The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 5, 1896, Page 6

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Telephone,. .Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street Telephone...... ... e ..Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. £ 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 8W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wntil § o'clock. 2818 Mission street; open until 9 o'clocks 116 Ninth street; open until 90'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICB: Reoms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.. e ——— PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VIOF-PREBIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. D ‘When men are employed money circu- lates. When we bave protection we have pros- perity. It never fails. Bryan might as well call himself a Pop- qulist, for honest Democracy hasrepudiated him. ‘With McKinley in office and Cleveland out of it there will be a big difference in this country. ‘We have no right to be proud of our home industries unless we care enough for them to vote to protect them. Palmer and Buckner are botnh Kentuck- ians and, of course, the Blue Grass boys will support them witha vim. Boies has made one speech and Teller has made one speeeh, but where are Joseph Sibley, Claude Matthews and Silver Dick? Judging by the ticket it put up honest Democracy is old enough to go on the re- tired list without any loss to the country. Everything comes to those who wait. General Palmer has been expecting a nomination for the Presidency ever since 1872, The Republican pledge to promote the free coinage of silver by international agreement is something the people can count on. ol o A It looks a little bit as if their opposition to the youthfulness of the boy orator had led the gold Democrats to go to the op- posite extreme. Bryan’s oratory is beginning to sound strikingly like that of a parrot, and he might as well teach his speech to a bird and send the bird around the country. When the stalwart Democratic bolt shows itself on election day Bryan will appear about as solitary as the boy who stood on the burning deck whence all but him had fled. Now that conservative Demoocrats have a platform of their own it matters very little to them what becomes of the thing that was nailed together at Chicago and labeled Democracy. The Indianapolis platform calls far free trade, the gold standard and the retire- ment of greenbacks, and as a consequence the call sounds more like a summons to the dead than to the living, The Vermont farmers know that protec- tion is the chief issue of the campaign, because they have felt the injury of Ca- nadian competition with their products, and that is why they voted as they did. Not Jong ago the Democratic orators and organs were mocking at Major McKinley as a man of one idea, but now the mockery has stopped. They have been reading the speeches of McKinley and also those of Bryan. It is a matter of satisfaction to all good citizens that sincere Democrats who are honestly loyal to their conyictions have a chance now to vote for their party with- out having to vote for Aligeldism at the same time. The exhibit of home products at Me- chanics’ Pavilion is not more interesting s an evidence of what we have done than asan intimation of what we can do as soon as we have legislation that will enconrage manufactures instead of retarding them. The protest against Bryanism made by conservative Democrats does them honor and will be accounted to their credit, but nevertheless every man of good business sense knows the safest way to maintain our financial system and restore prosper- ity is to vote for McKinley. A correspondent asks: “If the $262,- 000,000 United States bonds issued by the present administration are not fiat money vure and simple what are they?’’ They are promises to pay in coin and constitute adebt imposed upon the people by Demo- cratic financiering and deficit revenues, Among the letters from the people which 'we receive is one asking informationin re- gard to the failure of Congress to carry out the often-made pledge to the people to restrict the importation of cheap labor from Europe. This is one of the issues of the campaign in which the workingmen rightly take a great deal of interest. Our immigration restriction laws have hereto- fore been ineffective to a large extent and the people will note with satisfaction Mc- Kinley's statement in his letter of accept- ance: “I am in hearty sympathy with the present legislation restraining foreign immigration and favor such extension of the law as will secure the United States from invasion by the debased and crimi- nal classes of the Ola World,” OCEAN COMMEROE. ‘We favor restoring the early American policy of diseriminating duties for the uvbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American ships—the product of American labor, employed in American shipyards, sail- ing under the Stars and Stripes, and manned, officered and owned by Americans—may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce.—Repub- lican National Platform. When ths Republican party assumes the airection of the affairs of the Nation three things will engage its immediate at- tention, viz.: protection to American in- dustries, reciprocal trade agreements with other countries and the restoration of America’s merchant marine to where it was before Democraticincompetency drove it off the seas. There is no doubt at all of the ability of this country to handle its own ocean carrving trade. The idea that we must call in a foreign craft when we have goods 10 ship abroad is preposterous. We do not havd to Jeave our own shores for men, material or capital to build ships. We have evervthing that is needed to supply the world’s ocean commerce, except such encouragement to the industry as shall enable it to get on 1its feet, so to speak. Now, it is the purpose of the Republican party to give the required encouragement just so long as it is needed to enable American ships to compete with foreign marine service. The Republican party is very clear and empbatic in its declaration on the subject of an American merchant marine, It takes no middle course. California is especially interested in the revival of American shipping. Naturally all ships for Pacific Ocean service would bs built in San Francisco, for the coast country has every needed material inship- building. The building of vessels alone would swell the volume of general busi- uess enormously, but great as it would be the value of the new commerce which a well-established merchant marine would create would undoubtedly be manygtimes greater. Itis predicted that in time the commerce of the Pacific Ocean will exceed that of the Atlantic, but whether it ever does or not a subsidized merchant marine would make San Francisco the center of trade accumulation and distribution for the North and South American coast of the Pacitic Ocean, as well as the money center for all home and international commerce. It certainly is worth the while of Califor- nia’s business men to pay some attention to the pledges of the Republican party in this matter, for, as a matter of fact, this State must look to ocean commerce if she would be commercially and financially great. There is an honest way to make money plenty in this country. It is a better way than the one proposed by Mr. Bryan and his supporters—to double the number of dollars in circulation by reducing their value one-haif. It has recently been proclaimed by Major Mo- Kinley. He says: “Protect our American industries, open our shops, mills, mints and JSactories, and thus enable the millions of honest, hard-working men now idle to resume work at remunerative prices, to be paid in good money, and so create and increase the demand for farm products.” Do this and we shall then be able to pay our honest debts, both public and private, in honest money.— Ez-Senator Harlan. TBE DIFFERENCE. The difference between the demeanor of Major McKinley and Mr. Bryan when be- fore the public is so great that it is re- marked upon. Mr. Bryan appears to think the people want a cap-and-bells campaign, and he tries to out-Herod Herod. He uses the most extravagant expressions for mere dramatic effect, and recites jokes and wit- ticisms to the groundlings for the hurrahs they elicit. He appeals to the vicious in- stinct that he may lash his audience into furious demonstrations of hatred. He makes word-pictures of one class of his fellow-citizens that are calculated to infu- riate anotherclass. He sacrifices the truth of history to strengthen effort to mislead. Mr. Bryan is making the position of a can- didate for President of the greatest coun- try in the world a very cheap tbing by put- ting it on a level with ward politics and traveling shows. On the other hand, Major McKinley never fails to appreciate the exalted posi- "u'on of one who is called to lead a great party in a political campaign for the Presi- dency. There is entire absence of show and acting when the people call upon him. With Major McKinley, even the prospect of being called upon to direct the destiny of 70,000,000 people is a serious matter; be- sides, he enters into the question of how the condition of the people may be bet- tered, and what will best keep aglow the patriotism of the people with honest zeal, He is only desirous that his countrymen may go from strength to strength in all that promises good for home and country. He is actuated by a sincere regard for the people’s welfare, and whils he faces duty with lofty determination to win in the people’s cause, he makes no idle boasts, nor does he teil the people of “my plat- form,” nor yet is it ever “I am 1.”” Bryan is imbued with the idea that he is necessary to the country. Major Mc- Kinley believes the country is necessary to him. Bryan beiieves whatever his pol- icy 1s should be the people’s policy. Major McKinley believes he should consult with the people and conform to their interests. Bryan thinks the people should sit at his feet and learn wisdom. Major McKinley believes he should learn of the people. Bryan says he is