The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 1, 1896, Page 7

l THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER .1, 1896. AMUSEMENTS. Parpwrs THFATFR.— Chatterton” and “The Love Chase, to-morrow night. CoLUMBIA 13¥A1ER- “Tennes: e’'s Pardner.” Monosco's OPEEa-HOUSE — “The Captaln's Mate Tivows Wood. ORPHEUM—High-Clasy ALCAZAR THEATER.- METROPOLITAN TEMPL] evening, ovember 10. Bt e — Leap Year al y S ordien ather $ndin, Satiirday evening, Novem: ber SUTRO Ba7ys—Bathing and pérformances. SHooT THY CnUrEs—Daily at Haight street, one block east of the Park. GOLDPEN GATE PARK—Golden Gate Park Band. Paci¥ic Coasy JOCKEY CLus.—Races to-morrow Orera HoOUSE.—+~The Babes in the ndevilla he Ugly Duckling.” —Piano Recital, Tues- AUCTION LALES. BY Coox & Co.—Monday, November 2, China- ware, at 123 Kearuy st :45 o’clock. 3 8. Bascr—Mond: ovember 2, Furniture, 09 Hyde streef, at 11 o'clock. ¥ at 8 >GITY NEWS IN BRIEFL. The City went out for McKinley yesteraay. Fair Sunday—Local Forecast Official W. H. Hammon. “The Holy City” will be sung at Grace church to-day. The Redwood Lumber Company was yester- day incorporated. Tom Reed shared the honors with Major Mc- Kinley yesterday, Hon. Thomas B. Reed received a magnificent ovation at the Pavilion last night. ty-five thousana men marched for Me- the Union yesterday. was defeated by Olympic at foot- day, the score being 4 to 0. eorge Club has indorsed a ticket ost exclusively Republican. Battery F of the Third Arnllc_r)' from tonio, Tex., arrived at tne Presidio yes- Stanford e division in the crand parade yesterday |was scanned and sppreciated by admiring |trousands. \ The instructions issued to policemen by Chiet Crowley sre of interest to voters. They Bppear in THE CALL. 4 Tne Fountain Water Company was yester- day incorporated. Its purpose is to supply the fluid to the city of Sania Rosa. ““Labor’s Temptations” was presented at the California Theater last evening for the benefit of the Building Trades’ Council. Chief Crowley has issued an interesting doe- ument piving instructions tor the guidance of poiice officers at the polis ou election day. One of the new police patrol wagons ordered from New York arrived here yesterday mora- ing and is now at the Central police station. The funeral of J. G. Baston will be held to- day from Masonic Temple. He was a pioneer sud & prominent merchant of San Francisco. Ostler Joe, Candelaria, Nebuchadnezzar, Mamie Scott, Colonel Weightman snd Red P.ke were the winuers at Ingleside yesterday. The whole City turned out to participate in of witness the grand demonstration in honor of patriotism, protection and prosperity yes- terday. Japanese fete and_reception were given ay at Mrs. Du Val's residence, 1012 et, in aid of the Pioneer Kindergarten ervices will be held this aiternoon Episcopal cnurch at Lorin erected ew’s Mission, Rev. T. L. Randolph Opening s in tuene e committee of teachers which considered posed new charter has deciared that it s many improvements upon the Con- soliaztion act. Voters ought to remember that a School iperintendent is to be elected next Tuesday, Mr. Babcock does not hold over, as was at one time reported. The Wholesale and Retail Liquor Dealers’ and Brewers’ League has issued its ticket in- dorsing and condemning candidstes and legisiative measures. The escort of Hon. Thomas B. Reed from the Paisce to Woodward’s Gardens last night was rly and - weil disciplined. Along the it was cheered, The seven People’s Bank depositors accused of 1ibeling Judge Hevbard were yesterday az. reigned before Judge Daingerfield. Thoy will piead on Wednesdsy next. Louis Bagals yesterdsy sued the Market- street Railway Company for $10,000 damages for personal injuries received by being dragged by a Howard-street car. Mr. Reed’s great speech at the Pavilion last night evoked frequent applanse and marks of thoughtiul approval. It was regarded as a masterly exposition of the financial situation. Robert Miller, living on Folsom and Bix- teenth streets, fell off A wagon he was driving during the parade on Market stree: last evening and sustained an ugly wound of the scalp. California Democratic leaders are reported 1o have held & meeting for the_purpose of a rtioning some of the big offices that would Be'at Mr. Bryan's dispossl in the event of his election. Judge Hebbard was strongly denounced last evening in speeches and by resolutions at a meeting of the depositors of the People’s Home Savings Bank which was neld in the Bush- street Theater. John Giblin, a wife-beater, living at 428 Linden avenue, was released from the County Jeil yesterday on appeal bonds and was ar- Tested a fow hours later for attempHng sgatn to beat his wife. G. Cadenasso, the artist, presented an excel- lent painting of Mount Tamalpais to the Pio- neer Kindergarten Society and it was disposea of yesterday at an enteriainment with good financial results. J. M. Dwyer, a mining engineer of El Do- rado, has invented & wave motor on entirely different lines from such machines. It was tried yesteraay at the foot of Powell street and worked successfully. The specifications for the new municipal building on the old City Hall site call for Co- lusa stoue, and contractors complain thata joate ontrolling the quarry has raised the price of the material. Thomas Easton, son of Rey. Dr. Easton, 222 Haight street, fell off his bicycle in Golden Gate Park yesterday afternoon and sustained a Jacerated wound on the forehead and a pos- sible tracture of the skull. G. H. Merrick, who has been conducting a general store at 41€ Thirteenth street, yester- day filed a petition in insolvency. He owes $1194 87, and hss prnpertl valued at $350, whieh is, however, attachee A Well-Enown Candidate for Supervisor Few if any of the many nominees for Bupervisor are as widely known as P, M. Delaney, the regular Democratic nominee for the Third Ward, whose connection with