The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1896. " CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Susday CaLy, one week, by carrler..§0.16 Datly and Sundsy CALL, one year, by mall.... 8.00 Dally and Sunday CAvL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday Caxi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sundsy CALL, one month, by mall. .85 Carx, ome year, by mall... 1.60 WeexLY CaLL, one year, by mall 180 THE SUMMER MONTHS. B Areyou golng to the country on & vacaslon 28,13 no fecusle for s to ferward THE CALL to your address. Do mot let it miss you fer you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. KO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 “Xelcflml . Francisco, Californin, e oo Bt Matn—1808 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 6517 Clay Street. BRANCH OFFICES: 30 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open watll 9:80 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 e'cleck. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:80 o'elock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission strests; open wntll ® o'cleck. 2518 Mission street; open untll 9 0'clock. 11 Ninth street; open until 9 o'cleck. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICEs Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Specisl Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e — PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAH McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of Rew Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. ‘Worker for the workers is but another way of saying work for McKinley. Those who attempt to sidetrack the tariff issue succeed only in sidetracking themselves. The Popocrat balloon has begun to shrink and will soon be in a state of total collapse. Bryan can keep on talking, but he can no longer make the people pay attention to what e says. S SRk The silence of Tillman since the discov- ery of the whisky scandal in South Caro- lina is becoming noticeable. Fusion consists merely in the trading of office-seekers, and there is no profit in it for honest Democrats or honest Populists. Democracy promise¢ to make things cheap, and has sneceeded in making itself so cheap it is going begging all over the country. Whenever there is a depression of prices there is a depression of labor, and that is how free trade reached the pockets of the workingman. The people need no more straws to show how the country is going this year. They feel the National impuise themselves and are moving with i Almost every producer in America has lost more or less by the Democratic tariff, and it is in vain that Bryan tells them the tariff is not an issue. Palmer and Buckner are being bitterly denounced by their old party associates, but all the same the old fellows know they are right and are going ahead. When McKinley said “This is a year of political contention without bitterness” he had evidently forgotten the Sewall and Watson phase of the controversy. The establishment of a protective tariff that will revive industry may not be an issue in the canvass, but all the same it is what a majority of the people are going to vote for. The number of Democratic papers that bave bolted the Chicago platiorm and ticket is said to have exceeded 200, and what is meant by that we shall see in November. Censidering what a reputation Bryan had “as an orator when the campaign began it is strange how few things he says which even Democratic organs think it worth while to repeat. Free silver may suit the people of Mon- tana and Colorado, but free trade doesn’t, and accordingly the people of thoss States are not o eager o vote for Bryan as the Bryanites think they are. ‘When the workingmen of the country bave good wages and can consume the products of our farms there are zood times for everybody, but there can be no good wages without protection. The best campaigner for McKinley has been McKinley, and the worst campaigner for Bryan has been Bryan, and that is why the people are rapidly becoming unanimous for sound money and pro- tection. e The defeat 6f Bryan should be made emphatic eneugh to show what the Ameri- can people think of a2 candidate for the Presidency whe tries to stir up strife be- tween laber and capital on any issue whatever. The Repubiican party 1s opposed to monometallism of any kind, whether of gold or of silver, and that is the reason the business sense of the country supports it on the money question as weil as on that of the tariff, Early in the canvass Mr. Bryan said, I do not think it will require a great deal of talk in this eampaign’; and he has been talking ever since. What does the boy orator regard as a great deal in the way of talk? — The attempt to array the earnest silver men of the West on the side of Bryanism bas failed. Teller and Dubois are aboui the only men of note who have gone over, 2nd they are taking but little part in the campaign. The Great West will be counted in November for protection, sound money, international bimetallism, good wages, good government and good times. e Many conservative Democrats sho have joined the Republican party in this cam- paign will stay with it after the campaien is over, for as a matter of fact a large number of business men who have hitherto acted with Democracy are as much op- vosed to free trade as they are to free siiver, and having now broken with their old party will never go back again, THE SILENT VOTER. The fate of parties and of their candi- dates in the approaching election will not be determined by brawling demagogues or willing idlers who stand upon street corners delivering or applanding cuarb- stone