The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1896, Page 6

THE N FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1896 WEDNESDAY.. CHARLES M.. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. 1896 | SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. . Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mai. Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 8.00 | Daily and Sunday CALI, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CaLz, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CaLL, one year, by mail. W REXLY CaLL, one year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacatlon? If 80, 1t 18 o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will Inss it. Orders given 1o the carrier ar left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention NO EXTRA CHARGE. | BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Oaliforais. Telephone .Main—-1868 EDITORIAL" ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone.......... BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery sixeet, corner Clay; opem untll 8:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes stroet; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Lerkin street; open until 8:30 o'clock. &W . corper Sixteenth and Mission streets; opey’ wntil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Minth street; open until 9 o'clocie OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Booms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York Olty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. FOR PRESIDENT- WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VIOF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 1896 | If business trusts Bryan, Bryan will bust business. The campaign is sarely a good thing— push it along. | The campaign will soon be over. Do | your work now and do it well. There is nothing revolutionary about wheat. It always rises for prosperity. Bryan is condemned by his own oratory. | The appeal to revolution is a roorback. That grand old veteran ‘‘General En- thusiasm” was at the Boutelle meeting last night. Itis not the voice of ihe partisan but the voice of patriotism that the people listen to this yeal The rise in the price of wheat that upset the Bryanites has elevated the hopes of the friends of prosperity. That campaign canard has not come out yet, but keep watching for it. Eternal vigilance is the way to head it off. The most fitting symbols of the Popo- crat fusion are the torch of Altgeld borne aloft on the pitchfork of Tillman. The National flag is a fit emblem of a National party, bur what have section- alists and class parties to do with it? The way to get straight men in office is to stick to straight politics. Don’t trust connubiators at any turn in the road. The Populists swear they were not swal- lowed by Buckley, but they will never know the truth until after election day. The Republican party, which saved the Nation, has a right to fiy the banner of the Nation, no matter how the Popocrats howl By tb‘e time the Bryanites are through with the campaign they will bave learned that frle riot is no more popular than free trade. The party of deficits and disasters has become the party of repudiation and revo- lution. It is easy fora man.to go down hill when he gets started. The Republican party is the best friend of the American silver industry, as it is the only party that promises to help it in the markets of the world. As all the evidences of the time pointtc the conclusion that international bimet- allism Is a sure winner, why should we run the risk of the other thing? No man can accurately calculate hisloss b the Democratic depression, but every man knows he has lost too much to afford another experiment of the kind. 1t the Non-Partisans had taken the ad- vice of THE CAwr and sbstained .from nominating candidates for the Legislature they would have been wiser then and hap- pier now. Under the same monetary sysiem we have now we had prosperity while the McKinley tariff wasin force, and we will have that prosperity again when a similar tariff is enacted. sk R R The course of the campaign has demon- strated tiat the brainsof the Bryan move- ment are carried under the hat of Altgeld, ‘but they are the brains of an agitator and not of a statesman. “How about the tariff?” is a question that made the Democrat feel sick in the beginning of the campaign, but not so sick as he’feels now when you ask him *How about wheat?” It is the duty of good citizens to see to it that free-traders shall no longer disturb THE COERCION SOARE. The manifesto of Ubairman Jones issued yesterday on bebalf of the Dericcratic National