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BRANCH OFFICES: 680 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open umtll k. street; open until 9:30 o'clock. street; open until 9:30 o'cloc £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission siree wntil § o'clock. 2618 Misslon street; open until 8 o'clock. 116 Ninih sireet; open nntil § 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Broadwa JEASTERN OFFICB: ‘Booms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special A THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. — e PATRICTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohlo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey FLECTION —_—— ¥Unleds you support your industry by your .vote your industry won’t support you. What this country needsisa protected “.industry without the consent of other na- tions, The more tke people hear from Bryan the-more eager they are to vote for Mc- Kinley. The one question Bryan never answers is the simple one, “How about free trade?” The American people are devoted to principles and have no use for political | fusions. TheBryan party is made up of all kinds of factions, led by all sorts of cranks, and | if it should get into office it couldn’t work together. > It is hard to find a good Republican who has left his party in this campaign, and it is hard to find a good Democrat who hasn’t. Before we get through with cam- paign it will. be hard to tell whether Bryan is a Democrat, a Populist, a revolu- tionist or a what is i To old Li Hung Chang the tomb of Grant was more impressive than the pres- ence of the living Cleveland, and so in- deed it is to most men. In denouncing wealth the Democratic organs are consistent with their party, for it has done evervthing it could to make the people poor and keep them so. The Indianapelis convention can hardly put together a platiorm of any value in politics, but it can make a rdft for con- servative Democrats to cling to when the tidal ‘wave sweeps the country. As if the Cuban war were not enough for her Bpain has stirred uparevolt in the Philippine Islands, and now General ‘Weyler is likely to have a companion in misery to sympathize with him. So long as foreign goods are allowed to drive American goods aut of the American market, so long will American mills, money and men be idle and American homes feel the pressure of hard times, The report that Cleveland can have the nomination of the Indianapolis conven- tion if he wishes it shows that Democratic leaders never attain to complete good sense, even when they bolt their party. i et The ‘‘honest coin Democrats,’ as they call themselves, claim they will be able to carry Alabama, Florida, Kentucky and Texas, and it will be an interesting feature of the campaign to watch them try to do it. One of the notable features of the cam- paign is the active part which earnest patriotic women are taking on the Repub- lican side, and there can be no question that much of the success of the party on election day will be due to their efforts. In atteropting to make the support of McKinley by Mr. Estee and Mr, Scott appear inconsistent with their advocacy of the remonetization of silver the Demo- crats overlook the broad difference be- tween bimetallism and Bryanism, but the people won’t overlook it. Every investigation into the alleged re- ports of Republican disaffection among farmers of the Mississippi Valley dis- closes a much weaker Bryan sentiment than was supposed. Instead of gaining anything the Popocrat combination is growing weaker every day. The Republican pledge to promote the free coinage of silver by international agreement offers the only solution of the money problem which good business men can accept, and for that reason even the Democrats among them are working with the Repubiican party this year and will vote for M?Kmley. Even if the Republicans of California ° were nct pledged to support the woman suffrage amendment they would find abundant reasons tor doing so in recogni- tion of the effective work that is being -done for the party by women’s Repub- lican clubs in various parts of the State. - Those who have deserved the ballot . ought to bave the ballot. ° A, B. Sheldon of S8herman, N. Y., adver- tises fn the News of that city that for the ;- purpose of assisting those who believe in _ the white metal he will buy all kinds of . livestock and pay extra bigh prices for them in Mexican dollars. This is giving ~a chance to the Bryanites of the State, ° but we have heard ot none of them taking . it. - Some may accept Bryanism as poli- tics, but no gne wishes it a4s a business . nroposition. | President and Vice-President. | declare | quite to his liking. WILLIAM M'KINLEY. Major McKinley grows in public favor quite as fast on his personal account’as he does on account of the principles he stands for as the representative of the Republican party. Delegations of workinemen, farm- ers and managers