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The San Francisco call., 1896-08-14
WORKING FOR THE BOYS.
Enthusiastic Meeting of the
Youths Directory Festi-
val Committee.
Charitable People Warned Against
Two Fraudulent Collectors Who
Are Going About

The general committee in charge OF the
arrangements for the approaching iestlVal
In aid of the Youths Directory met last
evening at the Assem- bly-hall, 2OoO How
ard street, James r. Kelly presiding
More than 100 ladies and gentlemen
were present, and the greatest enthusiasm
marked the deliberations.
Chairman Kelly on behalf OF the COM
mlttee appointed to solicit contributions
from banks and insurance companies, re-
ported that the sum of $3.50 had> already
been received.
A. B. Mcguire ana ]. ]. Donohue re-
ported that they had visited all the whole
sale coal-dealers in the City and In every
instance had met with a favorable re-
! sponse to their appeal on behalf OF the
| homeless boys of the Youths Directory.
| According to their report there Will be
many tons of choice coal rafhed for during
the coming festival.
| George E. Gallagher of the mmittee
| reported that he had received letter from
! David j. Costello, now sojourning at Bart
| lett Springs, stating that Mr.. Costello had
/ procured valuable Jersey COW and would
present the animal to the festival COM
mittee to be raff1ed for the benefit of the
| homeless boys.
| The committee on the benefit perform
ance given in aid of the festival by the
| Chauncey Olcott Company reported that
the sum of $129 rs had been realized as
the percentage of tickets sold by the
friends of the directory. A much larger
amount would have been realized had the
instructions of Father Crowley been fully
unders stood and acted upon by the public.
According to agreement with the business
manager of the theatrical company the
directory received no share of the tickets
sold at the theater box-office, and many
friends OF the institution, not understand
ing this provision. had failed to procure
tickets at the other places at which they
were placed for sale.
/ Reports were made that two different
persons without warrant or authority
| were soliciting donations for the festival,
and the committee on press were in
! structed to announce that book bearing
the signature of Rev. D. o. Crowley and
the stamp of the Youths Directory had
| been furnished to each and every person
acting for the committee and that dona-
tions should be withheld from all who
failed to present such a certificate of
| authOritv
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HOW JAPANESE GOODS DO HARM UNDER FREE TRADE

lean makers cannot compete with and
live. In WOODEN rugs and carpets large
field is opened to them, one which, with
out a tariff. will enable them to seriously
cripple the American manufacturer or
drive him com pletely ont of the business.
Frank G. Carpenter, the well-known
American newspaper correspondent, has
made it plain why the Japanese
prices are so low. He says there
Is no law against child labor and
no system oil regulating the hours OF
workmen. In both cases the greatest i'm
aginable abuses abound. Some OF the chill
dren engaged in rug-making are under 6
years of age, and there are number of
girls of and 10 years working at wages
equivalent to cents a day in American
money. These work from 8 o'clock in the
morning until at night having less than
an hour at noon for lunch. It is with
such workmen and wages that American
citizens are expected to compete under the
free-trade ideas of William Jennings
Bryan, the great advocate of the Wills on
bill. Under his ideas of statesmanship
the entire products of the world ought to
be admitted without let and hindrance into
American ports.
The study of manufacturing possibilities
among the Japanese reveals the fact that
the range of their work is the widest i'm
aginable. Whether in linen and wooden
LGALuTeS, Ill CcIduliCS VI III tu6 various
forms of metal work they excel by their
cunning and the facility with which they
make the ideas of foreigners their own.
They have been making great progress in
the technical trades ever since 1875, and
the most approved ideas of the Western
World are rapidly becoming theirs. 1t
requires only the most casual study OF the
comparative wage lists of Japan and this
country to convince the investigator that
there can be no competition between
goods made in Japan and those made
here. under existing differences of the
countries. for the trade would all be in
favor of Japan.
When the wage-worker fully under
stands these differences there will be
no doubt now he will cast his ballot. In
every realm of industry it is shown, by an
overwhelming array of evidence, that pro-
lection and prosperity are one and that
free trade would destroy the wages and
the industries of this country.
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Manufacturers and Workmen Cannot Compete
With Cheap Goods Of the
Orient.

