The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1896, Page 6

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BRANCH OFFICES: 880 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open untfl £:80 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clook. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open entil o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untll § o'clock. 116 Niath street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 905 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICB: 24 Park Row, New York City- OLTZ, Special Agent. — PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo | FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— | GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jorsey | ELECTION NOVEMEER 3, 1896. | | Don’t forget the Republican primariesi to-day. i Hear Irving M. Scottat the Auditorium this evening. Don't forget to leave orders to-day for THE SUNDAY CALL. Ther may call it a fusion of parties, but it means nothing but a dicker between office-seekers. It is not yet certain whether Senator Hill is crawling out of his hole or crawl- ing further in. It is the soldier candidate and not the | orator candidate whose speeches are most pleasing to the people. If there is any man of National repute who is supporting Bryan itis time for him to get up and show hu: | The people have trusted Democracy | once and as a cunsequenceé many of them | have had to live on trust ever since. Democrats and Populists seem to have abandoned the idea of a campaign of edu- | cation and have gone into trade for votes. The San Francisco Democrat is in a bad box, for when he tries to get out of lhe‘ wet he has to get in with the Rainey | crowd. California must have an iron industry | adequate to Ler neads, and in order to have it she must protectit by favorable legislation. _ McKinley is making good business for Canton and when he gets into the White House he will make business good for the whole country. Cator is rapidly becoming an isme! between the Democrats and tie Pgpulists, and he is trying to make himself as biga | one as possible. Protection is becoming more and more the chief issue of the campaign and the Democrats are dodging it by getting out of the campaign. The Republican primaries are open to- day from 12y 10 7P. M. Every loyal Re- publican is entitled to one vote and shoula be sure to cast it. “We want in this country good work, good wages and good money,” says Major McKinley, and on that platform all the people are with him. . It is altogether vain and foolish for England to expect us to help her settle with Turkey when we haven’t yet finished in helping her to settle with Venezuela. Politics begins with the primaries and every Republican should attend the elec- tion in his district to-day in order to have | himself represented in the municipal con- vention. No scheme of political fusion has ever yet succeeded with the American people, and it never will as long as the people “have respect for political principles and a disgust for trading office-seekers. The Democrats who have given Cator the pleasing hope that he is the logical candidate of the fusionists for the United States senatorship may be fooling some- body, but whom are they fooling? You get the United Press dispatches in Tue CALL, but in no other morning paper in this City; so if you wish to have all the rews of all parties given impartially and accurately you must read THE CALL every day, —_— The New York Democrats who declared for the gold standard in June have dew clured now for the silver standard, so we can see how much easier it is for the tiger to change his stripes than for the leopard 1o change his spots. e el The man who sold- the lion’s skin while the lion was yet alive was killed in hunt._ ing him, and Democrats and Popuhsts who are trading to one another the offices of the people while the people are wide awake may find a profit in studying the fate of the skin-seiler, Let all loyal Republicans attend the vrimaries this afternoon and elect a thor- oughly representative municipal conven- tion and the result will be a ticket that will have the support of every good citi- zen and assure the City an effective and economical business administration, e The address of Irving M. Scott to the ironmolders this evening will differ from the ordinary campaign speech, inssmuch as it will be the discourse of a Ppractigal man on a subject of which he is an ac- knowledged master, addressed to men ‘who are interested in it as the industry of their lives. It will, therefore, be a true educational speech ana will deserve the attentive study of all citizens, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1896. THE IRON INDUSTRY. At the Auditorium this evening Irving M. Scott will address the ironworkers of the State on the relation of the political issues of the day to their industry. In many