The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 2, 1896, Page 6

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MAIN-18T74 ’ BRANCH OFFICES: 830 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open mntil 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until §:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. EW . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wntil § o'clock. 85618 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clocke OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICB: Booms 31 and 82, 84 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. B S eI — PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VIOF-PREBIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. —————————————————— Everything is now open. The State Fair is drawing crowds. There is music in the air all over the country. Vermont has led the way and the Union will follow. SN el Teller called it a defepse, but it sounded like an apology. The Mechanics’ Institute makes a home show to be proud of. The campaign has begun to show the rise of the tidal wave. The Indianapolis convention claims at- tention for a little while. He who would keep up with the pro- cession now must be lively. If you expect any profit from home in- dustry why not vote for home industry ? California needs protection and the cause of protection needs the vote of Cali- fornia. Everything isopen but the mills, and they will open nup with the election of McKinley. Bryan is beginninz to wish his friends had not thrown the stalwarts down so hard at Chicago. Go to the Mechanics’ Pavilion and see what California industry cando if it hasa living showing. The campaign of educaticn is wide open now and all may enter it whose minds are open to conviction. All that is needed for victory in Cali- fornia is harmony in the ranksand the silencing of the kickers. To the mind of an extremist the two most incomprehensible things are com- mon-sense and international bimetallism., In reading Senator Teller’s defense all genuine bimetallists will regret he ever got himself in a position where defense is needed. The more the Democrats dodge the tariff the more the people study it, and that is where the joke comes in that makes the situation amusin, The Indianapolis convention can hardly hove to do much, for it will have to in- dorse Cleveland, and that in itself will be a sufficient hoodoo to kill the ticket. The Republican party aims to give every American an opportunity to labor and 1n- tends that every laborer shall have good wages paid for inthe best money in the world. A few free-trade Democrats may vote for the ticket to be put up at Indianapolis, but most conservative men of the party will take no chances and give an honest vote for McKinley and Hobart. Altgeld has been charged by ex-Con- gressman Forman with corrupt practices in the management of State funds, and as & consequence he is not feeling so aggres. s1ve as he did a little while ago. The stalwart Democrats who meet at Indianapolis to-day do not know whether they are saving their political lives or committing suicide, but they do know that anything is better than Bryanism, Had be remained in the Republican party Senator Teller could have been largely instrumental in aiding McKinley to promote the free coinage of silver by international agreement; but as it is he will hardly count for more than an ex- ploded cartridge. Each succeeding year sees some im- provement in the State Fair, and this will be no exception to the rule, but the Yyears should not be alone in seeing the improve- ment; the people also should sce them, particularly San Franciscans, who ought to keep posted on what the rural indus- tries of the State produce. st ddge o2 2l Thomas J. Elderkin, secretary of the Beamen’s Union, is reported to have said in a recent speech in Chicago that nowhere were seamen 80 poorly paid as on the vessels owned by Sewali, the man who is now being supported for the Vice-Presi- dency by demagogues who profess to be the devoied and self-sacrificing friends of workingmen, In addressing at Ashtabula an audience #aid to consist of 8000 persons Bryan asked all Republicans who intended to vote for him to nold up their bands, and it is re- ported that some thirty persons did so. This is the extentof Republican defection, thirty in a crowd of 8000, while Democratic defection among conservative men would show in an equal crowd fully 16,000 hands. # VERMONT AND VICTORY. The news from Vermont this morning will send a thrill of cheer through all Re- vublican hearts in the Union. Her vote shows that the tidal wave for protection, vatriotism and prosperity is mounting to even a higher level than was reached in 1894, when the free-trade Congress was swept from power and the party that sup- vorted it was overwhelmed throughout the country. Political experts have noted that when the