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DE TOTNO rroprtetor Slip Chronicle has tha Larsrett SlXDAY OCTOBER 28 1838 rBICXS BXQS AND ABXtOAD AaCKKXEJrx Buor TnicaTKB Eftaerson Minstrels Bish st Theateb Xalural Oat ALrazaa THSUTEa Our Boarding Boose TivniroriRi Boras Three Guardsmen OarilEfTU Bpeclalttca BiLBwiTBriti German performance PaxoaaiiA BattlesOf Vk ksbarg POLLING FLACE3 Yesterdays session of Ponds Board cf Election Commissioners was a decided contrast to the session of the day before Neither Mayor Fond nor Auditor Stroiher mounted the high horse perhaps because the inspiration furnished by Jim Long Buckleys lieutenant was lacking or it maybe that the board was waiting for suggestions and did not like to spread itself without instructions from the powers that be The question of selecting new polling places in place of tha disreputable holes previously selected came up The nutter bad been with much propriety left to the Kegistrar and he was about to announce the name the first change made when a new deputy boss appeared in the person of Louis Kaplan He informed the 1oard with much vehemence that the law required the Registrar to select the polling places make contracts witn the proprietors and then submit his work to the board for approval Inn that the Registrar had conieN to the board with four or five places telling the board to make a choice Then the deputy boss pot down to business and told the board that the Democratic committee had come before the cocjaissioaers with a list of places selected which had been approved and that it was not in the power of the commission to change the polling places Mr Kaplans legal argument did not Seem to impress the board however and he retired but when it came to adopting the changes proposed by the KegiKrar it was apparent that the tilling waa cut and drieX The Telegraph Hill polling plare which the volets asked to have moved up on to the sill where peopij lived was favored by two or three rounders and on the strength of their representations it was left on tbe water front As a matter of fact nothing was done yesterday though action on a great many cases was postponed until Monday We shall await the result of the Aionday session with much interest The people chiefly through the labors of the IHkOMriE have made out a perfect case against the Mayor and bis board and they will wait with anxiety to see whether the board will dnre to run counter to their reasonable wishes in this matter There is no doubt that 1wnl and Strother will keep the polling places in the saloons and assignationassignation houses and ratholes and blind alleys if they dare but unless they are perfectly case hardened and impervi ous to the storm of public indignation which their despicable conduct has stored up they can hardly resist the pressure and may be compelled to be decent and respectable even at the expense of incurring the displeasure of Boss Huckley We wish possible to extort an answer from Mr Hearst regarding Cleveland a antagonism to silver orue days oefore the St Louis convention Mr Hearsts paper declared that if John Sherman received the nomination of the Republican party he would not receive a Yole from any Pacific coast State because he was opposed to silver This assertion of opinion bad scarcely grown cold before tho chairman of the Committee on Platform of the St Louis convention in reply to the importunities of Pacific coasters who wished to know whether a stanch silver plank would be incorporated in tha Democratic platform answered Oh damn silver Sow what we wish to know is will this deliberate evasion of the silver question by the Democrats and Clevelands known hostility to silver as cxprescd in the Warner letter and in his killing of the Beck amendment affect Grovers chances on this coastf In the language of polite correspondents An early reply will dHgeO1 Ir Mr Clevelands Dan is called xipon to write the letter to Salisbury demanding Iord Sackvilles recall he Will have a tough job to perform if he teljs the truth bis message will run something tike this Frwnd Stiiubutf Your representative here Lbrd fackrille has been indiscreet enough to tell the truth and the truth hurts me awfully in this campaign 4 regarding my auitud and thai of tha Democsatic party toward free trade and the English Government He said some thing which at any other time would hart been peculiarly flattering to aa and would even now tl unfortunately they had not been given publicity and for tiitrsnnl ranst reonest tou to rev call hits The recall does not need to be ior pood A little nol which can be naed to tide rne over the 6th of November all I wk After that data he roar itar hat forerer or if you think fit roil miv elevate him to lame more important boat He meant well after alL Sincerflr Gaorxx TnraxAxfaap that th SaeJtTill 1 tar ws designed la divert attention front tbe roiiia issue the tariff Why blest the old foss Xt heart Ufoenies attention npon the issue be speaks instead of diverting attention from it It brings plainly before the public lh fart that Sngiand is vitally Interested in having oar protective tariff cut pfft and that it Is praying heart and soul for the eliection of Cleveland the Noble Old llomtn and the whole Democratic ticket The free trade press with pencil and pen has endeavored to show that the President did not make a donkey of himself when he asserted in his xaes lage of December Cth last that not only tha price of imported goods was increased by the amount of the duty imposed upon them bat that tn cost of all articles of a similar character manufactured or produced in the United