The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 12, 1896, Page 6

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BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomeary street, corner Clay; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 718 Latkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. &W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streels; opew until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 8 o'clock. 116 Minih street; open until 8 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. | ¥FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM EcKINLEY, of Obio ¥OR VICF-PRESIDENT- GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 1896, Republican harmony wins. You can have better times if yon work for them and vote for them. Get into line for Charles L. Taylor and count one for party harmony. Demoralized Democrats have no hope except in Republican dissensions. Loyal Republicans will vote for Colonel Taylor and the party organization. ‘What kiud of a President do you think the boy orator would make anyhow ? Ce——— Get behind the woman suffrage move- | ment and push it along. It is a good thing, This campaign affords American labor an opportunity to get even with the free- traders, Don’t forget that Republican success in California depends largely on Republican unity in San Francisco. e The only sure way to avoid Catorism in the Senate is to elect Republican legis- | lators, and don’t you forget it. By the time the canvass is over that single speech of Bryan’s will be about as | threadbare as any other oid thing. RSins. o From this time on the campaign should be pressed with vim and vigor, and every Repubiican is counted on to do his share. ‘When the mills are running and money circulates, Bryanism will be forgotten along with the other misfortunes of the hard times. The campaign of education needs no other text book than McKiniey's speeches, and fortunately these are being read by the people every day. Before we can have a general prosperity ‘we must cease to pay foreigoers for manu- tacturing our raw material and set our own people to work at it. It is a safe thing to challenge any Demo- cratic orator or organ to name a single American industry that was benefited by the repeal of the McKinley tariff. All the great Republican orators, Har- rison, Reed, Sherman, Allison, Foraker, Depew, Thurston and Ingersoll are on the stump, but where are the Democrats? Benator Teller is reported to be so hoarse he cannot speak apove a whisper, and 1t is safe to say that what he whispers will never be given out for publication, A country whose industries are prostrate under & low tariff cannot afford to elect to Congress any man who is not known to be in favor of uplifting them by the en- actment of a high tariff. ‘We can never have a good municipal government unless the people are wise enough to indorse the actions of capable and honest officials, and Colonel Taylor’s official record deserves the indorsement of every good citizen. Never in the history of S8an Francisco ‘was there a better opportunity for a com- plete Republican victory than is afforded by the Democratic demoralization this year, A united Republican vote would make a clean sweep of all the bosses, The British are hoping that California shipments of wheat to India will lower the price, while we are Loping the Indian de- mand will raise the price, and thus while the free-traders tell usthe interests of Eng- land and America are one they never seem to work that way. All signs point to the conclusion that the Popocrat managers have abandoned the hope of electing Bryan and are now directing their efforts to the election of legislators who will vote for Papocrat Benators. This part of the fight must be watched closely by Republicans, for there is danger 1n it. “We are a nation of working people,” #ays McKinley, “We recognize no caste, or class, or rank, and will tolerate none beneath this flag.”” The true Americanism of that sentiment contrasts brightly against the dark appeals of Bryan to class prejudice, and the hearts of the people will not fail to respond to it. Old-time Democrats who are concerned in the preservation of their organization in California are beginning to see that they are interested in the defeat of the Bryanistic fusion now being urged in this Btate. If the fusion wins the Populists ‘will be the party of the future in Califor- nia, and only sbe old guard, known as the National Democratic party, or sound- money men, will have any standing as the representatives of the Democratic party. THE MIGHTY FALLEN. How are the mighty fallen! Henry George, the author of *Progress and Poverty,” at one time the nvolitical economist of the poor, the most promi- nent writer upon the rights and wrongs of labor on this side the Atlantic, the popular and almost success- ful candidate for the office of Mayor of the city of New York; Henry George, who ten years ago seemed to have secured a permanent niche in the temple of literary fame, is now content to be the traveling figure faker of the Bryan aggregation. How have the mighty fallen! It is, indeed, a subject for sadness to see a man like Henry George descend to be for hire the lightning calculator of a polit- ical campaign and in that capacity to use his talents in juggling statistics, so as to mired and trusted him. Yet that is his | exact position and attitude with reference to the coming election. He is reported to | be traveling through the Northern and Middle States coilecting dats for the pur- | poseof proving the certainty of Bryan’s victory. He is sending out bulletins con- | taining these gathered statistics, with his deductions therefrom. No one living knows better than Henry George that his figures furnish no warrant for his conciu- sions and that his deduc tions are as full of sophistry as an egg is of meai. Take for example his calculation as to the probable vote in Michigan. He cites statistics vo show that in the last Pres.