Republican majority in the BState election in Vermont preceding a Presi- dential election exceeds 25,000 the Repub- licans carry the Union and elect their Presidefit. When it has failen below that amount the Democrats have won. The State election is therefore always noted with interest because the vote affordsa good basis for calculating the vote to be cast in November. This year but little calculation wiill be needed. Vermont has gone almost solid for protection and sound money and led the way to victory. In the East all is over but the shouting. On this coast harmony and organization are all that are needed to bring about the same assurance of Republican success. That harmony certainly will not be lacking from this time on. The vote of Vermont, while it cheers the hearts of the loyal, is also a challenge to California Republicans to rise to the ocecasion and sweep the fusion ticket into utter confusion. In every section of California there should be a com- plete union of all the friends of sound finance in oprosition to the com- binations that have been made against it. Vermont has led the way; Maine will follow before the month closes, and in November California will stand with them for McKinley and prosperity. The best plan that suggests itself to my mind is that we should go back to the teach- ings of our fathers, and that we should restore the old d scriminating duties; that we should impose a taz of 10 per cent ad valorem in ad- dition to whatever tax is smposed by law on all goods, wares and merchandiss imported into the United States in vessels not of the United States. 1t seems to me that this would settle the question upon the best possible basis and in time revive and restore our shipping.— Hon. Stephen B. Elkins, United States Sena- tor of West Virginia. “DISTCRBING BUSINESS.” We renew and emphasize our allegiance to the policy of protection as the bulwark of American industrial independence and the Foundation of American development and prosperity. We denounce the present Demo- cratic tariff as sectional, injurious to the pub- lic credit and destructive to business enter- prise.—Republican National Platform. ““We denounce as disturbing to business the Republican threat to restore the Mc- Kinley bill.”—Bryan’s platiorm. Let us see which of these two declara- tions history justifies. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, we exported agricultural products amounting to $642,- 751,344, and §799,328,232 during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892. “McKinley- ism” prevailed in those two years. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, we exported agricultural products amounting to $553,210,026, and $559,841,714 in the year ending June 30, 1896. The Wilson-Gorman act was in operation dur- ing these years, and the decrease, which the agriculturists of this country sus- tained, amounted to $319,028,367. The McKinley bill did not *“disturb” farmers very much, did it? Unless it disturbed them to get nearly $320,000,000 more for their produce in two years under the Mc- Kinley ‘robber tariff” than they gotin two years under Bryanism. But farmers are not the only persons who were “disturbed” by the McKinley bill. No one escaped its “disturbing” influence. For instance, during the first twenty-three months of the operation of the McKinley act the bank clearingsaggre- gated $111,979,642,300. During the same number of months un- der Bryanism the bank clearings amounted to $98,702,777,786, or $13,186,864,604 less than during the months when the Mec- Kinley bill was disturbing business. Thirteen billion dollars is a good deal of money, and that is the sum of the reople’s loss on business represented in bank clear- ing-house transactions which cover less than 50 per cent of the country’s total volume of business. There has been an average decrease of more than half a billion dollars a month since the repeal of McKinley’s “disturbing’ law. Those who are well acquainted with the character of American business men would not hesitate to say that they rather like to be ‘‘disturbed™ just the way the Mc- Kinley act disturbed them, and it is equally safe to say that they are getting impatient for November to come so they may put public concerns in shape to be disturbed again after the fashion of the McKinley way of “disturbing” business, But perhaps the Bryans, the Altgelds and the Tillmans beiieve that the poorer the people are the easier they will be to han- dle, and hence they advocate free trade and cheap monev. ——i To the 75,000,000 people which make up the great Republic the opportunity to labor means morve than to all the world besides. It means the development of resources great beyond the comprehension of any mortal and the diffusion among all of riches to which the glories of the *‘Arabian Nights” are but the glitter of the pawnshop and to which the sheen of all the jewels of this earth are but the gleam of the glowworm in the pallor of the dawn.