States was equally enhanced to the consumer by the amount of the duty imposed on the imported article There never was a more egregious blonder made and that it was made by CUrelandls doe to the fact that he disregarded all practical experience and parrot like repeated the exploded theories of the Cobden free trade primers Had he taken the trouble to make inquiry in any dry goods store he would have learned that there are numberless artic ies sold at a price less than the rate of duty He might have gained tne same information regarding hardware and other manufactures of iron and sU In fact every line of industry whitfi has American representatives would furnish him numerous illustrations in refutation of the absurd Cobden Club idea One of the most important of our imports is that of iron and steel and manufactures thereof The value of articles of this kind brought into the country in 1887 reached nearly 45000000 This has given rise to the im pression that the extent of these imports is prima facie evidence of the gTeater cheapness of iron and steel tools and other articles in England But such is not the case as the following thoroughly authenticated comparative price list published in the New York Pm of September 19th will completely demonstrate We may add thst tbe accuracy of this list has not been challenged although the Prtu had a standing offer to make a correction of any error which could be shown queneethat manufacturing could not be carried on profitably ULh AID VAUIL COBDEN AHD WOKstnraHKC Augi IA rt ateel 1 Inch per Stn Aoen cut at eel Inch per Aurrr btt Inch prrderen ChlaelA aocaet framing 1 Inch per duxen Cblaela stfeket framing 2 loch per doteo liMcbfU Hbtngtlag Na 2 per dozeo rickaxra bl snorted per cwt siawt hutd common 26 Inches per6ozii Saw hand beat 2tt Incbes per S9U0 90 1481 5 76 3 721 5 78 700 86a Bawa crosfl cut 4 eacb Saara croa ctll 41 feel padL 8 00 1S 4S 5 25 ilOO 500 16 00 IX i 2 25 124 100 2 36 601 8awa cro rm 5 left eacb 3 li Planes Jack lMtmh 24 double Iron per down 15 00 10 20 Bram rucitlDg cocks Inch per dozen 6C0 7 00 Brass bulls middle pairs 2 Incn per dozen 1 43 72 last DlHla iotae pairs 4X3 incaj per dozen I Strap htngaa tt Inch llgbt palra Jerdocen ate binge per cwl Plate binges par eft Wro tght Iron nasp aadataplea 8 inch per dozen Carriage bolu best 1x3 16 loch per gro i Currycomb hare ojen Jfol Brick trowels Yoii inch per uoren I Anvils sleel face per poun1 Iron dar 18zli per doao Fry ians Iron tinned a per doen CoDee mllls box eqnare Nol each I Enameb kettles 4 quarts each I Castweel shear hmmkift com mon 8 Inch par do en Mhovels No2 airara per ozen Door knoba mineral per dozen Door bnoha oorcalaln whlta per dozen 3 OO 3 25 Docr knota porcelain black I perdoaeo I S72 4 50 1 481 1 00 BOO 6 IS iOji 78 72 65 2 III 157 2 48j 90 8 24 7 50 8 4 48 5 25 448 4 2i 7 66 I 600 4 20 500 5 4 1 1 00 Ir rermblie ar nttrraUfnl iliat ta cood reason why Cleveland should be I jjan wcRTuie mea to cn wmnd he avtucht to appreciate the attention no Bttferwhiu the effect maj be Ux 1 Now thtre are more or less of the articles in the above list imported into the Inited Ststes every year the dutv oirwhkh varies from thirty five to over one hundred per cent The articles carrying the latter high rate such as hinges nails etc it will be noticed are actually cheaper in the Cnited States than in England Under the circumstances is not Mr Clevelands assertion too silly to be entertained for a moment The great trouble with Mr Cleveland and all tbe pin head economists of free trade persuasion is that they willfully overlook two important facts First that the field of competition in a country of over sixty millions is an enormous one and that it is suffi ciently large to prevent the creation of manufacturing monoixlies The American market for manufactured goods is to day greater than ail the markets of the world were a century ago That is to say the American people are consuming more manufactured goods in the year 18S than were consumed by the people of the civilized world in the year 177 With such a field to operate in and with such keen competitors how could the result be otherwise than as described by protection writers who have pointed out that in all those tines of manufacture in which the Americans have successfully engaged prices have been forced down The consumer is therefore enjoying the benefit of a cheapness which would have been undreamed of if protection had not called into existence this new and powerful competitor The second great point overlooked by the free traders is the easy possibility of the manufacturing countries of the world producing in excess of the needs of the people There is a false assumption entertained by Mills and others that there are markets lying around loose which we might take possession of if we only had free raw materials Bnt the cold fact is that no such markets exist Every section of the universe has been scoured for trade by Great Britain and her fierce European rivals and the only condition on which we could compete with them would be to undersell them and as they are now working down to bedrock prices this is a very dismal offer to make Americans had better look the situation squarely in the face Their home market is the best in the world and every outside nation is straggling to get into it England for years has been endeavoring to force a free entrance Into our country and she would hare succeeded in doing so had not our necessities taught ns common sense Kow she can come here with her goods but if she wants to sell them she mast pay a duty equivalent to the amount of the natural