The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11

laby benefited by the poilcy to which the
Republican party is committed. Cali
fornians, of all Americans, ought to vote
solid for Mckinley.
dozen people here who said they were
going to vote for Bryan. Perhaps they
will, but l trust they will experience
change of heart before the Sd OF November.
The American sometimes goes wrong
politically, but when he has chance to
think he generally gets back into the right
track.
''Now I don't intend TO go into statistics
in order to prove the principles In whose
reference sleak. We hear it said figures
don't lie; but it doesn't follow that liars
don't sometimes figure. So will let figures
alone and try TO confine myself to facts.
THE Republican party stands COM
mitted to the position that the National
honor must be maintained. The issues of
this year of 1896 can only be compared to
those which confronted the Nation in
1860. Now, as then, the integrity OF the
Republic IS threatened. When the fate of
the Union was imperiled and division
seemed almost inevitable true patriots
rallied from all parts of the country.
Gray haired men, long retired from pub
hc life, rushed again into the arena, join
ing hands with hslf-grown youths in a
grand endeavor to save the Nation.
something OF the SdulS SOIb IL I'D ~
pening to-day. The men who under
stand and appreciate the terrible signifi-
canoe of the dangers hanging over US
have sunk their party differences in a
concerted effort TO stay the progress of the
plague? What is the plague? asks some
hapless being, ignorant and Indifferent re-
garding his country's welfare. will an
swer you. The plague which threatens to
prove our National death and is sure if
oh
dishonor is universal industrial paraly-
sis-an evil so great and so menacing that
it cannot be exaggerated. This is the
plague which must be met and counter
acted unless we are willing to let il
ruin US.
1T was said by great writer in this
country, America is another name for op-
portunity, but 1 never realized unquaI-
ifiedlv and absolutely the force OF that ex-
preston until visited California. When
l heard pioneers grumb bling-men who had
been here for five or six years and called
themselves pioneers-when | heard them
complaining and when [ see here the
crops you are getting, when see that you
only tickle the soil with hoeto make it
laugh with the harvest, | wonder how
they can find words to complain.
1--WE recognize the hard conditions; set
yourselves about repairing and correcting
my voice who remember what the pioneers
had TO encounter in Ohio, Wisconsin,
Michigan and illinois. There there were
great forests to be removed, and there was
a constant warfare against all the elem ents
and against the stu ubborness OF the soil.
1t lad TO be prepared before we could
plant anything in ii. But here you are
blessed exceedingly. In some things you
get four or i've or SIX crops year.
oil 5s
hard one, even in California. If you
feel that the lines are hard in California,
go beyond the Rocky Mountains-go to
the furnaces, TO the mills, the factories,
the forests the streams and the fisheries
of the East, where you will find hundreds s
of thousands of men standing idle, beg
ging for an opportunity to work in order
that they might be enabled to buy some
of the products of California. We realize
that there, as here. the lines are hard, but
much harder there than here.
Now, the first thing we want to ask is,
how it occurred that we have STUN bled
upon those hard lines. There is always a
reason for everything, aud we can always
battle with disease better when We know
the cause of it. l think that California
knows the nature of the disease, whether
my Populistic friends will admit it or not.
This is a nation of parties. Wherever
there is an issue upon any given subject
we cannot be on both sides, althoug b
there are some persons possibly who can.
We can take one side or the other. We
either approve or disapprove, or we dis
sent or approve, one or the other. | do
not refer to the indianapolis branch of the
Democratic party. They are with us, ex-
cept upon the tariff plank in their plat
form, but they are not worrying much
aSout that when they stand in the pres
Is h faaf hot IN = he s.
that plan four years ago they didn't act
wisely.
'"The Democrats left nobody in doubt
They said to the world, If we are en-
trusted With power in the leg gislative
branch of the Government and in the
executive branch Of the Government we
will first destroy the protective system III
which California. more than Connecticut,
is Interested And they told you why.
They said, 1t will bring to our country a
grander and wider prosperity than we
know now; your business. will be in
creased: your fleece. your products will
bring better prices
"Our people believed them; they were
so seductive in their argument that it
prospered beyond compare. Every body
admitted it, and they wanted a greater
prosperity if it were possible. Henry
WattersoD wrote the tariff plank in the
Democratic platform, and he knows how
to say thing Mr.. Bryan said that the
protective tariff was a system of robbery
which permits one neighbor to insert his
hand into his neighbor's pocket and take
money therefrom without consideration.
Bryan said that the system was a robbery,
and he helped to do that for California
which has injuriously affected every fire.
side within your State. There are not
twenty-five men within the sound of my
voice that don't know that that is unquali-
fedly true.
To-day there are sheep going un-
sheared in California, simply because
their owners do not know whether the
woel will be worth shearing. Uncer-
tainty, distrust, lack of business coni-
dence and general shakiness pervade our
country in view of the mere possibility of
a new and 1uinous financial policy. What
would be the result were the reality to
come to pass?
"CsIifornia's business men are shaking
in their boots at the mere notion of q
reign of Organism. The men of this
State are no fools. The evils that they
fear are grave evils, and for one am sure
they will down their formidable enemy
on election day.
1--WE hear that the protective tariff will
keep up cur prices and make things
harder for the poor. The thing is to keep
up fair schedule of American wages and
give every honest man il the country a
chance 10 earn decent living. If wages