The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 15, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO'CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1896. _SEPTEMBER 15, 1896 SHORTRIDGE, Proprietor. TUFSDAY CHARLES M. Editor and SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sundsy CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Dally and Sundsy CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Dafly and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Dally snd Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall, .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mall . 150 WEEKLY CALL, ODe year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. e ng to the country on a vacation * o itim Seouble for ua to forward THE CALL to your address. . Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTEA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Sfreet, San Francisco, California. Telephone......... <evver.. Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: B17 Clay Street. Telephone... +er.Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untll 2:30 o'clock. 830 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o’clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; opea ®atll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untll 8 o'clock. 116 Minih street; open untll 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms §1 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clty: DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NO VEMBER 3, 1896. Read the news from Maine. Here we have another moral effect. Vermont said it and Maine swears by it. Tom Reed has a right to say, “I told you so.” —_— Sewall might as well stay in his Bath; he needs it. Confidence increases and everybody is getting surer that his neighbor will vote right. There is no need of straws in this cam- paign. KEvery one can feel bow the wind blows. The Republicans of Maine have spoken in a loud voice, Those who don't hear it are deaf. There is a growing probability that the Turkish crisis is about to be active as well as critical this time. Every man engaged in industry has an interest in having it protected from the competition of cheap labor. San Francisco Democracy may talk in a different voice, but it is clearly doing its work with the hand of Buckley. Itis hard for the Democratic orator to keep his mouth shut during a campaign, but a good many of them are doing it this time. As Bryan had nothing to say about the vote in Vermont it would be useless to ask what he thinks of the news from Maine. Paimer and Buckner have no boom, but they have the satisfaction of knowing what support they have is solid all the way through. For fuss and feathers, mussand muddle, no convention of the year is likely to equal that which the New York Democrats will hold this week. The fusionists pretend they are working to carry California for Bryanm, but their pians seem to be laid mainly to elect Cator to the United States Senate. It is evident from the brevity of his tele- gram to the Palmer and Buckner notifica- tion meeting that Cleveiand has about lost his wind, He must be very nearly knocked out. Bryan has never had any sympathy with the sheep industry of this country, but before Le gets through with the cam- paign he will begin to feel sheepish him- seif. A war 1n Europe would help on the cause of international bimetallism, for there is no nation over there except Eng- land that counld fight a war for any length of time on the gola standard. 2 Now that thousands of Chicago Demo- crats have made a visit to McKinley to pledge him their votes it begins to look as if the thing might be yet made unanimous before the election takes place. A comparison of the Democratic vote for Bryan with that for Palmer will show how many Democrats would rather follow their party when it takes to the woods than to stay in the main road and stand by their principles. After reading the speeches of Palmer and Buckner many a stalwart Democrat regretted he had ever shouted for Bryan and began to figure out how he could get back to the old Democratic road and march with the old-time boys. Cator is willing to trade everything for legislators who will vote for him for United States Senator, and as a result Populists who wish other offices ana Democrats who wish to go to the Legisla- ture are wondering whether fusion is worth the trouble it takes to make it. The voters of legislative districts should bear in mind that a United Siates Senator is to be elected by California this winter, and 1t is imporiant, therefore, that Re- publicans should be chosen in order that we may have a Senator who will work with zeal for protection to the industries of the State. o oET O In an’ article published yesterday re- viewing the political situation in this State the Ezaminer said: “THE CALL has a dagger up its sleeve and stabs the Chron- icle on every possible occasion.” That statement is a bad example of the cam- paign roorback. THE CALL has never stabbed the Chronicle nor any other de- fender of the Republican party; on the contrary it has been always