respects this will be one of the most notable addresses of the campaign. No industry is more important to & com- munity than that of ironworking, and the avilization of a people may be well esti- mated by the extent to which thatindus- try is carried on among them. It is an old story that Solomon pro- nounced the blacksmith to be the chief of artisans because he made the tools by which all other artisans did their work. The establishment of an adequate iron in- dustry is the first essential of an enlight- ened and independent community, Cali- fornia must be able to manufacture all the ironwork needed in her trades and indus- tries if she would be free from depend- ence on other lands, and whatsoever tends to promote that industry is a matter of concern te every Caiifornian. No man is better fitted to deal with this important theme than Irving M. Secott. He is one of the greatest ironworkers m the world. He snd his partners of the Union Iron Works have built up in Cali- fornia a ship-building yard whose accom- plishments are amongz the highest tri- umphs of the constructive engineering of the ace. The QOregon, the Olympia, the San Francisco, the Charleston and the Monterey hold each a place in the front rank of their class of ships, and attest to the Nation and to the world what can be done by the ironworkers of California under the direction of a skillful, energetic and vigorous manager., That the iron industry of California is carried on under adverse conditions is known to everybody. Very few, however, are aware how adverse those conditions are, or to what extent they can be im- vroved by favorable legislation. All the issues to be submitted to the people in this election are economic, and all of them of course will affect our iron industry to a marked degree. It is a matter of vital importance, therefore, that they should be declded right at the polls. There is no conflict of rich and poor, or of labor and capital, involved in the issue. All Cali- fornians are interested in the upbuilding of this industry of the State, but most especially so are the ironworkers thera- selves, for their very livelitood depends upon it. Every ironworker of the City should attend Mr. Scott’s address to-night, and every ironworker of the State should read it, in order that they may know ex- actly how far their business, their wages and their welfare depend upon their poli- tics and their votes. Addresses of this kind have a value above ordinary campaign speeches. They are truly educational in their nature. If other large manufacturers foliowed the ex- ample set by the practical patriotism of Mr. Scott and used their knowledge to teach the people our politics would have a much higher tone, There would be a clearer understanding of public interests and a better comprehension of the rela- tion of those interests to National patriot- ism. There is scarcely any point in the economy of National affairs of greater moment than the wuniform preservation of the intrinsic value of the money unit. On this the security and steady value of property essentially de- pend.—Alezander Hamilton. WHY THEY GO TO'CANTON. More than fifty special trains carried delegations to Canton yesterday. It was not, strictly speaking, a partisan demon- stration, for thousands of Democrats par- ticipated, but every one of the thousands will vote for Major McKinley. It issome- thing new in an American political cam- paign for voters to charter railway trains and travel bundreds of miles to pay their respects to the candidate of their choice, but there are delegations from distant parts of the country every day at Canton, and seemingly the beginning of the move- ment has not yet been reached. If only Republicans were journeying to Major McKicley’s home there might be some reason to suppose that it was a political trick to draw attention and create enthusiasm, but it so happens that a great many who never voted a Republican ticket are in these great crowds of piigrims, and, what is more, those who go charter trains on their own account and pay the il themselves. It will be conceded, there- fore,“ that something other than party politics is causing this daily rush of people to Cantcn, and it is true that theincentive is something far removed from ordinary campaign enthusiasm, The fact is, industries everywhere are closing down and commercial and mer- cantile enterprises are curtailing opera- tions as much as possible because the tlireats of the Bryanites to force destruc- tive methods upon the world of trade and traffic if Bryan is elected are destroying confidence in business circles. That is why Republicans and Democrats are working together to avoid such a calamity as Bryan's election woulda be. All of | Major McKinley's economic theories are not indorsed by Democrats, but they know that if he is elected he will make no wild and ill-advised changes in the existing monetary system of the country. And again, business men and working- men do not quit their places of occupa- tion and journey miles away merely to feed their curiosity; and so 1t must be that they travel all the way to Canton to give Major McKinley enconragement from a sense of duty, which all the more em- phasizes the feeiing of fear that now pre- veils in business circles over the possi- bility of Bryan’s election. To be sure, there is little if any likelihood of Bryan's election, but commerce and industries are not disposed to take any chances, and that is why business men and wage-earners, without reference to part . ties, are giving all the aid they can in making Major Mo- Kinley’s election sure beyond the pos- sibility of a doubt. 