the well-known dry-goods firm of J. J. O’'Brien & Co., in the capacity of floor manager, for the past eighteen years has made him a familiar figure to the entire feminine portion of the community, while his long identification with the National Guaard, having served continuousiy for fourteen years as regimental adjuiant of the Third Infantrs Regiment, has brought hin prominently before the general public. Although he has slways figured con- spicuousiy in movements for the advance- ment of the City and State he has never been an office seeker and the nomination came to him entirely unsought; conse- quently it can’ safely be predicted that with his business qualifications and bis unimpeachable integrity, no stronger proof of which need adduced than his long connection with J. J. O’Brien & Co., as well as with his complete freedom from political entanglegnents, he will, if elected, prove ever active in advancing measures for the public good, Band of Hope Moeting The regular quarterly meeting of the Band of Hope of Sen Francisco and adjoining coun- ties will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Free Baptist Cnurch, Bush street, near Larkin. The programme will consist of songs and recitations by the children, the presenta- tion of ihe prize banner to the band obtaining the largest percentage auring the quarter for ftendance end incresse in membership, and Fi dresses by Mrs. E. M. North, general_super- “Q.endent of juvenile work L O. G. T.; Rev. N. A\jterve, Rev.J. W. Webb, grand chief temp- 1N and Mrs. 8. W. Kerrigan, district superin- tendent, who will preside. v i ):’uhhm preside. The meeting is free ——————— Trunks Moved 25 Cents. Commercial Transfer Company, 43 Sutter st. Tel. main 49. Furniture moved reasonably.* MAKES A RIT Continved from First Page. ried the election of 1892 as it was carried ex- cept the people of the United States, and it is right and just that you should pay the penalty. Let me ask you one simple question: Haye you had education enough ? [Shouts of *Yes, yes,’”” and great laughter.] Four years ago you followed advice, and here you are. Do you intend to follow the advice of the sime men this year? [Yellsof “No, no.”] If you do then you will know where you will be at the end of four years more. What is the foundation of all human prog- ress? I am going to tell you thatit is con- stantly increasing wealth. Whenever anybody talks to you about a nation where wealth in- creases and men decay remember that he is only a poet, and not a propket, and not a his- torlan nor a statesman. If you will look through the history of the world you will find that as fast as men bave increased in wealth and in the knowledge o the proper distribu- tion of it the world has increasea in intelli- gence and also in happiness. You want first of all to get into your mina what weaith is. Wealth is everything that contributes to human happiness, whether it e food, a due supply of clothing or an oppor- tunity to go to a concert. Whalever increases wealth, properly distributed, increases also happiness, and therelore, when we come to consider the question of the increase of wealth, we are considering also the question of the increase of happiness and the progress of the world. You never have time for education until your earliest and most pressing wants have been attended to. An empty stomach is no basis for a fuii brain. You remembver how we started out in life without even one layer of clothing. Adam | started that way and the human race went on | in that fashion, but they soon found that for their comfort and happiness they must have | | clothing, but they thought very litile about | clotuing when they had but little to eat. So we have gone on from comfort to comfort un- til those that we have to-day, whether we ere | called poor or rich, embrace ¢ enjoyment | that the nobility and gentry of 500 years ago | had. Thereis noteven a man in this audi- ence—not even if one of those stray Bryan | shouters has got here by accident—wko wonld consent to live as the noble gentieman of even 800 years agolived in the great country of Great Britain, How would you like to have your dining- room filied with rushes and your floors swept out once a week? That they regarded as luxury. We should regard it as destitution and poverty not to be endured even in the county that gave the biggest Democratic ma- jority in the United States. The distribution of wealth has gone on in- creasing in its volume day by day and year by year, and, thank heaven, it is a/law of the Almighty that the increased comforts in this world are to be shared with the poor and what we call the poor, or notenjoyed by anybody. If you coula look back 300 years, and-l am glad most of you cannot, you would see that | whenever anybody tiaveied they had to travel | on horseback, like a cowboy, without the ad- vantage of living on & plain, and with bandis and robbers to mcet them on thelr journey, and when they got coaches they were distinctly inferior to those that used 10 cross the plains, | Railroads were absolutely impossible until | there were enough people to pay railroad | fares, and it is so with the transportation fa- | cilities of your City. They are all dependent | upon and have their origin in the increase and distribution of wealth among the people at large. No matter how rich & man was 200 years ago or 300 years ago, theré was no rail- roads for him; there was not even a macad- amizel road. Whenever 1n the great city of London the King wanted to make a progress, on the verystreet named after him, they had to have bundles of twigs and logs in the street 80 that he would notbe jolted out of existence. Regarding great comforts, I am glad to kunow they came to us by reason of the dis- tribution” of wealth when we had the great markets of America, which we foolishly threw away four years ego. Now, then, it behooves us to pay sttention to