of great business enter- prises call upon him every ‘day, and they go away impressed by his manliness and thorough Americanism. He realizes !hrfl be is not only the leader of the Republi- can hosts, but tiat conservative men of other parties are flocking to his banner, and that responsibilities of great weight and purport are soon to be placed in his keeping; but instead of parading his own importance, as his competitor does, he takes the people into his confidence and confers with them. Major McKinley has every reason to believe that so sure as November comes g0 sure will the people call upon him to direct the affairs of the country. He is facing a grave and weighty responsib he knows, and like a true man of the peo- ple, he mingles with the people, that he may be in touch with them. Major Mc- Kinley does not speak of “my platform,” nor say what “I will do’’; nor does he try to set brother against brother; but the burden of all his utterances is the good of all the people. He talks of protection be- cause it is back of protection where pros- perity jes. He talks of patriotism because he loves the institutions of his country better than he loves the glory of being President. He talks of opening the shops and mills and factories because he knows that labor, without reference to party affiliation, in need of employ- ment. He talks of the possibilities of America because America is his birth- place and Americans are his fellows. There is no pomp or ceremony when the people come to Major McKinley in throngs, but it is like a gathering together of fel- low-citizens who have come to exchange greetings and plan for the good of every man snd woman and child in all this broad land. The people assure him of their confidence in his high sense of right and 1n the integrity of his manhood, and he asks for their moral support in the mighty work of rebuilding the places laid waste by a mistaken policy in the conduct of their public affairs. That honors are being thrust upon him Major McKinley well knows, but he bears them as one who realizes that they mean duty, and who will do bis whole duty. is his splendid marhood revealed as the days come and go, and every day is re- vealed more of his lofty Americanism and his sincere devotion to the best interests of his fellow-citizens. The St. Louis con- vention builded wiser than it knew when it nominated William McKinley. If we coin a sitver dollar of full legal tender, obviously below the current value of the gold dollar, we are opening wide our doors and inviting Enrope to take our gold. With our gold flowing out from us we shall be forced to the single silver standard, and our relations with the leading commercial counfries of the world will be not only em- barrassed but'crippled.—James G. Blaine. SIMON-PTRE DEMOORATS, The National Democratic party will meet in convention in Indianapolis, Ind., to-morrow to rominate candidates for The best brains and the conservatism of Democracy wiil be there and a clear and strong declaration ot principles may be expected. The Bryanites say it will be a convention ot bolters, which is in a measure true, but as the wmanagers of the Indianapolis affair that the Chicago convention bolted the principles and traditions of the party, the convention to-morrow will be the only National convention of the Simon-pure Democrats held this year. Bryan himself is perfectly willing that his wing of the party shall be called “‘Bryan’s | party,” for that kind of claptrap glory i He refers to the plat- form of the Chicago convention as *my platiorm” and to the principles it declares for as ““my principies,” and in many other ways he impresses the public with the idea that it is Bryan and not any party or any declaration of principle that the country is in need of. The fact is apparent, though, that every Democrat who has become distinguished by the force of his own character is giving support to the cause for which the In- dianapolis convention stands, and would very much prefer to see Major McKinley elected than to see the country turned over to Bryanism. In thatrespect these Demo- crats are tryly patriotic, and it proves that when it comes to a showdown they are for the good, peace and prosperity of the coun- try first. No doubt they honestly believe that if the people would elect their candi- dates the country would be very much bet- ter off, but as between Altgeldism and Republicanism no choice is left; that Altgeldism is not to be accepted at ail under any kind of circumstances, and that Major McKinley will at least give the nation an honest and dignified adminis- tration. There are very many prominent Demo- crats, however, who will not give aid and comiort 10 the Indianapolis convention’s purpose—not because they have departed the faith, but because they believe the better way to crush out Bryanism is to support Major McKinley. Bourke Cockran of New York, Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, Professor