The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. BSCRIPTION RATBS—Postage Free: 11, one week, by carrier. “AL, one year, by mail ALL, six months, by mal “AL, three months by ma ¥ and Sunday CaLL, one month, by mail.. CaL1, one year, by mall... WELKLY UALL, One yesr, by mail THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyon going 10 the country on a_vacation * n #0, 1t is 1o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given 1o the carrier or left at Ofice will recelve prompt attention TRA CHARGE BUSINES: 710 M San Francisco, California. Telephoe.......... 2 ....Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Sireet. Telephone. BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery eirees, corner Clay: open untll 8:30 0 7 £V . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wotil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Dinih street; until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 608 Broadway EASTERN OFFICE: and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. 'OLTZ, Eastertt Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo ¥OR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 1896, Tom Reed 1s coming. It will surely be McKinley. Coercion is & coward’s final cry. Follow wheat and move upward {o pros- perity. Fusion began with contusion and enas in a rout. Law, order and prosperity is the winning battle cry. The distingnished visitors may count on California. from Maine The Popocrats are on the run and now is the time to push the pursuit. The presence of Tom Reed will close the campaign in this City with a jubilee. Get ready for the big parade that isto welcome Speaker Reed to San Francisco. What would it profit this country to array capital against Jabor? Who would benefit by it? America means opportunity for every- body except the anarchist, the repudiator and the revolutionist. o Discontent will end with the bad times. Vote for McKinley and help to make everybody prosperous. Every coercion story has in it the ele- ments of a mystery story, for the villain is never named snd cannot be guessed. The only way for ithe Bryanites to escape the charge of meaning anarchy is to enter the plea that they do not mean aunything, The National flag is the only fit emblem of National aspirations, aad it is for their reaiization the Republican party lives and works. Mark Hanna has been called many things, but he has never been called a 10ol, and that is where he differs from Bryan. el Remember that as goes San Francisco so goes the State, If we would have our in- dustries protected we must work for Me- | Kinley. The only way to secure prosperity is to open American mills to American labor and make a home market for the Ameri- can farmer. There is not baif as much 1gnorance in this country as the Bryanites believe. You cannot fool many of the people even much of the time, When loyal Republicans and conserva- tive Democrats march together they take up the whole road and revolutionists have to take to the woods. The argument for free silver, like that for free trade, has been abandoned ana the Popocrat coyote does notbing but howl and howl and howl Republican enthusiasm rises higher every day, and the arrival in the State of 80 great a leader as Speaker Reed will in- fuse it with an ardor nothing can resist. The postal-card ballot taken by the Chi- cago Record shows that Illinois will be overwhelmingly for McKinley. There are very few aoubt{ul States in this campaign. Back of McKinley stands every states- man of eminence in the Nation, while back of Bryan are Altgeld; Tillman, Coxey, Debs and all the discontented agitators known to our politics. No speeches oi the campaign have been broader than those of McKinley and none have been narrower than those of Bryan. Judged by their words, the one is a states- man and the other is an agitator. ‘We are sure of victory, but we must not stop with that. Let us make it an over- whelming one, and turn fusion into such confusion it will never know where it started in nor where it was thrown out. ———— The remaining days of the campaign will be fillea with ali kinds of false ru- mors and slanderous reports of coercion and intimidation. Be on your guard against them. No American should tole- rate such insults to American manhood. From now on we will be told by the Popocrat managers that some of the East- ern States will vote for Bryan, while in the East they will be told that the Westis solid for the fusion ticket, and thus every- thing ingenuity can conceive or faisehood can utter will be said to discourage and disconcert the people. These are the tactics of desperate men, and the very fact they are used is a proof that those who use them are demoralized and virtually beaten- i THE OOMING OF REED. The Republican State Central Commit- tee has received definite information that Speaker Reed will bein this City Satur- cay, October 31, and will make an ad- dress here to close the campaign for Me- Kinley and Hobart, This announcement is in many respects