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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-08-19

One of the strong points of Bryan's
speech at the Chicago convention was his
appeal to the farmers, who were pictured
as living close to natures heart "and
mingling their voices with the voices of
the BIRDS"
A careful study of the effect of free
trade on the farmers of the Pacific Coast
and those of the entire Union convinces
one that they will soon have nothing to do
except ito mingle their voices with the
voices of the birds" if the rank free-trade
ideas of Mr.. Bryan are given full sweep in
this country. 1t can be shown that no
class is more worthy of consideration than
the farmer and that farmers have been
sorely distressed by the Wilson bill.
At the outset of the inquiry it should be
remembered that the farming population
is the largest of any in the United States,
which, in spite of the growth of the indus
tries of manufacturing centers, still con-
stitutes nearly half of the population.
By the census of 1880 the population was
80 0O0, Co., of whom 1900, 600 were en-
gagged in business, the others being women,
children, invalids and retired persons. If
the same ratio of employed continues
until to-day there are probably about
22.OOo.0 900 people employed in all voca-
lions in America, of whom nearly 10, 900,
600 are engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Agriculture is the basis of all other In
dustries, for no business can exist with
out it. No business in the United States
is more deserving of protection than agri-
culture in its various forms, and none
would suffer more than agriculture under
Bryanism at full strength. A glance at
some of the striking provisions of the Nc
Kinley bill will show how the Republican
policy differed from the rabid let-alone
policy of William Jennings Bryan.
Under the Mckinley tariff the farmer
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How FREE TRADE SERIOUSLY HURTS AGRICULTURE

he should be as far as possible protected
IN his home market.
THE agricultural products of our coun-
try, outside of tobacco and cotton, amount
to about $4,000, Co., 900 per year. OF this
quantity about 81 per cent is consumed at
home and only about 8 per cent is ex-
ported. That is to say, the home market
takes SO per cent and the foreign market
takes only 8 per cent.
You can thus see the importance OF the
home market and the comparative lnslg-
nlhcance of the foreign market to our
farmers in the consumption of their sur
plus products. 1t may also be mentioned
that the foreign market is distant, uncer-
tain and capricious; dependent upon the
harvest abroad, whether good or bad, and
Is always open to the competition of other
nations. Now, the power to boy depends
upon the means the purchaser can COM
mand. The wages the laboring man earns
limit his capacity to purchase, and this
applies as well to the purchase of agri-
cultural products as to other commodities.
The wages he receives always de pend upon
his employment. If he is employed he
earns wages; if he has no employ ment he
earns no wages"
Indian wheat can to-day be laid down
In London al very low cost. Even with
a reasonable duty added it can be laid
down at New York at price that inter
feres with the American producers bust
ness. 1t is the opinion of those most con-
versant with the question that, with the
increased railway facilities under way in
India, before five years the Indian farmer
will De able 10 place his wheat in the New
York market at figure that will still
further reduce the American producers
prices.
Back of all else, however, is the fact that
the prosperity of the farmer depends upon
the prosperity of the buying class, and
that any free-trade measure that destroys
the home market cripples the farmer. The
free-trade policy of the Democrats, as
championed by Bryan. leaves the great
agricultural classes at the mercy of the
competition of the serfs of India and the
cheap labor of the Argentine.
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THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT.

