The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1897, Page 10

10 THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 6 1897, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANS GIVE BRYAN GREETING Thousands Gather From Far and| Near to Hear the Silver Champion. VAST THRONG AT FIESTA PARK AD- DRESSED BY THE NEBRASKAN. Urges the Masses Not to Permit Themselves to ‘Be Despoiled at the Hands of the LOS ANGELES, CaL., July 5.—Sunny |In other words, it is larceny under the law. Southern California has extended the glad hend of welcome to William J. Bryan, and the Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans of Los Angeles County were to tbe fore. Itis true that Los An- geles County cast a majority of 700 votes against Mr. Bryan in spite of the 300 ma- jority which he received in the city of Los Angeles, but now that he stands before the people as a defeated candidate the bitterness of the past is forgotten and the Nebraskan was welcomed with a greeting which had no politics in it whatsoever. At the reception this morning the peo- ple crowded the big pavilion in such humbers that it was found necessary to close the doors seyeral times to prevent accident, And the bhandshaking was mar- velous. California stands unexcelled in that line. Mr. Bryan used his right and left hands at once and shook st the rate of fifty-four to the minute for an hour and a quarter, After this truly American ceremony had come to an end the Lalies’ Bryan Club presented him with a beautifu! bou- quet of carnations, when upon ihe veranda in front of the pavilion which was the following: “*So I feel that whule in the last cam- paign we lost and did not win as we hoped, Few. The moral quality of the act does not de p'nd on its directness orits indirectness. The man is just as guilty if he does it in the dark asif he does itin the daylight; just as guilty if he does it through the law or not. If m>n make the laws in order that they may profit this way, they differ from the highway- | man only in that they lack his courage. Here are two men who own property side by side. The Assessor comes around and assesses one at §2000 and the other at $1000. The re- . el sult is that the one who is assessed high will | pay more thun the one who is assessed lower, und the latter has the instrumentality of the law toaid him in escaping paying less than themselves to the duties of citizenship, Eter- nal vigilance is the price of liberty. | Government is a composite photograph of | the people, and it » man iooks at this photo- | graph and’findsi: ugiy he may find that his | own features have placed the stamp of ugli= | ness upon the picture. So, if we look at our Government and find that it is ugly, this day | of all the year we should look at ourselves and see if our own political homeliness has aided | to make that picture uglier than It cught to | be. When I find a man too good to take any part | in potitics I find a man 100 good to enjoy the | benefits of a good country. It polities would | keep out of us we might keep out of politics. his neightor. | But it is a partof us, and if we want politics My friends, you ask me to what use we can put'the Fourtn of July so as to get the best re- | sults from it for the people. 1 think we can | use it to ewaken the public conscience, so that it will brand & man asa criminal. as & thief, who fails in his duty to his Government. There can be no better use toput this great day to than educate a public opinion that will | drive out of your city any and every man who | attempts to defrand his Government in the | non-payment of his taxes. There is no cily, 110 county, in the coun(ry where there are not men who are respected, who move in the highest circles of society, who are looked up to, but are robbing their neighbors by the | evasion of their proper share of taxation or | theiravoidance of the Jaw. | I wish to mention one form of taxation now | before the American people because this form | of iaxation lias been the object of n class of | hind & aecision of the Supreme Court, and % | who are the very men who would be the first | and made a few general remarks, among | (o iry to evade the law of that or any other court if it was against their wishes. "I men- | tion the income tax. 1 favor the income tax. Itisajust thx. No | man can denonuce this tax w.thout assertiug | we did arouse the masses to study econ- | that ihose who have wealth shouid not bear | omic problems in theirrelation to govern- mental principles.” Mr. Bryan was tien taken in a carriage to the Hollenbeck, where he received the committse of the Silver Republican Club, Atnoon he sat down to iuncheon with 100 persons in the large bauquet-hall of the Van Nuys Hotel, and as heate and chatted he was regaled with music by an orchestra hidden from view by a screen On the right hand of the distinguished | ma:: s guest sat George S. Patton. Thom z Cator sat next. then ex-Speaker Gould and Chairman W. H. Alford of the Demo- cratic State Central Committee. At his left were C. C. Wright, author of the Wright irrigation law; then Conszressman Maguire, with W. W. Foote, George W. Baker, W. H. Shanahan and J. J. Dwyer. After luncheon Mr. Bryan and the re- ception commitiee were