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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 1896. 8 e eeme e R B A R e SATURDAY. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrie: Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by m! 300 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by 1. Daily snd Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CaLL, one year, by mal' WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacation? If 56, 1t 15 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your sddress. Do not it it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrler or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. ... ain—1868 EDITORIAL ROOM: 517 Clay Street. Telephone Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open untl) 9:80 o’clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. ROW BUSINESS MEN WILL VOTE. As the campaign has proceeaed it has become & matter of increasing certainly to the minds of impartial observers that the business men and business interests of California are with the Republican Na- tional ticket. The phrase ‘‘business men and business interests” does not embrace alone bankers and manufacturers or members of large corporations. It in- cludes also the merchants and the trades- men of the cities and towns of the State. A canvass of every section shows that a very large proportion of those who com- pose this class of voters will cast their bal- lots for the Republican electors on the 3d day of November, The reason for this is plain. No body of men understand better the needs of business and the conditions under which alone it can thrive than do the merchants, the tradesmen and the shop- keepers of a community. T1hese men are the intermediaries between the producer and the consumer. They buy of the former and sell to the latter all kinds of goods. The certainty of profit and the exact calculation of its amount is essen- tial to their continuance in trade. They buy and sell goods upon credit to & con- siderable extent, and as a rule the term of the credit upon which they sell exceeds that upon which they buy. This is true particularly as applied to the retail mer- chants of the interior towns, who must 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 8 o'clock. 116 Muth street; open until 8 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKIRLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 18%. P Things have begun to boom. The people know McKinley is coming. Business brightens as Bryanism fades. Restore the protective system ana busi- ness will be all right. If you vote for the welfare of your own industry you will vote right. Election day wiil be labor's opportunity to redeem itself from the free-trade blight. Modifying pledges is a very common Democratic trick. Don’t trust any of the gang. We cannot develop the resources of California unless we protect the industries of the people. Foreign goods are always dear goods when their importation leaves American labor unemployed. . The business sense of the country is against Bryan and aiter all that is the sense of the people. Bryan appeals toclasses while McKin- Jey speaks for the whole people. Can the classes outvote the people? This is the day to leave orders for THE SuxpAY CALL if you wish good reading tor 1o-morrow. Don’t forget it. Keepyour eve on the fight for the sena- torship. The Senate will hold the key of legiclation for the next four years. We may now expect to hear some Popo- crat orator challenze Tom Reed toa de- bate. Impudence is equal to almost any- thing. The Popocrats are hardly to be blamed for abandoning argument and taking to vituperation. It is certainly time for them to swear. The best instruction given in the cam- paign of education has been based on the lessons taught by experience during the last three years. There is still achance for David Bennett Hill to talk, but what he is looking for 18 a chance of re-election to the Senate and he cannot find it. Tom Watson’s throat is said to be so ulcerated he can’t talk. The poor fellow seems to have got it in the neck even ‘worse than was supposed. Wear a Mc ley button and declare yourself vigorously for sound money and protection. That is the way to help bring about a return to prosperity. It is the home market that sustains the producer and the workingman and who- ever votes against protection votes against the very means by which he lives. The way in which Bryan misrepresents those from whom he quotes is a fair illus- tration of the way in which he would misrepresent those from whom he solicits votes. B 0 T The Democrats who have modified their vledges to the Non-Partisans will modify their pledges to the people if they are elected. Theoniy safe course is to vote for Republicans and straight politics. The retirement of Tillman from the campaign is a sure sign thst while his pitchfork may have been useful enough in turning over the muck of a South Carolina barnyard it has not been found agreeable to the workers in the open field of politics. The Bryanites will try by every means in their power to defeat the election of Republicans to Congress and a Republi- can United States Senator. To accom- plish these results they have made trades and dickers of all kinds. It depends on the people to turn fusion into confusion and guard the industries of California against the free-traders. Bince the Democrats have cited Bis- marck as a guide in this campaign it may be just as well to remind them that in the prime of his intellect be said: *“Itis my deliberate judgment that the prosperity of America is mainly due to its system of protective laws.” On this ground Bis- marck urged Germany to adopt the pro- tective system. It will be noted that he has not urged Germany to try free silver independent of other commercial nations. Those Democratic candidates for the Legislature who after having made pledges to the Non-Partisans to get their nomina- tions have now seen fit to modify their pledges in order to get the support of the