1 do not belicve that you can legislate up the value of anything any more than I be- lieve you can make generals heroes by legisla- tion. The Continental Congress tried legis- lating values up by resort to penalties, but the inezorable laws of trade, as independent as the laws of gravitation, kept them down.— Roscoe Conkling. THE GRAND JUKY'S REPORT. The revelations of the Grand Jury are simply an official report of things and doings which the public has been familiar with for a long time. Nevertheless the recommendations of the Grand Jury should be considered in the light of the authority making them and remedies should be applied that will correct the evils complainedjof. What the people want isa capable and economical udministration of their municipal affairs, and to secure that they may be relied upon to hold up the hands of the Grand Jury or any other le- galiy constituted authority in tae work of giving protection to the social and busi- Dess 1nterests of the community against whatever is running counter to the law und the best good of the municipality. The presumption is that the Grand Jury bases its report upon facts that can be sub- stantiated by those whose duty it is to protect the people from unjust actsand extravagant expenditure of the public money. If enormous assessments have been made, or if favoritism has been shown in the conduct of any of tne City’s offi- cials, it certainly is the duty of some one or otber public official to undertake to complete the work begun by the Grand Jury. Itis a matter of enforcing the law and not a matter of any official’s likes and dislikes. As we have said, the people want and will have a municipal government that governs for the best interests of all the citizens, and public sentiment will stand by the officers of the law in every effort to punish wrongdoing, whether it be in high or low places. The Grand Jury says glar- ng abuses have been allowed to creep into the management of mary of the City’'s departments, and if that be true it would not be difficult to locate those who are re- sponsibie for it. The public is satisfied that in some instances at least the jury’s charges sre easy to substantiate, and it demands that reforms be adopted that shall oblige officials to serve the public as their oath of office requires them. The report of the Grand Jury is before the public, and public sentiment can oblige the proper action to be taken upon it. My own idea is that we should encourage home manufactures to the extent of our own consumption. I have said that the home mar- ket is the best market. You know that from experience; and the home market is made bet- ter by increasing our factories and giving employment to idle workmen. Put every idle man in the country to work and your consum- ers will be increased, and when your consum- ers are increased then the market is improved and the better the price you reccive for your products.—McKinley. GEORGE WASHINGTON. The centennial anniversary of George Washington’s farewell address fo his countrymen will be pretty generally cele- brated throughout the United States to- day, as it should be, for what we now enjoy in the way of personal liberty is a heritage that cost the founders of the | Government a great deal, and we should | remember with especial gratitude the man who made the Declaration of Independ- ence effective by leading the armies of {reedom to sure and certain victory. There have been many changes in the methods and conduct of the political and commercial affairs of the people in the century now closing, but the central idea’ of the purpose of the Government, as ex- pressed by George Washington, “The very idea of the power and the right of a peo- ple to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government,” has nevergrown dim nor lost any of its power to awaken to duty. George Washington issued his address to about 5,000,000 people, and to- day more than 70,000,000 people participate 1in the blessings of his achievement. It is proper, therefore, that the people give public demonstration of their grati- tude to the founder of a system ot govern- ment that secures the highest opportunity for individual endeavor and encourage- ment to go from strength to strength in all the ways that lead to peace, happiness and the fuil enjoyment of one’s own honest efforts. George Washington was needed by humanity, and he came in the fullness of time to strengthen civilization in 1ts onward and upward march, I can take the dollars of my country into every free-silver coinage nation of the world— Mexwo, China, Japan, South America— wherever you please, and I can buy twice as much at the home store as the most privileged citizen of the locality can buy with the best dollar his Government gives him to use. Ido not care to ezchange my privilege with any man who is ready to give me two of his dol- lars to one of mine.