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could legally be refused by the tenderee,
which would oblige the tender to go to
the National treasury and exchange his
paper for gold or silver. Had the plat
form designated paper money as token
money, and recommended its issue by the
Government for the convenience OF the
people, or had it said that the Govern
ment has the right to stamp gold, silver or
paper with its seal and declare such
stamped things legal tender money, the
declaration would have some meaning,
but as IL is it contradicts itself in the most
bungling way.
Referring to the tariff the platform says
that tariff duties should be levied for the
purpose of revenue" Inasmuch as the
present Democratic tariff has failed in
three years by nearly $l40, 600, 600 to sup.
ply the necessary revenue to maintain
the expense account of the country
the inference is that the Democratic
party is in favor of re-enacting the
Mckinley law, because that law DEM
onstrated its ability 10 provide ample
revenue, just as the Wilson German
act has demonstrated its inability to sup
port the Government. This is confession
that the present tariff schedules need to
be increased, which is true, for the reason
that the Government needs more revenue,
and for another reason that when custom
house charges are sufficient to provide the
necessary revenue there is also enough
protection to our industries, But that Is
not what the Democratic party means, as
will be seen in another plank of its plat
form. The real purpose Is to establish the
principle that the people should support
the Government by money raised by an
income tax-not by taxing the incomes of
the rich alone, but by taxing the earnings
of every one. With such q law in force
the party believes very close approach to
free trade could be made. The Supreme
Federal Court has already declared that
an income tax is unconstitutional, but the
Chicago platform provides for that by the
way the court will hereafter 'be consti-
tuted.'
The plank next to the last one reveals
the sectional feeling which dominated the
convention. This plank declares for the
improvement of ''the Mississippi River
and other great waterways, so as to secure
for the interior States easy and cheap
transportation to tidewater." No refer
ence is made to the improvement of any
harbor, coast defenses nor anything else
that would not directly benefit ''the in
terror States" The Mississippi Valley,
including the old slave States, was very
much in evidence in the convention, and
ex-slaVe-owners under Altgeld' s leadership
rode roughshod over the Atlantic and Pa
cihc Coast countries.
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A BUSINESS BAROMETER.