Club l was called to order by Fred J
Conn, County Committeeman for that sec
ton of the district comprising precincts ]
to g. at Maennerbund Hall, on Thirty.
fourth street and Potrero avenue.
The rules governing the organization
of district clubs in pursuance oil
the resolution of the Republican Coun.
ty Committee were adopted, after
which, without any waste of words, the
committeeman appointed James F. Kelly
president and f. j. Mitchell secretary pro
tenn.
President Kelly appointed B. Kendrick,
George Taylor, w. Griffin, +. Rothganger
and ]. w. Mccarthy committee on en-
rollment.
There was q large attendance OF Repub-
licans present in the hall, who proceeded
to place their names upon the roll.
Club 2, comprising precincts 8 to IA OF
the same Assembly District. Assem- bled at
Masonic Hail, on Railroad avenue, be-
tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth avenues.
South San Francisco.
James Gatelv, the County Committee
man for this section, called the meeting to
order and also read the rules authorizing
the formation OF clubs and appointed as
temporary president William McHugh,
who had made a popular and successful
chairman OF the club originally organized
in South San Francisco, and William
Burke secretary.
President McHugh appointed as an en-
rolling committee John Dierks, John
Mau, Charles Ratio, John E. Roster and
Robert Stewart.
A motion was offered and carried with
great enthusiasm indorsing John d.
Spreckels as a man in whose hands and
under whose guidance the Republican
party of San Francisco may well feel
proud. and promising to him the aIlegi-
There was very large attendance pres
ent and over $50 names had been placed
on the rollbook before the hour of ad-
journment.
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called the large attendance to order that
had gathered at Rincon Hall, at the
southeast corner of Second and Folsom
streets, there was not even standing room
inside the hall and scores stood in the
hallway anxious to get an opportunity to
place their names on the roll. The work
of appointing the chairman and secretary
was quickly disposed of the following
being the organization. including the en-
rolling committee appointed by Chairman
Durham:
n. Fl. Burnham, chairman; John e.
Durnin, secretary; enrolling committee
James ]. Loney, Thomas J. Tully, Henry
D. Miller, Thomas Bryant, John E.
O'Brien.
siunad Tho roll
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FoRTY-THIRD DISTRICT.

Only one club is apportioned to the
Forty-third Assembly District. The meet
ing 10 prepare for its organization was
held last night at California Hall, 62(
Bush street. P. ]. Walsh, one of the
County Committeeman OF the district
called the Republicans TO order, and in Sc
doing made an appropriate speech. Judge
A. B. Treadwell was chosen chairman and
George A. Bates secretary. A committee
of enrolment was appointed consisting OF
w. P. Simpson, A. A. Watson, T. II.
Kelly, J. J. Fogarty and G. Herring. The
roll was signed last night by 282 voters.
The chairman, Judge Treadwell, made
speech on the political issues of the day,
and his remarks evoked enthusiasm. The
secretary, George A. Bates, also addressed
the assem- bled Republicans, counseling
harmony and work to secure victory.
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THIRTIETH DISTRICT.

In the Thirtieth District there was great
enthusiasm at the meeting held at Pythian
Castle, and there was a most unprece-
denied anxiety on the part of the Repub-
lican voters of the district to record their
names as good Republicans. The organi-
cation is as follows:
Chairman, H. ]. Jackson Jr.; secretary,
Thomas L. Doran; enrolling committee
c. F. Metzner, e. Heidenrich, James
Cronin. J. Gallagher, ]. McQueeny.
The roll showed 233 names when the
hour OF adjournment came
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FORTY FOURTH DISTRICT.

Club No. Lively times were antici-
pated in the Forty fourth Assembly Dis
trict. Republicans met on Dupont street,
between Green and Union, to enroll for
the organization OF club No. 1. G. Baciga-
lupi. one of the members of the County
Committee from the district, called the
meeting to order. Louis Stroll read the
call of the committee for club organiza-
ton. E. c. Palmieri was chosen chair
man and LOUIS Stroll secretary. Mr..
Palmieri thanked the Republicans present
for the compliment bestowed. He said
there was no occasion for talk.
On motion of Oscar Lewis the chairman
named an enrolment committee of five.
The five named are Joseph Merain, George
Howsert. 6. d. Martin. A. Borgin and f.
Archer.
When the meeting was organized and
the committee ready to receive signatures,
Alexander Campbell suggested that only
one person be allowed to take the sigma
lures from the roll.
Mr.. Bacigalupi addressing Mr.. Camp
bell, said: you signed roll at club
meeting last night"
mo. I did not, replied Campbell.
SIT was stated in the newspapers" re-
joined Mr.. Bacigalupi.
Mr.. Campbell in reply said: "[ attended
a meeting last night, and being invited to
speak, made Republican speech at
another meeting. My suggestion here is
Misunderstood. desire that the enroll
ment committee shall not be disturbed by
too many persons inspecting the roll"
Oscar Lewis, addressing the chair, said
Let US proceed to enroll Republican
voters. This roll will be open to any one
to see. There is no use for any one to
copy il"
Mr.. Campbell said that ali he wanted
was fair chance to see the roll.
The enrolment then began and :pro-
ceeded vigorously. One hundred and
sixty-nine Republicans were enrolled last
evening.
Club 2-There was a large attendance of
representative Republicans last evening
at the appointed place of meeting, the
northwest corner OF Powell and Lom bard
streets. The meeting, preliminary to the
organization of Club 2, was called to order
by Philip Krausgrill, one the County
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ALL TO FIGHT FOR PROTECTION TO
AMERICAN INDUSTRIES.
An Exhibition That Shows That the Peo-
pie Have Not Been Deluded as to the
Vital Issues Before the
Country.