—Tom Reed. OIVIL LIBERTY ATTACKED. “In my opinion,” said ex-President Har- rison in his New York speech last week, “‘there is no issue presented by the Chicazo convention more important or vital than the question they have raised of prostitut- ing the power and duty of the National couris and National executive. The de- fense of the constitution, of the Supreme Court of the United States and of the Presi- dent’s power and duty to enforce allof the laws of the United States without await- ing the cail or consent of the Governor of any State is an important and living issue in this campaign.” It would matter very little to the Deople of this country whether they have free trade or protection, bimetallism or mono- metallism, paper money or metallic money, if the courts were made subser- vient to the schemes of professional poli- ticlans and economic experimentalists, The soul of the power that maintains civil liberty in the United States is in the court of final appeal, and in pro- portion as that court is prostituted for po- litical or social advantage is its power to protect the individual in the enjoyment of his liberty weakened. If the personnel of a court may be changed at the will and pleasure of party or clan, either by 1ncreasing its numbers or by legis- lation to strengthen the hold of that I party upon the machinery of govern™ ment, the court may also be required to render decisions that are in harmony with the purpose of the powers that be without reference to the constitution or legislative enactments. Can one conceive how the liberty of the people could be put in greater jeopardy than such a system of jurisprudence would place it? A The wording of the Bryan declaration, or Chicago platform, on the question of tampering with the functions and per- sonnel of the Supreme Court of the Na- tion is adroit and well calculated to de- ceive the casual reader, but the under- lying purpose is to revamp and reorganize the highest judicial authority in the land so that decisions may be secured which will comport with such theories of govern- ment as are advocated by Altgeld, who, as the Governor of Illinois, released from the penitentiary the Haymarket bomb- throwers and officially censured the trial court for inflicting punishment upon them; with such theories of government as are held by Bryan, who preaches the doctrine of blood, of war, of brother against brother and section against sec- tion, and with such theories of govern- ment as are held by Tillman of South Carolina, who rejoices when fear and calamity come upon the North because it refused to acquiesce in South Carolina’s treasonable purpose in 1861 The revolutionists who controlled the Chicago convention know that so long as the courts stand between their purpose and the liberty of the people their efforts to overthrow the Government will avail them nothing, and hence it is that they propose to have courts that will =id and abet them. The silver question with them is an issue to agitate the people and at the same time draw public attention from their ulterior object, and when they say the free coinage of silver independent of those whom we have trade relations with would be followed by “good times” they err and they know it, but the end with such men justifies the means, and the end is disorganized society and a government conducted on lines that are in harmony with Altgeld’s denunciation of the courts for punishing crime. With the courts under the thumb of the Bryans, the Alt- gelds and the Tillmans, the law would be made to accommodate itself to the wishes of these revolutionisst. Then civil liberty would wear Bryan’s crown of thorns, and finally it would be crucified upon his cross of sectionalism and class hatred. Whatever dollars we have in this country must be good dollars, as good in the hands of the poor as the rich; equal dollars; equal in inherent merit, equal in purchasing power, whether they be pa per dollars or gold dollars or silver dollars or treasury mnotes; each con- wertible into the other and each exchangeable for the other, because each is based wupon equal value and has behind it equal security ; good, not by the fiat of law alone, but good because the whole commercial world recog- nizes their inherent and inextinguishable value.