Democratic bosses are very good people for the voters to leave at home on election day. They need some time to meditate on their conduct and see what fools they have made of themselves in trying to be 100 smart, carry their customers from season to season and from the time the crops are planted until they are harvested and sold. These being the conditions under which merchants must conduct their business, it is clear that the money of the country, which is the medium of their trade, must have stability of value, in order that they may correctly estimate their prices and profits. They must know, for example, when they buy goods upon credit, that the value of those goods will not materially rise or fall by reason of a difference in the purchasing power of the money which they have agreed to pay. On the other hand, when they sell the same goods, they must be equally assured that the money which they will receive for the articles at the end of the term of credit which they have extended, will have the same value which it possessed when they bought the goods. Whenever, therefore, in a political campaign, the is- sue is presented to them as to which party promises to maintain stability in our country’s currency, its merchants will be found arrayed beneath the banner of the party which gives to them that pledge. There can be no question as to which party in the present contest is-assuring stability of value in our country’s cur- rency. It is the Republican party which gives that assurance. Itisthe Democratic and Populist parties which expressly re- fused to' do so, and unite in the declaration that they propose to destroy it. Itis for this reason that the merchants and trades- men of California are outspoken in their allegiance to the Republican party, and from the wholesale dealer in the largest cities to the retail storekeeper in its small- est village comes the assurance that this yearall are for McKinley. From such assur- ance springs the cheerful and well- founded prediction that California will go Republican by one of the largest major- ities cast for a candidate and a party dur- ing its history as a State. I am one of those who believe that it 1s the business of this country to make laws for the benefit of this country. I believe the business of this free Gov- ernment is to preserve the American market to the American producer, whether in the factory or the farm, and to preserve the American mines and the factories of the American workmen. We want enough tariff in this country put upon foreign goods that compete with ours to make up the difference between the wages paid to labor in Evrope and the wages paid to labor in the United States.—McKinloy. BRYAN THE GARBLER. One of the worst characteristics of Mr. Bryan’s nature is exposed by his persist- ent misrepresentation of the sentiments of his opponents. He has carried the prac- tice of garbling the speeches of noted men to an extent which no one would ever have believed a candidate for the Presi- dency could be guilty of. There has been ro limit to these misstatements, and not infrequently they have gone to the verge of what seems to be intentional falsehood. Scarcely any man of note in the country has escaped Mr. Bryan’s misrepresenta- tion. Every speech made in favor of bi- metallism in former years has been dis- torted by him to imply a support of silver monometallism, while speeches of a self- same tenor by the same men this year have been distorted to mean gold mono- metallism. Democrats like Mr. Carlisle, and Republicans in great number have been in this way accused of inconsistency and held up to the public as violators of their pledges and false to their convictions of right. ‘We have frequently called attention to these missiatements and have done all that can be done to head off what, for fault of a better term, may be justifiably called ‘“‘campaign lies.”” Asfast, however, as one misstatement is refuted anotber appears. The latest victim of this eystem | of misrepresentation is Colonel Robert | Ingersoll, who, -because he spoke for the remonetization of silver in the past and is now opposing the election of Mr. Bryan, has been charged by that boy orator with inconsistency and a violation of his record. Mr. Ingersoll himself has not been slow to answer the statements of Mr. Bryan. He calls attention to the fact that the charge of inconsistency is sus- tained ouly by quoting portions of his former speech, and not the whole of it. Like every other Repub- lican, he favored bimetallism and the largest possible use of silver as money. He never at any time advocated a silver dollar that could not be maintained at a parity with gold. In aspeech at Chicago he quoted from the speech of former years, to which Mr. Bryan has alluded, and showed that his position then is clearly consistent with his position now. He has been inconsistent no more than the whole Republican party has been inconsistent. The grand old party never favored silver monometallism and does not favor gold monometallism. It stands pledged to re- store the free coinage of silver by inter-~ national agreement, and on thnt‘pledge bas the support of the majority of the American people. ‘The question of personal inconsistency is not one of great public importance. A man who increases in learning from year to year, who grows in wisdom by ex- perience, or who has sense enough to change his views with the change of cir- cumstances must of necessity appear at times inconsistent in his course. No wise man condemns one who adopts a policy suited to the day, instead of sticking to a policy which was svited to yesterday. ‘What, however, shall we say of a candi- x date for the Presidency who, in an effort to fasten the silly charge of inconsistency against his opponent, resorts to the com- mon trick of garbling speeches and the lowest form of misrepresentation? The Republican party does not con- ceal its purposes; they are an open book. Everytning that the Republi- can party believed in when it has been in power it has written in public Jaw. it has no aim but the public good; it has ever stood on the side of the coun- try and the flag. Its great central idea has been the welfare of the people and all the people, and every principle that. it has ever advocated has embraced the highest good for the greatest num- ber of American citizens.