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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14
NEWS OF FOREIGN NAvIEs.

Steamer trials in the British navy have OF late
been conducted with view OF ascertaining
what vessel is capable of doing in actual SER
vice. Thus the trials of the Venus protected
sheathed cruiser of $500 tons, which took
place last month, extended over ten days and
consisted of eight hours continuous steaming
under natural draught, four hours under
forced draught and thirty hours continuous
steaming at sea over certain course under
natural draught, half-boiler power, to 6scer-
tain the coal consumption. The contract
called for S000-horsepower and 1S]@ knots
speed under natural draught. and the trial
gave S204-horse power and 19l4 knots. Under
forced drsught the power was 9774 and 201S
knots speed. Under half-power the engines
developed 4976-horsepower and speed of
1913 knots, with a coal consumption OF only
1.6 pounds per horsepower per hour.
Three serious accidents from lowness of
water in the boilers have recently been re-
ported from the British feet in the Mediter-
ranean. In the Trafalgar and Phaeton no
casualties occurred, but on the Blake the
crown-sheet collapsed and one man was
scalded to death. 1t is said that the feed
pumps were not properly weighted and that
the water returned to the tanks instead of
going into the boilers. 1t is also alleged that
young inexperienced engineers are blamed
for these very serious and costly accidents.
Forty-s even torpedo-boat destroyers are now
in course of construction for the British navy,
the admiralty having just placed orders for
twenty with light ship-building firms. All
these vessels are to have speed of 80 knots.
The Santa Fe, one OF tour torpedo-bo de-
stroyers building by Yarrow & Co. for the
Argentine. has had her three-hours' trial, and
with load of thirty-i FIVE tons made 261S
knots. These boats are 100 feet in length,
10 feet inches beam and II feet depth.
The Belleville boiler, water tubular, on the
same general principles as the Ward boiler on
the Monterey in our navy is meeting with
great confidence in Europe and South Amer
lea. In the British navy the Belleville boiler
and is also to be used In two 13 ,000-ton bat
tleships just contracted for. Russia has &C.
cepted the system for three II, 000-ton cruisers
and several other vessels. 1t is likewise being
introduced in Australian, Italian and Chilean
war vessels, but it is in France especially that
this boiler finds its greatest use in the navy
and merchant service. No less than twenty
war vessels, now in course of construction, are
being fitted with these boilers.
Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., on the TYNE
have in course of construction no less than
twelve war vessels to be delivered by the end
of 1897.
The Italian battleship, Stella, has developed
a speed under q six-hour natural draught trial
of 1876 knots on q displacement of 1900
tons. The engines were built in Italy, while
those built for the Re Umberto, q sister ship to
the Stella, were built in England, and gave
speed of only 1S. 3 knots.
In the naval arsenal at Akabane, Toxic 1908
workmen were engaged last month. OF these
day. The others earned from "a to % sen per
diem
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

OF self-government by attempting any longer
10 exercise 1t; they ought 10 keep their I'M
worthy hands entirely off the cause of repub-
liean liberty, if they are capable of being the
victims OF articles so shallow, of tricks so
stale, SO threadbare, SO often practieed, so
much worn out. on serfs and slaves.
Ihe natural hatred of the poor against the
richF "The danger of a moneyed aristoc-
racy!' "a power as great and dangerous as
that resisted by the revolutionp' "a call to
new Declaration of IndependenceE Sir, adj
monish the people against the object OF out
cries Ike these. 1 admonish every industri-
Gus Iaborer in the country to be on his guard
against such delusions. tell him the attempt
is 70 play OFF his passions against his interests,
ana 10 prevail on him, in the name OF liberty,
10 destroy all the fruits of liberty; in the name
OF patriotism to injure and aff1ict his country,
ana IN the name of his own independence to
destroy that very independence and make
MIN beggar and slave. Has he dollar?
He is advised to do that which will destroy
hall It's value. Has he hands TO labor? Let
him rather fold them and sit still than be
pushed on by fraud and artifce 10 support
measures which will render his labor useless
and hopeless
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14
A TRUE DOCTRINE.