—McKinley. A” DEMOCORAT'S ADVICE. Hon. Edward J. Phelps of Vermont, who was Minister to England during President Cleveland’s first ad ministration, is out in a ringing letter in support of Major McKinley's candidacy. Mr. Phelps does not wish to be understood as having abandoned the principles and traditions of his party, but he regards, as he says, wt pending Presidential election as pre- ing the most dangerous crisis that this country has ever encountered. It does not,in my judgment, involve any political controversy nor any question of the supremacy of pafty, for such consid- erations are lost sight of in the far greater gravity of the situation.” Mr. Phelps believes it the duty of all patriotic men to lay aside party pride and join as one man in the work of saving the country from the clutches of Bryanism. He does not see that there can be any middle ground between a friend and a foe of the country for a patriotic man to stand upon. He believes the attack of the Bryans “is not upon the policy but upon the life of the Nation.” Referring to the attempt of Bryan to set the masses against the “rich,” Mr. Phelps says those *‘who are independently rich are very few in proportion to the 70,000,000 of American people, the vast majority of whom gain their living by'some form or other of use- ful employment. Even the rich are de- pendent upon the business of the country, for their wealth chicfly consists in invest- ments in its various industries, and must speedily perish when they are extin- guished. That there should be prosperity in some of these employments and not in others, or among one class of people and not among others, is impossible, for they all rest upon a common foundation and are affected by the same considerations,” Mr. Phelps sees much danger to the peopie in Bryan’s candidacy—not because it is William Jennings Bryan, but because he is advoeating principles of government s0 antagonistic to the spirit of our institu- tions that were they to prevail the Nation would very soon reach political, social and commercial chaos, and therefore he ear- nestly pleads with his fellow-Democrats to forget party and party orgamization for the moment and join with those in whose hands the rights and liberiies of the peo- ple would be safe, notwithstanding toey differ widely with Democrats on certain economic theories and governmental prac- tices. No doubt Mr. Phelps’ letter will exert a great influence throughout the East, and it will be felt in the West and South as well You might just as well understand now that you cannot add value to anything by diminishing the measure of the value with which the thing s sold or exchanged. If you can increase the value by lowering the measure of value, and you want to benefil the farmer, Jree coinage wn’t the way to do it. The way to do that is to make the bushel smaller, the pound lighter and declare a legal dozen less than twelve.— William Mc Kinley. TURKISH BRUTALITY. Great Britain appears to be getting ready to do what she should have done fifty years ago. The Mediterranean squad- rons, which is composed of a dozen or more warshipg, have been ordered to the Levant, presumably to apply the heroic remedy to the ‘“‘sick man of Europe.” The massacre of 4000 Armenians in the city of Constantinople in two days is arousing a feeling of so much bitterness against the Sultan all over the Christian world that it does not appear how the powers can longer tolerate the Turkish empire to exist, The evidence is pretty clear that the Porte has been secretly urging the slaugh- ter of Christians for a year or more, although he has appeared to deplore the existence of trouble among his subjects. No doubt he is the champion villain of the nineteenth century, and unless England leads in the good work of dismembering his empire, she will forfeit the respect of all civilized people. But sending a large fleet to Turkish waters looks very much as if the London Government had at last concluded to make war upon the Suitan, if need be, to put a stop to his atrocious treatment of the subjects of his country. Foz?al! a century the Sultansof Tur- key have felt secure to butcher Lhristians at their pleasure because the powers could not afford to dismember the empire, or rather because the powers could not agree upon a division of the territory belonging to Turkey. Of course the powers are mor- ally responsible for the slaughter of the thousands of Christians by Turkish sol- diers, and, no doubt, too, had the Sultan been a lirtle more moderate and caused fewer murders last week, a British fleet of warships would not now be sailing to Turkish waters; but perhaps just such a bratal and wholesale killing as has been witnessed in the last few days was neces- sary to drive the powers into war with the Mussulman brates. Think of 4000 human beings butchered in the streets of a Eu- ropean city in the year 1896, simply to sat- isfy the cravings of a brutal Tark for Christian blood ! PERSONAL. Henry Heerdt, a merchant of Salinas, isin town. R.S. Hubbell of Cleveland, Ohio, is at the Palace. John Gallagher, the attorney, of Fresno isat the Grand. Franeis St. J. Fox of Red Lodge, Mont.,is in the City. Henry J. Newman of Salt Lake, Utah, is on & visis here. John L. Madden, & business man of Balinas has arrived here. E. B. Willis, editor of the Sacramento Record- TUnion, is at the Russ. P. B. Gaylard of Woodland