opinions upon tbe issues of the day. It will be the silent voter in every State whose vote will make and unmake the President at the close of this campaign. ‘Who is tbe silent voter? He is the man who is employed in this or that honest in- dustry. He is the man who has or hopes to have a home and a family and knows tbat continued employment at good living wages is his only means of obtaining the oneand of supporting the other. Heis the man who realizes that only out of individual and National thrift can prosperity come to any person or people. He is the man who reasons without illusions about matters of daily experience within the circle of bis horizon and voles as he thinks his own best inter- ests and those of his neighbors require. How will the silent voter cast his ballot in California? Go and ask the iron-workers of 8an Francisco. Go and inquire of the prune-growers of the Santa Clara Valley. Go and seek for an answer among the beet prodncers of the Pajaro and Salinas valleys. Go and discuss the subject with the skilled employes of the sugar factories and refineries in the varions counties of the State. Go wherever labor and capital are steadily and harmoniously employed in those productive industries which are doing the most to increase the wealth and prosperity of the people of California and ask the honest, industrious, thrifty, silent voter for which candidate his ballot will be cast in the coming election. In almost every case the answer will come back— *For McKinley, the advance agent of Protection and Prosperity.”’ We have lost steadily in both directions ; our foreign trade has been diminished and our domesti ¢ trade has suffered incalculable loss. Does this not suggest the cause of our present depression and indicate its remedy? Confidence in home enterprises has almost wholly disappeared. Our shops are closed, or 7 unning on half time at reduced wages and small profit if ot actual logs. Our men are idle, and while they are idle men abroad are occupied in supplying us with goods.—Mc- | Kinley. WHY THEY G0 TO CANTON. Ten thousand voters, including 5000 railway operatives, called upon Major Mc- Kinley last Saturday. But thousands go to Canton every day and it has become an old story; nevertheless, other thousands will go and keep going until the time comes to ratify at the baliot-box all these expressions of desire for the maintenance of the integrity and honor of the Nation. In referring to the coming of delegations from every point of the compass and rep- resenting every line of industry, merchan- dise and labor, Major McKinley said: “‘Such a demonstraiion would not be pos- sible if the people of the country were not profoundly sensible of the dangerons menace which is presented in the Na- tional contest of this year.”” Major McKinley understands perfectly the underlying cause of all these pilgrim- ages to his home. It is because he has been chosen to lead the people against tha ‘‘dangerous menace” of which he speaks, and because the people are profoundly sensible of the importance of maintaining the Governmeni upon the o!d true and tried lines they show forth their deter- mination to stand for law and order in public demonstration. Tkhere is no doubt at all that a dangerons menace is pre- sented in the effort of Bryanism to re- establish the Government in harmony with the theories of the Altgelds, the Till- mans and the Waites, but the American people should remember that no menace is dangerous except when they fail to do their duty. It would be difficult for Californians to join the throngs at Canton, for the dis- tance is too great to make journeying there at ail convenient, but there are very many other ways to give assurance that the people of the coast are in hearty sym- pathy with the purpose of these who do visit Major McKinley at his home. It may be said that California is rather more interested in the overthrow of Bryanism than many of the other communities. California js developing industrial and agricultural interests which only need the encouragement they have the right to ex- pect from the Government to make them great, strong and profitabte, and we know positively that Mr. Bryan denies that thoee interests have any right to demand or expect that the Government will stand between' them and destractive attacks upon them by other countries. Mr. Bryan does not believe California should grow in any direction that protection is requirea to make such growth sure and profitable. Burely, then, California should make such public demonstration as will satisfy the other sections of the country that she knows of the dangerous menace of which Major McKinley speaks and that sne is battling against it. With protection as- sured and its auxiliary commercial agen- cies, merchant marine and reciprocity agreements, in full operation California would soon stand well to the front among the States as an industrial and agricul- tura! commonwealth. Our farmers have been hurt by the ehanges in our tariff legislation as severely as our la- borers and manwufacturers, badly as they have suffered. The Republican platform wisely declares in faver of such encouragement to our sugar nterests as will lead to the produe- tion on American s0il of all the sugar which the American people use. It promises to give our wool and woolen nterests ‘‘the most ample protection,”’ a guaranty that ought to commend itself to every patriotic citizen.— McKinley. MORE ABSURDITIES. After loading himself-up with a fresh stock of monetary absurdities Mr. Taylor, the Denver orator, returned to San Fran- cisco last Saturday night and distributed his new supply. He started in by asking “Now, what is money?’ Then he said, “It is the stamp of the Government, not the metal or paper of which it i made. 1t is the National power back of it which mzakes it what it is.” In the very next sentence he contradicted that assertion by saying: “It is claimed that there is ten to fifteen millions of eold ou the Pacific Coast, and I know that there was an in- tention to obtain and transport this gold to the East, and it would have been done had not the loss by abrasion been found too expensive.' ‘What in' the name of common-sense has abrasion to do with a thing that is used as money only because the Government stamps it and calls 1t money? If it is the stamp of the Government, and not the commercial vaiune of the thing stamped that gives 1t purchasing power and the other functions of money, how would any decrease in the weight of the thing by abrasion or otherwise cause a loss in its money vaiue? Perhaps Mr. Taylor will take the troubte to explain why it is that & paper dollar loses nothing in hasing power by having a corner off oris otherwise abraded, but that a gold dollar loses in purchasing power exactly in ratio to the reduction of its weight below 25.8 grains of standard gold metal. If his the- ory is right, and money is the stamp of the Government and not the paper or metal of which it is made, then he admits that abraded gold money is legally dis- criminated against, and that paper money when abraded loses none of its money value. 3 It follows, therefore, that if Mr. Taylor, is correct, paper money is far superior to metal money because it has privileges which are not accorded to metal, and it follows, also, that paper money, possess- ing superior qualities and advantages, is never at a parity with gold, for the infe- rior is never the equal of the superior. If Mr. Taylor will take the trouble to look up the facts he will find that the law makes 25.8 grains of standard gold, when its quality is gnaranteed by the stamp of the Government, a legal tender for debt, but that it does not make 25.7 grains a legal tender, notwithstandfng the Govern- ment stamp. He will also find that it is 412} grains of standard silver which makes a silver dollar a lega! tenaer, and that 412 grains is not a legal tendcer, The stamp of the Government upon coin does nothing more than guar- antee the fineness of the metal. But this Mr. Taylor admitted when he said, in substance at least, the reason why Pacific Coast holders of gold did not ship it East was because it would not be as many dollars when it reached the East as it was before shipping because of the loss in weight in transit by abrasion. It Mr. Taylor's logic proves anything, it proves that paper money is far superior to metal money, because, first, the cost of shipping it from point to point is less than metal; and, second, because abra- sion, wear and tear or mutilation does not aecrease its purchasing power. It so hap- pens, however, that paper money the world over is 2 mere promise of the party or nation issuing it to redeem it with a metal money of a specified weight and quality. If that were not the case there would be no sense in coining either gold or silver, for the paper money would never require redemption. Moreover, with Mr. Taylor's system of money-issuing there would be no need of Government reve- nues,a bond sinking fund, or appropria- tion acts of Congress for the expenditure account could be provided for by the Public Printer. Mr. Taylor should take up perpetual motion, now that he has solved the money question. I never like to address olasses of our citi- sens because 1 think we are all so intertwined, we all have so much comradeship and rela- tionship that the same argument that applies 10 one set of men applies likewise to all of us; and that has been my experience. I believe that in my business, if I 9o to it, of practicing law, there will be more of it for me when everybody is at work in the United States that labors with the hands; and I believe, also, that it is true with regard to every man who labors in any way that the more his neigh- bers are employed the more he will be em- ployed.—Tom Reed. THE NEW MOSES. Itis said of Bryan thatif he could for- get the Vermont and Maine elections, and some one would close Tom Watson’s mouth, he would be comparatively happy. Henever reads newspapersthat are not sup- porting him, and he sapposes the crowds that gather to hear him speak are not only themselves enthusiastic supporters of his candidacy, but that they reflect the sentiment of the entire country. It is stated that Bryan himself claims that at least thirty-eight of the States will go for him, with no State giving a majority of less than 25,000. His estimate is based, however, upon information fur- nished by enthusiastic friends, whose wish is father to the thougbt, but he will listen, it is said, to no suggestion of even vossible defeat. He believes in himself and has no doubt that the American peo- ple look upon him as being as necessary to them and the Government as ramn and sunshine are to vegetation. Mr. Bryan was unfortunate the other day, though, in having himself iutro- duced as the “Moses who would lead the people into the land of promise.” The crowd shouted **Moses” and the young man was mightily pleased, but a wicked and stiff-necked old-line Democrat cailed a local paper’s attention to the fact that Moses of old, after leading the Israelites up and down the wilderness for many years went off into the mountains and was never heard of again, leaving his fol- lowers not even in striking distance of the good things be had promised them; that in fact Mosesdid nothing but make prom- ises, and that but for the interposition