a stanch de- fender of Republican harmony and unity. Moreover THE CALL has no dagger up its sleeve nor any other concealed weapon. Iiis an open fighter. TO0 BAY AND GRAIN GROWERS OF OALIFORNIA. The argument in support of the protec- tive system that has most weight with the men of any industry is that which is drawn from their experience in the conduct ot their business. You who are engaged in growing hay and grain in California know how much you have profited by the devel- opment at yourfarm gates of a market for your produce. You know also that this home market has been the creature of the protective system. You know that it has flourished with protection and that it broke down the moment protection was withdrawn. Not long ago nearly all the farmers of the State were engaged in the production of hay and grain. The product was far Jarger than the State counld consume and a distant and foreign market bad to be sought for it. In those days the farmer had to sell all of his product to a middle- man, who scught a purchaser for it wherever in the world he could find one. That state of things was broken ap by a system of protection which build up a diversified rural industry in Caiifornia. Protection enabled alarge proportion of California farmers to engage in fruit- growing, wine-making and raisin-growiug. This withdrew a large number of men from competition in the hay and grain in- dustry and at the same time made a mar- ket for those products. You have felt the benefits of this change nnder protection, and you have also felt the injury that has resulted from the Democratic attempt at free trade. Those of you who havereasoned out the full effects of protection on your industry are aware that it has done more than make a home market for your products. It has made a home market for your labor. In the spring before the time has come to harvest your hay and erain, you have employment for yourselves and your teams in doing the plowing and cultivat- ing of the orchards. When the hay and grain harvest is over you have further employment in the fruit harvest. Neither you, your children nor your teams are idle at any season of the year under this diversified system of rural industry. Pro- tection, therefore, has benefited you in a double way. It has given you at your farm gates a neighbor who is not only a purchaser of your hay and grain but an employer of your labor. The disastrous experience of the raisin and fruit growers of the State since the Democratic party began its attempts at legislation in the airection of free trade shows clearly that these industries can- not flourish without adequate protection. You are aware that when hard times came upon them they at once became less valu- able purchasers of your products ana em- ployers of your labor. You have learned from this experience that your interests as bay and grain growers are irreparably bound up with those of your neighbors who are producers of fruit, raisins and wine. The protection of one is the pro- tection of all. There is no division of in- terests among the farmers of California. There ought, therefore, to be no division of politics on the subject of protection. Let us unite as a people this year and put an end to the free-trade heresy in Califor- nia for the rest of this generation. This ought to be accounted your duty to your State. Help your neighbors and you will be helping those who help you. The tendency of the times the world over is Jfor shorter hours for labor. Shorter hours in the interest of health; shorter hours in the in- terest of humanity; shorter hours in the in- terest of the home and family. And the United States can do no better service to labor and to its own citizens than to set the example to the States, to corporations and to individ- uals employing men by declaring that, so far as the Government is concerned, eight hours shall constitute a day’s work and be all that is required of its laboring force.—McKinley. HOIST BY ITS OWN PETARD. Senator Cockrell of Missouri was se- lected by the Bryanites of the Southwest to deliver a speech devoted entirely to the money question. It was supposed that the Senator would be able to so present the question that the Republican party in that region of the country more especially would surrender. It was also the purpose of the Bryanites to use Senator Cockrell's speech in all parts of the country for ‘‘educational purposes.” The Senator de- livered himself of the bargained-for speech last week at Nevada, Mo., and the work of scattering it over the land is now well under way. Tue Senator himself con- denses the logic of his two hours’ speech into this proposition: ‘*Aristotle said 2000 years ago: ‘Money exists not by nature, but by law,” Money is created or authorized by law, which fixes the legal tender, the debt-paying power of gold and silver coins and their reiative values. The laws of nations authorizing the fiee and unlimited coin- age of both metals into full legal tender money at a fixed ratio create an unlimited demand and maintain their commercial value at or about their fixed relative coin- age values.” Aristotle