The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.16 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 | Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mall.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall.. .65 Bunday Cavy, one year, by mal 1.60 WEXEKLY CALL, one year, by ma 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ou a_vacation * It 9, it 1s no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do pot let It miss you for you will miss it. Orders given 1o the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attentien. NO,EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone................ Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: | treet. verees.Main—-1874 Telephone.. BRANCH OFFICE! 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untll | 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 8:30 o'clock. SW . corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock, 116 Minth street; open until 9 o'clock. | OAKLAND OFFICB: | 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Booms S1 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. | THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. | Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. ¥FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohio ¥OR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of Rew Jersey i Election November 3, 1896. “Democrats have evidently decided to treat Cator like the ta1iff and ignore him as an issue. T S oy The Non-Partisans may claim Mr. Phe- lan, butall the same Boss Rainey knows | ‘who dig him up. E People turn out to see Bryan when he | goes to.their city, but they go to McKin- ley’s city to see him. - The question continually recurs: Why | @oes not some Democrat of prominence help Bryan on the stump? Every one knows t. e Republican party | can give this City 8 good government. fs ! there any other party that can? There will be many local tickets in the field, but the intelligent voters will soon | learn which one it is best to vote for. { What the Popocrat fusion did for Kan- sas it wou!d do for the whole country if it | came into power. Do you want any of it? | ‘When you hear it repeated that Buckley bas retired from politics you may expect | to hear very soon that he has returned to | town. Colonel Taylor has made a good Super- visor and will make a good Mayor. ‘What's the matter with him? He's all | right. : . | One.of the notable features of this cam- paign is the passing of Mayor Sutro. Not = single faction in the City has-invited him.to run again. . The best excuse for the Yale boys is that Bryan talks so much like a sophomore it 'was verv easy for them to mistake him for | one and treat him accordingly. i | | | As the Erzaminer declares it “knows eomething higher than party in local gov- ernment,’” it has evidently caught sight of another $30,000 sack somewhere. There was a time when Democracy could at least muster up a candidate for the United States senatorship, but that time | bas mingled with the misty past. The East has begun already to talk about the inclemency of the weather. They seem to have nothing over there but hot waves, inclement-weather and blizzards, Theré was a time when Henry George ‘was a consistent single taxer, but now he goes about taxing the credulity of the peo- b ple on every proposition of the campaign. No Républican should overlook the im- portance of the legislative ticket in this campaign. California must not elect an- other free-trader to the United States Senate. Has your industry derived any benefit irom the election of Cleveland, the tariff reformer? Do you expect to derive any benefit from the election of Bryan, the free-trader? Whitney became engaged on Friday and was married on Tuesday, which goes to show that while he may get left occasion- ally in politics he is no slouch as & matri- morp;ll manager. e - Men of standing in the City who have sccepted public service and done their work well deserve re-election, and that .is the reason why the people will vote fo; Charles L. Taylor. > The injury done to California industries by free trade has been felt in every house- hold and the people on election day will not forget that Bryan is one of the most fanatical of free-traders, Since THE CALL published the list of the silver mines of the Hearst estate the people of the whole country have begun to find out why the Journal in New York and the Ezaminer in this City developed so rap- idly into advocates of Bryanism, The silliess campaign cry ever started, even by a Democrat, is the howl about -workingmen being coerced to wear Mec- Kinley buttons and join Republican eam- paign clubs. The only force which has been put upon American labor in that direction bas been the pressure of Demo- cratic hard times, and that indeed has forced a good many free-traders to drop their theories and come over to the side of protection. In a recent speech to a delegation from Lisbon, Ohio, McKinley, after referring to the establishment there of a tinplate fac- tory, said: “I submit to you, no matter what may have been your politics in the past, whether you would not prefer to bave that tinplate factory in your country and in your State than to have it in ‘Wales.” That simple question involves the whole tariff question: Will you have factories at home or abroad ? THE WAY TO BARMONY. The discussion of yesterday in the