this question, and not to be led away by rhetoric, not to be carried off our feet by crosse of gold and crowns of thorns. What we want to do is to apply our common busi- ness sense to this situation. We have had a great discussion. It has lasted two months now. Iadmit that the newspapers are great educators. Iadmit that—perbaps it will do for me to admit it even here in San Franc!sco, but notwithstanding the fact that they have the opportunity to iterate and reiterate what they say every day in the week and copiously upon the Lord’s day, nevertheless when a campaign ovens the stump speaker has his day. And it is usually e pretty convincing day, because there is something in the fact of & man standing up before audiences and tell- ing them what he believes and enforcing his belief by arguments, which are presented in the face and eyesof a listening and attentive people. What has been the result of two months of campaigniug? The result has been tnat these silver men are caliing upon the rocks and the mountains to fall upon them and cover the question from sight. [Loud and continued ap- pieuse.] And they have not got to wait long. [Cheers.] NextTuesday night will show them where they are, and they will be so completely buried that it will be impossible to show any- body else where they are. [Laughter and ap- plavse.] You recollect how gloriously they started out; now sublimely and magnificently confident they were; how they filled the at- mosphere; how they adorned the corners of the streets; how they climbed all over us with figures of rhetoric to show that death rode upon the pale horse of the mint, and the de- monetization of silver is and had been antici- pated in the Apoealyptic vision. (Laughter.] Now they do not want to discuss that subject. They want something else to discuss. But they cannot help themselves. They are going to have it discussed until Tuesday night and then the discussion will be over. [Applause.] If they have any other subject to discuss, and it is worth while discuesing it, it may be of some use to talk. Just look at the dead little corpses that there are tnere. There was the crime of ’73, the stealthy demonetization. Look where it lies now. See the little mound over it. Why, they found the man who en- gineered that crime was the loudest talking silver man there was in the Unitea States of America, although he did not represent people enough to send a member to Congress. [Ap- plause.] What has become of that doctrine that we want more money? What has become of the history of Mexico? Why, there wassa time when they thought that there was no possibility of the Unit:d States ever becoming 80 good a country as Mexico. That Mexico, having free and unlimited coinage of silver, as an example to the whole world, and the test - example except China. [Leughter and sppleuse.] They said if we touldonly have the currency of Chins, India and Japan we might be some- thing, but as long as we clung to those foreign systems therewas no help for us. Where is Mexico now and where the history of China? How fond they were of all history except the history of the United States! [Applause.] Why, the lastone of them who appeared in the magazines ascribed the downfall of the Roman Empire to the vetering out of the mines of the perioa. The mines petered out and the empire petered out with them. Every evil on earth was to be attributed to the demonctization of silver. My friends, thank heaven, the light of a full and complete dis- cussion has been thrown over this subject and we are beginning to see where we are. Tne splendid demonstration to-day goes far to con- vince us of what the result will be. What was thefr argument on the subject of the fres coinage of silver at 16t01? Why, their argument was, first, the farming argu. ment, and second, the New York argument. The New York argument was that silver would &0 up upon its free coinage and become equal in value to gold. This they stated in New York, but New York knew better. Then they came into the country and told the people that the value of money would go down_to 50 cents on the dollar, and therefore the honest farmer could puy his debisat half price and be happy Now Isaid New York knew better, and I am going to show you why New York knew better. It did not know better on account of its knowledge of the fall of the Roman empire. [Laughter.] But it knew better on account of its knowledge of what had hapoened in the Unjted States and had happened within the memory of every person now present old enough to vote. These men said there will be ademand for silver. The moment the United States gives ‘it free coinage there will be such a demand that it will go up. Don’t you believe in the law of supply and demand ? Yes, I do; but what is the law they are talking about? It is that if there are a certaia number of things in the world, and there is a constantly in- creasing aemand. the price will go up. So it Will, but there is another law of supply and demand and that is, given a steady iucrease of demand and there will always be & steady in- crease of supply at lower prices. [Applause.] Thatis the history of the world from railroad iron down to furniture. It doesn’t matter what you take; if thereisa tremendous and continuous Jdemand there Wwill be & supply and that supply will always tend to lower prices. Now, that is theory and theory is not safe to trust to because these men have theories. Why, they had one in 1892. It wes that if we gave up our own market we would get the markets of the world. And we are struggling for them now. Now, I do not give much for my own theories unless T can back them up by facis [applause], and in back- ing up this theory I do not iutend to go to China, I do not intend to go to Mexico, I do not mean to adorn Japanese annals by any translation of them; I1donot intend even to 80 back to the fall of the Roman empire. 