made no new discovery when he found that money exists by law and not by nature. He stated that which has always been and always will be a fact, but Aristotle did not say, nor has a sensible man ever said, the thing of which money (zold and silver, one o1 both)is made exists by law and not by nature. There isa wide difference with a broad distinction here, Nor did Aristotle or any other sensible man ever say that law fixed the relative values of the metals it makes money of, Senator Cockrell to the contrary notwith- standing. But the most rickety and untenable of the Senator’s propositions is that by au- thorizing the unlimited coinage of both metals at a fixed ratio their commercial value would be about their colnage value, A flat contradiction of the Senator’s asser- tion will be found in every change in the ratio of the coinage value of the metals which the nations have made in the past. Ivis always the commercial value that fixes the ratio, and the law in confirming the ratio makes the metals legal tender money. All history proves that when the law does not confirm the relative value of the metals as fixed by commerce com- merce immediately withdraws and hides away the metal that the law makes the dearer. Commerce rejects the idea of a double standard of money at an unalter- able ratio. Between 1805 and 1873 commerce practi- cally withdrew the silver dollar from our inonetary system because the ratio did not do its commercial value justice. In 1873 the silver dollar was worth 104 centsas a commercial commodity and commerce would not permit it to be used as money for only 100 cents. In 1896 a silver dollar is worth as a commercial commodity 53 cents ahd commerce will not permit it to be used as money for 100 cents—without the consent of commerce everywhere. If it were trae, as Senator Cockrell says, the debt-paying and purchasing power of money is given to it by law there would be no sense in baving any ratio of differ- ence in the weight of coins. It would be just as easy for the law to declare that 125.8 grains of standard silverare the equiv- alent of 25.8 grains of standard gold as to declare that 412}¢ grains of standard silver are the equivalent of 25.8 grains of stan- dard gold, but it can do neither. More- over, there is not a civilized country in the worid that makes coin as coin re- demption money. It isthe quantity and quality of the metal in the coin that gives it debt-paying and purchasing power. But this Senator Cockrell prac- tically admits when he speaks of the coinage of gold and silver at their rela- tive value, for it is commerce and com- merce alone that fixes their relative value, and whatever their relative value is is also their coin value and hence their purchas- ing power. It is to be hoped that Senator Cockrell's speech will have wide circulation, for no better argument against practical Bryan- ism could be submitted to the people. Bryanism is boist by its own petard. To me the question of free trade is the ques- tion of humanity, the voice of labor pleading for its own, and the question of free silver is a question of public morality, honor and good Jfaith, and its suceess would be a blot on our hitherto spotless National credit. But will it prevail? No. I answer forever: No. The Amer- ican people of the Nation, like those of Ver- mont, are entirely above so unworthy animpu- tation.—McKinley. DIGGING UP RECORDS. It was hoved that the Presidential cam- paign would be conducted upon lines that would discourage the digging into the conduct of candidates in the past, and no doubt it would bave been done had work- ingmen been made of material less curi- ous and inquisitive. The fact is, the work- ingmen of this country are not quite them- selves these dasys, and they have got it into their heads that the repeal of the Mc- Kinley act is what hurt them, and that Bryan had a good deal to do with its re- veal,which is the fact, but just how close to the wall workingmen should push him on that account is the question. ‘Workingmen should see that it is very painful to Mr. Bryan to have reference made to his speeches in Congress on the question of giving them protection azainst low wage schedules of other countries, and they do see it; but somehow they will persist in demanding to know if he still thinks that an American wageman has no rights that foreign pauper labor should be obliged by this Government to respect. It may be that Mr. Bryan thinks such questions impertinent and impudent, and that he will ignore the questioners and their questions, but Mr. Bryan should be patient with them. Most of them have not had a great deal to eat for two years or £0, and not a few of them fear they will lose their little homes if they do not get employment very soon. Mr. Bryan may not know and be may notcare to know the condition of Ameri- can wage-earners, but they know, and that is why they are putting questions to him concerning what the future will have in store for them if he is elected. They ere very restless under enforced idleness, and Mr. Bryan ought to be more consid- erate ot their feelings than to tell them that it is