at enmity with the East, Major McKinley loves every American citizen. In short, Bryan represents in himself the small but ambitious politician who would overthrow the very founda- tion of the Government for self-advantage. Major McKinley risked his own life to save the foundation of the Government from the hand of the enemy, and be stands to- day the wise, the dignified, the patriotic and unyielding representative of the same principles. Major McKinley is of himself the highest type of the patriotic American sovereign. Mr. Bryan is an ambitions politician. It is for the people to say which of these types of American- ism they will choose to direct their public affairs. No Republican candidate has ever appealed to the masses as against the classes, nor sought 20 upbuild himsels or his party by an appeal to prejudice and sectionalism, and no Re- publican municipality has ever voted to re- pudiate an honest debt, either public or private. The history of the Nation cannot be written with the great leaders of the Republi- cans left out, and whatever stress of weather we may have been in to sccure the vote of the people, no Republican convention has pand- ered to the socialists nor taken off its Ameri- can cap to bow down before the red flag of anarchy.—Hon. William E. Mason. BOURBONS IN THE SADDLE, The Indianapolis convention, with its declaration of principles, has passed into history. It was an event full of signifi- cance as showing how men of great minds may be a century behind the age, It was a convention of Father Grimeses. There ‘was nothing modern about it. It Jived in the *’fore de wah ” times and breathed the atmosphere of the longago. The work was In harmony with the thought of the grandfathers of the party when the stage- coach and the canal-boat furnished very rapid transit. The platiorm is clear and very easy to understand. Itdoes not deal in glittering generalities, but declares boldly for free trade and goid money. For consistency in adhering to Democratic principles the convention is to be congratulated. There never was a lime when the true Democrat did not oppose even an approach to pro- tection and a monetary system that was not based upon gold. 1 It would be Lard to say what influence this wing of the Democratic party will ex- ert in the November election, but that it will spend money with a liberal hand to defeat Bryan there is no doubt whatever. The leaders have lost sight of their old enemy, the Republican party, in the fury of their rage over the capture of the Chi- cago convention by deserters from their own household,and they will leave nostone unturned thatcan be uséd in the work of crushing the nominees of “Altgeld’s rab- ble.”” They have but one object—to pre- vent the election of the Chicago nominees, and since they possess the brains and the money of the Democracy their work against Bryan will tell all along the line. Nevertheless, had they allowed their good sense instead of their hatred of Bryan to prevail, they would have seen that the surest way to put upon Bryan the shame of the most crushing defeat ever administered to a man by the people of America would be to join heart and hand with the Republican party *‘for this day only,” for the Republican party is com- missioned by the guardian angel of the people to smite Bryanism to the death with the sword of justice, iruth and liberty. Go through the list of prominent promoters of free-silver coinage; you will find there the old promoters of the greenback party. The sections that were most infected with that heresy are now most violent for silver. It is belicved that if Bryan were elected Richard P. Bland of Missouri would become Secretary of the Treasury. When he was pressing the pas- sage of his free-coinage bill in Congress in 1878 Mr. Bland declared his true sentiments when he said that if the silver men could not pass a free-coinage act he was *“‘in favor of issuing paper money enough to stuff down the bondholders until they are sick.”’—Governor Griggs of New Jersey. “THE SUNDAY CALL.” There will be many things of unusual interest in to-morrow’s edition of THE Carr, and nearly all of them will be hand- somely and artistically illustrated. Itis the custom of THE SuxpAy CALL to present its readers with not only all the news of the world, but with many new and original features of genuine human interest—and of particular interest to the inhabitants of the Pacific Coast. Look at the titles of some of the many and varied subjects that will appear in to-morrow’s issue, and you will see that it is not likely to be less interesting than usual. San Frauncisco’s Barriers Against Oriental Plagues. Two Versions of Baron von Schroeder’s Great Bear Story. Some Character Skeiches of the Great Naturalist Audubon, by Joseph A. Coolidge of this Uity. A Wonderful and Successful Experi- ment in Hypnotism. The Center of Civilization 1s Moving to San Francisco. Producing Animal Life by Means of Electricity. One More Reason for Cremation. In the Quaint Old Land of Dunes and Ditehes. ‘Where the Poor Who Are Bick Find Assistance in