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20 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1896. _____—._———-—————————————-—'——-——'_————_—‘———-—__—___—_ OCTOBER 18, 15868 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .$0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mal.... 6.00 | Dally end Sunday CALL, six months, by mafl.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bundey CALL, one year, by mail.. WREKLY CALL, ODe year, by mail.. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going o the country ona vacation ? It | #0, 1t i8 no tronbie for ug to forward THE CALL 10 | your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss ft. Orders given to the carrler or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention | N0 EXTRA CHARGE. | BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californis. Telephone....... Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: | 517 Clay Street, revererene - Maln-1874 Telephone..... BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open untsl 9:80 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:50 o'olock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. &W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open Bntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untll @ o'clock. 116 Minth street; open untll 9 'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. [ ————— e ] Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohlo ¥OR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey | Election November 3, 1896 | Prices are on the jump. The rurel rooster has a right to crow. The farmer will soon be able to make us sll rich. —_— There is nothing like leather, and it is going up. Wheat 1s rising of itself, but Bryan can- not get & move on silver. Prosperity is simply waiting for protec- tion to open the door to her. The Bryanites are whistling more loudly than ever, for the graveyard is in sight. The end is near at hand. Tom Watson's throat is unlcerated and Bryan is getting hoarse. Business grows better every day, for all the world 1s sure McKinley will be elected. A fluctaating currency would benefit the money speculators, but it would benefit no one else. ‘We are moving rightalong to prosperity. Prices are rising and industry has its face 1o the sunlight. California has a glorious opportanity for advancement and surely her people will be wise enough to profit by it. Now that money is coming into the State let us see that we do not send it abroad again for foreign goods. Democracy and Populism both talk of free silver, but one is reaching for free trade and the other for fiat money. _— Protection knows no sections. It ap- plies to north and south, to east and west, and carries its benefits to the industries of all. The Indian market for wheat is good, but the home market is best. It will stay with the farmer provided the farmer stays with it. We can never get the deficit out of the treasury or hard times out of the country until we get Democracy out of the Gov- ernment. Don’t forget the element of personal in- fluence in politics. You can help the cause of proteciion and sound money if you assert yourself. Protection will be perfect when it be- comes so universal as to embrace all American industries, and the Republican party will make it so. 2 Bryan, the free-trader, has never been the friend of any American industry, and is, therefore, hostile to the interests of all who live by those industries. Study the effect of free trade on the wool and the lumber industries of Califor- nia and then decide whether itis worth while to have free silver at the cost of free trade. Sound money in circulation, sound business in all the channels of trade and sound men in office are among the bene- fits a Republican victory will give the country. 8o long as American work is done abroad and American labor is unemployed we shall always have discontent among the people, and that never fails to resu!t in discord and strife. A good Republican majority in Ban Francisco will make California safe for McKinley and to that end all friends of American industry should work together and work with zeal The revival of industry, the develop- ment of resources and the expansion of commerce are surely things that every man should vote for, and you wiil vote for them all when you vote the Kepublican ticket. America has no worthier cifizen or truer representative of her manhood than Wil- liam McKinley, the soldier boy, the pa- triot statesman, and the people will vote for him because they honor his character RISING PRICES. The prospects of California have not been brighter in a quarter of a century than they are to-day. We s2em to be upon the verge of a new boom, using that word to signify not speculation but the realization of a degree of prosperity which will be in striking contrast to the depression of the last three years. The conditions of the rural industries of | the State are good and the prospects of improvement are exceptionally bright. All ‘the great staple products with the sole exception of hops are advancing. Raisins, which last year