Re- publican State Central Committee on the condition of the affairs of the party in San Francisco must have made it clear to all who were present that the contestis one between regularity and irregularity; be- tween those who are upholding the party organization ana those who are trying to either control it or break it down. That much was established beyond a doubt by the unanswerable argument of Mr. Watt, and will have an important bearing on whatever decision the committee reaches. The element of regularity is essential to all organizations. Every political party in America has practiced it, and none could exist without it. For years past the Republican organization in San Francisco has been entrusted to the management of e central committee chosen to hold office for two years and until its successor has been duly elected and qualitied. The present committee is the orderly successor of that which preceded it, and holds office by an equal authority. Thus we may g0 back step by step from one elec- tion year to anottier and find this line of succession unbroken, each succeeding com- mittee being like its predecessor, the duly suthorized and recognized administrator of party affairs until its authority was surrendered to another committee chosen by a regularly called convention of the Republicans of San Francisco. This chain of regularity unbroken gave the present commitiee the authority to call the Republican Convention of San Francisco to nominate local candidates for office in the coming election. The delegates to that convention were elected at party primaries regularly conducted. They met and organized as a convention in due form and proceeded to nominate a full ticket. That ticket Registrar Hinton | has filed in his office as the list of Repub- lican candidates. His action, which was in strict accordance with law, gives the official seal to the proceedings of the con- vention and confirms its regularity with all the force and effect of what is virtu- ally a judicial decree. The regularity of the Auditorinm con- vention being thus established beyond controversy and the ticket of that con- vention having been placed by the Regis- trar on the official ballot as the *“ Republi- can ticket,” the members of the State Central Committee have before them nothing 1o decide except whether they will support the party organization or not. Each member of that committee knows the rules of parly management, He knows by what processes Republican con- ventions are organized and committees chosen in his own county. He knows, moreover, that without regularity of this kind there could be no such thing as an organized party in the State. ‘When regularity and organization thus confirmed and established have been duly recognized by the State Committee, the way to harmouy will then be plain and clear to all loyal Republicans. The County Committee has already done much to bring about harmony in the ranks in this City. It has made concession after con- cession to the opposing element of the party. It has withdrawn a regularly nominated Presidential elector, W. W. Montague, and substituted for him the candidate of the irregulars, J. 8. Spear. It has conceded the nomination for Con- gress in the Fourth District to Mr. O’Brien, the candidate of the Kelly party, and consented to the withdrawal of its own candidate. In response to these con- cessions made by the regulars, what have Mr. Kelly or his friends said or done? The answer is known to every one; they have said much about harmony—they have done nothing for it. Is it not, therefore, the plain duty of the State Cen- tral Committee to sirongly advise the Kelly faction to do their share toward promoting harmony by supporting the regular official Republican ticket? It is sometimes said that we are opposed to silver; that we are in favor of gold exclu- sively. On the contrary, my countrymen, we have done, as a party, more for silver than any other party has ever done. It was the Republican party that provided for the coin- age of silver in 1878, the coinage of the silver dollar, and subsequently, in 1890, the coinage of a greater mumber. Belween those years the Republican party gave to the people more silver dollars than were ever coined—nearly fifty times as many silter dollars as were coined prior to that time. We maintained them, too, at par with -gold, and we are in JSavor of more of them, too, if we can main- tain them at par with gold.—Senator Sher- man. 3 A NEW - PROPOSITION. Congressman Newlands, ‘“Nevada’s Sil- ver Champion,” comes to Ban Francisco occasionally to enlighten the benighted hereabouts on the free-silver coinage ques- tion. No doubt he knows a good deal about the question, past, present and prospective, but his enthusiasm rather ciouds his judgment. He says things sometimes which might better be left un- said, In the address he was kind and good enough to deliver at Metropolitan Temple awhile ago he erew confidential with his audience and said: ‘The mines of the present are in private own- ership. The mines of the future are in the ownership of the Government, and it will be easy, should any undue production resuit from the increased price of silver, by an ar- rangement with Mexico, to withdraw the min- eral lands trom grant, or to exact a royalty, or to take some other method of restricting pro- duction so that it be equal to and not pass beyond the existing demand. Government ownership of the silver mines of the country is a new proposition, and an agreement with Mexico to restrict production is a wonderfully wise sugges- tion no doubt. But does not Mr. New- lands admit too much when he suggests a plan to close the mints against “iree and unlimited coinage” ? The supposition has been that “free and unlimited coinage” nieant that the mints should coin all of- ferings, but Mr. New!ands does not so un- derstand it. He wants-to provide ‘‘some method of restricting production.” Re- stricted production would mean restricted coinage, and since it is Mr. Newlands’ plan to conter upon the Government the right to say how much the mines shall produce the conclusion is that he believes real free and unlimited coinage would be very bad for the people. 