1 am going to talk of modern American history. [Cries of “Good.”] % In 1878 we had a pleasant situation of af- fairs. We were trying to get back to specie payments. We had been foolish enough to issue greenbacks and trade them off for 50 cents on the dollar for our lands and had al- lowed them to.sink down and they were graa- ually getting back to power, andif you have ever been below par you will know how hard itis to get back. [Laughter.] The worll was fullof noisy people then asitisnow. They were abusing every respectable man in the community because therz was no way in which they could become respectable them- | selves and they declared that something must be done. Finnlly we voted—I did not—to buy | $2,000,000 silver a month, $2,000,000 worth, $24,000.000 in & year. Now thatis u tremen- doussum. We talk very frequently about millions. Ihave & conception of a quarter of | 2 million, Ihavea struggling idea of half a million. I ouly know it relatively, but I understand i itis & big sum. In 1890 we raised the amount | which we were to purchase to 4,500,000 | ounces. I was in some way responsible for | that, but I thought that it saved the country from a worse state of affairs from that which these gentlemen are proposing now. What was the effect of that tremendous purchase, ag- gregating in its results 600,000.000 of coined doliars and hali-dollars? The demand was in- creased. Did the price go up? No. It wasnot | that law of supply and demand. It wasthe | other. The production increased and in- | creased overwhelmingiy, so that the result was that it went from 7 per cent discount | down to 50 per cent discount. Now, is my theory backed up by facts or isitnot? [Cries of * ! Now let me put a little question in the rule of three which has troubled some gentiemen sinceT first put it. [A voice, “Why does not | gold go down?"] Gold does not go down be- | cause there are certain classes of people in the | world. Jf you borrow $100,000,000 of silver and the silver wen: down 43 per cent what | would be the effect of buying all the rest of it? | What would be the effect of coining all the | restof 11?2 It would go down, certainly. [An- other interruption. “It would grow with the | country.”] It could not grow with the eoun- try, because we would not have any country for it to grow with. Some say that the production is limited, I! tell you, the mountains of Mexico are unlim- | ited. And another thing, while Mexico has | improved the reason why it has improved is because it has a stable government. Bandits are suppressed and men can go down there and open up their silver mines that have been closed for centurfes almost. The manufacture of lead developed the pro- duction of silver. I want 1o say to you that in my judgment the mine-owner himseli is mak- ing a mistake in wanting the free coinage of silver. He would get the only benefit, I admit, because for a time he might be able to dispose of his silver at a higher price, but he would make the mistake which a manufacturer friend of mine told me he never msade, and that was he kept his prices down because he did not dare to substitute a boom for a busi- ness. [Applause.] And the silver-nine owner had better take s lesson from that. But whether or not, I believe in doing justice to all the industries of this country. Ibhave always been ready to assist in that direction. The United States has bought $£456,000,000 of silver or thereabouts and has lost $136,- 000,000 in doing it. And I think that this shows a disposition to do the straight thing. I have another reason. Ilived in California for a little while in comparatively early days and Isaw the miners and mine-owners that helped to peovle this country, and its improvement might have been vut very far back if it haa not been for the sudden discovery of the mines. Men came here and worked in the mines and when the mines gave out they looked around them and found that they had a richer country than there was anywhere under the Lord’s sun. [Loud applause.] Therefore I look with interest upon the ploneers, the miners, Who are the pioneers of civilization; but, aiter all, payment for pio- neering must be reasonable end consistent with the general advantage of the commu- nity. We have got to so do things in this world that the best results will happen to the | greatest pum! [Applause.] Well, then, {f silver is going down, what is going to be the effectof it? I am talking about free coinage by a single country and not about free coin. | age undertaken by the whole world. A free- coinage undertaking by any country has been & failure to-day, no matter where it has been tried or under what sun. It has been a fail ure, and what would be the result if the ‘whole world took it up I do not know. The United States has made a failure of it. They undertook to keep up silver coinage at the ratio of 15 to 1. They failed. Then they undertook it at 16 to 1, and =t that time they made the silver dollar worth 103 cents, and the result was that the silver dollar disap- pearcd. Nobody was going to give anybody 103 cents when he would be paid back with 100, ‘Why, the very best men of the day would not do 1t. [Laughter.] But the United States pose. In 1834 & 1aw was passed with the in- tentlon of demonetizing silver because they wanted a gold standard. Under Andrew Jack- scn, whom these people think is their father [laughter], under Daniel Webster and under Benjamin Bentham the bill was voted for after a full discussion by three Presiden's of the United Statee—Franklin Pierce, J. K. Polk and John Quincy Adams—all of whom happened to be in the House of Representatives. These men talk abou: silver having been de- monetized in 1873. Why, that shows & pre- posterous ignorance of history. It was de- monetized in 1834 and has been demonetized ever since. And yet they tell us—you know they cen do nothing unless they appezito prejudice—that this is a forelgn