the halls upon the gentle slopes that looked
down upon the lights of a great City
twinkling like sky of stars reflected in
the sea. And over on the brown dry hills
OF Colma and Ocean View. where Lake
MERGED lay sleeping under the misty
moon. and where big waves sang their
droning song and tripped with white feet
along the shining sands patriotic citizens
gathered in sturdy protest against British
serfdom with clear eyes unblinded by the
glare of Senator Stewards silver bullion.
Then along the bay shore, along the
slopes of the San Bruno hills, where the
odor of milk accompanies the lowing OF
the gentle cow from the diaries on the
marshes and the green pasture lands,
milkmen and gardeners, farmers and for
lists, storekeepers and laborers who make
up the population of that picturesque
locality took up the pen with freckled
hands and signed themselves as freemen
demanding protection for their products
from the competition of the pauper labor
of Europe and Japan.
They were rot quiet gatherings by any
means. They were brinful of patriotism
and enthusiasm. They went not as some
few handsful went the night before. like
the quarry slave scourged to his dungeon,
but as men unowued and Embossed. Their
patriotism was not of the pneumatic tire
order, pumped into them by some willy
rogue in the back room of a GROCERY, nor
was it for this campaign only, but for the
next and for all time.
They seemed to be 10th to leave the
meeting places, and after signing the roll
they stood on the sidewalks discussing the
political situation, while the postoffice line
of voters pressed forward to the tables
where the roll was spread.
There were no disturbances at any OF
the meeting places either from Democrats
or from so-called Republicans working in
the interest of the Democracy. disturb
ance was threatened at Rolando Hall, on
the corner OF Twenty-eighth and Church
streets, the meeting place of Club No. 2.
District Thirty-six. when a crowd of a
score OF young men visited the hall in the
interest of some disreputable politicians
in the interest of the Democracy and
endeavored to dissuade voters from sign
ing the roll.
But when they saw the kind of voters
who had come to swear fealty to the Re-
publican party-when they saw that thew
comprised all the leading men of the dis
trict, they. decided that they had been
travelling with the wrong crowd and there
upon turned in and signed the roll.
Only q temporary organization of the
twenty-six clubs was attempted last night
The rolls will be opened for additional
signatures this evening, Tomorrow even
ing and Friday evening up to 10 O'clock.
At midnight all the clubs were re-
ported, and the total enrolment aggre-
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The organization of Republican clubs in
the various Assembly districts last even
ing was a revelation to such weakened
Republicans who were afraid that silver
wave was about to sweep over this coast.
Property-owners business men, trades
men, shopkeepers, mechanics and laborers
formed the personnel of the crowds which
blockaded the doors of the meeting places
eager to sign the rolls and enlist in the
battle for protection to American indus
tries.
They had made up their minds that the
Democratic party, which within the last
four years had run the Nation $262, 600, 600
IN debt was not safe party to trust with
the affairs of state for four years longer,
even though the puppet worked by the
wires of the party manipulators is named
Bryan instead of Cleveland.
They realized that the great side issue of
silver coinage was brought forward for the
purpose OF throwing dust into the eyes of
the people and of diverting their attention
from the real issue. that of the protection
of home industries and the redemption of
the labor of this country from its condition
OF vassalage to the manufacturers of Great
Britain. Realizing this they were all the
more eager to change this ruinous state of
affairs and to wrest American industries
out of the grasp of the Englishmen and
intrust it to the hands of the American
mechanic and laborer.
So, last night. in all parts of the City,
from where the electric lights shone
against the black background OF Sutros
wooded hill and to the cliffs overhanging
the foam-crowned breakers, the voters of
the Western Addition, of Richmond and
the other picturesque suburbs in that
nei,hborhood poured into the meeting
places to testify their devotion 20 Republi-
can principles. Others came from the
teeming wharves, where they had been
toiling all day in the shadows of the spars,
masts and cordage of the great ships that
come from England with the products of
pauper labor to compete with American
free men under the approving smile OF the
Democracy.
They came from the business Streets
the wholesale houses, the retail stores. the
factories and from the crowded alleys of
the town to inscribe their names in pro-
test against the enslavement of American
labor by the Demo cracy, and among them
were men who had been ruined by the
operation of the Democratic tariff which
reduced big surplus in the National
treasury to nothing, and piled a new debt
on top of the old 10 the extent OF 1852, :
100000.
These men we're there for business, and
they were not silver maniacs or gold ma
MACS, but men of business who desired to
see the affairs of the country administered
in accordance with business principles.
The breezy heights of Clarendon, of the
Twin Peabs, of Castro, of Sunnyside and
OF Bernal sent their patriotic citizens to
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F0RTY-FIRsT DISTRICT.