Committee, addressed to “The American People,” warning them of a | widespread conspiracy alleged to exist among employers of labor for the coercion of voters at the coming election, may be taken to indicate what the Democratic method will be during the remaining two weeks of the campaign. Argument has already been abandoned, reason has been cast to the winds, and in their place there has been adopted a wild, unreasoning and untruthful howl of co- ercion. The American voter is to be told in all tke notes of two octaves that he and his neighbor is the slave of the employer of each and that upon election day heis to be forced to vote for a candidate and a platform which he detests or take the alternative of losing his job. From the heart of every true and loyal American citizen should arise a cry of “Shame’’ upon such disgraceful and dis- creditable campaign tactics as these. - The managers of the Democratic National cam- paign know very well that there is nothing in the cry of coercion which they have adopted as the last desperate expedient by which toinflame the minds and subvert the votes of the laboring people of the land. The very indefiniteness of Chairman | Jones’ manifesto is the best evidence that it has no foundation in fact. \Every voter within the State of California, for exam- ple, who is fortunate enough to have steady employment, knows that he is not being coerced by his employer, whether that employer be a corporation or an indi- vidaal. It is only necessary for men of intelligence to consider the facts within their own horizon in order to be assured of the folly and falsity of Chairman Jones, assertion. It is safe to say that not a single authentic instance of coercion or intimi- dation will be discoverea by the Demo- cratic National Committee or by any one else. This fact, however, will not prevent the orators and campaign managers of the Democratic party from uttering and re- echoing the cry of coercion during the re- | mainder of the campaign. The good sense of the laboring men of the country may be safely relied upon, however, not to be misled or deceived thereby. They fully realize that their employers and themselves are united in a common in- terest, and that the mutual advantage of each depends upon a return of tkat pros- perity which the country had before it entered upon the present epoch of Demo- cratic misrule, If their votes, therefore, are castin ac- cordance with their employers’ desires, it will be not because of any coercion, bat rather becanse every employe understands that his own interesis and his employers’ interests are identical, and that the Re- publican party is pledged to financial and commercial policies which will advance the mutual interests of each. The inspiring and unconquerable sen- timent of this campaign is country first, country last and country with stainless honor all the time. The voice of mis- guided partisans is not heeded; the voice of patriotism strikes a responsive chord this year. The voice of prejudice and hate s lost in the grand chorus of peace and good will, National unity and National integrity.—McKinley. BOUTELLE'S ADDRESS. If anything had been needed to confirm Republicans and all conservative citizens™ in the support of McKinley and Hobart the confirmation would bave been found in the earnest and eloquent address of Mr. Boutelle last evening. Those who did not hear it should carefully read the revort of it, which we publish this morn- ing. Even though the printed extracts of the speech lack the ardor infused into the spoken words by the toneawnd the presence of the orator, and though the enthusiasm of the great audience is absent from the reader, nevertheless the arguments of themselves have weight, and the glowing sentences will arouse tbe mind to the greatness of the issues before us. The coming of so distinguished a states- man as Mr. Boutelle to take pari in the California campaign has been a great stimulus to Republican ardor. It has made it certain that the influence of Cali- fornia in National affairs is recognized in the East and that the Republican leaders of that section in their broad National pa- triotiem and policy do not overlook this far-off State on the Western shores of the continent. They have sent to us one of the ablest and most eloouent of the great statesmen of the party to help usin this contest for prosperity, for good govern- ment and for National honor. The audience which assembled to hear Mr. Boutelle was in every way worthy of the orator and of the occasion. While some may have gone to the hall out of curiosity to see and hear so eminent a representative of our public men the great majority were there because of a