is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. S. Horton, a rancher and vineyardist of Liv- ermore, arrived here yesterday. Y Dr. 8. T. Armstrong of New York City was 8mOoNg yesterday’s arrivals here. R. G. Whitlock, & business man of Santa Cruz, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. P. G. Cotter a business man of Yums, Ari; Tived in the City yesterday. W." B. Westlake, a well-known insurance man, isat at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. C. H. Burden, Coroner of Tuolumne County, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. W. W. Douglass of Sacramento, assistant comptroller of the State, arrived here yester- day. John E, Jackson, an attorney of Los Angeles, was among yesterday’s arrivals here. He isat the Grand. Commander R. 8. Mackenzle of the United States navy is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Mackenzie. H. M. La Rose of Sacramento, the well- known vineyardist and State Railway Come missioner, is at the Occidental. A. C. Hillmen, the large land-owner and ex- tensive fruit and grain grower of Davisville,is at the Lick accompanied by his son, A. C. Hill- man Jr. Foster S. Dennis, the Kingman (Ariz.) busi- ness man, has returned here from a visit to the country, and is at the Lick. His family is with him, George A. Helmore, editor of the Tuolumue Independent, the most popular paper in the southern mines district, was in town yester- day on a fiying visit. 2 S. M. Green, an old and wealthy resident of Milwaukee, who owns important mining inter- ests in California and other points of the West, arrived here yesterday and is at the Palace. General J. C. Breckinridge, inspector of the United States army, now on s tour examining the soldiers’ homes, has been for some time at Santa Monica and is expected here after seeing Los Angeles and other points, Joseph Eimon of Portland, for several terms a Senator from Multnomah County, Oregon, afterward chairman of the Republican State Central Committee and a well-known political boss, is at the Palace, Mr. Simon has been turned down in recent years, along with Boss Sathan, owing partially to the Pennoyer epi- sode in politics and partially to the belief of the Republicans that they have overdone their ;ul:smlmhly. Mr. Simon is s lawyer in Port- and. James Hamilton Gilmour, formerly of the staff of the Post and News Letter of this City, and for many years past & contributor to the AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Amoug the arrivals in the City is Colonel R. M. Culbertson, United States District Attorney for the Western District of Texas. He comes of the noted family of Culbertsons in the Lone Star State, his father being Congressman Culbertson, and his brother Governor Culbert- son of that commonwealth. Attorney Culbertson’s home is in San An- tonio, on the edge of the great arid region of Texas, and near the cotton and corn growing region. He has never beenin California be- \ Sis — = ‘who died a few weeks ago, was named Charles “Boz” by his father, but when he grew to man’s estate he dropped his middle name. Mark Twain places very little faith in doc- tors as a steady thing. Jules Verne's real name is Olchewitz. He 18 & native of Warsaw. Sir Edward Burne-Jones is to execute the series of paintings for the reredos to be put up as a memorial to Christina Rossetti in Christ Church, Woburn square, London, where United States Attorney R, U. Culbertson of the Western District of Texas. |Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] fore, and is much interested in seeing. the sights, Mr. Culbertson does not appear to be over 385 years old. He is tall and smooth shaven. “I thought 8an Antonio was & pretty cosmo- politan place and also pretty lively,” he said, “but it is not on the map when compared with San Francisco. I have seen many places, but Sunday Chronicle, is up from his ranch at Palm Springs. Mr. Gilmour is looking younger and healthier even than in former years. .The climate of the desert region seems to agree with him. He says that Jake Dressler, who has been for some time at Indio for infected lungs, has gone to Los Angeles to remain a while. His condition does not seem to have undergone a decided change as yet. — CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. certainly no eity in the United States is so cosmopolitan as this, unless it is New York. *‘As far as Texas is concerned, its crops are pretty good this year, and its future looks prosperous. No, we are not all silver men down there. There areothers. ButI havenot been making a study of politics lately. ‘L have met & great many friends since I came here. My stay has been prolonged, but it has been pleasant.” Mr. Culbertson will leave for home probably NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept.1.