The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1896, Page 6

TUFSDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. . SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .§0.18 Daily and Sunday CALIL, One year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mall.. 3.00 Dally and Sundsy CALL, three months by mall 1.50 Dafly and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .68 Bunday CALL, one year, by mall. 1.0 W XEXLY CALL, one year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. e o ing to the country on & vacation IO.AI?I!Z‘; fi’vn{fle for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will mise {t. Orders given to the carrier Or left at Business Office will recelve prompt stiention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICB3 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californis. Telephone..... vereee Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone.......«s. vieenees. Maln-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open until $:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. ©W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open entil § o'clock. 2618 Mission street; open untll © o'clock: 116 Ninh street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE 3 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICB: Rooms 81 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SFEAKS FOR ALL. ] PATRICTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. McKinley stands for good wages. ‘What did Bryan ever do for the work- ingman? Republican protection has never failed to establish prosperity. Panic and disaster have never failed to follow Democratic free trade. No workingman will forget that he was prosperous under the McKinley tariff. International bimetallism will win be- cause the people know it to be a safe thing and will make it a sure thing. The need of American industry is se- curity, and - Bryan threatens it with a greater disturbance than ever before. The Democrats'and the Populists know their principles cannot be harmonized, but they have great hopes of agreeing on a division of the spoils. McKinley was right in saying, “This is a year ot political contention without bit- terness,” but all the same there is a great deal of gall in evidence on the Democratic side. The Republican pleage to promote the free coinage of silver by international agreement is one of the issues of the cam- paign tne Popocrats shy at about as much as they do at the tariff issue. Hoke Smith will support Bryan but op- pose his platform, thus justifying the nickname of Hocus Pocus and proving himself one of the smiths who can do all kinds of turning and twisting. As the Popocrat organs insist that the pledge for bimetallism in the Republican platiorm means gold, it is perfectly clear that they desire Mexican silver momo- metaliism without any gold at all. McKinley stands for protection to the in ries of America, while Bryan favors giving European and Oriental labor a free chance in the American market, no matter what happens to the American working- man. It is not surprising that the Inter- national Agricultaral Congress at Buda- Pesth should send telegrams of encourage- ment to Bryan. Those European fellows wish our gold and are willing that we should have silver, THE CALL stands up for silver as do all the stalwart Republican bimetallists of the country, but we do not intend to per- mit it to be used by silver monometallists as a decoy to deceive the- people into voting for the free-traders, the sectionalists and the demagogues of the Popocrat fusion. § After all their weeks ot preparation and all their plans and combinations the Democrats of New York muddled the whole thing by putting a goldbug candi- date for Governor on a free-silver platform, and now they will have ic go through the campaign straddling the barbed-wire fence as best they can. e e L The country is opposed equally to Palmer’s gold monometatlism and to Bryan’s silver monometaliism. In fact Democracy has got wrong with both feet. The people favor gold and silver. They desire a bimetallic system of money and will support the Republican party as earnestly on that ground as on the issue of restoring protection and recivrocity. The campaizn of education has made it clear to the peorle that Bryan’s scheme of free silver would reduce the purchasing power of money, and thereby be equivalent to an arbitrary reduction of the wages of every workingman in the country as well asa loss to all who have money in the banks or insurance policies. For this reason sensible peopie will have none of it. They intend to have good money in the future as in the past. One of the most :atisfactory features of this campaign is the number of stalwart Democrats who have announced a deter- mination to vote directly for McKinley as a means of erushing out Bryanism and ali that it stands for in our politics. In the action of these men we see a clear evi- dence that patriotism among our people is superior to. party spirit, and that there is no danger of demagogues getting control of the Governnient in this country. —e Prince Bismarck is guoted as saying re- cently, *“I hold that this is the very hour that would be advisable to bring about a mutual agreement in favor of bimetal- lism,"” and as such ap agreement is the very thing the Republican party is pledged to promote the earnest advocate of the free coinage of silver can see how foolish it would be at this time to throw away the chance of international bimetallism for the sake of makinz a reckless experiment with Democratic silver