abroad to be manufactured represents a
loss to the American laborer of $50 in
wages. Without protective tariff the
goods thus manufactured are shipped
back to the United States to be sold at
prices with which Americans cannot COM
pete.
1t has recently been shown that it costs
in this country $4,000 in wages to pro-
duce from 21,000 bales of cotton plain,
salable cotton product; but the same
goods can be produced IN Japan at SIT 800.
The freight on the goods to this country
does not exceed 5,000 which leaves a
Under Mr.. Bryan's popular ideas OF free
trade this loss would either fall on the
American workmen, or the American
manufacturer would be driven out of bus1-
ness.
One of the most careful students OF the
Japanese question in this country IS Will
liam EIeroy Curtis, writer for the Scien-
tific American. In a careful paper on the
subject of Japanese wages, recently pre-
pared he gives the following as table OF
prevailing wages in Yokohama, the day
being one of ten hours steady employ
ment: Blacksmiths. 36 cents; carpenters,
26; compositors, %; joiHers, 29; ordinary
laborers, 10; plasters. 20; porcelain artists,
u; press men in printing offices, 19; stone
cutters, 81; tobacco and cigar-makers, "a
wood-sawyers 90.
The following are the rates OF wages
paid by the month: Farmhands 81 A,
silkworm- breeders 81 90, women weavers
96 cents.
1t is with wages on such a scale that
Americans must compete, and the table
shows that factory labor is paid even less
than these prices. In many of the largest
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commercial houses women work for less
than IA cents day of twelve hours, board
ing themselves. In studying the lore
going table of wages it should De borne IN
mind that the rate paid in Yokohoma Is
probably the largest prevailing anywhere
In the empire, because of the stimulus 10
prices caused by the presence OF a large
foreign population, the foreigners not
being such close traders as the natives ana
not nearly so frugal in their habits.
The tastes OF the Japanese are simple
throughout and they spend almost notn-
Ing for food. For Americans to try to
compete with such wages would mean IN
dustrlal and commercial suicide. 1t is TO
prevent such lowering of the scale OF
wages that the policy OF protection has
been Appealed to by those who have at
heart the welfare of the people and the
general prosperity of the country.
According to the statistics recently
gathered by the Osaka Board OF Trade
there are now 81 factories in operation,
with $50, ,564 spindles employing 1899 men
and 29, 9,596!women. The factories in course
of construction and which will be in full
operation during the present year Will
bring the total number of spind1es up TO
8l9, 115 and 81 of these are at Osaka.
1t is the opinion of those who have most
Japan that when the Japanese once get
thoroughly into the wooden industry they
will make such marked progress as to
practically overwhelm their American
competitors. They are getting IN I'M
proved machinery in large quantities, and
all that is necessary is for them to make
thorough study of methods, and with their
initiative ability they will soon be food
ing this country with goods that Amer
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IS MANHOOD
Ever LOST?

Strictly speaking, mol at least, hardly
ever, except in extreme old age. What
we call "lost manhood" and "Neryous
Exhaustion" is merely weakened power.
Underneath the ashes the fire remains
aglow. 1t requires careful scientific treat
ment to fan it into bright fame of life
and energy.
Your dependency looks foolish-is fool
ish. Keeps you from getting well. It's
the worst part of your sickness. Try and
get over it. Try and look like a man
head up, body erect. Then do as a man
should do; get help in a common-sense
way.
But for the sake of your existeDce-for
the sake of those dear to you or dependent
on you, don't play with tire. Leave quack
medicines, cure all-and-everybody nos
trums alone.
Go to specialist. Go to one W ho has
devoted a lifetime to this branch of human
suffering; who cures where others try and
experiment.
To the deuce with false modestyI As If
this greatest of specialists would ''blab'
about you, or give your case any other
thought than is necessary to cure you.
Doctor Cook treats with wonderful sue
cess not only nervous debility of young.
middle-aged or old men, but he cures fe-
male complaints and all chronic and in
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Jno. B Reilly, Chairman tx Com