the most important news of the day. 1t will carry encourage- ment to every loyal Republican. It gives promise of a wave of enthusiasm which wiil make San Francisco sure for sound money and protection. It goes without saying that Repub- licans, conservative Democrats, business men and workingmen will unite to make Mr. Reed’s arrival the occasion of the largest and most enthusiastic political demonstration ever witnessed on the Pacific Coast. Never has there been a time since the war when the people were more in a humor for such a demonstration of patriotic resolve than in this contest against Bryanism, and the presence of the great statesman from Maine will add to this resolve all the fervor that flows from the magnetic leadership of one whom all delight to bonor. The occasion should be made some- thing more than a San Francisco demonstration. T:e City on that day shouid keep open house and invite the iriends of prosperity and good govern- ment from all parts of the State to come and take part in the welcome to Reed and the manifestation of loyalty to McKinley and Hobart. The street parade should include marching clubs from ail the coun- try round, and Mr. Reed should find him- self the center and the object of & genuine Californian welcome. The time for preparation is none too | long, and everybody must lend a willing and a helping hand to the State Central Commitiee in getting ready for the day. There will be grand processions in many if not all of the large cities of the country on that day, and San Francisco will have no easy task to hold her rightful rank among them. Earnest and active work will be necessary to make the day what it should be, and to that work the people must turn now. The knowledge that Tom Reed is com- ing will be felt as an inspiration in every Republican heart this morning. Under the influence of that inspiration let the work begin. Get ready to adorn your nomes and places of business with the banners and emblems of the party of pro- tection, sound mcney, law, order and National unity. In every case let the stars and stripes fly high above all as a symbol of the Nation against sectional- ism, of the people against class agitators and of that patriotic resolve of Republicans and conservative Democrats to unite in this contest for the Honor of the Republic and the weifare of the people. It is rather surprising that so little attention has been paid to the claim of Mr. Bryan that there is a néces:ity for an increase of our circulating medium, for it is a striking fact that in France, where the circulating medium is 836 per capita, wages are cousiderably lower than in England, where the cir- culating medium is but $18 per capita, and vastly lower than in the United States, where the eirculating medium is 822 per capita. The supply and de- mand for labor, the cost of living, and the profit which invested capital can earn, determine the pay of the em- ployed and not the amount of money in circulation. Confidence plays an im- portant part. It alone can bring back the good old days of business prosper- ity, and it will not come with a 53- cent dollar.—Hon. Timothy L. Wood- ruff. THE AIPEAL TO REVOLUTION. It is now clearly evident that the tactics of the Democratic and Populist leaders in the closing days of the campaign will be an appeal to the prejudices and the pas- sions of men in the hope of gaining the votes of all who areignorant, discontented or envious. These appeals will take three forms: First, McKinley will be denounced as the slave of Mark Hanna. Secoud, Mr. Hanna will be denounced as the vil- lainous leader of corrupt corporations, and third, all corporations will be de- nounced as the despotic coercers of the votes of American workingmen. All of these things taken together con- stitute a direct appeal to revolution. The fusion orators and organs will decry every- thing that exists in our social order under the forms of law, and will endeavor to arouse the people of one class against those of the other—the debtor against the creditor, the poor against the rich, lubor against capital, and every man who is dis- contented against the existing conditions of affairs, It is for the intelligence of the people to combat this appeal by wise words of pat- riotiem, justice and law. The appeals of the revolutionists are dangerous only be- cause we have gone through a period of bad times. As soon as the election of McKinley assures a return to the protec- tive system prosperity will come back and the numberof discontented people in the community will be confined to those who are either lazy, improv.dent, or ab- normally jealous of the prosperity of others. Fortunately for good citizens the con- servative elements of the country have at this time a leader peculiarly well fitted to meet this appeal to revolution. His earnest patriotism, capable of every sacri- fice for the Union, was demonstrated while yet a youth by his services in the army. His wise regard for the welfare of the people has been spiendidly shown by his luminous