taken in open varriages o Fiesta park, where the largest concourse ever seen in Southern Califor- nia hal assembled, fully 20.000 peopie be- ing within the inclosure at the moment the speaking began. Delegations from the country and many from the city went early to the place and camped there for | hours, to be able to secure good positions for hearing the speaker, and thousands of reserved seats were sold. At 1:30 o’clock the Twelfih-street gates were opened and a waiting crowd entered like a flock of sheep, numbering fully 10,000 persons whose race for seats and standing piaces was an exciting episode of the day. La Fiests vast oval-shaped inclosure that was nused for spectacles of the last carnival, and was then known as the Tribun had, with the additions made to it 1or this occasion, u seating capacity for 12,000 and standing room for fully that many more. All th space was filled at the time Mr. Bryan be- zan talking from his place on the Queen’s throne, but as his voice failed to reach the farther extreme of the ampitheater, lespite the sounding-board arrangements, many hundreds of the distant auditors went away early, their places bein taken in turn by others equally urnsuccessful in their attempt to hear, though gratified by 3 long-range view of the lion of the day. The great audience was about equally divided as to sex and dispiaved a fair rep- resentation of political parties other than the Democratic and People’s party. All listened attenuvely and respectfully, but neither upon the introduction of the dis- tinguished speaker nor in response (o any sentiments he uttered was there such out- bursts of avplause as were to have been expected. Enthusiastic applause from such an audience wou!d have been a tumult to be long remembered, but the noisiest expressions of approval were the putbreaks of laughter following the funny stories with which Mr. Bryan embellished nis disconrse and pointed the marals he sought to impress upon his hearers. Promptly at2 o’clock the meeting was calied to order by Major George 8. Patton and he made tbeintroduciion in the fol- lowing words: Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Citizens of Los Angeles: Itis my high privilege to we! ome you on behalf of the Siiver Republican 1ub wnd present its guests. To-day recals the’ fact that Jefferson led the way in the tainb.ishment of our iree system of Govern- ment. As we contemplate ihe political hori 200 of to-day we know that & momentous oc. casion is here that by the providenee of 50d the man is here to meet 1—William J. Bryan of Nebraska. There was considerable handclapping when Mr. Bryan appeared, with a smile upon his face. After afew preliminaries he launche upon his subjzct and said: How often Government hes done injustice! How often Governmeut. which, according to the Declaraiion of Independerce, derives its ust powers from the consent of the governed ias stepped aside irom the straight path of Auty and has become the instrument through which the sweat and toil of ma:y have baen zonverted into bread which on)y the few are permitied 1o eat! How often the Govern- ment is turned into an engine for the destrne tion of the r ghts of the many and for the jstablishment of the privileges of few] here is one subject which we always have with us, no matter whether we consider lhe country, the State of the Nation; no matter what party may be in force. The iubject of taxation is always with us. Is there any principle.in taxation which wiil inable us to determine that the tax law is Just? Isay there is. i point to that principle vhich I just suzgested—justice to all men. If that is true then all men should contribute to the support according to the bevefit they re- teive. The man witn a million snould con- iribute more to the Government thal the an with a thousand. Oue man has to pay $10, when he ought to bay $9, while tne oiher pays 5 when he thould pay $10. What is the result? Tt is ihu the §5 13 transferred from the pecket of he lesser man to that of the other. This is allthat there isin unjust taxation. [ cause the American people do Dot arouse | ment. Park, the present name of the | between man and man. | worth. | | | | to-duy 10 which I call your attention. | nies it, I'll prove by you that he is selfish. | you admit that the weak should be protected. | ing from & financial or a commercial stand- | 80 strong, so iree trom all interference that heir share of the expenses of the Govern- e wealthy do not bear their share of the expenses of the Government, und no mau | dare dispute the proposition. But for fear | that after 1 am gone some one may try to argue against tnis I wiil prove it. How do we coliect taxes? eunue and import duties. on liquor ana_tobacco. Does any one claim | that (his brings taxes in proportion to the | property aud income people have? No; men Py taxes on what tobicco and liquor they use, not in pronortion to their income. The | 1 1,000,000 does not pay 1n_propor- on to the man with £100,000, nor does (he | 00,000 man pay in proportion 1o the $10,000 | man. So, as v lect taxes iu this manuer, men do 10t pay their share of the costs of the | safety, the benefis, the blessings they enjoy | under this great Government. | How about import duties? People pay them on what they eat and wear aud use. A man witn an income of $100,000 doesn’t eat 100 times ns much as the man with $1000 income. Toe man with the :msll income has the greater appetite, if there is any diference. When you reaiize that the people with the small incomes pay more than their share of | the Government expenses and the men with lnrg omes pay iess then you have an icea of tie greac evii of to-day which confronts the American peepls lustead of being discouraged at the Supreme | Couri’s decision, by a bare majority, that the | me 1ax was unconstitutional, which on a former occasion was declared constituiional, I say I am young enongh to live to see the any come when there will be an income tax in the constitution of the United States. 