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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-10

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The herald., 1896-07-19
OPEN AND CLOSED MINIS

Arguing in favor Of the ability of the
United States to maintain the parity of
the two money metals by opening its
mints to both without discrimination
against either, Moreton Frewen cites
the testimony of Lord Aldenham before
the currency commission in 1886, in
which he declared that America with
open mints could certainly compass it
without outside help. "Since that evil
dence was given" says Mr. Frewen,
what have we seen? On a certain Mon
day in June, 1893, we saw the two metals
at a parity of to "a; on the Friday of
that week the parity had become l TO
30ia. And why? Because the Indian
mints had been closed to free coinage.
Now, it is not possible to argue serious
ly that. while the closing of the Indian
mints had thus enormously reduced the
gold price of silver, yet the reopening of
those mints would have failed to bring
about a rise; so that it is fair to assume
that if between Monday and Friday the
ratio fell from l to "a to l to 301a, then
between Friday and Tuesday, had the
Indian mints been reOpened the ratio
would have risen from l to 3012 to l to-
"a. And supposing, further that on the
Tuesday the United States had accepted
free coinage at l to 16, is it inherently
improbable that such a vast country,
with such boundless exporting capac-
ity, could have lifted silver to 5S1ad?
Permit me to recapitulate. The off
ference between open mints and closed
mints in India has been demonstrated
by the experiment of 1888 to be silver at
301ad, and silver at 3S12d, and, this hav-
ing been ascertaned, it is folly, it is
lunacy, It is the dishonesty that the New
York press so glibly declares it, If we
venture to hold that the difference be-
tween open mints in the United States
and closed mints in the United States is
the entire difference Between 3S1hd and
5Sl2d? In other words if India con-
tributes % per cent lift to silver by
giving 1t free coinage, why cannot she
lift the ratio from Ito 2i to l to 1872"
The herald., 1896-07-19
LOCAL OIL NOTES AND PRICES
Extension of tho Southern End Of the Field.
Consumption and Production

Little of especial interest is going on
in oil circles these davs- hut everything
| is maintaining the even tenor OF its
way. There are some twenty-eight
strings of tools working in the field, some
on new and others on deepening old
holes. The greatest activity is mani
tested in the region just south of First
street, between Union and Belmont
avenues. Three months ago there were
but two wells in this vicinity. while
now there are twenty or more. and all
showing up we'll. At the other end Of
the field just the reverse conditions pre-
vail.
The district bounded by Court, Tenn
pie, Edgware road and Figueroa street
is about played out, and the wells are
failing rapidly every day. 1t is the opin-
ion of good authorities that the local
field is but a pool. and that its limits
have been pretty we'll defined on all
sides except the south or southwest. If
this is the case and there is not vein
or strata of oil which can be followed
out any day the final limits of the field
may be located-then 1T VIII be ques-
ton of finding another pool somewhere.
Stocks of oil remain about the same,
with perhaps small diminution The
price is fairly we'll maintained although
same sales at so cents and 81 at the wells
are reported. Very little oil is being
The herald., 1896-07-19

ufactures. and Of some. Of the articles
that enter into those manufactures, and
the artificial price which protection per-
mits the exaction of. His industry is
one Of the kind which cannot be protect
ed, and 1t, with others of the kind, fur
nish the picking for the beneficiaries Of
protective tariffs. The farmer sells un-
der free trade conditions and buys the
things needed to ciothe, feed and house
his family and himself, and to assist
him in production, under the restricted,
comparatively non-competitive condi-
tions of protection. The price of what
he sells is fixed by the world. The price
Of what he buys is fixed by the tariff
buttressed trusts and combinations at
home. No wonder so many industrious.
frugal farmers have not, in spite of years
Of ceaseless effort, been able to get over
the line Of poverty.
The herald., 1896-07-19
ANOTHER GOOD MOVE