service as a statesman ever earnest in advocating the cause of the in- dustries of all sections of the Union and of every workingman. His record wins for him the confidence of the people, and his earnest and eloguent speeches strengthen and confirm them in their faith that all is well with the Republic and that better times aré at hand. While we rest confident in the assur- ance that Major McKinley will be elected and that the threats of civil disturbance will pass away, there should be none the less a resolute expression of public con- demnation of the tactics of the desperate leaders of the fusion party. This is not the first time in American history that there has been an appeal to revolution. The secession leaders tried it in 1860, but the people responded to it bravely by the election of Abraham Lincoln, and when the revolutionists attempted to put their threats into effect a united people rallied to the support of the Nation and crushed out once and forever the unholy cause of sectional traitors. With an equal courage the people of to-day will meet the cry of class pr-judice by tie election of Major McKinley, and the agitators of to-day may profit by the experience of the agita- tors of 1860. Against the appeals to revolution are | Francisco the regular and legal local or- the appeals to patriotism and the better sentiment of the p ople. Against Bryan, Altgeld and Tillman stand McKinley and all the goodly companv of statesmen who support him. The American people will not hesitate which side to choose in this contest. They will stand for law and order, for truth and justice, for the com- mon interests of all, for the preservation of the Republic and for the welfare of all who love it, honor it and serve it. A depreciation of the currency is al- ways attended by a loss to the labor- ing classes. This portion of the com- munity have neither time nor oppor- tunity to watch the ebbs and flows of the money market. Engaged from day to day In their useful toils, they do not perceive that, aithough their wages are nominally the same, or even somewhat higher, thoy are greatly reduced in fact by the rapid increase of currency, which, as i1 appears to make money abound, they are at first inclined to consider a blessing.—Andrew Jac:son. THE DUTY OF REPUBLICANS. It is the supreme duty of the Republi- cans of California in the present campaign to stand solialy shoulder 10 shoulder be- hind the Republican party; to put forth every effort in every way for its success, and to do nothing which might bring ais- cord to the ranks of its sunporters or di- minish 1n the slightest measure the suffi- ciency and the glory of its victory. The position of honor and credit which California may be entitled to among the States which shall assist in returning the Republican party to power iargely de- pends upon the loyalty and unity with which those who assert themselves to be its memoers support the party in its effort to win for California that position. In a military campaign it is essential that the army shall maintain perfect har- mony and oraer among its various parts as it upproaches the battlefield where the supreme issue is to be tried. No army could hope for that perfection of discip- line upon which victory depends if its officers and regiments were engaged in daily dissensions among themselves over the divisions of the spoils of war. Inan election campaign a similar necessity for harmony prevails. Itis theduty of every person who claims to be a member of the party to support its constitutional lead- crs and sustain its regular organization in its every movement and its every part. To fail or refuse to yield such obedience and render such support would in war be aisloyalty, and it is equally so iz politics. In elections involving‘ local as well as National results every issue and every office are important as affecting the gen- eral party success, and hence in such cam- paigns the regular party organization should be loyally sustained atevery point, and every ticket—local, Stateand National —which it has regularly put forth should be earnestly supported by every member of the party. The Republican party of California is engaged in conducting such a campaign. it has regularly seiected a body of Na- tional electors pledged to vote for William McKinley for President of the United States. It has also, through its equally regular subdivisions, put before the peo- ple regular Republican Congressional and county tickets throughout the entire State. In the City and County of San ganization has named a municipal ticket and has placed at its head an esteemed citizen and a tried and faithful public ser- vant in the person of Colonel Cuarles L. Taylor, the regular Republican nominee for Mayor. Itis easy to discover where the path of rarty duty for every loyal Republican lies. Heshould sustain the regular organization and regular nominees of his party, and under no gircumstances should he be found disloyal to the one or unfaithful to the other, The Republican party expects every man to do his duty in this cam- paign. The forces that are threatening the Integrity of this country are those which bave no proper place upon our soil. They are tho forces of disorder and strife. Their success means to par- | alyze or destroy necessary executive powers; to degrade the courts, which are the chief support of the Govern- ment, and to inflict a stain upon the Nation’s credit which will take years to live down.