—McKinley. THE WAY TO PROSPERITY. The address of Major McKinley on Thursday to the workingmen of Canton contains a complete statement of the whole issue 'before the people of the Unired States in this campaign, so far as that issue is confined to economic ques- tions. The address should be read by every workingman, for it concerns the in- terests and the welfare of thein all. Mr. McKinley reviewed the campaign of 1892, and called attention to the con- trast between the statements of Repub- lican and of Democratic orators at that time. The Democrats declared that if the McKinley tariff were overthrown and steps taken in the dirdction of free trade, the prosperity of the country would be largely increased, while the Republican speakers, and particularly McKinley him- self, warned the people that any weaken- ing of the protective system would resuit in a decrease in American wages and the loss of employment by thousands of American workingmen. In answer to the Democratic argument that if we baa free trade we can buy things more cheaply than under the protective system, Mr. McKinley said that thisclaim was true ecough, but that it told only half the story. Free trade would enable the foreigner to overthrow American competi- tion, and he would then de able to fix the price to suit himself. A few years of free trade would be sure toresultin high prices paid for foreign goods instead of low prices for home products. We have seen half of this prophecy fulfilled. The American mills have been closed. Another three years of the Gorman tariff would fulfill the rest. The prices of European goods are already rising. The cost of goods, however, is but half of the problem. The more important point is the eifect which free trade has upon the condition of the American peo- ple. As Mr. McKinley said: *Free trade cheapens the article by cheapening the artisan; protectucn reduces the price of a product by giving the artisan just reward for his labor and receiving its reward on higher skilled industry. ¥ree trade cheap- ens the product by cheapening the pro- ducer; protection cheapens the product through the skilled genius and industry of the producer.” In answer to the free-trade maxim, “Buy where you can buy the cheapest,” McKinley gave to the people of Canton the better maxim, “Buy where you can pay the easiest.’”” It is under a system of protection that affords employment to labor that the American workingman can most eagily pay for the articles which he needs to sustain his life. Labor receives 1ts highest rewards in America, and when the American market is duly protected labor can bere most easily pay for the comforts of life. We have had now three years’ experience with the Gormantariff, and every workingman knows what the efiect bas been upon him. The light of that experience illumines the way for him to walk in future, and there can certainly be no doubt as to which way he will vote if he is duly sensible of the lessons which bave been taught him by the hard times of the Democratic depression. It is a 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. It is historically true that since the Demo= cratic policy has been brought into legis- 1ation the country has gone step by step from this pinnacle of prosperity to the very depth of business depression and distress.—Benjamin Harrison. “THE SUNDAY OALL" To-morrow’s edition of Tre Cary will be the best Sunday newspaper published. west of Chicago. It will, not, perhaps, contain the greatest number of words nor the most columns of reading matter, but it will contain no fakes, no freaks, no Eastern syndicate matter, and what it does contain will be found te have been well written, conscientiously edited, attrac- tively aisplayed, handsomely and artisti- cally illustrated—and, what is perhaps more significant than all, the work of Cali- fornia men and women. There will be the news of the world, as usual, political, social and otherwise— every-otherwise, it may truthfully be said. All thatgoes to make upa good daily jour- nal—bold, streng, truthful editorials ex- pressing honest convietions sincerely lived up to; all the news impartially and faifly reported—coupled with all that goes to make up an attractive literary journal— this is THE SuNpay CALL; to-morrow's CALy, some of the more attractive features of which are announced as follows: An X-Ray Miracle in the Depth of the Earth. Some of the Human Oddities of the i Kearny-street *‘Crawl.”” What Election Cards Are Printed For and the Uses to Which Most of Them Are Put. Politics and Religion Combined by a Strange New Sect., Picturesque Views of an Ancient City. T e Wild Cariboo of the Yukon. Life in & Big City. A Cosvue Shower. The Wonderful Growth of a Niles Grape- vine. Sunshine at Night. Some of the Marvels of Nature in Coco- pah Land. The House That Jill Built. Pursued by the Fire Fiend. Pearls on the Floor of the Ocean. A Queer Lake and a Marked Indian. How a Blind Girl Printed a Library of Musie. . A Hat That Was Built by Satan. Canadian Border Surveys That Failed to Meet. Novelties for the young folks in “Child- hood’s Realm.” WiHiam Morris, Poet, Artist, Philos- opher, THE JEWELRY OF CONSISTENCY. Placerville Sugget. What puzzles the Nugget is this. The Popu- lists repudiate Cator in most individual in. stances and then go to work and vote for the fusfon that he arranged for his own benefit, and that will, in the event of the success of the election of Populist or Democratic legislators, result as he had planned. In one breath they denounce the octopus and in the next instant propose to indirectly vote for a man who is popularly accredited with being the r.h?lu of the railroad corapany. Co v %erfly it llnl!ulhtb‘,o- jewelry! thy