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The evening times., 1896-04-13
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

W. r. Cadmus won the 80 yard run at he
Seventh Regiment games in New York on
Saturday night from scratch, ON Il board
track, in l 0 2-5 seconds.
A dispatch from San Francisco last night
stated that Robert W. Edgren, of the Uni
versity of California on Saturday threw the
16-pound hammer 4S feet inches from a
seven-foot circle. This is three feet farther
than the best previous worlds record.
Brooklyn claims to have the youngest chess
player i'll America in the person of William
Ewart Napier, who is fifteen wears oil
His record includes games won from ShO-
walter, Helms ami Tatum. and draws PLAYED
with Pillsbury, Richardson and Elwell.
The University of Pennsylvania's cricket
eamhas arranged the following schetiule le for
the season: May 2, Philadelphia at wissa-
hiCkon; May 3, Merton at Haverfori: May
16, Germantown at Mannheim; May 23, Har-
ward at Philadelphia; May 90, Haverford at
HaverfOrd
The evening times., 1896-04-13

Frank Shorthand, England's long-iistance
racer, has declined TO accept the challenge
OF Huet, the French champion, to match
race,
The evening times., 1896-04-13

Ill tNe ledS cue.
The New York team Will leave for WASH
ington OH next Wednesday afternoon so
as 10 get good nights steep at the hotel
before their opening game on the next day.
Whitehill, the pitcher of the Syracuse
club, who heid the fhilhes down TO siX
hits in five innings Wednesday, is likely 10
be the player selected By the Philadelphia
management in exchange for Reilly at the
end Oh the season.
This may be an off year with ncw-blood
players, as quite number We're developed
last season, and the Old-timers are hard to
crowd out, but Il IA significant fact that all
the clubs i'll first division depend a great deal
fortheir success upon SEASONED pIa yers. Tie
Baltimore team cannot be classed as new
blood, as outside OF keeIer there is not a
player on the team that has not been play
ing ball for the past five years, at least
The Senators are almost in the me class.
Pitcher Mike" Kilroy has signed with
POttSville.
Hardie Henderson is to umpire today's
game between the Phillies and Athletics.
The Harry Wright" game in Wilmington
today will be between picked nine of local
players and the Wilmington professionals.
McGillis showing great speed in practice.
McGarr, Blake and Gray TO the Fort Wayne
club.
The Athletics have received an offer OF
500 from the Bangor, Me-, club for Oit-
fielder Henry's release.
Catcher Childs, who had signed a Ian
caster contract. has returned the advance
money. He will retire from the diamond,
an increase in his salary by his present
employer being the reason.
The evening times., 1896-04-13

The New York team Will leave for WASH
ington Oh next Wednesday afternoon, so
as 10 get good nights sleep at the hotel
before their opening game ON the next day.
The evening times., 1896-04-13

Connecticut bicycle race meet promoters
believe they will have enough racing this
season to form a circuit.
The evening times., 1896-04-13

of the immense Colosseum at Chica go,
where the cycle shows in that city Will
be held in the future. The board has a
five-ycars' option, and no other cycle
snow can be meta there without a sanction
from the cycle DOari OF trade. r. Lindsay
Coleman, Jnc prcsiuent pf the board, was
in Chica go recently, and he engineered the
utdi. \ - A1uisOn square uarGcn the
space availapie Is $50 10y 100. Toe COlOs-
scum is zoo Dy 800 feet In arranging tnc
deal $50, 900 worth OF stock has 10 he
fiOateu, ana the board OF trddc subscribed
for $4,000 worth.
The cycling board Of trade has sent ont
the following circular TO dealers through
out the country:
Our attention has Just been called TO
the TacJ that It is contemplated tp hold "A
cycle exhibition at York, Pa, during the
week beginning April 20, 1896.
"As you are, oI COURSE, aware, the eN-
eCutive committee Of the National Cycle
Board OF Trade passed resolution On + cb-
ruary % last not to sanction any cNiibi-
ton aItcr April | , owing to tie many COM
plants We nave received from cur IneIn-
bcrs that their agents could III afford the
time from their stores at this season cl the
year to attend cycle exhibitions.
I'VE trust that you Will request your
agents not to exhibit at TINS show. and also
that you Will lend II no asslsjance.
The evening times., 1896-04-13

Charley Murphy, the Brooklyn racing
man. left for Savannah yesterday to begin
training.
The evening times., 1896-04-13
CYCLING NOTES.