—Hon. F. S. Black. BRYAN AND ALTGELD. ‘When the present campaign began quite a number of Democrats who disapproved of the Chicago platform and openly de- clared their hostility to it remained in the party ranks and continued to support the ticket on the ground that the men nom- inuted were not o bad as the platform it- | self. Tnese men acied in accordance with party disciptine, which all Americans re- spect, and their ccurse, inconsistent as it was, in matters of principle, was largely condoned on the general belief that since we must have a party government in this country party regularity is by no meansa bad thing. The speeches -.of Bryan, Altgeld and Tillman “have, however, removed the last ground on which these stalwart Demo- crats could stand. They now see that the ticket is as bad as the piatform and that the men behind it are even worse; that there is nothing of old Democracy in it save the name, and that there is no choice before them save to yote for McKinley or to vote for revolution. Two letters published yesterday make these facts clear to every intelligent man. One of these letters was from Coionel 8. F. Norton of Illinois declaring Mr. Bryan to be & Populist. In hus letter he said: - Our political allies in this campsign may ot have treated us as fairly and jusily as they ought in the matter of representation of Vice- Presidential electors, and this seems to pe the chief cause of complaint, ior I have yet to ‘meet with a Populist who does not admit that Bryan s the ablest and most fearless cham- pion of reform principles that the reformers themselves have chosen in the last twenty years. The other letter was from Hon. William R. Morrison, cne of the sblest leaders of conservative Democracy, containing caus- tic criticisms upon Governor Altgeld and the contrast between his actions as a pri- vate citizen and his leadersuip of the fusion party. Mr. Morrison says: If beliet in the silver provision of the Chi- ago platform is the only test of merit, what claim has the Governor on its advocates? His leases provide for the payment of rent in zold, whether to him personally or as president of & corporation is immaterial. They show that he believes and expects free coinage will result in a depreciated silver dolivr, and his utrerances for free coinsge can have no higher purpose then to deiude u*ou who do honestly believe init, The two letters taken together give an accurate summary of the situation. How can any Democzat support Bryan, the Pop- uiist? How can any iree-silverite support a ticket dominated by Altgeld, who is do- ing all he can in bis business to subvert the cause of free sitv r? Is it possible that such a combination can win the sup- vort of any considerable number of intel- lizent Americans? It is not strange that the fusion leaders have tyrned amde from the issue of iree silver as they did from the issue of free trade. There is but one way to support bo:h Bryan and Altgeld and that is to appeal to prejudice and pas- sion, to ery out for revolution and to seek to mislead such ignorance as may exist among the American people. Our confidence in th: patriotism of our people and in the strength and se- curity of American institutions has been more firmly established, as we have noted the determination by so many of our old-time political opponents to ab- Jure for a season allegiance to the party which they have done so much to main- tain. Welcome them as our allies in this great conflictand rejoice that we are able to demonstrate to the world that upon issues involving a stable system of finunce, the dignity of the Nation and the supremacy of law our people are putriots rather than partisans,—Levi P. Morton. s WHEAT AND POPULISM. Senator Marion Butler, chairman of the Populist National Committee, has given out the statement that the jump in wheat issimply another evidence that the mar- ket to a certain extent is controlled by speculation, and that the price of any product thus controlled can be tempo- rarily lowered or raised at will by those who hold the calls for future delivery. This is another form of the oft-repeated statement that the goldbugs control the world. The Populists and their allies among the Democrats are trying to dis- count the effects of the rise in the price of wheat by asserting with vebemence that it is the work of the Republican man- agers and has been done simply for cam- paign effect, It is fortunate that these men have no weight and influence in the markets of the world, for if what they say should be heeded the advance in wheat, which promises so much prosperity