- dential election the Republicans cast | 222708 votes, the Democrats 202,296 votes, | the Populists 19,892 votes and the Prohi- bitionists 14,069 votes. He then calculates that a combination of all the other ele- ments against the Republicans would give the combine a majority of the votes. After this quite simple bit_of arithmetic Mr. | George calmly proceeds to advise us that | this combination *4s now assured,” and | that, of course, Mr. Bryan will carry | Michigan. | There are so many elements omitted | from Mr. George's estimate of the Michi- gan result as to make it hardly possible that he failed to observe and consider them. In the first place, a union of the Democratic and Prohibition vote is almost n impossibility in any Western State, It quite unnecessary to recount the rea- | sons for this. In the next place, no ra- | tional or impartial statistician believes | that fusion between Democrats and Popu- | lists wili result in holding to the com- bination the full past vote of both. This also requires no demonstration to the minds of reflecting men. In the third place the vote of 1892 is of very little value in an estimate of the vote of 1896, especially when the Democrats upon the money 1ssue | are taking the opposite view to that taken four years ago. They then ran an ac- knowledged gold advocate and an open and avowed enemy of silver for President and they elected him. Does not Henry George know better than to argue that the same vote may be counted upon to elect | Bryan this year? To ciaim that gold Dem- | ocrats are few in Michigan, or in fact any- where else, is to argue against a stone wall of contradicting facts which even a polit- ical sophist such as Henry George has be- | come should hardiy dare to attempt. The transfer of Mr. George’s addition mill over into Illinois has not lessened the obvious fallacies it is engaged io grind out, He ignores tae existence of Palmer, and, taking Altgeld as his authority, predicts that Bryan will carry Iilinois. This latest bit of provhecy destroys | Henry George’s reputation for either inde- | pendence or accuracy in the field of poli- tics, and his own words write him down | as nothing more than a political hack en- | gaged to travel at the tail of Bryan’s pro- cession scattering deiusive sophistries, and depending on his past record a a reasoner to haye them believed, It isa pity Mr, George was not sent into New England prior to the Maine and Ver- mont elections. If he had been, Bryan would have carried those States by the same simple process of reasoning that he is now assured of Michigan and Illinois. « It is @ historical fact that when the Republican administration went out we were in a time of great prosperity; the country was prosperous to an extent that never before had been attained. 1t is historieally true that sincs the Demo- cratic policy has been brought in the pinnacle of prosperity to the very depths of business depression and distress. Republicans, the remedy we propose Is that a harmonious, well-adjusted, reve- nue-produciug and protec:ive tariff shall be substituted; that the revenues of the Government shall be made adequate to its expenditures.—Benjamin Harrison. NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. The address of Major McKinley to adel- egation from Pennsylvania on Thursday should be read by all people who bave any doubts or fears as to the outcome of the present crisis in our politics, * Like his great Republican predecessor, Abraham Lincoln, McKinley has an unshaken con- fidence in the morality and wisdom of the people of the United States, That confi- dence was clearly expressed in his speech, and cannnt fail to carry an equal confi- dence to the hearts of all who for any rea- son may be led to fear the result of the present contest. Mr. McKinley did not overlook the fact that demagogues exist in the country who are trying to inculcate doctrines of dis- trust and dismay among the unemployed and endeavoring toexcite the passions and prejudices of those who are already dis- contented and envious of their more pros- perous neighbors. At the same time, how- ever, he called attention to the fact that the great mass of the people have shown no undue excitement; but,on the con- trary, have given ample evidence of a de- termination to maintamn thé laws of the country, the honor of the Republic and its commercial and industrial prosperity. As he sgia: “There need be no alarm, there need be no excitement, there need be no abuse or exaggeration, for all those false doctrines and unworthy influences will not prevail with the free, the inde~ pendent and the intelligent citizens of the United States. The great majority of our people are religiously devotea to law and order, the public peace and public tran- quillity. They love their homes and their wives and their families too well to stand by any policy that will lead to public dis- order and disregard of law.” -There can be no doubt of the correctness of this estimate of the American National character. We are a law-abiding people. Demagogues may create temporary dis- turbances here and there, but thev cannot affect the whole body of the American people. Every intelligent American knows that no favored classes or privileged castes exist in this country. Under our laws all men are equal. Our industries, under 8 proper protective system, afford opportu. nities for every man to acquire at leas$ a comfortable and -sustained home, These opportunities we will not destroy by following the wild counsels of dema- gogues. ‘We have bad some. experience in the last three years with the results