policy. Weli, I like to hear anybody in this country taiking about & foreign system which has been in vogue sixty-two years. Why, it is longer than any of you were imported into California yourselves. Then they seem to think we shouid get up a distinctive American system. Personally I am willing to sccept common- sense even if it crosses the water to reach me. [Applause.] - They may say that we are 80 great that we can Dit silver by our own strength. Well, now, do not let us mistake what greatness means. The United States is great compared with any other Nation. Beventy-five million of people are greater than any less number. I will admit that. The United States is great in riches, but com- pared with the Almighty the United States is & small affair [Laughter and applause], and the United States with 75,000,000 oi people caunot add & cupit to any man's stature. It cannot change the law of nature. Gravitation works in the United States just as it does under the effete despotisms of the Ol World, and the nine Arabic figures operate here just the same as acro-s the waters. And they always will. m““g“"" beautitul n:tlphon. 0 Ppictures, etc.—nothing will change i Now, let me tell you that after 1892 you ought to understand that the ever-ruling Proviaence is not going to make miracles on your account. If you do foolish things you will have to suffer justasif you lived under the effete monarchies of the Oid Worid. If you made a foolish vote in 1892 you got four years of suffering. And if you make a foolish Vote on Tuesday' there are four more years of suffering in store for you. If you plead that you acted foolishly it won’t help you. Itis your sense that will save you, and if you have not got it you won’t be saved. Now, I want you to keep some of theselittle things in mind and do not be deceived with the idea that what is sanctioned by sensible men across the waters 1s necessarily foolish. The very men who sneer at the monetary system which existed in this country tor sixty- two years as a foreign system are the very lel- lows who re-established in this country, so far as they were able, free trade which is a British invention confined exclusively to the island of Great Britain. Now, then. I think we may safely take it for granted that if we establish a silver basis we shall go down. If we coin silverat 16 to 1 we are going to have a 50-cent dollar sooner or later. Iknow some of these traveling patriots who are stopping at every railroad depotin the country at present, say we believe that sil- ver will go up. “We believe.’’ That will do well enough for theology, becanse the lat- ter is to be tested in the next world. [Laugh- ter.] It won't do for business, because that has to be tested in this world; so until they give us some reasons for their belief we shall recollect what they relieved about the mar- kets of the world and what happened. There is no sanctity about a foolish person’s belief. A man may believe that he is going to escepe cold when he goes out Carelessly in a cool breeze, but he will find he is mistaken. The laws of nature are not suspended because peo- ple are absurd. We have this thing clearly in our minds that we propose to do is to shift from a gold standard to asilver standard. Are ten half dollars better than five whole ones? Do thirty-two quarts contain any more than a bushel? So if you have that lesser number of dollars what effect will it have on trade ? I will point it out to you. Isawin the pro- cession to-day the life insurance company people. Did it ever occur to you what the business operation of insuring lives is? In the first place lite insurance has its origin in one ot the noblest ideas of humanity, the idea of looking out beyondrthe grave for those whom we love, and it ought to be treated tenderly. What is the basis of life insurance? A man pays in year after year his money; that money is invested; there is nothing else to do With 1t, and it is invested for the most part in bonds and mortgages, and if a man owes & life insurance company on & bond or mortgage $1000 and pays oaly $500, that $500 isall that goes to the beneficiary of the donor. Without taking in all the life insurance companies but only those registered in the State of New York, those have to-day, on property $1,114,000,000—within $16,000,000 of being as large as the whole debt of the United States. The men who collect those mortgages and bonds in which that money is invested can only collect in the currency of the country, for they had the foresight of a silver leader and did not put their bonds in gold. [Loud applause.] But they went on like the rest of us, beliey- ingin the country and the honesty of their countrymen. Now they can only pay what they gave. Ifthey get one-half they pay one half. What does that affect? Ultimately 10,000,000 ot people. This little, easy scheme of relicving the peo- ple from their debts by taking them away from somebody eclse, cuts two ways. Why, if you could judge from these Populist harangues—that is, if I am not doing them an injustice by calling them Populist, ‘you would think that the p2ople of the United States were the only people who borrowed money and aid not want to pay it back. Now, just observe that trick iz their argument. They talk about the people owing money. Well, but whom is the money owed to? Why, to the people. And a man who cheats a life insurance company out of half of what he owes it cheats the widow and the fatherless. [Ap- plause.] But it strikes me there is another class of { insurance men who obtain some slizhit benefit Lout of it. Nevertheless,I have such faith in insurance sgents as houest men that I will ex- plain to them without fear. If you have $2000 on your house and dollars go down 50 cenis your house will then be worth $4000, but the policy will stay at $2000 and the re- | sult is that the upper part ot that house will | be sticking out through