3 But Mr. Newlands would go still fur- sher to guard against unlimited coinage. He proposes thai the Government shall own and control all the silver mines of the country, which would enable it, in con- junction with Mexicq, to keep the coinage of silver within the requirements of -com- merce. Of course that would necessitate the absorption of all private mining prop- erty by the Government, for otherwise the Government would be.in competition with its citizens. But Mr. Newlands’' pian necessarily provides for the purchase of all private mines by the'Government, and right in that scheme may be found the “joker” of the whole business. The difference between Mr. Newlands’ plan and the Government’s present sys- tem is that now the Government buys sil- ver and coins it on its own account, which plan_enables it to restrict coinage, while Mr. Newlands’ plan would make the Gov- ernment the owner of the mines, so that "'ence with him than the chairman of the it could restrict coinage by restricting the output of the ore. Tweediedum vs. twee- dledee. This difference, however, would obtain: Under the plan of Mr. Newlands, mine-owners could unload their properties upon the Government. But the point of Mr. Newlands’ address | to which attention is called is the un- solicited admission that unlimited silver coinage would be dangerous because of the probability of the volume of silver dollars becoming too large. Of course Mr. New- lands antagonizes the theories of Teller, Bryan and all the otber leaders of the free and unlimited coinage movement, and practically reads himself out of the free- silver party, but it is just possible that he has jumped from the frying-pan into the fire in advocating Government ownership of the silver mines. We want the best currency to measure the labor of our people and to carry on our com- mercial relations with foreign countries. We want the best standard of value for our own people in their domestic exchanges; and the Republican party, with McKinley at its head, is determined that we shall have that great boon.—Senator Sherman. — THE PEOPLE AND OANDIDATES. The effort of Sewall to belittle the influ- ence which the enormous Republican majority at the Maine State election has exerted and will continue to exert is too much like the boy who whistles when passing a graveyard to count] for much. And his assertion that Bryanism is spreading rapidly in New England is so stupidly foolish that people are likely to conclude that Watson is the better man of the two Vice-Presi- dential candidates. The fact is, had Bryan felt that he was making converts he would not have left New England so soon. There would be more glory in carrying one of those States than any three Western States would give him, and if there is one thing that Bryan dotes on it is glory. Those who participated in the General Scott campaign in 1852, and in the Greeley campaign in 1872, will see the same kind of elements accumulating to overthrow Bryan that sent those distinguished men to their everlasting political graves. Early in the compaign the people traveled miles to see Scott and Greeley, and such ovations men seldem get, but no once could tell whether the people were moved by curios- ity or enthusiasm until the campaign had nearly spent itself. As the campaizn neared its close the people acted just as people do after the circusis over. They are really glad the show is over, and their only recollection of the performers is as- sociated with the funny things they said and did. None of them care a snap for the showmen as people. Bryan is affording the people rather more amusement than Scott and Greeley did; besides, with our improved urban and suburban car service it is easier to collect a crowd of 10,000 people now than it was to get 1000 together when Scott ran, or- 5000 when Greeley was on the stump. Crowds these days indicate nothing in particular, It is the sober thinking of the people that decides National elections these days. The .people read more and judge for themselves more than at any former period in the country’s history. Not only so, but they are more conserva- | tive than they used to be, and it is hard to | induce them to depart from old and tried paths. Bryanism istoo new and too much | of an experiment for the people to indorse, but they will hear what he has to say. Buimetallism means the use of two metals, | and after you have the free coinage of silver there will be no money in circulation except silver. That is monometallism. These people who say they are bimetailists and that they are in favor of the free coinage of silver are deluded or mistaken, b:cause nothing is more | sure, as shown by the ezperience of mankind, than that whenever you debase money that money becomes the standard of value.