went begging at from 2 to 3 cents per pound, are now in demand at from 4 to 5 cents. Wheat, which several months ago sold for 90 cents per cental, is worth to-day $1 45 and some sales were made yesterday at $150. The price of leather has advanced 3 cents per pound in the Eastern market and while the advance here has been only 1 cent it is but 8 question of time when the Cali- fornia market will follow that of the East and a further improvement will be made. The rise in the price of wheat entails a corresponding rise in the prices of all grain crops. Corn, rye, oats and barley follow wheat in its upward movement. All the commercial products of these grains will, of course, rise also. The price of flour has been already advanced §1 in this City, The effect of this upon the rural industries ot the State will be in the highest dezree beneficial and a corre- sponding benefit will follow to the manu- facturers inasmuch as the farmers will now be better able to purchuse manufac- tured goods and the consumption of all classes of articles will largely increase. As all industries are affected more or less by the conditions of the farming in- dustry, it is a foregone conclusion that business in all the channels of trade will be improved. Banks, which have hesitated to lend money to farmers on a falling wheat market, will now be willing to make loans easy, since it is clear that the farmer will be able to repay them. Thus, with a rising market for farm products there will be an easier money market and a larger circulation of money in the cities. Oat of this there cannot fail to come benefits to retail traders as well as to the great producers, and the entire commercial sit- uation as well as the industrial will soon show signs of a prosperity such as we have not known for a long time. Every citizen can draw the moral from this corndition of affairs. The rise in wheat, it is true, has been occasioned not so much by what has happened here as by the failure of the crop in Indiaand the heavy losses in the Australian harvests. Nevertheless, the profit which we are to derive from it will depend largely upon conditions in the United States. Ifwe continue the present low tariff the money which we derive from abroad for our farm products wili be sent back again for manu- factured goods. To secure a permanent benefit from our present advantage it is, essential we should return atonce to the protective system. This fact every citizen should bear in mind and cast his vote in accordance with it for protection and pros- perity—for McKinley and Hobart. In 1861 we had gold at a premium That was the case until 1865. What was the effect it had on the laboring man’s weges and on the commodities the laboring man bought? Why, every one of the commodities went up 132 per cent., How much did labor goup? It went up 48 per cent. The conse- quence was that the laboring man dar- ing these years mpon an average lost 36 per cent of the available power and products of his Jabor. This is a fact. not something”thut I say to you, but something that you can find indisput- ably proved by experience.—Tom Reed. ATRO-AMERICAN VOTERS. At the recent session of the Arro- Ameri- can Congress held at Los Angeles a com- mittee of leading members of the Congress was appointed to draw up an address to the colored voters of the United States in general and particularly to those of Cali- fornia. That address has now been issued and forms one of the notable contribu- tions to the campaign in favor oi sound money, protection and the Republican purty. The address points out that under the free coinage of silver, as proposed by Bry- anites, the wage-earners of the country would suffer severely, and that as Afro- Americans are nearly all wage-earners their interest in this issue of'the campaign 18 of vital importance. It further directs attention to the fact that the Republican National platform demands that every citizen shall be aflowed to cast a free ballot, and that the bailot shall be fairly counted, thus guaranteeing protection to the colored voters of the South. More- over it denounces the uncivilized and bar- barous practice known as iynching, which has been too common in the Southern States, and thus promises to secure to the colored people their rights to a fair trial by jury in accord with the established law of the Republic. The sdadress is an able one in every re- spect. It should be widely circulated and widely read. In a broad sense it concerns white as well as colored citizens, and with great clearness states the reasons why in this campaign the industrious and law- abiding people in the community should cast their vote for that party which, as the address says, “Sanctified by the martyred blood of Lincoln has ever been foremost and devoted to the uplifting of the colored race and the protection of the wage-earner wherever found who owes allegiance to our common country and its flag.” Let every man arouse himself and re- member that the duty which he owes his Government and his fellow-men is this year grave and imperative. Let him not be misled by false hopes of gain. Gains that come through the sac- rifice of honor are not to be hoped for but dreaded. And any advantage, how- ever great, reached through an alliance with forces that are a menace to good government will prove soms time to huve been dearly bought.