The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09
HOME RULE GAINS
IN ALL PLACES
Protection Recognized as
the Issue Of the Cam
paign.
CALIFORNIA IN FRONT
What Chris Ryer Observed on
a Visit to Democratic
Mexico.
LABOR's PAY rs LOWEST THERE
Only Twenty Cents a Day for Work
and Four Dollars a Day for
Room Rent.
LABoR's PAY IS LOWEST THERE

The work of Secretary Higgins and of
his clerk, Jake Steppacher, of the Repub-
lican State Central Committee, has in
creased so much within the past week that
they are now obliged to labor fourteen
hours per day with the voluminous m ass
of correspondence pouring in from all
parts OF the State.
These letters show that Republicanism
is gaining strength in every quarter every
day, farmers and business men realizing
that protection is what is needed in the
United States to start and keep the wheels
of the factories moving. All other So
called issues are merely makeshifts along
side this one.
Visitors from the interior tell the same
story. Z. 7. Carlston of Merced says that
the necessity for protection is fully recog-
nized in that county, one of whose CHIEF
industries under Republican administra-
tions was wool raising and which indus
try was ruined by the operation of the
Democratic tariff. The majority of these
sheep-owners were Democrats. but they
declare now that they will vote for McKin-
ley and protection.
J. c. Gibson of Templeton, San Luis
Obispo County, says that the Republicans
VI tudt pdII Ol lu0 country are all rlRQJ IN
their devotion to the cause of home rule.
They believe that the United States should
cease to he the dumping ground for the
pauper-made goods of Europe.
Chris B. Ryer, a representative of a
wholesale house in this City, recently ar
rived from ths City of Mexico whittier he
had gone with Mrs. Ryer for the purpose
of engaging in business in that free-coin-
age country.
What he found there was very discour-
aging to the spirit of enterprise. OF the
425, 900 inhabitants of the City of Mexico
he found that about 800, 600 are beggars or
poems working for twenty cents per day
prices of everything except labor are about
twice os high as they are in the United
Sta es.
This fact was strikingly illustrated on
the train on which Mr.. and Mrs Ryer
travelled from San Francisco to Ell Paso.
Nine dollars was the charge for berth in
Pullman coach. After the train crossed
into Mexico $1S in Mexican money was
charged for the same distance.
On the buffet-car before crossing the
border into Mexico a glass of lemonade
cost 10 cents. After entering Mexico the
same glass of lemonade on the same car
costs 80 cents in Mexican money.
A room at a hotel without board costs
from 81 to 81 per night.
Meals cost twice as much as they do in
San francisco. In other words, prices
have been raised to equal the difference
between the bullion value and the coin
value of silver.
Mr.. Ryer saw large number of Ameri-
cans at the American legation in Mexico,
among them NJ. f. Tarpey, Democratic
National committeeman from this State.
They were investing in silver mines,
which will be valuable property should
free coinage be adopted by the United
States. In that event large number of
men now in moderate circumstances will
become multi-millionaires.
John a. Sheehan of the firm of Sheehan
d Harris, proprietors and editors of the
| Sacramento News was in the City yester-
| day with good tidings from that county
The working people there, and they COM
pose the great mass of the people, are tor
Mckinley. They believe, and rightly, too,
that protection tends to keep wages up
and to elevate the standard of living.