In his speech accepting the nomination
OF the National Democratic party for
Vice-President, General Buckner said :
wages are fixed by law that is as i'm
mutable as the seasons. Wages depend
on production, and nothing else. An in
faliible test of prosperity is the rate OF
wages paid TO labor, and 1 will support
any man who will raise the rate of wages,
no matter by what political name. be-
lieve IN high wages, because they mean
general prosperity"
What General Buckner said has been a
doctrine OF the Republican party from the
beginning, but the Republican party did
not discover the principle underlying the
declaration. 1t is as old as humanity.
The law which General Buckner saws is
immutable is the law of supply aud de-
mand, with something added. There
might be demand enough to consume the
entire supply of labor and the price of
labor might still be unreasonably low.
Were it not so there would be no occasion
for labor organizations. To be lust the
demand should amply compensate the
supply, and labor unions seek to have that
done.
But the demand is under the law of
competition, and if the cost of It's product
is higher than the similar product of an
other demand it is shut out of the market.
1t cannot reduce the cost of its raw ma
terial to meet competition, therefore it is
at disadvantage which it cannot over
come so far as that item is concerned. 1t
may, however, compete in the markets
for finished product by lowering the price
of labor to where no competitor would
have the advantage in the matter of total
cost of the articles marketed. In that
event the demand for labor would be equal
to the supply, but the supply would not
have just compensation, nor would pros
perity be general even though the pro-
ducer's final profits should be as great as
IL he paid labor twice as much.
General Buckner understands the work.
ing OF the law OF demand and supply ex-
actly as Major Mckinley does. That is to
say, the demand for labor should be so
circumstanced that it may be able not
only to take the entire supply. but give
1t such compensation as shall enable it to
have reasonable margin of difference be-
tween what 1t costs for its proper main
tenance and what it receives for its service.
This difference is what labor puts into a
home and in the savings bank. 1t so hap
pens that under our system of govern
ment the standard of living for labor is
necessarily very much higher than in any
other country. Moreover, popularity Of
our system of government is that labor, as
an individual, is a sovereign, clothed with
as much authority and entitled to as
many rights under the law as the demand
for labor who gives labor employment,
hence the demand has no right to ask for
exclusive privileges. If the law secures
good to it labor has the right to partici-
pate in whatever good accrues.
But the question Is. to what extent shall
the law secure good results to demand and
supply, they being sovereigns upon an
equal footing? The ultimate purpose OF
The Government being to secure the lar
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Personal.

