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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-18
NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.

The New York Democracy in conven-
ton yesterday turned all the old leaders
to the wall, repudiated its declarations of
last June, and not only swallowed the
Chicago platform, but declared it to be
the most thoroughly Democratic platform
that was ever written. Last June the
party declared for the gold standard until
international bimetallism could be Sc
cured, and Endorsed the administration of
President Cleveland, but now it swings
just as far to the other extreme. 1t can
not be said that this is an unusually in
consistent proceeding, for if the party
were ever consistent it would not be DEM
ocratic.
But Tammany is smart, and its schemes
are hard to understand, but it is safe to
say that Mckinley will carry the State by
larger majority than was ever before
given to any candidate. The positive de-
claration of the convention for Bryan. if
it was sincerely made, will drive all the
sound-money Democrats TO Palmer d.
rectly and to Mckinley indirectly. Such
combination would give the Republican
candidate safe majority even if the
State were otherwise doubtful, which it is
not.
The first plank of the Buffalo platform
is too positive in its protestations of the
party's loyalty to Bryan and his platform.
1t is not Democratic to stand so entirely
committed, and Mr.. Bryan's managers
may be sure there is something wrong
somewhere. But whatever Tammany has
in view, or whatever com binations may be
offered by the Democracy, New York will
give its electoral vote to Mckinley in any
event, for if Bryan is to be traded he will
lose the State, and if Tammany works
honestly for him the Cleveland, Hill and
Whitney following will use their power
and influence for Major Mckinley. So far
as the electoral vote is concerned, the &C
ton of the Buffalo convention. whether it
all was a trick or not, settles the question
of how the State will go. The State of
New York is as safe for the Republican
candidate as Vermont or Maine is.
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his PREMISES ARE WRONG.