to America, would be checked and our people would be inducea to sell their crops for much less than they are worth. In this case the cry of “corporate power” has pushed silliness to the ex- treme limit and reached the verge of idiocy. The only effect likely to result from the statement of Mr. Butleris that it will give the people a fair understand- ing of the campaign tactics of the Bryan- ite managers. It is clear they intena to misrepresent every prospect of prosperity and distort every sign of good times into some appearance of corporate coercion and goldbug manipulation, It is hardly credible that such tactics would be found successful even among the most ignorant of the people, and it would seem that all that is necessary to refute them is the derisive laughter with which they will be greeted by intelligent men in every sec- tion of the Union. PERSONAL. T. Guthrie of London is in the City. J. T. Potter of London is at the Palace, Dr. G. Grant of Los Angeles is in town, William J, Stokes of London is at the Palace. R. H. Willey, an attorney of Monterey, is in the City. Miss Coughlin of Sydnmey, N. 8. W,, isat the Cosmepolitan Hotel. Robert Moorhead of Glasgow arrived here by the Monowai yesterday. United States Indian Agent W. E. Dougherty of Hoopa Valley is among the arrivals here. W. B. Thomas, & business man of Sacra- mento, is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. Mrs. Julius Stanland family left on the City of Para for their homie, Quezaltenango, Guate- mala. J. L. Loughery, a prominent business man of xuckland, N. Z., is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. 8. W. Smith of Portland, who is interested in salmon canneries on the Columbia River, is at the Grand. : J. B. MacLennan, the financial backer of Nat Goodwin, arrived here yesterday. Helis at the Palace. E. J. Goodsal of Towoomba was among the arrivals by the Monowai yesterday. He isat the Occidental. George F. Jasse't, a prominent resident of Honoluly, arrived on the Australian steamer and is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Edward Andros, wife and child of Auckland, N. Z., arrived on the steamship Monowal and are stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, T. Suckling-Bann, manager of a large elec- tric plant in New South Wales, controlled by an English syndicate, is here on his way to London. T. C. Moxley of Brisbaue, Australis, and Thomas W. R. Grahsam of San Jose, are at the Lick. They arrived on the steamer from the Antipodes yesterday. J. J. Brice, United States Fish Commissioner, Washington, D. C.,is among the arrivals in the City. He reached California from Wash- ington nearly two weeks ago. The Rev. Joseph Campbell, an able Prot- estant preacher of Auckland, New Zeaiand, came here on the Monowai yesterday. He is en route to England, and is at the Palace. The Rev. Thomas Marshall, D.D,, of New York, who is at the Occidental, will preach at the Calvary Presbyterian Church at 11 o’clock A. M., Sunday, on “‘God in the History of Our Country.” He is said to be & speaker of rare power. Sir Edwin H. Hudson-Kinahan of Ireland arrived here on the Monowai yesterday. He has been for several years an officer in the British cavalry in India and is now his way home. He is a young manand of great wealth, owning large distilleries in Ireland, besides much other property. He is said to be worth several milions. He isson of the late Baron Kinahan, CALIFORNiANS N.ANS N WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22.—Among re- cent arrivals are: R. 8. Neweli, Thomas D. Byers, San Francisco, Riggs House; L. R, Howe, Los Angeies, Shoreham; Llewellyn Frees, Oak.and, National Hotel. CALIFORNIANs IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 22.—At the Plaza, J. Corson; Holland—W. 8. Hobart; Marray Hil—R, and Miss Dixon; Hoffm: hemus; Imperial—M. J. Cahn; Gi Walter. WE CAN DO WI.H SO LITTLE. A little work, a little play To keep us going—und 80 good-day* A little warmth, a little light Of love’s bestowing—and s0 good-night§ A little fun to match the sorrow Of each day’s growing—and so good morrow! 4lutietrus hacwnenwedle @ resp our sowing! And s0 g0od-! » InB L A Gedrze du Maurter, iT SEEMS RA HER BR:ZEN. Kansas City Journai. The country might have some confidence in Mr. Bryan’s professions of Lostility to trusts if Mr. Bryan were not the authorized representa- tive of the biggest trust in Amerlca. After making more than 200 speeches in the inter- est of this great aggregation of capital, it is rather brazen in the young man from the {r‘“tl:. 