and artificial taxes impeded on Amerioan maunfacrarers Let no person be led so far astray by the fact that there are English goods still sold in American markets as to ippop that auch articles are much cheaper In tbe country from which they are exported The fact that manufacturers export Is not always conclusive rrool that they are profiting by so doing On the contrary it is too frequently a slgnnf unloading a surplua This is what English manufacturers hare been doing for many years past They have been unloadinj their surpluson to the tnited States and they have cheerfully paid the American duties It was their only recour Kad they unloaded in their own countries they would have been entirely ruined as prices would hare been to Irretrievably broken in conse 1 That notorious UatheTskite Bchoen hoff who was sent to England and the continent of Europe by Cleveland to gather information calculated to spread the desire for free trade in the United States has told ns over and over that this country need not fear competition with any nation under tbe sun because of the superior skill of our working people He aserts in the most solemn manner that one American factory employe is worth half a dozen foreigners and uses the statistics of mills operated in this country to substantiate his assertion But he deliberately suppresses tbe vital fact that the working people designated by him as Americans are in reality as often for eigners by birth as natives Of course if he brought forward this fact prominently the inquiry would naturally arise Why can foreigners do more work in American mills than they could in their native land Any attempt to answer it would inevitably destroy the force of SchoenhoiTs argument that we need not fear the competition of countries where labor is cheaper because of our superior skill because the fact would fit once be disclosed that the operatives are no better in American mills than they are in English or Geiman factories and that the better results he speaks of only exist in his imagination or at least are not in any sense attributable to the greater efficiency of our working peo pie This claim of SchoenhofTs is hot at all original Like everything emanating from the American free traders it is a base imitation of an English idea In the issue of London Fair Trade of October 5th we find it expressed and condemned as an absolute British fad Says Fair Trade It is time that Englishmen got rid of ihe conceit that in producing pver foreigners ore no match for them Invention and machinery have disposed of that boast long since not only in relation to manufactures but in the arts of war For many years this was the prevalent brag in England It was originate by the free traders to remove the fear of the working men of the competition of other countries and it succeeded in fooling them and the people at large so long as England enjoyed her marked superiority of capital and machinery But as soon as other nations began to get abreast ot her in this regard the boast had to be abandoned because it was then perceived that no particular country enjoyed a monopoly of skill and that the trade would fall to the nation whose workers could be crowded cioest to what the political economists call the limit of subsistence it is idle for the book men or paid emissaries of Cleveland to try and convince sensible people in this country that we could maintain our present high rate of wage if our protective tarilt were done away with It stands to reason that if the British have the same machinery as ourselves and get their people to work for half the wages Americans work for they wonld be able to undersell us in a free market The tariff and the tariff only keeps up the existing high rate of wages It is not superior skill or superior advantages by any means and if the American people wish to be thoroughly convinced that this is tbe ease all they need to do is to indorse Cleveland and his free trade policy and they will soon be confronted with the necessity of putting down wages to the British level or of allowing the British to take possession of our markets THIKMAN ON WJCST Mr Thurman has had a spasm of virtuous indignation over the correspondence between Murchison and the British Minister declaring that the writin of the letter to Sir Lionel cack ville West was the production of a deliberate villain who deserves to be scorned by honest men But hard words break no bones and we may perhaps pardon the senile rage of the old man at seeing the prize of the Vice 1rtsidency put beyond hii reach forever It is natural that the feeble old man verging on his second childhood should be furious at seeing the edifice which he thought secure come tumbling about his ears and if he used some strong expressions he may out of consideration for his years be torgiven But will our readers and especially our Democratic readers please take notice that nowhere in his speech either directly or indirectly does Mr Thurman aeny the truth of the Sack ville West letter He asserts with much vehemence that the man who wroteJto the British Minister was a liar and a perjured villain but be does not so much as intimate that the letter of the British Minister in reply contained anything which was not strictly and absolutely true And this is she point ot the whole correspondence Four months ago the Republicans asserted that the Democratic Administration and its President were pro English that tbe retaliation message was only a bluff intended for political effect that there was an understanding between Mr Bayard and Lord Salisbury that reconciliation would speedily follow the