—Sena~ tor Sherman. INCENDIARY SPEECHES. Tillman and Altgeld are Bryan’s closest political friends. They have more influ- campaign committee. That is because be likes their political views. Birds of a feather flock together.. Mr. Bryan, how- ever, cannot quite keep up with Tiliman, Hecan say *“cruel,” “neartless’ and *‘cor- rupt,” when speaking of the leaders of the Republican party, but it takes the South Carolina partner to put things in true Popocratic shape. In the course of a speech last week Till- man took occasion to denounce the Su- preme Court, and among other things he said: “If McKinley is defeated the Demo- cratic party will take the rascally Judges by the throats and teach them that there is yet liberty in the land.” That kind of talk is intended to breed sectionalism and excite the worst passions of men. It is an invitation to the lawless to vote for Bryan under an implied promise that if he is elected the authority of the courts may be defied with impunity. Senator Tillman is a representative Bryanite. It is true, no doubt, thatnot many Popocrats would indorse such in- cendiary speeches, but neither Mr. Bryan nor the National Committee has repudiated Tillman’s attack upon the Supreme Court, and the inference is that Bryan quite agrees with Tillman that the ‘‘rascally Judges” should be taken *‘by the throat.” Things haye come to a pretty pass when a candidate for the Presidency vermits bis lieutenants to ask the lawless to’break the law and defy the courts. Let honest and law-abiding people re- member what Tillman, Bryan’s close iriend, says: “If McKinley is defeated the Democratic party will take the rascaily Judges by the throats and teach them that there is yet liberty in this land.” We think there was never @ more mislead- ing statement than to call lhe cause of free silver the cause of the people, in contradis- tinction to what is called the capitalist class. The one class that might profit in the busi- ness wreck which would come with free silver would be these same capitalists, with money in hand to purchase property at forced sales, while those who would suffer immeasurably would be the common people.—Hon. 8. B. Capen of Massachusetts. ON THE DOWN GRADE. The announcement that Bryan’s man- agers have discovered a very rapidly growing Populistic sentiment in the East~ ern and Middle States, and that a large force of orators will be sent thither will fool no one. The returns from Vermont and Maine clearly indicate the drift of public sentiment in the New England States, and only two or three daysago one of Bryan’s National Committeemen gave it out that all the country north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of In- diana was sure to go for Major McKinley. ‘The fact is, Bryan never had the ghost of a chance to carry a single State east of Indiana, and now he is losing ground in the Mississippi Valley States, as any ob- server of passing events may see. The announcement that speakers are to be sent East is merely to bolster up the cause in the West. Ifit could be made to apvear that the East was swinging around to Bryan, the West would no doubt take a new lease of chunks of enthusiasm and make a very much stronger fight thun if weighted down with discouraging reports from other quarters, If Bryan has not passed over the top of the hill, and is not now going down the other side at a pretty rapid gait every sign is frightfuliy misleading. He continues to draw crowds, butit is to be observed that no other speaker on his side is able to enthuse the peovle. The people are willing to turn out and make crowds for Bryan, but they are not interested enough in his cause to listen to any of his lieutenants. In fact, Boles, Vest, Bland and the other promi- nent supporters of Bryan’s candidacy are ominously silent. In Catifornias Cator, Mitchell, White, together with Newlands of Nevada, con- tradict Bryan in nearly every one of his propositions, and the people are begin- ving to wonder if there are as many phases of the silver question as there are speakers. Bryan says free coinage would advance the price of silver per ounce to $1 29, Cator says an American silver dollar would not go in Europe and Newlands says the Government should own the sil- ver mines so as to prevent too liberal offer- ings at the mints, In fact, nearly every one of Bryan’s former supporters is com- ing to the front with a better scheme. Bryanism has seen its best days and it will soen be only a recollection, p i Mo bl BRI believe in the American payroll. And I do not believe in diminishing that payroll by giving work to anybody else under another flag while we have an idle man under our flag.