Jones of the California State University and John Mar- tin of San Fiancisco are among the old- line Democrats who will vote for Major McKinley for *prudential reasons.” Of course there is a2 bond of sympathy be- tween all true Democrats and all true Republicans just now because Bryan is threatening interests that are common to all, and there is no reason why they should not work in perfect barmony to overthrow one who proclaims hostility to our system of government, as does the man from Nebraska. I have believed, and. believe to-day, that any system that maintains the prices of labor in this country and brings hope into the life of the laboring man, that enables him to put by, is the policy that shouid be our American policy. 1 have resisted in many campaigns this idea that a debased._currency could help the workingman. The first dirty errand that a dirty dollar does is to cheat the working- SILVER AND GOLD MONEY. The supporters of the Chicago nominees must be getting alarmed when they try to strengthen their cause by charging that the Republican party is the enemy of bi- metallism. Bryan himself says the St. -Louis platform declares for bimetallism, only that it does not provide for a direct enough way to eecure it. The fact is, the Chicago platform does not mean bimetal- lism by either a direct or an indirect way. It means silver monometallism pure and simple; whereas the declaration of the Republican party is emphatic in its de- mand for the employment of both gold and silver by commerce. It may be saxd without fear of success- ful contradiction that the plan of the Re- publican party to make the silver dollar the equal and companion of the gold dollar as redemption money is the only More and more | feasible solution of the problem. Indeed it is not a problem at all if examined from a common business sense standpoint. It resolves itself into the one provosition of all parties in interest agreeing upon a plan for giving the metals a common basis of debt-paying and purchasing power. No great amount of common-sense is needed to understand that in matters in which two or more are interested all in interest must agree to any changein the form of conducting their mutual affairs. This is the way the Republican party views the question of bimetallism, and it proposes to invite aill who are in- terested with us in a commercial way to join with us in fixing a basis for increasing the volume of circulating money by giving the silver dollar the same standing in the channels of trade that the gold dollar has. It isnot a question of gold money nor of silver money, but a question of money enough w0 supply the demands of com- merce for money, and since silver and gold possess qualities which no other metalsdo for that purpose, the reason- ableness of the proposition to have those who would employ the additional volume meet and agree upon a plan for maintain- ing the new additional issue on a parity with tne old should be plain to every thinking person. The Republican party is committed to bimetallism and itis com- mitted to oppose both silver and gold monometallism. In my opinion there is mo issue presented by the Chicago convention more important or vital than the question they have raised of prostituting the power and the duty of the National courts and the National executive. The defense of the constitution, of the Su- preme Court of the United States, and the President’s power and duty to enforce all of the laws of the United States without await- ing the call or consent of the Governor of any State, is an important and living issue in this campaign.— Ex-President Harrison. THE TIDE HAS TURNED. The convention of conservative Demo- crats called for the purpose of repudiating Bryanism will find on meeting at Indian- apolis nothing more to do than to provide a refuge for themselves. Bryanism is no longer a serious menace to the country. Republicans have met it so vigorously, in- dependents have denounced it so firmly, and the common-sense of the people has so0 spontaneously rejected it, that nothing is left for conservative Democrats to do except to get on the side of good citizens and save themselves from political ruin by giving notice they are not responsible for the Chicago platform and ticket, and do not intend to give them even the support of silence. There has been in all sections of the country a notable failing away from the Popocrat fusion. Sincere advocates of free silver coinage and the restoration of the bimetallic financial system who were at first inclined to support the Chicago ticket and even showed some enthusiasm on its behalf have taken a sober second thought and will no lorger have anything to do with it. This diminution of zeal on the part of intelligent bimetallists is ob- served in all sections of the Union, not excepting such strong silver States as Colorado and Utah. The free-ccinage tide is in fact falling as rapialy as it rose, and it is