1say noth- | ing against the man of large income, but if he enjoys it ho must pay taxes upon it. T wish to call attention to another way in | which the principle of equity applies. A Gov- | ernment to be good must work no injustice | An idea is the most | important thing a man can get into his head. An idea may reyolutionize a country. You e know last year how ideas have sundered fam. ily and pariy ties and sent men out to putinto | effect ideas which had come o them. Some- | times the only way you can get an idea into | m-n’s heads {s to get it there by surprise. We get it there in many ways. In Iowa I saw some hogs in a field, and I had an idea they were destroying much corn, and it carried me back to boyhood dayson afarm and how we used to put rings in their noses. It was not to starve the hogs, but we were more anxious to get them fat thau they were 10 fatten. It was simply so that while getting | fat they wouldn’t destroy more than they were | By internal rev- The former is mostly | What is government but a pian to put riogs | in noses of hogs? We are all hoggish, all | selfisn. It you deny it, I'll prove by your neighbor that you are. i your neighbor de- 1f 1'sey to you that & man should not be allowed to shoot another man you say, This is all right. If I tell you a man should not use his strength to inflict bodily injury upon a man, you say that this fact is recognized. This is not the only injury. It is more neces- anr{ to protect the weaker man from tne finan- cially strong than the physically wesk from the physically strong. Thedifference between the sirougest and the weakest is not great, yet If it is necessary to protect a man from the effects of injuries at the hand of the strongest, is 1t not more necessary to protect the weaker ! from those one hundred times stronger, judg- point? The first man is restrained by the law and the consciousuess of responsibility to his Maker. But the corporation has no life here- aiter. 1don’t want you to think that I would ask you to do anything wro g against corpora- tions. Lonly say that corporations are crented y and subject 10 the laws, and that the laws re created by men. All 1 ack is that the power which calls corporations into existence shouid have ihe power to restrain that instru- mentality. It ix ridiculous to say that the people are unable to protect themselves when the corporations turn against their creator. There is jast one feature of the corporation which presents itself to the American people There is one feature which can be denounced nny- where without any fear of its being defended. Ttis not necessary 1o defend it. 1 mean the trust. The only delense the trust hes is the secret defense which comes from the election of men to office to guard its interest. Isay, my friends, that the people whoare endangering the Nation are not the anarch- ists, but those who are threatening the satety f the Government are the great men, the rich meu, the poweriul men, who thiuk themseives they cau corrupt our Government, buy up Legislatures, and with safety defy the 70, 000,000 people of this great Nation. Let me suggest ona thing 1o be considered: L-t us fi.mly resolve that in political life, that in political contests, the men who bribe voters shall be branded as mean, as contemptible, and as dangerous to the public good, as the men who is bribed. Let us, also, resoive that as far as we can bring it about public opinion wlll_ nold up a man to merited shame who in- timidates a votgr 8s a man who is too mean to live in & {ree government. Iian employer has the right to the vote of his employes, let us change our laws, 4o that the emplover’s vole may be muitiplied by the votes of the men he ewploys. Tne employer has no right to the vote of the employe, nor has he any right 10 tel} him how to cast it. Public (;‘plninn is not severe enough on such crimes. ou ask me how it is that.men who bribe voters, who intimidate their employes, are respected, are chyrch members, are allowed in good society and ‘are no: in jiil. Ivis be- | good we must lrelp make 1t good, for it is here | to stay. It was the boast of the Roman matron that she bore siurdy warriors, but our victories are those of peace. Modern American mothers should boast that they can raise good, strong sons who can take part in politics without contamination. But to the main jssue: If I were to ask you what issue is ubpermost in your minds I know you would say that the money question is the