to-day. But that we have not been able to secure, and with the free and unlimited coinage of silver adopted in the Unlted States at the present ratio, we would be still further removed from any international agree- ment. ‘We may never be able to secure it if we enter upon the isolated coinage of silver. The double standard implies equality at a ratio, and that equality can only be established by the concurrent law of nations. It was the concurrent law of nations that made the gold standard; it will require the concurrent law of nations to reinstate and sustain it.” In his letter accepting the nomination of ‘the Republican party for President Major McKinley says: *“‘The Republican party has not been and is not now opposed to the use of silver money, as its record abundantly shows. It has done all that coula be done for its increased use, with safetv and honor, by the United States acting apart from other Governthents, There are those who think that it has already gone beyound the limit of financial prudence. Surely we can go no further, and we must not permit false lights to lure us across the danger line: “We have more silver in use than any country in the world except India or China—$500,000,000 more than Great Brit- ain, $150,000,000 more than France, $400,- 000,000 more than Germany, $325,000,000 less than India and $425,000,000 less than ‘China. The Republican party has de- clared in favor of any international agree- ment, and if elected President it will be my duty to employ all proper means to promote it. “It is not proposed by the Republican party to take from the circulating medium of the country any of the silver we now have. On the coutrary, it is proposed to keep all of the silver money now in circu- lation on a parity with gold by maintain- ing the pledge of the Government that all of it shall be equal to gold. “This has been the unbroken policy of the Republican party since 1875. It has maugurated no new volicy. It will keep in circulation and as good as gold all of the silver and paper money which are now included in the currency of the country. It will maintain their parity. It will pre- serve their equality in the. future as it has always done in the past.” 1f the above guotations from Major Mc- Kinley’s public utterances are not satisfy- ing then nothing that he could sy would satisfy, for words could not be employed to show any clearer that he has been a consistent bimetailist throughout his public career. But it is not the purpose of the Bryanites to quote Major McKinley correctly, They want to misrepresent him and weaken him with wage-earners, but labor kmows where he stands. It knows he wants the industries of the country opened for the employment of Jabor first, and the mints opened to siiver when labor begins to earn wages. @ WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Every day furnishes new evidences that the men who are supporting Bryan in this campaign are not seeking the remonetiza- tion of silver as a means of restoring bi- metallism, but for some other and far dif- ferent purpose. What that purpose is has never been expressly stated, but it seemsto be the payment ot debts and wages in col- lars having about half the purchasing power of doliars on the present standard. The fact that some such objectisin view is made evident by the refusal of the Bryanites to accept as satisfactory to them any argument in favor of true bimetal- lism. A sufficient illustration of this charac- teristic of the Bryan party is to be found in the Ezaminer of yesterday in an edi- torial commenting upon the recent debate on the money question by John P. Irish and Edwin F. Adam# before the Political Economy Club of this City. The club is not a political organization and party poli- tics has no part in its debates. Mr. Adams! argument was a scholarly, able presentation of the defects of the single gold standard as an equitable measure for the settlement of deferred payments, and in the opinion of all genuine bimetallists amply justified the reputation Mr. Adams enjoys as a writer and. speaker on economic topics and as the founder and one of the managers of the Grange Sum- mer School of Economics at Camp Roache. Moreover, it seemed to many, if not most, who heard the discussion that Mr. Adams had the best of the argument and thtt Mr. Irish evaded rather than answered him. Bimetallism based on sound economic ground, however, is not favored by the extremists, and accordingly we find the Ezaminer declaring the debate to have been ‘‘a political bunko game” and sug- gesting that it was arranged for the pur- pose of allowing the advocate of gold to win a victory over “‘a dummy” champion of silver. It asserted that Mr. Adams had made himself “the tool of a shabby political trick,” and for half a column de- rided in cunning form of speech the whole of thi# discussion, arranged by one of the most thoughtful and earnest clubs in the City. g Pmall as this incident is in itself it serves as one of the illustrations of the tendencies of those who are supporting Bryan. To them a conservative,thoughtful, fair-minded, studious bimetallist is more objectionable than the advocate