the policy and not | covered by it. [Laughter and applause.] | And the insurance agent will be able to sell you some more at half price. [Laughter.] Now abovt the savings banks—I cannot | dweil upon these. You know all about them | as wellas Ido. Iwantsimply to say thet any | man who has deposits of thatkind—and I hope everybody has—woula be dreadfuily fool- | ish 11 by law he reduced his property by one- | half. No, this idea of paying off debts by law | instead of by dollars is & very short-sightea | policy. |~ What this country wants is not a chance to | repudiate but a chance to borrow some more, | and how are you going to do 1t? You cannot | do it under this system thatis proposed. Ask yourseives the plain question. Let me ask of any man in this audience, if & man came to you andsaid: “I want to bor- row $10, but I am going to try to geta law passed to-morrow which will privilege me to return you only $5,” would you lend it to him? If he has had sense enough to accumulate $1000 thet man is not going to lend it on the proposition of getting $500 back. [Laughter.] Need I say to the State of California and the inhabitants of ils greatest city, to an intelll- gent audience like this, that what this coun- try needs is more capital ? Not more money— money will always take care of itself—but more capital. The United States is rich, but it has not one-tenth of the capital necessary to develop its magnificent resources. Even Cali- fornia Las not 1 per cent of the capital neces- sary for development. Here is a land, the richest that ever the sun shone on. [Great cheering.] Why, the very soil of itin some places is 20 feet thick, and when I come to compare it with New England Isimply marvel at the riches that are scat- tered on all hands; but the ricnes that you have are not for one moment to be compared with the riches that you could take out of the earth if you had more capital. [Applause.] Why, I say, shouid this State of all the States in the world soact as toscare the capital of the globe away from it? If you want to borrow money of anybody you have to suit them, and they will be ready enough to lend it as sure as they think they are safe. Some people do not understand the differ- ence between interest and the rate per cent. I suppose you can borrow money in California now, can’t you? that is, after the election scare. [Laughter.] Thirly-two years ago money was letting here for 3 per cent per month in real estate security. The real diffi- culty then was this: The towns grew up one dey and disappeared the next,and the con- sequence was that real estate security was not 80 valuable, and a man had to get 36 per cent per year to be sure of his investment. Butnow you sre liable to be left with a town of palaces instead of & town of shanties, so you can get money at a much less rate. The legitimate rate may be anywhere from 4 10 8 per cent, but the moment a man lends hus principal he must have a greater rate. At the present time a man will charge a rate per cent that will insure him sgainst the peripa- tetic travelers of the country. That is what he would do now should California join that crowd, [Applause.] 4 Does she want tostay her own development ? [Cries of “No!”] Well, she knows, and next Tuesday willauswer. [Applause.] Now then, I think I have shown you that there can be no possible advantage arising from the efforts to change our standard, but there isone thing I want to eall your attention to, and that is if we do change it we change it for a more fluctuating one than we have now. We leave the civilized nations of the worid and join the uncivilized ones. [Great ap- plause.] More than that, trade is not going upin an ovation. [Applause.] Trade is the patient growth of the slow centuries, and the trade of the silver countries to-day is absorbed by other countries. What we want is the American market for American productions. I do not want to ob- trude the tariff upon you. Iadmit that there is something due to the Demoeratic brothers who arc so manfully standing up for the right in this campaign. It is a comfort to every toinking man who has hopes cf the future of this land—it is a comfort to them how manful & stand these men are taking. Those of us who are not leaving party do not realize how d flicult it is, and they will never wet half the credit that is actuaily due them. Yet, I very sincerely believe that if we shoufd establish a tariff upon sound business prin- ciples, which should make Anrericansdo the work of America, the Democrat would forgive us for doing it. [Great cheering.] You see, my Irienas, the coundition of my voice. Ishould beglad totalk to you more upon this subject, but I want to remimnd you that it is worth while to go with the good party that has & good history. I want to remind you of the. fact that for two and thirty years the whole of this country was most magnifi- cently prosperous, and when I think of those thirty-two years and compare them witn the four last dismal years, I feel somehow as if I lived in another land and belonged to another people. For thirty-two years the United States of America paid off its debt at the rate of $62,000,000 for each and every year that passed. When I think of those glorious years Ilong to see them return, and I have abiding faith—which will be justified next Tuesday— [uprourious apolause] that this great country, under the leadership of McKinley and Hobart [wild cheering], under the leadership of the grand old Republican party, will take not only its own place (its old place, too), buta loftier place among the nations of the earth. As the ex-Speaker of the House of Rep- resentatives took his seat there burst forih irom that immense crowd a spontaneous burst of applause, that swelled in strength and volume until it exhausted itself be- cause of its very force, only to be repeated time and again. Men threw up their hats and howled like