profound interest in the issues of the day and an earnest desire to hear them discussed by one so well fitted to do it. The speech was a masterly presentation of the condi- tion of the country and the remedy for existing evils. The contrast between the conservative elements of society that are supporting McKinley and those which controlled the Chicago convention and are now supporting Bryan was foreibly drawn. It was just the speech we needed at this juncture. It will rouse the Republicans of San Francisco to mew efforts and send them to the work of the closing weeks 6f the campaign with a resistless vim and vigor. In times of commercial disturbance, financial difficulty and industrial dis- tress, the financial theorist and experi- mentalist has his opportunity; but he never proposes, and never has, on these occasions, but one remedy, and that is debased currency. Manufacture more so-called money, and make money cheap. In every instance, in the whole history of the world, where money has been debased. the standard of money destroyed and the currency cheapened, it has ruined the nation, destroyed industry, free-silverites shall no longer disturb finance and free-rioters shall not disturb the peace of the country. —_— 1f now the Republicans of San Francisco will assert themselves and act with unity they can carry the City by & majority that will make the State sure for McKinley and Hobart, Why should they not do it? -~ In appealing to prejudice and ignorance the Bryanites have alienated the con- science, the patriotism and the intelli- gence of the people to suck an extent that even the extremest free silverites hesitate any longer to make a common cause with them. After reading the bitter and envious words of Bryan appealing to sectionalism and class hatred it is comforting to turn to those noble words of McKinley, “The inspiring and unconquerable sentiment of this campaign is country first, country last, and country with stainless honor all the time,” business and reduced populations to poverty, despair and starvation.— Chauncey Depew. THE NON-PARTISAN PLEDGE. The action of certain Democratic candi- dates in repudistion of the Non-Partisan pledge to support the new charter in case its ratification should come before the Legislature exposed the folly of requiring such a pledge. While the tardiness of the repudiators in publishing their refusal to be bound by the pledge until it was too late for the Non-Partisans to withdraw thelr indorsement is not creditable to them, the fact remains that their position with reference to the subject is logically correct. It is a fact which admits of no dispute that & member of the Legislature is the creature and servant of his constitnency and is bound in his official action to foi- low the dictation of his district whenever it is expressed in any formal way. The members of the next Senate and Assem- bly from San Francisco will be bound by this rule and ought not to be asked to de- part from it by anybody who is not au- thorized to speak for the Assembly or Senatorial district from which each mem- ber comes. The Non-Partisan Convention was in no sense of the term a representative of the Senateand Assembly districts of San Fran. cisco or of the voters which belong in each, nor had it any authority to bind a member of either house of the Legislature to support any measure against the wishes of the voters who elected him. Upon the question of the adoption or rejection of the new charter the electors of each legis- lative district are as supreme in their right of dictation to their representative as they are upon any other subject. It follows that the action of the Non-Partisan Con- vention in attempting to bind certain can didates for the Legislature todo something which their constituents might not ap- prove was a mistake, and that the pledge which it has exacted is, as it should be, a vain and useless thing. ‘When the day of election arrives the voters of éach Senatorial and Assembly district will pass judgment upon the merits or demerits of the proposed charter, and by so doing will instruct the legislators whom they may elect how to vote upon the same subjectin the event of the charter receiving enough votes to entitle it to go before the Legislature. The proper con- struction of the Non-Partisan pledge should therefore be taken to amount to nothing more than this, that the success- ful candidates for the Legislature will, when at Sacramento, vote for or against the charter as the constituents of each of them voted here. The Chicago Democratic slatform and its leaders and orators assail the ad- ministration of their own ereation for its enforcement of public law