Presidential election and that Mr Cleveland had no real intention of retaliating even if Congress should give him the farther grant of power which be pretended to want This the Democrats strenuously de nied and for weeks the free trade organs held Cleveland up as a man with the patriotism of Washington the statesmanship of Jefferson and the firmness and courage of Jackson Kow at this eleventh hour along comes the British Minister and says in effect that the Eepubllcans were right that retaliation was all bluster and that the Administration Is favor ably inclined to Great Britain and Allen Thurman does not contra dict him He does not because he dare not He may vent his rage upon Murchison he may charge Blaine with having conspired to keep these letters back he may fume and froth as much as he likes but he dare not deny that when West said that Cleveland and the Administration were amicably inclined to Great Britain and that the retaliation talk was all buncombe he spoke the exact truth Recalling the Minister will not help matters He has said his say and Thurman admits by his failure to derry it that his assertions are indisputably true If Mr Cleveland sends htm home it will be because he has spoken the truth and a truth of this kind is unpslatahle to the man at the White Bouse Grtnd Mister Powderry of the Knights ot Labor has been falsely claimed by Democratic free traders as a sharer of their peculiar views but sow we learn that this is not true In a recent letter Which has found its way into print he declared himself In favor of protection and asserted that he never bought an article of foreign manufacture when he could obtain the product of our own workshops and workingmen It would be impossible to conceive of Mr Powderly or any other man occupying the position he does being anything else than a protectionist Trades unionism is a superstructure reared on a foundation of mutual protection Necessarily all members of unions must favor the protection idea so far as it affects nations This necessity was long obscured in England by the skillful deception practiced on the workingmen by tbe free traders who in defiance of all the teachings of political economy made their dupes believe that cheapness was the paramount thing to be aimed at Tbe insincere writers who preached the doctrine of cheapness always kept in the background the cardinal economic law that wages will descend as the cost of living descends and that competition would naturally bring the workingman to the limit of subsistence They were only aiming to benefit one class the non producing consumer To them the producer the poor workingman whose bone and muscle and blood was being ground np into the cheaply produced article was of minor consequence If any one wishes to thoroughly realize this fact he needs only to read John Motleys eulogistic biography of Richard Cobden in which are printed copious extracts from the speeches and sayings of the great apostle of English free trade From beginning to end these speeches breathe a spirit of hostility to trades unions and an utter disregard of the welfare of any class other than the middle class On one paee in this book Mr Mor ley tells us Mr Cobden said Depend upon it nothing can be got by fraternizing with trades unions They are founded upon principles of brutal tyranny and monopoly That is to say when a body of men band tog ether to save themselves from being driven to the verge of starvation thev become brutal tyrants and monopolists Mr Cobden and Mr Brijfht were never friends of the workingmen They regarded them as mere machines by which the great English middle class the manufacturers and tradesmen could gather riches Here is Morleys testimony on this point It will be found on UO of his Life of Cobden It was not the workmen as such in whom olxien had confidence You never heard me he said to the Pro tectionists in the House of Commons quote the suterior judgment of the working classes in any deliberations in this assembly you never heard me cant about the superior claims of tbe working classes to arbitrate on tms great question No indeed No one ever heard Cobden make such a claim How could he when with the insufferable inso lence of tbe tree trade doctrinaire he regarded their interests as of consequence by the side of tbe superior interests of the manu facturers What right bad work ingmen to put in their oar WhatT business they to interfere with the expansion of Englands trade What cause had they to complain if their lives were squeezed out in the efforts of John Bright and other free traders to undersell the re of the universe Cobden although he had at one time been an advocate of the broadening of the franchise in England ultimately lost confidence in the correctness of his earlier view and openly expressed his apprehension that the workingmen would work the manufacturers mischief His tears were based on a knowledge of human nature He knew that it would be impossible for any class of people to enjoy the power to better their condition and refuse to take advantage of it He saw the handwriting on the wall He was tbe apostle of cheapness and poverty and he dreaded to see the fallacy of his views exposed as they will be by the workingmen whose rights be so wantonly disregarded A movement is now on foot in England which is growing with portentous rapidity It has for its object the destruction of the free trade system The English workingmen are awakening to the fact that cheapness means misery and they are determined to resist the grinding of human blood bone and muscle in tbe endeavor to bring it about They are bent on a change