demons. Women waved their haund- kerchiefs and screamed; yes, actually screamed in the intensity of their enthu- siasm. Flags were waving on all sides, and their gay colors added to the optical effect of animation as well. When the great assemblage had some- what recovered there was a unanimous demand for Hon. Samuel M. Shortridee, and he advanced to the speaker’s stand and held up his hand. Instanrly quiec reigned. Ladies and gentlemen, he began, a few weeks ago the Stute of Vermont answered the call of duty, and the grand old State of JamesG. Blaine and Thomsas B. Reed filed her answer to Bryanism and Tillmanism. May we not say to the distinguished son of Malne to-night that California will answer his State on next Tuesday? [Great applause and cries “That’s right!” *“We wilil”] Let us go away from this Pavilion to-night resolved each Republican ana resoived each true Democrat to uphold the sound doctrines which have been announced here to-night. [Applause.] Let us uphold the Republican banuer; let us uphold the Republican princi- ples; let us send a voice back to the East that California stands under the Republican banner for protection and McKinley. [Tu- multuous applause ] I will not presume to detain you here to- night, ladies and gentlemen. [Cries of “Go on! goon!” here interrupted the speaker.] I will not presume, but a great Ganger threat- ens the reputation of our country; & great danger menaces the industries of our people— mechanic and merchant, rich and poor, white and black. [Applause.] Thanks forever to Ulysses Grant and Lin- coln, all men in this country are interested in upholding the reputation of the Republic and the industries of the people [applause], and I appeal to Republicans in this State to stand ; Iappeal to Democrats to walk and to the wild-eyed, deluded Populists, if there be any such here, let me say in all candor that no good can come t0 them from the crazy-quilted banner of Bryan- ism in this year 1896. [The speaker here paused for the applause to die away so that he could be heard.] B Men may defame their country, but they cannot defeat an intelligent people. [Ap- plause.] The workingmen of San Francisco may be denounced by & corrupt and a eor- rupting press as slaves, but they are men and will declare their manhood on Tuesday next. [Great applause and cries of “That’s what we will. Hooray for Shortridge.”] See to it, men of San Francisco; see to it, men of California, that in so far as lies within your power no harm comes to this Republic on the 3d of November. . Mr. Shortridge’s eloquent remarks were followed by uproarious applause, which did not die away until the majestic form of the man of Maine once more arose from 1ts seat and appeared before the railing. Fellow-citizens,”” he said slowly and impressively, ‘I want to say one word. In principles go with it. Therefore, one thinks very little of discussing candidates and more of discussing principles. ‘Bat I want to say to you thatit is a duty of San Francisco, not only to give a Republican administration, but to give us two members of Congress who stand on the St. Louis piatform. Mr. O'Brien I do not know, but I say to you if he stands on the St. Louis plaiform he will do more good to us than the present occupant. [Cheers.] “Let me say to yon with regard to Mr. Loud that I do know him, and I know him to bea straightforward, upright, cap- able man, and as Isaid to the people of San Jose, whenever you honor him you honor yourselves. [Three cheers for Reed and O'Brien.] Reed at a Jinks. After the meeting the Hon. Thomas B, Reed dropped into the Bohemian Clab, and was pleasantly received at the Unitea Service jinks! He made a pleasant little speech and received an ovation, after whicu he was hospitably entertained. TEACHERS SH 1T 1S AL AGHT The Charter Superior to the Consolidation Act. It Will Assure a Better Class of Men as Public In- structors. The following statement from a commit- tee of teachers of the public schools of San Francisco has been made as an answer to objections made to the educational pro- visiuns of the proposed charter: SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29. 1896. The undersigned. a committee appointed by a meeting of teachers favorable to the new charter, have carefully considered the ‘“‘Ad- dress to the Teachers of the Public Schoels of San Francisco” prepared by H. N. Clement E<q, and we hereby strongly approve the same as a complete answer to every objection that has been made to the educational pro- visions of that instrument. The case of Eunice D. Marion vs. the Board of Education of the eity of Oakland, reported in 97 Cal. 606, fully overthrows the conten- tion that the teachers of San Francisco cannot be elected otherwise than for life. The Boara of Education of Oakland *‘went into executive session for the election of teachers for the en- suing year,” and thereupon elected Miss Marion, among others, to teach in the Oakland public schools. Under this order of the board she began teaching, and after the termination of the year of her employment continued for NEW TO-DAY. poor flour. can be taken out. the best.” That's fair. say: “Oh! we can't tell. the label.”