of | trusting the promises of agifators and | mislead the minds of those who havead- | country has gone step by step from its | As | vam dreamers. That experience has taught a lesson which all sane men have heeded. Itisnow well known that pro tection is necessary to the welfare of the country, and no industrious citizen will vote for the Bryanites, who, in addition to destroying the sound system of protec- tion, are also seeking to destroy the sound system of good money and the funda- mental laws of the Republic. In 1861 I went into the service of my country, because I felt that I must go. In 1596 I enlist again from the same impulse, the same impelling sense of duty. Among college men, whether in faculty or student raunks, the sentiment is praotica'ly universal in favor of sound currency, proper government and National honor. Of all the men I know or have heard of in Brown, Yale, Har- vard, Corunell and the other colleges of the country, East and West, there is only one man who is for free-silver coinage.—Professor Alonzo Williams of Brown University. 3 GOOD TIMES AHEAD. According to Bradstreet’s report the general outlook is for an improved de- mand in all lines of business after the election. Trade improvements are al- ready reported in many cities, particularly in the South, where the activity in the cotton market has been felt generally in other lines of trade. Dun & Co. make similar reports. They declare that ‘‘dis- tinctly better conditions of trade have ap- peared of late, and are reflected in the somewhat larger employment of labor, in larger transactions, and in continued buy- ing of materials for manufacture.” One of the most notable evidences of the coming improvement 1n American trade conditions is to be found in the enlarged demand fcr wheat. Biadstreet & Co. re- port: The total exports of wheat for the week ameunt to 4,050,772 busaels, arainst 4,215,000 bushe!s last week, 2,224,000} bushels in the first week for October, 1805; 8,317,000 bushels in 1894. 2,362,000 bushels in 1893 and 8,625,000 busheis in the corre- i week of 1892. addition to the improved prices brought about by this increased demand the wheat outlook is further brightened by prospects of an enlarged crop in this | country. The Goverument estimate of 400,000,00¢ bushels, it is said, is below the true figure. Bradstreet estimates the do- mestic yield will be iully 500,000,000 bush- els. Dun & Co., while not giving figures, agree that the,official accounts are not ac- curate, and that the yield will be much greater than was supposed. There is reason for believing that the increase in this country wiil go far to make up the shortage of the crop in Russia, India, the Argentine and in Australia. In any case, the American farmer has certainly a bet- ter outlook before him this year than for many years past. With this 1maproved outlook for the agricultural interests there is also an im- vroved outlook for manufacturers in the growing certainty of the eiection of Mc- Kinley "and the return to the country cf the protective system. Unless some ex- traordinary and unforeseen change occurs the people of this countrv may look for- ward to an immediate revival of trade and industryafter the election. All the great trade journals of the countrv are agreed in that. To make prosperity sure, there- fore, nothing meore is needed than that the people should work together to briag it ebout by the accomplishment of an overwhelming Republican victory in No- vember. The American people have always successfully met every peril which has assailed the honor or the iategrity of the Nation, and they will meet the crisis of 1896 as they met the crisls of 1861. Now, as then, the grand old party to which we belong is in the forefront of the fight, but now, as thsu, it is aided by the loyal and patriotic Democrats, who prefer their country to pirty regularity. In 1861 we met the crisis successfully with the sword ; in 1896, uader the leadership of Mc- Kinley and Hoba:t, we will meet it successfully with the ballot.—General B. F. Tracy. AN UNWISE AGITATION. The persistent effort of Mr. Bryan and his Eastern imitators to arouse class an- tagonisms in our country and to array the poor against those of better fortune, for political -ends, is to be deprecated and ought to fail. They know full well that these distinc- tions and hostilities do not by nature exist. The thinking and common-sense people of the country also know that be- tween themselves and their neighbors dwells no such sordid and selfish feeling as the Bryanites describe. The whole of this passionate assertion of hatred be- tween masses and classes is nothing more or less than an attempt to ride into office upon the saddle of prejudice and un- truth, It was to be boped that our local Demo- 4 cratic orators who have been reluctantly dragged into the campaign would abstain f:om this sort of demagoguy and argue for Bryan’s election upon other lines. It is a matter of regret that some of them at least have not done so. At the meeting in Metropolitan Temple on last Saturday evening such expressions as ‘‘beasts of burden’ and ‘*‘birds of prey' were in- dalged in for no other apparent reason than that they sounded well in a Demo- cratic speech. The gentleman who made use of this oratorical nonsense had better do a little thinking before he delivers a speech con- taining sucb sentences in the city which he isdoubtless proud to cail his bome, lest some one in his audience may call upon him to point out from among his clients, friends and neizhbors who are the “‘beasts of burden’ and which the “‘birdsof prey."” It is sometim id that we are op- posed to silver; that we are in favor of gold exclusively. On the eontrary, my countrymen, we have done, as a party, more for silver than any other party has ever done. It