to a rational system where the burden of taxation will fall on the hitherto pampered non producingproducing consumer While this revolution is in progress fon the other side of the water our in sensate President is actually trying to bring about the disastrous conditions prevailing in England it remains to be seen whether the people will accept his advice and engage in the work of grinding the bone muscle and blood of workingmen into articles in order to produce superior cheapness recti hbn tdinehide in the mtcVof the foreign artideUke duty thereon which on the fl 72 blanket Is 1 Ohe might it wooJd iW afelr nut his hid at 2 23 Which is 7 cents Jess than the assumed price of the English blanket pltutheltariirv He does so and to his utler astonishment finds that John Dull has underbid him very considerably andwhen The looks about him to see how this tan be finds that the English mjtnufactnrer has paid the tarin7laeaer to sell his blankets to the War Department Next time though he is not fooled by MrClevelsnd and Mr Endi cott and he offers his blankets at the regular American pricey without bothering himself about the tarih and jets the contract This Is an imaginary case but it is juat what happens every day The duty is not added to the price of the domestic article and Mr Cleveland may write messages and letters ot ac ceptance from cow until doomsday without alterint the fact POTTDKK1T ON rilOttECTION tTHO STOUT WW ADYXRTISKMKXTA General Master Workman Powderly of the Knights of Labor is too faithful to the principles of the Order and to its constitution to take sides with either of the political parties in the present campaign and because he knows his duty and does it in this respect the Democratic newspapers have claimed again and again that he is not a protectionist i As the general master workman of the order he is not a protectionist that is in his official capacity he takes sides neither with the party of protection nor the party of free trade but as an Individual as a citizen of the great 1 republic he has opinions on the issue of the day and what they are may be readily gathered from a letter written by him to Secretary Cake of the Wlnd sar Glass Workers Association in answer to one written by National District Assembly No 300 of asking for an opinion as to tne legality of their course in placing a speaker in the field to advocate the cause ot protection The following are extracts from the letter which Cake gave out No explanation is necessary as to the course taken by local Assembly No 300 If its members think they are right that is sufficient for me so lung as the action taken does not interfere with the working of the assembly I am not free to advocate either party and have not done so by word act art or intimation You are at perfect lib 1 erty to denounce me through the press if at this moment you catch any trace of my fingers in this campaign except it be for soms well known friend of labor 1 believe in protection and never have bought a single article made across the ocean It has been my invariable practice to ask where an article was manufactured before I purchased it if I cannot get a homemade article I will wait until I can I would no allow a single article to land that we can manufacture ourselves 1 would not allow any workman to come over and take the place of one of our own workmen 1 am a protectionist and in many respects diner from those who are preaching protection in Ibis campaign Were it not for the labor organizations there would be no protection for the men who work These things are facts and vet I am accused of partiality for the Democratic party I am neutral in this campaign and intend to remain so until election day That settles Mr Powderlys position on the question of protection He is a protectionist through and through and as he hints a more logical and consistent protectionist than many who preach protection so loudly He is a protectionist as he is a Knight of Labor because the principle of organization to protect the workingman and of legislation to protect the working man are only different phases of the same thing Notice the similarity between the views of Powderly and those expressed by Thomas Jefferson in 18 1G Mr Powderly says It has been my invariable practice to ask where an article was manufactured before 1 purchased it If I cannot get a homemade article I will wait until I can Thomas Jefferson said in a letter to Benjamin Austin in 1S1G Experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort and if those who quote me as of a different opinion will keep pace with me in purchasing nothing foreign where an equivalent of domestic fabric can be obtained without regard to difference of price it will not be our fault if we do not soon have a supply at home at least equal to our demand Here are two men who do not think that cheapness is tbe be all and end all of political economy but who recognize the great fact that what workmen want is work and wages for their work and that protection is best for the country because it gives employment to our laborers at home Our workingmen will not easily find safer guides than Thbmas Jefferson and Powderly There is no need of teUing old resi dents of this city who Charles Story 1 the Bepuhlkan nominee for Mayor is hut the CnsosKxi will answer its own question for the benefit of those who hare come to San Francisco since Mr Story has been out ot active political nre Charles Story is one ot the oldest residents of San Francisco having come to this city in 1813 before it was a city and having seen it grow from infancy to its present lnsty maturity