of the sin- gle gold standard. They care nothing for bimetallism on economic grounds. Their delight isin Bryan when he talks of cruci- iying mankind on the ‘‘cross of gold,” or when, as at Erie on Thursday, he told a mob, “The future is written in blood crushed outof you by gold.”” Any man who does not discuss the money question in that lurid style is denounced as an op- ponent of silver, though he may be among the most earnest in seeking to restore it toits proper place as money metal by en- lightened statesmanship. Fortunately for tbe cause of good gov- ernment, sound business and genuine bi- metallism, evidences of the kind we have pointed out are occurring so frequently and so glaringly in all parts of the Union that the people cannot fail to see what is the purpose of those who are supporting the Bryan ticket. It is not bimetallism they are after. It is not the concurrent nse of gold and silver. 1t is not any mea- sure of conservative or constructive states- manship. It is not anything the intelli- gent student of finance, whether a banker or a farmer, can support. It is something that is to array one section of the Union against another, one class of the people against another; something thatcan be advocated only by threats against capital and by schemes that menace every indus- try of city or country. THE WOOL INDUSTRY. To all our products—to those of the mine and the field, as well as those of the shop and the factory—to hemp, to wool, the product of the great industry,of sheep husbandry, as well as to the finished woolens of the mill—we promise the most ample protection. Contrast this dectaration of the Repub- lican platform with a speech delivered upon the floor of Congress on the Wilson- Gorman bill by W. J. Bryan, who said: “Speaking for myself, it is immaterial, in my judgment, whether the sheep-grower receives any benefit from the tariff or not. ‘Whether he does or does not, whether the wool manufacturer collects & compensa- tory duty from the consumer of woolen goods and pays it over to the wool-grower, or collects it and keeps it himself, or doesn’t collect it at all and therefore does not need it, I am for free wool.”” On that occasion Mr. Bryan not only objected to a tariff on wool, but he ob- jected to the Wilson-Gorman bill through- out, and said concerning it: *“I think the duties all the way through this bill are higher than necessary, and I favor the bill not because of its perfection, not be- cause the duties are brought down as low as they might be, but because the bill is infinitely better than the law which we now have, and is a step in the right direc- tion.” Mr. Bryan can be relied upon from his own testimony to fasten absolute free trade upon the country if he is elected. ‘Why he should have so little interest in the welfare of American labor, and why he should want foreign pauper labor to supply this country with all the manu- factured articles that are consumed by our people is a mystery. Is W. J. Bryan an American at heart? It does not look so. —— INOENDIARY SPEECHES, 1t certainly is unfortunate for the peace and dignity of the country that Mr. Bryan should employ such incendiary speech. The veople do not want to hear anything of the kind, and he mistakes their temper very much if he thinks they do. There is an element in every community that can be relied vpon to appland any one who makes a “spicy speech,” but very many of even that class would repudiate the speaker if he were to ask them to commit an overt act against law and order. Mr, Bryan is a sensible man, or is supposed to Ve, but he shows very little judgment in framing sentences when on the husting. At Erie, Pa., he told the people ‘'not to let the Republican party beguile you about the future.”” *‘The future,” he said, “is written in blood.” “Itis going to be war, and if we lose this time we are going right along and keep up the War until we | win.” Inthesame harangue he said, “It is not for amusement that we are eng; in this contest.” It is not likely that very many of our people will take the man seri- ously, but what will the people of other countries think about it? It makes a good deal of difference to us what they think. Qur trade relations with other countries and the thousands of millions of foreign money that is invested in Ameri- can industries and securities makes it highly important that we do nothing to cast a suspicion upon our business inng_- rity. As a cold-biooded business proposi- tion, based upon our own greed and sgli- ishness, it is to our interest to do nothing that would create a doubt concerning the stability of our institutions and the hon- esty of our purpose to keep our business engagements, As we have said, Mr. Bryan cannot pro- voke the people of the United States to make war upon one another, but the moral influence his wild and foolish threats exert is altogether bad; besides, they create a degree of restlessness in the minds or the people that is well calculated to seriously hinder all commercial operations and make people lose respect for them- selves. Of course Bryan does not want a war of classes, and he knows that he is talking through his