most important one before the American people. Is there any way in which we can reach a correct opinion on this sutject? I believe there is. There is one principle I am going to apply, because it is deep-rooted in our sysiem. That ‘principal is that all men are created equal. Thatfinancial system is best that deals most justly between man and man. You hear he stepped | men who have tried to shieid themselves be- | of dishonest dollars, but you cannot make a thing dishonest by calling it so, What basis is there from which we can start? What is your definition of an honest dollar? You will have to build your honest monetary eysiem on honest doilars. What is the gold definition of the honest dollar? “Two hundred cents,” cried a voice. This raised a laugh ana Mr. Bryan com- mented: This is a deseription, not a definition. Their definition is that s doliar 15 honest which, when melted, loses none of its value. 1f that ition is spund, we who advocate bimet- allism will have to learn the whole economic system over again. The stomach test is batter than the melting pot test. Tll tell you what is the best kind of money—that which leaves the fewest starving men. ~ You tell me the melting pot test is the correct test of an honest dollar. I tell you that gold can be melted without a loss be- cause it can be coined without a loss. It isa cheracteristic given by law, and not a divine attribute. Suppose ull the nations of the earth should take all of the money and de- termine that we had ninety-nine times too many dollars and th:n dump this money into the ocean. Suppose instead of contracting the currency it was expanded, that_somebody should find enough gold to coin 100 times as much gold as we have now. We would have one hundred times as much money because it could be melted without a loss. Itwould be honest money. Let me give you one that is_sound and thet you can build a system on. My definition is the definition of every writer_on political economy who wrote prior to 1873—a dollar | whose general average purchasing power is the same vesterday, to-day and forever, and thatis the only kind of honest doilar there ever wes or ever can be. A dollar which rises in purenasing power is just as dishonest as a dollar which falls. The only difference is that the rising dollar hurts one person and the falling dollar hurts another. A rising doilar helps the creditor: aialling dollar nurts the creaitor. called honest? Because the creditor class has controlled legislation and given definitions to the terms used, and the financiers call any dollar bonest that grows falter every day, no matter how lean the people grow who use the dollar. Now, I would like to have an honest dollar. I wounid like to have a financial system that gave an absolutely honest dollar, but I do not expect it, because dollars are the works of human hands, and the works of human hands may approach perfection, but they never reach it. But because we canuot reach per- fection we are not excused if we fail to try to approach it as nearly as possible; and when I tell you that we want bimetallism Idon't tell you we want it because it is golug to give an absolutely honest dollar, but because it gives the nearest approach 10 an absolutely honest dollar. I have been criticized because I said that1 did not expect 1o secure an absoiutely honest dollar. 1 want to defend myself. I feel n good deal as the man did in Mississippi whom John Allen tells of. This man wanted to run for office and he preparea a petition describing his good qualities and 100k it around for his iriends to sign. They signed it, until he came 10 one cautious man, who objected, saying: '~Idwm sign if you will let me change one word.” “What word 18 that?” asked the man with the petition. “You describe yourselt as strictly honest,” said the other. “Let me strike out ‘strictly’ and put in ‘tolerably’ and I will sign ir.” Well, now, that is the way I feel about the dollar. Iwould like to have an sbsolutely honest dollar, but if we can get a tulerably ionest one it will be 5o much better than the gold dollar that we will take it for a whiie until we can getsomething better. The steble purchasing power is the test of honesty, and that doliar is the best doilar which from day to day most preserves the sta- bility of its purchasing power, beeause that do!lar wiil be the most just between man and man. How can you get ihat dollar? By hay- ing ‘a volume of money that will keep pace with the demands for money. 