now doubtful if Bryan will receive as many as 100 electoral votes. For the change that is coming over the advocates of bimetallism many causes are apparent. In the first place, the Republi- can pledge to promote the free coinage of silver by international agreement is to most men a more valuable assurance of a return to bimetallism than is offered by the wild pledges of the Chicago platform and the Chicago candidates. In the sec- ond place, the importance of the tarif issue is growingin the minds of all en- geged in protective industries, and they do not care to run the risk of free silver coupled with free trade, closed mills and idle men. Moreover, the Chicago plat- form is an open attack upon the constitu- tional powers of the President and the Supreme Court, and the speeches of { Bryan have exhibited an unmistakable sympathy with Altgeld, Tillman and others who procured the adoption of the revolutionary planks by the convention. Each of these causes taken alone is suf- ficient to turn men of business away from | the Bryan movement, and in the aggre- gate they constitute a force too strong to be resisted by any save the most hide- bound partisans. Western men who have been advocating the free coinage of silver for years and Southern men who have been brought up from infancy in the faith of Bourbon Democracy are either coming out openly for McKinley or are announc- ing an intention to vote for the conserva- tive Democrat to be nominated at Indian- apolis. A poll taken recently by the presi- dent of the Farmers’ Association of Indi- ana snowed that of the 50,000 members of that organization abont 40,000 will vote for McKinley and sound money. Equally good reports come from the Southern States. Kentucky will not vote for Bryan. West Virginia is sure for McKinley and Tennessee is about as sure. The tide, in fact, has turned. Bryanism will be ex- havsted long before election day comes round. Now, I put it toyou as men of sense, plain men of sense, would you lend money if you had it to any man or set of men, or any na- tion which you knew was trying to devise some way whereby you would get back only haif of it? You may not, like a silver man, understand currency. You may not be able to dally with statistics, but you do understand that simple proposition. 1f you were a busi- ness man would you make things on a gold basis and sell them on credit to a people who were trying to see if they could mot pay you on a silver basis 7—Tom Reed. ABOUT THE WOOL IfiDUSTRY. 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.—ERepublican National Platform. To this W. J. Bryan says: ing for myself, it is immaterial in my opinion whether the sheep-grower receives any benefit from the tanff or not. f am for free wool.” The eolicitude of the Republican party for the well-being of the sheep industry and the indifference of Mr, Bryan merks the difference between Republicanism and Bryanism in their attitude toward all the American peopie. If Mr. Bryan’s utter- ances on the ariff question mesn anything at all, they mean that in his opinion the citizens of the United States shounld have no advantage in their own country over citizens of other countries who would dwarf our industries that their own might prosper. Mr. Bryan dces not appear to be imbued with the spiritof Americanism, nor does he seem to have pride in the greatness of the possibilities of his coun- try. Why be should be more solicitous for the welfare of the labor and the busi- ness enterprises of other countries than for those in his own land is a question he alone can answer. By and with the aid and consent of Mr. Bryan the sheep industry of his feliow- countrymen has been ruined by legisla- tion which depreciates the value of Amer- ican wool and increases the value of foreign wool. Since the Wilson-Gorman tariff act became operative Ameérican wool has sustained an average decline in price of 42 per cent and foreign wool had advanced 9 per cent. In the great wool market of the world, London, England, the average price of wool was about 51 per cent below the same qualities in this country from 1867 to the end of the operation of the McKinley law. The Wilson-Gorman act has not only wiped out ali that, but has, as we have said, advanced wool prices in London 9 per cent and lowered prices of American wool 42 per cent. In view ot these facts Mr. Bryan should explain to American sheep-raisers why he says, “I am for free wool.” Some idea of the disastrous results of the operation of Bryan’s iree-wool policy will be had when it is said that tixe excess in raw-wool imports during the first year ofthe Wilson-Gorman act over the last year of the McKinley law was, in round numbers, 190,000,000 pounds. The excess in imports in rags, waste, shoddy.and similar material during the same period Was, on the basis of unwashed wool, 50,- 000,000 pounds. The excess in the impor- tations of wool in manufactured form, ex- clusive of shoddy, etc., in