jewelry! g-:n;? {he uu; [u?hlh of a collateral 0] PERSONAL. M. W. Moody of Fresno is at the Lick. The Rev. Spencer M. Adsitof Eureka is at the Russ. Dr. T. F. Day of San Rafael is at the Occl- dental. John E. Richards has gone to Alma on a hunting trip, Senator J. H. Shine of Sonora isa guest at the Cosmopoliian. Fred Figge and wife of Lockford areat the Cosmopolitan. Among the arrivals at the Lick {s Dr. O. F. Lee of Marysville. James Ruthiedge of Benicia is registered at the Cosmopolitan, C. H. Desmarais and wife of Merced are stay- ing at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. C. P. Elwert and Mrs. Elwert of New York are at the California. Professor Willlam H. Hudson of Stanford University Is at the California. David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, is visiting the City. T. C. White, who is interested in banking and other things, is in the City. A. F. Wilshire, & wealthy business man of Covington, Ky., is at the Palace. William M. Clunie of Dubuque, Iows, is among the recentarrivals at the Cosmopolitan. F. H. Rihn, tne millionaire, offSanta Cruz, is on & visit here, and is registered at the Ocei- dental. Mrs. Mary W. Richards, editor of Childhood’s Realm, is visiting friends in San Jose with her children, Frank Gurza, s merchant and mining man of Durango, Mexico, is among the arrivals at the Palace. Allen B. Lemmon, editor and proprietor of the Santa Rosa Republican, is among recent arrivals here. J. B, Pascholy, a general-store keeper of No- gales, Ariz., {s at the Russ. He is hereona business trip, Stephen'J. Menzies of Liverpool, England, who i8 heavily interested in the famous Laguna g: Tache Rancho, south of Fresno,isin the ty. W. T\ Smith of Elko, Nev., who is in the gen- eral merchandise business and who for several years has owned property in Oakland, is on & visit here, P. J. Healy, the well-known book-dealer and airector of the Mechanics’ Institute, has gone 1o Stockton on business for the library, aud is to remain several days. Colonel J. Charlton of Chicago, the general passenger agent of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, who has been here for several days, left yesterday for a few days’ stay at Monterey and other outside places. Captain C. Nielsen, who for several years has managed the steamer J. 4. Cummings, run- ning between the different Bawaiian Islands, has been at the Russ for several days. Heis suffering from rheumatism, and yesterday left for a stay of longer or shorter extent at Byron Springs, CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 16.—Among re- cent arrivals are: R.L.Stuben, Lawrence C. Wales, San Francisco, Riggs House; C. D, Washburne, Los Afigeles, Shoreham Hotel, BLESSINGS. Could the covetous heart of each mortal obtain Tis desires with naught of repayment in rain Or of grieviog; ‘Were we quit of perennial fault and forgiving, We would surely find life was unworthy of living Or of leaving. None but deep in the heart something bitter must | share And it crosses. Yet perhaps we may find at the end of the road That the chief of the blessings by fortune be- stowed Were our losses. FRANK PUTSAX, in Chicago-Times Herald, CAMPAIGN ECHOES. They say Mr. Bryan has an overwhelming personal vanity. What's he vain about, any- how ?—Philadelphia Telegraph. Mr. Bryan ¢ontinues to Inspect the ropes on the parachute and talk of what will happen in case he is defeated.—Washington Post. Bryan says: “Itis not a time to listen to personal ambition,” Dick Bland on his farm will kick the cat out of the way when he reads this and sneers.—Wichita Eagle. If we understand Mr. Bryan what the strug- gling masses need 1s a good 50-centdollar that will be interchangeable at par with Wall street’s 200-cent doll Kansas City Journal, Mr. Bryan has an idea that a composite pho- tograph of George Washington, Thomas Jeffer- son and Abraham Lincoln would be an ac- curats likeness of William Jennings Bryan.— Kansas City Journal. “Come,” said he, “‘let us reason together.” “Nolnolnol” they shouted. *“We are not here for that purpose.’” Baffled, he fled. And the silver discussion went on.~IndianapolisJournal Bacon—What's that card you’ve got there 7 Egbert—That's a new puzzle. “‘Why, it looks like a map of the State of Maine.” “Well, it 1s; the puzzle is to find the free- silver men.”—Yonkers Statesman. “Two grave complaints are made against the Popocratic candidates,” remarked the snake editor to the horse editor. “What are they?” “Sewall won't put up and Bryan won’t shut up.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. We speak entirely without prejudice when we say that Mr. Bryan's canvass has done himself irreparable injury. All the Republi- can and sound-money Democratic orators in the country could not have harmed him so much as be has harmed himself.—Phila- delphia Times. It is not a question of patriotism whether we shall have a gold orasilver standard of money in this country. Gold is as patriotic as silver. The question is, Shall we keep abreast with modern civilization or shall we fall back into the ranks with Mexico and the South Ameri- cans ?—Chicago Times-Herald. Mr. Bryan seems to consider that money shall be mede of little or doubtful value in order that people will be anxious to get rid of it, on the same principle that a dishonest man who becomes the possessor of a counterfeit bill s anxious to pass it on his neighbor in exchange for something valuable.—Nashville Banaer. % No American citizen who understands the needs of his country sdvocates free trade. Every man knows tnat to be impracticable. Free silver, which means silver monometal- 1ism, is no less objectionable. Bryanism means both, and it is therefore hostile to American interests and especially to American labor.—Omaha Bee. As the phosphorescent glow of Mr. Bryan's oratory cont inues to flicker around the land it is becoming more and more obvious that the issue of free silver plays buta small partin the campaign. and that the only real danger to be apprehended from tne efforts of the can- didatet consists in their tendeucy to make the poor bitterly hostile to the rich and begin a warfare of classes among the American peo- ple.