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The herald., 1897-06-23
Building Permits

The following permits were issued By
the building superintendent yesterday:
Mrs. E. H. Howard, Park View, be-
tween Sixth and Boulevard, two-story
frame dwelling, $4,000.
Mrs Myra Reed. San Pedro street,
near Sixth two-story frame roomins
house, $500.
M. r. O'Dea, Bonsallo avenue, nea.'
Washington street, frame cottage, sloo0-
Bertha Gesman, Fifth street, between
Hope and Grand avenue, frame cottage,
$780,
Main Street Milling company, No. 1910
South Main street, repairs, $50.
c. H. Martin, G street, between Tenth
and Eleventh, additions and repairs, $75.
Mrs. E. Hunter, No. 55S South Hope
street, repairs, so.
The herald., 1897-06-23
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The Tariff Committee Met Yesterday.
New Donations

The orange growers citrus tariff
committee met in the chamber of COM
merce rooms yesterday morning at 10
o'clock, with the following delegates
present: N. w. Blanchard, Ventura; b.
A. Woodford, Ontario; T. H. B. Chamb-
lin, Riverside; r. H. Young, San Diego;
e. p. Hollister, Santa Barbara, and f.
O. Story ard E. F. C. Klokke, Los An
geles. The report of the passage
through the senate of a one-cent tariff
rate was read and commented upon.
congratulations We're ordered sent to
the delegates who have represented the
committee in Washington for the past
three months, together with orders that
they remain on the ground until the bill
mas made its final passage, and re-
ceived the presidents signature.
p. T. Sturdevant has placed on dis
play magnificent specimen of the Rom
neya Coulters, or giant California poppy,
which is commonly called Matilda.
The herald., 1897-06-23
Gasoline Stove Exploded

An alarm of fire was turned in at 2:40
o'clock yesterday afternoon from the cor
ner of Seventh and Mateo streets. The
department responded, to find that the
rear of cottage occupied by Mrs A
Price was on fire. The blaze originated
from a gasoline stove explosion. Mrs
Price was working with the stove at the
time and was burned about the hands
and arms, but her injuries are more pain
full than serious. The fire was extin-
guished with a loss to the property of
proba bly, S1GO
The herald., 1897-06-23
The Bonds Accepted

The following telegram was received
by the city clerk yesterday:
BOSTON, June %, 1897.
&c. H. Hance, City Clerk, Los Ange
les: Have treasurer ready to sign bonds
on receipt of our letter mailed today
Dillon holds that old bonds must be re-
deemed from proceeds of the new con-
temporaneously with their delivery
Where are the old bonds held?
''E. H ROLLINS & SONS
This means that the bonds have beer
accepted after having been passed upon
by Mr.. Dillon and that the buyers want
the securities delivered to them in Bos-
ton. Details will be sent by mail.
The herald., 1897-06-23
Westlake Boating Privilege

The action of the council in hanging
up the contract of Newall Brothers for
the boating privileges at Westlake park
on sundry fimsy pretexts is causins g
much unfavorable criticism. The con-
tract was awarded by the park commits
sioners to the Newell Brothers as the
best bidders, and they filed O. gilt-edged
The herald., 1897-06-23

Mr. Floyd, who resides at the corner
of Sichel and Sigler streets, has Just re-
turned from an extended trip to South
America.
Mr.. and Mrs Hudson Arms leave to-
day for Redondo, where they are erect
ing a neat beach house.
The herald., 1897-06-23

The German empress is said to have
reduced her weight decidedly by rigor-
Gus course of dieting, but looks pale and
much older. Her beautiful fair hair has
become quite white and her expression
careWorn.
The herald., 1897-06-23
LICENSE APPLICATIONS

The application of NJ. B. Carter for a
saloon license at Terminal Island was
set for July 81, and the application of A
f. Schenk for a saloon license at the
four-mile house on the San Gabre
road, was set for the same date.
The bond of Mary Galgain for license
at the Santa Monica canyon was ap-
proved, and also the bond of ALFRED
Burrell for a license at the four-miie
house, on the San Fernando road.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
SOUTHERNS CONTROL.
Crin2ing Northern Mudsilis Not In
Management of the Party.