not necessary to discuss such matters when they imporrune him for in- formation upon a matter of such vital im- portance to them as opportunity to earn wages is. Workingmen know Mr. Bryan held while in Congress that protection to American labor against destructive for- eign competition could not be justified, but now that he is traveiing about the country soliciting their votes they feel that he should reopen that question and tell them frankly whether or not he would, if elected, use his influence to have the Wil- son law repealed and something equally as good as the McKinley act put in its place. The workingmen of the United States fared so well under the McKinley act and have fared so badly since it was repealed that Mr. Bryan should not think them impudent when they ask him to de- fine his position—to tell them what they may expect if he is elected. Workingmen do not like to rattle the skeletons in Mr. Bryan's political closet, but if they stumble over them and make anoise in their haste to ascertain how much friendship he has for them they should not be blamed too much. True, Mr. Bryan has told them that it is not necessary to discuss their chances for work; besides, he has other fish to fry, and if workingmen have lived through hunger and disappointment for more than two years they can stand it until he has arranged matters that are of more conse- quence to Mr. Bryan than employment to idle labor, but workingmen think other- wise. It is nct of much consequence, however, whether Mr. Bryan answers the wage-earners or not. Practically, all of them are now under the McKinley ban- ner and they know that victory for it means plenty of work and good wages for them. No, it is not necessary for Mr. Bryan to discuss the tariff question. It is too late. Laek of confidence has destroyed the pur- chasing power of the country; the destrustion of its purchasing power has ruined its mar- ket; the ruin of s market has left the farm- er’s product unsalable on his hands. What the JSarmer wants is not more coinage, but more customers; what the wage-earner wants is to exchange his labor for the best dollar in the world, and the opportunity to get that dollar with his labor.—Chauncey Depew. DOWN IN MAINE. A Republican majority was expected in Maine, but the Democracy hoped that Sewall would have enough influence as the Vice-Presidential candidate to lower the record as against the race of two y: ago. It seems, however, that State prid- was shelved, and the vote cast on prin- ciple, which gives a Republican majority that correctly measures Bryan and Sewali's political standing in that State. No one believed Sewall when he said, immediately after being nominated, that his 8tate would swing over to the support of the Chicago ticket, but the belief prevailed in Bryan circles that there would be enough of a Democratic gain in the September contest to exert a moral influence all over the country which would strengthen the party very materially in November. The people of Maine had not been consulted, it would appear, when these prognostications were made; moreover the returns indicate numerous accessions to the Republican ranks from the Democratic party. The large increase in the Hepublican majority as compared with 1804 reflects public sentiment all over the country, There never was a time when the people had greater occasion to take s lively lnter. est in their public concerns, snd the Vermont and Malne elections show that the people are fully alive to the impor. tance of repudiating Bryanism with em- phasis, Of course the Bryanites would naturally ‘“point witn pride’’ to ths Demooratio majority in Arkansas, but he is & very ignorant man who does not know that the size of Democratic majorities in Arkansas is determined by the managers of (he party long before eloction day, and thai the majority agreed upon and riot the vole actually cast is what governs the relirs- ing boards, so it is an insult to the spiril of our institutions to compare majorities for the Democracy in Arkansas with ma- jorities for Republicans in Maine. In Arkansas the election returns express the will of the bosses, and in Maine they ex- press the will of all the people. Satisfyingas the large gains in Maine are the danger tuat they may cause the rank and file in other States to be too confident and thus make them apathetic is great enough 10 be looked after. Bryan says if his party is not successful tnis time it will come again and again, until Altgeldism and Bryanism are made the policy of the Government, but if the people do their whole duty during this campaign and on election day Bryanism will never again be heard of. Therefore the splendid gain in Maine ought to stimulate every one who is desirous that prosperity and peace shall ahound everywhere, and that the Govern- ment shall be maintained on the lines laid down by Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln to make every possible effort to leave Bryan without representation in tbe Electoral College. Let him not carry a single State. PERSONAL < Dr. 8. P. Low of Megalia arrived here yester- ay. R. G. Brown, a mining