—Boston Herald. OUR DOLLAR 1S NOT * TOO GOOD.” - Chicago Times-Herald. Itisincredible that theintelligent laboring men of this country can be persuaded by Mr. Bryan into believing that the dollar we now have is “too good.” It is incredible thata sane man should base his appeal to wage- workers 1o vote to change our currency on the contention that the dollar now paid to labor “buys too much.” And yet the “dear dollar” is the burden of Mr. Bryan's complaint in all his speeches. Are there any wage-earners in Chicago who are comvlaining because of the increased pur- chasing power of a dollar? Does any laborer lle awake nights worrying over the nervous apprehension that when he gets up in the morning his doilar may buy more loaves of bread than it did before the “crime of *73" 7 Mr. Bryan belongs to the free-trade party has usl; led et pnianly s sy vl to modities to the consumer, Wil niation and dolorous lamentation the free- trade orators of dir. Bryan’s class have led great gatherings of labor into an uproar of f}-enzled indignetion over the *tax” which the ‘“‘robber tariff barons” proposed to puton the workingman’s dinner pail. But Mr. Bryan is now_exhorting laborers to indorse & ‘‘tax” thatis a tax. He declares that the prices of commodities are too low. They must be raised by the free coinage of silverat 16 to 1. He is now engaged in pic- {uring to wage-earners the beauties of a new kind of “crown of thorns,” which says that the contents of the workingman’s dinner pail cost too little. Does labor see tne point ? Letters From the People. BBMARCK A BIMETALLIST. The Efforts Made to disconstrue the Ger- man Mtatesman’s Recent Letter, To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Several times the Examiner has published a letter of Prince Bismarck, parily wrong in its translation to suit their cause best. And of this letter the Examiner and Mr. Bryan him self in several of his speeches were boasting and trying to mislead the people, by no means an honorable act. Bismarck at the close of the Franco-German war bad established the gold standard with so great success known to every one in the civilized world except Mr. Bryan. Is any one believing that a man like Bismarck, the greatest statesman of this cen- tury, would contradict himself so strongly? It is ebsurd. In bis letter not one syllable voints to independent free coinage of silver; in favoring bimetallism it says expressiy by mutusl agreement, and at the close of the letter it says again distinctly bimetallism by fnternational agreement. Consequently Bis- marck’s views are in complete accordance with the platform of the Republican party, in com- plete harmony with William McKinley, who is advocating the very same thing, bimetal- lism by international agreement. Later on the Examiner produced the same letter in the original German language and here follows a correct translation: FRIEDRICHSRUNE, Aug. 24, 1896 Honored Sir: Your esteemed of July 1 has been received. I always have been in favor of bimetaliism. but while was in oftice would not consider myseit infailible in opposition to experts. I believe to tuis dey that it would be recommend- able to bring about between the nations chiefly en- gaged in the worid’s commerce & mutual ggree- ment that has tne tendency to obtain bimetafiism. The United States are freer by far in their movements as any single nation on the European continent and jf North America should find it would agree wEll with their in:eresis 1o take & self-dependent step1n the direction of bimetallism 1 believe that such a step would exert a beneficial influence upon the estabiishment by international agreement aud the joining with European States. Assuring you of my highest Tespect 1 am your most obedient servant, V. BISMARCK. Exactly as Bismarck has been misrepresent- ed the very same has been done with Dr. Ahrendt. The Examiner from time to time represented Dr. Ahrendt of Gerrmany, who is a strong advocate of bimetallism (like Bis- marck), as an authority in favor of free silver, whereas it is well known Dr. Ahrendt is o) posed to free silver and he has declared in print that independent free coinage of silver will be disastrous. Other prominent advo- cates of bimetallism—Seyd, Schoenhoff, Pro- fessor Edward Suess of Vienna, Gibbsana Helm of Engiand, Lavelleye of Belgium, H. Cermuschi of Italy, M. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu of France, Professor John B. Clark, Professor Andrewsand Professor Francis A. Walker— have all declared that the unrestricted free coinage of silver by any ene Government now maintaining a gold standard could not be otherwise than disastrous. In fact, they de- clare in print that 1t would be calamitous. PROFESSOR GUNTHER. Oakland, Oct. 16. WHEAT AND SILVER. A Populist Argument Which Does Not Stand the Test of Faots. . 8AN FRANCISCO, October 16, 1896. Editor Morning Call—SIR: Free siiverites claim that the price of silver has fallen only when measured by gold—that it has not fallen when measured by farm produets. This claim has obtained currency on mere assertion; no proof of it has ever been offered. THE CALL demonstrated its falsity recently by citing the sharp advance in wheat, amounting in Chicago to nearly 30 per cent lln“:wo months, while silver was steadily alling, The last issue of the American Agricultur- ist contains an investigation of this subject extending over a period of forty-five years— since 1851—and shows that the purchasing gowor of silver, when measured in wheat, as declined 41 per cent during that time, while gold, measured by wheat, bas remained nearly stationary. The Agriculturist i3 absolutely free from po- litical bias and its discussion of the subject deserves a wide circulation. Respectfully, T. J. DANIELS, 1777 Green street. TWO AUTUMN SLEEVES Smaller sleeves are no longer a mere rumor; they have materiatized in the fall gowns, and though