Charles Story is a man who has been actively engaged in business in San Francisco for forty years He has reared a family here and given those pledges to society which insure a mans fidelity to the city of his chosen dwelling place Charles Story is a man who has filled various public positions in the municipal government and always with credit to himself and with a praiseworthy zeal tor the interests of the people In lSffi he was apjointed by the Board of Supervisors to the position of License Collector and con tinued as such for two years At the expiration of that time be was elected Tax Collector and held that important and responsible office for five consecutive years from 18S4 to 1869 In the latter year he was elected to tire Board of Supervisors and served two years with Mayor Belby in the chair and was then re elected and served two years more under Mayor Alvord so that against the six years service of Mr Pond on which he lays so much stress may be put the eleven years service of Charles Story and it may be truth fully said that the first honest word of reproach has yet to be cast upon that eleven years of labor for the interests of San Francisco whether as License Collector Tax Collector or Supervisor Mr Storys connection with active political life so far as office holding is concerned ceased in 1873 but he has been constantly concerned for the welfare Ct the city and has let no oppor tunity pass of doing all he could for her interests The present election law of this city which the Board of Election Commissioners are so flagrantly violating at this time was very largely the work of Mr Story who brought to its preparation the wide experience acquired by him in his eleven years of service in municipal offices and it is absolutely certain that if elected Mayor Charles Story will see that that law is carried out to the letter in every particular and that there witl be no repitition of the disgraceful scenes which are being enacted every day by the present Mayor and Election Commissioners Charles It Story is at this time the secretary of the Home Mutual Insurance Company having been elected to that position nineteen times He is first vice president of the Society of California Iloneers and was foreman of the last Grand Jury Charles Story is above all a man of absolute probity and unimpeachable integrity Whether in bis private or public life be stands without a shadow of any kind upon his character He wears no boss collar about his neck he is not so eaten up by political ambition as to consider the Mayoralty only a stepping stone to a higher office and he has no bargains covert or otherwise with any one concerning the disposition of municipal offices or pstron age lie is as entirely un trammeled as possible and he would refuse to be a candidate did his election depend upon doing homage to any man or set of men or upon making pledges which no honest man would make That is Cnarles It Story the Republican candidate for Mayor of San Francisco and every man who knows him and their name is legion will agree that we have done him only scant justice at best He is a man of large experience in the affairs of ciiy government of pure and upright character and of absolute independence Can the respectable Citizens of San Francisco ask anything more in a candidate MGES1 jMBM Choice and Varied Styles UNRIVALED ASSORTMENT Hiow JPrioes Ia LACES oar stock lMtaJeaall of tbe beat and most popular makes a also th rarest and moat co ty TarartlM Ia HlnBONS Plarn Saria Caatan re Mo4re ad Kaocr of endUe daslgaa aa4 ebadea wa ataaa BBanaved nitblactty Ipoa Inspection rldlori will find that oar gonde are marked as prices that nave deservedly earned tor oax llru the reputation of always oaertng PROVERBIALLY GOOD VALUES BONNET RIBBONS BLACK MOIRE and SATIN 8TRIPE9 3 Incbei wide at Hoc CASHMERE RIBBON SATIN XDQX SJi inches wide at Sis BLACK MOLBK and BATIN STBIPES 4 laches wide at OC SASH RIBBONS BLACK VOIKE and GBOS GRAIN BTBtPEU 9 lnchae wide at Oc BLACK IttOIRS and GROS ORAIN KTHlPia 11 raebea rMa at BLACK MOttUi aad BATLN STRIPES inraea wue pec COLORED MOIRK BIBBOHS meats wtda BLACK MOtBK and SAtXSBTRIPEa It UcheswidaataL LAGES LAGES BLACK SPANISH GUIfCRE all aUk SI 35 SI id fl 79 S3 to US CRKAit tsPANUU UUIPURE all Silk BLACK CHASTILLT SI SO Si S3 St to 7 60 Plain aad Firnred Draiiot Nets in black cream aad colors at aU prices mCrT ADTKBTTUKTIKXTS EiAIIS Perfect Light New Goods and Popular Prices these are the facilities which make trading at our store a pronounced comfort While our stock throughout is typical of elegance novelty and utility we have drafted special items from every department for this weeks sales at a trifling cost Leaders in Hosiery At 25c a pair tooo dozen CHILDRENS HOSE genuine French Ribbed solid colors and regularly costing 57 50 a dozen wholesale This lot was a shipment by a French maker to the American market Delays and errors of agents evoked a cablegram to realize at once JtlcneeomoSetinsrtc of their TalueiAliniiTdousbaff gain for children 25c a pair 900 dozen MISSES HOSE Black 7 1 Ribbed Lislf 8 to 9 inch and fully worth 65c a pr TWO ROTABLE BARGAINS Ladies Linen ttterchiefc At lOi HEMSTlCHED COLORED BOB 1RS worth 30c At lSc HEMSTICHED COLORED BOR 1RS worth 35c Gamoles sent free opoi application C3oaniry orders receive prompt attention Goods aant prepaid or Paciatu dsnrersl eras In Oakland Alameda aad Brtkelay Our Eibbon Counters Are lsden with the grandest stock on the coast Every shade every width every style Three special items At 25c a yard The remainder of our No 30 hand some BONNET RIBBONS Cashmere Satin Reversible