10 utter so sweeping & denunciation of i ; SOUND MONEY AND PROTECTION. Chico Enterprise. Mr. Bryan tells us “the gold standard makes a 200-cent doller, it doubles the purchasing power of gold.” Now if this is true, Cali- fornis is right in i1, for our State produces over $15,000,000 in gold this year, which wid be equal to $30,000,000, giving us a clear profit of $15,000,000. To this add $20,000,- 000, the additionsl price which we will get for I\ ~_ il HON. S. G. HILBORN. The Republican nominee for Congress in the Third District, Samuel Greeley Hil- born, is a native of Maine and 62 years of age. H- was educated in the common schools—Gould’s Academy, Bethel, Me., and at Tuft’s College, from which latter in- stitution he was graduated in 1859, He taught school for awhile and then began the study of the law in tho bffice of Fessenden & Butler in Portland. Immediately after his admission to the bar in 1861 he came to California, locating at Vallejo, where he engaged in the practice of his profession. He represented his district in the State Senate from 1875 to 1879, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention during the latter year. In 1883 he was appointed United States District Attorney for the dis- trict of California, and removed to this City, where he resided while filling the office. He removed to Oakland in 1887, and again took up the practice of his profession. When Joseph McKenna was commissioned by President Harrison United States Cir- cuit Judge Mr. Hilborn was returned and elected to fill his unexpired term in Con- gress, but was unseated by Warren B. English, who contested his election. He was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress, receiving 15,795 votes against. 13,103 for Warren B. Englisn (D ), 5162 for W. A. Vann (Pop.) and 637 for L. B. Scrantoa (Pro.). Mr. Hilborn was renominated by the Repnblican Congressiona! Convention, and when he returns to Washington the acquaintance and influence which a termi and a half there has given him will prove of great value in securing legislation of special importance to California. our wool, hides, raisins, prunes, wines, bran- dies, dried fruif, canned fruit, pickles, jellies, jaums, nuts, olive oil, oranges, lemons, etc., when McKinley puts up the high-tariff gates against like articles produced in foreign coun- tries and we will have $35,000,000 more money in Caiifornia erchiyear under sound money and proteetion than we will get under free silver and free trade. This ought to cause a heavy shower of ballots for McKinley on November 3, and we believeit will. California will surely give 25,000 majority for McKinley. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Tom Watson believes in that kind of fusion which inhabits the hind leg of a mule.—Balti- more Life. Politice in Pennsylvania is so one-sided that the papers have to maul each other over local issues to keep their circulation—of blood.— Chicago Inter Ocean, According to Chairman Jones there are just five doubtiul States; and it is curious that not one of them is being stumped by Candidate Bryan.—Philadelphia Record. The silver mine trust is indeed very greedy ‘when it compels its traveling agent to force towns to pay hisexpenses for canvassing them in the trust's interests.—indianapolis Journal. The postal card vote in Chicago isall right as a straw, but wait till the vote of the ballots. Bryan and his followers will find that votea bale of hay for each, with the hay on top.— Boston Traveler. There are a few people so foolish as to be led to believe that any man can Te coerced into voting other than as he desires so long as no one but himself can knows how he votes.— Indianapolis Journsl. The Australian ballot system stinfulates the paper-making industry. The baliots in Penn- sylvania this year may not be all wool, but it is no exaggeration to say that they will be more than ayerd wide.—Pittsburg Commercial, The men who talk loudest on the street cor- ners for “free silver” are those who mever saved a dollar under the best finaneial system this country ever had and who would not earn a dollar under any system.—Chicago Times- Herald. ‘What the farmer wants is not cheap money, but a home market that will consume the bulk of his surplus produce right in the country without competing with the cheap lands and cheap laBor of Asia and South America.—Omaha Bee. % Neither free coinage nor any other device for debasing the money of the country conlq benefit the American workingmen; on the contrary, it would inflict upon them incalcu- lable injury and distress. — Philadelphia Record. Bryan admits with apparent readiness that Jefterson and Jackson were great men. Still, they didn’t understand the financial ‘question as well as Bryan does. That was their mizior- tune. It was not their fault. Let us endeavor to be charitable to Jefferson and Jackson.— Chicago Tribune. During most of the campaign the s'lver in the standard dollar has been spoken of as worth 53 cents. But the stezdy depreciation of silver has made that statement an excessive one. Standing onsupported by the pledge of the Government to redeem it as & full dollar the standard silver dollar would not be worth to- day even 50 cents, Its latest quotation as we write credits it with only 49.8 cent’s worth of silver.