—McKinley. WHAT LABOR WANTS. ‘What this country needs is a perfectly sound circulating currency and a tariff that will afford enough protection to our industries to enable them to maintaina high wage schedule. If these two things are secured and made permanent, the people will do the rest. Asfor a sound circulating currency, we have one now, only that owing to our constantly increas- ing trade with other peoples a larger vol- ume of redemption money is now or soon will be needed. That need, however, is well understood by the Republican party, and at the earliest day possible a confer- ence will be held between those in in- terest, when a basis for conferring full redemption power upon silver will be established. The Republican party is committed to that, and the other nations being apprised of the fact will no doubt be in readiness to co-o te with this coun- try soon after Mr. McKinley is inau- gurated. But our circulating money already being as sound and stable as the wisdom of man could make it—the only need being a larger volume—the work of inaugurating a system of protection to American indus- try becomes the first and highest duty of the incoming administration. In fact, we shall need no increase in the volume of money untili we provide & demand for an increase. There isan enormous amount of idle money in the United Btates, and it will remain idle un- til the various industries are in a condi- tion to give employment to the armies of unemployed. The moment our mills and factories are assured that they will not be crowded out of our own markets by foreign industrial products money in ample quan- tity will be forthcoming. There is no doubt about that, for idle capital is just as anxious to go to work as idle labor. There are hundreds of thousanas of working people in this country who are waliting for the word to take off their coats and go to work, and they know it is not because there is no money to pay them for their services that they are idie, but because the markets in which their prod- ucts would have to be sold are overrun with similar products made in other coun- tries. The cause of the present depression in our industrial field is well known and understood by the working class, and they know it is not the money question butthe question of opening the channels of em- ployment that is the important one; and the candidate who subordinates the in- dustriai situation to the money question will exert no influence in labor circles. It is opportunity to earn some of the money that now is rather than more money and less opportunity to earn wages that labor wants just now. FRESNO WELCOMES THE VALLEY ROAD. We're going to palnt the city red; we're going 1o make it hum; We're going to make the people think that this is kingdom come; ‘We're going to ha the Governor here, and have two bands to play, Because the Valley road has come and it s here The l%‘:-:{ihe- goIng to toot; the boys are going And all {he preity girls in white will be too sweet ‘We're going to turn the earth around; we're golog 0 jar the star: s, When the people get together just to greet the Valley cars. —Fresno Republican. LITTLE GIRL'S DRESS WITH JACKET. A daintylittle frock for girls of 3 to 8 years is shown bere. Made of dark blue novelty goods ‘with the full bodiceof embroidered batiste it is pretty. For a best dress China siik in stripes of pink, blue and white, with a white lawn bodice it is very pretty. Cholce cheviots in brown and white, or blue and white, are serviceable and stylish. The {full waist may be of the same or a contrasting et arons t Dresden design had th of bodice of pale blue silk crepe. A white pique dress had a full bodice of pink lawn, dress of n mohair the jacket of all over embroidery in flax-colored batiste, with s " waids bittonada ot besoning to th ms in utton! e o 7} front, ng 5 around the left si may be made separate and the waist may b'l;ll;a_lklnfi straight, sim- fasten in the back. ply gathered to the Mrs. Youngthing—How long have these eggs been boiling, Bridget? Bridget—Eighteen minutes, mum. Mrs. Youngthing—Why, I told you to boil them only three minutes. Bridget — Oi know that, mum; but the kitchen clock is fifteen minutes slow—Tit-Bits ] Y THE MONARCH OF HYPOCRITES. What Contemporaries Say of Mr. Hearst’s Course. No Wonder He Is for Bryan When He Has Millions Invested in Silver Mines. A few days since THE Carys directed at- tention to the fact that Mr. Hearst's in- vestments in silver mines might have influenced the course of his two papers in their advocacy of Bryanism. This was, of course, merely a suggestion, but the man- ner in which it was received by the press of the City and State is remarkable. With one accord they speak out and in no un- certain tones. “No wonder,” exclaims one indignant editor, “the Examiner is for free silver when over $8,000,000 of the Hearst estate is invested in silver mines.” Another journalist dips his pen in ink to write: *‘Nobody, though, expects the Examiner to be consistent; nobody ex- pects it to be decent.” Still another epitomizes his opinion of our contemporary thus: “The Examiner is the monarch of hypoerites.” The foliowing extracts may prove inter- esting reading: A MONARCH OUT OF LUCK. Woodland Mail THE CALL'S exposure of the poor old Exam- iner is causing it to show its teeth and lose its temper. The monarch is decidedly out of luck of late. NO WONDER. Placer Republican. No wonder the Examiner is for free silver when over $8,000,000 of the Hearst estate is invested in silver mines. And yet this jour- nal is posing es & disinterested adyocate for the dear people. LOOK OUT FOR THEM. Pasadena Star. Look out for campaign lies in the Examiner! That is an enterprising journal and ‘“gets onto” the latest mendacity with an ability worthy of a better cause. You wiil find out these many things that are not so—and find it out eariy. A GOOD REASON. Paradise Star. A good reason has