—Senator Thurston. THE SUNDAY CALL. To-morrow’s issue of THE CALL will con- tain a number of very bright and enter- taining features of especial interest to those who live in San Francisco or Cali- fornia, besides a great deal of good litera- ture that is at once attractive and instruc- tive. Nearly all of these will be hand- somely illustrated, and from every stand- point THE SuNpAY CALL will be up to its own high conception of what a Californian Bunday newspaper ought to be. Among the features of special interest the follow- ing may be mentioned: How an American May Become the Ruler of Great Britain. Man, Nature and Sheep in the Wilder- ness. The Comet That Is Coming and What May Be Expected if It Strikes the Earth. Using Dogs in War. Cruisers That Cannot Cruise and the Cost of an Admiral’s Cooking. ' 1t She Would Catch a Husband in San Francisco. The Lucky Find of the Bald Eagle, ‘When the North Pole and the Magnetic Pole Parted Company 12,000 Years Ago. Saving the Poor Children From the Streets. Only One Secret Necessary to Turn Silver Into Gold.- The Strangest America. School District in —_— T have always been in favor of a protective tariff. And 1 have always advocated and believed in it because I thought it was neces- sary o protect the American workingmen against the cheaper labor of the world. Ap- plying that great principle L am in favor of protecting to-day the workingmen of the United States ‘agawnst a degraded currency. 1 am opposed to free trade because it degrades American labor. I am opposed to free silver because it degrades American ‘money,—Mc- Kinley. THE TRUTH VS, BRYAN. In his speech at Charlotte, N. C., Mr, Bryan boldly asserted that “‘we have been decreasing our circulation for the last few years,”” and then he went on to claim that, owing to the demonetization of silyer in 1873, the volume of the country’s circu- lating money medium haa failed to keep pace with the increase in the volume of trade and commerce, and that 8s a conse- quence our dollars have been enhanced in value. If Mr. Bryan would take the trouble to inform himself upon the questions he dis- cusses he would have & better standing as a teacher of the science of government and practical economics. It so happens that a notification of nominaiion does not convey to the ncminated any knowledge or understanding of the principles of the party, nor wisdom that he may properly apply them if elected, but Mr, Bryan is under the impression it would seem that the convention which nominated bim also endowed him with a perfect knowledge of all there is of political and commercial economy. At least heis laboring under that or some other hallucination, for no man who was at himself would stand be- fore an audience and contradict facts of current history of which every one was cognizant. If Mr. Bryan will secure a statement from the Treasury Department concern: ing the per capita moneyin the United Btates since the Government was founded and will study the exhibit after he has re- ceived it, he will know a good deal more than he did when he asserted at Charlotte that the act of 1873 operated and still operates to decrease the per capita money of the country. In 1800 tne total money of the United States was $5 27 per capita and $4 99 in cir- culation. In 1861, when the Republican party assumed the direction of the affairs of the Nation, the total per capita meney was $14 09, of which $1398 was in circulation. The highest point reached auring the Civil ‘War was in 1865, when the total per capita money was $2216, with $2057 in circula- tion. In 1873 the total money consisted of $25,000,000 in specie and in round num- bers $750,000,000 of other forms of money, which was $18 58 per capita, with $18 04 in circulation. In 1880 we had a total per capita of §$24 04, of which $493,363,884 was in specie, with a per capita circulation of $19 41 The year 1890 opened with a total per capita volume of $34 24, of which $22 82 was in circulation, and there was specie aggregating $1,152,471,638. The per capita circulation in 1890 was greater than in any former year in the history of the country up to that time. In 1892 the specie reached $1,234,588,789, with $36 21 per capita money ull told and $24 50 in circulation. In 1894 the total specie was $1,252,071,667, with a total per capita mouey amounting to $3544, of which $24 33 was in circulation. The treasury statement for August, 1896, based upon a populiation of 71,518,000, shows the per capita circulation to have been $21 18. Thus it will be seen that the official tables of the Treasury Department flatly contradict Mr. Bryan at every point, but that will make no difference to the Demo- cratic candidate. He is not dealing in facts, nor will he, for facts and his candi- dacy are diametrically opposed. LADY'S CAPE. The prevailing mode in autumn capes is the rather short single cape with flariug collar. Thss shape is chosen both for cloth and satin or silk garments. The former are perfectly plain, with machine stitching around the edges, or are strapped in various ways with the same goods. Some have two or three straps aown the back. Others have cloth set on to form points. Batin capes of black are fancifully trimmed with ruffles of black chiffon and white, cream, or ecrn lace. One had a flounce of chiffon half its length, gathered into the neck. On this was a ruffle ot white lace two inches nar- rower, and over this again a ruffle of chiffon, two inches narrower than the lace. A ruche of chiffon finished the neck. Capes of gay Dresden silk are stylishly trim- med with biack chiffon or lace. Jet on net or tulle is much used, in the shapes of yokes and collars. ‘When made of cloth the cape isseamless, but narrow fabrics have a seam down the ceuler back. PERSONAL. Fred Wegg Howe of London is in town. Dr. J. P. E. Heintz of Monterey is in town. E. B. Yerington of Nevada is at the Palace. A. L. Arundell of New York is at the Palace. Ex-Judee Colwell of Nevada City is on a visit here. 0. A, Low of the Bank of Woodland is in the City. C. M. Heintz of Los Angeles is at the Cali- fornia. Dr. D. E. Osborne of St. Helena is visiting the City. Dr. L. A, Noyes of Sitka is among the arrivals at the Grand. J. F. Clapp, & mining man of San Andreas, is at the Grand. Judge J. Naftzigger of Merced is at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. Bernard Lande of New York is among the arrivals at the Palace. 8. F. Geil, the old-time resident of Salinas, is among the guests of the Occidental, J. Jarnick, a merchant of St. Paul, Minn., s registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, C. K. McClatchey, editor and one of the own- ers of the Sacramento Bee, is in town. Joseph Germaine, the well-known business man ot Winnemucca, Nev., is in town. Colonel E. T. Winston of the United States army arrived here from the East yesterday. A. McLaughlin, & wealthy stock-raiser of Idaho, is & guest at 1he Cosmopolitan Hotel. A. K. Edgar, s prominent business man of ColoradoSprings, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Colonel Evan Miles of the army came up from Santa Cruz yesterday. He is at the Palace. J.F. More of Santa Barbars, who is inter- ested heavily in an island lying off the channel from Santa Barbars, is at the Palace. The Rev. Dr. G eorge C. Adams of St. Louis, who has been temporarily called to the pulpit of the First Congregational Church, will arrive here to-day and will preach his first sermon to-morrow. John Sparks, the wealthy cattle and land owner of Nevada, was among yesterday's arrivals at the Palace. Mr. Sparks .has an enormous cattle ranch, extending from near Humboldt north into Idaho. He is known as the cattle king of the Sagebrush State. W. 8. Doane of Doane & Henshelwood has returned here after several weeks' absence in New York, He says thereis a feeling of unrest owing to the silver campaign. Foreign agents in New York are getting no orders. About 65 per centof the Eastern factories are closea. The general feeling is that as soon as Major McKinley is elected confidence will be restored. George R. Tingle, United States Inspector of the Fisheries for Alaska, arrived here yester- day, accompanied by M. E. Fagan and Shaler Berry, Assistant Inspectors. Mr. Tingle has been on the southwestern and western coasts of Alaske and in the Bering Straits for some time, while Messrs. Fagan and Berry have been examining the fisheries in Southeastern Alaska. They are all at the Occidental. They went to Alaska on July 1. CALIFORNiANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N, Y., Sept. 18.—At the Im- verial, C.C. Moore, E. Buckleton; Bartholdi, Mrs. M. Deforrest; Continental, Mrs. McCrea; Union-square, P. Sauterheimer, Mrs Ida Enland of Santa Barbara left the Westminster to sail on the Havel for a tour of France with anumber of Chicago young ladies. BRYAN'S MiSTAKE. Canton Repository. Mr. Bryan, in his letter of acceptance, says this year is not the time to talk tariff. In view of the large snd growing deficiency in the National treasury, it is necessary to con- sider tariff and reyenues. Other le are considering the subject, as Mr. Bryan will dis- cover when the votes are counted. “Jobson, I do believe that if you were given your choice between me and your pipe, you would hesitate,” “Thats where you make a mistake, Mrs. Job- son. A pipe soothes and comforts a man in his old sge.”