the same period was 90,000,000 pounds. This makes the total excess of importations of wool, shoddy, etc., in raw material and manu- factured goods, for the first year of Bryan’s kind of a tariff as compared with the last year of the McKinley act, 330,000,000 pounds. Not only has Bryan’s tariff policy enor- mously increased wool and wool product 1mports, thus bringing our wool industry in competition with low-wage countries, but it has forced a ruinous reduction in the price of American wool. Then there should be taken into account the flocks of sheep that have been slaughtered and marketed as mutton because prices of wool under the Wilson-Gorman law do not justify keeping sheep for the clip. It would be very difficult to get at the exact loss the wool and woolen-goods industries have sustained under Bryan's free-trade law, because the loss to labor on account of being forced into idleness could not well be ascertained but that it may be counted by the tens of millions there is no doubt whatever. N PER>ONAL. ‘W. T, Ellis of Marysville is at the Palace. F. A. Farnham of Boston is at the Palace. J. C. Whitbeck of Sacramento is at the Ra- mona. Runyon of Red Bluff arrived here yes- J. G. McInerney of San Bernardinoisat the Cosmopolitan, John W. Mitchell, the ati geles, is in town. Senator R. Snider of Tulare arrived here yes- terday, and is at the Lick. Among the arrivals at the Commercial is 8. F. Cochran of Pheenix, Ariz. J. W. Logan and wife of Florence, Ariz., are guests at the Cosmopolitan. J. H. Rutherford of Stanford University is registered at the Cosmopolitan. H. G. Plummer of Seattle, Wash., is among recent arrivals. He is at the Russ. J. A. Murphy, & prominent business man of Paso Robles, is at the Cosmopolitan. George . Vigovich, a business man of the City of Mexico, is at the Commerelal. Charles E. Millay, a merchant of Nevada City, and bis family are at the Ramona. Telfair Creighton, editor of the Los Angeles Herald, errived here yesterday for a few days' stay. roey, of Los An- Charles F. Montgomery, editor and pro- prietor of the Anticeh Ledger, is at the Occi- dental. | F. E. Stranahan, the popular Populist, isat | the Ramona, wnich he makes his home while | in San Fraacisco. | J. R. Miller, United States revenue officer, | with headquarters at Vancouver, B. C., is at the Commercial, J. Marion Brooks of Los Angeles, ex-United | States District Attorney for Southern Cali- | | forfiis, is at the Grand. John §. Dore, the well-known miadie-of-the | road Populist of Fresuo County, is on a visit | here, and fs at the Lick. W. C. Brady of Washington, D. C., Chief of | the Accounts Department of the Upited States | Lend Office, urrived here yesterday. Superior Judge W. M. Conley of Madera ' County, the youngest Superior Judge in Cali- fornis, is among the arrivals in the City. i C. 0.Johnson of San Luis Obispo County, | who 1s the owner of & hotel and connected with the munagement of the Pacific Coast | Narrow-gauge Railroad, is in town. | Lord Sudeley aud Arthur Pearse, of London, | who are interested in gold mining in different | parts of the country, left vesterday to xoox{‘ witer some properties on the mother lode. Mrs. Warren of Denver, wife of Bishop War- | ren of the Methodist Episcopal chureh, is at | the Palace, rccompanied by the Misses Tiff of | Denver. Bishop Warren &nd family havea | summer home at Santa Cruz. D. Sanguenetti of Lathrop, who had tne ter- | rible hand-to-hand fight with a bandit in his | saioon there seven or eight monthsago, and finally killed the bandit by shooting through | the door when he had wrested himseli fiom | him and got back inside, is at the Commercial. He is nere on a business trip. Colonel E. J. Eusigu, the attorney, of Los | Angeles, formerly of San Diego, s at the Pul- | ace. He is returning to Los Angeles aftersa | loug time in the East,and in Chicago con- ferred with the members of the Republican State Central Committee. From what he said and learned he believes McKinley will carry Iliinois. CALIFORNIANS IN N NEW YORK, N. W YORK. Aug. 31.—At the Plaza, D. Kelly and wife; Astor, F.R.Winant, Martin and wife, L. D. Jacobs; Windsor, Saalburg; Albemarle, Miss E. Andrew: Andrews and wife; Cosmopolitan, O. S Albert, Miss Mickee; Hoffman, E.J. Buldw St. Denis, A. G. Griftin. D. Kelly and wife leit the Plaza to sail for Europe on the Lahn. OLD VOX POl;EI. To the oracle, great Vox Populi, Went an orator-boy from the Platte, To learn from the voice that erreth not Where the orator-boy ““was at.” “TLetme hear,” he prayed, ““thou voiee sublime, How the mighty cohorts feel? Will they march wita me where'er T lead In the hope of my pictured weal? “Will they follow blindly and close their ears To appeals of pairiarcns wise? ‘Will they get to thinking that all their {lls From a dearth of white metal rise? “Can I meke them think that gold is a curse, And forget that the issue true Is protection to labor and industrigs And defeat for the free-trade crew? 0, say how Bryan and Sewall stand In the mighty race to win! Just breathe one word that will set at rest The doubts that hem me in. “Just speak and answer once for all, 1f Bryan shall yank the stakes? Say who shali the laurel of triumph wear When Novemberis dawning breaks?” Vox Populi smiled as the query he put. “Young boy, are you not afraid To make appeals at the fount of truth, When error’s your stock in trade? “/Go read in the voices the Nation o’er The answers you seek to find. The people have got to thinking of late— The people no more are blind. “The people will choose them a leader sage— (And Bryan is not in their plani)— To bring prosperity back once mo MCKINLEY’S THE PEOPLE'S MAN. 8. D. C. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Superior Judge John M. Corcoran of Mari- posa County, one of the best kxnown judges in California, and who has the distinction of never having had & decision reversed, though he has been on the bench for twenty-five years, is at tae Lick. Judke Corcoran is a rather reserved and dig- nified gentleman, and hesitates to speak of himself. Itwasthusthat a CALL representa- tive found him. But though he is reserved when speaking of himselfgthe people of Mari- Posa and eisewhere who know him have uni- formly kind words for him. The judge appears a little above medinm height, and his beard is now slightiy frosted. : talk about bimetallism, of the doublestandard and a great deal oi confusion in the use of those terms. Bimeallism is the use of two metalsas money where they are both used.” Therenow! That is a definition for you—‘where they are both usea.” But he continues standard they mean that we have a gold dollar and a silver which shall be units of value,” ¥ ‘Now so nice were our people about this trying to adjust this that they went into dec uinl fractions. We say 16 to 1. Itis 15.988 re plxmpe my readers will turn to this remark- able speech and note how General Harrison then proceeds at great length to show up the follies of the united friends of silver—the Bryan Democrats, the Bryan Republicans and the Bryan Populists—for trying to restore Sk Superior Judge John M. Corcoran of Mariposa County, Who Has Been on the Bench for Twenty-Five Years and Never Had a Case Reversed. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] He does not seem, howevor, more than fifty years of age. He says that Mariposa county is gettingina ®0od deal better condition than formerly, and that parts of the county are pretty active. “1think that for two years past,” said the judge, “from 500 to 600 more men have been employed than formerly. The mine owners are giving their attention to deep miniug also, and all along the motner lode in Mariposa county, in different places, deep shaits are being sunk. “No mines, generally speaking, have ever paid that were not deep, and experienged miners who know this are sinking deep. When mining has been followed as a legitimate in- dustry in Mariposa it has always proved suc- cessful. “I think a great deal of the county and of its resources. There are & number of big prop- erties there that have for a long time been idle. Senator Jones, the Hobarts and others have owned some of these. “There is a general desire to see all the mines resume work. This would bring about & more prosperous era, for it is generally con- ceded that the properties are rich, or at least many of them.” The judge is here on a vacation. sreat many friends in this City. He has a LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. IS IT A WHAT IS IT? | Do McKINLEY REPUBLICANS REALLY WANT INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLISM? To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—STR: As a plain Populist possessed of faculties which readily gresp the principle underiying the construction of the multiplication table without assistance shall I expose myself to contempt it I confess that Ineed the help of & good McKinley Republican to enable me to understand the logic of the Republican argu- mwent made by Major McKinley, General Harri- son and othersof like faith against the free coinage of silver as a hurtful measurawhile at the same time they ciampion the proposal to secure international bimetallism ? Let me state the case in other terms. The Republican platform expressly says: “We are opposed to the free coinsge of silver except by an international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the earth, which agreement we pledge ourselves to promote, end untii such agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be maintained.” That is 81l plain encugh with the exceiuou of the possible Punic faith implied in making in- ternational bimetallism dependent upon an agreement with the leadiug commercial natlons of the earth while they are all opposed 10 bimetaliism and are all conducting their business on the basis of the single gold stand- ard. But how do the ablest leaders of the