monometallism, « THE POLITIOAL DUTY OF OALI- FORNIANS, The greatness of a State depends upon the will, tbe enercy and the industry of its citizens. Unless a people are deter- mined to make a great commonwealth they will never upbuild one. Thesethings are truisms, Every intelligent man knows them, It follows as a consequence that every man who wishes to see Califor- nia become a great State must work for that object. He must support that party whose political purposes move to noble ends rather than one which exists only for the discontented and the envious. You who are Californians are well aware of the great possibilities of the State. You know that in the production of raw material it is excessively rich. You know people it is perhaps superior to .any similar territory on earth. You know that it has been blessed by nature above all other lands. You know that its politi- cal and social organization place it in the front rank of American communities. You know that with a resolute and well~ directed effort on the part of its people California may be made the scene of the highest civilization known to history. help forward that work. You owe it to yourself and your neighbor to promote not only your own industry, but. his also. You serve your State and your country when you serve yourself and your fellow- man. Inteiligent self-interest and patriot- ism are identical. In this campaign it is not difficult for you to determine which party to join, what ticket to vote for. You who are | wool-growers know what free trade has done for the wool industry. You who are fruit-growers know how the reduction of the tariff has reduced your income. You who are grain-growers know what has been the effect of breaking down the home market for home products. You who are Wwage-earners know how low wages have fallen since protection was set aside. These things which concern your own in- dustry, trade, business and wages you know, whether you are Republicans, Demo- crats, Populists or Prohibitionists. Know- ing them, it depends on your own will how you shaliact. Will you vote for yourown interest and help your neighbor to build up the State, or vote against your own interest to spite your neighbor, at the ex- pense of the State? It was said of old by Cicero, ‘*Man never works so godlike as in the building of a nation.” Surely every patriotic man would like to take part and do a loyai share in the sublime work of upbuilding the American Nation and the mighty civ- ilization that is to be on the Pacific Coast. You can each and all of you take a part in that work. Though you may have no di- rect vrofit from a particular enterprise, you can help to build it up by voting to give 1t adequate protection. Though your efforts may not be widely known, yoa can none the less be a helper in ad- vancing every Californian industry trom the growing of delicate fruits to the con- struction of iron warships. The choice is before you. The issue is in your hands. He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. He panders, indeed, to greedy capital, which is keen-sighted and may shift for itself, but he beggars labor, which is hon:stly unsuspecting and too busy with the present to calculate for the future. The prosperity of the working classes lives, moves and has its being in established oredit and a steady medium of payment. Al sudden changes disturb it.—Daniel Webster. FOR BREAD AND BUTTER. The workingmen of this country are be ginning to realize rhat the main 1ssue in this campaign is one of bread and butter rather than of forms of money. Mr. Bryan's admission that ‘‘we would, no doubt, have a panic at first after the adop- tion of free coinage” has set wage-earners to wondering how free coinage could inaugurate a panic if free coinage is what is needed to advance prices and make good times, and well may they wonder. Not a few working people es- poused Bryan’s free silver scheme when it was new and fresh, but the logical argu. ments of the advocates of true bimetal- lism, together with their own sober sec- ond thought, have convinced them that bread and butter is not to be had by the operation of a policy that its defenders admit would start in by causing a busi- ness panic. . ‘Wage-earners, especially those employed by manufacturing enterprises, are begin- ning to understand the full import of Bryan's declaration in Congress, that “A tariff of 10 per cent levied purposely for protection was just as indefensible as tariff for a 1000 per cent.”” They now know that Bryan stands for absolute free trade under any and all circumstances, and they now know, too, that such a policy ‘would mean the surrender of all our goods and wares markets to foreign cheap labor, Hence it is that workingmen are making this a bread-and-butter rather than a free- trade and free-silver campaign. They now quite agree with Major McKinley that what is wanted is not apen mints for the unlimited coinage of the silver of the world, but open mills for the full and un- restrigted labor of American workingmen. Wage-earners now understand that it is free trade and not protection that makes crowns of thorns to press the brow of labor, and that next to silver monometal- lism Mr. Bryan regards free trade as the most essential thing for them. They are beginning to understand, too, that Bryan's election would mean still greater indus. trial stagnation and & Jarger namber of idie workinzmen. All these things work- ingmen understand, and it would be a re- flection upon their intelligence to say that the question of bread and butter does not concern them. Tuis is labor's campaign for plenty of work and good wages. I hold this disturbance of the measure of value and the means of payment and ez- change—this derangement and, if I may so say, this violation of the currency—to be one of the most unpardonable of political fauits.