The San Francisco grand jury has
taken up the examination of the larger
assessments in the city. The first re-
port on this matter shows a shortage of
over eleven millions Of dollars in the
assessments of San Francisco corpora
tions. Alameda county has an assessor
who has made things very lively for the
great corporations there, and especially
for the Southern Pacific company of
Kentucky. In default of an assessor
who has any ideas beyond getting all
there is in the Office for himself, or in
other words, drawing from the taxpay-
ers fortune every year of fifteen TO
twenty thousand dollars. we might try
the grand jury method-if the court
pleases.
This whole assessment business is in
bad shape. Only the other day mer-
chants on Spring street We're threatened
with prosecutions for perjury in making
out their assessment lists unless they
stopped their agitation for the hack or
The herald., 1896-07-19
THE TWO TARIFF PLANKS

The Republican and Democratic tick
cts and platforms being now before the
people, 1t is to be expected that words
Of endorsement, criticism and denuncia-
ton will be freely spoken and written by
men of varied political beliefs. For
tunately the four candidates on the two
presidential tickets are men of ire
proachable private characters; hence
there will be no excuse for mud-slinging
in this campaign.
Rigid investigation and full. free dis
cussion of the principles embodied in the
respective platforms, however, are in
order and will constitute a lively feature
in this great contest. While the two
parties seem to be well satisfied with
their tickets, there is dissatisfaction in
each party concerning certain planks
in its platform. The dissatisfaction in
the ranks of the Democracy is by no
means as marked and widespread as
that among Republicans. On the two
great questions of finance and tariff the
platforms are widely at variance with
each other. The tariff plank in the Chi
cago platform, though condemning the
principle of protectionism and denounc-
ing the Mckinley tariff monstrosity. is
really very mild utterance as compar-
ed with what the cold facts in the case
would justify.
Yet already some of the organs of spe-
cial privilege in the form of tariff taxes
have begun to denounce the Democratic
declarations of principles as "a free
trade platform" No Jeffersonian Demo-
crat will be frightened by the cry of free
trade. If to oppose and denounce tar
if system that robs the many to enrich
the few; that takes from the masses
large percentage of their earnings to
help build up private fortunes for bene-
ficiaries of the government; that de-
ceives and cheats the farmer and the
wage-worker while pretending to do
them good; a system which in thirty
five years has stolen sums aggregating
twenty billions from industry and trans
ferred 1t to the Golfers of monopoly-if to
demand the overthrow of such a legis-
lative infamy is free trade, then let our
opponents so call 1t. and we will meet
them squarely on that issue. Many
Democrats honestly differ relative to
certain financial policies, but all are in
perfect accord as to the necessity of
wiping out protectionism. And since
the Republican party has chosen for its
standard-bearer the high priest of spec
ial privilege it will be the duty of Demo-
cratic papers and campaign speakers to
lay bare the injustice of the protective
system as often as possible from now
till the day of election.
1t is gratifying to know that the DEM
ocratic candidate for president is one
of the ablest and most fearless leaders
among all those who desire to relegate
McKinleyism to the shades of eternal
oblivion. With such champion of equal
rights at the head of the ticket the
Democracy enters the fight inspired by
love of justice and the ability to win
a MAGNIFICENT victory
The herald., 1896-07-19

dinance. A short time before It was
openly threatened By many politicians
during the activity of the Citizens
league that the assessments Of the men,
bers would be made outrageously high
as punishment for bothering the ring.
This sort of blackmail and intimidation
Is intolerable. The same means were
recently used in San Francisco to pre-
vent Judge Wallace, one of the peoples
judicial champions. from bringing As
SCISSOR Siebe to an accounting for his
rank assessment of the Market street
railroad company Gan assessment Of
three million odd, when the bonds alone
were selling at the rate of seventeen
millions). Our assessors in this county
have always been kind to the Southern
Pacific company, and SO was a series
of our district attorneys in failing for
years to collect the judgment for $40, 900
on account of delinquent taxes. The
great Southern Pacific could pay or play
as it pleased, and did refuse to pay for
years its taxes, and does not pay now
it's taxes on the Alameda street double
track. No penalty was exacted, no for
feiture or sale occurred, as in the case
of private persons.
Neither merchandise nor any instru-
ment of trade or progress should be
taxed. but the great corporations pos
sessed Of valuable special privileges in
the way of franchises-corporati
which, by the way, are constantly vio-
lating the laws, corrupting public SER
wants and uniformly avoiding the per-
formance of their obligation to deal
justly and without discrimination with
the people-should be taxed on an equit-
able basis. and made to pay their debts
or the same forfeit that the plain citi-
The herald., 1896-07-19
PERSONALS