and the protection of the property of the United States. The Republican party does not conceal its purpose to maintain now, as in all the years of the past, public law and preserve public peace, and it will never consent to dishomor the American name or discredit its honor. —McKinley. WHEAT AND SILVER. Now that the rapia rise in wheat while silver continues to fall has disclosed even to the stupidest of the Bryanites the folly of their main contention in this campaign they are probably in a condition to learn the truth on that subject and profit by it. ‘Wheat has never followed silver in any of the vicissitudes of price, nor has silver followed or been affected by the rise or fall 1n the price of wheat., There are some facts concerning the wheat market, how- ever, which it is well for people to con- sider at thistime. They show that Ameri- can tariff legislation, by increasing or diministing the American home market for farm products, has had an important bearing on the price of wheat and has ma- terially affected the welfare of the farmer. The average per capita consumption of wheat during the last year of Harrison’s administration was nearly 6)4 bushels, while under Cleveland the consumption has been 11 bushels per capita less. Dur- ing Harrison’s administration the seiling price of wheat for the last two years averaged about 84 cents per bushel, but when Cleveland was elected and the free- trade regime began the price wentdown to about 50 cents per bushel. The present rise in wheat has been caused by the reported decline in the pro- duction of the wheat fields of India and Australia. If now McKinley shounld be elected and the protective tariff restored there would be added to the present de- mand the increase in demand that would result from an improved home market, and the rise, which otherwise will be bat temporary, would then be permanent and lasting. It can hardly be necessary to point out to the farmers of the United States the lesson to be learned from the course of the wheat market. While to men in the cities that Jesson has been one to be gathered from reading market reports, to the farmer it has been a lesson of personal experience. He is aware that wheat was higher under the administration of Harrison than under that of Cleveland and he now eees that the price of silver had nothing whatsoever to do with it. The application of the les- son is plain. If the farmer cares anything for his own welfare and the prosperity of his home his own common-sense will tell him that he should vote for McKinley and Hobart, the champions of the home market for American produce and Ameri- can labor. FOREIGN IMMIGRATION. “For the protection of the quatity of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen, against the favored competition of low-priced labor, we de- mand that the immigration laws be thor- oughly enforced, and so extended as to exclude from entrance into the United States those who can neither read nor write.” In this plank the Republican National platform of 1896 gives pledges to the peo- ple upon one of the most important issues of the day. The Immigration Restriction League has just issued a publication pre- pared from data furnished by the Com- missioner General of Immigration, which shows that with the revival of prosperity in this country there has come a large ‘increase in the immigration; and, more- over, that the percentage of illiteracy is greater than in the previous year. The total immigration of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, was 258,536, and for the fiscal year of 1896 was 343,267, showing an increase for the year of 84,73l. The number debarred from entrance or re- turned within one year after landing was 2389 for the year 1895 and 3037 this year— that 18 to Say, 1 per cent was returned last year and this year 0.9. While the per- centage of immigrants returned was less this year than for the previous one, the total number of illiterates who entered wus largely increased, the number of this class being 42,142 in 1895 and 83,196 for the year ending June, 1896. Another evil noted by the league is that a very large proportion of the immigrants this year comes from Eastern Europe, and consists largely of unskilled labor. Immi- grants of this character not oniy disturb the labor market by 1educing wages, but go far toward lowering the standard of American citizenship. With such factsas these before us every citizen will recognize the importance of not merely enforcing existing laws with greater energy than has been done by the Cleveland adminis- tration, but of extending them so as to ex- clude illiterates altogeth: For these reasons the blank in the