— Daniel Webster. BISMAROK AND BIMETALLISM The Ezaminer tries very hard totwist Bismarck’s letter to Governor Culberson of Texas into 8 meaning far different from what it was intended to convey. Bis- marck simply said to Governor Culberson what he has been saying for years: that the nations shoyld adoot a bimetallic monetary system; but never has he nor does he now advocate independent action by his Government. It is true Bismarck says if this eountry should find it compat- ible with its interests to take independent action—that 1s, to assume the responsibil ity and risk the danger of such independ- ent action—it might exert a salutary influ- ence upon the consummation of an inter- national agreement, but the meaning of what he says is that no good would accrue to a nation adopting bimetallism unless it ‘was joined by the other nations. Prince Bismarck is in complete harmony with the Republican party as far as that goes, It is true beyond the possibility of doubt that Germany and other Euro- pean nations would like to see the This being so, it is clearly your duty to | that in the industry ana ambition of its|” THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1896. United States take independent action, or rather try the experiment of such action, so tnat if it failed Europe would be very much less disturbed than if its own nations should undertake it and fail. Bismarck knows, as does every other economist, that independent action on the part of this country would place the United States in the position of leadar without any positive assurance of a fol- lowing, which would injure our commerce very materially while the question of an international conference was pending; be- sides, it would put other nations ina posi- tion to demand much of usand make ac- quiescence contingent upon granting us commercial advantages. Bismarck is s professional diplomat. and it is Germany’s interests that he wants to promote first, last and all the time. These things the leaders of the R epubli- can party understand quite as well as Bis- marck does, and therefore they propose to bave the nations move in concert in the matter of establishing a bimetallic mone- tary system, so that the United States would not be left to “hold the bag,” so to speak, if the purpose failed. Bismarck knows very well that while we were taking independent action our gold would Ieave us and that Germany would get 1ts full share of it, but he is so guarded in ex- pressing his opinion, or rather in giving advice, that he uses the diplomatic loop- hole “‘compatible with the United Btates’ interests.” Bismarck is, as we havo said, a bimetallist, and he is on record in many vlaces as expressing the belief that no na- tion could afford to undertake it alone, but be is perfectly willine that the United States should make the experiment, for whether we failed or not Germany would be the gainer. . This country wants bimet- allism, and so do the countries of Europe, but if there are any chestnuts in this bi- metallic fire the United States will not be the nation to pull them out to save En- rope’s fingers. Honest industry never comes in for any part of the spoils in the scramble which takes place when the currency of a country is disordered. Did wild schemes and projects ever benefit the industrious? Did violent fluctuations ever do good to him who depends on his daily labor Jor his daily bread? Certainly never. All these things may gratify greediness for sudden gain or the rashness of daring speculation, but they can bring nothing but injury and distress to the homes of patient industry and honest labor.—Daniel Webster. THE FIFTH ARTILLERY. The orders received by the Fifth Artil- lery to make immediate preparations to leave this City as soon after October 1 as practicable are of interest to the general public. Itis strange that no explanation has been given from hesdquarters of the cause for this sudden and unexpected change. It is certainly an unwise move to transfer men from the climate of San Francisco to that of the extreme Southern States at this season of tie vear and such a movement should not be made without important and pressing reasons. General Miles is now in the West, and may be in S8an Francisco pefore the week isover. It is to be hoped he will arrive early enough to review the situation be- fore the regiment is removed. The Fifth has served in the Southern Btates since other artillery regiments, and should not | be called upon again for that duty until those others have served their turn. There may be no favoritism back of the orders, but there is a suspicion of it, and for that reason the public will be eager to have the whole history of the movement made clear. As it is not usual to send regiments from Northern States to the South at this season of the vear, the order is the more remark- | able inasmuch as it requires the regiment to be prepared to move practically at once. Why should there be such a rush when there is no apparent reason forit? Why could not the removal have been wade as is customary at a later and cooler season of the year? There are many and good reasons why the Fifth should remain in Ban Francisco, but we know of none why 1t should be removed. The laboring men massed together are the great market which absorbs the production of the United States, and they keep themselves at work. Now a great many of them want other workmen kept out, and yet they do not seem to see that whenever a bale of goods lands here, which is the result of labor abroad, there is just so much foreign labor landed here and doing its work.