of providence every one of the people who ‘were tollowing him must have starved to death. This old Democrat is quite agreed that Bryan should ve called ‘Moses,"” for, he says, Brvan will get the people no nearer the land of milk and honey than Moses did. ‘Whatever Moses of old did or did not do for n1s people it is very certain that the old-line Democrats intend to keep this new Moses out of the land of promise, and that they are able to do it there is no doubt whatever. Meanwhile those who wish to spare Mr. Bryen’s feelings will not speak of the Vermont or Maine elec- tions nor mention Tom Watson’s name in his hearing. We must always remember that unless we make it possible for capital to find employ- ‘ment and for labor to earn ample and remu- nerative wages it will be impossible to attain that degree of prosperity which with a sound monetary policy, buttressed by a sound tariff policy, will be assured.—Garret A. Hobart. SANTA OLARA COUNTY IN LINE. The Republicans of Santa Clara County have held their convention, and nomi- nated their legislative, judicial and su- vervisorial tickets. In that county entire harmony prevails in the party organiza- tion, and a large majority in favor of the Republican ticket is one of the certainties of the campaign. The nominee for State Senator from the Thirty-first Senatoriai District, which embraces the southern haif of Santa Clara County, is Hon. H, V. Morehouse, who is one of the best known men, as one of the most gifted and popu- lar orators of California. In sending such able and talented representatives to the State Lecislature, a section honors itself as well as dignities the office. In an inter- view, which appears elsewhere in our col- umns, Mr. Morehouse aptly describes the state of public feeling in Santa Clara County uvon National issues, and there is no doubt that a similar condition is to be found in the other large and populous interior counties of the State. From every quarter come increasing assur- ances of a sweeping Republican victory all over California in the November elec- tion, O0AST EXOHANGES. In openizg its ninth volume the Corning Observer rejoices that its labors in behalf of 1ts community have borne fruit, and that it has buried out of sight the last of the silurians in its locality, With pardonable pride the editor seys: “We started the paper in Corning to boom this land for oranges and other fruits. Then nothing could be seen around Corning but wheat fields and stock of all kinds run- niog around loose. To-day can be seen around the town hundreds of young and thriving orchards and vineyards, and the fruit on the three-year-old trees the best that could be eaten, for size, flavor and taste.” Nipomo, San Luis Obispo County, rejoices over the appearance there of anew paper, the editor being L. F. Jones and the nameof the publication the Bee. Nipomo is little more than ten years old, but it has made rapid prog- ress in that period, and its people are just the kind to show substantial appreciation to the right kind of a loeal paper. The Keswick Smelter has shut down perma- nently. Itwas run as a monthly magazine. The publication fell in because the editor and the business manager fell out. The business manager traveled away with all the books and accounts of the concern and left the editor alone to pacity the creditors. The Pomona Beacor, & Democratic weekly paper, has come to the wise and laudable conclusion that patriotism shouid supersede politics, and for that reason it is now putting in telling licks in the good canse of McKinley and Hobart. The Amador Republican announces that Jsck- son is now assured of a bank and a railroad. The bank will be estabiished by V. W. Gaskill in connection with San Francisco and Jackson capitalists. The railroad from Stockton, which will connect with a steamer line from San Francisco, -will be completed to Jackson in sbout eighteen mont| Franklin H. Austin, atone time Secretary of State to the late King Kalakaua, snd who re- cently essayed journalism in Ventura, has torn himself away from the brain-racking labors of the sanctum and will now court the goddess of fortune from the lecture platform. A Santa Barbara paper informs us that he will lecture on the Hawalian Islands. The exactlo- cation is not given.' The Compton Enterprise has completed its first half-year volume. It is a clean, newsy paper and seems to be on the high road to suc- cess. The Indicator, formerly published at Moreno, hes changed its place of abode to Riverside, where it i3 issued as a weekly relation of the Riverside Daily News. The name of the latest eddition to Oskland's list of newspapers is 16t0 1. The editors and proprietors are Jesse L. Edmundson and W. D. Wasson, and the same young men have also purchased the East Oakland Mail. 16to1 is neatly printed on good paper. Needless to say, itisan organ of the free silverites, and the Mail will doubtless have its tune played on the same instrument. The Celifornia Raisin-growers’ Exchange bas proved of very material benetit to the vineyardists, who will profit by a doubled price. The San Diego Sun thus expands upon the subject: “Grape-picking, which began about one week g0 In the El Cajon Valley, is now in full blast, and at least 400 men and women are em- vloyed in this industry in the Cajon Valley alone. A careful estimate of this year’s crop by those best qualified to judge places the amount at about sixty-five carloads or 780 tons. This is a trifle larger than last year, al- though the lack of rains last year damaged the crop conslaerably. The irrigated vineyards, however, yielded much better than last yea: and this, with a sligntly increased acreage, eccounts