Senator Jones of Arkansas, the boss Of
the Democratic party, appears to be a
ready letter writer. lie recently sent one
to the Democratic State Committee of
New York, in which he declared it would
be "impoltic" to indorse the Chicago plat
form. But he has written other letters.
For instance. one was produced yester-
day in which he urged an entirely differ
ent policy from that he advocated on
Wednesday. The letter in question was
written to James O'Brien, formerly sheriff
of New York, and in it Mr. Jones said:
sincerely hope that genuine and loyal
Democrats get control OF the organization
in your State IL occurs TO me that II would
be wise for a State convention 10 be assem-
bled next fall for the purpose OF making the
one nomination needed and 10 organize the
machinery Of the party; but of course nave
no connection with your state organization
and don't know just what would be proper
for me To say or do In that connection, or
whether | should say anything at all.
The result of this yeering around is
that the Bryanites are ncenscd with
Jones and are saying ugly things about
him. Nevertheless Jones is the boss Of
the party, and feels that it is within his
province to go around with the wind and
generally do as he pleases. For Jones is
from the South, and the South is in the
Democratic saddle, and as faithful and
subservient creatures of the South, the
Democrats OF New York obey his orders.
As The Journal repeatedly has declar-
ed, we are going to see history repeat
itself, and find the Democracy of the
North again the piable, submissive, cring-
ing tool Of the South. In his speech at the
fair grounds recently, Senator Tillman de-
clared that this condition of affairs must
be brought about, and the deXterous speed
shown by the Democratic State Com
mittee in obcying Mr.. Jones instructions
proves that the Democracy Of New York,
in spite Of the decadence of national leal-
ers, is prepared to resume its Old position,
and to come at the beck and call Of the
South. Albany Journal.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
A Weak Comnarison.

In his lola speech Mr.. Bryan revived
his two piles Of wheat. Suppose, he said,
in effect, that if all the wheat in the world
is collected in two piles, and that one of
the piles is burned, will not the other pile
be doubled in value? The same, he says,
is true of money. In 1873 there is the
"crime" again the Republican party
burned one of the two piles of money,
that is the white pile. Therefore, the re-
naming pile, the gold, has doubled in
value. The farmers who heard the speech
must have smiled. 1t was possible to talk
such nonsense last year, not this year.
In the first place, the Republican party
did not burn one-haf of the money in the
country. That statement is just plain
misstatement In 1873 our circulation
was only $751;, SS1 500; in 1896 it was ST.
5OG,G31 ,026. Instead Of burning one-half
of the money in circulation, the Republi-
can party doubled the circulation, while,
during the same time, the population fell
far short Of doubling itself. The money
in the country in 1878 was only SIS per
capita: it was nearly S33 in 1896. In the
face of these facts. what becomes of the
charge that the Republican party has
burned one of the two piles OF money?
Isn't it ridculous?-Iowa State Register.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
Silver Issue Dead.

From all reliable sources ii appears that
the much advertised lG-to-1 camp meet
ing in Springfield, Ohio, was a most con-
spicuous failure The Cincinnati Enquir-
or keeps up the semblance Of Il large at
tendance aud great enthusiasm, but the
facts gathered by other correspondents
show that it was n failure that will dam
age the 1G-to-1 fad. Even Mr.. Bryan
could not be induced to 20 to help draw
crowd. Most of the other orators for sill
yer were conspicuous by their absence.
Eek Representative Towne of Minnesota,
silver Republican, was present, but he had
nowhere else to go. Gen. Warner was
present. but as the head of the silver mine
owners lobby at Washington he is under
pay and must put in an appearance. The
unfortunate Democratic candidate for
Governor was advertised to appear, but
he is not an orator. Ten cents admission
was asked in order to meet the expenses,
but the collections for admissions are not
half the expenses. The correspondent OF
the Pittsburg Dispatch writes that "a
wonderful change has been made locally
in politics 10y the failure Of the silver camp
meeting" and that local Democrats are
outspoken in declaring that there was
only one way to account for the slim at
tendance, and that is that the silver issue
is dead"-Indianapolis Journal.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
SUPPLEMENT.
The MODERN FARMER.
His Lot Is Improving Faster than
Tint of Other Men.