William Whitaker left the city last
night for Avalon.
L. w. Storer, the superintendent Of the
Pacific Postal Telegraph company. is in
town.
Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Bull have moved
into their cottage on West Twenty-sec
ond street.
Mrs. A. W. Royal has left Los Angeles
for her old home in Maine. She may re-
main there permanently.
Mr.. Secondo Guasti has arrived
home after an absence of four months
in the east and Europe.
Mr. and Mrs. Truman G. Palmer of
Chicago, are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Nathan Cole, jr., of Pasadena avenue.
Mrs. D. w. Curtis of Winslow, Ariz,
accompanied by Miss Minnie Carroll of
Albuquerque, N. NJ, is in the city.
Henry H. Watkins, a we'll known lace
importer of Philadelphia, accompanied
by his son, is guest at the Hotel Lin
coin.
Arthur Wilson of this city has mar
ried, at the brides home, Miss Annie
McCloskey of Mill Creek. They will re-
side here.
Judge W. D. Crichton. a we'll known
and popular politician Of Fresno. is in
the city for short visit. Mrs. Crichton
accompanies him.
DR.. NJ. NJ Hawthorne, prominent
physician of New Orleans, and founder
of the Hawthorne seminary Of that city,
is registered at the Ramona.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy ]. X. Bigelow left
yesterday for the north to be gone for
the summer. They will divide their time
among the mountain summer resorts.
George E. Sumers, one of the largest
American land owners and stock grow
ers of South America. is at the Hotel Ra-
mona. He is accompanied by his wife.
f. A Mudgett, the San Francisco pas
senger agent of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad, is on his way to this
city on a bicycle. His arrival in town
is looked for on Tuesday.
e. 3. Osborne, brother of H. 2. and
Lester Osborne of this city, left yester-
day afternoon for his home in Wash
ington after a visit of a month in this
section. He visited the Yosemite and
other show places of the state and leaves
with regret for his eastern home.
The herald., 1896-07-19

II you are an elector Of Los Angeles
county do not wait until next November
to express your choice for president and
vice president Of the United States, but
cut out the ballot you will find elsewhere
in The Herald, fill in the blank spaces
and return according to the accompany
ing directions. In taking the poll it is
the desire Of The Herald to make, ap-
proximately a test of the sentiment of
the voters of Los Angeles county as to
the presidential and presidential
candidates, and only the ballots cast by
actual electors will be counted. Safe
guards against repeating and fictitious
voters will be adopted. The result will
be announced as soon after August as
may be practicable.
The herald., 1896-07-19
HOTEL ARRIV AIS
NADEAII,

NADEAU.
F c Simpson, F L A Chandler. city
H B Dyer, Shrvport] Mrs Chandler. do
G L Cook, 8 F z r Monk, Tucson
J A Kiser 8 F L Well, s.
o Brown. Pomona r Leszynsky, 8
Mrs Brown, do G Gillespie. n
A c Rosendale s F r NJ Brigganel Cttn
H V Hoffman. Pmnal e P Dunn. Barbra
Miss l. Crest. BstonlS S Shepard. S Joseph
c F Hirsch, N Y MrsShepard, Cmton
G. Macdonald, F Miss Morrison, Pdna
w Vallins. do U 81 Davis, X Z
F Mimnaugh,N YP kimmel, do
NATICK.
II w Nelson. CHICO W w Coultos& wife.
T o Clark, do Spr1ngvllle. Cal
G p Heminger S F w E Rapoon, Sacto
C Bonalher. Helena W Nelson, = Baroa
r + Bloom, 8 Diego s r Weston. Chicago
w Mcguire. Stratfd II Lynnwell & wife
W ] Young FL Paso San Diego
Kalamazoo, Mich, is famous for Gel
ery-also as the home of Thomas Slater,
whose advertisement appears on page 19.
The herald., 1896-07-19
LEiSUPE'S LIBERTY

Serenely to sprawl on the shimmering
sand
To open your lungs to the breeze,
Then revel in breakers and float with the
tide,
All, this is the essence of ease!
Behind you the dust and the din Of the
world,
Before you the sky and the sea,
Let the sails of your soul then be freely
unfurled
And port you where'er you would be-.
-R.TH. c.
Santa Monica, July Il, 1896.
If you don't smoke Sweet Moments
cigarettes You don't get the best
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be practicable.