for the output, The price, which is the all-important thing to the raisin-grower, as it is indeed to most industries, promises to be much better than it was last year or in 1894, for which thanks may be given to the California Raisin-growers’ Exchange, which has thus far been able to hold together enough reisin-growers of the State to represent 75 per cent of the total out. put of about 2000 carloads, estimated for this year. Lastyear the price averaged from 1 to 1l4 cents in the sweatbox and was so ruin- ously low that it not only took away all the profit, but came very near bankrupting the majority of the growers, who were already sorely crippled by the depressed prices of the past three or four years. “In "94 and '95 desperate and determined at- tempts were made 16 induce the growers to combine. Partiel combinations were effected both years, but were invariably broken by | some ot the Fresno growers, who, it ap- pears, had borrowed money at high rates of interest, and becoming scared, or being pressed by creditors, consented to sell small quantities of raisins at less than the price fixed by the combine. This, of course. knocked the combine price into & cocked hatand it wasn’t long until California raisins weren’t worth anything in the Eastern markets. This may have been pleasing to Eas buyers, and of course it didu’t trouble the money loaners seriously, but it was tough on the growers. It resulted, however, in bringing them to a realization of the situation, and the combine this year is said to beas Hard and | tough as'a pine knot and able to withstand alt ihe atiacks that may be made agsinst it from the outside. The average price which it is ex- pected will be obtained this year is 3 cents in the sweatboxes, or about $39,000 for the El Cajon crop, and in the neighborhood of $100,- 000 for the entire crup of the county.” The Amador Repubiican advertises that it wilt be sent to any address in the United States for one year, giving a premium of four big Mexican doliars; on receipt of $4 United States coin. The offer hoids goud until November 4, as after that date the paper may have to insist on gold coin. The Winters Independent ong‘lvorx tobalance | its favors equally as between the Republicans | and the Democrats. In an editorial paragraph | in a recent issue the paper opined tnat Bryan would be elected, because “the American peo- ple believe in men who can rustle.” As if to cancel the effect of that utterance and main- tain its reputation for impartiality the Inde- pendent proceeds to throw Bryan down and walk on him in the very next paragraph, which infers that the American people are op- posed to the vain pretensions and the mis- representations indulged in by the elocution. 1st from Nebraska: “The country must have a revenue equal to its expenditures, and none but boy orators deny it.” NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. There have been many serious blunders committed in the steam engingeriug depart- ment of the British navy during the past six years, and it will take several years and many thousands of dollars to rectify these blunders. It1s the boilers especially that have proved not alone ineffective, but actually dangerous, snd quile a number of lives have been lost in the cngine-rooms during the trial trips of new ships. The Barhome end Blanche elass, com- prising about a dozen vessels, have been un- fortunate in this respect, and their boilers are tobe taken out and replaced with Thorny- croft water-tube boilers. Another cese is thi of the Taibot, not yet out of the con-} tractor’s bands, where the engines had to be removed after having been erected in the ship, and after some alterations were replaced, involving an expense of $50,000. In our navy the steam engineering bureau has been sin- gularly successful, notwithstanding its Jack of previous experience. Franee is threatened with a reorganization of its Navy Department, Mr. Lockroy. the Min- ister of Marine, having presented a pro- ramme. The Krench navy has been the suf- erer for years of too much organization. The ards swarm with officials and the Vnark is Lm red with systems of red tape and cir- cumliocution. The new plan presents no fea- ::&e;“ol improvement on the present organi- In the Russian navy speaking tubes are be- tuted as more reliable. ln%:ann out of several vessels and teiephones The Armsirong Naval ArmamentCompan i A at Elswick empl t resent ti hauds and lll:m- e R rune 81,400 tons, bosides sev ve-inen balloer, 'sre uhder cons n. .. The Vulcan Shipbuil d i must of the vessels for the German nevy, was established in 1851 began with very small tensions. U-erg Des.dlip- o ‘useless in s TSP e R P 0 s Vi ecided upol navy, was firm in March, 1894, jeurs, but the ship was delivered July 13 t, thus comfl]cfl! the contract within two contracted tor with the Barrows t0 be completed in three years and a. . Another case is that of the Japanese armored battie-ship Fuji of 12,450 tons, building at the Thames gmn ‘Worl n- dom, for which orders were given in June, 1894. Theship was launched March S1 1ast, and will be ready tor _delivery January, 1897, The trials of ihe Terrible,” of 14.' touns, began on August 6 last. Under one-fifth horse- power—5000—the ship made a speed of 13.4 knots and consumed about six tons of coal per hour. Further trials came to an abrupt close through heating of parts of the engines, and the ship had to be hauled off for an in- definite time. PERSONAL. F. M. Miller, a Fresno attorney, !s visiting at the Lick. Dr. 8. 