—New York Herald, B — AROUND THE CORRIDORS. W. H. Clary, owner of the famous Sheep Ranch gold property in Calaveras County, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Mr. Clary is credited with being one of the best informed mining men in the State. He came to California as an early pioneer and has been mining and running large ranches ever since. He has amassed a comfortable fortune and some time ago took up his residence in Stock- ton. Mr. Clary has an enormous acquaintance up and down the coast, but particularly in Californis, and people speak of him in words of praise. “Iam not working the Sheep Ranch mine at present,” he said a day or two ago, “and there 18 only a little mining work going on in that twict ez much money Icooa drink twict ez much whisky and pay for it?" “How much is twice nothin’?” wuz the un- feeiin’ answer uv the tyrant who holds the destinies uy the Corners in his hauds. That's wat voor capital hez bin ever since I knowd yoo." “Parson,” sed he, “I don’t see wat erthly difference it's goin’ to make whether sflver is currency or anything else. How are yoo goin’ to git silver ef it is made legal tender? Ef sil- ver wuz ez plenty ez bricks wat hey you got to gitany uv it with 27 “Troo, G. W.,” wuz my answer; “but can’t you see that to hev silver wood releeve the dettor class? Even now, afore it 1¢ legal ten- der, it's only wuth 92 cents on the dollar, and when the country is flooded with it it will go still Jower. Then we—or rather sich uy us ez hev property to raise money on—kin pay offi—" “Eggsactly so,’ retorts Bascom; ‘‘vou kin pay me for ihe good, honist likker uy mine, wich you hev consoomed, in coin, which is W. H. CLARY, the Owner of the Celebrated Sheep Ranch Mine of Calaveras. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] immediate vicinity. Stockton, where I reside, is fairly active and almost the same as it was five or s1x months ago.” Mr. Clary never comes to the City that he does not meet a small army of men whom he hes known in his mining experience. It was thus at the Lick when he alluded to the busy life he had led. He will be here two or three days. AUTUMN JOYS. The nights are getting so one likes to tuck the covers in; The katydids are gossiping about pocr Katherine; A man can wear a collac now for much more than aminate Without it losing all the starch the laundryman putin it; And if things keep on progressing In the way they’ve started out The time will be upon us soon, without a shade of doubt, When the frost shall shrink the mercury down to a low degree And the 'skecters cease from troubling and the festive fly shall fice.—ndianapolis Journal. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Bryan {s evidently resolved to die with his mouth on.—New York Tribune. It is & pity that Tom Watson could not have been muzzled; he is a discredit, even to him- self.—Manchester, (N. H.) Union. In some p‘ru' of Arkansas elections are con- ducted at the 16-to-1 ratio—sixteen votes to one voter.—New York Tribune. The dissatisfied man should not fail to note that the more speeches Bryan makes the better business gets.—Baltimore American. The only way the workingman can be bene- fited by the free silver coinage is for him to get possession of a silver mine.—Goshen (Ind.) Times. In his determination to come to the frosty East again, Bryan shows up well as a possible seeker of the north pole.—Philadelphia North, American. There hasn’t been a sadder svectacle than Sewall presents since Casabianca declined to withdraw from the burning deck.—Rochester Post-Express. The main trouble with Candidate Bryan seems to be that he possesses such an enormous amount of information that isn’t so.—New York Advertiser. The difference between Vermont and Arkan- sas is that in one State the people do the voting, while in the other the Democrats do the count- ing.—New York Mail and Express. “Who are the anarchists?’ asks Mr. Bryan. He may not be one, but he has been trying to make them by arraying section against section and class against class.—Iowa State Register. It is simple wickedness for any intelligent person to advocate depreciated currency and attempt to array a part of the people of this Union against another part.—Hartford Times. Candidate Bryan assured the silverite com- mittee that his convictions on the silver ques- tion were not shallow. Few would have sus- pected it from his incessant prattle. “The shallows murmaur, but the deeps are dumb,”— Philadelphia Record (Dem.). The closer Mr. Bryan’s utterances are studied the more apparent will be the shallowness of his sopnistries, and the more widespread will be the conviction that to place so loose a thinker, 80 glib a talker and so reckless a leader in the Presidential chair would be an irreparable mistake.