The Populist party is about to deter
mine whether it is out for patronage or
principle. According to the Taubeneck
version of Populism, the party is just
as eager for them offices" as the two
wicked old parties.
The herald., 1896-07-19

shipped and the local production is bare
ly more than consumption. The new
beet-sugar factories to be erected at
Long Beach and Anaheim are expected
to be large consumers of oil. and when
they G come into the .Iqa maGfft 4il waYv vhfays
foun1
The herald., 1896-07-19
Home lien Won

The Tufts-I.yons Arms Co. Baseball
club went out to San Fernando yesterday
and defeated the San Fernando Stars by
a score of IA to 8. The feature of the game
was the battery work of Harpey and
Str0hn
The herald., 1896-07-19

The rumor that NJ A. Hanna is en-
deavoring to unload some of those first
mortgage Mckinley bonds. inspired
thereto by the cyclonic appearance Of
the Bryan prospects, is doubtless a cruel
hoax intended to depress the value of the
securities in the estimation of the tariff
barons who are to be asked to advance
money on them. Democrats should not
resort to such devices to embarrass an
already frustrated enemy. 1t is mean.
The herald., 1896-07-19
It's the Other Han

The F. Mccoy who has been figuring in
the divorce court to some extent lately
is not Frank Mccoy. the real estate
dealer
The herald., 1896-07-19

The appeal and it will be heard with
tiresone iteration during the present po-
litical campaign, to the western farmer
to stand by protectionism. is like inviting
one to his own doom. 1t is the farmer
who makes up the difference between the
natural price Of certain protected man
The herald., 1896-07-19

The tenor of the correspondence be-
tween Lord Salisbury and Secretary
Olney is decidedly favorable to an ami
cable understanding as to how the Nene
zuelan boundary dispute may be ad-
tusted by arbitration There is obvious
ly a disposition on both sides to facil
tate peaceful settlement of the affair,
and where such a spirit controls the
conduct Of negotiations the outcome is
reasonably certain to be pacific
The herald., 1896-07-19
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1t is to be hoped that the benefit an
nounced for this evening at Unity
church. in behalf of Miss Phoebe Couz-
ins, will be literally patronized. Miss
Couzins has been an able and indefati-
gable worker in the interest of her sex
and the uplifting of society generally,
and the draft now drawn on the public in
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terest in the welfare of Miss Couzins,
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in attenCur.ce.
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Crawford avalanche., 1896-11-19
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT.
Indications of n Slight Increase in the
Rate of Yield for Corn.