In his speech at Metropolitan Hall
Wednesday evening, Mr.. NJ. F. Taylor of
Colorado, free-silver Bryanite, got his
premises all wrong, and consequently
his deductions were misleading. Like
great many other people, he blames
the act demonetizing silver with caus-
ing business conditions that are at
tributable to other causes. It was a mis-
take to suspend silver coinage in 1873, but
it was a mistake which the Republican
party is pledged to rectify and it can be
relied upon to do it. Mr.. Taylor said !:
1--WE have seen the farmers product fall
and fall until it no longer pays him to pro.
duce it; we have seen the merchant close
mis- doors with the Sheriff inside: we have
seen 100000 earnest, patient, faithful
wageworkers of this land tramp the high
ways Of this country in search of work."
Mr.. Taylor does not overdraw his pic
ture of the distress OF the people, but he
mistakes the cause. Silver was demone-
tized in 1878, but the conditions of which
Mr.. Taylor speaks did not obtain until DEM
ocratic free trade prevailed twenty years
later. The collapse Of banks, the closing
of commercial houses, the shutting down
of mills and factories, and the sending of
thousands of workIngmen into idleness
dates not from 1873 but from 1893. Until
the Democratic party began to introduce
its hurtful and discouraging policy into
the conduct of the Government, there was
peace and plenty everywhere, because
every one who wanted employment could
ct it at most satisfying wages.
II is very true, as Mr.. Taylor SAYS. that
there has been great shrinkage in the
value of farm products, but for the most
part the shrinkage has been sustained in
very recent years. In 1892 our farmers
averaged nearly SIS ton for their grain
and a little less than 80 so ton in 1895.
This shrinkage was equal to nearly $751;
o00, 600; that is to say, the farmers in what
are called the great grain States received
1887, co., 600 less for their cereals in 1895
than they did in 1892. Now, if the COM
parison were made TO include all farm
products OF all sections, including wool,
cotton, etc., the totals would show an
enormous loss, but it was from shrinkage
in value which began twenty years after
the suspension of silver coinage in 1873.
Between the passage of the Morrill,
tariff act in 1862 and the repeal OF the Nc
Kinley act in 1898, the material wealth of
the country multiplied itself four times
over; moreover there was not only steady
advance in wages to labor, but there was
employment for all who desired it. In
this same period the farming interests
grew upon strong lines, and generally
speaking prices for farm products were
highly remunerative. The fact is, the
distress which Mr.. Taylor talks about was
born of free trade and not of the act of
1873. as the census reports and other of
fetal statistical information clearly prove.
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is fairly pulsating with renewed energy.
Its fortunes have revived, and it has be-
come tremendous power in the modern
working world"
In 1879 Germany decided to adopt the
protective tariff system, with no subse.
quent unkering to please party factions.
Bismarck had watched the operation of
protection in the United States and his
conclusions were that it was the correct
system OF government to make nation
rlch and powerful; but he saw, too, that
when schedule of import duties had
oeen established it should not be made a
SUBJECT OF attack for political purposes,
anu SO no one thinks OF amending the
tarln act OF Germany, except as new trade
conditions or inventions make a change
advisable, and then it is done to strengthen
the industries. The consequence has
neen that there is very little social or po-
Utica. friction growing out of the opera
ton of the law.
as In the United States, very large
percentage of the product of the sew
eral industrial enterprises of Germany
Is consumed at home, but still there is a
surplus That has to seek markets in other
countries. When it was discovered that
there must be an outlet for the overpro-
auction, the Government imu ediately set
10 work to establish merchant marine.
and now, after about seventeen years of
protection, Germany looms up as a great
industrial nation with a merchant marine
sailing every sea. But, what is more. the
individual wealth of the inhabitants is
growing ct pace that makes the people
contented with their surroundings and
correspondingly attached to the govern
ment. There is no doubt at all that to
protection more than any other public
policy is Germany indebted for her ma
tlonaI strength and individual wealth.
1t is surprising that citizen of this
country should be found opposing pro-
lection, home markets and a merchant
marine when such a policy has made
Germany one OF the greatest industrial
nations in the world with a demand
for all kinds of labor that is equal to the
supply in seventeen years. The lesson
that all this teaches US is that we want a
protective tariff law as a principle of gov
eminent without the shadow of politics
ever crossing Its path.
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are perfectly willing to divide up on for 6
surprisingly low amount of money-that is,
provided large sum is not to be had.
Consequently the hotel clerks need grace,
for when the promoters of different kinds
begin the first part of their negotiations they
do 1t by sending cards 10 such guests. 1t
means work for the desk force.
The City is full of promoters of different
kinds. Some Of these have mining claims TO
sell, so they send UP cards. If one man is not
in, probably another is. They keep the cards
going, for it does not cost anything but time 20
see man who is reputed 10 nave a pot of
money. If they catch on it pays well, and If
they don't they don't lose nything.
Many are the maledictions heaped on the
small army of men who in q week thus invade
the caravansaries. Still, that is what the desk
force is paid for, so the card senders allege.
Both act quietly. There are no words on
either side, but sometimes there is hard
breathing.
There is one person." said one of the force
at the Palace a day or two ago, "who has
come for days and has sent up card after
card regularly. He has some sort of mining
property to sell and he learns from the papers
the names OF people whom he supposes might
buy. He always has a big list. If word
comes down that one man isn't in he sends up
TO another. This he continues till he exhausts
his list or gets to see somebody"
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PERSONAL.