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. ‘When Mr. Arthur Sewall, that valiant cham- pion of the American laborer and American industries, built the Dirigo, the only steel ship in his 'great fleet, he imported all the plates from Enj d, bringing them over in an English tramp steamer; the work of construc- tion was superintended by an imported Eng- lishman, and the greater part of the men employed in building her were also imported from thesame iniquitous conntry. These facts are not stated as meaning anything, but simply because they may amuse Mr.Thomas Watson.—New York Times. THE GOLuLBUG N:XI' DOOR. Chicago Tribune. Tommy—Paw, who's going to be elected? Mr. Tucker—Bryan, my son. “What do we want free coinage for?” . 1 am glad to see you take an interest in such questions, Tommy. We want free coin- age 50 as to bring the price of silver bullion up to $1 29 an ounce and make good 8. Whut’s silver bullion worth now?"” t is worth about 65 cents. “+And Bryan’s going to be elected?” “Yes. There’s no doubt about that.” “Then, paw, why don’t you buy & great big pile of bu'lion and make a whole wazouload of mouey?” B “H'm—Thomas, if you don’t quit playing with the son of that infernal abug next door I'll take the skin clear off of youl” THE ROAD 10 THE FOORHOUSE. American Economist. A dispatch in the New York Tribune from Providence, R. I, stated that both branches of the City Council of that city had passed a resolution asking from the Legislature power to devote $150,000 “to provide work for the unemployed.” It is the same old_story which we have heard over and over sgaia since the triumph of the iree-trade party in 1892 WHho ever heard of the need of such a resolu- tion’ before that? The organization of so- cieties for the purpose of providing work for the unemployed is the one new enterprise which owes iis exisienee to the breaking down of our protective tariff system and the estab- Jishment of partial freec trade. It is the one enterprise which a protective tariff will not foster, but will kill. Vote for a protective tariff, which pours money into the public tressury instead of drawing it out, and which provides work for the unemployed without cnllinf upon the public funds in order to keep our idle peopie out of the poorhouse. BRYAN AND SUGAR BEETS Norfolk (Nebr.) News. A Demoeratic Congress struck a heavy blow at the sugar industry of our fairState. One William Eryan, who now aspires to the Presi- dency, was & member of that Congress from Nebraska at the time and helped by his vote to take bread out of the mouths of our work- ingmen and diminish our prosperity. Our people remember his kindness and his way of showing his love for “humanity. They thor- oughly believe in reciprocity, and they will return Mr, Bryan's will by helping to re- lieve him from undertaking the arduous du- ties of the Presidency and allow him to come back to Lincoln and trim up his lawn. LADY'S SI.PLE HOU-E GOWN. The Bishop sleeve reigns supreme in gowns of this description, allowing freedom of move- ment, as it does, with which it combines a cer- tain picturesqueness. For winter wear, cotton cheviots and colored auck are much liked, combining limitless wear, with laundering qualities and a greater degree of warmth than most washable fabrics. Brown hollands make an ideal house gown; may be mnde dainty by collar and cuffs of col- ored linen to match, embroidered in white. A dress of wool made after this model, and worn with turnover coliars and cuffs of white or flax colored linen, either of the starched or so‘t finish variety, makes a most cbarming outfit for home wear. Smooth suriaced wools are preferred, as wearing better and less apt to catch dust. ANSWERS TO (OxXEsPONDENTS FroM THE FERRIES—Subscriber, City. The distance in an air line from the ferries to the interse~tion of Siiver avenue and San Bruuno road is 22,400 fect, or nearly four miles and a quarter. For THREE YEaws— M. P., Bodie. R. P. Fiower was elected Governor of the State of New York in 1891 and served three years. He took office on ine first day of Ji » 1 y and reured Detember 31, 1894, o sl CHARTER ELECTIONS—Subscriber, City. Char- ter elections *ave been held in San Francisco as follows: September 8, 1880, 23,398 votes polled, cost $10,524: March 3, 1883, 18,764 votes poiled, cost $8866 60: April 12, 1887, 25,959 votes polled, cost $7214 99. The next election on charter will be on the 8d of next November. THE AMERICAN FLAG—R. S. R., Watsonville, Cal. The citizen of the United States who would fire in anger upon the flag of his coun- try would be guilty of disloyalty and should come under the provisions of the order of General Dix during the early part of the War of the Rebellion: “If any man tears down the American flag shoot him on the spot.” SUGAR—D. 8., Los Angeles, Cal, Sugar from the Sandwich Islands up to No. 20, sugar-cane slips for cultivation, and pumpings, as ‘molasses, are admitted free. The tariff on foreign sugar, according to various grades and qualities, is from 10 to 40 per cent. After sugar factories were estabiished in the United States, and they supplied the demand, there was & decrease in price. Ir 1794 Etienne de Bore sold his first crop of sugar, which