organization with an enrolment OF 100
members. The officers are: President,
Charles Easton; vice-president, John
Cells: secretary, William Colligan: treas
urer, Joseph Murray; financial secretary,
d. Schultz; sergeant-at-arms, Harry Ken
ney; executive committee-John B. Reilly
(chalrman), Joseph F. Murray, Harry
Kenny, James Dixon and George Calvert;
enrolling Charles Spinks, Will
liam Murray, L Cline, Thomas ]. Reilly
and James Mills; finance committee
John Creamer, J. Schofield, w. Flanders,
Dominick Beban and D. II. Schultz COM
mittee on esolutions-Dominick Beban,
M. Goodenough. T. P. Conham and John
Cody.
With this list OF officers there are nearly
200 active. energetic and enthusiastic
young men who have with will and a
dash entered into the political fray of
1896 with determination to carry the
Forty second Assembly District by large
malority-much larger than it was carried
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If the peculiar ideas of William Jen-
nings Bryan ever become fully matured IN
high places in this country worse tate
awaits the American workman than the
necessity of competing with the pauper
labor of Europe. Organism is rank free
trade, and free trade as he breaches IL
would force the American wage-earner TO
compete with the labor of the Orient, as
well as with that of Europe.
Students who desire to grasp the mean
ing of free trade as Bryan breaches 1t
should not for one moment overlook the
fact that great industrial Improvements
are under way in Japan, and that the next
decade may introduce into America such
products of labor as will completely over
throw all modern ideas of prices.
A study of the Japanese question alone
ought to convince the stanchest support
ers of Bryan's free-trade ideas that the
American artisan will have to wear a
queue if he is ever able to compete with
the prices at which Japanese goods will be
sold. And unless there is some law that
protects the American workman against
the threatened supply from the Orient,
enough to inundate the country, the great
est poverty and general disaster yet seen
in America are to come. Nothing in the
political creed of William Jennings Bryan
can avert the disasters threatened by such
an influx OF the cheap products of the
Orient.
1t should be borne in mind that the
goods and wares offered by Japan are as
nothing compared with the abundance
that will soon be carried TO the shores on
every ship. The skill of the Japanese is
enough to duplicate anything yet pro-
duced BY the ingenuity of man, and the
competition in every department of the
handicrafts will be fierce and cunning
Thoughtful men, therefore, are asking
what is to be the outcome. and statesmen
can see nothing outside of protection
against foreign goods. tariff that will en-
courage American workingmen and insure
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organIzIng h the First.

A letter has been received by Colonel
M. R. Higgins. secretary of the Repub-
lican State Central Committee, from
Frank L. Coombs of Napa, stating that as
president of the Republican League for
the First Congressional District he had
appointed as secretary d. D. Dodson of
Red Bluff, and as presidents of the county
leagues in the district T. l.. Carothers of
Ukiah, o. O. Webber of Santa Rosa, Judge
G. G. Bush of Redding, James Barnie OF
Weaverville, ]. N. Gregg of Red Bluff,
Robert Nixon of Yreka, ]. S. Laird of
Arden. w. A. Makinden of st. Helena.
William Barr of San Rafael, l.. S. Kinsey
of Eureka. They are earnestly engaged
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by the Republican AssembIyman two

by the Republican Assemblyman two
years ago.
At that time there were five candidates
in the field for the Assembly, two being
Republicans, and yet Isaac nj. Merrill won
the prize and represented the district at
Sacramento.
Then the Forty-second District had no
club organization. bat the loyalty OF the
voters did not permit this fact to throw a
wet blanket over the fire of their Repub-
ican hearts.
The following series of resolutions, as
passed by this club at one OF its meetings,
will show the timber of which the organ
lzation is composed:
WHEREAS, The Republican party has placed
before the people for their suffrage able repre-
sentatives for the Offices of President and Vice
President of this country in the persons OF
William Mckinley OF Ohio and Garret A. Ho-
bart OF New Jersey. men whom we believe will
relieve the prevailing distress, restore pros
perity, and whose administration will be q
credit and honor to this Nation; be it
RESOLVED, That we, the Forty second Assem-
bly, District Mckinley Club, do hereby indorse
the nomina ton of William Mckinley and Gar
ret A. Hobart for the offices OF President and
Vice-President of this country; and be it
further
ResoEued, That we indorse the proceedings of
the convention at ST. Louis, and fndorse the
platform there adopted; ana IT Il IS further
of John D. Spreckels as committeeman from
this State; and be it further
ReSolred, That we indorse the Republican
County Committee and John M. Chretien and
Harry N. Gray as County Committeeman from
the Forty-second Assem- bly, District.
The officers are all young, natiye-born
boys of San Francisco, raised in the dis
trlct where they have organized their
club.
Monday nights have been fixed as the
time of meeting, and the place is at Amer
lean Hall, northwest corner of Pacific and
Leavenworth streets, where, at all OF the
assem- biages, some of the best political
speakers attend and enlighten the mem
bers and others on the truths OF Repub-
licanism.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-14
THE BUILDING TRADES.
The Interior Work on the Schoolhouss
Still Causes Trouble.