—Hon. F. J. Black. ELECTION ESTIMATES. for some time past various political experts have been furnishing the country with forecasts as to the probable outcome of the election in November. Estimates coming from persons of more or less emi- nence have appeared frequently and for the remainder of the campaizn they will appear with a greater frequency still. The well-posted citizen, whose experi- ence with politics covers more than one Presidential campaign, will not pay much attention to these estimates. He is aware as well as believe in his platiorm. It appears that just before his nomina- tion for the Presidency Bryan tried to get & place as an advertising agent of a the- atrical company and it aiso appears that having failed in that he has sought conso- lation in making a circus of himself. st S The Democratic candidates for the Leg- islature who took the Noun-Partisan pledge and now declare they will not stand by it are not widely different from other fusion politicians. The only way to get straight men in office is to stick to straight politics and beware of combinations. that they are usual at this season in elec- tion years and that they signify, even when they are sincere, the wish rather than the real thought of those from whom they come. The leaders of all the parties will insist their candidates are to be elect- ed, and he is 8 poor leader indeed who has not sufficient ingenuity to furnish figures which at least seem to justify his confi- dent predictions. The safest basis on which to estimate the outcome of the election is the align- ment of the people as revealed among those elements of society which are suf- ficiently prominent to be clearly scens There are no classes in America. There is comparatively little difference between the general thoughts and sentiments of noted Americans and of ordinary Ameri- cans. The wealthy are generally as much divided as the poor.. When, therefore, it is seen that an overwhelming majority of the more prominent people jn the Nation are on one side it is very safe to say thata large majority of the less notable people will be on the same side. Never before in our history have the more prominent eiements of our people been so massed on one side as in this campaign. Hitherto all grades of society and all professions and trades have been more or less equally divided between the two great parties. In this contest, how- ever, almost everybody who is sufficiently prominent to be noted is on the side of McKinley. Nearly all the great news- papers, the college professors, manufac- turers, men of business, leadersof work- ingmen apd even clergymen, who usually take no part in politics, have declared themselves in this issue for sound money and sound morality. 1t is almost impossible that Mr. Bryan should be elected. The elements that are for him may be noisy in mass-meetings, but they count for very littie in the great mass of the American people. The assur- ances of the success of the Republican ticket are everywhere so strongty felt that busimess has already begun to revive. The price of almost everything is rising except the price of silver. This furnishes a basis on which we can salely estimate what the result will be in November. Mr. Bryan will be the worst-defeated can- didate that ever ran for the Presidency, and the vote of the people everywhere except in the Southern States, where special causes continue to keep the Demo- cratic party strong, will be almost unani- mous for McKinley and Bobart. In some campaigns we had thought about the industrial interest only, but to-day the universal welfare of the Ameriean people 13 at stake. It is pro- posed not only to assault the industrial but also the financial system which ha: hitherto been the bedrock of our pelicy- They also propose to make assault upon the most important institution of all, namely, the constitution of the United States. I cannot conceive of a worse piece of wickedness than the policy proposed, as it is ome throughout of tearing down and destroying with no attempt to build up. It is considered and improperty called a campaign of the masses, but the only object seems to be to infuriate them —Hon. Hampton L. Carson of Pennsylvania. LAW AND ORDER. While the great majority of men have looked upon the issues of this campaign as involving merely economic questions the wiser and more far-seeing leaders of the community have beheld in it a threat made by the Bryanites against Jaw and order itself, and they have not hesitated to point out thatin their judgmeunt the issue of social order and peace against anarchy and lawlessness is really the most essen- tial point to be considered by the voter in casting his batlot on election-day. The men who have been foremost in presenting this phase of the question to the people are ex-President Harrison, ex-Minister Phelps, a lifelong Democrat, and Archbishop Ireland. The