been discovered for one Democratic editor favoring free coinage: Mr. Heurst of the Examiner would make $65,000 a month additional profit out of one mine alone—the Ontario—that he owns. Does heo need any better reason than that for the faith that is in him? THE REASON WHY. ‘Woodland Mall. THE CALL threw a bomb into the Examiner- Journal camp Saturday by publishing a state- ment showing that the Hearst estate is inter- ested in silver mines to the extent of $5,911,- 91. This explains in a great measure why these two papers are supporting Bryan., It is not through love of the poor workman, as they would make believe, but for Willie Hearst, the silver-mine owner. IN THE CAUSE OF DECENCY. Vallejo Chronicle. The San Francisco CALL is exposing the hypoerisy of the Examiner on the money question, and is thus doing a service to the cause of decency. The Examiner is a fakir ‘in the strie sense of the term; its political headings are fakes on the subject matter which follows them; it is woetuiiy hypoeriti- cal because it charges as a crime that of which it is itself shamelessly guilty. The Examiner is the monarch of the hypocrites, NOT TO BE WONDERED AT Hollister Free Lance. It is searcely to be wondered at that the Examiner is for “Iree silver.” According to last Saturday’s CALL the late Senator Hearst left his widow and son some 5,000,000 worth of silver mining stock. With the Anaconda Mining Company’s stock not counted, as it h: since been sold, the estate still owns $1,76! 520 worth. - “Free silver” means a great de: lo tne proprictor of the San Fraucisco Exam- iner and the New York Daily Journal. IT HAS CHANGED. Santa Rosa Republican. In 1895 the Examiner wasa sound-money paper. Then it declared in favor of & silver dollar containing a dollar’s worth of silver. May 4, 1893, it sald its experience had not en- couraged it to believe that this country could maintain parity of value of the two metals at 16 to 1, and suggested 25 to 1. Then that vaper stood by Carlisle and opposed 50-cent or 90-cent dollars, THE CALL is now republish- those articles, to the disccmfiture of the Examiner in its present position. ————— IT IS PECULIAR. Berkeley Gazette. s The San Francisco CALL is now drawing deadly parallel upon the Examiner and is pro- ducing its editorials of April and May last, in which the independent free colnage of silver ataratioof 16 to 1 is treated as a dangerous experiment in which success is _almost fl:lpos- sible. It commended Carlisie’s Memvphis speech and criticized the Illinois Democrats ‘waen they adopted their free-silver platform. “For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain tne oily Examiner is peculiar.” —————— CANNOT BE CONSISTENT. Alameda Argus. THE CALL 18 trying to prove the Examiner to be inconsistent on the silver question by pub- lishing some of its editorials of the past. Not necessary. Nobody expects it to be consistent, even in one issue. Nobody expects it even to be fair or decent. Nobody cares what its llci or {olmca is. Who'thinks of arraign- ng the pink papers of the barber-shops for their lack of consistency or their flip-flopping on questions of public interest? ho looks to them for lessons in, or examples of, or incite- ments to morality? Why THE CALL shoald at- tempt such an unnecessary and undemanded service we are unable to see. —_— A BITTER DOSE INDEED., Monterey Cypress. The San Francisco CALL is working the “deadly parallel’” on the Examiner, showing the latter’s position on the silver question a year ago. The Examiner has evidently found out that 1t is receiving a dose of its own medi- clae. » v Well, we are still patiently waiting for the answer as to where the San Franeisco Exami- ner stands on the civil service question. Is it afraid of the second dose of its own medicine, . » e ‘What do the rest of the Po tic f California think now that ulfi’l.npa.r“h:l been caught at its own g: Oh, the Enmlxner is doing noble (?) work !oi-’l‘l;'vur'l cause THAT DEADLY PARALLEL. Stockton Independent, The ‘“‘deadly parallel” has been indulged in bytiuknn; r to show that fl:flyml— nent Republican speakers an 'WSpapers have changed their views on the -flve:l-’;uu- tion within a year or two. This was done in apparent nmuunluu that the same weapon ‘could be against itsell. THE CALL, how- ever, was not so forgetful, and in yesterday’s issue reproduces trom the Examiner of June d an article of some length, in which supstantially the same ground as the National h&ubuun platform one year later, which it now condemns. It ‘goes even fartherand points out the evils that ‘would follow from the United States returning to free coinage of silver, just as the Republi- cans are doing now. To show that this article was not a maiter of inadvertence THE CALL aunm from five other articles of different ates, all to the same tenor and effect so far as iree coinage is concerned. AN INTERESTING LIGHT. Boston Herald. The San Francisco CALL publishes & schedule of the late Senator Hearst's estate, showing the total value of its holdings of silver min- ing shares to be $6,089,61912. This throws an interesting light on the metropolitan jour- nalism of to-day. Chicago Inter Ocean. A very bright light is thrown on metropoli- tan journalism in New York in the announce- ment of the S8an Francisco CALL that “the schedule of property of the late Senator Hearst's estate shows it contains silver min- ing