the Hour of Their Greatest Need. Hints in Landscape Composition for Amateur Photographers. The Man Who Tamed Texas and Killed Many Outlaws. The Last Chapter of That Weird and Debatable Tale of Death Valley. The Hands of Women. The Last Boat. Baird’s List of Records, the Fashions, and Many Columns of Good Literature. If any Democrat wants a third tioket, why, let him have it. But, really, what need is there for another ticket when the one all- controlling issue is squarely joined in the two tickets already mominated? Are you for an honest dollar and an honest country? You have McKinley to vote for. Are you for repudiation and a cheap and dishonest dollar? Then Bryan is your man. There is a ticket Jor each side already in the field, and there cannot be three sides to that question.—New York Sun. WHAT RECIPROOITY DOES. Our people know in a generai way that reciprocal trade relations with othercoun- tries would be highly advantageous to us, but very few appreciate fully the im- portance of maintaining such relations. Reciprocal trade means free trade in such articles of commerce as dd not come in hurtful competition with articles which we produce. With a country that raises coffee, say, but does not raise wheat, we could have such trade relations to our advantage, because it would give our farmers another market for their prod- uce, and at the same time give the whole country coffee at tize lowest possible cost. What 1s true of wheat and coffee is true of every other commercial article; but of course we should not permit the foreign producers of wheat or any other article of trade which would come in competition with any of the products of our industries to sustain reciprocal relations with us. That is to sav, by way of illustration, we could not allow an American maker of goods and wares to exchange them for Argentina wheat, for that would be aiding one home industry at the expense of an- other home industry. The home people buy his goods and wares, thus furnishing bim a market, and he should buy his sup- plies of his home people that they may bave a home market. This is the whole principle of protection and reciprocity. It is free trade where free trade is better for us than protection, and protection where protection is better for us than free trade. Boiled down, so to speak, the Republican party’s theory of conducting the Govern- ment is to give Americans every oppor- tunity to benefit themselves, and it means for the best interests of Americans first, last and all the time. To prove that enormous trade expan- sion may be had under properly adjustea reciprocal trade intercourse with other countries there is abundant data of a purely official character. We mean the official export and import merchandise statisties of the National Treasury De- partment. The principal nations which entered into reciprocal trade relations with us under the provisions of the “Mec- Kinley act” were Brazil, Porto Rico, Cuba, the German Empire, Salvador, Brit- ish West Indies, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Austria-Hungary and France and her colonies. It was late in 1891 and early in 1892 when these agree- ments became effective, but as is well known they were abrogated by the Wil- son-Gorman bill. During the. continuance of the agree- ment our flour trade alone with Cuba in- creased from 114,441 barrels in 1891 to 662,+ 248 barrels in 1894, which was over 480 per cent. The first year after the agreement was abrogated Cuba took from us only 379,856 barrels. How near we came to controlling tha flour trade of Cuba under ‘the reciprocity agreement will be under- stood when 1t is said that imports of flour to that country, from countries other than the United States, fell off from 86,519 bags in the three months prior to the agree- ment to 4268 bags in the same months in the following year. In 1891 Porto Rico took 127,983 barrels of flour from us and 200,000 barrels in 1894, but under the Wilson-Gorman act in 1895 we sold only 118,617 barrels. During the first year of the operation of the agree- ments our reciprocal trade increased nearly $21.000,000, tnat is to say other countries increased their purchases of American articles of trade by that amount. It will be understood that we had hardly got the machinery of these agreements in working order when they were abrogated by the Cleveland administration, but enough was accomplished to show the im- portance of such trade relations with other countries to us. The Republican party is pledged to renew the agreements and in- crease our trade with those countries, and | the Bryanites are pledged to orvose any and all forms of reciprocal trade inter- course with other countries. As a busi- ness proposition business men should want the Republican policy to vrevail. PERSONAL. A. J. Bogle of Movirtt Island s in town. M. E. Clowe of Yolo is at the Occiaental, Arthur 8, Gore of Victoria, B.C., is in town. G. McNell, a business man of Modesto, is in the city. Dr. Chapman of San Diego is among the ar- rivals here. W. P. Phelan of Whipple Barracks is at the New