words of these men cannot fail to have weight with every reflecting citizen, Mr. Bryan, him- self a hasty and inconsiderate talker, may not mean all that he says, and many of the peonle who support him mas be equaily inconsiderate in their words and actions. Nevertheless, it cannot be ques- tioned that the whole trend and tendency of Bryanism is to excite the feelings of the discontented against their more pros- perous neighbors and to arouse in this couniry those passions which tend to dis- turb all industries ana the entire social structure of the peonle. Over and over again in his speeches Mr. Bryan bas appezled to the prejudices that are supposed to exist among the more 1gnorant people. He has—if not inten- tionally, certainly by his carelessness of speech—said much to lead the poor to believe that those who are richer than themselves are engaged in a conspiracy to rob, plunder and defrand. In hisspeeches in favor of free trade he did not hesitate 1o declare protection to be a system of plunder and robbery, and now as a candi« date for the Presidency he is equally ve- hement in declaring the bankers of the tountry are seeking to deprive industry of its profits and labor of its wages. 1i these words do not tend to excite eivil disturbances, to what end do they tend? ‘What can be the purpose except to enrage labor against capital and the poor against the rich. There can be no question that Mr. Bryan exerts an evil influence upon the country, that his party has started upan a wrong course and must continue 1o go from bad to worse so long as the people permit it to have any power or prestige among them. The peace of the country depends upon the contentment of the people. Where widespread discontent exists the law itself is powerless. This issue which Bryan is forcing upon the people is, beyond qu tion, the gravest in our politics, and while in California we might overlook 1t, in the more thickly settled East it has become the chief topic of the campaign, and many men who might otherwise have yoted for free silver and even for free trade will re- fuse to vote for a man who stands for riot, lawlessness and all that tends to anarchy. THE NON-PARTISAN PLEDGE. 1f the nominees of the Citizens’ Non- Partizan party for the State Senate know no more of the needs of the several dis- tricts from which they were nominated than they do of the constitution of the State, they certainly will make but poor representatives in case of election. They have signed a pledge in which each indi- vidual asserts: ‘1 hereby promise that if I am elected to the Legislature I will, by my vote and influence, endeavor to secure the adoption of the new charter in its entirety and without amendment by the Legiglature.” This was evidently the signing of a pledge without a knowledge of the provision of . the constitution of the State that declares that if a charter is adopted by electors it cannot be amended, but must be adopted or rejected as'a whole. The language is: “Ii a majority of such qualitied electors voting thereat shall ratify the same (the charter) it shall thereafter be submitted to the Legislature for its approval or rejection as a whole, without power of ealteration or amend- ment.” \ Never before was there such a combina- tion of the business elements of the coun- try allied against a candidate for the Presidency as are now arrayed against Bryan. He may please a good many peo- ple as an orator, but there are very few who think heis a safe man to intrust with the management of the affairs of the Nation. \ The American workingman is still wait- ing for some Bryanite to tell him what effect free silver. coinage will have on wages besides cutting their purchasing power in two, PERSONAL. Senator J. H. Shine of Sonora is in the City. N. Jaeurchikoff of Moscow, Russis, is at the Paldce. Dr. A. H. Bailey of Santa Crus is nere fora faw days. F. M. Jenkins, a fruit-packer of San-Jose, is at the Grand. -] Ex-Judge W. E. Cullen of Montana is a re- cent arrival here. A. H Boggs, a mine-owner of Rossland, B. C., is at the Palace. N. J. Nissen, a carriage manufacturer of San Diego, is 1n the City. } L. W. Morgan, & business man of Los An- geles, is here for & few days. __ G. Lombard, who is engaged in mining in Mexico, 1s a late arrival here. 8. W. Stevens, a capitalist of London, is among the srrivals at the Palace. R. R. Ingersoll of the United States ship Philadelphia is at the Occidental. D. McDonald, a prominent resident of New- ark, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, H. Lindston of-Lemoore, wheat-raiser, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. George Allen, who {s engaged in the insur- ance business at Stockton, Is in town. J.and T. Kagaws, Japavese merchants of Portland, Or., are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. F. J. Clatk, & prosperous business man of Stockton, 18 at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. J. Langtry and wife of Gilroy are yisiting the City and are stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Richard N. Goode of the United States Geo- logical