was tho Republican party that provided for the coinage of silver in 18Y8, and subsequently, in 1890, for the coinage of a greater num- ber. Between those years the Repub- lican party gave to the people more silver dollars than were ever coined— nearly fifty times as many silver dol- lars as were coined prior to that time. ‘We maintained them, too, at par with gold, and we are in favor of more of them, too, if we can maintain them at par with gold —Senator Sherman, COAST EXCHANGES, The Stockton Record, entering its fourth volume, announces that 1t is very much alive and tolerably healthful, its digestion never having been impaired by luxurious living, It has grownbig and lufluential through hard labor and brainy enterprise, and in spite of strong opposition. It certainly has ample rea- son to rejoice and “point with pride.” ‘The San Bernardino Silver Advocatesuspended publication for a few days last week, pending dino County, iike the rest of th® country, rolls up a large majority for protection and sound money, the Silver Advocate will probably blame this suspension as & rart of the cause of it all. At this time, however, it would appear that the free-silver cause would go to pieces luss rapidly if its advocates would do less talking. The Alameda Argus is to be congratulated on the evidence oi prosperity shown by it in putting up a building of its ownand providing itself with » new double-cylinder Hoe press and 10-horsepower engine. The capacity of the press will be 4000 eight-page papers per hour. The men who make the Argus possess that spirit and enterprise whieh is bound to win. Down near the line which divides California from Mexican terriiory the National City Record is perferming good service in the cause of patriotism. The paper has just celebrated its fifteenth birthday. It is iudependent in politics, but that fact does not hinder it from thinking the right way. It remarks (hat “some of the free-silver palaver sent us from silver headquarters is enough to make the American eagle seasick,” and opines that “‘the candidacy of Bryan on November 3 will look as it does to-day when seen through the ‘wrong end of a telescope.” Entering upon its twentieth year the Men- docino Beacon shines as brightly as ever. -So long as it continues to use the oil of good sense its light will never grow dim, and there is no probability of a change of oii, either. Sonoma County people are discussing the subject of the beet-sugar industry and will probably make a strong bid for one of the pro- posed new factories. Speaking on the mat- ter the Petaluma Argus says: “We ought to know the varied soils of So- noms County and climatic conditions reason- ably well, and unhesitatingly express the con- vietion that there are thousands upon thousands of acres of land in Sonoma County ‘where the sugar beet can be grown with great profit. The corn and hop land of Russian River and Dry Creek valleys, as well as the broad acres of other fertile valleys, would pro- duce beets in great abundance. Even the coastwise potato land will produce the beet— not so large, probably, but possibly with an incresse of saccharine substance to compen- sate for the lack of ‘size. It is a matter well worth the intelligent consideration of our people, for every new industry we add to our agricultural resources but broadens and deep- eng the foundation of our industrial future. A beet-sugar factory anywhere in Sonoma County would prove beneficial to all, for it would afford a ready home market for farm products and employ lzborers the cost of whose subsistence would go into circulation among our people.” Walker Jones has succeeded George 0. Kin- ney as editor and proprietor of the Mountain View Register and promises many improve- ments. The Santa Cruz Peany Press is having a hard time of it. Phil Frances has just surrendered the paperto Carroli Carrington, an Oakland printer, and the latter is trying to blow it along with wind of the Bryanese variety. The experience mgy prove valuable, however. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Italy is about to lay down three battle-ships of an irproved Re Umberto ty pe of 13,000 tons. They will have somewhet thinner armor and & much hesvier secondery battery than the Re Umberto, Their speed is to be twenty knots under natural draught and twenty-two knots with forced draught, which latter is six knots more than tbe speed intended for the three battle-ships ebout to be built for the United States navy. The British Admiralty is negotiating for the construction of a large drydock at Singapore. The actual ses speed of some of the British war véssels of recent Construetion has come quite up to expectations. The Latona, 3400 tons, on her first cruise steamed twenty-four hours between Gibraltar and Malta at seven- teen knots. ' The Sirius, of the same class, but wood and copper-shesathed, after three years on the South American station, with no op- portunity of docking or cleaning her bottom, made 18.2 knots on her passage to England. The Royal Arthur made the trip from Co- quimbo to Cailao, 1350 miles, in about three days, at an average speed of 194 knots. Canet, the French gun manufacturer, is turning out 9.4-inch quick-firing guns and the Elswicks Naval Arm ment Company has alrendy placed several 8-inch quick-firing guns on South Ameriean cruisers. This is equasl to quadrupling the batteries of vessels which hitherto carried ordinary rified guns of 9.4 and 8-inch caliber, and one important sd- vantage gained is that it saves from forty to sixty tons weight in ordnance on each ship. The French naval maneuvers last July were, on the whole, a repetition of former experi- ences. The personnel was all that could be desired, but several of the cruisers broke down through machinery defects and the armored ships