—Chicago Times-Herald. “Look here,” said the Bryan man, “you fel- lows have no right to call yourseives the National Democracy.” “Well,” answered the Palmer man, ‘“just to oblige you, as far as Iam concerned, I won't call it that any more. How would it do call ourselves the Rational Democracy ?" But the other man, being a Bryan man, was still discontented.—Indianavolis Journal. NASBY ON SILVER. THE QUESTION DISCUSSED IN BASCOM'S STORE EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO. I aint so certin that I want the silver bill to ezIwuz. The factis. the thingdon't work ez I spozed it wood, and 1 ain’t clear onto it. There is suttle principles in these finan- shel questions which require a great deel uv thought, and there i8 underlying principles ‘wich & man has got to understand afore he is competent to set hisself up ez authority. One thing I'm certain uv—Bascom ain’t no finanseer, nor never will be, and I told him so. “Wat is a finanseer?” asked he. “A finanseer,” sed I, assoomin the look of 'l Webster, “is & man wich kin pay his (l‘):‘l:"l wnhl no}hm—- man wich kin git suthin n’.” '““‘?h:bégmen, then, is full of finanseers, "he remarked bisterly, castin a casual glance at his slate, wich wuz jist full enuff to turn over and on tother side. But he hezn’tany uv the science uv it. I wuz argooing with him the other day in favor of my notion of a leatber currency, though I told him silyer wuz much the same thing, and, mr io ple, 1 ".‘.’3"&.",‘:,‘2’:.‘.‘}'" silver wuz to pupen = “Now, .-?{m see, Bascom, thet ef I hed less than the dollar you promised. All rite. But look here—come’in here, all uy yoo. Wwant yoo sitver men to know exactly wat yoo are rushin’ into.” And this feend led us into the back room— that back room which qentanes the subsis ence of the Corners. There, in long rows, wuz Bascom's stock. There, in barrils, piled one on top uy another, wuz the delishus whisky uv Louisville, uv different ages, ranging from that uv two weeks old to that wich hed jist left the still and was scarcely cold yit. There itlay, and as my eye ranged affeckshunatety overitlfeltef I cood hev the drinkin’ uvall that likker I wood be content to lay down ana die when the last drop wuz gone. Bascom p’inted to an immense tank wich he hed erectid within a few days, with & pipe running in from the roof. “I shan't raise the price uv likker in conse- kence uv bein’ paid for it in a depreshiated currency!” sed he, I fell on Bascom’s neck, in an extacy uy de- Hte.lwnfle the others shouted, ‘‘Rah for Bas- com!” “G. W.,” I remarkt, while teers suffoosed my eves, “I never placed you much below the an- gels, but this generous act has histed yoo a nundred per cent in my estimashun. Bless ¥00, G. W., bless yoo.” “But le\lxou whatIsheldo. Dy yoosee that tank?” sed he. “May I ask wat that is for 2’ I sed. ~That tank will fill with ranewater,” sed he. “The moment yoo get to payin’ me in silver I shel take out uv each uy them barrils jist eggs- ackly three aud one-fifth gailons uv likker and fill it with water.” “Mercitul hevings!”” we all exclaimed, “and yoor likker so weak now!" “And when silver gits down to 75 cents on the dollar I shel take out 25 per cent uv whisky and fill her up 25 per cent of water, And so on down, Ef silver goes up I shel add whisky eggsackly in proporsben. In short, my whisky is jist sgoin’ to foller currency. and nothin’ shorter. Yoo fellers wich work for wagis may swet, but I won't.” ‘él}ul yoo'l increase the size of yoor glasses 7" se “‘Not eny. But yoo may drink twice ez many times to git the same amount uy drunk ez before, by payin’ for each drink.” And Baskom staiked hawtily hack and took his posishen behind the bar. Ther wuz consternashun {n the Corners sich ez I hev never seen, Ther wuz a hurried con- sultashun at the deekin’s house, and I sejestea that We cmancipate ourselyes from the domin- yun uy this tyrant by stariin’ a grosery uvour own, on the joint-stock principle, which wuz agreed to, eaCh man agreein’ to contribbit $10 to the capital stock, which would be enuff to blw & barl or two, for a beginnin’. Ve wuz enthoosiastic till we come to bal- lotin’ for the man to keep the place, when it wuz found instid uv my bein’ chosen yoonani- musiy, es I egguKEc!ed to_be, that every man hed vot:id for hisself. Ez nota souluv them would resede, the skeem wuz blocked rite there, and finally hed to be abandoned and we ‘went back to Bascom’s and submittid. That tyrant hez us. 8§ Uv course we_can't stand likker dilootid in that manner. We are willin’ enuff to diloot the currency with wich to pay for likker, but we want our likker full streuzth. We coodent heip it, but that nite we signed and sent to our Representative a remonstrance agin’ the silver bill. The Corners is