shares to the amount of $6,039,691.” aiedll g INCONSISTENCIES EXPOSED Napa Register. THE CALL devotes considerable space to the showing up of Millionaire Hearst's free coinage record, and in doing so quotes freely from the Examiner of dates not very far back. Hereisa sample paragraph. It shows how strongly the {E;;;Mnu was against fres coinage June 27, The free coinage of silver under proper inter- Dational agreement would help our trade with all the world, but free colnage by this country alone, unless it succeeded in bringing both metals (o & varity, which would hardly possible, would certainly injure our commerce with countries having the goid siandard. We see the same effect now in countries that arc on a silver basis. The fluctuations in the price of silver so disturb inter- national exchange as 10 make trade between gold and silver using countries partake of the nature ot & gamble. All the profits of a transaction may be Wiped out by a change in the silver market, or, on the other hand. they may be doubled. This is a discouragement to legitimate commerce and tends to put trade in the hands of speculators. THOSE SILVER MINES, San Francisco News Letter. THE CALL has dealt the Examiner some welghty blows during the week. Hereafter nobody can have a doubt that neither the San Francisco Examiner nor the New York Jour- nal is worth reading on the subjectof coin- age. The interest of their proprietor, W. R. Hearst, isso largely made up of silver mines that he could easiiy afford to buy two or three more “great daflies” and run ther for noth- ing, 1f only Bryan and a silver Congress be elected. Of course he woula not think of run- ning them at that price, but he could if he wished. He is not, however, that kind of a man. There is, notwithstanding his great wealth, not & more nimble, or unprincipled cateker of nickels in all this ldnd. His nu- merous devices, often made up of hatred and falsehood, to conjure small coinsout of the ‘pockets of his readers into his own, have about sickened all the better elements of our local society. For so young a man, raised with the double advantage of mone; d education, his greed and low morals are phenomenal. THE CALL has gone to first hand tor its information as to his interest in silver mines. It published the sworn inventory filed in conrt of the Hearst estate, from which it appears that the estate consists of mining interests to the value of $8,750,000. Four large and valuable silyer mines make a considerable figure in the list. One of them is said to be eastly worth $7,000,- 000. If the silver-mine owners are 1o have their product nearly doubled in value—and that is the sole aim of the Bryan campaign—it is very palpable why Mr. Hearst became such an cnurgflnflng advocate of silyer, as soon as he thought there was & chance of making such advocacy a success. He did not always appear to be for silver, but that was when he thought it would kill his papers if he permitted them to say what he thought. Hence, it came that his writers were permitted to go as far as they liked for gold, and THE CALL furnishes curious reading in showing how far that was. 1t was not until after Bryan’s nomination | that he dared to change the course of his New York Journal, which previously had as good editorials as he can procure—which is notsay- ing much—in favor of the gold standard. Up to then he lived in feer and trembling as to the possible loss of the nickels of the gmlelnkilt if he abandoned the advocacy of onest money. But Bryan's speech, nomina- tion and temporary popularity gave Hearst the opportunity he wanted, and he promptly switched around to what, in point of fact, is nothing more nor less than booming his own silver interests. That may be worldly wis- dom, but it is downright d1sgraceful journal- ism, which no honest man respects. But, really, does Mr. Hearst care for the respect of honest men? Since his exposure in the rail- road blackmailing case there are not many men who believe he does. His course since then has been such that the general belief is that he will have blood or die in the attempt. His brief career furnishes a curious object lesson. Heis a conspicuous example of the danger inherited wealth is to 8 young man ap- parently without scruples or honor. PERSONALS. W. L. Austin of Denver is in the City. H, Wilson of Alaska is at the Baldwin, James Topley, & druggist of Vallejo, is at the Grand. V. 8. McClatehy, editor of the SBacramento Bee isin town. F. A. Hilen, the capitalist, of Santa Cruz, is in the City. 7 Ex-Sherift W.J. uraham of Kern County is at the Russ. H. V. Pullen, & mine-owner of Coulteryille, is in the City. 3 5 Frank L. Coombs of Naps, ex-Minister to Japen, is in the City. J. Desine and wife of Fresno are guests at the Cosmorolitan Hotel. Captain A. P. Maus of the United States Army is at the Palace. o A J. 8. Hill, a well-to-do livestock-grower of Nevada, is at the Russ. B, S, Chace, the well-known hotel man Santa Cruz, is in town. 3 C. L. Hussey of the United States steamer Thetis is at the California. M. Lawrence, manager of the Tallac House at Lake Tahoe, 1s in the City. 5 C. P. St. John, & business man of Chicago, is among recent arrivals here. ‘Hon. H. Eaton.of England isat the Palace, accompanied by Mrs, Eaton. George J. Campbell Jr. will leave this after- noon on the Doric for Japan. Otto Grafe, orchardist, of Porterville, is