Re- publican party interpret their platform? In e briefletter it 1s not possible to trans- cribe much of what lhce’ teach us as to the Dature of the proposed international bimetal- lism. (At this point Ilaid aside my pen, and 1 have spent an hour in trying to find what Major McKinley in his letter of acceptance and General Harrison in his Yew York speech n by the term international bimetaliism a: pfwd to the ratio between silyer and gold, whether it be 16 to 1 or 31 to 1 or some point between 16 and 31.) Thisisas near as 1 can come 10 it: Major McKinley says: “On August 22, 1891, in & pubiic address 1 said, ‘1t we could have an international ratio, which all the leadiag nations of the world would adopt, snd the true reiation be tixed between the two metuisand all agree upon the quantity ofsiiver which should constitute a doilar, then silver would be as free and unlimited in its privi- leges of coinage as goid is to-day. But we have not been able to secure it, and with free and unlimited coinage,” etc.— He goes on (0 set torth the evils of iree coinage. That is all he has to say about ar “international ratio” or “internaiional bimetallism.” Satistactory, definite, tangible, 1s it? But whatever iliu- sory thing it is we have the assurance that he'and his party “plpdge themselves to pro- mote” it. As a plain Populist Iam trying to find what Major RiaKinioy offers me inder ihe torme “iniernational = agreement,” *international bimetallism,” “‘international ratuio” as a good thing for ail the leading nations of the world, instead of free coinage, which is a bad thin, and especialiy bad for the United States. Once more | wiil try to find out whet General Harri- son offers me and otber Populists in piace of this pernicious free coinage of silver, which it seems no one found pernicious from the toun- dation of the Government down to 1873, a riod of nearly 100 years; and even when Y:hn Sherman did find it out on thatdark night when it was demonetized it was at a premium over gold at the dread ratio of 16 t01. Now let us hear General Harrison, our good ex-President, who is conceded to be an'able expounder of international law. He says, in his New York speech in Carnegie Hall, Augast ‘But now, friends, there is a great deal of eilver to free coinage on this nicely adjusted basis of 15.988 plus, which was given us by the fathers, although he nowhere intimates that it had failed to prove & blessing to the country during the eighty-one yearsof its continuance from 1792 10 18’ I ask my readers to carefully go through this great speech by General Harrison to see it he has one word io say about this matter of international bimetallism, this “international agreement’” which the Republican platform offers the couutry in place of the long-tried free coinage of silver; and yet Geperal Har- rison is under pledge to promote this great boon of an “‘internationsl agreement.” Why is he so silent about its merits? And now what in fact is this “international sgreement,” this “international bimetallism,” waich is commended to us by McKinley Re- publicans? What are its terms, supposing there is the remotest prospeet that we could ever secure it from natiuns opposea to it? Is itnot in facta financial nondescript, & verit- able “What Is It?” We all know what free coinage of silver is at the ratio of sixteen ounces of siiver to one ounce of gold, and we know what it has done for the country; and we also know to our sorrow what it is 10 be de- prived of it for the past twenty-three years. and to be forced to the present hard condi- tions of thesingle gold standard, which Mc- Kinley Republicans tell us must be main- tained tiil the leading commercial nations of the earth are willing to abandon it, though they all favor it and transact their business on it._Surely it seems very much like a scheme 0 bewilder the poor Populists and if possible tolead ihem into the gold camp. “Which agreement we pledge ourselves to promote,” says the Republican platiorm, and we must’ aesume that itismeant 1o be taken seriously, even if Major McKinley and Gen- cral Harrison, admittedly the highest authori- ties in elucidating its meaning, do fail to tell us what this “international agreement” or “international ratio,” ss McKinley calls ii, will prove to be, provided these leading com- mercial nations, now all gold-basis countries, ever should adopt it. If, then, this pledge to promote the adoption of aninternational ratio 1s to be taken seriously and our votes are to be given in favor of it rather than for free coinage we are to rest our falth on the as- surance that it will do justice to silver and will benefit the nations that enter into the agreement. As this ratio cau only be found by taking account of the relative quantities of gold and silver in the world and the relative production of the two metals it cannot vary much from 16 to 1, mnufu the presemt greatly increasing production of gold may.fix it at or beiow the