His Lot Is Improving Fnster than
That of Other Men.
The old-time farmers boy was not seri-
ously to blame for striking out for the
city. His pathway Of life was not strewn
with roses, nor were his days IA succession
Of joyous picnics. He was compelled 10
rise early in the morning, long before the
lark bad ceased from slumbcr, and bring
the Gors from the dewy pasture. He was
expected, before he had a chance to sat
isfy his morning hunger. TO pail SIN
COWS; be kicked over at least once; feed
and groom four horses, and carry food
and drink TO at least twenty-five head OF
opcn-faced swine
In the summer he was expected TO hold
the handles OF IA bull tongue plow and
tramp adOwu the rows of corn until long
after the chickens had gone to their night
~ rest. In the fall, when the old horse
power threshing machine came around, he
stood at the tail end and fOrked away the
straw, while ragweed dust filled his lungs
and cogged the pores of his skin. In the
winter he was sent out to pick stones from
the rocky field, and as he picked, fresh
stones sprang up like dragons teeth to
take the place Of those he had gathered.
lie had no time to read, and mighty little
for rest. 1t isn't any wonder he got tired
of the business and struck out for the city.
Now it different. The farmer no longer
comes to town in his road wagon, sitting
on two-nch plank laid across the top Of
the wagon. but he rides in his surrey, his
horses arrayed in silver-mounted harness.
He sits in a carriage seat to plow his
ground, and after his days work is done
takes walk for exercise. The old-fash-
toned Se-killng and Misunderstanding
threshing machine has given way TO "A
modern invention run by steam, automat-
ically fed, which stacks its own straw,
and measures, weighs and loads the grain,
while the farmer seated in the comforta-
BILE shade, may watch the operation. His
hay is stacked by machinery, and baled
by machinery. His water is pumped by
machinery. His stock will soon be fed
by machinery. He is beginning to put in
telephones and order his groceries over the
wire.
The time is near at hand when, instead
of being the slave Of toll, the farmer will
be the man Of leisure as well as the man
of capital.
When that time comes il will be found
that the ambition of young men viii lie
in the direction of becoming landed coun-
try gentlemen instead of hard-driven,
overworked and smothered-for-air resi-
dents of the cities.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08

preaching State campaign. Despite the
air Of righteousness given to the commit
tees discovery that it was clearly with
out authority to write party platform,
its failure to express last "Wednesday even
the smallest opinion on public questions
bears all the earmarks OF deliberate and
studied policy. Moreover, the plausible
excuses for lodging llirmation of the
Chicago platform so obigingly furnished
to Senator Murphy 10y Chairman Jones Of
the Democratic National Committee fail
wholly TO obscure the main fact that the
Democratic organization i'm the foremost
State Of the Union practically hauled
down the silver flag when, by a policy of
inaction and silence. it committed itself
to conducting State campaign on lines
which virtually ignore the declarations ac-
cepted year ago as Democratic faith by
the national convention at Chicago.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
The HogansviIle Affair.

1t is said the attempted assassination
of Isaiah ii. Loftin, the coorcd postmas-
ter of Hogansville. Ga, will be made the
basis of an immediate and vigorous pros
ecution Of all who are connected with the
affair. This much is due to the enforce
ment of law, but in addition the admin
istraton should take firm stand against
the movement TO boycott colored Office
holders in the South. 1t is not likely there
will be many such appointments, but
wherever they are made the incumbents
should have ample protection. The Gov
eminent should not allow itself to be CO.
creed or dictated to in the smallest matter
by any party, faction or class Of men, and
if any community attempts to draw the
color line against postmaster otherwise
qualified il should be made to understand
that the Constitution aud laws Of the
United States are supreme in every part
of the national domain.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
An Object Lesson.