1f you have money increasing more rapidly than the demand the purchasing power will fall. If you have money that does not increase as rapidly as the demana, the purchasing power will rise. Dollars are creatures of law, and if you want doliars plen- tiful you have got to make them plentiful by law; if you want aollars scarce, youmake them scarce by law, and if you want dollars sui- ficientiy plentiful to keep pace with the de- mands jor money, you Lave got to secure it by legisintion. If you close your min(s to the coinage of silver you leave gold as the only money that can be added to the circulating medium, and if the supply of gold is not euf- ficient, if the naiurai production does not give you currency sufficient to keep pace with the increase of population and inaustry, your laws have given you au appreciating doliar. There sre those wno grow rich as dollars purchase more and mofe of the products of toil. I have said that the dollar’s honesty is the purchasing power and that that dollar is best whose purchasing power is the most stable. But there are some who imagine that dollars are like balloons. The rising qualities are the ones to be desired, and that balloon is the best that rises most, and there are some people who think it is the same with dollars. My friends, 1 do not want balloon dollars. Tue balloon dollar, while good for the financier, who is in the basket, is & bad thing for the people on the ground, who watch as it gets furiher and fur(her away from them. Dollars are intended to pass among the people and not to soar above them, and our indictm *nt of the gola standard is that, insiead of m"i a ust standard for deferred payments, it “become the standard of deferred hope, ai “hope deferred mnketh the heart sick.” We want 1o bring the balloon dollar down to earih again, and we want a dollar that we can get nold of when we have something to sell, We are reminded that Jefferson suspended the coinage ot tne sliver dollar, but the silver Why is it that the rising dollar is | halt and quarter and dime were still coined | sympathy with the struggling masses WILLIAM JENNINGS Throng of Twenty Thousand People in BRYAN Addressing a Fiesta Park, Los Angeles. as legal tender and stood on & par with gold. | It was the silver dollar only whose issue was suspended. But they tell us that in 1853 the halves and uarters and dimes wers made token money. That 1s true, but the coinage of the dollar was continued. I have been criticizea for disturbi party because there were Democrats who did not believe in free coinage. This reminds me of the story where a little boy had hold of the tail of a cat. “Stop puliing the cav’s tail, Johnny.” 1 ain’t puiling,” said Johnny; “the cat's doing the puiling.” Those Democrats who held to the old princi- ples were not atrighted by this pulling. No party has ever opposed bimetallism in this country with any degree of success. The year of 1896 was the first time any party deciared for the gold standard. The Republicans were ledged to bimetallism and a part of tne | Democrats declared for a straighit gold stand- | ard. What was the resnlt? The new admini- stration, carrying out its promises, sent a comnmission to Europe, not to maintain the | gold standard, out to get rid of it. ! 1 have been called a repudiator so long that 1 would like to have them secure it and re- | pudiate with us. Butl regard that comm's- | sion with pain. To think that justnow when | confidence is restored and prosperity is estab- | lished among us, is it not cruel to send men | | ng the | abroad to destroy European confidence? You will see that all parties are pledged to bimetallism. In bimetallism there are two sources of supply of money metal. These two sources are the gold and silver mines, some- | times one gaining on the other in the supply. | One commission will go to the other and say: ‘“We want you to join with us, to help us stop the advantage you have been get- ting from our condition, from our dollar of increased value; but if you refuse to join us | we will stand by you as long as the world lasts,” Is not that what their platform says— that we must have the gold standard until other people join us? It means in plain terms | that we will pay them weil if they refuse. The independent bimetallist says, *The | American people are suffering from falling prices and you have profited as the dollar rose in value. Isay that seventy millions of peo- ple have as mueh right to protect themselves against falliug prices as you others have to en- hance the value of the notes and the bonds and the mortgages you hold. We will be giad to have youand your assistance in all ways and we will make it to your advantage. We will give silver the same value as gold, a legal tender, and then if you complain against sil- ver and degrade 1ts” value we will give silver ite equal value in law with gold as a legal tender, and then, if you complain against the value of that metal we will pay you in silver, the metal which you make cheap, and thus we will force you to help us. Bimetallism is necessary. Two things must be considered in money as in food—quality and quantity. IfIam hungry and some one says lome: “Iknowofa food that the best people in the world are struggling for; itis the finest food to be had.” Isiv: “Allright; I am hungry; give me some of that food” ; and the man repies: “Whiie this food is excel- lent in quality tbere is none of it for you.” I would in’that case die of starvation ifT trusied to that one food. There is no satis- faction to have you iell me the desirable uelities of gold if I cannot get any of it ?’here is not enough go'd for the basis of the world’s money. If you make dollars scarce you make dollars d That dollar is_best whose purchasing power is the most stable. Buton this point I want to remind you that the debtor shoula have the option to retain bi- metallism. Do we have to prove this by say- ing that the debtor is more worthy than the creditor? Notatall. We place them