Republican National platform which we have quoted becomes an important issue in the campaign. There would be little danger of Brya appeal to discontent and ignorance if we forbade the im; tion of the discontented and the ignorant from Europe. This issue affects every other issue in the campaign, and in the name of American’ labor and American citizenship we urge all who desire the wel- fare of the country to support the men Every Republican in the First Congressional District is working hard to bring about the re-election ot Representative James A. Barham of Santa Rosa. Mr. Barham is a lawyer by profession and never heid public office until his elec- tion to Congress two vears ago. He was born in Missouri in July, 1844, and removed with his parents to California in 1849; so, in addition to being'a good Republican, Mr. Barham has the merit of being a pioneer. He was educated in the public schools and at Hesperian College in Woodland. After leaving the latter institution he sought to qualify himseli for the serious business of life by school teaching, and he labored in that occupation for three years. ‘Then he began the study of the law, and having passed a highly creditable examination was admitted to practice in 1868. Mr. Barham continued in his chosen profession, reaching a high position at the Sonoms County bar, until he was selected by the Republicans two years ago to make the Congressional race against “Tom’ Geary, who had been in Congress so long that be began to think he had a life tenure in the office. The result of the contest at the close of the polls on election day was: J. A, Barham, 15,101 votes, against 13,570 for T. J. Geary (D.), 7246 for R. J. Grigsby (P.), and 790 for Dr. J. R. Gregory (Prohibitionist). Mr. Barham was unanimously nominated for re-election to the Fifty-fifth Con- gress at the Republican District Convention. PERSONAL. C. W. Fogg, the capitalist ot Oroville, isona visit here. Edwin Pheips, a fruitgrower of Geyserville, is in the City. 8. Meyrstein, a8 business man of Venturs, is on a visit here. 'W. J. Bartlett, the politician of Los Angeles, isat the Grand. H. W. Patton, the newspaper man of Los Angeles, is in town. Joseph J. Neubar, owner of & creamery at Ferndale, is in town. J. D. Irvington and wife of Irvington are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. W. Richardson, & mill owner and lumberman of Truckee, i the Russ. 0. A. Low, the landowner and banker of Woodland, is at the Grand. L. R. Richards, a farmer and livestock grower of Grayson, arrived here yesterday. Miss Cronin of Boston is visiting the Cityand stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. H. Talfree, a mine owner of Mojave, ison & visit to the City and is at the Palace. C. Mitchell-Innes, & leading cattle 2na horse grower of Oregon, is at the Occidental. State Treasurer Levi Ratcliffe of Sacramento arrived here yesterday and is at the Grand. 8. W. Wilcox, the wealthy sugar planter of Hawaii, is among the arrivals at the Occi- dental. Mrs. Morton of Denver, Colo., intends locat- ing in San Francisco and is at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel Jolin C. Monroe, the extensive grower and early ploneer of Fresno, is among the visitors to the City. C. Gordon and wife of Irvington are in the City on a pleasure trip and stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Samuel Longabaugh, a general storekeeper, lumberman and wood dealer of Carson, Nev., is here on a business trip and is at the Russ, Philip Ackerman, Grant Pangborn and James S. Ray, all business men of Louisville, Ky., are at the Russ. The gentlemen are all gold Demo- crats. L. M. Donaldson, a ploneerof Lovelock, Nev., who owns a general store there and isalso the Southern Pacific agent and agent for Wells, Fargo & Co., is among the arrivals at the Russ, J. Leask Ross, late of Morrison’s photographic studio, Chicago, and formerly in charge of Dana’s studio in New York, is en route here 1o fill & two years’ engagement with I. W. Taber. Count Anenokosi, secretary of the Japanese legation at Washington, who is on his way to the East from Japan, has been visiting the park and seeing the sights thereabout for the last day or two. He is accompanied by K. Harigoutsi of Japan, who is en routetofilla place in the Japanese legation in Holland. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 20.—At the St Cloud—Mr. and Mrs. Frank O'Byrne; Savoy— E. 8. Heller, Mrs. E. Heller; imperial—D. A. Hulse; Astor—L. D. Jacks, W. H. MacDonsald; Windsor—J). C. Stubbs; Marlboro—Mrs. W. Green; Grand Union—M. Rosenfield; Park Avenue—Mrs. Hom; FATE OF BRYANISM DESCRIBED. Oh, de corpse done bury, But he kickin’ over head! - He six foot under. But he dunno dat he dead! | H b, En he never gwine ter git up any mo'! ©Ob, de corpse done bu: En helay down In ha bed, But he can’t res’ easy, Kase he dunno dat he dead; iz t he dead, sub, PaSR _C Lo S never gwine ter git up any o tanta Constitation. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Bryan’s campaign is rapidly assuming the character of a wake.—Philadelphis Press. A correspondent asks for a definition of re- 1t s the Latin for free silver.—Mil- waukee Sentinel. . Candidate Bryan does not belong to a hard- money club, but he would club money hard.— Indisnapolis Journal. It is tolerably safe to anticipate that a major- ity of the people of this country are not going 1o vote for & panic.—Boston Herald, When Tom Moore wrote about “Orator Puft™ he munst have been gifted with a prophetic 'vision of Bryan.—Cleveland Leader. Candldate Bryan is a failure as an educator, because the “classes” which he addresses con- tinually do not exist.—Indianspolis Journal. As the price of wheat goes up the Western farmer gains an added admiration and respect for a dollar that will goa good way.—Newark who will enforce this law, as well as all | News. other laws of the Republic. The latest way for a woman toreject s matri- monial proposition is to promise to marry the man when Bryan 18 elected.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. 8o Boy Bryan speaks of it as ‘‘the National convention at Chicago.” Even he hasn’t the cheex to call that ill-begotten thing Demo- cratic.—New York Tribune, The silver candidate would rather be Presi- dent than be right; but there are strong reasons for the belief that he will never be either.—Pittsburg Dispatch. When a Presidential candidate has the press and the pulpit almost unanimously against him there must be something radically wrong with his cause.—Omaha Bee, Mr. Bryan should lose no time in discovering that the advance in the price of wheat is a de- liberate plot of Wall street to turn the farmer vote from him.—Washington Post. Hon. Thomas Watson wants it understood that on the day he withdraws from this contest icicles will be distinctly seen dangling from the rim of the sun.—Kansas City Journal. Chicago, the place were Bryan has been most prominently exhibited, is preparing to give him the worst dpubbing that any po- litical candidate has ever received in that city. Cleveland Leader. In one breath Bryan says the country is going to thedogs, and in the next utterance he prophesies his own election. This does give a dog-gone bad look for Bryan, surely.— De Kalb Repubtican. £ Bryan has been urging the laboring men to study the money question, and the fact that they are generally for McKinley goes to show that they have profited by his advice.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. . Mr. Bryan at East St. Louis spoke of *‘the platiorm upon which I stand.” 8o he thinks he is standing on all those platforms, does he? Like the man who thought he could sit upon two stools, he will, after the 3d of November, refer to “the floor on which IMt.”"—Louisville Courier-Journal. The poll of Henry County shows over 200 out and out sound-money Democrats. They will not all vote for Palmer and Buckner, for some of them have put patriotic duty above desire to save the organization from ruin, and will vote straight for McKinley and Hobart.—New Castle (Ind.) Courier. WHAT FREE WOOL DID. An Object Le on for the American Voter. American Economist. 1 am for free wool in order that our woolen man- ufacturers, unburdened by a tax upon foreign wool and unburdened by like lax upon home-grown wool, may manufacture for a wider market.—Hon. Wi Jennings Bryan, in Congress. Let us see how Mr. Bryan's theory has worked out in practice. The comparison that we a1e now. making be- tween the condition of American wage-earners this year and in 1892 has brought us 105 re- ports from manufacturers of woolen and worsted goods. These reports show the num- ber of hands employed in these establishments two years after enjoyment of the protestion afforded by the McKinley tariff—in July,1892 —and two years after the enjoyment of the great free trade giit of free wool—in July, 1896. The results to labor compare as follows: No of Hands employed. * Amt. of wages paid. con- July, July. July, July, ccros. 1892, . 1896. 1892, 1896. 