Europesn ratio, 153 to 1. But let us suppose that it would prove to be 18 to 1, or even 20 to 1, what would follow? Do you not see what would foliow? Why, all the evils and disasters predicted by Major Me- Kinley, General Harrison and all the Republi- can_orators, namely, the 10ss to pensioners, savings banks depositors, holders of life in- surance policies and wage-carners would just as surely follow internatlonal bimetallism as free coinage, with only this difference, that these disasters would tnen be universal throughcutall the leading commercial nations of the earth iustead of being contfined to the United States under independent iree coinage. Is there any escape from this conclusion? It must be true that if internstional metallism is notan unmitigated sham, a clever scheme to fool the people and thereby per- tuate the present gold standard, it would be P:den with all the dire calamities attributed by gold men to iree coinage, mitigated only by & possible increase in the ratio, and no in- crease is at sll probable. Ah, these evils are unsubstantial shadows, affecting only one in sixty of the people as compared with the solid and permanent benefits of free coinage, and they are conjured up by gold men to terrorize voters who do not understand the money ques- tion and lead them to vore for McKinlev and for the gold standard to be con! ed. Toink it ovt to the end, reader. Then where you stand. JOSEPH. ASBURY JOHNSON. 8an Francisco, Aug. 31, 1896. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT FPEOPLE. Admiral Ramsay, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, will spend bis vacation in a cruise of the Great Lakes. Albert Curtis, 89 years old, is the only living Selectman of Worcester when that city was g town. He has seen the city grow from 2000 to 100,000. John Abrahams, seid to be the oldest ‘work- ing printer in England, having been over seventy years at the trade, died suddenly at Bolton recently. A “beauty book' is in course of preparation in London. Among the portraits it will con- tain will be one of Mrs. George Ci o merly Miss Leiter of Washington. D, G-~ 1O Miss Estelle Reed, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wyoming, is an ardent Republican, and predicts that the State will be carried by the Republicans in the coming election. Attorneys December and January are two Nevada lawyers, who are amusing the Kansas people just now, where they have gone on business. The two men ara distinenishad law- “By a double | yers in Nevada, and their firm style is “Janu ary & December, attorneys at law.” Jul Story’s picture called “Le Laboratoiri | de Saint Lazare,” exhibited this year in the Peris Salon, has been purchased by the French Government, which 18 an uncommon compli- ment to an American rtist. ‘ Ex-Mayor Sargent oi New Haven, accomy panied by Mrs. Surgent, started recently ons 800-mile tour through New England. They will take & wagon and a pair of horses, but in- tend to walk & great part of the distance. Dean Farrar's new book, “The Bible; What I. Is and What It Is Not,” is now going through the press, but no date can yet be fixed for its publication. The work has been along time in the writing, and is expected to prove a very important contribution to the discussion o. the Scriptures. A unique anniversary was celebrated in New port, N. ., last week. It was the ninety-sixth suniversary of the birth of twin sisters, Mrs. Martha Broze and Mrs. Mary West. Both sis- ters are active and in good health. Their father lived to be ninety-two and their mother ninety-eight. The Princess of Wales when at Sandringham regularly attends the pretty little church of St. Mary Magdalene, which is situated on the es- tate. The handsome lectern in the Slm.idug- ham church was placed there by the Princess when the Prince recovered from typhoid fever some years 8go. Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes was recently the guest of Lord Chief Justice Ru:se}l ata dinner party in London. In commenting on the tact the London Law Journsal said: *‘The son of the genial ‘Autocrat’ is among the best equipped lawyers on either side of the Atlan- tic. His book on ‘The Common Law,’ which he wrote several years ago, 1s one of the most erudite legal works ever published.” Ex-Sultan Abdullan of Perak, who is kept by Great Britain at Singapore, has had his allow- ance incrsased $100 a month, on the ground that, being an Orieatal Prince with more than one wife, he needs the money to meet his household expenses. The English Govern- ment has also made him a grantof $250 to meet the expenses of the circumcision of his four sons. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “I am onto you,” said the man who wi learning to ride a bicycle to the pavement as he toek & header.—Norristown Herald. Mother (angrily)—Joe Jefferson! How many times mus’I call yo' befo’ I can make yo’ hear? Joe Je§—Dunno. 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