Fred Titus is talking of visiting England
this year, but 1t Is doubtful II ne enters
any races.
The evening times., 1896-04-13

Cleveland, 1t is reported, will farm out
McGarr, Blake and Gray TO the Fort Wayne
club.
The evening times., 1896-04-13
McGllis showing great speed in prac tice

The Harry Wright" game in Wilmington
today Will be between Il picked nine of local
players and the Wilmington professionals.
The evening times., 1896-04-13

The Athletics have received an offer of
500 from the Bangor, Me-, club for Oit-
fielder HeDry's release.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22
CoIored. Mckinley Club.

The Colored Mckinley Club held we'll
attended meeting in California Hall last
night, Chairman Saunders and Secretary
Butler being in their places. Speeches
were made by Rev. ]. G. Pegram, Rev. ].
Callas and Rev. G. H. w. Smith.
Mr.. Smith made telling speech on the
evils brought about by the nnwise re-
vision of the tariff. In the course of his
remarks he said:
What rosy picture we had painted for us
in 1892; what millions we were to expect. We
were to sell dearest and buy in the cheapest
markets. We took their WORD for 1T and here
we are now. The least credible part of these
same gentlemen smearing the canvass with an
other picture for which they want US to pay
another four years or perhaps ten of this Ia
tions life.
Men deceived once are human; men deceived
twice by the same men FOOLS am bound
to say that the evil which has come to us by
unwise revision of the tariff has been greatly
aggravated by one OF its consequences our loss
of revenue.
Whenever gold and silver have stood to-
gether 1t has been at the market value. When
we tried to make gold and silver circulate to-
gether we have married them according to the
market value. To-day we find them not 16 to
l, but 30 10 l, and we are going, they say, to
lift silver to twice its value-not by the univer-
sal sense OF mankind which alone makes
value, but by the statutes of the United States.
single-handed against the civilized world.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22
CONTINENTAL LEAGUE.
A Unattended and ENJOYABLE
Meeting i'm Saratoga
Hall,

The Continental League held one of the
most largely attended meetings in its his
tory last evening. Frank D. Worth was in
the chair and Maurice L. Asher acted as
secretary.
Amos Currier, chairman of the execu-
tive committee, reported that the COM
mittee had about perfected the arrange
ments for the open meeting and ladies'
night to be held under the auspices of the
league next Friday evening at Saratoga
Hall. The committee had succeeded in Sc
curing Senator George G. Perkins, Congress
man Loud, Robert Tibbetts and 81. c. Dib-
BILE as speakers An entertaining musical
and literary programme had been arranged.
In addition to those interesting features
dancing would be begun at 10 80 o'clock.
George Lewis of the brigade committee
reported that two battalions of the league
had been organized into drill corps. He
asked what the league proposed to do
about uniforming the battalions. The
subject was deferred until later stage of
the proceedings.
Secretary Asher reported twenty two
rev members on the roll.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22
Bryans Free Trade Panacea Was a Blight
to the American Farming
Classes.

fits to the Pacific Coast These have often
been dwelt upon by writers and speakers,
but they were recently made plain by
Senator ]. N. Do!ph of Oregon, who said:
The people of the Pacific Coast have an
object-lesson upon the tariff in the Chi
nese population. The characteristics of
the Chinese race are such that Chinese la
borers in the United States, no matter how
limited their mum bers, necessarily come
into serious competition with white labor.
A Chinaman works for one-half the wages
required to support an American laborer.
He neither becomes a citizen identified
with business enterprises, nor to any con-
siderable extent consumer of American
products. He boards his earnings to send
them abroad, while he supplants white Ia
Dor, the wages of which would go to de-
velop and enrich this country.
Reasoning from the effect of the COM
petition of few Chinese laborers, who re-
ceive for their services probably ten times
the amount received at home for the same
labor. it is easy to understand the effect of
policy which would cause many of our
industries to be transferred beyond the
sea, and would open our ports to the free
admission of the products of half-paid En-
glish labor and the labor of India, China
and Japan.
"As a great section of the Union, the Pa
cifc Coast shares in the general benefit of
tariff which protects home industries,
stimulates enterprises, gives employment
to abor and prom otes national prosperity.
Although, as manufacturing communities,
the Pacific Coast States do not as yet fa
vorably compare with many of the older
sections of the Union, their people have
for that reason probably keener appre-
citation of the value OF manufacturing in
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22