8. Boyle of Monterey is one of the late arrivals at the Grand. M. L. Marsh, a merchant of Nevada City, is i Tegistered at the Lick. J. E. Woolley, an orchardist of Vacaville, ia registered at the Grand. Mrs. Andgrson and family of Los Angeles are staying at the Cosmopolstan. David Lawler and wife of Livermore are staying at the Cosmopolitan. George Mainhart, & mining man of Grass Valley, is & guest at the Grand. T. A. Moncure, an attorney of Bakersfield, is making a brief stay at the Lick. F. P. Bane, proprietor of ihe Occidental Hotel at Santa Rosa, is at the Lick, . P. Stein, a Stockton business man, is reg- istered st the Baldwin with his wife. J. J. Newman, a journalist of the Stockton Mail, 15 at the California with his son. J. P, Woodbury, & mining man of Carson, Nev., is among the guests at the Palace. ‘W. C. Green, a dealer in horses, is here from Chicago and is registered at the Palace. T. F. Bernardi of San Luis Obispo is among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. H. C. Woodruff, a lumber merchant of Kala- mazoo, Mich., is a late arrival at the Palace. W. B. Page, & large hardware merchant of Albany, N. Y, is at the Palace with his wife. J. F. Moffitt of the Mutual Life Insurance Company is at the Palace, registered from New York. J. F. Parks, superintendent of & mine at Jackson, Amador County, is staying at the Grand. J. E. Rathbun, who has a livery business and owns stock at Williams, Colusa County, is making a short stay at the Rss, Warren Wilson of Los Angeles, editor and proprietor of the Daily Journal of that City, is in town with headquarters at the Grand. Earl H. Daggett, the youtnful Deputy Sheriff of Kern County who was wounded by a train- robber he shot and killed, is at the Lick, regis- tered from Bakersfield. — GOOD-BY, SIR! Good-by. Mister Summertime— Take de shortest way; Only faait we fin’ wid you— Make oo Iong a stay. Dat’s de song! You stay too iong! But Mister Winter's comin’ strong: Good-by, Mister Summertime— Pack ¥0' L'ings en startl Only heart dat break for you 15 de watermelon heart. Heah dat song? You xtay too long! Eut Mister Winter's comin’ strong! Good-by, Mister Summertime! Peaches mizhty sweet. But taterpone is comin’ on, En juicy 'possum meat! eah dat song? You stay too long! But Mister Winter’s comin’ strong! —Aulanta Coustitution. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Customer (in Chicago restaurant, to pro prietor)—I want a couple of hard-boiled eggs. Proprietor—Yes, sir. (To waiter)—Francois, tell the boy to put a couple of eggs in the lake.~—Texds Sifter. “I'm in & serious c’ndishun, physically,” remarked Colonel Redbeake, as he lurched into a drugstore at3 A. 3. sl I take?” “I would advise yon to take a hack,” replied the man behind the counter.—Buffalo Express. “They must have had s cyclone oyer at Newriches’ last week.” . *What mekes you think so?"” “Mrs. Newriches said they had their mono- gram blown into every plece of glass in the house.”’—Detroit Free Press. “Pape, are all these Cuban insurgents who come here crazy? “Graclous, child, no! Why do you ask?” “Well, the papers always say they seek an asylum in this country.”—-Philadelphia North American. “Durn these here bicycles,” said the man with the sunburned suit, round shoulders and long beard. “Iguess I've gone a-rumnin’ up to less'n & dozen crowds, ’spectin to see a fight, and only found some fellows doctorin’ a wheel.”"—Cineinati Enquirer. Mr. Figg—Ah, that young man who has been ealling on you so much of late—what does he do tor a living? Laui Indeed, I do not know. Do you think 1 would have any one calling on me who would talk shop?—Cincinnati Enquirer. Husband—I don’t understand why it should always take you two daysto make your pur- chases, Wife—Simply enough, my dear. Imust have one day in which to buy things and the next day in which to exchange them.—Fliegende Blaetter. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Asasign of his greatness Li Hung Chang wears his finger-nails trimmed to the form of an eagle’s claws. Henceforth the Ameer of Afghapistan isto be known as the “‘Light of the World.” His Majesty is having a gold eoin struck to com. memorate his new dignity. Sarah Bernbardt Las been sphotographed over 1000 times. Her first picture was taken in 1867, wherein she is shown in crinoline and with an innocent chil face. Few poets have more of the poetic aspect than Bliss Carman. His finely cut features, well-shaped head and wavy hair are sufficient- ly Byrouic for this practical day, while in eccentricity of attire be Is fully up to the poetic standard. Unusual facilities for matrimony are offerea At Americus, Ga. Justice Graham, while walk- ing on the street ore evening lately, was ap- proached by a iegro man and woman, who asked to be united, and he joined them in the solemn bonds then and there. The Iate Professor™William Curtis completed his “Bistory of Olympia’ a few days before his death. His successor will be Professor Ulrich von Wilamowitz- Mollendorf of Goettingen, who made his reputation by his studies on Euripides and the Greek theater. Queen Victoria has sustained a great loss by the death of Andrew Blake, who had been for wany years the steward of her Isle of Wight estate and manager of her home farm there. He carried out great improvements at Os- borne, and every season secured many prizes for the Queen’s entries at the leading shows. Mr. Ruskin's well-knewn shyness and dis- like of seeing visitors bas greatly ingreased of 1ate years. Even during xl anliy walks, which he indulges in with dhiailing regular- ity at 11 in the morning and 8 in the after- noon, in company with his attendant, he is so averse 10 being stared st, even by th casual ) that he will turn in the first gage he comes across. A Consoling Reflection. Los Angeles Times. An 50 the poor buthonest silver-mine owners have contributed an even $1,060,000 to the Bryan campaign fund. This is indeed a lib- eral contribution, and will greatly help out the party which has heretofore gloried in its pov- erty, and has indeed made it one of the corner- s and their | stones of its faith. There is some consolation, removal hasbeen ds nin 3- Royal | however, in the tion that even the mile class DIl upon the mamme a1 changs éfl Filinot W’ hi:fa%finu"nu' -'73 Some ve: avy-b has small ma .ufi.