Edge we offer to close at 25c a yard AX 72C a yard Fine assortment Crown Edge MOIRE NECK RIBBONS jntTT ADTsntTISKJfENTSV BAMS Our TnlminStOcI Is Brilliant vritAGIlVfPSv and ORNftMENTv AX 50c Silk GIRDLES 3 drops ill co ors worth New designs in Beaded Galloons 3jcup Tinsel Gimps 35c up Grand Clearance inPearl and Fancy Metal BUTTONS aT ros chance let a card Stationery Fancy Goodsr These table are a recajalxe I attraction aad are fumlabod Itb refined literature aad a bolt of reqalsliea SI 25 Shakespeares Work Caacplet bound to altera SI 25 Otar the iVorld Containing ad van tores and achievements or great men Standard Novels lo seen Albums runes as Piprtrriealaproruslja Flna Leather Pore Inside pocket SSo i LACES AND JINGERIE Every ahada ta YeOmci 6c to ummtns collars Lace aad lOcaacb Japan STk BaadkatcbleSt tadtorj ceatltzsaeace Ladies anl Mints HaoditTctlefi Par SOk 8Sc each 27 inch Whlu Brabant Het2s SO tnch FIsharmABs Nat tl 23k Cream Lace Sklrtinv 4 0a Black Spanish Silrttna at SL Chemlsettea 35c each Gold aad Silver RnchUHS 10a IN LtNOKRIEwartrodaclnaptrsieBfa from tha very best materials at a shade over factory coaL WHITE BKIRT3 at aOe Chemises Heavy sCualln Square Embrotd areJ Froat Oc No lady exists la the State whom we cannot at la Corsets aod from oar ample variety and superior trade we are bound to live saturate tion Wa have made this department a stndy and carry tha beat Corsets in tha world from tha Cwoll at Wo and Saltet at 75a up to the famed 11 and Thomsoaa rsfe trolderidVioQBSPS QeftMesaStt3w rrv SSKr CO Kd oar adTcrtUemet la Call und Kxmiar 11 1 U3li5H7JIU21 POST ST SPHIN MKIMLKY DID IT So tab the English Government is concerned it has nod grievance against Lord Sack vflls He haa vio lated aU diplomatic usages Us hss puhuctv told the truth about thsatU tudt of Wa Government and insists upon sticking to It Off with his htadr The acting Secretary ot War has at length issued a circular directing tha chiefs ot bureaus of the War Depart ment to state in all advertisements or proposals ot furnishing supplies ordered by or under the Wat Department that preference will hereafter be giveu to articles of domestic manudct ure the conditions of quality and price Including in the price of foreign productions or manufactures the duty thereon being ejual and further that no contracts shall be awarded or mr nishing articles ot foreign production or manufacture when articles of suitable quality of domestic production or manufacture can be obtained Who says a Democrat cannot learn anything The object lesson given to Secretary Kndicott by Congressman MeKinley during the debate on the ilills bill and enforced in his recent speeches has evidently taught the War Department something Mr MeKinley hauled Secretary Endicott over tbe coals for buying English blankets for the medical department of the army in order to save 30 cents on each blanket and then admitting the blankets duty free as the Government hss a right to do so lbs War Department lets go and announces that here after American producers and manufacturers shall have the preference or at least an equal chance with foreigners Let as see how the tariff parenthesis which Mr Kndicott has inserted in his notice will operate in actual practice The President assert that the duty is added to the price ot the domestic a rticle Suppose then that an American blanket manufacturer offers the Government 1000 blankets at 1 7i He estimates that the English manufacturer with bis cheap labor can make the same blanket for say SOT but inasmuch Secretary Endicott TntT blatherskite Ferral with characteristic effrontery and unfairness proposed to Morrow to have a joint debate on tbe tariff question on the return of the latter from Washing ton where he has been engaged in the performance of his duties for several months while Ferral has been stumping and making a personal canvass His offer was manifestly unfair be cause when ne maoe It Morrow only had a couple of weeks in which to look after his personal canvass Besides he was do wn for several engagements made hy the istateCen iral Committee of the Republican party If Ferral had any real desire to discuss thetarffrfor any other question affecting the policy ot the present Administration he wonld have accepted the challenge of the Conox iclb made over two months ago Had be done so We would speedily have exposed his ignorance of the subject he proposed to discuss with Morrow and the insincerity of the Democratic party and its leader Cleveland on the Chinese and every other question His failure and that of the other Congressional nominees Of the Democratic party to take tip the gauntlet thrown down to them proves that the men who run the party know that they cannot make i successful defense of its policy A few days ago one of our esteemed free trade contemporaries was tearing its hair and otnerwt agitating itself because of tbe publication of a quotation from the London Time whicn it declared was forged It has not condescended however to pay attention to our request for its opinion on the following extract from tbe London Times published January 2 1852 As for Ireland herself we resign ourselves without reserve though not entirely without misgiving to her con tinned depopulation until only half or a third of the nine millions claimed by UCtmnell remain We may possibly live to see the day when her rnief product will be cattle and Knglish and Scotch the majority of ber population The nine or ten millions who by that time will have settled in the Lnited States cannot well be less friendly and will certainly be much better customers than they are now When