man of Bodie, is here. E. E. Elliot, an attorney of Bakersfield, is in town. L. 8. Stillman of Brooklyn, N. Y., is at the Palace. Ex-Governor P. L. Sherman of Illinois isin the City. E. 8. Mainhart, 8 mining man of Nevads, is on a visit here, A. H. E. McCartney, s fruit-grower of Ken- Wwood, is in town. Henry Stelling, a wheat-dealer of Davis- ville, is at the Russ. S. Rummelsburg, proprietor of a large store at Redaing, isin the City. % ‘W. B. Carter, an orchardist of Visalia, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. Burdell, one of the biggestland-owners in Marin County, is at the Lick. William Russell, an extensive linen manu- {acturer of Belfast, is in the City. Captain 8. F. Wickberg of Los Angeles is reg- istered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. George W. Peltier, a business man of Nevada, is here, accompanied by Mrs. Peltle: J. M. Wilmans, the wealthy ranch and mine owner of Newman, arrived here yesterday. 8.G. Thompson, a business man of Santa Rosa, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. E. Jacobs, the great landowner and big wheat-raiser of Visalia, is at the Occidental, C. W. Thompson, a general store proprietor of Tomales, is on a business trip to the City. Harry Postlethwaite, one of the extensive grain-growers of Tulare, is & recent arrival here. The Rev. Willlam H. Stoy, rector of one of the Episcopal churches at Marysville, is in town. G. W. McCutcheon, a wealthy farmer of Bakersfield, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his wife. E. B. Willis, editor of the BSacramento Record-Union, has been in the Oity for the last day or two. Captain Berryman of the United States ship Alert s at the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. Berryman. Hon. 8. M. Shortridge, Who has been con- fined to his bed by a serious illness since last Thursday, is convalescing, and expects to be up about the end of this week. Justice Stephen J. Field of the United States Supreme Court is preparing for an early re- turn to Washington. He will probably go Esst by the Canadian Pacific road. General Manager Harrison of the London and Northwestern Railroad, Robert Trumbuil and C. A. Buratoni, also of the company, and several ladies returned irom the Yosemite yesterday. Colonel Crocker, W. H. Mills, W. F. Herrin and- General Maneger Krutschnitt of the Southern Pacific returned yesterday from Lake Tahoe, where they have been on a few days’ pleasurc trip. Dr. P. J. N. Farrell, whose marriage in Duluth to Miss Edna Greatsinger recentiy was told in the Ban Franciscc papers at the time, arrived here yesterday, accompanied by his bride. They are atthe Palace. P. A. Buell, the wealthy manufacturer of Stockton, who is treasurer and a large stock- holder in the mewly organized company to buila & standard gauge railroad from Stockton to Jackson, a distance of sixty miles, is among the arrivals at the Grand, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 14.—At the West- minster—C. C. Whitman, Mrs, Woolrich, Miss Woolrich, Mrs. Bixler. Metropolitan—A. Bo- gart, R E. Geistlich, F.T. Hoyt Jr., F. Stuart. Hoffman—J. Hirsch. St Clair—J. C. Smitn. Stewart—A. H. Ward. Grand Union—F, Flawith. Mrs, Cora Dresler of San Jose left the Westminster to sail on the North Ger- man Lloya steamer Trave for Bremen. QUR NATION [N POLITICS. 1864 TO 1896, | STATES |2|3|2]2[2 /2|2 ]5 2] et EREEEE ® [caciroRNiA [~ Jcoonavo s nGATH CARGLINA | O] (5 [nontw oanova N CLIT T N—— - 2m_ OTAL CCTONL VOTE, 118360 447 MECESSARY T BT, 224 KEY-FO-EHART & Mo FS5 901 ADWITTED 10 STaTExaey > 2 vewotmr © st 72 MonEs g [ & 0t oo BB o BT UESUR > Plain Lesson in Black and White LI HUNG CHANG JONES LA Hung Chang Jones is the fearsome name with which a heartless father has burdened his helploss and unoffending offspring. It is r"u-leu that the fact that the portion of orthyr wherein the child was born on Sunday Inst in loonily known as China lends a certain Bpproprinteness to the selection. ~ But this Ingenious plea o t not to be admitted in “l.-.l:l‘i&-uon of such an outrage.—Westminster — THE REAL DEMOCRACY. Philedelphia Times (Dem.). ‘The Indfanapolis convention will be recog- ized as the surviving Democracy of the con- fest of 1896, and 1t will be the only D-mouuei known ih the future contlicts of the polf gtrm- of this country. Populism all it indrod heresies will’ be overthrown by such fmmense majorities in November that no at- rnpl will ever be made to revive it under ouiocratic colors, vlan sus and Mr. Holton AROUND THE CORRIDORS. R. C. Harbison, one of the proprietors of the energetic morning daily, the San Bernardino Sun, was among the arrivals here yesterday. Mr. Harbison is an enthusiastic Republican. His native State is Iowa, where they turn out strong Republicans, He did newspaper work on one of the leading dailies of Utah for a time and got thoroughly seasoned to the business in Ban Francisco, in all putting in several years at it, Two years ago Mr. Harbison went to San Bernardino and cast his fortunes with the Sun. He hasbeen so successful that he has, in company with a partuer, secured that paper and is a fixture