Western, Miss E. Saxeman of Juneau, Alasks, is at the Occidental. E.S. Farrington, a business man of Elko, Nev., is at the Lick. James O'Brien, a wealthy miner of Smarts- ville, is at the Russ. Deputy Sherift J. L. Johnson of Mendocino County is at the Russ, Barney Ferguson, the New York society actor, is at the Baldwin. J. 8. Templin, a leading mining man of Idaho, is on a visit here. J. Lewis and wife of Hollister are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Among the arrivals here yesterday was W. L. Goodrich of Jackson, Mich. United States Marshal Wiiliam Collins of Alaska is one of the visitors here. J. Keegan, & mine-owner of Chico, is‘at the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his wife. J. Jeane, an extensive farmer and wholesale butcher of Winters, is at the Russ, George M. Stewart and wife of Seattle, Wash., arrived in San Franeisco yesterday. s F. Hagstrom, a merchant of Portland, Or., i registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel Allen Belis of Forepaugh’s & Sells’ circus is registered at the Cosmovolitan Hotel. L. Martinelli, the owner of an extensive dairy at Marshall, is at the Commercial, T. E. Collins, proprietor of the Ogle House, Fresno, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, A.J. Binney of Marysville, who has.been in the City for several days, left for home yester- day. H. W. Newby of Washington, D. C., long con- nected with the United States Geological Sur- vey, is at the Palace. Lewis P. Wiel, vice-president of the firm of Buckingham & Hecht, will leave to-day on a business trip to Boston. G L. L. Boone, owner of & large area of land near Sacramento, and an extensive grain- grower and raiser of fruit, is at the Russ. J. P. Parkinson, & member of the Seattle Post-Intellingencer ‘staff, is in the City. He will visit Lake Tahoe, and will spend a few daye in his old home at Carson, Nev. H. M. Singer of Pasadens, of the family who patented the Singer sewing machine and was the cause of making nfints of money, is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs, Singer. W.H. Howard of Buluwayo, South Africa, who has been examining some of the gold dis- triets of British Columbia, is in the City. He will leave to-day on his return to South Africa. Dr. Robert Mackenzie, the eloquent minister of the First Presby terian Chureh, nas finished his vacation and reiurned to the City. The doctor is looking much imuroved by his out- ing. Herman Oelrichs, Mis. Oelrichs and Miss Virginia Fair of New York are on their way here and are expected to arrive in about a week. They are witnesses in the Fair will case. A. Robinson of Stockton, who has been en- gaged in connection with important work on the seawall, arrived here yesterday with his family. Henceforth they wili make their home here. They are at the Russ. Rev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers Easton of Wash- ington, D. C., is in the City. He is visiting his sons and will preach next Sabbath in Trinity Presbyterian Church. He is the guestof Dr. Daniel E. F. Easton, 1371 Haight street. Mrs. A. J. Marceau has been seriously ill during the past two weeks from nervous pros- tration, at her home, 733 Ashbury street. At one time her physicians thought her condition very grave, but she is considerably improved now. % Charles Filippini, a wealthy dairyman of Sonoma, who is known among the Swiss and Italian people from one end of California to the other, is at the Commercial on his way to Switzerland, and will leave to-day. He is accompanied by his {amily. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 4—At the West- mnster—>Mrs, C. Waterhouse, E. R. Marshall. Warwick—C. Agnew. Metropolitan—Geistlich. Graud Union—W. J. Gorman. Everett—Mrs. ©. A. Tabe. Grand—G. Martin and wife. Gil- sey—A. L. Wisner. Vendome—Miss A. C. Schafer. Hoffmann—W. C. Ralston, Holland— D. Drysdale and wife. St Cloud—D. X. Finn. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Guginer left the Westmin- ;‘.er Hotel to sailon the Normannia for Ham- urg. “THE CALL” COMPOSING ROOM. A SIGHT WHICK PLEASED A COUNIRY EDITOR ON His Visit T0 8AN FRANCISCO. The following communication was recently received by THE CaLL. It is only one of many containing similar sentiments which the pro- rietor is constantly receiving and of which e is deeply appreciative: Hon. Charles M. Shortridge, the enterpris- ing editor of THE CALL—a journal which “‘speaks for all”” but “itself”—in one respect is too modest. He should not be backward in emblazoning in big black type upon his edi- | torial page the fact thet THE CALL is set by hand composition instead of by machine. We are led to make these remarks by the circum- stances attending a recent visit to THE CALL establishment. In our endeavors to find the ’enlnl m“.