they are stylish, pretty and becoming, they will not completely rout the larger shape, for the full sleeve is too comfortabie to be dls- carded entirely. But the woman who wishes to keep abreast, or ahead, rather, of the fash- jons will have at ieast one pair in her best gown, probably. The close-fitted sleeve, with full but short draped puff, is the finest modei. Itis made of one or two fabrics. One seen was of green and blue Dresden silk, with the puff of hlgo can- vas-cloth matching the waist and skir Another was entirely of the silk of which the gown was made. The fitted sleeve is suitable for all fabrics. A combination of materials may be employed in making it. One was of Dresden silk, with the puft of dack thin canvas-cloth of which the waist was made, having a Lolero front, with a blouse vest of the silk. The back of the walst ‘was smooth over a fitted lining, with a coat basque laid in pleats and reaching only to the under-arm seams. A green mohair gown had the puffs of mo- hair, the lawn sleeves and a round yoke on the waist being of embroidered batiste over a violet silk lining. PARAGRAPH> ABOUTI PEOPLE. President W. C. Young of Center College, Danville, Ky., who diea the other day, was one or the most widely known Presbyterian ministers in the country. He was moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly when it met in Portland, Or., and when the Briggs question was up for discussion. Sarony, the veteran photographer of New York, whose name is almost as well known in London as in the city of his adoption, is get- ting about. again after an illness that has pro- tracted him for the last two years. He is credited with a wonderful memory for faces, and it is said that he will remember a sitter years after the portrait was taken, and will recollect, moreover, what sort of picture he turned out. Captain 8. A. Day, said to be the oldest Free Mason in the United States, has just died at Flushing, L. I. He was born in Brutus, Cayugs County, N. in 1811. In 1851 and 1852 he conducted a large hotel on the Isthmus of Panama. He was once connected with George Law in running a line of steamers. Captain Day joined the Utica Lodge of Free Masous in JONAH AND THE WHALE, Oakland Enquirer. As between Cator and the Democratic party of com- | there is no question who is playing whale and lurid cslum- | who is piaying Jonah. LOS ANGELES SUFFRAGISTS The Woman’s Movement Advancing and Prospering. Los Angeles County holds a unique position in the juffrage army. Although there was not in the beginning a positive plan to stand alone, work indevend- ently of all other suffragist organizations and pay all her own bills, such.has come to be the case, and & grand work of local organization has been accomplished which will tell visibly on election aay. In thorough organization, as 1 the petition work done in April and May, this county has been acknowledged ‘‘the banner county.” Being the only one which had started on the plan of precinct organize- tion before the regular campaign commenced, having held the first county convention ever held in the State, it naturally took the lead in this direction and was soon able to set the ex- ample to other counties. e harmonious and co-operative response to a call from county het\daunlen from women in all the precinets made a wise finan- cial plen a pclligflity. and it is with just ride that our suffragists declare that they ave, without assistance from State or National 1und, defrayed all their expenses, paying good calaries to the county president, county speakers, county organizer and county corre- sponding secretary. During the series of con- ventions held ihroughout the State last spring Los Angeles not only paid all the ex- penses of her convention, but contributed $67 in collections and mbscrlgnonl called for by Miss Hay to the State fund. Now, with the 3d of November almost upon them,a busier set of women are not to found in all the State. Their commodious headquarters, consisting of four large, airy rooms in the Muskegon block on Broadway, presents a busy, animated scene. Every day from 9 A. M. to5 P. M. Mrs. Lula Pile Little, the energetic and efficient cor- responding secretary, 18 at her post, writing letiers, placing speakers in the field and other- wise discharging official duties. Mrs. Almedia B. Gray, the caretul, painstaking financi » is also in constant service at hea quarte: This lady is aiso vice-president of the county campaign committee, and gives her work gratuitously, besides paying a montnly installment for the couuty fund. Our president, Mrs. Lizzie H. Meserve, is well known, not only here but in S8an Francisco, as & woman of fine execulive ability, and under her wise supervision the work goes smoothly on in every detail. The precincts of the county are now thor- oughly organized, each having its campaign committee systematically working to educate voters and “collect the sinews of war—cam- paign funds, Thousands of suffrage leaflets have been distributed; city precinct meetings have been held throughout the summer, aver- aging five to seven per day—the highest num- ber in one day in the city of Los Angeles being nine—while a proportionate number are being held in the country distriets. When it is remembered that all this work is done by “home talent”—by the busy house: wives of the county—it is not to be wondered at that Los Angeles County men expect to vote for the sixth amendment. The Republican County Convention passed aresolution indorsing the suffrage plank in ihe State platform. These men know that it is their own wives and mothers, sisters and sweethearts who are asking for the tallot, and in the spirit of true Californian chivairy they intend o comply with the wishes of their own women. These women are modest and retiring asa rule, and instead of ‘‘taking to the political platform” themselves they have secured their most eloquent brothers of all parties to plead their cause at the various political meetings. Thelr committee on public meetings, composed of laaies and