lacked the speed ana coal endurance which had been claimed for them. The British cruiser Talbot, 5600 tons, built at the Devonport dockyards, has been com- pleted at a cost of $1,369,280, or $70,515 less than the original estimate. In & trial of five French torpedo-boats in the Mediterranean to ascertain their comparative speeds, only one, the Filibuster, reached 213§ knots, two did not come up to 20 knots, and two were crippled through accidents to the boilers. The Filibuster is credited with a trial speed of 2314 and the others were rated at 23 knots, from which it would appeat that there is & very wide margin between anticipation and realization. In the first place, two out of the five are placed hors de combat, while the other three boats made only 6134 knots coliec- tively instead 0f 115.5 knots, a8 was expected. The war in Africa has caused a lack of funds in the Italian Navy Department and the le of the new cruiser Garibaldi to Argentina was almost a necessity., It was contemplated to sell another cruiser, but popular opposition prevented the sale. Work in the government yards remeained almost suspended for three months and it is only quite recently that projects for new ships are seriously enter- tained. The five new battle-ships for the British navy..of 13,000 tons displacement, upon which work is ready to begin, are to be named: Canopus, Goliath, Albion, Glory and Ocean. Each ship will carry sixteen boats, of which two are large steam launches. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. The advance in wheat makes an awtul mess of the theory that the geld standard has caused the fall in prices.~—St. Louis Giobe-Dem- ocrat, 3 When Mr. Bryan declares he “will drive every trust out of existence” he doesn’t mean, of course, that he wiil disturb the silver trust. —Kansas City Journal. At the rate Mr. Bryan's tongue is going it will have to begin to slow down in a couple ot weeks 50 as to come to a full stop on elegtion day.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. After all, the great question is and will be the tariff. The minute McKinley is elected the whole country will take up the query: “What kind of & tariff will McKinley enact?” —Wichita Eagle. This garbling of the letter of Bismarck is a fair sample of the rascality which the desper- ate dupes of the silver-mine owners are resort- ing to in order to deceive the American peo- ple.—Indianapolis Journal. ; The defeat of Bryan, which now seems virtn- ally assured, will undoubtedly mark the be- ginning of a new era of prosperity, the benefits of which all the people will share in common with the workingmen and farmers.—Philadel- phia Ledger. The significant news comes from Cincinnati that the Popocrats have given nT‘ their can- 'vass in Ohio, and that no more public speakers will be heard in that State nader the auspices of‘the Popocrati¢ National committee.—Phila- deiphia Record. The Btates in which Bryan expects his big- gest majorities are remarkable es those in which the most meager provision is meade for public education. He is sure of Georgia, Out ©of 660,000 children in that State only about the installation of a mew cylinder pressand |one-half attend school.—St. Paul Pioneer- power-plant in its ofice, When San bernag- | Press. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “Genersl Ben Butterworth insulted me just now,” said his old-iriend P. B. Armstrong yes- terday as he began a careful imspection of his own signature on the register at the Palace Hotel. ‘“Now, by golly, I don’t see anything the matter with that writing, do you? Well, I got here only & few minutes ago and wrote my name on & card and sent it right up to Butterworth, and he sends down word that he can’t read the name. That reminds me of the story they used to tell in Washington on Bill Travers, the well- known story-teller. Bill was so darned hcmely that the fellows in his club had presented him with a cane that he was always to keep and carry until he met a homelier man than himself. Bill used to stutter. He thowed up at the club one day without the cane and every one asked for an explanaton. I—I wa—was wa—walking dow—down town,’ he began, ‘and by—by Gor—George I—I met my— my son Bill fa—face to fa—face, and I—I ga— gave hi—him the cane.’ “All T can say 1s thatif people think that signature of mine is illegible they ought to see the hand writing of my son Clarence.” Mr. Armstrong is a large fruit-grower of Aumwnd his son Clarence is a graduate of the Beseley Military School of New York and was football coach 1ast year of the Woodbridge £chool, but is now iuterested with his father in an extensive truit shipping business. Lodl and Acampo together are now shipping East five carlonds of grapes a dayand thatis half the export of the whole State for the present season. *“We have,” remarktd the elder Arm- strong, “the grape and peach crop of the State this year about Lodi and Acampo and I believe that I have the largest almond crop in the State.” “The Hawailan Islands have all kinds of inseét pests,” said C. M. Heintz yesterday, the proprietor of the Rural Californian. “There are numerous varleties of scalebugs that are unknown yet to California. 