The railway is the most reliable BUSH
ness barometer. When our railways are
having liberal offerings of freight the pas
senger business is large and industry is
prosperous, but when their cars stand
empty on side tracks there is distress in
every avenue of trade distribution and
employment. The expenditure of the rail-
ways as whole on account of operation
and maintenance absorbs not less than rs
per cent of the gross receipts, and scarcely
line of manufacture is exempt from re-
ceiving direct benefit. Fully so per cent of
the gross revenue of a railway is disbursed
in the towns on its line, and the other 25
per cent of the total outgo is distributed
among manufacturers of railway supplies
ali over the country, which in turn goes to
the pockets of the wageman and from
thence to the merchant.
The Pennsylvania Railway Company's
gross earnings amount to more than $140,-
600, 200 year when business is good and
considerably over 500, 600, 600 of it is paid
out to its employees and to shops and fac
tories located Immediately upon its own
mileage. When the volume of freight is
small and passenger travel light, hundreds
of men are laid off and scores of trains
taken from the time schedule. The paw of
the men stops, which in turn is reflected in
the sales OF the way-station storekeepers
and in the output of furnace and factory.
When men are ''laid Off on a great rail-
way it means that more are to be ''laid Off
in every millshop and factory from which
the road buys supplies. and if it be coal
and coke carrying road there is enforced
idleness in the coal mines and at the coke
ovens.
In fact, 1t is hard to fell where the in
f1uence of great railway for individ-
ual discomfort ends when the condi.
ton of trade and commerce obliges il
to retrench. Not only the retail merchant
suffers, but all from whom he buys SUD-
plies, from the farmer to the manufac-
turer, feel the loss which laying off, by
the railway inflicts upon its operatives.
And all must wait for the railway to re-
sumo the running of its trains and for the
payday of its re-employed operatives.
When one stops to think of the distress
that is inflicted upon a country, and the
almost iimiiless qualifications of the harm
done by such business depression as this
country has been facing for three or more
years, it would seem that every one would
feel it to be his highest duty to his fellow
countrymen to do all that is in his power
to avert such another calamity.
For three years there has been enforced
inactivity throughout every channel of
industry, commerce and transportation in
the United States, and there is an I'M
natural cause for it, for in the preceding
years-a decade. we might say-there was
satisfying prosperity which created no
conditions for such an onslaught upon the
business interests OF the country. The
cause, as every one should know. is to be
found in most unsise and ignorant eff
fort to cast aside well-established business
principles and introduce theories of tariff
and finance which have never been sane
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the tariff and labor questions are the ques-
selgnlorage and all the silver bullion of the
country were coined and all the bullion that
would be sure TO be dumped al
our mlnts by present resumption were
coined, we do not believe that it would afford
any great relief in the matter of furnishing
labor to the unemployed or start up one OF the
The facts are these: The substitution OF
the wilson sugar trust tariff for the Mckinley
tarln gave such ar impulse to importers that
our treasury. For every dollar of imported
GOODS some lsborer was compelled TO suffer.
return TO some beneAcent protective system
BRING return OF trade balances in our favor.
one way, the payment of the public debt
again WakeE 10 activity and we would very
comfy IN the matter OF coin ratios for q re-
sumption of silver coinage
To what sort of a feast does the Bee invited
simply TINS: 1t invites to the hazard OF a con-
tlnuance nf Democratic supremacy 1t mat
tiers little under what head the Democracy
poses, whether free silver or ''sound money y
II is the same old rotten hulk still. Its name
mas grown 10 be the synonym of disaster It's
stencil is the stencil of dead issues ms record
that OF wildcat currency, free trade wage
rates, practical Republication, poneless Amer.
lean policy. No, our dear neighbor, go where
you please. take your kites and balloons with
you, but, II you please, no more Democracy in
=
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PROTECTION AND RECIPROCITY.

few Democrats who are unenlightened
think they see glazing contradiction in
the Republican party's declaration for
protection and reciprocity" because reci-
procity means free trade and protection
means exactly the opposite. But no sensi-
bic man would commit such a blunder
for there is no contradiction at all nor
could antagonism between the two decla-
rations be discovered if viewed from a
common-sense business standpoint. Reel
procity certainly does mean free trade, but
not the kind of free trade that the Demo-
cratic party clamors for. When MIR. Nc
Kinley is President, strong efforts viii be
made to establish reciprocal trade relations
between the United States and countries
whose products are different from ours.
Wherever our traders can find commodity
interchange profitable they certainly
should have free course with such coun-
tries.
Practically all the Latin-American
states produce articles of commerce which
would not come in hurtful competition
with our industries, and with all such
countries we should have free-trade rela-
tions, and we shall have them after this
year. There are other countries besides
South and Central America with whom
reciprocal trade intercourse would be
highly advantageous to US, and in time
such relations viii be established. 1t Is a
mistake to suppose that protection means
National exclusiveness. The policy of the
Republican party is to foster all of our in
dustries in proportion as they may need
such fostering, and it also means the fos-
tering of close commercial relations with
all countries with whom such relations
would be beneficial TO our people. The
tariff and reciprocity doctrines of the Re-
! publican party stand for and demand the
greatest possible good to the people of the
United States, and where protection is
needed there protection will be found, and
where reciprocal trade intercourse will Sc
cure to US good and substantial returns
there reciprocity will be found in practical
application. First and foremost, the Re
publican party is for Americans and
Americas best interests, and whatever is
right, whatever is just and whatever is
equitable viii be employed in the interests
of the people of the United States.
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DEMOCRATIC DECLARATIONS.