stop- ping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Bishop and Mrs. Kendrick of Phenix, Ariz., registered at the Occidental yesterday. R. D. Hatch, & wealthy dairymsn of Nevada, arrived here yesterday and is at the Grand. C. E. Byrns, proprietor of the Byrns Hotel, Woodland, and of Yolo County lands, is at the’ Grand. J. H. Wells of Fourth Crossing, cattle-dealer, accompanied by his wife, is at the Cosmo- politan Hotel. Mrs. Mclvor, whose husband is the owner ot the noted Mclvor vineyard at Mission San Jose, is at the California. Ex-Senator N. C. Sargent, the extensive land- owner of San Joaquin County, arrived here from Stockton yesterday. Mrs. Charles D, Perkins of Washington, D. C., wife of Commander Perkins of the United States Navy, is at the California, G. R. Georgeson, agent at Eureka, Humboldt County, of Wells, Fargo & Co. and two or three railroads, is among the arrivals here, M. Greenblatt, one of the owners and editor of the California Demokrat, was appointea as a notary public yesterday by Governor Budd. A party consisting of W. G. Purdy of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Misses 8. E., E. F. and B. A. Purdy of Chicagoand Miss A. B. Sanger of Washington, D. C., are at the Palace. J. M. Engle of Salt Leke, who owns large areas of timber in Utah, with mills, and who has contracts for several million feet of lum- ber for railroad building in the Mormon State, is at the Russ. Alexander Begg, publisher of the British Columbia Mining Record, Victoria and Van- couver, B. C., is at the Baldwin. Mr. Begg was formerly one of the proprietors of the Seattle Daily Telegravh and also of the Victoria Daily News. He was for many years agent of the Hudson Bay Company at one of its northern- most posts in British America. Mr. Begg is here on & business tri; ——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 29.—At the West. minster—N. G. Robertson, K. D. Burns; Bar- tholdi—D. Drew; Imperial—C. E. Ames, C. P, Egan; Astor—W. A. Williams, W. P. Eichbaum; Murray Hill—Mrs. M. Fletcher Ryer; Grand Urion—H. B. and J. G. Reynolds; Metropoli- tan—E. J. BaldWin; Giisey—R, 8, Domrowitz; ‘Belvidere—S. Harrisand wife. Elwood C, J. ack- son left the Westminster to sail on the Ameri. can liner St. Paul for England, of Letters from the People. - Sitver Under Free Coinage. Some Fallacies of Silver Men Stated and Ewposed. [Editor San Francisco Call—DEAR Str: Will you kindly expose the fallacious statement made by the Examiner in its editorial of Sunday, end which it reiterates, in nearly the samo language everyday, namely: That “‘the people of the United States sgree to take silverat $1 29 per ounce.” The veople of the United States have made no such offer. What does the Examiner mean by “taking silverat $1 29 per ounce”? Taking implies giving something in exchange. No offer of anything else is proposed to be made; only to give back to the silver-owner his metal coined into dollars. That is not taking his rilver. I don’t think the people of the United States want to give their gold or labor or prod- uets for silver at twice its present actusal value. The Examiner instances Rockefeller offering 25 cents per dozen for all the eggs in the country, but fails to point out the difference between his paying money for the eggs and the United States simply returning_the silver bullion to its owner stamped into dollars, the value of which is an undetermined quantity. It is by such juggling with words and sophis- try that the kxaminer befuddles and bemud- dles many a reader. It continually haros on the statement that at the utmost only about $200,000,000 worth of silver buliion could be thrown on our mar- ket. Iadmit that the silver token money-in use among nations thatare on the gold basis would not flow in_on us except, perhaps, in cases like that of France and Germany, whose banks hold a large and idle reserve of such coin; butl contend that all the rest of the world would stand ready to exchange its sil- ver for our gold or products if we stood ready to make such exchange as the Examiner wants to insinuate and make its readers be- lieve, paying for such silver at twice its com- mercial vaiue. The world would be ready to accommodate us even ii silver under free coinage would advance to $1 25 per ounce. Would you kindly furnish iu your vaiued paper an”estimate of what amount of silver would likely be thrown in upon us, allowing for argument’s sake the ridiculous proposition that we could edyance the bullion value to $1 25 per ounce? Yours respectiully, L H. MAYER [The approximate amount of silver in the world is reported to be worth about $4,000,- 000,000. The output for 1895 is given by the Mint Bureau at 174,796,875 ounces, having a coinage value of about $226,000,0 If the price rises to$1 25 per ounce measured by gold the output would largely increase. How much would come to this country under the conditions named cannotbe calculated with any degree of accuracy. Enough would cer- tainly be sent to us to reduce the price here to the lavel of thatin other parts of the world less the ficight required to ship it here. Whether that amount would be large or small is of little moment since in either case it would be enough to derreciaw our currency to the basis of the price of silver in the market of the world.—EDITOR CALL.] . GLACE Pineapple, 50c¢ 1b. 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