now for u honest cur- rency. Wood, O wood, that we hed some uv it, PETROLEUM V, NaASBY, Finanseer. CoNFEDERIT X RoaADs (Wich is in the State of Kentucky), January 22, 1878 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CHARLES DANA GresoN—Subscriber, San Ra- fael, Cal. Charles Dana Gibson is very much alive. He was married four months ago. THE EMERALD—A. O. 8, City. The question “Is there a newspaper called the Emerald?” is one that is too indefinite to admit of an an- swer, as it is impossible to tell where in the ‘wide world to make an inquiry, SoLpIERs' HOMES—Subscriber, Soldiers’ Home, Santa Monica, Cal. The National Soldiers’ Home is maintained by a fund contributed by members of the regular army. Those who are eligible to admission may 1if they desire accept in lieu of the shelter of the home $8 per month. There is no such provision in reiation to homes maintained for soldiers of the volun- teer army. TO SAN QUENTIN- . D., City. The regular ‘| visiting day at 8an Quentin State prison is the first Sunday in euch month. The prisofi may be reached by either the San. Francisco and North Pacific or North Pacific Coast Railway. The first named is the shortest route, being thirteen miles by ferry and rail and one mile by stage. By the other route the distance is twenty-one and a haif miles. LAST ROSE OF SUMMER—Constant Reeder, Menlo Park, Cal. The story taat s Californian once heard Emma Abbott in the Eastsing the “Last Rose of Summ:r’ and thai on his deatiibed some years later, while Emma Ab- bott was in San Francisco, he sent word to her that if he could hear her sing that song once more he could die happy, is pure fiction. The same .m? Wwas located in almost every Staie in the Unfon, with some slight variation. FEDERAL INcoME Taxes—J. P. B., Auburn, Cal. The following is a history by Roger Fos- ter of the Federal income taxes: During the wear of 1812 a Federal income tax was sug- gested by Dallas, the Secretary of the Treasury, and would probably have been adopied had it not beeu for the peace which immediately en- sued. The direct property tax act of August 5, 1861, also imposed a tax oi 3 per cent on the excess of all incomes over $800, which, however, was never coliected. These provi- sions of the direct property tax act were re- 'd by the act of July 1, 1862, which mposed an income tax of 8 per cent upon the excess of annual incomes between $600 and $10,000 at the rate of O per centon the NeKISLEY ani HOBART ““] believe it is a good deal better to open up the mills of the United States to the labor of America than to open up the wints of the United States to the silver of the world.”” —WILLIAM McKINLEY. HON. IRVING I SCOTT WILL ADDRESS THE IRONWORKERS G = 4 SAN FRANCISCO ——AT THE— AUDITORIUM, THIS (SATURDAY) EVENIS FRANK McLAUGHLIN, Chairman Republican State Committee. R. HIGGINS, etary — excess’ when the income exceeded $10,000. The act of June 30, 1864, ir between $600 and $5000 cent; between $5000 and $10,000 to 75 per cent and over $10,000 10 per centoi the excess of income over $600. Tae joint re- solutionsof Juiy 4, 1864, imposed a special tax upon the excess of incomes over $600 for tho preceding year only. The act of March 3, 1865, amended the act of June 30, 1864, and increased the rate to 10 per cent upon the excess of incomg over £5000. The act of March 2, 1867, imposed 5 per cen: on_the excess of income over $1000 until 1870, and in 1870 the act of July 14 reduced the tax to 234 per cent for that year and 1871, when the tux expired and was 10t re-enacted. The next was the income tax of 2 per cent upon the excess of all incomes over $4000, and upon the incomes of all corporations, compantes and other associaiions other than partoerships, which was imposed by the act of August 28,1894. This last was the one that was declared unconstitutional. BETTING ON AN ELECTION—C. R., Coleridge, Trinity County, Cal. Section 60 of the Penal Code of this State says: Every person who makes, offers or accepts any bet or wager upon the result of any election, or upon the success or failure of any person or candi- date, or upon the number of Votes Lo be cast either in the aggregate or for auy pariicular candidate, orupon the vote to be Casc by any person, is guiliy of a misdemeanor. Section 33 of the act of February 23, 1893, says: G It shall be unlawful for any candidate for public office, before or during an election, to make any bet or wager with & voter, or take a share or in| est in, or in any manner bec me & party to such bet or wager, or provide or agree to provide any v 10 be used by another in making such er, upon any event or contingency wh: ever, Nor shall it be Jawful for or indirecily to make & bet or aepending upon the result of any election, with the inteot thereby to procure the challenge ot 8uch voter, Or (o prevent him from voting at such election. 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