G. Il. Cruisan Of Salem, Or, is at the Grand.
The Rev. P. Smith of MERGED is at the Com.
merci&.
A. H. Buck of Mazatlan, Mexico. arrived here
yesterday.
w. F. Peterson, merchant of Sacramento, is
in the City.
F. J. Mason, fruitgrower of Newcastle, is
on visit here.
J. F. Fraser, business man of Lakeport, is a
recent arrival here
g. Mem. Ross, mine.owner of Burns Valley,
is at the Occidental.
A. H. oden, owner Of mining interests in
Montana, is at the Russ.
G. w. Chrisman. the well-known resident of
Ventura, is on visit here.
H. A. Preston, a mine-owner of Jamestown,
Tuolumne County, is in town.
Allen B. Lennon, editor and owner of the
Santa Rosa Republican, is in the City.
]. West, business man of Cathlamet, is at
the Occidental accompanied by his wife,
Charles Marshall, a merchant of Everett,
Wash, is among the recent arrivals here.
w. S. Ewing, miner of Cooks Inlet, Alaska,
is among the arrivals a the Intern ational
]. T. Smith, mineowner of Greenwood, Ell
Dorado County, is here for a few days stay.
]. R. Hebron OF Salinas, ex-member of the
State Board of Equalization, is at the Grand.
Dave Harshfeld, the wealthy pioneer mer-
chant OF Bakersfield, is in the City on BUSH
ness trip and is staying at the Lick.
r. G. Hart, founder of the town of Hart
Shasta County. and one of the owners in the
Texas Consolidated mine and of stores and
other interests, is here on a business trip.
A. C. Van Dorm, who for about five years has
lived in Juneau, Alaska, where he has carried
on large merchandising business, was one
OF the arrivals at the Commercial yesterday.
He is here on business trip and will stay
several weeks.
General Oliver Roberts, the well.known
mining superin teudent, is in the City for
few days. The extensive company with which
General Roberts is connected has several
properties under process of development,
among them being the Golden West, a promis-
ing mine near Forbestown, and the Sterrett
ledge, near Cisco. as well as claims in Trinity
County and old Mexico
Anent story that Lloyd Osborne, stepson of
the late Robert Louis Stevenson, had been ap-
pointed British Vice-Consul at Apia, Samoa,
Consul-General Warburton of this City yester-
day said he had no knowledge of it if such
had been done. But he added that he would
not be notified of 1t anyway, and might be
one of the last to know of it except from the
consular books when printed. He said the
post would be very poor one financially. Z.
B. Cusaek- Smith is the British Consul of
Samoa, and Sir John B. Thurston, K. c. NJ G.,
is Consul-General for the whole Pacific islands
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-18
A QUEER PROPOSITION.

Congressman Newlands of Nevada
asserted in his speech at Metropolitan
Hall last Wednesday evening that while
the party (the Democratic) was respon-
sible for industrial disturbance in the past
it gave a guarantee as to the future
against further industrial disturbance" by
agreeing to increase the tariff duties, and
as that party's platform upon the money
question is entirely satisfactory there is
no reason why every one should not vote
for Bryan. Mr.. Newlands possesses very
vivid imagination if he can satisfy his
mind that the Democratic party declares
for an increase in tariff duties to make up
deficiencies in revenue. He should read
the Chicago platform.
Mr.. Bryan's whole public record shows
him to be free-trader, and before he got
interested IN the silver question he de-
clared upon the floor of Congress that it
was the Mckinley tariff and that alone
which + ad caused the industrial depression
and the consequent idleness of so many
thousand working-people. When the
Wilson bill was pending he denounced it
because it did not make tariff duties low
enough. Mr.. Bryan is the leader of the
free-traders in this country, and he would
no more agree to increase the tariff duties
than he would abandon the race for the
Presidency. Mr.. Bryan believes, and has
SO announced himself time and again, that
trade between this and other countries
should be free, and that this Government
should levy an income-tax on the people
to raise money for the Nations expense
account.
1t is very curious that Mr.. NewIands
should denounce the Democratic party for
being the cause of the industrial depres-
sion which has nearly bankrupted the
whole country and then ask the people to
support its candidate for the Presidency.
especially SO because every one knows
that the only objection any Democrat has
to the Wilson act is that it makes the
duties too high and that Bryan says he
does not believe tariff for even a little
protection can be justified. The fact OF
the matter is, Mr.. Newlands is willing TO
sacrifice everything to the free coinage of
silver. Apparently he would rather see
the fires drawn in every industry and the
entire working class in idleness than to
see the minis closed to the free coinage of
silver.
The difference between the advantage
the people would gain by the adoption of
Mr.. Newlands' policy and the adoption of
the policy OF the Republican party is this:
Mr.. Newlands policy would trust the
Democrats to establish protection to our
industries in the face of the fact that
they have been opposing protection all
their lives. He would run the risk of
having an income-tax law fastened upon
the country and he would help assault
the judiciary for the privilege of having
silver accepted at the minis for free and
unlimited coinage.
The Republican party's policy would be
to first open the industries to labor, so
that we might have prosperity in all the
walks of lite. Instead of levying an in
come tax it would oblige foreign goods
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS

The people who are interviewed each day in
the papers sometimes have queer experiences
with men who call on them to gather further
information on the subject discussed in the
interview.
The miners who have made big strikes, ex-
plorers, hunters of big game, travellers and
men OF all sorts who have strange, oftentimes
thrilling, experiences, such as THE CALL regu-
larly publishes. are not infrequently visited
by not only persons who take a friendly inter-
est in them, but by the purely curious. Others.
for personal reasons, desire to learn more by a
direct meeting with the principal in the story.
Yet others have personal gain as an object.
II miner has found a bonanza and made a
fortune, or if a visitor has met with a streak of
luck, of any kind, he is often the recipient
OF calls from men who have snaps which they
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woOdmau, Spare THAT Tree.
Los Angeles Times.

4US AIStItS IIutS-
Touching the disregard of Caliiornians for
their trees Professor Brewer OF Yale College
says: "When was in California from 1860 to
1864 W as so impressed with the grandeur Of
the magnificent sequoias of this State that I
have been lecturing about them ever since. 1
have been blowing about the big trees of Cali
fornia all these years at the risk OF my reputa-
ton, and now have come back here to find
that the giant pines and frs which 1 have de-
feet in the air around the slopes of Mount
Shasta have been almost entirely obliterated.
was never so shocked in my life, and as if
the axe they are blowing them out of the
ground with dynamite" Professor Brewer
very rightly believes that there is an alarming
need for legislation that will preserve Calf
fornia forests for the benefit of succeeding gen
erations.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-18

RAISE YOUR HAT - Subscriber, Ferndaie,
Humboldt County, Cal. If, when walking with
raise their hats to the lady in passing etiquette
requires that you should raise yours.
TEMPERATURES = Subscriber, Ferndale, Hum.
boldt County, Cal. The mean temperature in
London during December, 1894, was Is:
in January, 1895 81, and in February SO
December 6 1t was 81; January 20 it was 81.
HYPNoTIsM - Miss NJ, Petaluma, Cal. By
writing to any first-class bookseller you will be
furnished list of books on hypnotism. There
are physicians in this city who treat by hyp-
notism and who would probably help an am
ence, but this department. cannot advertise
them.
IN BANKING BUsINESs-Subscriber Ferndale,
Humboldt County, CAL The department of
Answers to Correspondents is not for the pur-
pose of advising people how they can best
invest their money, ana for that reason can
not tell you whether it would be of advantages
for you to join the banking company pro.
posed.
TUoLUMNE CoUNTY-C. N D., City. Tuolumne
County has a good standing as q mining
county and is probably as good one as any
in the State for a prospector to work in. A
prospector ought to secure outfit for about
$25. The fare to Sonora in that county is
SIS IS by rail to oakdale and from there by
stage 81
JUSTICE OF THE PEAcE-Subscriber, City, As
to eligibility to tho Office of Justice of the
Peace in this State, section 103 of the Code of
Civil Procedure says: "No person shall be
eligible 10 the Office of Justice of the Peace in
any city having over 10000 Inhabitants who
has not been admitted TO practice law in
court Of record"
BEET SUGAR-A CALL Reader, ST. Helena, Cal
beet-sugar factory was established in Cali
fornia before one WAS put in operation in the
State o. Nebraska. There are two beet-sugar
factories in Nebraska one at Grand Island
and the other at Norfolk. In 1895 California
produced between forty-fve and fifty million
pounds of beet sugar, while Nebraska during
the same period produced about two million
pounds.
SUCcEss1oN-Jones, City. If woman mar.
ries man and the woman dies, there being
no issue, and she not having left will the
estate goes one half to the surviving husband
and the other half to the deeedent father and
mother in equal shares. If there be no father
or mother, then one half goes in equal shares
TO the brothers and sisters of the decedent and
to the chiloren of any deceased brother Tor sis
ter, by right OF representation.
THE AMERICAN FLAG IN LINCOLN, NEBR,-H
C. s., City. After William ]. Bryan's return
from Chicago. after being named for the Presi-
dency, he was rendered q non-partisan recep-
ton by the people of Lincoln, Nebr, his home
city. Among other decorations used was q
roughly drawn imitation of the American FLAG
painted on the smooth stone sidewalks in
front of quite a number of business houses
These were laid on with cheap red, white and
blue kalsomine, and dis appeared soon ate r
the celebration. 1t is probably out of this cir
cumstaDce that the story was created that the
people OF the city named used the American
flag as carpe~
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-18