gentlemen from each party, has arranged for the presentation of the sixth amendment at all Polmul meetings in the county from now till election. At the meeting last Saturday evening when Senator Perkins spoke to an immense throng in Hazzard’s Pavilion, the largest auditorium in our city, he made a magnificent appeal to the voters to remember the women and the sixth amendment. The executive officers and many members of the county campaign com- mittee were seated on the platform, having been sspecially invited there by the Business Men's Sound-Money Club, under iwhose ausglcel this meeting was held, and it goes without saying that their hearts were cheered by the loyal words of the Senator. Many other kindly straws are coming our way. We are all invited to seats on the plat- form next Wednesday night when we are to listen to Hon. Ben Buiterworth, who, we hear, is a notable friend of our movement. The Populists and Prohibitionists are also our friends as of old, and the Democrats— though they did not give us a whole plank, only a resolution—have zranted us many favors and we have every reason to hope that our county will poil a large vote in favor of the woman’s amendment from all the parties. Out of the seventy-four precincts organized 1n this city 1t is impossible to find a man who will join in a debate against us, although three men’in the county have written against us semi-occasionally. ‘The newspapers throughout the county are very generous, many espousing our cause editorially, allof them giving space 10 COntri- butions pro and con on the subject. It would b2 & pleasure to mention the papers that are for us and the men who_are so nobly aiding us by voice and pen, but it would double the length of this letter. ‘When the dust and smoke of this battle has cleared away we will ‘‘make a note on’t” and have something to say about our friends tried and true. We are keeping a faithful record in our hearts while our hands and brains are busy, and they shall not be forgotten who stood by us in the burden and heat of the day of our struggle for woman'’s political equality. ALICE MOORE McCoMAs, Cheirman L. A. Co. Press Committee. THE GREATEST OF TRUSTS Insatiable Greed of the BStlver Mine Owners. The owners of silver mines expeet to profit by paying their workmen in cheap dollars— that is, by reducing the wages of miners. As a matter of fact, the free silver movementisa conspiracy against the wages of all kinds of laborers.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The silver trust would atonce take control of the finances of the United States if Bryan were elected. It would prove to be the most gigantic trust or syndicate ever organized in any corner of the world. The mine-owners would be absolutely in control. They could dictate to the United States Government while they rolled up untold millions in private for- tunes. On asilver basis this trust would be able to manipulate and control legislation everywhere. Not all of the so-called trusts that now exist in this country put together would be half so powerful as a silver trust. And yet this is what Bryan, Sewall, Watson, Stewart and the others who demand free coin- age of silver are actually driving at, They want to control the money of the Nation. They would get rich_through compulisory dis- honesty.—New York Mail and Express. Since silver was “struck down by the crime ©0f1873” the mines of the United States alone have proauced ,676,000 ounces. The commercial value of this enormous yield, reckoned at tne average price for each year, was $943,083,000. The coinage value of the 1otal product, at the oxjstlnY ratio, was $1,214,751,000. So that if permitted to_enjoy the free coinage the mine-owners would have made an “additional profit,” as the circular of their “finance committee” truly put it, of ,668,000. They would have made an ad- itional profit” of $33,000,000 on the yield of 1894, and of $36,000,000 on the yieid of 1895. No wonder Mr. Morrill thought they “could not afford not to %lva" the “‘additional profit they would receive for their own silver product for one month” to help elect a free- coinage Presiaent.—New York World. From 1873 to 1893 the mine-owners were in the saddle. Tney passed the act of 1878,which enabled them to coin $36,000,000 of their silver on private account. What were left of these coins were afterward redeemed by the Government in money as good as gold, all at the expense of the taxpayers. Afterward the United States passed laws to furnish them a market for $600,000,000 of their bullion, and this has becn depreciating {n the bands of the people and the Government, entailing a loss of many millions. The ‘“fat” of these men has come from the substance of the people. The: have obtainea it as the result of laws which their attorneys have passed, but they are not vet satisfied. They wish to continue the same system on & larger scale, and to this end they are asked to supp!, fund - lof.-Conrhr».v:&z.l. omor el NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. A shoemaker had this card in his window: “Any respectable man, woman or child can have a fit in this shop.”—Manchester News. “Jinks has the air of & man of considerable importance. What's his particular line?” “Oh, nothing much, except telling other | » ing retty tough,” replied the boarder, try! :myw cut his mite of stake.—Yonkers States- men. ke his Wiggles—Well, did you make him tal words back, as you said you were going to do? Waggles—Yes, he took them back, but he used them over again more emphatically than he aid before.—Somervilie Journal. Miss Bloomerite—What kind of a tree is that ? Her companion (facetiously)—Why, that is dogwood. Can’t you tellit by its bark ?—Judge. «Of course I don't expeet to get & seat,” said the large lady who was hanging to the strap. “And I don’t think I ought to have one neither. Itain’tnomore than right when a man has spent the last nickel he’s got fora ride to make him stand up; indeed it ain’t.” Seven men arose, each jingling some silver in his pocket, as if to resent the imputation,— Indianapolis Journal. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS MororMEN—J. E. G., City. The pay of motor- men in this City on the electric lines is22 cents per hour. TeE EX-QUEEN—A. S, City. The name of the ex-Queen of the Hawaiian Islands is writ- ten Lilinokalani. PropLEMS—W. A. C., City. This department does not give answers to questions in arith- metic or to problems. A GIRU'S MAJORITY —In law a girl is free from parental Testraint in the State of Cali- fornia at the age of 18. FACE VALUE ONLY—C. M. W., San Jose, Cal. A five-dollar piece of the year 1836 is worth only its face value to those who purchase oid coins. . DANA AND B J. C., City. Dana of the New York Sun was opposed to Blaine during his candidacy for the office of President of the United States. GERMANY AND FraNcE—H.J. W., City. The latest estimates give the population of the @erman empire ns 49,421,064 and that ot Frarnce as 38,218,908. CONTRACT MARRIAGES—A Subscriber, Grand Island, Cal. Contract marriages are no longer recognized in California, the law which per- mitted such having been repesled by the act of March 20, 1895. THE MINISTER'S NAME—L. N. H,, City. The ‘minister who officiated st the wedding of Major John A. Darling, U. 8 A, and Mrs. C. L. Catherwood, on October 23, 1895, was the Rev. Horatio Stebbins. CoNaGe DrscoNTiNuEp—E: K., City. The coinage of half cents in the United States was discontinued by the act of February 21, 1837, and the coinage of two-cent pieces was discon- tinued by the act of February 12, 1873. LArGEST BREWERY—H. 8., City. The largest brewery in tne world is Bass’ in England. This department regrets very much that it cannot give you the information, but ss it does not advertise, it cannot tell you which ‘brewery brews the best beer. WATER RiGHTS—J. B., City. The Bupreme Court of the Btate of California has not re- cently handed down a decision to the effect that private irrigation ditch owners cannot lawfully sell water rights to lands under their canals, ete., but & case involving that point has been submitted to the court. Warte HAlR—White Head, City. This de- partment has been able to discover a great many receipts for restoring hair to its natural color—that 1s, dyes which it is claimed have that property—but has not bzen able to find any that “will cause medium brown hair to turn te gray or white.’ Nature in time will do that, and it is said that seeing a genuine ghost will cause hair to turn white, but it must be & genuine ghost. AssessMENTS—C., R., Watsonville, Cal. A eil- ver-mining company that levies an assess- ment would have to accept silver in payment of that assessment unless there was a contract between the diréctors of the company and the stockholders, or there was a provision in the constitution or by-laws of the company that the assessments shall be paid in gold. Ebe law is that standard silver dollars are legal tender for any amount unless otherwise speci- fled in the contract. THE Two-TAIL TicKET—A. C. P. R, City. Snould Tom Watson, the Populist candidate for Vice-President, remain in the fieid the Demoeratic candidate for the Presidency will appear on two tickets, Democrats and Populists. Each ticket will have a set of electors, and these will vote for Bryan, but if in a State the electors on the Popuiist ticket should by chance be elected over the Democrats and Re- Bnbllul“ they would cast their votes for ryan and Watson, but if in the same State the Democrats should by chance be successful the electors would vote for Bryan and Sewall. TOWNSEND'S famous broken candy, 2 1bs23c.* cmmmmm‘u ExTRA fine Brazilnut taffy, Townsend's. * Bast peanut tafly in ihe world, Townsend's> ————————— Two ponnds Cream Mixed Candy in Japanese basket only 50c. Townsend’s, 627 Market st.* —_————— Sprcrar, information daily to manufactarass, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e < State Mining Journal, James J. Robbins, editor, 628 Montgomery street. -Reaches every mining camp in Cali- fornia. Contains: “English Purchasers of California Mines,” *“Water and Light,” State mining new: items of interest to miners. * ——————— He—It 1 had known how sarcastic you were I never would have married you. She—You had a chance to notice {t. Didn’t 1 say “That is so sudden!” when you proposed to me after a two years’ courtship?—Cincine nati Enquirer. Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago. The Auantic and Pscific Railroad, Santa Fa route, will continue to run aally through from Oakland to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, also uphoistered tourist sleeping-cars, leaving every afterncon. Lowest through rates to all points in the United States, Canads, Mexico or Europe. Excursions through to Boston leava every week. San Francisco ticke: office, 644 Mar- ket street, Chronicle building, Telephone main, 1581; Oakland. 1118 Broadway. —— Phillips’ Rock Island Exeursio: Leave 8an Francisco every Wednesday, via Ria Grande and Rock Isiand Raflways. Throush tourist sleeping-cars to Chicagoand Boston. Man- ager and porters accompany these excursions to Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and further information address Cliuton Jones. General Agent Rock Island Rallway, 50 Moni gomery street, San Francisco e Ir you suffer from looseness of the bows Slegert’s Angostura Bitters will surely core y ————— Dr. AYER's Hair Vigor is justly considered the best and most economical bair-dressing in the market. 3 R “What was that ndise I heard before Mr. Stedly went?” “I don’t know, mamma, unless it was the question.” “What do youmean? What has & question to do with noise 7" ‘He—popned people their business and giving usall pointers ;n :nw to run the Government.”—Chicago o8 Dawkins—What a nerve Dawson must have. Morley—Do you think so? I think he is the biggest coward I have ever met. Dawkins—But just think what nerve it must g:s to appear like such a coward!—Harper's zar, “What is your opinion of this new care? 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