VII Hatton, an attorney of Modesto, is at
the Lick.
W.T.. George, Sacramento attorney, is Wis.
iting at the Grand.
NJ. Marks, merchant of oroville, is at the
Grand on a brief visit.
]. A. Northway, hotel man of Nevada City,
is staying at the Grand.
Malcolm Sale, a merchant of Astoria, Or, is
registered at the Cosmopolitan.
H w. Wagner, farmer OF Ashland, Or, is
at the Cosmopolitan with his wife.
Rev A. L. Jones and wife OF Cloverdale are
spending few days at the Ramona.
H. S. Shamp, owner of large vineyard at
ST. Helena, is registered at the Lick.
A. s. Bigelow, a mining man of Nevada
CITY, is among the latest arrivals at the Grand
T. G. Yaneey, who is engaged in the lumber
business at Newman, arrived at the Lick last
night.
F.P. Reece, a prominent hotel man from
Johannesburg, South Africa, is staying at the
Ramona.
D. W. Morgan of Sacramento, who owns
mining property in FL Dorado County, is late
arrival at the Lick.
]. F. Clapp of Chicago who is interested in
mines on the mother lode, is among the late
arrivals at the Grand.
J. B. Hammond, large manufacturer of ag-
ricultural implements at Portland, Or, ar
rived at the Palace last night.
Harleigh Johnson of Santa Barbara, man
ager of the San Ysidro orange ranch in Ell
Montecito, is guest at the Grand.
P. B. Fraser, president of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Stockton. registered at the
Occidental yesterday with his wife.
Judge Henry L. Lorenz from Washington,
D. c., connected with the Postofiee Claims
Department, is making the Ramona his head
quarters here.
DR.. William Martin, surgeon United States
navy, retired, has returned to San Francisco
from prolonged visit to New York, Washing
ton, Boston, Atlanta and New Orleans.
Among the late arrivals at the Russ are sew
eraI members of the railroad grievance COM
mittee. In the party are J. c. Stout of Hous-
ton, Tex, D. Frell of Dunsmuir, C. Crane of Port
Costa, E. E. Moulton and W. T. Cristy of New
Orleans, La.
Alfred v. La Mott of Glen Ellen arrived at
the Grand last night with tanks containing
lie, 1000 small trout, with which he viii further
| stock Blue Lakes, having already recently put
in 300 600 young fish. 1t is his purpose TO
make the Blue Lakes a second Tahoe for trout.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS AND
MCKINLEY,

Commercial travellers are the jolliest
men in the world but they never forget
that they are ''on the road" to sell goods.
They are, too, the best readers of the signs
of the times and are in the best possible
position to keep finger on the pulse of
public sentiment. 1t is safe to conclude,
therefore, that when so very many of
them go out of their way to call upon
Major Mckinley and assure him that his
theories of government in practical opera
ton are necessary to the trade and traffic
OF the country there is reason for their
going.
In his business life the commercial tray
eler is all things to all men. It is his
business to know people, ana from people
he gathers information that is valuable to
him, which he utilities for the good of his
line OF trade. If, then, he is espousing
the cause of Major Mckinley, it is because
he sees that his customers believe that
McKinley's election would give stability
to their business enterprises and increase
the volume of their trade. AS a business
proposition the commercial traveller wants
done whatever will honorably enable him
to sell more goods, and hence il his GUS
toners demand the election of Mckinley
because they believe it to be to their inter
csts, he is for Mckinley.
But aside from all that, the commercial
traveller is the manifest OF men and a
sincere lover of his country's institutions,
and no one better than he knows what in
a commercial way is best for the country.
He is never partisan politician, and hence
it follows that in advocating the election
of Major Mckinley be is doing it as BUSH
ness matter, and sincerely believes that
protection ana the other economic decIar-
ations which Major Mckinley is pledged
TO apply in the conduct of the affairs of
the country would be of greater advantage
to commerce than those which Bryan ad-
vocates.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

I am from the Hes,, but haze neither left
an eneny's country nor found an cnemy's
country an Ne,0 York. No man uoho stands
for american progress, prosperity and pres
tjge aCiH ind an enemys country IN the great
Empire State. None bit they acho seek to
tear doWn and destroy, none but they pho
i'icite to prejudice and passion, none bat
they tDhO lead campaign against the credit
of the country, aOiH ind Ne,0 York an en-
emy's country; bat those ,oho do ariH be ouer-
aCItelmed By the vOtes Of tTeemen TO the err
tent Of a quarter Of million Majority
Senator ThurstOn.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

gest possible degree OF comfort. prosperity
and safety to its people, it follows that it
must protect It's people against foreign
com petition that would impoverish them
quite as much as against foreign invasion
that contemplated the acquisition Of any
part or all of the country.
This is the law of self-preseryation and
to abrogate it would be to annul the law
of demand and supply, SO far as our own
people are concerned, for the material
strength of this country must necessarily
come from conditions which enable us TO
not only create a demand ourselves but
to supply the demand ourselves. This is
what General Buckner means. 1t is what
Major Mckinley advocates every day. 1t
is what the Republican party has always
contended for, and it is nothing more nor
less than doing business on q business
sense basis. Mr.. Bryan is not in favor of
anything of this kind, but Mr.. Bryan is
not a true American in very many ways.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