—Tom Reed. NATURAL ECONCMIO FACTS. A recent issue of the New York Journal, which is owned by the proprietor of the San Francisco Eraminer, who is the owner of $6,000,000 of silver mining stock, revels in this kind of faliacious reasoning, glaring contradic- tions and illogical conclusions to inveigle the people into electing Bryan so as to double the value of his silver mines: Under free coinage the United States Gov- ernment would establish a fixed and unlim. ited demand for siver at & price of 8129 per ounce, payable in silver dollars. 'The man who took to the mint 3713 grains of pure sil- ver would get a silver dollsr. The supply of siver is fixed by rature, not by man’s actiy- ities, and the increased demand, an absolutely unlimited demand made by a great and always solvent purchaser, would instantly raise the ) price of the bullion to the mint price. It is very true, as the Journal says, any one could, if silver coinage were free and unlimited, take 37114 grains of fine silver, and have them converted into a disk with “one dollar” stamped upon it; but that would no more fix the price of silver bullion in the merchandise market than would the conversion of wheat into flour by the miller fix the price of wheat in the grain warket, The point that the Journal makes, whether purposely 1o mislead and deceive or through ignorance, is that under free and unlimited silver coinage the Government would practically be the purchaser of offerings of the raw material, and thus double the market price of bullion, and arbitrarily maintain that price in the metal market, Under free coinage the Government could not, even the Journal- Ezaminer editor and proprietor should know, be a purchaser of the metal i! it would, and hence tnere could be no “mint price.” To make a price for an articie there must be a seller and a buyer, but free coinage pro- vides for neither, hence there could be no such thing as 8 Government price for sil- ver. . During and for some years prior to 1873 nature did not supply quite enough to meet the demand, and consequently the market price of 37134 grains of pure silver ranged as high as 104 cents, but immedi- ately thereafter nature grew so liberal with her supply that the demand could not consume it all, and so the market price of 87134 erains, including the product of the Journal-ZEzaminer's mines, went down to about 50 cents. Prior to 1873 when the mints were open to the free coinage of silver, the ‘‘mint price” exerted no influence upon the commercial price ot silver, Had it exerted any influence 37134 graius of silver would not have been worth above nor below the value of 100 cents; but as a matter of fact silver bul- lion had commercial value of more than 100 cents for 37134 grains from 1834 until nature furnished -a greater supply than commerce wanted at that price, The Journal- Ezaminer's $6,000,000 of sil- ver mining stock appears to have blinded the combined eyes to some very important natural economic facts. But of course the Journai-Eraminer’s editor and proprietor, who is also the owner of silver mining property worth $6,000,000, is not demanding that the mints be opened so as to double the price of silver. It is patriotism—patriotism with a silver lining. e p PERSONAL. Rev. T. H. B. Anderson of Sacramento is in town. W.F. Purnell, s stationer of Sscramento, is in the City. Thomas B. Kay, & business man of Salem, Or., is at the Lick. J. Andrews, a hardwaré-merchant of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. H. F. Tenne, mining and business man of Tueson, Ariz., is at the Palace. 8. Nicholas, a rancher of Bakersfield, s stop- ‘ping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday wes A. B. Brown of Washington, D. C. Benjamin Giover of Fresno is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, with his mother. William Neill, an extensive miner of Mon- tanas, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan, O. M. Horton and family, & merchantof St. Charles, Iowa, are at the Cosmopolitan. H. Bell and family, a fruit-grower of Los Angeles, are staylng at the Cosmopolitan. Editor F. W. Edelston of the Mining and Metallurgist Journal, Los Angeles, is in the City. George Washington Morgan, a hotel pro- prietor of Duncans Mills, is smong the arrivals at the Grand, M. Goldsmith, a business man of Stockton, who has been there for several years, arrived here yesterday. John H. White, a well-known attorney of Balt Lake, is here for a few days on a business trip. He t the Grand. J. K. Hendrick, interested in mining and business at Altaville, in the heights of the Bierras, was one of the arrivals at the Lick yesterday. George Smiley, an old California ‘mining man, brother of T.)J. L. Smiley of this City, is dangerously {ll in London from blood-poison- ing, caused by injury to the kneecap. Louis Windmuller, the noted New York finanzier and gold Democrat, who is advocst- ing the election of Major McKinley, returned here yesterday after several days at Santa Cruz, Monterey and other resorts. Isaac Sierra, one of the wealthy coffee- growers of Guatemala, arrived here yesterday on the steamer City of New York and is at the Oceidental. Mr. Sierra, besides being an ex- tensive coffee-grower, is interested in stores. Justice Stephen J. Field of the Unitea States Bupreme Court, who arrived here several months ago accompanied by his family, and has since for most of the time been at the Palace, will leave for Washington again on Thursday evening. Arrangements for the departure of the distinguished Justice have already been made. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N, Y., Sept. 21.—At the St. Cloud—8tuart E. Arndsley; Sinclair—Rev. P. Keane; Albemarle—Mrs. M. H. and M Me- Namars, P. and Miss K. Quinldn; Holland—A. Carrigan, Mrs. E. Harris; Murray Hill—Miss Currier; Netherland — C. H. Marshall ana wife; Bt. Denis—E. P. Vining and wife; Marl- borough—E. P. Spitz; Grand—A. 8. Perry. Hon. R. Boyle left the St, Cloua to ssil on the North German ship Spree for Bremen, SOME SUNDAY NEWSPAPER ABOMINATIONS. Ban Diego Tribune. THE CALL prints the handsomest and most attractively made up Sunday edition of any of the San Francisco dailies. The matter is un- usually interesting, and the general arrange- ment decidedly artistig. However, these gigantic Sunday papers are a positive nui. sance. Nobody thanks the pubiisher tor them; | they are rarely half read, and prove a mere | embarrassment of riches to subscribe: They have grown to such unwieldy proportions out of a small spirit of rivalry, and the paper that will have the courage to return to not more than sixteen pages of carefully selected matter will confer & boon on its readers, and receive merited praise for dariug to abandon an abom- inable custom, which will be vastly more hon- ored in the breach than in the observance. | We suggest to TRE CALL to pioneer the pro- | posed reform. It could make & sixteen-page | paper without padding that everybody would admire and enjoy. THE MOST POFULAR SKIRT. S New skirts are cut with two gores in the back, which form box-pleats. The one shown here has in all seven gores, the two side gores flowing wide at the foot and close-fitted over the hips. The great advantage gained by two side gores is the permanent good shape, for these gores do not stretch out of shape, as a wider and necessarily more bias gore would. All fabrics are cut in this way, and the side gores are usually cut straight at the front edge, but if striped goods are nsed they may be cut straight thropgn the center, thus lining the edges both bias and making the stripss meetat the seams. The back gores are cut with the straight thread through the center in any case. Black satin is still as much used as any other fabric for skirts o be worn with fancy blouse waists or coat basques for full dress oceasions. The only stiffening now used is band of halrcloth about six inches wide at t] :;:Lflnx:_d ;ven tg:u is omitted in man g are depending on the proper cut the body of the mk'nnd rfinl‘x’a‘. riges Dresden silks are much used ’or separate skirts, and recommend themselves use two or three different colors will generally harmonize with them, and 0 & great yariet in waist is possible. One of brown, with blag! satin threads, the flowers being indefinite tones of violet, had a brown velvet coat y skirts, { for a good while. enormous redwood trees. ue, & black satin weist and ;l*t chiffon trimmed with sable !:r:v‘::hn: : such as cheviot, t Dresses of wool weed, : es and cloth, have skirts cut after u;i- for Wwith neat-fitted waists untrim; 1 wear, or trimmed with velvet, Dresden gen &llk, ribbous, lace or spangled bands ook oF evening wear S STOP ALL LEAKS. How 19 REDUCE PuBLIC EXPENDITURES BY Editor Morning Call—Si®: The periodical how! about extravagance in public expenditures without any effort whatéver being made to remedy the matter is certainly amusing. Our City offi.ials know, 28 well as any schoolboy does, that the question is as plain as the stm- plest sum in subtraction. Stop all leaks in re- €ard to expense and make a reasonable eut in 8il salaries known to be excessive. From - 000 to $25.000 a month 3 0 could saved in the Poy.: paumontltl nm“"l.fion PR & doons, ¥ | \ | AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Among the arrivals at the Occidental Hotel s F. Temple Lynch of England. Mr. Lynch' became interested a few years ago in coffee en- terprises in Guatemala. He has not, however, been there for six years. Only six weeks ago he returned here from England and has since been up among the redwoods of Humboldt County, Mr. Lynch traveled about considerably in the timber country and visited several of the mills and the heaviest timber distriets. “There is an enormons amount of timber up there,” said the gentleman yesterday. ‘The mine and a lifelong Democrat and a Bryan vocate. Some of the employes demurre the proposition, which came in the formof a voluntary contribution, and were on the point of refusing to give up $10 of their hard-earned money for campaign purposes, and so statéd to one of the clerks who is very close to_the owners of the mine. The wer was, ‘“‘You had better stand it.” A few of the employes refused to give up the $10, and now are ex- pecting 1o be discharged when next paydey comes. THE REASON WHY. The San Francisco Wasp. THE CALL was the object of & bitter attack by the Examiner this week. Ostensibly silver was the cause. In reality, circulation was the reason. THE CALL is steadily climbing up in popularity and cutting deep into the Exam- iner. Why? Simply because it is an honest, straightforward paper, which avoids disgusting sensationalism and gives the news, the whole news and nothing but the news, in plain, matter-of-fact and truthful style every day. Such a policy will win outevery time, and THE CALL is winnlng. Go into the public resorts of the City and see how it is read and called for. .