hat, so to speak, when he warns his hearers that ‘it is going to war,”’ but he knows, too, that he is light- ing the fires of hatred and sectionalism, and that if he keeps it up long enough he will at least cause a great deal of rioting. It is time Mr. Bryan was thinking of himself as something other than a divinely appointed agent to overturn the world. He shoula try and make himself unaer- stand that he is an accidental candidate of the Democratic party for President, without the ghost of a chance to be elected. “THE SUNDAY OALL. To-morrow’s edition of THE Carr will contain many interesting and novel fe: tures in the way of reading matter and il Insurations, aside from the regular daily record of all the news of the City, State, Nation and world. Most of the special features will treat of California or San Francisco topics and men, andall will at least be written by the men and women of this State. THE CaLn is pre-eminently the Pacific Coast newspaper, and prides itself upon being not only a great news- paper, but the family newspaper ot the coast. While its features are attractive and full of human interest they are yet clean and wholesome, and there is also— particularly in the Sunday edition—a large profusion of what may fittingly be styled the better class of literature. Good literature is not necessarily dull reading, as THE Sunxpay Cann readers know full well. This will be found especially true of the coming issue, as a glance at but a partial list of the contents will show: Some pictures of the Boiters of San Francisco, every one of which you will be sure to recognize. . Chinese or White Girls as Servants? being a chapter from the experience of one wno knows. A House Party at Willowmere in Surrey, which is the further experiences of Mrs. ‘Whitehat in Merry Old England. Figadore and His Castle of Tin—a pic- turesque bit from Tuolumne. A Hale and Wealthy Couple Who Are Life Boarders at a Hospital. One Tale of Witchcraft Wherein the Possessor of a Feather Bed Was Haunted. ‘What Would You Do in Such a Case? This is a weird tale of Death Valley, pre- senting a debatable situation and many surprising effects. The Man Who Cruises for Feathers That Sell for Thirty-two Dollars an Ounce. He Brought Back a Big Sack of Gold From Alaska. Dwelling on the Borderland of Insanity and Suicide, or the Question of a Corre- spondent Answered. That Remarkable Case of the Deathlike Trance in Portland, and an explanation for it. Another Unknown Land in the Northern Mountains. The Amateur Photographer and His Mistakes—Some Suggestions. All the usual features, the novelties in science, art and literature, the fashions, the theaters, the chiidren’s page, and more good things than could be named in a much greater space than there is to spare for the purpose, HIDE AND SEEK. He's there, behind the lily; be's hiding by the rose— A little breeze has told me, and the violet says it S nows. “Come out, my dear, and kiss me—you sweeter thau the rose!” He's llhel’!. among the sunflowers—a blossom of e May. For their golden breasts are bending snd their fire’s flame bis way. “Come out, my dear, and kiss me—you sweeter than the may 1" He's lhe;’a. among the flowers—he's playing hide and seek; The lily leans to kiss him—the rose has touched his cheek. ““You cannot bide, my darling, but Love will come and seek 1" FRANK L. STANTON In Chicago Times-Herald. LADY'S BILYCLE COSTUME. The most appropriate suit for bicyeling, which 1s at the same time comfortable and not conspicuous, is shown here. It consists of knickerbockers, with which leggings should be worn, a skirt to the shoe tops, and a Nor- folk jacket. The skirt is gored and sufficiently wide not to cling ungracefully, Materials of wool only shouid be used. Dust golor or dulli tans are found most serviceable. The entire costume may be made of one fabric, or if that is too heavy, the knickerbockers may be made of satin or satine, The leggin, may be of leather, but if made to match d:: skirt are less conspicuous. A binding or facing of leather on the skirt is be recommended, as it keeps it from cling- ing to the figure and makes it mu likely to get. caught in the wheel. —_— Stephen Tebbetts of Harrison, Me., who was 99 years old last week, has been asailor, diver, cooper, song writer, musician and farmer, and durine the present summer he has done most of the work In his large and beautiful garden. ' ————————— | SUBSCRIBE for The Star, $150 8 year. Business office, 429 Montgomery streets . AROUND THE CORRIDORS. One of the leading men in developing the great petroleum oil resources of Southern Cal- ifornia is Thomas R. Bard of Sants Paula and Hueneme, recently alluded to in THE CALL. He has been interested in sinking a great many weils, a large number of which have | been notable for their production of oil. The oil preduct from Ventura County has ‘been steady and tending to increase for a long isw which added fifty millions a year to the amount of money in circulation, both Repub-| licans and Democrats voting together, led by John Sherman, to repeal it. Has the reader forgotten the reasons given by these Repub- licans and Democrats for stogping the coinage