in the solid town of San Bernardino. Talking yesterday of affairs in his section Mr. Harbison said: “We are in the whirl of the campaign, and 1t is & particularly lively dne with us. People may lose sight of it, but San Bernardino schems advocated by the commerciai organi- zations of this city. This county has reason to congratulate its representatives. WOOL DENMONETIZED. Bakersfleld Californian. Henry Marshall of Hanford isin receipt of the following letter from the Shoobert-Beale Company of 8an Francisco, wool commission ‘merchaats, which shows how wool has been “demonetized” by the Wilson bill: Dear Sir: We are In receipt of your letter inclos- ing the shipping receipt of seventeen bales of fall Wwool. ‘Wool is to-day absolutely without value, as there 1s none selling, and as we have your last fall wool on hana unsold we do not know when there will be & market for that class. Under the circum- stances. we can advance you Do money on the wool until business is settléd and there is a selling price. This Is the preliminary effect of the silver craze, and 1f men will not get around and vote for McKluley matters will be worse. R. C. HARBISON, Editor of the San Bernardino “Morning Sun.” [Sketched from life by a * Call’* artist.] County is the place which will supply the United States with oranges within a few years. We knew we were sending out the best fruit which goes to the market, but we were hardly prepared for the statement coming from the records at Sacramento that we. have more orange trees than any other county in the State. “There are now 250,000 trees in bearing,and 750,000 more young trees are set out, and the crop will, therefore, be increased four-fold in three or four years when these orchards come into bearing. And the revenue from this crop of citrus fruit is immense. Last season Red- lands oranges commanded the best price paid, and there are half a dozen districts which are vieing with it for the palm. “And with all thisacreage inoranges, saying nothing about lemons and deciduous fruit, it is hardly & beginning on the land in our val- ley. Some Eastern passengers coming up on the overland on which I took passage looked out of the windows as the train sped westward from San Bernardino and saw nothing bu: waste and uncultivated land and wondered what it could be utilized for. Yetbuta few miles off were orange and lemon orchards, stretching away for miles, and the land they were speaking of is equally productive. Back in the mountains vast reservoirs are being con- structed, and when the water is brought down the whole valley will become one vast orange orchard. “The newest thing in mining news is the road which San Bernardino County hes just completed into Randsburg. The road brings the trade of thatnew camp tributary to San Bernardino, coming in by Victor and the Cejon Pass. That camp gives greater promise than any ever discovered in the State. The original ledge is forty feet across, psy ore all the way, with a four-foot streak that is fabu- lously rich. Other strikes have been made in the radius of seven miles, and the camp is al- ready furnishing employment to several hun- dred men, and as soon as the winter rains come and the temperature moderates the num- ber will be largely increased. *The intolerable summer on the desert pre- vents prospecting generally, but mining men tell me that more prospectors will go out this fall than ever before. The Randsburg ledge and the Desert Queen and other good finds to the east of us have excited interest in mines, and the season promises to be an aciive one, “Politically we are all torn up, but McKin- ley will come over Tehachapi with & good ma- jority, and we will send Bowers back to Con. gress from the Seventh District. When Bryan was nominated, and in the few weeks succeed- ing, the free-silver people kicked up such a dust that we seemed to be lost; buttwomonths served to clear the atmosphere. It was nothing to be slarmed at. In one precinct that I know of, just out of town, s McKinley Club with forty members has been organized. The precinct gave Estee but twenty-five votes two years ago, and the population is not increased. In another one the McKinley Club has 106 members, more than half the total number of voters, and a month ago the Bryan people as- serted that there were not enough Republicans there to officer a club. “Of course tnere are parts of our county which are strong for the free-silver candidate, but the idea that he is going to sweep the southern counties is founded on an estimate of the situation made six weeks ago. The Re- publicans have been at work. The meeting held in our city thrée weeks ago, when S. M. Shortridge was there, has siarted the ball all over the county, and the sound-money Demo- crats are also doing noble work. If Mr. Bryan carries this State he must look elsewhere than to Southern California for his majority.” — LOS ANGELES REJOICES. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles County is benefited in the sum of $22,000 through the raising of the assess- ment of San Francisco City and County. Un- der the present adjustment that City and County must pay taxes upon & valuation of $425,000,000, being an increase of 70,000,- 000. Atone time a reduction of 10 per cent Was proposed for thiscounty,and San Fran- cisco 1s said to have been favorable to such re- duction, provided that her own assessment was permitted to remain at the figures made by ner Assessor. Deputy District Attorney Holton went to Sacramento & few days ago in connection with this matter, and co-operated with Mr. nold, the member of the State board from this county, to bring about the resent result. Under the proposed reduction '8 Angeles would havi ined about $£4000 in the matter of State taxes, but under the eo-xuu{hcnunurod by Mr. Arnold e 88 to onr taxpayers is $18,000 over the 1000, or a net gain NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Customer—Isn’t $2 a bottle rather high for cod-liver oil? Druegist—Ordinarily, yes; but you forget, sir, that you get this by prescription.—Bay City Chat. “That fellow makes money hand over flst.” “Indeed, what's his business?” “Pugilist.”—Detroit News. “That whisky’s fifteen years old,” whispered the bartender. “Lookey here,” answered his rural customer, “don’t try to git funny with me. You kin Jist pour that thar stuff back into th’ bottle, an’ I'll go whar I kin git sunthin’ fresh.”—De- troit Free Press. Alice—T heard something sbout you to-day. Anne—VYes; this new lining they are using in dresses makes a frightful noise, doesn’t it?— Yonkers Statesman, Wreckel—Lovell, T believe you said, is writ- ing poetry? Slimp—No, sir, I didn’t; Isaid he was writ- ing rhyme.—Philadelphia North American. “Gracious,” said the summer boarder. “‘What is that tower with the great wheel on top of 12" ‘That there is a windmill,” the farmer ex- plained. “Really? About how much wind will it turn out in a day?”’—Indianapolis Journal. Willy—Do animals go to heaven, parson? Parson Goodman—No, William—probably Dot; ut least, we have no reason to think so. Willy—Then the milk and honey in heaven must be canned goods, I suppose.—Puck. Hostetter McGinnis—What is the reason mothers who go to watering-places are always accompanied by their daughters? Mr. Manhattan Beach—That's an old cus- tom. It goes back fo the time when Rebecca captured her husband, Isaac, at the well. Ever since women have been going to wateringe Pplaces to catch husban Texas Sifter. “It’s & great shame,” said Wilkes. *There's that Miss Burleigh with $8,000,000 in her own right and hopelessly ugly.” “What? Nonsense!” said Barlow. “Why, my dear fellow, a woman with that amount of money can’t help being a perfect belle.”—Haz. per’s Bazar. LITTLE GIRL’S DRESS. The bishop sleeve is the ideal shape for chil- dren’s dresses, being comfortable as well as stylish. The one pictured here is made with- outa fitted lining, and is finished with a very pretty euff. The pointed decorations on the ;:‘s’.::&;;!aénx?t % e‘on;ruun; material is ste: N:&embm}d“y. ad of the lace, or they may ress of novelty wool had th 1) pieces and cuffs of plain 11gmbluo'clcm:‘:::& ere h dark green soutache braid. A dress of brown soft-finish serge had points and cuffs of brow: narrow white Ince. e NxeSMm e ] PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. When in good health ages about five hours’ four. Lord Rosebery aver- sleep out of the twenty- The eldest son of the late Sir John Millats is one of the most successful breeders ot sy eders of hounds Philip 7. Colgrove of Hastings, Mich., who has just been elected world’s supreme chan- cellor of the Knights of Pythias, is 87 years of e —————— e age, a native of Indians, a graduate of Olivet College and & practicing lawyer of Hastings, It is safd that Azthur Sewall, the Democratio Vice-Presidential cancidate, has the best vege. table garden in Maine. For the first time since 1867 the Queen of the Belgians has gone on a long visit to France, She is at Chantilly, 8s the guest of the Dye d’Aumale. Miss Ellen Arthur, a daughter of the late President Arthur, has arrived in this country after an extended trip through Europe. &he will live at her home in Albany. Miss Kate Sanborn, who hes herself becomg a farmer, was one of the speakers at the New Hampshire State Grauge fair. It has been Adelina Palt¥’s annual custom to sing at a benefit for the Swansea Hospital, bt she will not take part in it this year becauss the admission price has been set at half g guinea instead of & guinesa. Zola is not a rich man. In spite of the enor. mbus success of his books gnd the large annua) income he has recelved from their sale, likg many other authors, he has not possessed business eapacity which would enab s take care of or accumulate a fortune. Those who know him best predict that he willdic 4 poor man. SEPTEMBER. Purple asters here at last, And thistle seed a-blowing! And what is this in the blackbird’s song? ‘The locusts pipe it shrill and long. Over and over: ‘“Past—past—past— The summer days are going!”’ Stay, chattering squirrel! Why this ret For hoard you're sure to gather? And cunning spinner, why 8o soon A shroud to weave—a last cocoon? The bitter frost is far of yet, ‘Though summer days are goIng. Perhays (who knows?) to grass and fern Comes bitter pang ia turning Erom youth 10 aze. Perhaps the wood Rebels against a faded hood, ‘And wouid escape it 1f it could: And that with wrath the sumachs burn, When summer days are going! JANE MARSH PARKER, in the Outlook, VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS, He Wouldn't Run Much, Fresno Republican. The announcement that Grover Cleveland will not run for_the Presidency need not sur. prise auybody. He woulda't, anyway—notio speak of. As Compared With Silver Countries. Santa Cruz Sentinel. As hard as thetimes are now with uscan any silverite name a silver country where they are better off than they are in America? Think this question over. The State Board's Raise. Nevada City Herald. The State Board of Equalization gave San Francisco a good, stiff raise, its assessment be ing increased about 20 percent. It is her any one to see how values increased 20 per centin one year—and such & year. Free Coinage Under Proper Conditions, Pasadena Star, Let it not be forgotten that the Republican party, which is now being held up as a terrible example of the goldbug disease, has shown its friendship tor silver by coining more of that metal than have all other political parties combined in the history of the Government, The same party now refuses to give its sanc. tion to the coinage of silyer under conditions and to an extent that will discredit it in the eyes of our people and those of the world. The Distinction. Chino Champion. The fallacy that free and unlimited coinage of silver means bimetallism is being exploded. Free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 means silver monometallism, because as cheaper coin it will drive gold out of eire: tion. The Republican party proposes to mei tain silver on a parity with gold, keeping b in circulation, and to foster the industrial an: commerclial life of the Nation so thatan in. creased coinage will go into circulation un. biased and undebased. Ghosts That Walked. Fresno Republican. A ghost of & Greenback party which had long been dead one day met anotherghost which had just arrived in the land of shedes. «Ah, there!” said the ghost of the Greenbeck | party, “are you not the—the—"" “Iam the ghost of the Populist party,” said the other, seeing that the other hesitated. “Alas! 80 you, 100, have been fusing with the Democratic party, have you?” And together they walked away into the dense shadows. FresH buttercups, 25¢ & pound. Townsend's* ———— SprcrAL information daily to manufacturarss, business houses and public men by the Prex Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomery. * ————— HUSBAND'S calcined magnesia. Four first. premium medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose then other mag- nesta. For sale only in botles with registered trademark labels. * — The Deadly Cigarette. Stockton Mail. “Cigarettes killed him.” This js a sentence one reads nearly every day. But the small boy continues to smoke the vicious things, wi interference by his elders and sometimes with thelr consent and connivance. As well give him arsenic; it would be more merciful. College Iarty. A party of college people and their friends will leave for Chicago and various Eastern universlties on next Tuesday evening, the 15th of September. They have chartered a special Northern Pacific tourist car, upholstered in leather, and no objec- tionable person will be admitted. For really first- class accommodations at second-class rates, this is the finest excursion of the year. Reservations are now being made, but a few more will be admitted. For full information apply to T. K. Stateler, gen- eral agent Northern Pacific Rallway, 638 Market street, San Francisco. —_————— Are You Gomng East? The Atlantic and Pecific Railroad—Santa Fe Toute—Is the coolest and mos: comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence from alkall dust. Particularly adapted for the trans- portation of families because of its palace draw- ing-room and modern upholstersd tonrist sieeplag cars, which run daily through from Oakiand to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and ia charge of attentlye conductors sna poriers. Saa Francisco Ticket office, ¢ 4 Market street, Chron- icle building. Telephone, Main 1563l Oakland, 1118 Broadway. —_—————————— Dr. SIEGERTS Angostura Bitters are the best remedy for removing indigestion and all diseases of the digestive organs. -~ WHEN your food has no relish the stomacz needs to be cleansed and strengthened by & d0se or two of Ayer's Pilla. Democratic Sophistry. Alameda Argus. ‘The Democratic harp of a thousand strings just now is the “poor workingman.” Hevu twld that he will prosper if everybody else suffers; that the total destruction of public confidence will make work so plenty that it will go a-begging; that if only the ‘‘plut oy i8 round.v cinched and those who little something are ruined it will make this & glad land for the laborer. See the Examiner. Absolutely Pure. owder. rtar baking A cream of tal Ao Highest ot all in leavening strength. ‘States United Government Report. i ovaL BAKING PowDER Co., New York.