The financial situation in the Southern
Republic presents an object lesson which
should not be lost upon our friends, the
free silver lunatcs. Advices from the
City of Mexico. in the words Of a recent
arrival from that unhappy place, paint "a
gloomy picture OF the future" a young
Californian who has resided there for
three or four years, and who has held a
conspicuous position in large business
concern, states that the decline in the
price Of silver has practically driven him
out OF business. He says that everything
has gone up threefOld-eXcept wages. OW-
ing to the tremendous discount on that
metal working people are now scarcely
able TO earn sufficient to procure the nee
essaries of life.
All branches OF business are paralyZed
and Americans are leaving the country in
droves. Merchants who have outstanding
accounts and who are compelled to collect
them in silver are being put to tremen-
dous loss. When this young man left
Mexico it took $3.50 to buy 81 in eX-
change, n condition which has practically
destroyed the importing business, and
which is gradually gripping the Govern
mcnt; for as imports decline the revenues
of the republic are obliterated
The evolution of free silver basis in
Mexico substantiates everything alleged
by the opponents OF Mr.. Bryan in the last
presidential campaign in this country. 1t
was then said that wages were the last to
go up, and that currency imitation of every
kind was injurious TO the masses. This
is always the fact. Capital takes care Of
itself, but labor is always the victim of
prevailing circumstances. Yet it is a
strange coincidence that OF the several
millions Of people who voted for William
j. Bryan, probably % per cent were men
who, had his financial theories been put
into effect would have suffered the most
In Mexico the masses are not RESPONSE
BILE for the financial crisis. The Gov
eminent maintains its silver basis with
out consulting them. But in the United
States, had the free coinage of silver been
adopted, the people themselves would
have wrought their own ruin. No reason
ing man can contemplate the possible re-
suits Of the presidential campaign of 1896
without SILVER. Bryan was defeated,
after all, by narrow plurality. Had he
succeeded and had his demagogy and
crude theories been put into the form Of
laws, fifty years of good government and
prosperity would not have wiped out the
damage he would have inflicted upon the
nation.
If there are any free silver lunatics in
this country who still believe that it is
safe to adopt free coinage Of silver with
out the consent of any other nation, they
should be sent to Mexico and compelled
there to study the frightfu results of
deprecated currency upon the welfare Of
the common peop!e.-San Francisco Post
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
The silver Missionaries.

Senators Cannon and Pettigrew are in
Japan, where they propose to interview
the emperor on the silver question. Pos
sibly they think the emperor has not heard
of the fall in silver, or if he has, that he
will be unable to resist their wonderful
eloquence, and so will Immediately coun-
termand all orders looking to the estab-
lishment Of the gold standard in his do
minions.
The manner in which these silver apos-
ties are wandering around the world seek
ing to gain some support would be pitiful
if it were not for the fact most of them
are greatly interested in mining and are
seeking to foist a deprecated metal upon
the world, in order that they may profit
nprsonnllX
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
Have n New Onnnrinnitv.

Democratic orators who last year were
trying to convince the public that the
clique of financiers in Europe whom they
vaguely denominated money power"
were responsible for the adoption Of the
gold standard by all the intelligent ma
tons of the earth, will now have an OPP
portunity to make an equally interesting
and equally reasonable assertion by
charging up to the gold power the failure
of the crops all over the world. 1t is
just as reasonable to charge the destruc-
zion Of Argentine crops by grasshoppers
q the money power as it is to assume that
TIE money power could influence the leg
islaton of great nation on that most
important question of its policy, the cur
rpncy
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08

German law was in force and cotton ties
were on the free list, but the price was
Sl.35 per bundle at wholesale. This year
we have the Dingley bill and protective
tariff on cotton ties aud they are offered
facts do not seem to work in with the
Cleveland parrot cry that "the tariff is a
suX." These facts, too. are OF themselves
a sufficient refutation Of the other free
trade falsehood scattered so broadly and
so constantly, that protective tariff fos-
tiers. trusts. Last year, under free trade,
there was cotton tie trust; this year, I'M
der protective tariff, the trust is broken.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
straws from the Pos Office.