glr:il‘v;arn::;n no‘t, as they claimed, the Ary step to prosperity and to keep the gold at home? Yookpenp’me old speeches andsee. Well, the law was_repealed and they uwBPed coining silver. But what heppened? Did Sherman’s predictions of pros- perity come true? Did gold stay at homer |Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] time. It has added millions of dollars in wealth to that section. The little town of Hueneme, the center of many of the oil wells, is one of the heaviest shipping points on all the Southern Pacific’s line. In thattown Mr. Bard is interested in & bank and in many other enterprises. He bas been in the City lately in connection with the meeting of the Republican State Cen- tral Committee. - Mr. Bard says Ventura County is taking onabetter appearance lately, and gives Inaications of increased prosperity. PERSONAL H. Bridgford of Colusa is in town. Attorney J. C. Ruddick of Ukiah is in town. Dr. C. A. Rogers of Bakersfield is in the City. Dr. R. W. Kent of Sonora is at the Occidental. Thomas B. Bond of Lakeport is at the Lick. L. J. Maddux of Modesto arrived here last night. ‘W. L. Warnekros of Fresno isat the Cosmo- politan. J. Blaine Walker of Salt Lake arrived here yesterday. M. C. Humphrey, & farmer of Grass Valley, is in the City. Dr.J. D. Young of Stockton is paying this City & visit. Ex-Attorney-General R. McClarke of Nevada is on a visit here. J. Block, s mining and business man of Idaho, is in town. Dr. Pnilip Levering of the United States navy is in the City. C. Jordan of Paris is among the recent arri- vals at the California. J. W. Fairweather, a business man of Fresno, is at the Cosmopolitan. Chief Deputy Joseph McCormick has gone to Glen Ellen on & vacation. Jarett T. Richards, the capitalist of Santa Barbars, is on & visit here. George R. Benjamin, a wealthy resident of New York, is at the Palace. Dr. Frank Rattan of Antioch 18 at the Grand, accompaniea by nis family. Roscoe Howard, who 1s interested in & bank at Sau Diego, is at the Grand. A. Abrahams, & business man of Reno, Nev., has arrived here for a short stay. R. H. Miller, a mine-owner of New Mexico, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. Joseph Daly, an old resident of Venturs, ar- rived here yesterday. He is at the Russ, N. A. Hickock, a business man of Fresno, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his wife. Samuel McMurtrie of Lompoe, the Southern Pacific Railroad builder, is at the Palace. Among the arrivals at the Russ is J. E. Mon- ahan, 8 business man of Virginia City, Nev. C.W. Clough, proprietor of the Chico Herald, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his family. M. D. Calkins, the journalist and mining man of Amador, is registered at the Cosmopol- itan. : Mrs. Wedham and family, prominent resi- dents of Monterey, are guests at the Cosmo- politan. E. J. Harris of Detroit, Mich., is in this City, representing Hettermann Bros. & Co.,of Louis- ville, Ky. C. Zregboe, who has been for some time in the Friendly JIslands, was among the arrivals here yesterday. 1. H. Kennedy and family of S8an Diego are registered at the Cosmopolitan. Mr, Kennedy is interested in southern mines. Colonel G. P. Haller of Seattle, owner of the Haller Block in that city and of much other property, and who is widely known in the Northwest, is among the arrivals at the Grand. 8. R. Young, a heavy landowner and proprie- tor of a large general store a Lovelock, Nev., is at the Russ, having just returned from Pacific Grove, where he has been for some time past. Mr. Young is one of the wealthiest men in his section of Nevada. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 28.—At the West- minster, D, C. Conkiin; Imperial, C. Hart; Morton, ¥. H. Carter. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. FOR BETTER TIMES. THAT 18 THE CRY OF THOSE WHO RALLY- AROUND BRYAN'S STANDARD. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Four years ago the Populists were called “calamity howlers” because they said the times were bad; all parties now agree that times are bad, and especially our ' Republican orators, notably those who deplicted our condi- tion as a Nation at the St. Louis Republican convention. But times were bad enough four years ago to induce the people to turn down McKinley, Harrison and the Republican party and install Cleveland aud a Demoeratic Con- gress to sustain him, that we might have better times. Then the hard times were laid to the McKinley tariff and the people voted to have the mlfld Mmddz c;a: Democracy; but it was not done - wlhcxt'nuuumm tepealed the siiver But the issue four vears ago between the Republicans and Democrats was the tariff, and the people voted McKinley and his tariff aud his party out of power because they ‘thought his tariff too high and voted to have it reduced, and reiurned the Democrats to power in order to get it reduced, and it was reduced, but not so very much., How much— rather how little? Reader, dear reader, do you know? Can you find out? If so, how? Who wiil tell you? Has any Republican speaker told you that_the McKinley tariff was bused on a scale of 48.66 per céntand the Wilson-Gorman tariff