The platform of the Democratic party
as finally adopted by the Chicago conven-
ton is as queer as it is contradictory. II
is radical departure from many of the
principles enupciated by the fifteen pre-
ceding National conventions. except as to
the spoils of office. which it heartily in
dorses under the very thin guise of ''we
favor appointments based upon merit"
and equal opportunities to all citizens of
ascertained fitness" This may be con-
sidered as giving notice In advance that
ITO the victors belong the spoils," and
that every one who works faithfully for
the election of the candidates will be re-
warded by an opportunity to feast at the
public crib. This declaration is a bold
thrust at the civil service law, and its re.
peal is promised.
The next declaration of Importance is
the one which promises a law that shall
deprive one Of the right to make a con-
tract for the liquidation of a note or other
Indebtedness, and specify the kind of
money that the obligation SHALL be re-
deemed in. But the next declaration con-
fuses this one by the demand that 1.-The
power to issue notes to circulate as money
be taken away from the National banks.
and that all paper money shall be
issued by the Treasury Department, be
redeemable in coin and receivable for
ali debts, public and private" The second
declaration annuls the first one, or the
first one annuls the second one. If gold
and silver coin is the redemption money
of the country it follows that paper money
would not be legal tender, nor could it
be made SO. A tender of paper money
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arts, which he received before entering Cor

arts, which he received before entering Cor
nell
When it is considered that there are several
hundred men from all parts of the country in
the Cornell Law School and that there were
sixty-five in the graduating class with these
two Stanford men, the compliment TO the
efficiency Of the training they received at Palo
Alto is evident The plan at Stanford Univer-
sity is for each student to specialize upon the
work of a particular department. To that he
devotes one-third of his time. The remaining
time is spent upon courses in other depart
ments, but no regular student can narrow
down to one course of study. Rose, for in
stance, made history his major study, and
took economies, law, English and several other
subjects calculated to give broader legal
training than could be obtained at q school
where law alone is studied.
Walter Rose not only earned his own way
through Stanford, but he paid his expenses at
Cornell by work done during the preceding
summer vacation and while pursuing his
studies at Ithica, n. Y. At Palo Alto he was
known as hard student, but no one ever
considered him dig" for he found time for
other things than his books. Employed as as
sistant in the library he spent part of each
day at work there, and yet he completed
the four years' course six months ahead of his
class. Hewas also business manager for one
term of the SeQuois, the college weekly, and
the next term was elected editor, both OF
which positions furnished an income of about
$50 q month. He was one of the early work
ers on the staff of the Daily Palo Alto, CORE
spopdent for some time of THE CALL, and was
one of the charter members of the Stanford
Press Club. He was one of the founders of the
Alpha Literary and Debating Society aud of
Bench and Bar, the most exclusive of the
many law clubs ct Pslo Alto, and a member of
the Sigma M Fraternity.
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LOOSE TALK.