The returns 10 the Department Of Ag-
riculture for the month of November as
10 rate of yield make the average of corn
27.3 bushels. which is above the yield in
/, dicated 10y the condition figures in Octo-
her. Last year the preliminary estimate
of yield was 26.2 bushels. The rates Of
yield in the large and principal corn
States are as follows: New York. 31.7;
Pennsylvania. 81: Ohio. 800: Michigan.
81: Indiana. 32.4: Illinois. 4O.4; Minneso-
Ia. BOG: Iowa. 81; Missouri, !6.3; Kan
sas. 21.1: Nebraska, 31.2.
The average yield Of buckwheat is 1871
bushels an acre. against 2O.l bushels last
year. and 1G.1 for the year 1894. The
average yield an acre of potatoes is S6S
bushels, which. though not phenomenal.
is nevertheless above the average for the
/. last ten years. The average yield of hay
as indicated by the preliminary returns
is 1.36 tons. against 1.OG last year. The
average yield of tobacco is 60 pounds an
acre. against I43 pounds last year, and
7::s' pounds in the year 1894.
The European agent notes the lack of
Trustworthy estimates Of the Russian
wheat shortage. The advance in price
which is expected 10 he fairly well main
tanned will result in Increased acreage In
Great Britain. Wet weather in October
throughout Central Europe was unfnyor.
able for the potato crop. A good corn
yirld has been realized on the lower Dan.
iIiIe.
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conceded. This diplomatic victory will
set new. milepost in the history of the
United States. 1t is one II the greatest
triumphs Of a century of American diplo-
macy.
A year ago last month il was an
nounced that President Cleveland and
Secretary Olney had decided TO interfere
In NeneZucla's behalf and demand arb-
tration under the Monroe doctrine. A
year ago President Cleveland was prepar-
Ing the famous message to Congress
which gave official confirmation of this
news and which brought on the menace
OF war between the two nations. Panic
seized Wall street and stocks fell rapidly
Lord Salisbury's reply to Secretary o.
ney's mastery note was a somewhat curt
and supercilious refusal to admit that the
United States had any standing i'm the
premises. He distinctly declined to give
any countcnance whatever to the Monroe
doctrine, and appeared rather amused
that such an absurd pretension should be
set up by the United States This was i'm
line with the British policy concerning
the Venezuelan matter. For forty years
the South American republic had sought
to secure arbitration or some other settle
ment, but had been treated with lofty
disdain. The United States Government
had repeatedly requested the British Gov
ernment 20 consent 10 arbitration. but had
always met the same curt refusal.
Salisbury Yields Every Point.
Now Lord Salisbury yields everything
for which the American Government has
contended. The pertinency of the Mon
roe doctrine is recognized and the result
OF this will be an immense enhancement
of the prestige of the republic throughout
Central and South America. All of the
territory is to be submitted to
and not merely part there
Of. The agreement between the United
States and Great Britain is complete. and
II only remains to draft the treaty and
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CUBA lin THE BALANCE
FATE OF THEHSlAND LIKELY TO
BE SETTLED SOON.
Recognition of Rebels or Interveu-
tion May Ensue-Uncie Sum Is Wait
5nE-A Administratio Proposes to
Maintain strict Neutrality.


Washington ,dispatcE: 1T is the firm
conviction OF officers of the adminstra-
tion that Il crisis is approaching in Cuban
affairs, and that the only safe course
for the United States 10 pursue is TO
await developments. Many sensational
stories are atioat about immediate inter
vention by the United States and eXtens-
i've military preparations for prospective
trouble with Spain. 1t can be stated
with authority that the President re-
CARDS the present military situation on
the island rs far too critical to warrant
action 10y the United States at this time
That the military operations now act
lively hcgun by the Spanish will result
in bringing matters To such a stage as
to necessitatc the recognition of the in
surgents or intervention in the interest
OF humanity, the authorities regard as
absolutely certain. The President is 50
thoroughly convinced that there will soon
he important changes in the situation by
reason of the military operations that
are now in progress that he has not touch
ed upon the Cuban clause of his message
at all. This will be the last chapter
written.
Pending further developments on the
island, the attitude Of the administration
will continue To he one of strict neutral
ity. If there is no material change by
the time Congress conyencs, the presi-
dents treatment of the Cuban question
i'll his message will br much the same as
last year. Ii can be stated authoritative
ly that the report made 10y General Lee
during his recent conferences with the
President and the SECRETARY of State
will not be productive of any immediate
change in the attitude of the United
States.
The presence in Washington of Adj
mral Bunce. of the North Atlantic squad
ran. and his lengthy conference with See,
retary Herbert have given rise TO many
sensational reports about impending trou-
ble with Spain. One of the alarming re-
ports il that the administration has now
become thoroughly convinced that Spain's
extensive preparations at home and the
recent large augmentation Of the military
forces in Cuba are in anticipation of a
conflict with this country to be provoked
by Spain for the purpose of preserving
her dignity in the loss oil Cuba. There
is no justification for war talk at this
time. The visit of Admiral Bunce had
10 do with the repair work on the ves-
sells of his squadron and his winters
cruise