—At the West- minster, W. G.Fuller; Broadway, J. Gayton; Continental, Mrs. E. D. Berry, Gerlach L. Kalman; Normandie, I R. Hail; Imperial, N. C. Kingsley; Gilsey, J. Dowdell; Hoffman, A. M. Ludd: Savoy, H. Levi; Warwick, D. E. Lynch, T. Sharkey; Belvidere, Mrs. J. and Miss D. Wieland. J. H. Hart left the West- minster to sail for Europe on the Lahn, D, Ewing and A. Ribas sail on the American liner 8t. Louis for England. THE PRESS ON McKINLEY'S LETTER It is a great letter, strong in all the essen- tials of statesmanship and' yet simple, in that the arguments are addressed to the common people.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The letter will be universally regarded asa stroug document, as it presents the issues so clearly that the plain people will have no dif- ficulty in understanding them.—Minneapolis Tribune. McKinley’s letter of acceptance will fix the lasting attention of the people as one of those noble appeals to reason and patriotism which o far to make the history of & nation.—New York Tribune. Mr. McKinley’s letter accepting the nomina- tion is a strong ana satisfactory utterance. As is eminently fitting, the finance question holds the leading place in it, both in the po- sition occupied and the amount of s ace filled, —Globe-Democrat., : The letter as a whole is a lucid, forceful statement of the position of the Republican party concerning the questions now before the people. Compared with Brvan’s wild utter- ances, which are as jndefinite and unsubstan- tialas a fog bank, it 1s a block of steadfast, polished granite.—Chicago Tribune. Dealing with every Important question touched by the Republican platform, emphasis and stress are naturally laid on the para- mount issue of finance. Democrats and inde- pendents Wwhocontemplate voting the Repub- lican ticket have the satisfaction of knowing that Major McKinley has more than justified their trust and confidence.~Chicago Post, Major McKinley rises to the height of hisop- portunity in his formal letter of acceptance of the Republican nomination for President. There are no rnetorical pyrotechnics in it. It s e plain and foreible presentation of the is- sues of the campaign in language which needs no interpreter to the plain people of America, —St. Paul Ploneer Press. The spirit and- the reasoning of Mr. MeKin- ley’s letter on the issues presented in the finan- clel plank of the Chicago platform are admir- able. Itisthe manly and dignified offer of the Republican candicate to meel those who are readyto trust him in this crisis on a plane higher than that of mere party opinions or Purposes.—New York Times. In the very simplicity and straightforward- ness of this maguiticent utterance of the Re- Ppublican candidate there lies & strength infi- nitely greater than could have been achieved by any other form of eloquence. We have had & surfeit of oratory. What we needed were 1acts, pure and clear and cold. And now we have them.—Cincinatti Tribune. Major McKinley’s formal letter of acceptan ce is his ablest utterance upon the issues of the present campaign, whether it be considered as a literary produetion or & political exposi- tion. The arguments are exceedingly well put in clear, forcible, but carefully tempered lan- guage, which leads naturally from topic to topic and gives the whole a continuity in thought and style that is equally effective irom the standpoint of letters and of logic. Chicago Journal, 7 on Wednesday. United States Marshal Ware, of the San Antonio Distriet, is with him. “THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY.” Right In the flush of his silver fame, Proud of his stiver-mounted name, Into the Enemy’s country came William Jaybryan. Into the Enemy's country he Swung like a star from its apogee, Crossless ana crownless though he be, Wililam Jaybryan. High on a platform we saw him stand, His silvery utterances in nis hand, ‘Which caused us 10 think of other things, and William Jaybryan. 1nto the Enemy’s country side Silver-lined patriots hurriedly hied; And very soon they Lad notified ‘Willlam Jaybryan. Much was the talk he talked that time. His wisdom was like the cents in & dim The principal point he made wes: “I'm ‘Wililam Jaybryan.” Ard what of the Enemy’s coutitry? Oh! Well, really it pains me 10 tell you s0, But the Enemy's country aidn’t know That Bryan wus there. ‘At least if it aid, 1 paid 8o ~uteniion to the Kid; D fact, it did not know till he Sald 50, that it was the Enem: W. J. L., in LETTERS FROM THE FPEOPLE. INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLISM. Vew York sun. A REVIEW OF J. ASBURY JOHNSON'S RECENT LETTER ON THE SUBJECT. Mr. J. Asbury Johnson, Populist, seems to be somewhat confused, or wants to confuse others, in regard to the construction of inter- national bimetallism by the Republican party. There is no doubt about the simple bzing able to confound the wise when it comes to asking questions. Idon’texpect to satisiy the gen- tleman, but to say something for the benefit of the honest and