Survey, Washington, D. C., is at the Oceidental. Louis Holloway, a well-to-do resident of Cloverdale, brother of State Senator Holloway, is at the Russ. Among the arrivals at the Cosmopolitsn Hotel is W. M. Clunie, the well-known politi- cian of Dubuque, Iowa. Taylor Gearhart, pioneer and leading mine-owner of Silver City, Idaho, is among the arrivals here. E. A. Pearchele, who is connected with a Tailway enterprise at Visalia and who is a land-owner there, is in town. Among the arrivals here yesterday were John Brockman and R. O. F. Penrose, of Arl- zona. They are at the Palace. . John Markeley, secretary of the Board of Examiners, is in the City attending meetings of the Democratic State Committee. D. E. Knight, the old-time resident of Marysville, who for a long time was inter- ested in steamboats on the Sacramento River, is in the City. A. gtrickroth of Ensenada, Lower California, arrived here yesterday with a large sack of gold dust and nuggets, obtained from a mine- owner by him in the mountains eastof En- senada. Captain J. E. Lombard of the United States army, retired, who was for some years at the heed of a large division of the Chinese army, is at the Occidental. He has large property interests at Portland. Superintendent Thomas Burke of the fa- mous Minas Pretas mines in Sonora, arrived here yesterday, after a hard experience in the mines, due o an explosion. Mr. surke was badly burt. His right arm was broken and one eye was put out, while the other sustained greater or less injury. . Mr. Burke was accom- panied by Elgen Beley, who is connected with the mines. The Minss Pretas employ over 5000 men. Mr. Burke has long been con- nected with them. He went at once to one of the hospitals. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. _ NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 17.—At the Plaza— Mr. and Mrs. L. 8chwab, Mr. and Mrs. J. Stern, Miss Stern, A. H. Willis, B. H. Winters; Conti- nentai—C. W. Beebe; Park Avenue—Miss Caro- line Halman, Mrs. L. B. Halman; Savoy—Miss Adelbert, Mr. and Mrs. A. E Hecht, E.J. Hecht, Miss Hecht; Holland—L. McCreery; Imperial—W. H. Little, 0. O. Howard Jr.; Metrorole—S. B. Wakefield. NOVEMEER. “Where is the man who shouted so?"” Said Andrew Jackson’s shade. “He left the place a mouth ago,” ‘The press reporter said. “What made him g0 80 quick, 0 quick?” Said Andrew Jackson's shade, “He made the Vot the Plaste, Ornamenting rear-end coaches, making speeches through his hat: 5 And b kilied his repatatiou ‘and we don’t know where he’s at, But he'll give up 'lectioneering in November.” “What caused this beardless boy to run?" Sald Andrew Jackson's shade. “The magic words, sixeen Lo one,” + " The pr ss reporter sald. “What made them choos? 80 young, 8o young?” Said Andrew Jackson's shade. “They listened to a silver tongue,” The press reporter sald. “For he came to the couvention and he brought his cross of gold, 1 Amd he crowded back all others, both the middle- aged and old, But he'll stamp his little Trilbys when he's outside 1n the cod, After meeting with McKinley In November.” “My friends were men of high renown,” Said Andrew Jackson's shade, “He toro the flag of honor down,” The press reporter sald. “And do the loyal one’s still stand?” id Andrew Jackson's shade. “The East and West are hand {n hand,” The press reporter said. “For they bolted Billy Bryan with his anarchistic views, And they lead the fight together, for they know they canuot lose, And they’ll rth!rin the Popocrats and measure out thelr dues, And they'il lose them {n the shuffie in November."” —New York Sun, CAMPAIGN ECHOES. It turns out that Bryan once advocated Volapuk. Ab, hal If & worldwide language is all right, why isn’t a world money the thing, too?—Wichita Eagle. The little boy who took hold of the live wire for a joke is not unlike the Boy Orator, who has picked up the hot end of 50 many nomina- t1ons.—Philadelphia Press. At Clarksburg Bryan : “We are running on time,” but the fact is he is ahead of his schedule, as he was not expected to burst up until early in November.—Pittsburg News. If Mr. Watson will ture his study to the figure of General Buckner, he will be able to learn the art of being a dark horse candidate with dignity and quiet taste.—Pittsburg Dis- patch. The fact that the farmers of Nebrasks are riding twenty and thirty miles to attend Re- publican meetings does fiot go to show that the candidate of three parties is 1ikely to carry his own State.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The tariff is cutting no figure in Bryan's oratory, but it will cut s figure in his defeat. The country is not wholly ignoring one ot the important issues because the candidate on the wrong side of it chooses to do so.—Kansas City Journal. Did you ever hear of the boy who asked the doctor how to distinguish a toadstool from a mushroom? The dootor replied: ‘‘Eat it; if you die, it 1s a toadstool.”” If the American people swallow the free colnage of silver craze, they will learn by experience that it is a “toadstool.”