The district club of the Fcrty-frst As
sembly District was called to order by
County Committeeman c. J. Clincn. The
following are the temporary officers APP
pointed: temporary chairman, William
Cluff; temporary secretary, Howard Yer
non.
Charles H. Long, William Sharp, John
Short Jr. and Z. A. Grier.
The club listened to addresses from Os-
car Lewis, Judge Dibble, FL. G. Firebaugh
and William II. Schooler.
There was an enrolment of $50.
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Committeeman of the Forty fourth Dis
trict. w. G. Shankey was appointed tenn.
porary chairman and H. Sageborn tenn
porary secretary. An enrolment COM
mittee was appointed consisting of Z. M.
Buckley, George Taber, James Patterson
Jr., William Cuneo and George Chadwick.
The number of Republicans enrolled last
roll were many prominent citizens of the
district 49,. -
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THIRTY-NINTH DISTRICT.

Club No. George ]. Strong, chairman;
T. R. Riding, secretary; F. E. Preble, G. s.
Graham, G. T. Covey, G. w. Lewis and
David l.. Reynolds, enrolling committee.
One hundred and seventy-fve signed the
roll.
Club No. 2-Meyer Jacobs, chairman |;
III. G. Jones, secretary; Hugh Frazer,
Harry Piper, Thomas MCGEE, Louis Usher
and Herman Bohlmann, enrolling COM
mittee. Two hundred and forty-seven
signed the roll
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SCANDINAVIA REPUBLICANS.

The Scandinavian Republican Club met
at Washington Hall last evening. There
was large attendance. This club, al
though only recently organized, has a
membership of nearly 200 enthusiastic
Republicans who are doing much good
among the Swedish element in this City.
Dawson Mayer spoke eloquently OH the
issues of the campaign, and M. Titus
gained round of applause for his tersely
outlined remarks on the silver q uestion.
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Britssh Embassadors Chano,d.

LONDON, Eng, Aug. 1s.-The Right
Hon. Sir Edmund Monson, British EN-
bassador to Austria. has been appointed to
succeed Lord Dufferin as ambassador to
France. Sir Horace Rumbold, at present
British Minister to Holland, will succeed
Sir Edmund Monson.
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THIRTY.sBOoND DISTRICT.

In the Thirty-second District Club,
which met at Blacks Hall, 619 Bryant
street. organization was effected as fol.
lows:
Chairman, Andrew Lang; secretary,
Cook, J. E. Heilmann, Joe Ahearn,
James Symon, Samuel Hamilton.
The roll showed III names when the
evenings work was over
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REPUBLICANS MEET.
The Central Club Of the Forty-Sec'
ond District Runs Up a Big
Membership.