"You kno,O that the financial policy laid
dolon IN Chicago means individual and Ma
tionat bankruptcy, distress and dishonor.
You k1aow that its promises are false, ats prem
Uses delusive, its consequences ruinous. You
knotU that 1t means the lUreck of life and fire
insurance companies, trust companies, say
ings banks banks of deposit, building and
loan associations and monetary institutions TO
an enormous eztent through out the country.
You kqolO that IL means UaSt loss TO the gerry
men IL is intended to lure, and, above all
others, the farmer and Uorkingmen. "-An-
drelr d. White.
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oBJBoT-LEsSoN IN PROTECTION.

A correspondent of the New York
Tribune now travelling in Germany writes
his paper as follows: wherever the
traveller goes he finds contented faces.
Every one seems to have work to do.
Every factory is running ON full time.
The streets are astir with hustle and
activity. New foundries, factories and
mills are in process of erection in every
industrial center, and building operations
are in progress on large scale in every
important town. The Fatherland to-day
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-18
WORSE THAN THE DISEASE
Pasadena News.

We remember to have read in some old book,
somewhere, the following epitaph, said ohave
Deen engraved upon a tombstone of one de-
parted: II was we'll, wished TO be better; took
physlc and died" This we think, is good
representation of the condition of this coun-
tIy, except that we are not dead by long
shots as the 3D. of November will prove So II
we paraphraSe IL this way Ii will fit us exactly:
- was well, but thought wanted TO be better
LOOK dose of free-trade medicine and have
peen kicking and cursing myself ever since"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-18
MISSES FoUR.GoRRD SKIRT.

A graceful skirt for misses which will retain
Its shape is shown here. 1t has front gore,
one gore on either side and one gore in the
back, which is gathered at the top.
All materials may be made after this model
which is suitable for separate skirts or for cos
TUNES with waist or jacket to match. AL the
fullness is gathered at the back, the front and
sides fitting smoothly.
skirt OF plaid is useful to wear with extra
waists. One OF blue and brown, with narrow
Ines OF black. yellow and pale green, had q
Wslst OF plain brown cloth. made in Norfolk
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FARMERS EAST AND WEST.
Redlanda Cilrorranh.

California farms are mortgaged for "a per
cent OF their assessed valuation, while New
YORK farms are mortgsged for 45 per cent of
their assessed valuation. This goes TO show
that, while California farmers assert their IN.
alenable right to growl they are twice as we'll
on as their New York State brethren. With the
Nlcaragua canal open to commerce, our
farmers will soon wipe out their mnrtoega
debt and be the most prosperous farmers in the
world. And they should remember that the
republican party is the only party that is
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at is immateriaI in my judgment whether
the sheep-grower has any benefit from the tariff
or not. Whether he does or does not; Vhether
the WooI manufacturer collects compensd.
tory duty from the consumer of soooten goods
and pays it Ouer to the GOol-grotOer, or collects
it and Keeps 1t himself, or doesn't collect it at
all, and therefore doesn't need it, 1 am for
free lrooi. - William j. Bryan.
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While Mr. Bryan says: My experiment of
free trade, or all of 1t could get, has proved
disastrous; please try my experiment of de-
based currency, and perhaps that wiH sue
ceed,' Major Mckinley says: 'Let as return
once more to the policies and the practice and
the measures Which from Washington to Har-
rison made this country the greatest, The freest
the a0ealthiest, the most prospero as and the
best for its people of any land IN the tcortd.'
-Chounceu De4,e,g.
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and wares to pay enough for the privilege
of entering our markets to provide for the
Governments expenses. 1t would open
the minis to silver after it had agreed
with commerce that silver and gold should
be accepted as redemption money at the
option of the debtor. 1t should not re-
ouire great deal of common-sense to see
that the Republican party's policy ia
better every way than the policy of the
Bryan-N wlands-Altgeld com biue.