1 have just re- turned from the islands. I went down there especially to study the pest question. All ovér the isiands I found the Japanese beetle, a native of Japan and the most destructive in- scct past known, It eats the leaves off shrubs and large trees alike and has already almost exterminated the wild rose peculiar to the islands, “This beetle is a little larger round than a lead pencil, about half an inch in length, and light brown. Fortunately it has not got into California yet; and prineipally be cause of the vrecautions taken at San Franeisco by Quar- antine Agent Professor Craw, who has been instrumental in keeping out other Hawaiian insect pests. Hereafter every shrub and fern imported from the islands will- be fumigated by Mr. Morse, the commissioner. Professor Koeberle has discovered some new ladybugs destructive to scales, but it will take two years of active work to clear the treee about Honolulu of scales. The sulphur tumigating process will keep the beetles from touching the leaves, and the eyanide process of fumigaiion is destruc- tive to scales. *There are thousands of acres of idle land in’ Hawali open for cultivation and purchssable &t $25 anacre. Oranges can be grown on that land to perfection. There are no high-grade oranges or lemons grown on the islands yet. Peaches, apricots, pears and apples are en- tirely unknown, except for a few on the island of Hawaii. All the fruit is imported from Cal- iforuia. For instance, Isaw ahead of cauli- flower sell for 25 cents, two tomatoes for 5 cents, three pears for 25 cents, and & basket of apples for $2 50, and scarce at that. It seems to e that there is money to be made in grow- ing fine oranges on that cheap land. “Itis a question of the e¢offee industry will be & success, as the soil of some plantations is not adapted 1o coffee. On the other hand there are a few plantations on the islands where absolutely the finest coffee in the world is raised, coffee that easily brings 25 cents a pound. I wassurprised to learn that with the exception of the mullit, the fish of the islands are poisonous. They import fish from Califor- nia. The isianders do not understand the cul- tivation of the potato.” PER.ONAL. Ex-Judge 8. F. Geil of Salinas is at the Occ dental. % Dr. George W. Seifert of San Jose is registered at the Palace. J. F. Robison of Grass Valley is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. F. Bausman, a lawyer of Seattle, arrived at ihe Palace yesterday. Congressman Grove L. Johnson of Sacra- mento is at LLe Palace, W. 8. N. Miller, & Denver mining man, isa guest at the Occidental, J. B. Cook, proprietor of the water works at Colusa, isa guest of the Russ. Mayor Frank Rader of Los Angeles is among the late arrivals at the Palace. Congressman J. L. Barham of Red Bluff registered at the Grand vesterday. Mark R, Plaisted of the Riverside Daily En- terprise is visiting at the California. George W. Fogg end Ben Sheeks, attorneys of Tacoma, Wash., are guests at the Palace. Axel Lagergren, inspector of agencies of the Cunard Steamship Company, is at the Palace. Carl Schmidt, & hardware manufacturer of New York City, 1s a late arrival at the Palace. H. B. Glasscock, lessee of the Sentinel Hotel, Yosemite Valley, arrived at the Occidental yesterday. J. F. Rooney of Sonora, ex-Superior Judge of Tuolumne County and mining man and law- yer, is at the Oceidental. C. J. F. Schoenfeldt, an old Californian, ar- rived from Alaska yesterday on the steamer Bertha and is staying at the Cosmopolitan. Among the arrivals at the Palace yesierday were D. B. Fearing and wife of Newport, R. L Mr. Fearing is a light in Newport swelidom. Jose Mcllevaine, a large contractor and rail- road builder of Guatemala, 100k a room yester- day at the Occidental and registered from St. Paul. J. F. Hawley, a wealthy plantation owner of Guatemals, is at the Occidental with his wife. They arrived here yesterday from Central America. W. B. Wilshire, a wealthy young clubman of Covington, Ky., arrived at the Palace yester- day with his wife after completing a pleasant tour of the southern part of the State. Among yesterday’s arrivals at the Russ were Victor Peterson, J. J. Waldron and G. D. Nedry, miners from the Yukon gold districts of Algska. They came down from the mouth of the Yukon on the steamer Bertha. Mrs, Nettie Coke, the Fresno lawyer, arrived at the Grand yesterday on her way to Johan- *| nesburg, South Africa, where she will open a law office. She will leave here on the Mari- posa and visit Honolulu, New Zealand snd Australis on the way to her destination. MR. BRYAN IS RESPONSIBLE. New York Press. . If ever a man deserved crushing defeat, as a punishment to himself and a warning to others like him, it is William J. Bryan. Said Mr. Bryan in his Cincinnati speech on Friday: “Wherever you have the gold standard you have stsgnation in business and men outof work." We had the gold standard in the McKinley tariff years, Mr. Bryan. Then every mill and factory in this country was busy, Then wages went up in all manufacturing industries. Then the wage-earners had so much more ‘money to spend that in 1892 they were able to pay for and consume 70,000,000 more bushels of wheat tban in 1895, though the tmel-mm of the country was 5,000,000 less than it now is. In the McKinley years the farmer wasable to nlt)m crops, getting ‘fold-n-nand ney for them and yin"o his debts with if, dollar for doliar, and buying what he wanted, dollar for doilar. We had the gold standard from 1 to 1892, and in that time wages aavanced in the manufacturing industries exactly 50 per cent. 1In the trades during the same period wages M}’vunoed 25 ver cent for two hours’ less work aday. Weyhnd the gold standard from March, 1881, to March, 1893, and in that time under pro- tective tariff laws the Government's interest- bearing debt was reduced from $1,660,935,000 w‘zfiu.om. 260. 