rejoicing over the completion of the Mount
Whitney telephone system. 1t is expected
that branch lines win soon be extended in all
directions. The Visalia Times thus refers to the
leading spirit of the enterprise: cdr. J. NJ.
Gilstrap. president of the company, has, in
the building OF the line, shown his ability in
managing and pushing such project to a sue
cessful conclusion. Better than all, he has
built seventy miles OF telephone wires, with
fixtures complete, without mourning but few
dollars OF debt, an achievement that was never
done before in California, and that was pro-
nounced impossible by many of the stock
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14
College PARTY.

A party Of college people and their friends will
leave for Chicago and various Eastern universities
on next Tuesday evening, the 18th OF September
They have chartered q special Northern Pacific
tourist car, upholstered in leather and no objec-
tionable person will be admitted. For really first
class accommodations at second-class rates this is
the finest excursion of the year. Reservations are
now being made, but few more will be admitted.
For full information apply to T. K. Stateler, gem
eral agent Northern Pacific Railway, 638 Market
street, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

Whenever nation has debGsed its cur
reRcy in ancient or modern history The man
achO has suffered the wOrSt has not been the
man aUho lends money, Bat the man 1cho has
to earn 10. We hare tried the experiment our
selUes. Whsa zoe suspended specie payments
during the Civil Var the price Of goods 1cent
up enormously, bit the acuges Of labor tagged
behind. 1t as a matter of official record that
a aveek's scages an 1865 bought less than they
did IN 1S6O.-Hon. Curtis GatiLd Of Nelg York.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14
Are You Gong East?

The Atlantic and PaciEc Railroad-santa Fe
route-is the coolest and most comforta BILE sum
m er line owing to its elevation and absence from
alkah dust. Particularly adapted for the trans
portation Of families because OF its palace draw
ing-room and modern upholstered tourist sleeping
cars, which run daily through from Oakland to
Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and in
charge of attentive conductors ano porters. San
Francisco Ticket office. ga Market street, Chron-
icle building. Tel ephOne Main 1881. Oakland,
lllS Broadway
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

One OF the most picturesque characters
reaching this City for long time is General
g. Reul1ng of Nicaragua, who came on the
steamer Newport day or two ago, and is at
the Occidental.
General Reuling is young man with wavy
brown hair, and wears neat-ftting dark blue
uniform, decorated with gold after the style of
the Nioaraguan army. He is scarcely 40 years
of age, and before he sought distinction in
war was civil engineer in Nicaragua.
But before this he came as a boy to Mic
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

The sixteen-page Admission day edition OF
the Stockton Mail was creditable one in every
respect. The illustrations were many and
attractive, and besides the matter relative to
the celebration and the history of the day
there were several pages of information con-
corning the wealth, resources and prospects
of the railroad center of the San Joaquin
Valley
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14
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o - " . 80 OVI1AIIB oyruD-
Has been used over so years by millions OF rnothar,
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cess 1t soothes the child softens the gums alIav,
Pain, cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels ani
Isthe best remedy for Diarrhoeas whether arising
from teething or other causes. For sale by Drug
gists in every part of the world Be sure and ask
Tor Mrs Winslow's Soothing syrup. zoe a Ootus.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

II you hear big noise in a saloon as Won
pass by, it is not fight. 1t is simply some
local politician explaining his position on the
financial question.-Florida Times-uninn
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

CORONA Do.-Atmospher is perfectly dry a..
and mild being entirely free from the nnIsts com
mon further north. Round-trip tickets by steam
ship including fifteen days board the Ho5sl ii
Coronado, 500; longer stay So so per day ApPGF
ANew Montgomery St., SanFra1cisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