—New York Commercial Adyer- tiser. Western farmers have been busy thinking for some weeks past. From every section in Kansas, Iowa, Nebrasks, Wisconsin and Min- nesota we have reliable information of 8 mul- titude of changes from Bryan to McKinley, A vote for Bryan will simply mean four years of depression in every line of business.—Chicago Inter Ocean. ? #Why, sir,” said the gold-standard man,who 'was letting the leak {n his cellar go at full tilt while he talked finance with the plumber, “it 1s a most unreasonable proposition. We might just as well take that lead pipe of yours and Goin iL—" *'Hold on, mister,” the plumber exclaimed, “Don’t say the restof it. Don’t let suchan idea get started. The thought of taking anything as valuable as that lead pipe an’ turning it into plain, ordinary money makes me shiver with horror.” —Washington Star. The followlng postscript to Willlam Jennings Bryan’s letter accepilng the People's party nomination got lost in transmission: *‘While it is perfectly true that 1 notified the Populists that I could not be considered as a candidate unless Mr. Sewall wasput on the ticket also, it isalso true that I thought I had enough in- fluence to force Sewall’s nomination. How- ever, that is no reason why I should refuse any old pomination I can get.”—Pitisburg Chronicle Telegraph. THE VALUE OF CONFIDENCE Without It Trade and Industry Halt and the Workingman Is Without Ocoupation. B Boston Commerclal Bulletin. - Confidence may b> an intangible thing, but without confidence all prosperity is at an end. The manufacturer, uniess reasonably assured of a market for his goods, will not buy ma- terial and start his mills; the jobber and re- tailer will not stock their stores unless settled conditions are promised. Without confidence in future conditions trade and industry halt, the workingman 1s without occupation, enter- prise is crushed, development is at a stand- still. How different the situation when confi- dence is absent, the summer of 1896 can testify to many thousands of our people. Stability in the measure of value is the first requisite of prosperity. We can adjust our- seives to an unfavoreble tariff, to the natural ups and downs of existence, if we know that future values will be measured by the same standard that exists to-day. In former periods of the world’s history the greatest opponents of, as well as the greatest sufferers irom the clipping of the coin were the laboring popule- ton. Reducing the value of the legal tender has always been the resort of despotsand op- pressors, It hes remained for the end of the nineteenth century to see the argument ad- vaunced that cutting the value of the coin is for the benefit of the common people. Not until the election is known to have re- sulted in the triumph of sound money and sound principles of government will the in- spiration be given to new enterprise. People with means at their command will take no chances where success of an enterprise de- pends upon steady development under even conditions. Municipalities and corporations will undertake no new operations until they can borrow. ca‘:ltnl, to be expended directly or indirectly for labor, on the reasonable terms which confidence on the part of lenders in the stability of the loans will alone enable them to secure. BRYAN THEN AND NOW Wichita Eagle. It will hardly be denied that the Bryan who 'was g0 untiring in his efforts for free trade and the Wilson bill and who was later the Popu- list editor is maintaining an entirelv different attitude as the nominee of the Chicago con- vention for President. He now pretends above everything else to be the friend of the workingman. To go back alittle to his rec- ord: Six years ago, in a public address, Wil- liam Jennings Bryan said that the wages of men who worked in shops were too high, and he declared thet the affairs of this Govern- ment had been controlied too long by such workingmen. Then William Jennings Bryan was advocat- ?13 {ree trade in the interest of foreign manu- acturers, and he wanted to subject the work- ingmen of this country to ruinous competi- tion with underpaid foreign workingmer Two years ago, when William Jenuings Bryan was a member of the Democratic House of Representatives, a delegation of glass- workers appeared before the committee on ways and means, of which Mr. Bryan was a member, 1o protest ageinst some of the schedules of the Democratic free trade tariff bill. William Jennings Bryan then denounced those glassworkers, who were all workingmen, as ‘‘public beggars.”" William Jeunings Bryan voted for thatin- famous Democratic tariff bill and it became a Jaw. The result has oroved most disastrous to workingmen. Through loss of employment and wages they have peen reduced to a condi- tion bordering upon starvation, The wages of men who worked in shogs, which Mr. Bryan thought were too hieh six years ago, have been reduced and Mr. Bryvan helped to reduce them by voting for the Democratic tariff law. This is the ghort but pointed record of William Jennings Bryan, who pretends to be & iriend of the workingmen. TWO YEARS OF TREASURY RE- CEIPTS. American Economist. Total treasury receipts first 24 months of the ‘Wilson law, compared with first 24 months of the McKinley law: Receipts McKinley law first 24 months. Dollars. 