lenge the editors of the Democratic news
papers of the State of New York to come
out squarely and tell our farmers whether
they, the editors referred to, are or are not
in favor of abolishing these protective
duties on poultry and eggs.
There are several other important pro-
tected products of agriculture in the State
of New York, among them the pepper
mint industry of Wayne County, which
affords an extensive employment TO men,
women, girls and boys. The total value
OF the peppermint crop to the farmers is
about $160,000 annually. The duty on
peppermint oil was raised from 25 per
cent-about 81 cents pound-to so cents
a pound in the Mckinley act. This
proved beneficial to both farmer and
manufacturer. 1t is, however, imprac-
ticable in this connection to present state
ments similar to the foregoing in regard
to all the tariff protected products of New
York agriculture. The facts already
stated clearly indicate the manner and
the extent to which New York agricul-
tural interests are affected by foreign COM
petition; also, the justice of adequate pro-
lection to those interests.
"The Democratic policy places wool on
the free list for the reason that it is re-
garded as raw material Hay, beans,
potatoes, hops, tobacco-leaf, poultry and
eggs are also placed in the same category.
When this insulting and ruinous Demo-
cratic policy shall have carved all the
benefits of protection out Of the agricul-
tural interests of the State of New York
those interests will be not only raw but
bleeding"
If these are peculiar instances wherein
the tariff has proved benefit to New
York there are, also, samples of its bene-
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22
x PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION AND PROSPERITY

The gentleman has been on visit to the
Black Hills, Colorado, Arizona and Or
egon, in all of which he has been examln-
ing mines.
"i have long since quit managing
mines,'' said he, ''as do not care for the
responsibility. think twenty years ex-
perience in that way is enough. But If l
could find a mine that want / would buy
it. This has been the cause of my trip.
But [ want to be careful what / get, for
while q good mine is the incest thing
man can own, poor one is the very worst.
1t is said that it costs $500, 600 on the aver
age to make good miner; that is, it takes
that much in the way Of failures to make
him good judge.
Gas a rule have found that good mines
declare their intentions very early in their
history. Relative to Leadville, while ]
could not foresee the entire Importance of
that place | Fnew it was going to be great
lead camp. | named the town and wrote
myself an application to Washington DUR
ing Grants administration in the seven
ties, asking for postoffice and the ap-
pointment of III. A. W. Tabor as post
master.
"The great copper mines Of Lake Supe-
rior, from which l have come oy easy
stages, are in a prosperous condition.
There is 118 miles along the portage that
is devoted to mining.
"Ihe Calumet ana Hecla last year pro-
dueed about AZ, 900 tons of ore. The Quincy,
which is next IN importance to 1t. pro-
duced from 800 to 1000 tons a month.
These are the two principal mines.
1--WE have gone through the period OF
working improbable mines there, and
have settled down to the good ones. In
fact / don't think there is as much pros
pecting as there ought to be. for there is
yet large amount OF country that has not
been properly tested.
Lake copper is worth about II cents
now the price still being high.
'.The sapphire and ruby mines at Hell
ena, Mont, of which / for time had the
management, are not being worked now.
We got out lot of the stones, and then as
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22
HOW THE WILSON BILL HURT AGRICULTURE