The Interior Work on the Schoolhouses
Still Causes Trouble.
At the meeting of the Building Trades
Council last evening Delegates Eichel-
berger and Jones of the Lathers' Union
presented their credentials. AS the lathers
have recently organized a strictly journey
mems union the delegates were seated.
J. w. Rose presented his resignation as
secretary on account of i'll health and Al
Beach was elected to fill the position.
The delegates from the Painters Union
want to correct a misunderstanding as to
the position of the two painters, Busse
and Griffin, who recently investigated the
schoolhouse jobs.
These men were duly selected as COM
mittee to make this inquiry and were not
"seif-appointed." as was stated at the
meeting of the Board of Education. Upon
the subject of poor work being done by the
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-14
YOUNG REPUBLICANS.
Enthusiastic Meeting of the League
Held Last Night.

Enthusiastic Meeting of the League
Held Last Night.
The Young mems Republican League
Club held an enthusiastic meeting in JUS
tice of the Peace Kerrigan's courtroom
last night, President Frank K. Spencer in
the chair.
Speeches were made by several of the
members in opposition to the statements
made in Bryan's New York speech, and it
was decided to invite all Republicans to
be present at their meeting next Thurs
day, when the speech will receive the full
est consideration at the hands of the mem
bers and several prominent Republicans.
After the regular meeting the officers
of the league went into executive session
to arrange the programme for next Thurs
day evening.
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Used a Brick az a Weapon.

Frank Edgoose, better known among his
associates as the "Kid," was arrested last
evening by Officer Rathfon and Special Police
man Berge and detained at the California
street police station on q charge OF assault
with deadly weapon. Last Sunday morning
Edgoose, accompanied by several friends, went
into the saloon of P. Pola, Pacific and Mont
gomery streets, and raised disturbance
at Pols. which struck him on the forehead, in
ficting an ugly wound The "Kid" made his
escape, but ast evening he was seen by the
ofilcers and prompt tly placed under arrest.
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bad Unstamped Opium.

Customs Inspector McGinnis arrested yester-
day Thomas Lynch, fireman on the steamer
City of Pueblo, for having illicit opium in his
possession. Four fye-tael tins were found on
the person of Lynch. In the engine-room
fourteen other tins were found. The fireman
said he purchased the drug from Chinese in
Victoria. Some four weeks ago 40 tins
of opium were found on the City of Pueblo
and later another small quantity was seized
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-14
CHARLEY NICHOLSON MARRIED

Western Writer Who Found a Bride
in New York.
Cards have been received announcing
the marriage Of Charles Nicholson, form
erly of THE CALLS editorial staff, but now
journalist in New York, to Miss Lillian
Sterritt, the charming daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Sterritt, New York. The event
took place on the 25th of last month.
The many Californian friends of Mr..
Nicholson watt their congratulate tions
across the continent, wishing al happiness
and prosperity to him and his fair young
bride.
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The Ocean View Club.

Tomorrow evening a big mass-meeting
will be held at Wolfs Hall, under the
auspices of the Ocean View Republican
Club. Hon. Eugene F. Loud and other
eminent speakers will address the meeting.
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1nnTnQ f1nK 865 MARKET STREET
uuuiuh uUuh, Opp. Powell, S. F., Cal.
HOGS and HENS.

r WOULD LIKE TO BUY HALF IN
terest in a small HOG RANCH near railroad
Only persons who give good references as to
character need reply.
Address, with full particulars, LARKSPUR, box
IA, CALL Office, san Francisco.
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Remandad An Lail

Judge Hunt yesterday overruled DR.. Kuhi-
mans motion and remanded him to the
custody of the Sheriff The physician will
now have to answer Coroner Hawkins u1les-
tions or go TO jail for contempt.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-14
The phmnix Rennhlican..

The Phoenix Republican Club, which meets
at Scottish Hall, on Larkin street, has change
its meeting night from Tuesday to THURSDAY.
This change has been necessitated in conse
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.%PATROTISM PROTECTION AND PROSPERITY Il

quence OF the increase of members being
more than the small hall downstairs could ac-
commodate. Hence on next Thursday even
ing the club will hold its first meeting in the
large hall upstairs, at which c. NJ. Shortrldge
and Colonel T. V. Eddy have been invited to
speak.
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SAN FRANcIsCo, CAL, August 13, ls


SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, August 13, 1896.
Editor of Call: We, the Building Trades Coun-
Gil, ask you to oblige US by publishing the fol-
lowing: At the regular meeting of the Build
ing Trades Council complaint was brought
in from the Painters Union in regard to the
way the calcimining has been done on the
schoolhouses. The painters claim and are in
a position to prove that the work Is not being
done according to specifications First, the
specifications call for the cleaning of walls
down to the plastering, so as to remove all
former applications. This has not been done.
On the contrary, they have not even busted
the walls in most cases.
Therefore we. the Building Trades Council,
condemn the parties who had the supervision
of said work for their negligence in not seeing
that the work was done according to specifica-
tions as 1t progressed. We request the public
and all reform bodies to assist US in bringing
pressure to bear on the parties in charge of
said work and compel them to discharge their
duties as required by the public and laid
down in the specifications.
J. J. CONNOLLY,
Business Agent Building Trades Council.
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in the work of forming clubs and leagues
in their counties, so that the First Con-
gressional District will soon be organized
for campaign work more completely than
ever known before.
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Sunday Baseball.

The Oaklands will try conclusions with the
San Franciscos at the California Baseball
League grounds Sunday at 2:30 P. N. Follow
ing is the makeup of the teams:
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contractors in repainting and whitening
the schoolhouse, ]. ]. Connolly, the busr-
ness agent, sent the following letter, which
was indorsed by the council:
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Loyalty to the Party and Devo-
tion to Its Principles the
Watchword.
SURE TO CARRY THE DISTRICT
For Mckinley, Hobart and the Entire
Municipal and Legislative
Ticket.

The Forty-second Assembly District
Mckinley Club is an active Republican
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-11-07
IuCOMPARABLBS
PARA SIEMBRA De TABACO

Sc venden los famoses cercados nombra-
dos "Guiribaldi''y 'souffront"; ell primero de
152 cuerdas de extension el segundo de 80
ouerdas; terreno todo llano, de primera cali
dad susperior para TODD cultivo; no ha side
nunca roturado desde que Sc desmont6.
Ambos cercados sembrados de yerba de
guinea estan dividides por ell rio Oaf1as.
Sc asegura que dichas 232 cuerdas de yer
ba de guinea es 10 mas esplendido en- ests
clase de paste.
Pueden venderse dichos cercados separa-
damente. Para las condolences de venta en-
tenderse con 81 dueffo que 10 es tambi6n de
Ia hacienda Amelia, en- cuyos terrenos hay
abundantes inmejorables pastos de verb
de guinea, de malojillo y grama que Sc al
ouilan para ganado vacuno caballar.
"a de Stbre. de 1895. / mr. d.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-11-07

MR.. CHARLES BUCHET, Director de la
Farmaeia Central de Francian, Paris,
certifca
'Que habiendo anaIizado ell aqua de Flo
rida preparada por el Lcdo d. A. OerVoni,
Arroyo, Puerto Rico. resnlta contener un
cinco por ciento de aceites eseneiales puros
comprobado por diversos procedimientos.
Ademas los examenes cualitativos de las
esencias muestran que son de muy buena
calidad. -
FL certifcado original de este analisis SO
halla on poder de la administrator de La
DEMooRAoIA, que puede enseaarlo & quien
10 desee. Demuestra por 10 tant0 este re-
sultadc obtenido pcr el laboratorio del meior
establecimiento farmaceutico dc Francia,
que exception del Aqua Florida Murray v
Lamman, no hay otra despu6s de Ia nues-
ira que contenga igual cantidad de esen-
cias. Esto uniuo al iimitadfsimo precio a
que SO vende hoy este artfeulo en- la isla, ha-
ce que nuestra Aqua de Florida merezca ls
preferencia que Sc le va reconociendo en- to-
do ell pals.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-11-07
GRAN RBALIZACION

de galapagos de todas classes en- la ca
sa de Z. TORO & ca, calle del Co
mercio. Sc realizan casi como Quie-
"a el comprador: los hay de todas cia-
ses, tanto para seforas como para Ca
oallercs.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1896-11-07
UNA FINCA DE CAFE EN- VEHTA

SE vENoE EN- PATuT.t una hnca de cafe,
eompuesta de doscientas cuerdas mas me
los de terreno alto sobre llano.
Tiene So & 40 cuerdas fncadas de cafe 81
Jena production, de 30 25 cuerdas de
Dl antaci6n nueva, como de uno tres amos;
d resto, en- su mayor parte desmontado y
con QuabaZes propios para coatinuar las STEM
bras.
Sc aceptan proposiciores, bien al contado,
parte al contado y el resto 4 plazos-
Information en- Arroyo SstcesoTes Ge 20
rGs & O..
Ponce, % de Junio de 1896.