105 21,754 11,433 $628.458 8273762 Hands idle in July, 1896—10,821, or almost 50 per cent. ‘Wages lost In July, 1896—8349,696, or over 56 per cent, or as the rate of $4,196,502 & year 1n 105 establishments. Average monthly wages In July, 1893, $29, AVerage monthly wages in Jaly, 1996, $34. It &) s, then, that the Democratic gift of free 3m ‘which Mr. Bryan ldvouteg' and voted fe nstead cf enabling our woolen manufaciurers to “manufacture for & wider market,” has contracted by fully one-half the market that they used ! _ossessin 1892. Bo much so that they have been com! ~harge almost 50 per cent of their hands; to reduce the average rate of wages by §5 a month among those who were fortunate enough to retain their jobs, and to the total payrolls of the by 56 per Cent— :;rs‘lu rate ot $4,196,352 a year in 105 fac- es. ‘The reports cover rather more than one-sixth of the total number of the wage-earners in the woolen-mills in 1890, and also rather more than one-sixth of the total amount of wages paid them in the same year. . Therefore, npslyln( our results to the cen. sus figures, we find that there were over 60,000 ‘workers idle in all our woolen-mills after two of the free trade in wool experiment; also that their total annual loss of wages ag- ted at the rate of $25,000,000 a year. But the results are eyen worse than_th! cause the effect of the protective tariff of 1890 was_to ! the number of our woolen-] : 1o largely increase the number of hands working in the mills, and to largely ‘widen the market for our woolen goods. Hence the comparison with 1S90 by no means re- flects a proper comparison with the total con- dition of the industry of 1892. I tly of ployment e em; nt o to the Demoeratic trade m§ {or, and that their loss o icy of free in which Bryan vo X wages has been more than at the rate of $25,- ,000 & year. °°§m let the “object lesson” stand as it is. We wonder how many of these idle woolen- workere believe that Bryan’s latest theory— free silver—will og:n the woolen-mills. The know that, under McKinley gm:ecuon in1892, the woolen-mills were running and the hands were working. They know ihat, under Bry- au’s free trade in wool policy, the mills have been closed and the hands idle. They are-sat- igfied with this knowledge. They will turther contrast the opposing policies as expressed by the two candidates for Presidentof the United States: BRYAX. 41 am for free wool.” MWEINLEY. «If there is any one fo- dustry which appeals with more force than lanother for dehnfl\:a Quties 1t _is this. We canzot afford as & Da- tion to permit this in- dustry to be lobger crippied.” Mr. Bryan would continue existing condi- tions. l?. McKinley will restore the condi- tions of 1892. RISING WHEAT, FALLING SILVER. The recent advance in the price of wheatand other farm products 1s s cold fact that gives the Bryan Populists no end of trouble. Bryan himself seems to have been judicious enough to let it alone. Others have exposed them- selves to tne operation of thst buzzsaw with nosmall detriment to their tissues. Accord- ing to these philosophers the prices of wheat ana otner farm proaucts have fallen since 1873 Decause in that year Congress did not provide for coining a silver piece which was not then 1D u se as money at all and never has been to any appreciable extent from the establish- ment of the mint down. They persistently as- serted that the fsll of wheat had kept pace with the fall of silver. The assertion was un- true, but it seemed to be useless to prove its falsity, for the Populists simply ignored the proot and reiterated the falsehoo The ad- vance in the price of wheat, corn, etc., comes most opportunely not only for the good of the farmer, but as an exposure of the Populist falsehood that goes siralght to every farmer and cannot be hid awsy.—Chicago Chronicle. Silver has gone so low since Mr. Bryon began his campaign that the bullion value of a silver dollar s now less than 50 cents, and in the same time wheat has gone beyond 75 cents & bushel, According to Mr. Bryan, wheat ought ‘to be less than 58 cents & bushel, but, unfortunately for him, the law of demand and supply does precisely for wheat what it does for silver. When people want wheat and there 0t enough wheat 1o mwly their needs the value of wheat goes up. ‘nen people do not want wheat because theéy have more than they can consume, or there is more than they are able 10 buy, the value of wheat goes down. That is what is the trouble with silver. There is more silver in the world than is needed for coinh:{l purposes. More silver is produced than the world can use with advantage to itself. Therefore, the value of silver goes down, and 1t will hep on going down.