The records Of the New York postoflice
show that nearly ten thousand more do
nestle money orders were paid at the
general office in the first two weeks of
August this year than in the same time
last year. These money orders have,
without doubt. in most cases been sent
to pay for goods ordered from New York
merchants by persons living elsewhere.
This means that nearly ten thousand peo-
pie who were not buying goods from New
York dealers in August last year are buy
ing this year. Straws show which way
the wind blows, and this is one of the
straws which mark the coming of what
promises to be a hurricane which viii
sweep the country into such prosperity
as will give the devoted band of free
traders bad dreams for many day.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
Pettigrcw and Mantle.

Nobody has called attention to any great
anxiety on tho part of the public to know
the result of the interview of Senators
Pettigrew and Mantle with the Mikado Of
Japan on the true cause of the demoneti-
cation of silver. The fact is, everybody
except Pettigrew and Mantle understood
all about it before they left, or if they did
not they could easily have learned it by an
examination of the official report Of the
director Of our mint, which shows that the
japanese silver yen, which in 1887 was
worth 1913 cents, had, by July, 1897,
dropped to AIS, while the gold yen had
not CHANGED particle, the prices Of 1888
and 1897 icing precisely the same, 99.7.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
A Marked Contrast.

What marked contrast exists between
conditions in the United States to-day and
those Of the corresponding period Of Pres.
dent Cleteands last term. -Four years
ago, with Il low tariff staring the manu-
facturers of the country in the face. bust
ness was going TO everlasting smash
banks breaking, railroads going into the
hands of receivers, factories closing, and
workingmen thrown out of employment
by the hundreds of thousands. Now hun
dreds Of thousands of workingmen are
finding additional employment railroads
are ordering thousands of new cars to
meet the demand upon them for trans
portation Of manufactures. mechandisc
and grain, the banks report larger deposits
and larger clearings than in many years
and instead of silent factories, there are
clouds. of smoke and the hum of busy
wheels everywhere.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
Trusts and Free Trade.

Under protection, when business thriyes
and confidence reigns, men do not wait
long to compete with, and break down, a
trust which charges eXorbitant prices.
Under free trade, when business is para
lyzed and confidence blasted. men do not
put their money into new enterprises, and
consequently those who are already estab-
lished in any business have things all
their own way with what business is left
TO them. They have no fear of competing
rivals to kill their trade when the demand
is light. The cotton tie trust acted on this
knowledge, and the result was $1.35 per
bundle for ties which they are willing to
sell to-day for 20 cents per bundle. 1t is
time for the free traders to drop their
cry that protective tariff fosters trusts;
not because the facts are against them
that is never any reason for free trader
to drop a charge-but because the facts
are getting too well known to let the lie
go longer u:.detected by the people ut
large
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
Thn Shinninr Oncstion.

Shipping is the one industry that Eng
land protects; shipping is the one indus
try that the United States does not pro-
tect. Last year the total tonnage OF new
vessels launched by Great Britain was
over million tons the total tonnage of
new vessels launched by the United States
was less than one-ffth of that Of Great
Britain. No wonder England is mistress
of the seas. 1t certainly is high time for
us TO take a lesson from England and to
protect our merchant marine, and so dis
pute with England her control of the
carrying trade of the world, as we are
already beginning to dispute her suprem-
acy in the markets Of the world in the
sale Of manufactured products.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-08
Iown DemocracY and Gov. Roics.

The Democratic party in Iowa is not
content to lose the alliance of the other
anti-Republicans of the State, but by it's
latest move it has ostracized the Boies
element The venerable Uncle Horace"
saw fit to advocate the adoption of the
commercial ratio between gold and silver,
and base free coinage thereon, instead Of
10 to /. He insisted upon it, There
upon the leaders ordered him to the rear
lie is no longer allowed to go to and fro
up and down the State preaching the Cos
pei of free coinage at 36 to 1.-Chicago
Inter Ocean