them at a great disadvantage with the
world"
1t is beginning to dawn on students of
recent tariff legislation more plainly each
day that the predictions of Bryan were all
wrong as to the effects that would follow
the adoption of the Wilson bill. His
theories were all totally wrong, and his
reasoning vicious; for he beheld general
prosperity and everywhere foretold re-
newed activity of factories and general
revival OF business. The most casual
study of the question disabuses the mind
of the idea that there has been the faintest
sembiance OF prosperity under the wilson
bili
Take wool as striking instance. No
one will pretend that the business did not
meet its death blow in free trade.
Another leading industry OF the coast
which the Mckinley act protected was
lumber, most important enterprise. 1t
is said that there is invested in the lum-
berlng business of this country $500, 0O0,-
600; that il gives employment to LOCO, QUO
people. In Washington, west OF the Cas-
cade Mountains, there are 20.OO00O acres
of timber lands, and there are also large
and valuable tracts, scarcely less In extent
and value, in Western Oregon. The red
wood lumber of California is a valuable
article of commerce. The Puget Sound
mills have capacity OF over 9O0,OO0,00o
I06I OI duo oiC man
facture of lumber upon the Sound in
single year has reached 800, 900 feet.
The Democratic party proposes free trade
in lum ber.
Timber and labor are so much cheaper
in British Columbia, and the manufac-
turers are enabled to obtain so much
cheaper machinery there, that when the
duty was removed from lumber the in
dustry was greatly crippled upon the
Pacific Coast and elsewhere in the United
States.
The farmers of the country have not
heen slow to note the evil effects of the
Wilson bill, nor are they unmindful OF the
benefits they have felt as a result OF pro-
lection i'll the past.
1t is not likely that so many deeply
affected classes will forget the benefits of
a thorough-going Republican policy. or
ignore the injuries that have accrued to
them under few years of what Mr.. Bryan
called "a panacea for hard times"
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22
Each Speaker Will Treat of a
Special Subject of Wide
Interest.
UNIFORMS FOR CoNTINENTALs
Preparations Made by the League for
a Lady'S Night Next Friday
Evening.

There is every indication that the big
gest meeting of the campaign thus far will
be that to be held this evening at the
Wigwam, corner of Jones and Eddy
streets, under the auspices of the Republi-
can State Central Comm ittee.
Seats will be specially reserved for ladies
and their escorts, and they, as well as the
rest of the large audience, will be as COM
fortably seated as the audiences in the
theaters of this City, because the Wigwsm
auditorium is furnished with elegant
opera chairs.
The committee intrusted with the prep
arations for the meeting have been more
than successful in getting up good pro-
gramme. The speeches will not be long
and rambling and covering the same
ground, but each speaker has a special
subject assigned him. and the speakers
selected are the best on the Pacific Coast
At s o'clock sharp Major Frank Nc
Laughlin of the State Central Com mittee
will introduce George A. knight, the chair
man of the meeting.
Mr.. Knight will deliver brief address,
after which the glee club will sing
America"
Judge R. B. Carpenter will speak on
''That Crime of 1873 and 16 to L.
Hon. John P. Jackson's topic will be
Attitude of the Republican party toward
silver at the present time"
United States Senator George G. Perkins
will show that ''the Democratic party is
not to be relied upon to restore pros
perity."
Hon. Samuel Nj. Shortridge will discuss
Htbe record of the RepubIican partv and
reasons why it can be trusted to carry out
its promises"
TREY Z. Ford will pay tribute to
William Mckinley, soldier, statesman,
man and leader"
Rev. Anna Shaw will talk on politics,
and Chairman Knight will pronounce the
Eau revoir."
The speeches will be interspersed with
music by the glee club and by the Cali
fornia Quartet
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22

again, for that is the issue of the cam
paign. l have had experience with fat
money = Democratic money; have re-
ceived it for my labor when young man
in the Western States-a dollar of it worth
90 cents to- morrow and % cents the day
after-and l want mo- more of it. I-want
only the sound money of the Republican
party"
Upon motion of General Solomon sys-
tenn of missionary work" was adopted.
One man was detailed to canvass each
block of the district for new club mem
bers. The idea was received enthusias-
tically, and all present promised to labor
in the good cause. The club adjourned,
with three cheers for the Republican NOM
inees, to meet next Tuesday evening.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22

only course that is destined to bring pros
perity here
IF we coin all the silver that comes to our
mlnts you will simply see the value of the
silver dollar reduced to it's bullion value.
That is the ultimate end. Nothing can
prevent it.
AT the same time the gold will dis
appear. II you have gold and silver in
your pocket and have a bill to pay you
won't pay the bill with gold. You will
hold on to that. But you will pay the
bill with the silver. The gold will dis
appear from the country as it has in Mex
leo. They have, indeed, had both kinds of
money there, but you can go from one
end of the country now to the other and
you won't see any gold.
81 confidently hope for the election of
Mr. Mckinley, for that will bring good
times, while the election of Mr.. Bryan
would undoubtedly make times infinitely
worse. As to Michigan, my own State,
will say l do not consider there is any
doubt about that going Republican. 1t is
q certain Republican State.
"The nomination of Mayor Pingree of
Detroit for Governor has materially added
to the strength of the Republican cause.
Mayor Pingree has hitherto interested
himself great deal in the cause of the
people and they believe in him. He fought
the gas company and the streetcar COM
pany ana Deat them, ana ne also, as Will
be rememb bered, planted the vacant lots IN
the CITY in potatoes to aid the poor. he
will poll heavy majority.
''The Lake Superior basin last year pro-
duced over 100000 tons of 6per cent stan
dard iron. A great deal of salt, lumber
and similar interests are ct stake there.
Michigan is a tariff State.
"Now, in Colorado if you oppose free sll-
yer they hoot you, but that isn't argument.
A -tAo II hoC rod r.
the study of the precious metals L must
say 1 can see only far worse times by
throwing open our mints to the white
metal
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22