—:. & F.Temple Lynch, the English Cap- ‘ italist, Who Has Been Surprised | at the Extent of the Redwoods. [Sketched from life by a * Call” artist) trees in some districts are enormous—they are simply a surprise. There is a new mill about completed at Scotia. Scotia is about the cen- ter of the heaviest lumber district. The mill 18 to start up before long. “In general over Humboldt County, how- ever, it s pretty dull in the lumbering busi- ness. There has been liftle demand for lumber One mill there has been 1dle so long that it is nearly falling to bleces. Iwent out on alittle railroed they have there, the Eel River Railroad, which penetrates the lumber districts. On every hand were the “The people there expect that after the elec- tion there will be something of & new deal and that times will begin to improve, making a de- mand for lumber once more, then the mills will all start up again. STRENGTH OF TaE COLCRED VOTE Ban Francisco Vindlcator, Inadue consideration of the status of the colorea vote of California at the approaching election the only way to approach truth is to consult reliable statistics in order to arrive at an accurate conclusion. According to the census of the United States in 1890, as pub- lished in the New York World Almanac for 1896, the colored vote of California was at that time 72,061; that is to say California stood tenth among ell the States of the Union in the numerical value of its colored vote. Thus Georgia heads the list with 179,028; next comes Mississippi, with 150,469; third, Alabama, with 140,763; fourth, South Caro- lina, with 132,949; fifth, Virginia, with 130,- 747 sixth, Louisians, with 119,815; seyenth, North Caroling, with 109,346; eighth, Texas, | with 101,982; ninth, Tennessee, with 92,462; tenth, Calitornia, with 72,061. The next largesi vote belongs to Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mis-ouri and Florida, in their order, the votes of the two latter States being nearly a tie, at a_trifle over 38,999, or only a little more than half of the colored vote of Caitfornia, Looking at the matter from an- other point of yiew the same authority, com- piled from the Reports of the Census ot 1890, give the total voting population of California | a8 462,289, of which 390,228 were whites and 72,061 colored. In other words, the ratio of the colored to the white vote stood cousidera- bly above 1 to 6 and very nearly 2 to 11 at that time. Doubi.ess the adinission of native sons to the ballot during the past six years, to- gether with immigation, has still further widened the ratio between the white and col- ored vote; still the ratio must yet be in the near neighborhood of 6 to 1. Our object in producing these statistics at the present junciure is to let our colored brethren understand that they far outclass in the matter of votes either the German or the Irish, or, for that macter, both of the national- ities combin=d. If they make up their minds to stand together at tbe coming election they can not only dictate terms but get an honor- able share of the loaves and fishes, which they have never yet doue, for waut of unity of action. . It will certainly be a-surprise, and a very great one, too, to ihe bulk of the people of this State that the coloréd vote of California should reach the abnormal figure of 72,000 when the euntire colored populstion is rated at a little over 96,000, ‘Why is it that the normal 5 to 1 ratio of populiation to voters does not hold good with the colored race as with others? The explan- ation is to be found in the fact that of recent years there has been an immense influx, run- ning up into the thousands, of young uimar- ried colored men in Central and Southern Californis, so that the ratio of colored males to colored females is out of all proportion, while the absence of chiidren further tends to lessen the ratio of population as compared with vote. Without this exvlanation the figures would seem apoeryphal and unworthy n"credence. They have, however, the au- thority of the census records of 1890, as re- roduced in the World Almanac,and cannot gainsaid. THE WORKINGMAN NOT EASILY FOOLED. Rochester Post-Express. In his Chicago speech Bryan quoted ap- provingly Lincoln’s remark that “no men are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up trom poverty”’ But the burden ot Bryan’s talk is that just as soon as a man has toiled up and left poverty behind him he is not to be trusted, but 1is to be regarded with suspicjor by those still struggling below. The e workingman is not easily fooled. He must have taken the measure of Bryan before tii: It must huve occurred to him that a_candidate ‘who, while professing ardent affection for the man, is nevertheless backing a little e, which, 1f 1t went through, would do e wage-earners out of half their wages, is not to be taken seriously, is not a mau to take Lo e A R el A NEW STORY ABOUIf WEBSTER. Boston Evening Transori] Here is an anecdote of Daniel has never been in print; Webster was once sued ‘by his meat man, The man did not call upon Webster afterward to trade with him. Webster met him in the course of a few days and asked him why he didn't call. ‘“‘Because,” said the man, “I sup- d that you wonldb.n,fllndad and wouldn’t pt. ‘Webster that EPIGRAMMATIC WISDOM. Terse Sayings From Speaker Reed’s Portland Speech. I think we had better convert the heathen and not join them. Great a5 our nation is, we cannot make some- thing out of nothing. It is good sense to recognize that a stone wall is a stone wall when it is in front of us. There is but one thing for an individual, & firm, corporation