is 41.75, or only 6.91 per cent less? As “the tariff is & tax,” how much has it reduced your taxes? Isany busi- ness better for it except that of loaning money? Has the tariff, as & matter of fact, judging by your own personal experience, anything tangibie to do with present condi- tions? You were taxed too much under the McKinley vill, as you thought, or as a majority thougnt, including a good many thousands of Republicans, enough of them i) turn the gov- ernment over to the Democrats, and so it was determined Lo reduce the tariff, and now, after it was reduced a very little, end as times got Worse & great many people who have not yet learned to think “and investigate for thém- selves are inclined to go back to McKinley and his tariff, hoping that times will at least be as good as before his bill was repealed. Let me write down here that they will be disap- pointed again, and as an _old- time Lin- coln Republican 1 think I can tell them why. Let me first appeal to the intel- ligence of my reader ana ask if he knows that during the last four months of Harrison’s adminisiration even the Me- Kinley tariff feil short a million a month of &"h'lz Government expenses? And why so? cKinley’s letter of scceptance quotes from Harrison’s last message to Congress 1o show that great industrial developments were made uunder his administration, as a broad hint to the American people that he should have been re-elected. He said: “The new industrial plants established Octo- ber 6, 1890, and up to October 22, 1892, num- ber 345, aud the extension of existing plants 108. The capital invested amounts to $40,- 446,070, and the number of additional em- ployes 37,285. During the first six months of the present calendar year 135 new factories were built, of which forty were cotton-mills, forty- eight knitting-mills, twenty-six woolen-mills, fifteen silkmils, four plushmills and two linen-mills. Of the foriy-two mills twenty- one have been built in the Southern States.”” Now any reader of ordinary intelligence knows that the more we manufacture at home the less we import irom Europe,and hence the less revenue from tariff. Iiisonly a few years since we imported shiploads of rails for our raflroads, and we import none now. Raising the teriff will not raise the revenue; it will then become prohibitive. An income tax and an inheritance tax such s they have in En land wil. raise enough to supplement the fail- ing revenues from imports aud will fall alone on those who are best able to pay it and have most need of government to protect their great properties. ‘What the country needs to restore prosperity is more money, and as the first means to that end we must restore silver 1o free coinage. But saysGeneral Harrison in his great speech in New York yesterday, *‘that wiil drive all the gold out of the country” and reduce the money we have by one-naif. That is an old cry long since discredited by the Sherman law, ana it did not have that eifect during the eighty-three years in which we_had free coin- age, and was not doing it 1n 1873 when silver was demonetized, and there had never been any “dump” of silver during that period of nearly a century. But let us admit that all the gold will go abroad as it did during the war, for gold is a coward and always deserts the country in time of need; is there one reader of I'HE CALL who does notknow that the Government will immediately issue a patriotic paper money and back it by the shme suthority and power which defends the flag? But what will the gold men do with their gold abroad? Where can they invest it to a better advantage than in the United States? ltisan empty threat that gold will leave the country. But if it goes the country will not suffer as it does now under the rale of gold. Bryan’s sup- porters want morc money and betler times, and they know how to secure what they want. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, Aug. 28, 1896. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Archbishop Fabre of Montreal recently or- dained his thousandth priest. R. D. Blackmore has just completed his sey- entieth year. It is twenty-seven years since “Lorna Doone” was first published. The Prince of Montenegro has built a theater at Cettinje to hold 600 persons. It will be opened by a Russian company in opera. The Burns anniversary was more or less cel- ebrated in Germany, where there are many translations of the poe’s works and where some of his poems are favorite drawing-room songs. =The Garretts were originally grocers, and their Baltimore house was founded in 1849, Their first connection with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was by an investment in its Dbonds, which were offered at low prices. Bad dinners, balls, and bazaars are, said Lord Salisbury in & tone of regret, at & meeting in support of the East London Church fund, the means by which subscriptions to hospitals or great works of benevolence are coaxed out of the average man. There must be something wrong 1n the feeling of the laity, he thought, which made these devices necessary. NEWSPAPER HUUMOR. “What a brilliant imagination Cutely must have to jump so suddenly into fame as & nov- elist.” “Nothing strange about it. He made out the bills of a big plumbing firm for years.”’