‘mf editor's sanctum, siarting rom the city editor's precincts, our wander- lng Jed us through a labyrinth of typestands and a small army of contented-looking male and female compositors, all busy with the typesetting and distribution and other at- ndant details necessary for the issuance ot a “hand-set’” newspaper. We had just come from another daily news- gfiper office where ‘“‘machines” had largely ispensed with handwork and the contrast between the two establishments was to us quite startling and certainly instructive. H th, ow cold and uncharitable seem machines on the one hand, and how full of life, contentment and interest were the throng olH lll:lxpoaifi‘n o:h the other hlnd‘“ 1 e public—the news; T-rel ng peov! —could K. impressed wlur &e. contrasts as we were nnrrelud we honestly believe th lation of THE CALL—“a great newspa deed as well &s in name—would forge ahead of all of the machine-set dailies—and perhaps it does for aught we know. Mr. Shortridge had no need to apologize for alluding to_the fact that he was a practical exponent of labor, as he did in & campdign speech a short time ago. An:i l: N{:{; l?led, he nho:}.a imt hesitate to n upon leading P‘.: ?'?n CALL is .J"fiy hnd composition,” and whether he does this or not the public should at all times bear this important “labor. fector” iu mind and remember it sub- stantially, COUNIRY EprToR, AROUND THE CORRIDORS Bishop C. D. Foss, the eminent divine of the ¢hureh founded by John Wesley, is making his first visit to San Francisco in twelve years. During the last few days at the Oceidental where the venerable Bishop is staying, he hat receivea a great many calls from old friends and people interested in church and mission ‘work., The Bishop has been in the service of the church along while, and has been stationed in many different parts of the country. He keep the n}’nr coins we now have and have always uses £ But let us suppose that the McKinley- R":"hbé lican plan is the best and that Mcxx_r_nler.ln oS says in his letter of uccegmuce. if elec! e President, it wiil be his duty to emploxy i honorable means to promote internal o|n agreement,’” and that he succeeds in secur il;t no matter how improbeble it may be, W ] the leading commercial nations of l.h‘e rth opposed to it and in fayor of the single old standard, will Mr. Dill please tell the onest and well-meaning voter about how long it will take to recoin our present silver money into the new 23 to 1 coins? —— e = e Bishop C. D. Foss, the Eloquent Divine of the M. E. Church, Who Is Here to Hold the Annual Conferences. [Sketched from life by a “Call” art has come out from his home in Philadelphia to hold the regular annual conferences, the one at Pacific Grove on September 9 and the other at Los Angeles at a later date. Each is expected to last about & week. Bishop Foss wears a rather heavy beeard, which has become much whitened in recent years, He is regarded as one of the most eloquent men in the Methodist ministry. At all the gatherings of his church whenever he speaks he is listened to with unusual interest. HER 'DEAR LIT1LE BONNET. Her dear lictle bonnet With red riboon on it Isatheme for a sonnet. (Ab, me D) A sonnet—i owe it, Tteel it, [ Know it. A world for & poet! (Ah, me!) But the dear little bonnet With ribbon bows on It, Though worthy a sonnet (Ah, me! ¢ Shades biue eyes that shine 0, That twinkie at mine 80, And lips thu incline so! (Ab, me!) S0 the dear little bonnet With crimson gleams on it Has never a sonnet. (Ab, me! For the lips merely mutter The *onx they would utter ‘When the hesr.’s iu & flutter. (Ab, ~Frapk L. Stantol LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE SAFE REMEDY. INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLISM EXPLAINED BY Me. A. J. DL, To the Editor of The Call-SIR: Since free coinage of silver would be a manifold curse to the United States and international bimet- allism would be & boon, according to the Re- publican platform which condemns the one and is pledged to promote the other; and since free coinage is easily understood while inter- , me!) in Chicago Times-Herald. .national bimelallism appearsjio be a sort of ignis fatuus or financiel flea to those who do not understand what Republicans mean as they use the term, it seemed a proper thing for me, although a Populist, to ask some good McKinley Republican to tell me just what we would have 1n place of free coinage if we could ever induce ‘‘the leading commercial nations of the earth’ to give up thesingle gold standard and adopt & system unknown in the financial history oi the world; ana Ialso asked this Mc¢Kinley Republican 10 show how free coinage would be & curse when international bimetallism would bea boon to all the com- mercial nations. Happily my appeal was not in vain, for A. J. Dill has made reply and has rendered a service for which I thank him, although he states that his purpose is ““to say something for the benefit of the honest and well-meanin, voter,” rather than 1o satisfy me. So far as am able to judge [ think there is no reason whatever that justifies Mr. Dill in anything I have writien, said or doue for excluding me from the class he designates as honest and well-meaning voters, and I shall leave it to the readers of THE CALL to judge whether it was kind or fair for Mr. Dill to imply such ex- clusion. The greater part of Mr. Dill's