9,222,174 8,674 7,646,615 .36,810,283 .29,273.178 Recelpts Gorman law first 24 months. 1894. Dollars. 22,621,228 g , 240 9,411,408 1,368,136 Au; 96 September...27,549,678 October. .......27,901,748 .80,388,478 - 30,608,044 29,207,670 38,696 59,228 41,149 282,893 80,958,617 643,717 .84.314,331 7,794,219 .88,479.069 9,069,697 81,797,629 25,562,097 Total....8725,697,0388 Total....$612,776,353 Loss in 34 months under Democratic “Tariff for Revenue Only” 115,920,685 THE PATRIOTIC CAMPAIGN. New York Sun. The true character of this campeign and the appeal which it makes to patriotic Democrats were well set forth in the letter of the Hon, Levi Parsons Morton to the Republican League. “In this campaign,” wrote Governor Morton, “party lines are largely obliterated. Partisanship is forgotten in the higher pur- pose of maintaining the honor of the Nation.” Not since the second nomination of Mr. Lin- coln hasthere been such a merging of party lines in a spirit of general patriotism. Demo- crats, whether they have decided to vote for McKinley and Hobart or whether they intend to vote for Paimer and Buckner, already de- sire the triumph of the Republican ticket, not because it is nominally a Republican ticket, but because it is the sole defense against dis- honor and the ruin which would result from carrying into effect the Chicago platform. And since the Repubiican ticket is the sole defense of the United States against the calamities of Bryanism and Altgeldism and Debsism, it is the duty of every Democrat to vote for that ticket. It is no year for dress arades. Patriotism demands that Bryan and wall be not merely beaten, but beaten mon- umentally and beyond all precedsut, POOR BOYS GET TO THE TOP. From the New York Times. The hollowness of Bryan’s talk about the down-trodden masses is well illustratea by the history of several natives of Jefferson County, this State, who have risen from what are termed humble beginnings to positions of ‘wealth, honor and high public esteem. Men- tioning some of these, the Waterton Times says that the fact was brought out foreibly by ex-Governor Flower and others who partici- ted in the public reception to the Hon. aniel G. Griffin on his return home after his nomination for Governor by the National Democratic State Convention “Ex-Governor Flower, Judge O'Brien, Wilbur F. Porter, Daniel G. Griffin,”” says the Times, “in fact, every man who has attained prominence in ublic life, success in business or Ero!us(on-l 1fe in this locality, has worked his way up from lowly beginnings and found no obstacles flneod in his way.” This is not the country n which to talk about classes and masses. —— THE ANSWER IS EASY. Tulare Register. The Republican conteation is to returntoa condition which we found good for many years. The Populist contention is to try some- thing which has never worked to_the benefit of any people at any time. The Republicans say let us be gulded by the experience of ail civilization, The Populists say let us try an old scheme which has been a fallure every- where. Which is the sensible and business- 1like position? NO OTHER NATION OEJECTS TO IT. New York Sun. Our London correspondent describes the country of the Hauss, a peopleliving between the Sahara, in Africa, and tne 'fl tor, and having a currency of shells, of which were equal to 25 cents. It should be added that this ratiois maintained without the aid or consent or any other uation, Letters From the People. AN EQROR__CORRE(;!'ED. Senator Wilson Not Among the Callers on Bryan at 5t. Paul. PALERMO, Cal,, Oct. 14, 1896. Hon. Charles M. Shortridge, San Francisco, Cal.—DEAR SIR: Dispatches in your issue of the 12th inst. say that among the callers on Candidate Bryan at St. Paul was the Hon. John L. Wilson, Senator from the State of Washington, who bolted the St. Louis nomhillr tion ana platform. I desire to correct this statement. Hon.John L. Wilson is too honest and conscientious a Republican to bolt his party, and to my persoua. knowledge h‘ c(- - Vassing the State of Washington in the nl:r- est of the Republican stendard-bearers, Mc- inley and Hobart. Kln(xeu?st you will correct those dispatches and do justice to Senator Wilson. blican success, Respectfully yours, for Ral“;v R HOOLE, Late Member Washington Legislature. —_— LADY’S DRESSING SACQUE A delightfully comfortable and stylish gar- ment is illusirated here. It is cut with & loose front, which is shirred from a yoke top. The back is cut with & back form and sn under- arm gore. The sleeves are the comtortable and picturesque Bishop shape. The sailor col- 1ar is stylishly cut off in front to give the effect now sought after. A most dainty sacque after this model was of white batiste. The ssilor collar had & deep hem, at the top of which was let in the narrow embroidery, to give the effect of hemstitching. The ruffle around the collar, which was also of batiste, had the saime finish at the top of the em. Another sacque was of blue and white dim- ity. with a collar of plain blue, edged with & ruffle of Valenciennes lace. A yellow dimity might be trimmed with a collar of yellow and white striped dimity. A pink lawn with white dots might have awhite collar trimmed with white or yellow lace. A blue Japanese silk, with collar of white Dbatiste trimmed with insertion of yellow Valenciennes iace, with a ruffie 1o match,would be very cool and stylish. Pale green wash silk, with a canary stripe, flzizm nave the collar of natural-colored grass nen. FIFTY-CENT GODSENDS. New York Press. Ihave known men who have notseen any kind of dollars for so long that a 50-cent dol- lar would be a godsend to them.