—De- troit Free Press. She—Is young Mr. Elmore so very particular regarding style? He—Is he? Why, he will even turn up his trousers whenever his coffe is muddy.—Buffalo Times. * “Jack is so bashful that when he proposed to me the other night I had to assist him.” “What did you say?” ‘‘Whenever he hesitated I would call out, ‘Play ball.’ "—Chicago Record. “Professor,” said a graduate, trying to be pathetic at parting, “I am indebted to you for all I know.” ‘“‘Pray, do not mention such a trifle,” was the reply.—London Tid Bits. “Didn't you find it dull in the country, Miss Dorothy 2" No; we all learned to milk, and the cow kicked the bucket over on somebody every night.”—Chicago Record. OPINIONS OF COAST EDITORS, A Heroie Sacrifice. Visalia Delta. A leading Democrat of Visalia said anent the political situation: “This is a time when patriotism and not partisanship should pre- vail; when party should be sacrificed for the good of the country—and that is why we Dem- ocrats propose to sacrifice the Peopie’s party.” They Are Acquainted With Bypaths. Los Angeles Times. A San Francisco paper tells of a squad of harpor police having to be detailed to drive a band of sheep through that city on Monday. It is unnecessary to say that there were none of “Buckley’s lambs” in that flock. They know their way in and out of San Francisco alto- gether too well for the good of the city. ‘What Causes Fluctuation. ‘Watsonville Pajaronian. Mexican dollars are quoted daily in San Francisco at about 54 cents. TWo years ago they were down to 47 cents. The American doliar is worth 100 cents to-day and was worth it two years ago. It does not fluctuate, be- cause it passes and is kept as the equal of the zold dollar. It holds that value in Mexico as against the dollar of that country, and yet the exican dollar contains more silver. Should Welcome Competition. Fresno Republican. The competing railroad should receive fair treatment at the hands of all the people and all the newspapers of this valley. The vital importance of the enterprise 1mfentively de- mand s such treatment. To give it less in any community is to blacken the name of that community in the minds of all fair-minded people. Fresno canuot afford to rest under the imputation of hosti'*y to competing transportation facilities which is created solely by the action of & few people. ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS. S1ATE OF WASHINGTON—Several Subscribers, City. The State of Washington wes admitted into the Union on the 1lth of November, 1889, MILLER & Lux—W. 8., City. If there ever was 2 man by the name of Lauterwasser as a part- ner 1n the firm of Miller & Lux the records do not show it. RATIO OF SILVER—G. W. L., Red Bluff, Cal From 1860 to 1873 the ratio of silver to gold was 15.29 to 15.92, there being a slight varia- tion each year. CHAUNCEY Orcorr—E. M. 8,, City. Chauncey Olcott was born in Buffalo, N. Y., and he is about 36 years of age. The name by which he is billed 18 his true name. MILLIONATRES—A. §., Tracy, Cal. It is as- serted that there are millionaires—that is, peo- %‘: who count their fortune by the million—in nmark, Spain and Portugal. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY—A. 8., City. W.J. Bryan of Nebraska has been so busy since his nomi- nations trying to explain what constitutional money is that he has not had time to declare himself on the question of religious liberty. THE AUTHOR WANTED—A correspondent asks for the name of the author of the following lines and wants to know where they are to be found. Canany friend of this department tell: To rest on thy bosom while the night taper ourns And wake ju thy arms when Lhe morning returns. MUST BE OF AGE.—H. R. 0., Soledad, Cal. A girl of 16 canrot, in this State, obtain a license to marry without the consent of parents or guardian. In the case of & girl of 16 who, since the death of her parents had made her home with her grandfather, his consent would have to be obtained, for he stands in the light of a natural guardian. A MEXICAN DOLLAR—J. P. F., Modesto, Cal. The purchasing power of a Mexican dollar in Mexico is not equal to thatof a gold dollar. Purchases in that country sre made on the basis of silver. An American or United States dollar ir. that country is such that il a person contracts a bill of the value of $1, and offers in payment a standard dollar he will be given in return a Mexican dollar. Ir you want fine service, fine c;rrhge’, com- petent drivers, ring up1950. Pac, Carriage Co,* 2 et SRS e S SpECIAL information daily to manufacturers, ‘business houses and public men by the Pressy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————— They Believe It. St. Louls sta: Out in the West, where the mountain tops meet The clouds, which their snowy peaks polish, The children are tanght to belive that Wall street 1s the place Ingersoll would abolish. TOWNSEND'S famous broken candy, 21bs230. [ P — FRESH buttercups, 25¢ & pound. Townsend’s.* —— BEsT peanut taffy in the world. 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