%oo. and this will dons of usgn".‘%.'n" . Tie FowenTul, | Keop Lho WOIf rom. (e doos Jot some Hme 1o AROUND THE C(ORRIDORS. John Green, one of the oldest and wealthiest residents of Portland, who owns & number of buildings there, and in years past has been engaged in many industries, is at the Palace. Mr. Green has lived & part of the year for sev- eral years at Pasadena. His home has been at the Green Hotel. He is now on his way to Santa Monica, where John Green, the Wealthy Orego- nian, Who Tells of the Political Fight in the North. [Sketched from life by a * Call’* artist.] he will remain for a while. A little later he will go to Pasadens. For some time past he has been looking after his interests in Oregon. I think that State wili be all right for Mc- Kinley,” said Mr. Green, “though it will be close, Senator Mitchell and other Republicans have been making able speeches throughout Oregon. Senator Mitchell has always been the friend ot silver. “Ex-Governor Pennoyer has been making Bryan speeches, too. He spoke recently at a barbecue at Ssléem. You know what a barbe- cue is and about the crowd it would bring out. With the exception of Pennoyer nobody has ‘made any Democratic speeches in the State. “Business is pretty dull in the North and doesn’t seem to improve much. Ilook forit to remain about as it is till aiter the election.” LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE DECLINE OF SILVER. SOME OF THE CAUSES WHICH HAVE CAUSED THE DEPRECIATION IN THE WHITE METAL. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: That the decline of silver is due principally to natural forces, the following reflections will show: First—The cost of production has greatly de- clined. In the absence of an increased de- mand this reduction will ultimately tell. Freight to and from the mine, machinery, powder, acids, chemicals, mercury, lumber, interest on loans, drilling, hoisting, pumping, amalgamating, concentrating, smelting, power electric and otherwise—all are more than 100 per cent cheaper, while machinery and labor are vastly more productive. This lessened cost is permanent. Mr. Bryan’s declamation will affect the situation in no wise. Second—The demand for silver as money has declined. Before 1849, gold being comparatively scarce and vicious systems of money existing in many countries, silver was used in great commerecial countries as a money of large pay- ment, shipment, bank reserves and standard. But after 1849 an abundance of gold was fur- nished the commercial world by California, Australia and Siberia. These countries and s few others produced more gold in twenty-six years—from 1851 to 1875— than had been pro- duced in 357 years before. At the same period the application of steam to railroads, ships, machinery sna of electricity to telegraph cabling, with improvements in banking and tne growth and expansion of individual and nationsal credit 20 quickened commerce that contracts calling for tne payment of sums of unheard-of magnitude became common, and the rate of profits and of interest greatly declined below the old rates. The new scale of profits and interest conld no longer bear the fluctuations of silver. For more than 100 years silver bullion had fluctu- ated daily in the open market, and on an aver- age more than 1 per ceut per year. The large goutracts, low profits and interest cduld no longer bear the risk as a standard money of a metal whose daily, weekly or monthly flue- tuations might wipe out a material part of the profit and interest in a few days or weeks, or during the ordinary trip of a commercial steamer. The commercial world, therefore, at once seized upon the new, atundant gold, whose value never during short periods, such as the life of ordinary contracts, changed its value to any degree which could be ~commercially measured, and for a like reason let go their silver. Goid then became the only money of large payment, shipment, reserves and stand- ard. Silverlost this market and lost it for- er. °v8uch nations, therefore, ejected the siiver which had hitherio been used for above uses. But silver fell only slowly, because India ab- sorbed what said nations ejected, and con- tinued g0 to absorb the cast-out silver till about 1867. Iu this year it became univers- ally apparent that the uses of the metals had changed forever. The internationsl confer- ence of 1867 was called. The changes which hud taken place in the practice of the commer- clared to be natural and cial world were de: evolution wa "::‘ ted to said ada; said uses. Inp1871 Germany accepled this report and threw her old, surplus siiver coins on the bul- lion market, hastening thereby the foreseen and inevitable fall of silver. The Scandinavian Union followed in 1872, the United States in 1873, the Latin Union in 1876. Silyer's day as a money of large ‘payment, shipment, reserve and standard was gone forever. The fall which started in 1859 was steady and downward, downward. The Bland act and Sherman act were powerless to stay the forces—the old uses couid not be re- stored to silver. In the nature of things silver must coniinue to fluctuate day by day, as in the old bimetsilic deys. It will, therefore, mever