It's aovely" it IS 'beautifnl,' it's charming" II
is fine"
It's 'elegant," .magnifcent," exquisite" and
divine"
Are the soft words he has in stock. and you will
hear him say
day.
But from his lips they nothing mean; they're ut
tered but 10 catch
rhe ready ear, and give TO you nicely gilded
snatch
OF fusome iattery and praise: In every little chat
They are employed to everything, from cherut
down 10 rat.
sometimes wish the words erased from Web
ster's unabridged;
And that end the publishers should daily be be.
sieged,
Unless the employing them Will manifest
some sense
And use them to ex press real thoughts, not as a
mere pretense. -Nebraska Sta:e Journal
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Walter Mains Rose of Ontario, CAL. carried
OF first prize this year at the Cornell Law
School for the best treatise dealing with some
legal subject requiring personal research.
His thesis was upon waterfront cases in
the United States
The second prize was awarded to Orrin Dale
Richardson, son of Judge Richardson of Evans
vlile, Ind. Both Rose and Richardson were
students in the lew department at Stanford
University last year. Richardson was first a
student at Indiana University, where he was
graduated from the English department then
In charge of Professor E. w. Griggs But as
soon as Professor Griggs was recalled to STAN
lord to take the chair OF ethics, Richardson,
like several other Indiana students, followed
that favorite teacher to the Pacific Coast and
took work leading to the degree of master of
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toned by the business experience of any
people. These wild and senseless theories
are sun IN practical operation. The people
know 10 their sorrow how ruinous to them
tney nave been, and it would seem that
every one who is not satisfied with such
conditions and who longs for opportunity
10 again employ his skill and brain and
Drawn would know that the country must
return to the economic policy that the
present one supplanted before substantial
prosperity will return to the country.
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been definitely settled by the discovery OF his
name in several places on the muster TONS OF
the parliamentary garrison OF heWpofs
Paqueell. Some people, it seems tnougnt
John fought for King Charles.
C. C. starbuck suggests in the New YORK
World that statue of Bartholomew DE Las
Cases be erected in Washington Las Casas
was a Spanish Dominican priest. VINO came 70
this country as g missionary in 1907 ana VINO
denounced the cruelty with which the IN
dams were treated.
Since his retirement from the United States
Senate the Hon. George +. Edmunds has re-
sisted all the attempts which have been MADE
by his friends to induce him TO exercise from
time to time his powerful poltlcal lnnuence
in Vermont Mr.. Edmunds is now enjoying
excellent health, and expresses himself well
satisfied that his long political career has come
to close.
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BEET SUGAR.
New York Mani ana F,nra,s

View 1Ufk NAH ana Express.
The extensive scheme of Claus Spreckels for
the introduction of beetroot culture in Cali
fornia viii, if successful, cause a sweeping
revolution in the sugar industry in this coun-
try. The success OF beet-root sugsr-making
in Germany, OF which Mr.. spreekels has just
completed an exhaustive study, has convinced
him that it can be prof tably undertaken in
the West, and IL his conclusions are supported
by actual results in the experiments he pro-
dustry will be radically changed. 10 be able
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NO MORE DEMOCRACY.
Placer Argus

fIdCeT ArkuA
We do not believe that eight-ninths of the
Republican convention that adopted the
financial plank of the platform did so al the
behest of Wall street or any other combination
in the world. We do not believe that men of
the character of Lodge, Depew, Foraker, Hast
ings, Fairbanks and Thurston represented
anything but their honest convictions in the
matter OF the financial policy of the country.
For another thing, we do not believe that the
currency question is the question above all
others before the people. We do believe that
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