The Central Republican Club of the
Forty-second District held rousing meet
ing at B'nai Birth Hall on Eddy street
last evening, when over $50 voters signed
the rolls.
An address was made by Judge Sawyer,
in which he discussed the, tariff and
money questions. The greatest enthusi-
asm prevailed.
Arthur Knowles and Richard McCreadie
sang a number of campaign songs, in
which the audience joined. Ratifca ton
meetings will be held Saturday evening.
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IRTY-PIRsT DISTRICT.

Teutonia Hall was well filed with the
Republican voters of the Thirty-first Dis
trict who desired to enroll themselves
under the banner of Mckinley and pro-
lection. Organization was effected by the
club of the district as follows:
Chairman, P. II. Pendergast; secretary,
M. j. Mcdonnell; enrolling committee
James Hines, J. J. Hourigan, F. Donerty,
I. Sullivan, ]. Goodwin.
Here 253 placed their names on the roll.
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THIRTY.P1PTH DISTRICT.

Club of the Thirty-ffth District met at
1889 Valencia street. F. Northrop was APP
pointed chairman and Joseph H. Stafford
secretary.
The enrolling committee is: Joseph Nc
Knight, Buron Kelly, E. H. Herrick. A.
J. Butler and B. E. Clifford.
There were 1877 names signed on the
rolls.
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THIRTY-FoURTH DISTRICT.

Club No. of the Thirty-fourth District
met for organization in the Mission Turn
Hall, at the corner of Eighteenth and
Lapidge streets f. J. Hurst was APP
pointed temporary chairman and Del
Bonley secretary.
The enrolling committeeis; J. II. Har-
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FoRTIETH DISTRICT.

Club No. 1-C D. Pike, chairman; Frank
Bauer. secretary; w. L. Cole, w. E. Lewis,
E. M. Jacobs. L. Bettman ana Robert
Young, enrolling committee. Eighty
seven signed the roll.
Club No. 2-Chares Hobbs temporary
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TH1RTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT.

Gus Pohlman. chairman; G. P. Nc
earthly, secretary; C. G. Morris, Henry
Jacobs, Frank Grimes. J. J. Conlon and
L. Van Alstine, enrolling committee.
Two hundred and forty signed the roll.
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chairman; George Grail, temporary secre-
tary; R. II. Macpherson, George Lennon,
James Ingraham, Thomas O'Neill and
q. II. Sepella, enrolling committee. One
hundred and thirty-nine signed the roll.
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HIRTY-sEvBNTH DISTRICT.

Lyman I. Mowry. chairman; Joe God
dard, secretary: Fred Eggers, Charles H.
Ward. John Gallagher, A. P. McLennon,
John H. Efinger, enrolling COMMITTEES.
Two hundred ana fifty-seven signed the
roll,
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STAR OF HOPE FOR THE INFLICTED.

Dr. Cook is the hope of the hopeless their star in
the night of despair star that has already led untold
thousands from the quagmires of disease and suffering
up into the green fields of health and happiness
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TwEETY-EIGHTH DISTRICT,

When County Committeeman Albert
Houston OF the. Twenty eight District
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vey, ". Low, G. w. Baker, /. j. Truman
and Richard Kirby.
Nearly 200 names were signed on the roll.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-03-17

WAITING was still the rule last week
among business men, according to X. G. Dun
q Co. S report Large hope but little actual
business explains the strength of some
markets and the weakness of others, Thus
far there is a decided increase in the demand
for boots and shoes secured by considerable
concessions in prices, but in other branches
of business, concessions are made in vain or
are not made. Meanwhile it is encouraging
to know that one Of the most important busi
,GeSs interests has realized definite improve
ment. The insurance companies show larger
business and larger income than ever before,
and also a most remarkable soundness OF
mortgage loans and other investments
Failures for the week have been 300 in tho
United States against 2G6 last year, and go il
Canada against 81 last year.