on the same plane and after we consider them as they are and look at their intcrests then we look at the interests of soclety. If we have bimetallism it' means that one ounce of gold is equal to sixteen ounces of sil- ver. 1f the credilor has the option he wiil take an ounce of gold if it is worth a little more than sixteen ounces of silver. All the creditors will demand gold and it will rise in vyaluoe. Ir the debtor has the option and silver 1s lower and he wiil demand silver it will in- crease the value of silver, while the lessened Gemand for gold will keep down its premium and sexve to hold the two together. The speaker quoted John Sherman’s saying that the contraction of tne cur- rency meant more distress than his fellow- Senators generally supposed; that to everyone excent the capitalist out of debt, the salaried officer and the annuitant it was a period of loss of wages, suspension of enterprise and bankruptcy. Mr. Blaine said in 1878 that the establishment of goid 2s the sole unit of value would have a ruinous effect on all forms of property except those investments which vielded a fixed returnim money. These would be | enormously enhanced in value and wouid gain a disproportionate and unfair ad- vantage over all other forms of property. Carlisle said that the Bland act was in | benches who produced the wealth ‘and paid the taxes of the country. Mr. Bryan closed with a well-worded peroration. Then several hundrel per- sons—men and women, crowded upon the to shake hanas, and it was found necessary to detail two stalwart policemen to make a way for him through the crowd. Mr. Bryan spoke for two hours and twenty minutes. When he got out of the park he was taken to the Hollenbeck Hotel, where he met prominent memb rs of the Jeffersonian Club and other Demo- cratic organizations. e SCORES GROVER CLEVELAND, Bryan’s Speec. at the Silrer Repwbli- can Club’s Bangquet, LOS ANGELES, Car., July 5.—At the banquet given in the big paviion to- night by the Silver Republican Club of Lo Angeles County, Mr. Bryan spoke for | a half hour on “bimetallism,” and voiced his ovinion o1 Grover Cleveland and his administration. He was introduced by the chairman, Nathan Cole Jr., and began by expressing kis thanks to the Silver Re- publicans of Los Angeles for its hospitable reception and its efforts during the last campaign on behalf of bimetallism. By way of ilius'rating his statement tbat he was liberal-mindea, he said that his father was a Baptist, his mother a Methodist, while he himself joined the resbyterian church. Said Mr. Bryan: Iam glad to be permitted to speak for a mo- ment to those who gather herc representing not the poverty-stricken, nor the opulent, but the great middle 'class o which we must look for all that is good in our Government and in our society. The great middie class furnishes to society its bone and its sinew, its ambit.on, its hope, its inspira- tion. Those whose 'surroundings instead of exciting hove bring despair are not in position 1o do the world’s greatest work; neither are those who are so far removed from the cares, the vexations and the sufferings of life—thai they cannot contemplate the miser- ien of their fellows. Grover Cleveland is more responsible for the interest that péople take in bimetallism to- day than any other man in the United States, because he set in motion a train of events that turned the popular attention toward this question. Cleveland advocated the retirement of the greenback, and the people began to realize that the most damning portion of the conspiracy was the conversion of u_ non-interest-bearing debt into an interest-bearing debt. Then we had to have the Rothschild-Morgan contract—the most _infamons that was ever entered iuto by this Nation, b. cause it not onlyiprovided for the sale of bonds worth $1 19 at a price solow as $104Jg. That was the best pert of the conitact. The wost part of the contract was the fact that this Government solemnly entered into a siipulation by which two finar- clers were to protect the treasury of the Uni- ted S'ates. Think of it—what 70,000,000 of people thoms:lves stood ready to do. Lhe power of every European representative in the United States was arrayed against the restoration of the money of the country—a combination such as was never raised before. The people were helpless because of one influence more potent than all the others, and that was the intimidation practiced by the money-lending classes—an influence that reached from yonder down to the dirty laborer who was told that he could not get work if silver triumpned. The banker told the farmer that if silver triumphed there would be a panic and that the banker would not be able o renew the farmer's mortgage. An alien and’ foreign influence reached out to the bankers and their employes down to the la- boring men, and elected an_acdministration and declared & policy to suit Lombard street, regardiess of the interests of the people. Bayard said that he, together with all Lon- dou, rejiic:d at the vietory of the gold standard, and the Prime Minister of England dec'ared that Engl-nd was interested in the conflict which took place in the Unitea States—the intluence, that is, that a foreign financial policy can haye