or nation to do, and that is to be honest. Human nature in the United States is very much the same from time to time, except that it grows steadily better. Which would you prefer, an unlimited check upon the rainbow bank of promise or a certi- ficate for what isexactly due on the bank of experience? Men with vivid imaginations and with a cer- tain lack of fixity of principles have invited us many times into flowery paths of dishonor and we have never yet followed them. When a nation wants to borrow money it is almost always because its life is at stake, and nothing stands a nation in stead like the hunorable fulfillment of every obligation en- tered into. The experience of the world has proved to us beyond preadventure that the attempt to 1s- sue Government money every time a specuis- tive period has set in and burst means de- struction and ruin out of which there is no Way except through bankrupicy, RETAILING BORROWED PHORS. Philadelphis Record. Mr. Bryan quotes with approval the advice of Cicero to his son: “Don’tgo into retail busi- ness; it is small and vulgar business.” Yet Candidate Bryan’s whole business during the rogreas of the campaign has been the retail- ng of small and serappy aphorisms. He hasn’t dealt with any large yxzzcrple in & wholesale way. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. ‘W. Lewis Fraser, art manager of the Century Magazine, made his start in life in Canada. Henri Durant, the founder of the Red Cross movement, is in a Swiss hospital, sick and in poverty, Rudyard Kipling’s greatest ambition is said tobe to serve as a war correspondent. The next big war will take him into the field. META- A handsome granite monument to Hugh Brown, the late Highland attendant of the Queen, has been erected over his grave in Crathie churchyard. The Duchess of Westminster is known among her friends as an ardent lady cricketer, and she is said to be in particular & bowler—or bowleress?—of some considerable skill. The Key Monument Association of Frederick, Md., now has a total of $8689 97 toward the $10,000 required to place a suitable monu- ment over the grave of the authorof “The Star Spangled Banner.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BRYAN'S BIRTE—J, E. C., City. William Jen- nings Bryan was born in Salem, Marion County, Iilinots, March 19, 1860. Ir No SaL0ONs—K., Alameda. If there were 1o liquor saloons in San Francisco the revenue from licenses would be reduced about$150,000 a year. LEGAL TENDER— . E. G, City. The law says that standard silver dollars are legal ‘ender for ali debts public and private, except when otherwise exgmsed in the contract. Atthe tax office in thia City gold and silver have been received in pl‘menl of taxes, but the percent- age of silver has been small. No one has yet made an attempt to pay a large amountof taxes all in silver dollars, PRODUCTION OF SILVER—J. P. B., Auburn, Cal. The figures given show the world’s production of silver and the amount vroduced by the United States during the period asked about. THE WORLD'S PRODUCT. 1871 to 1875. . 63.817.014 81,864,000 78,775,602 101,851,000 1881 to 1885. . 92,004,944 118,955.000 1886 to 1890. 544,637,166 704,073,900 1890 to 1894 624 167,289 807,004,200 World’s annual rage production of ailver. 1871 to 1875, fine ounces 12,668,403 0rld’s & pual average produc io silver, 1890 to 1894, fine ounces.... 156,041,822 Worid’s annual average production of silver,"1871 to 1875, coinage value. $16,372,800 World's annual average production of silver, 1890 to 1894, coinage vaine.$201,751,060 PRODUCT OF THE UNITED STATES. 1870 to 1874. 1875 10 187 1880 (0 1884, 1885 10 1889 1890 to 1894. Average anoual 1894, inclusive, $2 . Average annual production of siiver in the United States, 1880 10 1894, Iuclusive, §73,911,800. During the past quarter of a century Mexico has been the largest producer of silver, that is of the foreign eountries. THE N1GHT TAPER Bumns—B,,City. Several friends of Auswers to Correspondents, 8. I, H., D.C.V., Mrs. G. C. and C. W. 8, have fur- nished the verse from which the quotation about the night taper appears. Itisan anony- mous hymn and appears in Congregational, Presbyterian and Catholic Books under the title of “Fading, Still Fading.” 1Itis also to be found in “Song Greetings of High Schools” and in “The World’s Sweetest Songs." The quotation asked for is to be found In the second v . One version in “Carmina Sacra" is as follows: Father In heaven, hear when we call; Hear us for Christ’s sake, who Is savior of all. Feeble and fainting, we trust in thy might: In doubt #nd In darkness thy love be our lightt Lét us sleep In thy arms while the night taper burns, Wake in thy love when the morning returns. Father, bave mercy | Father, have mercy | Father, have mercy! through Jesus Ohrist, our Lord, Another version in *‘Songs of the Sunctuary” has it: Let us sleep on thy breast while the night taper roduction of silver, 1870 to 4.160,000. burns, And wake In thy arms when morning returns. And closes with “Amen” after ‘‘Through Jesus Christ our Lord.” The Catholio yor sion is: Ave Maria, oh, hear when we call, Mother of him who is suvior of all. Feeble and fearing, we fly to th might, In doubting and darkness, thy love be our light. Let us sleep on thy breus: while' the night taper urns, And wake in thy arms when the morning returns. ‘Ave Maria, Ave Maria, Ave Maria, audinos. This is an imploration to the Virgin Mary for hezprotecllon, and is taught in the Sun- day-schools of the Catholic church, CURLICUE—D,, City. Curlique, formerly car- licue, is an Americanism