amounted to neerly 100,000 pounds, for $12,- 000. m 1845 to 1895 the average price of fair refining sugar wi 38 per 100. GRAsS WIDow—3L. D. L., City. “Grass widow” is a corruption of ‘grace widow” or ‘‘veuve par grace.” In Engiand the term “gruss widow” was applied to an unmarried woman i who had a child, but ix ghodern time it is used to de-ignate s married woman who is_tempo- rarily parted from her husba d. In the early days'o Canifornia a sl ghtly difforent meaning atiached to the t rm. During the gold manis a husbaud would not unfrequently put bis wife, aud ‘children, if he had anv, w.ta some family to board while he was at the diggings. That he eailed ““putting his wile to gruss,” as a horse is put to grass when not wanted. The term is also appli d to « wife whose husband has run away, the wife not knowing if beis dead or alive. REGISTRATION—W. R., Philo, Cal. The pro- visions of section 1094 of the Political Code, as amended by the act of March 27,1895, seems to require when taken in connection with other provisious of the law that t voter who cLenges from one precinet to ane other in the county thirty days before el tion shall have his registration” transferred to the precinct into which he has moved. If:he voter do=s not do so if ne gains a residence in the new precinct and isnot L ferred he will lose his vote and by h.s neglect he loses his vote in the precinct out of which he moved. The educational clause, as i aff-¢is voters who are unable to read, is provided for in the con- stitution. If an illiterate man was a voterin this State at the time 1he educarional clause amendment was adopted he conlinues to vote. OPPOSED TO EDUCATION—S., City. William Jenniugs Bryan, Democratic eandidate for the Presidency, is on record as opposed to the teachiny of the Engiish language in the public schools o Mex In the House of Rep- resentatives on the 28th of June, 1894, as ap- pears from ihe Congressional record: the discussion of & bill to enaple the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and a State government, Mr. Smith of Illinois said: Mr. Speaker, I move to amend by Inserting on page 5,1n line 52, afier the word ‘control.”’ the followl!ig: “And in ali 02 which pubiic schools the Engiish language shall be tauzh.” We certainly shou d have in every public school in that Sta the English language taughi. Many of the cl zens of the present 1l erritory do not speak R and in a large proportion of thex schools the Euglish language 18 not taught. I am sausfied that the German, the French, the Spanish or any other lapzuage may be taught, but I am especially anxious, and 1 believe the people of this cou sre, that in this and all of the Siates the Luglish language shall be tausht in all the public schools. Where is the American ciiizen who wil: object Lo this reasonable provision? [To An onio Toseph.] Do you dreline to accept the amendment ? Mr. Joseph—I deciine to accept | . Mr/Hopkins of [lijnois— * ¥ % Does the gen- tleman, upon reflection, still insist upon his objec< tion? Mr. Joseph—I do, mo t emphatically. Mr. Hopkins of fllinols—Well. I trust there is patriotism enough in this House to decline to ad< mi. New Mex coin othe Union asa ~tate unless 50 just and 0 proper an amendment as this be adopted. Mr. Gear—It is a weil-known fa ¢ that seventy per cent of the population of New Mexico are either Spay sh or of Indian descent. * * ¥ It is only a proper precaution when these people conse here and ask for staiehood in the American Union to require that theirchildren s_all be taught tue anguage of the United S.aces. Mr Smith—If we admit New Mexico I hope it will be with the understanding that aithough you may now teach the Engiish langua-e, her-aiter you mus. teach it—the Ianguage of the American people ana of all our country. [Appiause on ihe flo.r and in the galleries. | Mr. Burrows—I cail for the yeas and nays. The amendment was again read. The question i (he e were—ayes 84, noes 117, ao- seut” 8, DOL voting 148 ‘r. Wilson of Ohlo—l offer the amendment which I send to the desk. The Speaker pro tew.— ‘L he question is on the amendment of the gentle- mau from Ohio. The cler& read as follow: ““And for teaching the branch of study in ali public the exclusion of other languages.” was (aken, The yote stood 81 ayes, 152 noes, Bryan voting in the negativ After line 52 insert, The question MoLAssEs buttercups, 25¢ Ib. “Townsends. — - If it were not for the contract labor law Bis. marck might be invited to stump Texas.— Philadelphia Ledger. ——————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Buresu (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * st r e 2% Bryen is booked for about twenty speeches in Chicage. That will probably move the R« publican plurality in the Western metrepoli up 10,000 or 15,000 votes higher than it is now estimated.—Cleveland Leader, ———————— State Mining Journal, James J. Robbins, editor, 628 Montgomery sireet. Reaches every mining camp in Cali- fornia. 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