—W. J. Bryan at Logansport, Ind. But why not give them the 100-cent dollar which they received in 1892? Any man who was willing to work could find employment in at year, and no one offered him a 50-cent %uar when & 100-cent doilar was due him for his labor. And how about the 7,000,000 men who are employed in the United States to-day? Are we to give them 50-cent dollars instead of the 100-cent dollars !her now receive, in oraer that some other people may also get only half ef what they ought to have? hen we can pay 100-cent dollars to every one, Mr. Bryan, why compel any one to take 50-cent dollars? NEWSPAFER PLEASANTRY. “What do they mean by ‘salting’ & mine, popper?” asked the small boy. “Is it anything like salting meat?”’ “No indeed,” sanswered Mr. Bittwunts. “When a man salts meat it is because he wants to keep it.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. “What in thunder are you speakin’ to the schoolchildren for?” asked the voter. “Just keep guiet,” replied the candidate. “They’ll all be old enough to vote before I'm elected.””—Atlanta Constitution. Tommy—Paw, what does it mean in the paper when it says that the leaders of a party are working like beavers?” Mr. Figg—It might mean they are saying nothing and sawing wood, but it usunally means they have begun throwing mud.—In- dianapolis Journal. Flossie—Can you remember whether Tom’s engagement ring had five diamonds? Cissy—No; why? Flossie—Because I've lost s ring in the water and I don’t know whether it was Jack’s or his,—Fun. Helen—He is extremely reticent about his family. Her Brother—Hum! Must be a good man of bad family or a bad man of good family. You had best encourage him.—Judge. She—Our wedding day seems to me almost as a dream. He—It does to me with one exception. “What was that?” “J distinctly remember that my collar got loose benind and crawled up my neck as I ‘went up the aisle.”—Indianapolis Journal, “Hoskins, did you ever see a truly honest n a theater once I heard & fellow tell his wife he was going out to get & drink,”— Chicago Record. PARAGRAPHs ABOUT PEOPLE. Six thousand provincial Mayors have been invited to the marriage of the Prince of Na- ples. Richard McGrift of Deerfield, Ind., and John McGrift of Geneva, Ind., are twins who cele- brated their ninety-third birthday last week. The Duchess of Westminster is known among Her friends as an ardent cricketer and she is said to be in particular a bowler of some con- siderable skill. Count Goetzen, the well-known German ex- plorer of Africa, has entered the foreign ser- vice of Germany and has been assigned to the embassy at Washington. Barney Lloyd of Charleston, W. Va., is the Jast surviving member of the Grand Jury which in 1859 indicted John Brown for inva- sion and inciting insurrection. simeon Collins of Clay County, Mo.. lett a sixth of his estate to his granddaughter, Ma- mie Collins, on condition that “she in good ialith renounce Christian science.” The Prince of Wales always waits till the final curtain has descended before rising to leave a theater. This is his invariable rule, so much so that he has sat out the entire harle- quin set. Congressman A. C. Harmer, who has just been renominated by the Republicans of the Fifth Congressional District of Penusylvania, has served thirteen terms in the House of Rep- resentatives. Sylvanus Dodge Locke, who has just dfed at Hoosick Falls, N. Y., was the inventor of the first grain-binding machine. He was for many years cornected with the Walter A. Wood Com- pany of Hoosick Falls. The oldest voter 1n the country yet heard of 1s Charles Bozo of West Virginia who is 102 years of age. He has always voted the Demo- cratic ticket and is now & sound-money man and intends to vote this year accordingly. Dr. Paul Hatipt, professor of the Semitic lan- guages in Johns Hopkins University, has just | arrived from Europe, where he went to super- vise the publication of the new critical edition of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, or the Polychrome Bible, as it is poupularly known. E. H. BLACK, paanter, 120 Eddy strest. —— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's." ———————— ACENOWLEDGED superior. the Waltz safes, in all sizes. 109 and 111 Marketst., S, F. - . — SPrcrar, information daily to manutactursrs, business houses and public men by the Pra: Cliping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. ————— Customer—You are using a different kind of soap from what you were, aren’t you? 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