on an American policy on any subjeet. The disappoiniment caused by holding out those false hopes will make it impossible to repeat this performance, and we Lave four years in which tne people can study the money question instead of four months. They were brought face to face witaan w question. They tried to understand 1t, but it is a slow Pprocess 1o couvert so many people in this country and so many of them not wanting to be converted. In the test of endurance the West and the South will outstrip the East. The farmer wiil flourish when the banks will have to be closed and when the miner is so hard u that he cannot buy coin, he cannot eat gold. The people who own the mortgages wont | | | | on the farm. They must have the people T owe Motk the farms or they will let the owner of the mortzages take the farms and take his inferest out of a pact of the crop and what he can do with it. “x’v!i.‘,‘smu more in the late campaign from the opposition of business men than irom any other cause. becau-e the business meu were under a sort of financial tyrauny, and they ex- tended that tyranny to thosebeneath them. You can’t reduce freight rates, you can’t get justice anywhere because you are in the hands of a tyranny that has no mercy and that has no god but 1he desire of gain. Iam glad to have the signs manifest again that the people are awaking from the lethargy that carried them to the brink; ibat they are ields, a resident of South Vallejo, in the fi;:h!sc‘bepk, the ball passing up into his head. There are small chances for his re- covery. Constantine is now in jail and retuses to say anything regarding the shooting. Decrease in dulare Valuations. VISALIA, CaAr, July 5.—County As sessor J. F. Gibson has just completed (b_. ent of Tulare County for lhl.\ ;i’.’i’"’rne total valuation for 1897 of all property amounts to $13,610,562 A,'I:"”‘ figures show a decrease of nearly $1,2 50,000 T NATHAN: COLE; d GEO. S, PATTON. aroused and are trying to solve those ques- tions. Mr. Bryan was wiidly cheered during his remarks. Other toasts were responded to by E. H. Lamme, Jefferson Chandler, M. P. Snvder, James G. Maguire, S. A. W. Carver, William H. Alford and M. Wardall. Mr. Bryan will leave here to-morrow forenoon on the 11:45 train and will speak thirty minutes at Bakersfield and thirty minutes at Talare on the way to Oakland. His itinerary has again been changed and he will not visit San Diezo. SLUMY IN JAPANESE TEA, New Tariff Causes Consternation Yokohama Dealers. VANCOUVER, B. C., July 5—Advices brought by the Empress of China state that a great slump has taken place in the tea market in Japan since the last steam- ers sailed that could land tea on this coast before July 1, when the new tariff was ex- pected to go into effect. At Yokohama the Japanese tea dealers did not relish this fall in prices, thinking to coerce buyers, they combined and notified the foreign merchants that they would with- draw their samples and would do no fur- ther business for three days. The foreign merchants met and after a consultation replied to the communication that they sympathized with the dealers, but would extend the holidays and do no business for five days. This plan was carried out but did not materially J.elp the situation. Many growers have abandoned the sec- ond picking of tea and vome have talked rashly of pulling up the plants by the roots. The Yokohama Tea-dealers’ Guild has advised strongly against th s, believ- ing that the American demand will not be seriously affected by the proposed duty. At Kobe and other ports stocks of tea are very large and the demand light. —_—— TRAGEDX NEAK FLURENCE. Little Girl Believred to Have Taken a Life With a Bullet, FLORENCE, Ariz., July 5.—A mysterl- ous shooting occurred at Harringtons Well, on the Mesa road, about twenty-five miles from here, on Friday. Jose Mendez and a little girl were alone in the house for a few moments, while several other workmen were in the immediate vicinity. A pistol shot was heard from within the house. Then the cnild came running out | with the pistol in her hand. When the men rushed into the house they found Mendez on the floor, shot through the ab- domen and in the agonies of death. He died before an ante-mortem statement <could be obtained from him, and the cbild was unable to give a rational account of the killing, The body was taken to Mesa Qny‘ where an inquest was held, but the Coroner’s jury could get nothing satisfac- tory from ®he child and returned a non- committal verdict of death from shooting, Tnomas F. Weedin, Fred White and Charles Douglas had gone out 1o Harring- tou’s that morning and were working within a few yards of the house at the time the tragedy occurred, but have not the slightest 1dea of its cause, | LI Fatal Shooting at Fallejo VALLEJO, Cv, July 5—A row was started this afternoon 1 a saloon near Georg_m wharf owned by Nicholas Con- stantine. The proprietor followed the crowd out on the street and fired three shots from a revolver into the mass of people. One of the shots struck Charles Ere the Farewell is Spoken On the deck of the steamer, or on board the train thas 1s to bear you away from those dear to you, you will. 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