reply o planation is devoted to criticism in disparage- ment of those whom he designates monometal lists, in which Iagree with him: but I must dissent when he that “‘able advocates of {ree silver coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 ad- mit that the country may go to a silver basis if their theory prevails’’ I must challenge that siatement. I deny it, and Mr. Dill must name these ‘‘able advocates” or admit his mis- take. Inthe meantime let Mr. Dill inform the honest and well-meaning voter as to whether this country was on a silver basis in 1873 and for elghty years prior. One line of f; worth whole volumes of theory, such theory as that offerea by Mr. Di d ather McKinley Republicans on the subject of free coivage. of international bimetallism, found in his last paragraph. He sa “Bimetal- lists contend = that if some intermedi- ate point between 16 and 30 could be agreed upon and that ratio maintasined a while then 16 to 1 could be reached and main- tained.” In a word, the harm done, the dis- aster caused by the restoration of silver to free comage at 16 101, would be obviated his plan. I fear that it is too much like the boy’s plan to cut off a part of the doz’s tail at a time 50 as not io hurt the dog But let us assume thal ‘point between 16 and 30 could be edayo and that ratio maintained & while.” follows? If we make it nu--z at 23, then it would hurt the pensioner and the laborer (and the multi-midionaire!) only half as much as to 0 atonce from 30 t0 16, ~Is that it, Mr. Dill? 80, then what becomes of the present silver coins until can be recoined? Are the: money? If so, whatkina? How would a doi- lar or a 50-cent piece be rated ? What would they be worth? In fact, wouid we bave any silver coin for present use ? _Of course I understand that our present dol- lar would be 75 cents at_the ratio of 23to 1, and & half déliar would e cents. a quar- ter dollar 183{ cents and a dime 734 cents. But how would'it work? I fear that the people ‘would not like it and would prefer to be hurt twice as much, if they would be hurt al all, and at ouce go back to the same old ratio L which worked so well from 1792 (0 1873, and Major McKinley in his letter of acceptance says that “‘during and since 1878 there has been put in circulation more than $624,000,- 000 of silver or its representative,” and that ‘‘prior to that time” some $9.000,000 were coined, making a total of $633,000,000. Itis said that we can coin $40,006,000 a year, pre- sumably in dollar pieces. Suppose then thatwe coin only dollar pieces. and that we have but $400,000,000 instead of $633,000,000 to re- coin. Only a slight acquaintance with arith- metic will show the honest and well-meaning voter that ten years will pass before the $400,- | 000,000 can be recoined into dollars alone. In the meantime no new or additional silver could ba colned, and in the end we should have only three-quarters as ,much money ag we now have. Of course, the Europeans wouid have to recoin their er also. And when it is ail done, it is only lor ~‘awhile,” and then we are to go back to 16 to 1 and recoin it all over again. I prefer 10 g0 on With our present ratio of 16 to 1,and add some new silver to the present volume as soon as Bryan is elected and goes into cffice. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, Sept. 3, 1896. ) e R JEERED NO MORE. AN INCIDENT OF THE CIviL WaR IN WHICH GENERAL BUCKNER FIGURED. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The nomination of General Simon Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky for Vice-President brings vividly to my mind an incident of the Civil War. General Buckner, alter surrendering to Gen- eral Grant at Fort Donelson, was put on board a transport with other prisoners of war and conveyed down the Tennessee and up the Ohio River to the Indiana ghore, opposite Louisville, where they disembarked en route 1o Camp Morton, in Indiana. As General Buckner was being escorted up the levee, guarded by a file of soldiers under command of a lieutenant, a crowd of spectators collected and the rabble began jeering and offering insults to General Buckner, the first full general prisoner that had been landed on ! Northern soil. The lieutenant, & courteous gentleman and every inch a soldier, halted jusi for 8 moment and warned the crowd that “General Buckner, a8 a prisoner of war, was a guest of the United States, and that the first rowdy who offered any further insults would be sent to jail.” The jeering ceased. FRANK B, SHARPE. LADY'S . WAIST WITH SURPLICE EFFECT. A graceful shape is here shown, which is used for silk, wool or cotton fabrics. Itis es- pecially adapted for combinations of fabrics. A dress of dark blue mohair had the yoke top of embroidered batiste of flax color. The de- sign was very open, and displayed the lining of grass-green silk. The sleeve trimming was of embroidery to match; turn-up cuffs of the fine embroidery over green silk finished the waist. Two-toned silk in black and rose color made But let us pass on to Mr. Dill's exp'anation j & handsome waist 1o wear with a black sati m‘-l ‘:r“er:on skirt. The trimming wes of bhc: & X A dark m_boucle canvas clot! yoke of white satin with yellowish l-cl: oe::‘ 1: A blue and biack silk of stripes full :l‘algl:zmdechmn&‘t’t‘m yo{‘;of silk’ with t‘a stripe se. blsgll;dw"“- e sleeve capes were of cottons make up effectivel; this model. The sleeve capes being‘eeugln.fig tions, the stripes marking in points at the seam makes a trimming complete in itselt. The waist is.made with ted lining which hooks in front. Over this the voke top is hooked at the left shoulder and arm ize, the surplice also hooking uver on the left side. The sleeves are the popular and stylish bishop Ih‘:‘D;.