There are forty-one lawyers in Connecticut
over 20 years OF age.
Upon The death of woman whose name Is
not yet devulged, Yale is to receive $3.50, 900.
Thackeray would produce, under pressure,
novel in six or eight months. He did not like
to work, and, as he often stated, only did so
under compulsion.
De Amicis, the Italian author, who was born
in 1876, is a writer OF one of the most success
full boys books OF the time. 1t has passed
through $50 editions in Italy.
Mile. Couedon, the Paris "confdante of the
Archangel Gabriel, has been receiving as many
as 1000 letters a day from credulous persons.
Many of the letters, il is said, come from the
United States.
Firth's well-known series of FIVE pictures,
1.-THE Race for Wealth." painted in 1880, was
sold at auction in London the other day for
80 guineas, or much less than the price OBJ
tanned sixteen years ago.
sardou is now Ga years old, wrinkled and
half bald, but in his elastic step and brilliant
eye he is youthful as boy. He is said to
have earned $1O0O,000 from his plays. Yet
his first play was dire failure.
Professor Hinton of Princeton University
has invented an automatic baseball pitcher
1t delivers the balls at the rate of three
minute, and will fire them fast or slow, straight
or curved, at the will of the operator.
Brent House, at Brentford, where Nell
Gwynne lived. caught fire recently. The bill
lizard room was burned, but the broad STAIR
case up which Charles ii is said to have
ridden his charger was untouched. The house
is used now by Conservative club.
General Francois Denis Legitime President
of Hayti in 1sS8-s9, left Kingston, Jamaica.
on June 4, to return TO his native country, the
doors of which have been thrown open TO all
political exiles by the amnesty decree of the
new President, Teresias Simon-Sam.
Marchioness Ii, wife of Ii Hung Chang. il
said to be very beautiful, and looks not more
than so, although she Is 90. One thousand
attendants and servants answer her beck and
call. Her feet have been compressed until she
is unable to walk more than few yards at a
time.
Queen Victoria is in possession OF curious
needle. 1t was made at the noted needle man
ufactory at Redditch. and represents the ira
jan column in miniature. Scenes from the
Queens life are depleted on the needle. SO
finely cut that they are discernible only
through microscope.
John Bunyan fought on the Roundhesd side
during the civil war in England. This has
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silk muslin. The collar was of white satin,
trimmed with rows of blue braid.
A green canvas cloth had vest of green and
white foulard. A trimming in green and white
beads edged the collar, which was of the mo-
hair.
a brown hollands had vest of white batiste.
The collar, which was of the brown holland,
was hedged with embroidery In white. done
on batiste the same color the dress fabric.
The waist has fitted lining over which the
goods is gathered. The basque or peplun is
cut circular, and sewn TO the waist, reaching
only to the under-aTm seams.
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GRACEFUL ACT BY ALLISON.
Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times.
Senator Allison performed graceful act in
wiring 20 Major Mckinley his sincere and
hearty congratulations" on the result of the
St. Louis convention Iowa Republicans are
not the sort that snlk in their tents, and Sena-
tor Allison is one of the noplest of them all.
His campaign for the nomination was con-
Quoted on high plane, without bitterness or
detraction. Senator Allison and his friends,
by their high-minded course, have won the re-
specr and admiration of the entire country.
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Miss Beverly why does your History Club
meet twice a week."
"The first night We meet to find the place we
left of the week before, and then the next
night, you know. we read."-Chicago Record.
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Arc You Going Easls

The Atlantic and Pacific Ranroad-santa Fa
route-is the coolest and most comfortable sum
mer line, owing 10 its elevation and absence OF
alkali dust Particularly adapted sor the trans
portation OF families because OF It's palace draw
inK-room and modern upholstered tourist sleeping
cars, which run daily through from Oakland to
Chicago, leaving at n seasonable hour and In
charge of attentive conductors and porters- Tick
ct office, 644 Market street, Chronicle building
Telephone, Main 1881.
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A Contrast.

The experience of the last three years has
brought out in clear leht the excellence of
the last Republican administration--an adj
mfnistration under which we attained q meas
ure OF prosperity uneqGaled in the history of
the Government Indeed, the Republican
good wages and Of good markets.
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CALIFoRNIANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, July 9.-At the I'M
perial--J. ]. Gottlob, E. E. Harrison, G. A.
Martin; Sturtevsnt-Miss L. B.. o'Neil; st.
Cloud. T.. Sweeney; Gilsey-R- C. Domro-
WITT, Barrett F. Harder; Windsor - III. L
Meyer, Miss Meyer; Astor-Miss Green; Hol-
land-Mrs. \. X. Cone and Miss Gone.
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Conservative Democrats are not saying
much, but they know what they are going
to do.
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The Republican pledge to promote BIZ
metallism is as good as gold and as popu
lar as silver.
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TO produce at home all the sugar consumed in
this country would relieve the people of the
burden of one of the largest items In our i'm
ports The success OF the undertaking would
be another step toward the complete indus
trial independence of the United States.
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al Great Oyersirht,
Paio Alto Times.

Palo Alto Times.
An exchange says that the oversight OF the
Yosemite Valley is granted to the State. 1t is
pretty much all oversight, SO far providing
money to care for that great resort is con.
eerned.
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Reeds Choice.
5 Angeles capital.

Nearly oil our great men have declared that
they would rather be right than be Presi-
dent" 1t has remained for only one Of our
great men-Tom Reed of Msine-to intimate
that he would rather be left than be Vice