II as cOntended By the advocates Of free sill
Uer that this as an issue between the oold
standard and biDtetdIlism. Nothing could
be farther from the truth. II IS an issue be-
tlceen a monetary system setich sOiH give us
sitter alone and the eTiStjng monetary sgs-
tenn, Which gires as a practical bimetaHism.-
Senator Th,trstOn
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

There ought to be special provision on tn
statutes for cases of deadly assault in whiel
one or the other party to the encounter
SHOWN TO have begun silver argument-Chi
cago Record.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

Every workshop is Republican head.
quarters in these days, for the workers
need protection.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14
DISCOVERY OF AN OLD FLAG

Philadelphia Inquirer.
Charles Mund, who now occupies the house
2S9 Arch street, in which Betsy Ross made
the first American flags yesterday discovered
a flag evidently made by her. 1t was tucked
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

"Was that successful elopement of Willie
Elmore's and Maude Biggie's?"
81 think so. Her father wired them not to
come back and he'd forgive em."-Buffalo
Times
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

Next to the speeches OF Mckinley the
best Republican campaign documents are
the speeches of Bryan.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

great man is one who claims the right to
SIT up IN sleeping car and discuss the money
question all night-Galveston News
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

Too bad; so much money
is wasted on "cheap" fur
niture and good furni-
ture cNSts only a little
more. }
But people are waking
up. One lot of "cheap"
furniture generally settles
it.
CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COMPANY
IN. P. COLE & Coz
III Geary Street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

Friend-Whst did you find the most difficult
thing when you wrote your first verses?
Poetic find some one who would let me
read them to him. -Fliegende Blaetter.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (AlIen's), $40 Mon tgomery
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

While Bryan is showing himself to curious
crowds his own State is getting away from
him. Minneapolis Journal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

"Do you understand this 16 to 1 problem,
Mr.. Golightly?"
"Yes-and think sixteen boarders to one
watermelon is:entirely too many."-Detroit
Free Press.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

The silver-mine owners who have backec
Bryan have made mighty poor gam bI,
tor their money.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

NOBODY ever before knew such q benevolen
candidate as Bryan. He keeps right on talk
ing, although the Democratic campaign man
ayers warn him that all his talks make Repub
mean votes.-St Louis Globe Democrat
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

The trouble in the fusion camp is that
every fusionist wishes to get the 16 and
give the other fellow the measly l.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

We shall know when the Maine vote i.
counted just how much Sewall's nomina
ton is worth to Democracy.
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CAMPAIGN ECHOES.

In addition to its other failures, the Demo.
cratic party will fail to carry the coming cleo
tion.-New York Press.
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families, the well-known Adamses, to emf.
grate.-Chicago Tribune.

"What does he mean by an appreciated dol.
lar?" asked Weary Watkins as the free silver
advocate was holding forth.
''NIoren 1 know" answered Hungry Hig-
gins. EUR as that goes, I'd appreciate a
nickel if could git holt of it"-Indianapolis
Journal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

We have now been informed that Claude
Matthews is sick and Boies is tired out,
but what about Silver Dick Bland?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

The American workingman who wishes
good wages and good dollars is not taking
much stock in the Bryan movement.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

holders of the company. To show their ap-
probation of the doctors management the
directors at their last meeting voted him 800
worth of company scrip as compliment for
his efficiency
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

WHEN your food has no relish the stomach
needs to be cleansed and strengthened by dose
or two of Ayers Pills.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

The battle for protection is virtually
won, but the people should be careful mo-
TO elect any tree-traders to office.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

In the mad whirl of his oratory in these
days it is doubtful if Bryan ever takes
time even to think that he thinks.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

1t is certainly unnecessary for Bryan to
discuss the tariff since everybody knows
he voted for the Wilson bill and his record
is enough.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-14

The Democratic orators talk of money,
money, money, but the people know the
only way to get money is to get work, and
work is hard TO get under Democratic free
trade.