dustries, as is evidenced by their efforts
to secure manufacturing establishments.
They know that the removal OF protectlon
from manufacturing industries always
makes their maintenance impossible, ana
they look to restoration OF the principles
OF protection as the one thing that Will in
sure the future development OF those vast
manufacturing industries which, on &C
count of their commercial and geograph-
ical situation, and the abundance OF
material and facilities for manufacturing,
they have every assurance to reanaDly
expect.
''The growth and prosperity OF the COM
merce of the Pacific Coast is dependent
largely upon the protection policy. 1t is
protection which builds up commerce be-
tween the States which directs trade into
domestic channels; which creates variety
OF industries within the Nation; promotes
the rapid and constant interchange OF
services between persons employed In
different industries and the exchange of
domestic products between the different
sections of the Union. The most wonder
full and valuable commerce Of the world is
that between 65, 600 900 of people protected
by the American tariff system. The in
crease of our foreign imports would mean
not alone loss to our domestic industries
and OF labor to our workingmen, but loss
to our internal and interstate commerce
as WELL
"The people of the Pacific Coast under
stand what is meant by tariff for revenue
only. The Mills bill, as an educational
document was success. They have been
taught that tariff for revenue only would
put on the free list nearly everything they
produce, grain, vegetables, wool, fruit,
lumber, coal and lead, and that this leaves
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22

The more carefully the tariff question
is studied in all it's bearings the palmer
and more forcible is the conclusion that
one with strong protective characteristics
is of benefit to the country at large and to
the Pacific Coast in particular.
In answer to the common cry that the
tariff benefits the rich manufacturing
classes alone it may be stated on gooo
authority that it benefits the agrlcul-
turists more extensively than any one
class. When it is remembered that farm
ers constitute about half OF the business
population Of the country the significance
of this statement becomes clear. 1t was
BRYAN, the apostle of free trade and
champion of the Wilson bill, who made
the statement in his chicago convention
speech that the prosperity of the country
at large depends primarily on the welfare
of the farmers, yet his free-trade measures
work grave harm on the country at large
bv striking the farmers direct blow.
Speaking of one phase of the question
Joseph Nimmo Jr., the statistician, has
said:
In the entire list of agricultural prod
ucts there are none more exposed to Cana
dian competition than poultry and eggs.
1t is estimated that the total value of the
poultry produced annually in the State of
New York is about 81, 1000 900. and of eggs
Sc, 0OO the total poultry and egg prod
uct amounting in value to 81, 100000. New
York farmers from Buffalo to Montauk
Point, and especially farmers of Suffolk
County, through ]. Eugene Parker of
Shelter Island, asked for protection on
these products, and it was granted in the
Mckinley bill. Eggs, before free, were
made dutiabIe at the rate of cents per
dozen, the exact duty mentioned by Mr..
Parker, and the duties on poultry were
raised from 10 per centum (equal to about
l cent pound), to cents a pound on live
and 5 cents pound on dressed poultry.
That conferred upon the farmers of the
State benefit than which none other is
more highly appreciated, especially on
Long Island. Now, respectfully chal-
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22

vile, named that celebrated camp, and
got the first postoffice established there, is
at the Palace.
Mr.. Wood discovered the pay chute of
the renowned Iron Silver mine, and for a
number OF years was the manager and
large owner in that and other properties.
lie had much to do with the development
OF the wonderful ore deposits in the Rob-
ert Il. Lee mine, and was a pathfinder in
that great camp i'll hitting on ways and
means OF treating the ores.
Since Mr.. Wood left Leadville he has
become heavily interested in silver and
gold mining elsewhere. He is also ex-
tensively interested in copper mining.
FOR years he has been large owner in the
Calumet and Hecla, adjudged for a long
time to be the greatest copper mine on the
globe.