for centuries to come serve again for above uses. A second force has made the retirement of sliver for said nses permanent, 10 wit, the check and deposit currency, complemented through the clearance-house. Thiscurrency bas practically done away with the use of gold itself in large payments, over 90 per cent thereof being so effected. The action of this currency has been such as to render the stock of gold in the world four times more effective than heretofore. The money-work done has Deen the same as if the stock of gold had ac- tually been guedrupled. “Silver has, there- fore, never been missed,”” and gold has been rendered abundant. It may be cle: per- ilver is displaced forever for above uses and never be restored thereto. Of what evail is the beliefof the “boy ora- tor’” :nuuv. such tremendous, evolutionary 10 Third—The production of silver has been excessive since 1873. Whiie this element has not been the controlling oue it has operated, t00. A single enmrle will suffice. From 1498 to 1894, in about 400 years, there was pro- duced_of silver (nint veluation) $10,018,681,- 900. Now observe that from 1873 to 1894 the production was $2,748,396,000. The produc- tion in said twenty-one years, only about 5 per cent of said years, reached the tre- mendous total of about 27 per cent of the ‘whole 400 years’ production of the whole sum produced since America was discovered. This sbould show the most skeptical that sil- ver’s production has been excessive. (See the tables in the report of the Director of the Mint, 1895, 8 and 249.) It is, therefore, submitted to all fair, unpas- ok, candid minds that silver has fallen m natural causes, It can never again be made & standard money. Its cause would be better served if the standard fight would be given up and silver would be given the rignt of way as token money for all moderate pay- ments and the Goyernment and other paper money of small denominations in all coun- tries withdrawn in silver's favor. This in- creased demand would tend to keep itata reasonable and productive price. JoHN HEENAN, a “Gold”’ Democrat. San Francisco, Sept. 19, ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS. DEALERS—E. A., Merced, Cal. This depart~ ment cannot give an advertisement to the deal | Feil sireet. ersof the commodity you name in your com- munication. Had you complied with the rules of this depariment dnd signed your name, instead of initiais, you would have ée- ceived the answer by mail. If you will send a self-addressed and sizmped envelope the infor mation you desire will be forwarded. REMOVING HATR—W., Rio Vista, Cal. There is no fixed rate for removing hair from ch face by means of electrieity. In some in- stances as high as $100 has been charged as & fee for the removal of superfluous hair. APPRENTICES—C. W., Berkeley, Cal. A person wishing to go asan apprentice on bosrd of asteamer should make application at the coffice of any of the steamship companies. There such person will be informed as to require- ments, duration of spprenticeship and com- pensation. Dove axp Drvep—F. J., East Oakland, Cal. *‘He dived in the water” is the correct expres- sion. Dove is an occasional preterit of dive. In the older editions of Longiellow’s “Hia- watha,” VII, he used the word *‘dove” in flncc of “dived” in the three lines following. u thelater it is “dived” as given: Straight into the nver Kwasind Plunged as if he were an Otter, Dived as if he were a beaver. George W. Cablein “0ld Creole Days" uses “dove”: “She stood for a moment, then dove into the dense fog wnich bad floated in from the river and dissopeared."” BANK OF ENGLAND—L. H., San Jose, Cal. The Bank of England was projected by Willlam Paterson, and was incorporated July 27, 1694, At first the charter of the bank was for eleven years only, but in consequence of the great service of the institution to the Government it has been several times renewed. It is gov- erned by a board of directors consisting of twenty-four_persons, & governor and a deputy governor. The offices of governor and deputy governor are given in rotation; the deputy always succeeds the governor, and usually the oldest director who has not been in office. becomes deputy governor. The older mem- bers of the board—that is, those who have passed the chair, or, in other words, who have served as governor—form & standing committee of indefinite Iwwers (no precise description has ever been given of them) and this committee is called the Com- mittee of the Treasury. Some of the airectors retire annually, but by courtesy it is always the young ones; those who have served as gov- ernor always remain. In the English sense no banker has a chance of becoming one of the bank directors. The mass of the directors are merchants of experience, who have informa- tion as to the present course of trade, and as to the character and wealth of the merchants, which is invaluable to the bank. It is usually about twenty years from a man’s first election that he arrives at the chair; accordingly bank directors when first chosen by the board aze comparatively young men. The management of the entire public debt of Great Britain is in t} e hands of the bank, for which it receives & compensation, which has from time to time varied in amount according to circumstances, - MAN'S BATH ROBE. Turkish toweling is the material generally employed in making this comfortable gown. The edges are best finished by a binding of tape. 1 & warmer garment is desired, eiderdown isused, while for & thinner one, brown hol- 1anas or linen may be used. The crash so much used this season makes an excellent bath robe. 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