—New York Press. e e THE SILVER TRUST. New York Advertiser. The Worid has been doing splendid work in exposing the plots of the silver trust. The great mass of facts and figures which have been laid before the American people should convince fair-minded men that the members of the silver trust are only anxious io double and quadruple their own vast fortunes, and care mothing whatever who may be hurt in so doing. The commerce of the Nation may be paralyzed and the good name of the States scorned and jeered at in every part of the world, but what do the mine owners care! It is asserted thut in Colorado alone a ‘‘boodle fund” of over £300,000 has been raised to help the free silver campaign. If Bryan should be elected and free coinage of silver should be brought about the silver-mine owners expect 10 realize enormously. Not all of them believe that silver can be “raised” in value o $1 29 an ounce, as Bryan professes to believe, but they seem to be quite sure that there will some sort of an increase in price, and it is this, great or small, that they are after. The total profit they would obtain is almost 100 large to caiculate, Itis estimated thatin the State of Colorado alone the mines there, already appraised st $122,350,000, would double in value. This, of course, is on the position that silyer would increase in value with the election of Bryan. This is where the real interest is in Bryan’s election. The only men who want him to succeed are the members of the dichonest sil- ver trust, who hope to add millions a year to their already large fortunes. In each of the mining States they are subscribing liberally to the corruption funds. They can well afford to doso. It is the last chance they will ever have to put the silver question 0 & vote. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Teacher—Now, children, what is an opti- mist? Wise boy—He’s a 1an what fits you with glasses, s0's everything looks pretty.— Philadelphia North American, “What are you doing down there so long 1’ shouted the proprietor to Rastus. «“Helpin’ ‘Lias, sah.” «“What's 'Lias doing 2 “Nuffin’.""—Detroit Free Press. “What are you crying for, little girl?"”’ “Because my brother keeps pinching me.” “And why do you pinch your sister all the time, little boy 7"’ «“Becsuse she keeps crying.”—Das Kleine Witzblatt. Black—Who was that man I saw you run- ning from just now? Isit possible that he is one of your wife’s former suitors and that he wants to kill you? Benedict—Hush! Don’t, for heaven's sake, let him find out where we are. Why, man, that’s an insurance agent. Cleveland Leader. 1ady who was looking about in a bric-a brfie .th with a view to purchasing some- thing old noticed a quaint figure, the head and shoulders of which appeared above the counter. *“What is that Japanese idol over ere worth?” she inquired. 'h'rhae salesman replq:cd in a subdued tone: “Worta about £10,000, madam; it’s the pro- prietor.”—London Tit-Bits. —e— -LADY’S WAIST WITH BOLERO. A simple design of extreme elegance has & short bolero over a full seamless waist. The boiero is eut square across the back, having waist visible four or five inches above belt. The sleeves aro cu:inone piece, which fits smoothly almost to arm size. The basque is gt :lmlu, banging in graceful ripples in the ck. A dress of mixed wool, in which green and prune color predominated, had bolero and sleeves of prune-colored velyet, jacket being embroidered in shades of green and spangles to match same tints in the goods. The collar was of the velvet. B A dress of black-blue bengalino had jscket and sleeves of dark-green velvet. On theskirt were motifs in chenille embroldery in green to match velvet. A brown and green mixture in wool had s imn velvet bolero, with sleeves of the goods. he bolero was embroidered in greens and browns, and was edged with tiny frills of brown and green chiffon. BEsT peanut taffy in the world. Townsend's* S e SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————————— Dobson—Do you believe in second sight? Hobson—No, but my wife does. When I go shopping with her she slways says to the clerk: “T'll come in and look at these again.” New York Commercial Advetiser. Through Sleeping Cars to Chieago. The Atlantic and Pacific Raliroad, Ssnta Fa route, will continue to run aally through from Oakland to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, siso upholstered tourist sleewtog-cars, leaving every afierncon. 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We have 500 All-wool Men’s Suits, regu- lar value in any retail store, $15.00. For this week only we will sell them for $5.55. They are well made Cassimere, Cheviot and Tweed Suits, correct in style and perfect in fit. We keep them in repair for one year free of charge—an absolute gnarantee of quality. This is the most remarkable sale ever in San Francisco—it cannot be equaled. Money back if not suited. week. Worsted Trousers, worth $6—$2.05 this CoLumsian WooLen MiLLs (S. N. WOOD & C0.), MARKET 54| STREET.