which is to be found in the modern dictionaries. The Century says that it is sometimes written curlique and that it is an allusion to the curly Q, or the capitel letter Q when written in the form of the figure 2. Another definition it gives 1s that the word means something fantastically curidd or twisted, as to make a curlicue with a pen, or cut & curlicue while-skating on the ice. Murray's, the, latest English dictionary now in course of publication in parts, Savs: “Curlicue, a fauntastic curl or twist; to cit up curticues, in the United States is commoa for 0 cut up capers.” \ Mflllls‘:nl Pin his dictionary of Amelican slang says thas the word means a fanfstic orpament. Barrere, in “Slang, Jarzgon and Cant,’ s that the werd is an Americanism and thafthe old words carle-cat or carli-cat, a male cat or kitten, may have influenced the formatiot of rlicues. 2 c“BlrLlett, in “Dictionary of Americanisms,’ says the word means boy’sh tricks, and tha to cut up carlicues is to_cut up capers. He says itis made up from curly and cue, or perhaps a corruption of the French carcarole or tne Spen- ish carcarol; or comparatively cavort, a trans- position made from cuvert. «Sally,” says I, “will you take me for better or for w 018 put her to considering, and I gave s flourish- 1ng about the room and cut & curly cue with iy right foot. as much as to say, “Take your own time.”—McClintock’s Tales. “It I3 generally supposed that nature is perfec- tion in all her works, except when she gets odd treaks in her head and cuts up carlicues by way of experiment.”—Dow’s Sermons, vol. 111, 48. PENT UP Urica—G. F. H,, City. The follow- ng at the head of the Californian: No pent-up Utica contracts our powers, Bat'the whale unbounded continent is ours, Was stolen and altered from Jonathan M. Sewall, one of the earliest American poets, who lived from 1748 to 1808. His lines were: No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, But the whole boundless continent is yours. The lines by Sewall occur in an epilogue he wrote for the tragedy of ‘‘Cato,”” by Joseph Addison, a famous English essayist and dram- atist, when the play was produced in the Bow- street Theater, 1n Portsmouth, N. H., 1778. The lines piaced at the head of the Californian had reference to the great opportunities open- ing before the newly n(‘qulrc\PAmcncRn terri- tory. To be better understood it may be well to give some idea npon which the play of “Cato” was founded. Utica was a city in Northern Africa. The adjective -‘pentup” is merely comparative and poetic, ior Utica was, during the time of its prosperity, a large and impor- tant city. It wasat first an ally of Carthage in the wars between that city and Rome, but subsequently prepared to submit to Roman power. After Carthage had been subdued a part of its territory. was given to Utica, and the latter cily was made the resi- dence of the Roman Governor. During the war between Cmsar and Pompey, Marcus Portius Cato, or Cato the Young- er, a noble Roman commander, who had made every possible effort to prevent the war, had joined lne side of Pompey, fearing Cmesar as the greater tyrant. Pompey took refuge in Afriea, whither Cato went to join him with a small army, but before he reached there Pom- pey had been assassinated. Soon after the army of Pompey wes defeated by Cmsar's troops at Thapsus. That was in the spring of the year 46 before Christ. Cato took refuge with his force in Utica, which was the only city which still held out against Cesar, but when it became known that the conqueror's army was on its way against the city also, the Uticans refused to risk utter destruction by further resistance, and Cato’s eloguence was powerless to persuade them to hold out against the ememy. Calo sent an’ embessy 10 make terms with Ceesar for the surrender of the city and troops within 1t, but he, rather than tail into the hands of the conqueror, re- solved to die, and after spending the night in reading Plato’s Phaedo, committed suicide by stabbing himself in the breast. NEWSPAPER FLEASANTRY. ‘Willy—I found mother the other day crying over your book of poems. His Sister’s Fiance (delighted)—Oh, is that so? (Aside)—Ah, what glory, what fame, awaits me! A man who can bring tears to the eyes of such a flint-hearted woman as that is certainly great, and no mistake. (To Wiily)— She was really weeping, Willy? Willy—Yes; she said it nearly broke her heart to think that a daughter of hers was going to marry a slob who would write such rot as that.—Puck. “Henry,” said she, “wake up. Ibelieve there is a man in the house.” “Well, what if there is?” said Henry, sleepily. “If there were a woman in the house do you suppose I would go to the trouble of waking up and telling you sbout it?"” “What?” By this time Henry was awake and explain- ing.—Cincinnati Enquirer. “Look here, Snaggs, I hear you hayve been telling people that I drink like a fish,” said Bwiller, in a blustering manner. “I may have sald that to two or three people.” “Well, sir, you have got to take it back.” “Have 17" ou have, “Oh, well, I'll take it back, if that will please you. You don't drink like a fish etall; a fish darinks nothing but water.” 'itisburg Chroni- cle Telegraph. Wife—You saw Mrs. Browner last evening? Husband—Yes; but not to speak to. “What & whopper! They tell me you sitting with her for more than two hours. “True; but it was she who dia all the talk- ing.”—Spare Moments. ere He—There is one thing I like about you, Miss Dalsy. Miss Daisy—And what is that? He—My arm.—London Tit-Bits. 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