4‘ hen the present freditrade administration came into power and when the free-trade Wil- son law was passed we had “stagnation in business and men out of work.” We had a miilion men out of'employment, and the wage payments of tne country diminished by more than $300,000,000 a vear. We had the value of the farmer's livestock reduced enormously— the value of our sheep alone was cut in hal: from $125,000,000 to $65,000,000; his cropsswitnout a market, because the wage- earners could not buy what they formerly had consumed, and mortgage payments stopped. ‘We had four issues of bonds, which, flnc% and interest, will cost the people ,000, to pay off. e had a constant treasury defi- ciency, because our expenditures vastly ex- ceeded our revenues. We had all this debt, poverty and misery, Mr. Bryan, because of the Wilson law. You yoted for that bill. Asa member of the Ways and Means Committee you helped to frame it. You urged even heavier reauctions in the tariff than were made. o And because you know, Mr. Bryan, that it was this monstrous Wilson law that brought ruin to the country, you are afraid to discuss the tariff. You takea coward’s refuge behind the money issue. It was you and the Wilson law, Mr. Bryan, which brought ‘‘stagnation in business and men out of work.” You, as much ss Grover Cleveland and Professor Wil- son, are responsible, and the people of the TUntted States will exact the penalty from you on clection day—the penalty of a defeat that will be & shame and a disgrace to you. ————— THE SILVER TRUST. What Some of the Newspapers Have to Say of the Great Combine. The production of silver in the United States last year wes 55,727,000 ounees. At its pres- ent price that annual output is worth $36,768,- 882. Under free coinage the vaiue of tnis out- put would be increased fo $71,887,830, mak- ing an additional profit fo silver miners over and above that they now realize of $35,118- 848, which they will not receive unless Mr. Bryan jselected. Where is there another trust or combine that could be so largely benefited by National legislation?—Washington Times. The campaign of this year has become & con- test between the concentrated money power of asingle great industry and the diversified interests of the Nation. If the sugar trustor the Standard Oil Company had gained control of a great political party, named its canai- dates and written its platform and was con- ducting a campaign with an eye single to en- riching itself, regardless of the sufierings that might be brought upon the coun try, the situ- ation would not be different from what it is now when the silver trust has done this very thing.—Buffalo Express. 2 As the result of this AMemn’s) circular 8 Bryan campaign finanfial commitiee, to have charge of the collection of these funds, has been appoiuted. The names which have been announced are those of silver barons worth #fom $1,000,000 to £50,000,000. And yet their candidate goes up and down the couniry lF%elXing o the poor to take sides against the rich, when a few hundred very rich men snd a few thousand men who dre waiting to specn- late in silver stocks are the only ones 0f70,- 000,000 people who will be benefited by the free coinage of silver. There never wassuch & conspiracy of milllonaires agaiust the best in- terests of the whols country.—Indianapolis Journal. 'W. R. Hearst, owner of the New York Jour- nal, the iree-silver organ of the East, is one of the beaviest contributors to the Bryan Cam- palgn fund. He is vice-president of the On- tario mine in Utah, 8 mine which, according 1o Judge Colburn, one of Utah’s delegates to the opening ceremonies oi the New York Min. ing Exchange, February 16, has paid 197 suc- cessive monthly diviaends, aggregating $13.- ,000. Mr, Hearst, as owner of one-third of the stock, has been drawing a yearly income irom his mine of about $274,376. Under the silver purchase acts the siiver mine syndicate has already compelled the Government to pay about £146,000,000 as a tribute 1o the silver trust, that amount being the profit pocketed by the owners of the bullion purchesed by the Government. Ii elected can Mr. Bryan ignore this powerful trust which is staking its future existence upon the success of the Popocrat ticket ?—Chicago Times-Herald. The letter published vesterday of Thomas G. Merrill, secretary of the Bimeiallic Leagne oi the Silver States, and confirmed and further exgluned in our special dispatch from Balt Lake City to-day, is 2n exiraordinary docu- ment in many ways. Itisespecially so in its candor, Mr. Merrill proposes without & biush that the silver-mine owners shall contribute one month’s profits and buy the Presidency of the United States as a 'speculution. With all the calm assurance of & promoter Ofl’erlnf . new trust stock he expiains to the silver-mine owners that this will be an unusually good in- vestment. It will enable them, he says, to couvert their bullion into legai-tender coin at $1 29 perounce, thus giving them aclear profit of 64 cents an ounce in addition to the profits they make now. That is to say, he shows them that by contributing a month’s profits each they can probably buy the exclusive privilege of furnishing money to this country and com- pelling the people to give them $1 for every 51 cents’ worth of silver they produce.~New York World. Those who are asking the enactment of legls- lation intended to give & berter market and more dividends to the silver miners must have a stroug belief in the long-suffering patience. of the American people. To placate these miners we have aiready passed two silver laws, under the operation of which we have d the miners $464,000,000 for silver bul- jon that at last sccounts was worth only $318,000,000. That means, as may readily be seen, an uitimate loss of $2 for every man, woman and chi.d in the United States, and it has been incurred for the benefit of nobody except the silver miners. Under the free coin- age now proposed such losses would increas- ingly continue at the expense of the poor as well as the rich, ali of whom would be forced to contribute for the benefit of those producers of bullion who have aiready made & great deal of money out of us.—Providence Journal. HOW THE FARMERS FEEL, Kesult of a Straw Vote Taken at Sacra- mento the Other Day. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: During the session of the State Grange at Sac- ramento last week there was considerable said about politics among the members after they got out on the street. On Thursday Cyrus Jones, a8 member of the S8an Jose Grange, took a straw vote of the members as they came out of the Grangers’ hall, the result being as %olllb;l: McKinley, 41; Bryan, 20; doubt- ul, 2. The Master of the State Grange, W. W. Greer, has a McKinley button on his coat. and re- marked that he 1s proud to wear the button in the Grange or out of it, for the members do not talk politics while in session. W.H. M, QUEER ELE.TION BETS. Another novel bet has been made in Phila- delphis. The loser is to resign his present position and for a year take up one in an en- tirely different branch of industry. Two young men of Philadelphia have been paying very marked attention to the same young lady. They have decided to let the elec- tion settle matters for them. If the Democrat wins the Republican is to stop calling on the young lady for six months, and vice versa. A wager was drawn up at St. Jobn, Kans., the other day as follows: *“W. Glasscock and C. Burnett make an agreement this day, that if McKinley is defeated Glasscock istoeata large, warty toad, but if he is elected Burnett is to eat the toad.” A novel bet was made last week by S. C. Frost and J. L. Fuller of Shoshone, Idaho, Frost has 600 tons of hay cut and stacked. Fuller is to pay Frost $6 per ton for said hay if Bryan is elected President, ana should Me~ Kinley be elected Fuller gets the hay for noth- ing, Under the requirements of an electién bet Druggist Krautzman of Sedalia, Neb., will saw and split a cord of wood in front of his store in the event of Bryan’s success, whereas Me- Kinley's victory will call for like exercise on the partof V. R. Hall, the other party to the ‘Wager. WHY BRYANISM IS CONDEMNED Salinas Owl, The Bryanites may talk free silver all they please and tell the honest farmer to procure his sack for the bright dollars to come, but they can’t pull the wool over the sheepmen’s eyes this year or make the sugar-beet raisers beileve that the country has flourished better since they were paid a than ‘when they were .yemn!‘ £5. 90, forhesha | BEET-GROWERS FOR McKINLFY. Watsonville Pajaronian, The beet-growers of the Pajaro, Salinasand San Juan '(.uu:" will lose $120,000 this year because of the repeal of the MeKinley act. That 18 & big lot pca! mom";I enfin o‘y it edged, prosperous year, and these times it 18 & great big lot. o THREE NOMINA1IONS—ONLY ONE PARTY New York Sun. First, a pseudo-Democratic nomination. Promptly accepted. Next, a so-called Silver party. nomination. accepted. Lastly, the nomination of the Populists. Also gratefully sccepted, with the truthiul re mark fln:l nothing in the Chicago platform revents the accepiance. y’l‘hernhnolhin’g’. Pseudo-Democrat, Silver- ite, Populist, it is all the same thlug. There 1s only one party running William Jenuings Bryan for -?!“emdent. It is the great consoli- dated, united and aggregated party of dis- honesty and dishonor, aud its trebly chosen candidate was fashioned by the inscrutable :lnulum of providence expressly for this occa- n. AND 1HERE ARE OTHERS. Every day, for ten years or more, Joe Hawley's come down (o the grocery store, And ot on a barrel and argified tannin’ the poor man’s hide, the price of a decent meal, We're ground beneath caplial’s iron heel, We workin’ men don’t siand no show For an honest livin’, by Gosh!” says Joe. don’t know And he’ll sit all day and lay down the law, ‘And ofily stop to “borrer & chaw.” \ While his wiie at home, she takes in sewin’ Or goes out washin’ 10 keep things goin’ ¥or the onl§ work I ever saw- Joe Hawley do, was to work his jaw. —JOE LINCOLN in L. A. W. Bulletin. — NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. The better cigars some men smoke the longer they expect theiwr wives to wear the same dress.—Syracuse Post. “It’s a treat to meet a man like Soufley. “Yes; I have noticed that he always asks you to have something.”—Philadelphia North American, “So you went wheeling yesterday. Did you break the record?” #No; but I broke nearly everything else.”’— Detroit Free Press. Miss Biuestock—I tell you, man is but an earth-born worm. Julie—You couldn’t have been very lively as an early bird, my dear!—Truth. “That man Béasley is the mostrecklessly ex. travagant fellow I know.” ““What has Lie done?” “Botght an umbrella.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Why,” asked the sweet young thing, “why do they say that love is of the heart?"” “To show,” said the doleful bachelor, “to show thatthe brains have nothing to do with it,”—Indiapapolis Journal. Fond- Mother—How do you like your new governess, Johnny? Johnny—Oh, I like herever o much. “I'm so glad my litile boy has & nice teacher at last.” “Oh, she’s awful nice. She seys she don’t care whether I learn anything or not, so long 28 pop pays her salary.”—New York Weekly. Mrs, Nubbins—My husband is & perfect brute, Friend+-You amaze me. Mrs, Nubbins—Since the baby began teeth- ing, nothing would quiet the little angel but pulling his papa’s beard, and yesterday be went and had his beara shaved off.—London Tit-Bits. 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Little Daughter—What is your name, please? Caller—Just tell him it is his old friend Bill. Little Daugliter—Then I guess he ain’t at home. Iheard him tell mamma if sny bill came he wasn't at home.—Washington Times. e —— 'NEW TO-DAY. New desk. Came in last car from Grand Rapids, Oak or mahogany finish, $24. Do you know the beauty and charm and “home at- -mosphere” that’s about good furniture? You don't find it any place else. “Cheap” furni- ture hasn’t it. New furniture catalogue ready, Free. California Furniture Company (N. P. Corg & Co,) 107 Geary Street, -