. . . Stop! If you get best wear out of a coat, best work must have gone into it. You can’t get good bread out of Moral: You can’t get the best out of anything, unless the best is in it; and the best has to be put in before it Now, we have a rule to test those sarsaparillas with a big “best” on the bottle. what’s put in you and we’ll decide for ourselves about But these modest sarsaparillas It’s a secret. There’s one exception; one sar- saparilla that has no secret to hide. want to know what goes into Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, ask your doctor to write for the formula. satisfy yourself that you get the best of the sarsaparilla argument when you get Ayer’s. Any doubt left? Get the * Curebook.” It kills doubts but cures doubters. Address: J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. ©E “Tell us Have faith in It's Ayer’s. If you Then you can two years more without any further order. At the éxpiration of her third year the Board of Education, without notice to_her, elected another teacher in her place. Relying upon the decision of the case of Keunedy vs. the Board of Education (82 Cal. 488), Miss Marion sttempted to maintain her right to hold her position for life or good behavior under sec- tion 1793 of the Political Code, but she failed in her contention. She was defeated. In the course of its opinion the Supreme Court used the following language: *The case of Kennedy vs. the Board of Education (82 Cal. 483) is the leading authority in this Stute beariug upon this question, and it is there de- cided that the election of a teacher for no an election for life, subject todismissel tor any of the causes mentioned in said section. That case goes quite far enough, and the principle here insisted upon carries the doctrine away beyond anything there declared. In the Ken- nedy case the election of the teacher was for no stated definite time, and it was not held in that case that the board had no power to elect fora certain definite period. Under its gen- eral powers the Board of Education is author- izcd to enter into contracts with teachers and fix the compensation and term of employ- ment. If the board should employ a teacher for one yeer it would be absurd tosay thatit could not dispense with the services of such teacher at the end of the year.” Again, in the same case, the court used the following language; “While the statute, as construed in the Kennedy case, gives the teacher a life tenure, when elected without specifying the term of service, we see DG rea~ son why a Board of Education has not the power to elect a teacher for & month or for & year. Under the Kennedy case the Board of Education of Oakland hadthe power to elect petitioner for life, but its power was not exer- cised to that exteut, and her election, by ex- plicit terms, was confined 10 & period of one year. We find nothing in the law denying the right of the board to exercise such a power.” Thus the teachers will see that the Supreme Court has expressly decid-d that the Board of Education may employ teachers by the month or by the year, as they see fit, and that they kave the generai power 10 do so under section 1617 of the Political Code, the same as School Trustees have under that séction. 11Under the new_charter, with unlimited tenure secured to all teachers now employed or hereafter elected, and the same tenure ex- tended to all employes of the City government, no Board of Education would ever be tempted 1o take such action to test the general law. With regard to he point that the Police and Fire Department emploves are sxpressly con- tinued in office by the new charter, while teachers are apparently left unprotecied, it is sufficient to say that teachers now in the de- partment are fuily protected by section 1793 of the Political Code, under thé provisions of Wich they were elected. The Board of Education appointed under the charter will be bouna by the action of their predecessors, as previous boards have been bound from year to year by the action of their predecessors. With regard to the renewal of certificates we wish to add to the points made in Mr. Cle- ment’s address that the Superintendent and his deputies will constitu:e the City Board of Examiners, and therefore wiil succeed to all the powers exercised by the City Board of Ex- aminers in the general law and therefore will have the power 1o renew all certificates when such action is required. We consider the charier superior to the con- solidation act for the iollowing reasous: First—When the constitution zhall be so amended as to permit the appointme tof the Board ot Education in lieu of its election we snall havea better class of men to manage the purely educational affairs of the -chools. Second—We shall have a liberal salary fund, guarded by the Auditor and devoted to sal- aries alone. Third—Our tenure of office will be strength- ened in itself and buttressed by the civil ser- vice rules which prevail in other departments of the City government. We congratulate ourselves and our fellow- teachers that the charter makes these vital improvements in_educational concerns and that we are not hindered by fear of any dan- ger to our personal interests from allying our- selves with those intelligent and public-spir- ited fellow-citizens who are endeavoring by their voices and votes to secure good and pure government for our beloved City. ELISHA BrOOKS, A. L. MANN, ALBERT LYSER, WaLTer N. Bush, . A. Woop, K. BURKE, JAMES DENMAN, R. D. FAULKNER, Committee. His Ho:se Was Killed, J.0. Jones, & rancher, 1iving on the Almshouse road, had an unfortunate experience yester- NEW TO-DAY. Tea is good—did you know it? Not the average tea of the market—oh no! We mean good tea. Schilling's Best — your grocer pays money back if you don't like it. 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It dashed along Noe street 10 Seventeenth, where it ran into a telegraphe Jones wag thrown out of the wagon, alighting on his head. He was. taken to the Receiving Hospi- tal, where four wounds in his scalp were stitched and dri ———— Silver Campaign Meetings. The Silver Campaign Committee will hold a meeting Monday nivht at Franklin Hall, 1839 Fillmore street. Judge Maguire, A. B. Morgan of Stantord University and H. E. Church will speak. There will also be & mass-meeting in Metropolitan Hall and another in Union Hall, Howard street, between Third and Fourth. M. F. Taylor of Colorado, Jefferson Chanaler of Washington, D. C., and Walter B. Stradley will address these two meetings alternately, and Judge Maguire, A. B gan and H. E. 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