well-meaning voter. Itseems to be the yprincipal argument of gold and silver monometallists to charge the advocates of bimetallism by international agreement with sinister motives. Monometal- lists are opposed to bimetallism. The gold men do not disguise the fact. Able advocates of free silver coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 admit that the country may go to a silver basis if their theory prevails. Soit is reasonable to infer that both of these theo- risis believe that an international agreement or even bimetallism is an “iridescent dream Your correspondent may be of that number. He even states that all the European govern- ments stand committed against it. That is true; but there is & strong sentiment in Ger- many, France and Engiand in favor of it and this séntiment is growing. Now there is one point that the two wings of ists agree upon, and that is not to s Preadin from thetr particu- The gold men say that the commercial ratio between the metals cannot be departed from while the silver contingent will not agree to any other ratio except 16 to 1. Bimeiallists on the other hand conteund that if some inter- ‘mediate point between 16 and 30 could be agreed unpon, and that rtatio maintained awhile, then 16 to 1 could bereached and sus- tained. Ifa man cannot lift 150 pounds it is evident he cannot lift 200 pounds. What seems to worry Mr. Johnson is whether Major McK] i8 in favor of 16 to 1 or some other ratio. He does not siate, and it is not neces- sery. He is willing to leave that to the Al’l‘dg- ment and wisdom of the members comprising & conference appointed to agree n aratio. Mr. Johnson seems to think thatif a ratio of 20 to 1 should be agreed upon it would make but little difference to the pensioner or laborer. Ithink it would make considerable difference—a difference that the lgborer coula certainly see and a probability that the ratio could finally be established at16 to 1 when the loss would be Mlhtla A.J. DriL. PARAGRAPHS AEOUT FEOPLE Charles Dickeus, the son of the. novellst she was an attendant for nearly twenty years., The Queen of Servia, it is said, eschews the soft bed and avolds the down pillows as she would the plague. She sleeps on & narrow divan spread with a& hard, unyielding mat- tress, and without the vestige of a pillow. Ferdinand von Herder, the Iast male descend- antof the poet Herder, and former librarian of the Botanical Garden in St. Petersburg, died last month in his native town of Grunstadt, Bavaria, whither he had retired after thirty- five years of active service. ““Ouida,” after the enforced sale of her beautifui furniture by the authorities of the United Italy which she so hates and reviles, has retired to 2 villa in the environs of Lucea, where she is concentrating all her bitterness against Italy in a three-volume novel. A dispatch from Prague, published at Vi- enne, states that & bust of Victor Hugo, which had arrived there from abroad addressed to the anarchist Heys, has been seized by the po- lice, who found inside the bust, which was hollow, a large number of anarchist writings. LADY'S APRON. This useful garment speaks foritsell. An apron large enough to be of use, and trimmed as this is, need not have its “raison d’etre” pointed out. For very rough work enameled cloth or rubber are used. Denim or blue B’enm make aheavy apron thet will last indefinitely. Ginghams, heavy cambric or cotton duck are serviceable materials. Made of white lawn, cambric or batiste it forms a garment much appreciated by ladies ;rho&e ounly household cares consistof lignt usting. WHY THEY WON'T VOTE FOR BRYAN. Springileld Journal. The Indiana Farmers’ Association has 50,000 members, consisting aprroximately of 27.500 Republicans, 20,500 Democrats, 1000 Pop- ulists and 1000 Prohibitionists. Of the whole number, according to a canvass made by the president of the organization, 42,250 propose to vote in November for McKinley and honest money. “The silver sentiment is swiftly dis- appearing.” says the president, *and the Indiana farmers don’t want any of your cheap money.” What is true of the farmers of Indiana will be found to be equally true of the farmers of Illinots, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa snd the other States. The free-coinage bubbie has burst. The scare is over, reason has re- turned and the farmers will be found in No- yember voting as usual for sound money and honest government. —_— HOW THE FARMERS WILL VOTE. Omaba Bee. The beet-sugar producers of Germany, Aus- tria, France and Germauy receive bounties on all the sugar they export to the United States. ‘But Mr. Bryan is not willing to give the Amer. ican sugar-beet raisers any protection either in the shape of bounty or import duty to enuble them to compete in their.own market with the toreign product raised by hali-paid labor. Mr, Bryan’s principle has been,#Buy in the cheap- est market and let home indusiry take eare of itself the best it can.” The sugar-beet growers of Nebraska know all this and that is one reason why they will not vote for Bryan. In voting against him they will only be carrging out Bryan’s own precept that theéy should cast their votes for their own interests. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LABORERS—G. W. L., Red Bluff, Cal. The cone dition of the laborers in the United States is financially and otherwise infinitely better than that of the laborers of England, while those or England are in a great many ways better off than those of Mexico. CITY GAS—A. M., City. Since 1883 the gas of this City has been shut off once for a per- ceptible length of time by oraer of the Supe: visors, and that was this year. It has on & number of occasions, by order of the board, -been shut off for one or two nights before or after the night before or after full moon. That is cailed “extending the corporation moonlight.” A RIGHT TO VoTE—R. E. H., Stockton, Cal. 1f “in the early days a teamster who went through the country could vote for Presi- dential Electors wherever he hapoened to be on election day by presenting s certificato showing that he was registered in some piace In the State” no teamster can G0 50 now. A voter can vote only in the precinet in whicl he is legally registered. A GUARDIAN—Miss Benicia K., City. The matter of appointing a guardian for a person who is said to be incompetent is one that rests ig the discretion of the court before whom the he application 1s made, after a hearing of t facts of the case. In the case of & wife said to be incompetent the husband, there being no valid objection presented, is undoubtedly the Pproper person to appoint. FroM LoNGFELLOW—H. W. R., Oakland, Cal The quotation asked about is from Longlellow, 80two friends of this department have informed it. The lines are to be found in *The Masque of Pandora,” and the exact words are: Never by lapse of time, A soul defaced by crime, Into its former self returns again; For every gullty deed Holds in {1self the seed Ot retribution and undying pain. MEXICAN DoLLARS—W. H. T., Fruitvale, Cal ‘There is no power on earth to prevent you from buying as many Mexican dollars as you wish at 54 cents apiece, except it should bea rise in the price of silver; which would send the price of Mexican doliars up above that figure, and going to Mexico and therepurchas- ing $1 worth of eommodities for every coin which you purchased for 54 cents, The price of Mexican dollars in this market is regulated by the price of silver and ranges at this time from 5{:0 54 cents. PROMINENT Houses—M. B., City. At the Mission the old mission church and the adobe building at tne northwest corner of Church and Sixteenth streets are prominent monu- ments of the very early days and the twooldest buildings in_thal section. At the Presidio, if you mean the dio proper, there are still one or two buildings that were standing at the time of the American occupation, while at North Beach there is an old crab house on Bay street and the Haskell home at Black Point, the house in which David C. Broderick died. GOLD IN GERMANY—A. 8. M., City. On the 23d of November, 1871, & law was passed in Germany concerning the coining of imperial gold coin. dt was passed to graduslly take the place of the coins of the particular States One section of the law proviges that ‘“‘all pay- ments which by existing law are made in sil- ver money of the thaler currency, of Southern German currency, of Lubeck or Hamburg cur- rency, or in thaler of the Bremen gold reckon- ing, may be effected in the imperial gold coin.” Then follows the value of the various cn!fif or currency as compared with imperial go ENTITLED TO DEAWBACK—G. W. L., Red Bluff, Cal. All articles made wholly from imported materials and many articles made partly from such materials are entitled, on exportation, o adrawback of the duties paid on the material used in their manufacture, less 1 per centum of such duties. Ifanyimported materisls are used in the manufacture of an article made in part from domestic materials and the im- ported materials or the parts made from such materials shall so appear in the completed article that the quantity or measure thereof may be ascertained, such srticle is entitled, on exportation, to & drawback of the duties paid on the imported materials used, less 1 per centum of such duties. Such drawback is allowed under genaral and special regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c ib. Townsend's.* ———————— SpecrAL information daily to manufacturers, ‘business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * 1 Teacher—By “transparent” we mean some- thing through which we can see. Who can givean illustration of & transparent object? Pupil—A ladder!—Fliegende Blaetter. Are You Gomng East? 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