‘l:: flm‘ :s nnfi: od' wli':.h a plain band or . The colla: collar which hooks in !rr:n‘r- RV A —— PARAGRAPHS AEOUT FEOPLE. President Octave Chanute of the American Society of Civil Engineers has offered a prize ©of $100 for the best monograph on the kite, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1896. W iving and gllny. “with quantitative computatigny ‘:; pended. Princess Isabella of Genos has become ty, mother of the only girl Daby in the Iuq,y, royelfamily. oo o “THE CALL” Appreciative Comments by a Log Angeles Editor. Los Angel¢s Express. £ CALL, which, since it came under the m’f:ngema:’t of C. M. Shortridge, has taken a position second to that of no other journal on the coast, has been devoting considerable space of late to Los Angeles, and every fey | eeks published some very fnteresting illus- one or other attractive fea- \ire." Thus, on August3, it doalt ublic scheol system, and especially T O D ehools, and on August 24 devoted several columns to ‘‘Los -Angeles’ Building Boom.” x , : The articles are well writterl and exhaus- tive of each of the subjects treated of, and are prepared under the suspices of the Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trade and the Mer- chants’ and Matufacturers’ Association. This system of a series of articles, instead of one covering a dozen ppers, ix 8 Very wisc inuo- vation, as people will read articles occasion- ally when they will not wade through coiumns .of stuff. Speaking of building in this city, THE CALL Says: The building boom which Los Angeles has been enjoying for the last five yeais goes on apace. It Wwas thought that the ciimax wes reached last year when the City Superintendent of Bulldings Issued 2415 permits for building IMProvements approx.- mating in cost nearly $4,000,000. This was ex- clusive of the outlay of $258,000 by Lhe ciiy for new schoolhguses and $50,000 for & Ceniral polics ation. *Slbch of the work for which permits were granted in 1895 was, 0f course, not completed within the year, so even if no additional work bad been undertaken saw, plane and hammer would have kept up their merry chorus untl now. Building operations projected during the first seven months of 1896, however, exceed in volume those of 1895, though the esyimated COSt is UL 80 great. Referring to our public school system, it Bays: trated artici ture of local Hie. 1f there is one thing above another which the wideawake residents of Los Angeles are proud of it s the facilities afforded by the city for schooling the risink generation. Few citles in the land are better equipped in this respect, none have made more rapid strides in this direction. It s doubtiul whether the record made by Los Anszeles in the Iast school year in the matier of building schooi- houses has ‘ever been equaled by any city of the same size in a like period, Articles ‘like these are of benefit toa city, appearing es they do in & paper of the charac- ter and general circulation of TBE CALL, and the people of Los Angeles are showing their appreciation of Mr. Shortridge’s efforts to ad- vertise the town by adding their names in large numbers to his subscription lists. OLD Fashioned Boston Mints. Townsend’s. * ————————— TOWNSEND'S famous broken candy, 2 Ibs. 25¢* e TOWNSEND's California glace fruits, 50c Ib. in Japanese baskets. 627 Market st.; Palace. * - SprcIAL informasion daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * il P Will Assist. Tulare Register. THE CALL of Monday devotes a large portion of a page to0 reproducing photographs of the officers of the Tulare McKinley Club. Accom- panying the cuts is a mention of each, The club is mentioned as the strongest political organization ever formed in Tulare, which is true. 1t expects to do good work during the campaign, and assistance from THE CaLL will Dot come amiss nor will it be unappreciated. Are You Gomg Kast? The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad—Sants Fe route—Is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its cievation and absence from alkali dust. Particularly adapted for the trans- portation of families because of its palace draw. ing-room and modern upholstered tourist sleeping cars, which run daily through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and in charge of attentive conductors ana porters. Ticket office, 644 Market street, Chronicle bullding. 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