the Celt hat croued tke Atantic Ac btguu for tHt firtt timtin hit lit to continue the maauactvrti of Hit country and indirtctfy contribute to tt autom If this is not infinitely more brutal than tbe quotation which our free trade contemporary sought to discredit then we do not understand English as written in the Timet If there ever was a piece of cruel and heartless exultation over tbe sufferings of an oppressed people it is contained in this quoted paragraph Kill TRADEMARK KID GLOYE DEPARTMENT The Largest Assortment In San Francheo THE LOWEST PRICES COMPBISISQ Dressed Froachettes Vndressfd Snerte Kn Uh Derby DosUla Castor Bearer 3 Toned Gauntlets Driving Glores Mooaqoetalre Etc All Gloves Fitted to the Hand Tss promptitude with which the English journals and Lord Salisbury rush to the relief of Orover Cleveland is truly touching Their unmeasured condemnation of the stupidity of Lord Sack villa in telling the truth at so momentous a rnnetnra in American poli tics ought to draw tears It is quite I evident that the English papers made no empty assertion when they said that Um Presidential contest was as interesting to them as to Americans and that the re election of Cleveland meant that commercial prosperity would once more reign in Great Britain A year angry anonymous scribbler who signs himself A Briton says that the Chboxicle is angling after the ignorant Irish vote Our British correspondent is in error The Chrosicli has not the slightest hope uf winning ignorant Irish voters over to the cause of protection It makes no appeals to that class It knows that the ignorant Irish will vote or Cleveland Our arguments are addressed to the intelligent Irish and with good effect because they have sense enough to perceive that the policy of protection is the one which will assist them to remain intelligent and prosperous citizens while free trade would help to draw them down to the condition in which so many of their unfortunate countrymen at home are at present But is it not in rather bad taste for a Briton to talk contemptuously of the ignorant Irish when he cant help out be aware of the fsct thst his own country Is largely responsible for the lamentable condition to which he so unfeelingly alludes Ir Cleveland should ask tbe English Government to recall Lord Sack villa our British friends would have a right to look upon the President as a most ungrateful man The idea of trylnc to disgrace a friend because he Is seeking to help you ought to be revolting to any person It Lord Sackvide is condemned by any one he should not he by Cleveland whom he has done all in his power to assist in eecurfne a second term SPECIALS Ladies 4 batton artnoble Kid Gloves 75c per pair worth SI it LadW 4 botton Derby Kfd Gloves embroidered back 90a per pair worth el SO Ladle 4 buttea Paris Kid CMores embroidered back Si per pair worth SI SO Ladles 4 button Esglwh Castor tile res SI Mkln IIotpb ai ner calr Ladles eVbation length Cashmera Gloves black and colored 2S par pa Ladle i 8 buton lenath Cashmere filoves black and colored extra quality 60c er pair ChlldreoT Caabmera Glovee black and colored ZSc per pair Ladles black Pure silk Gloves white embroidery 2c per pair Ladles bulioa leaitb TalteU Mlk niovat black and colored two toned embroidery Gloves aeo par pair THE OTtlT HOUSE IX THE CITT WHERE A FULL LIKE OF LONG GLOVES FOB PARTT AND THEATER WEAR CAR BE FOLSA NEflNLEMSON 129 and 131 Kearny St It ii not fxarjun thins for the Dem ocrats to denounce Lord Seek vflle end then turn arcuniand tie hie letter a it campaJen document to Innueim nat uralised Britons the Democratic KaUonal Committee now doing At 20c a yard Nos 12 and 1 6 SATIN and GROS GRAIN RIBBONS Fan Edge all shades Fine goods Jg Arriba of New Goods Fall assortment of SILK PLUSHES FANCY ISDIA SILKS 8URAH UDLESKIN BASKET CLOTH FELTS BJLTDfO RHEETINa Be SEW TBlMUrXQ FRINGES POHPOS8 TASSELS TINSEL ROPE SILK CABLE SILK ABItiSESE CRISIUiE BEADS FANCY BANGLES and all MATERIALS FOR FANCY and ART MEtDLKWORK New STAMPING DESIGNS for BolUng sheeting and other new material Noyelties Received Daily BARGAINS New stamped Bolting Sheeting Cushion Covers ae 200 dosea Fancy Embroidered Handaer cbl rvpore unco regular value SOc NOW AT 2Sc LADIES BLACK SILK HOSE forth tl 25 at 75c 4 Button Erabroidered Back KKfllovee worth SI NOW AT esc Sea Oar Adrertlaeraeat la Call aad Exaatlaer 7 Send your name for a copy of oar new Cataloiu to be laned KeveAber 1st Parcel delivered free In this dty Oakland A lamrda and Rr rksley stall orders will have our best atteaUoa KOHLBERG STRAUSS FROHMAN 107 ct 109 Post Street Jewelers and Silversmiths 118 SITTER SI BATE JC8T ISfttTED AN II Inst rated Catalogue WHICH WILL BE SENT rKEX TO THE COPNTBT ON APPLICATION ANGLO NEVADA Assurance Corporation or ban rsAjvcoca cat FTRE and MARINE Capital fall paid S3O0O orncx tie pine stbeet Ix the excitement over the dis closures of the British Ministers letter the fact should not be overlooked that Cleveland a Administration is loaninr tV rVYt fiYl tt tTia rHnnl tianVa artth 1 Iwt at interest JaatefOi THE GRAND HOTEL AX JTltaKCllCOCAU Omrtof the rahtoa whore IN OUR AET ROOMS We ire Displaying this Seism UnusnalAttractions IN DECORATED CHINA COT GLASS CAMEO GLASS ENGRAYED GLASS ONYX TABLES PARLOR LAMPS TERRA COTTA FIGURES ETC Of recent selection from the most celebrated maketa Ia articles desirable tor WEDDING GIFTS Oar Steele wu MTtf ttoncoapleiwOf mon B4sUlTtrJts WSlIlM ntAhuaats is 1821 1 4 16 and 18 Post Street Store Open Satwiaj Ereaiap till IOVcHl EJANE BROS 843945347 9i9 St 93 i MARKET STREET BET FIFTH AND SIXTH SILKS SILKS Black and Colored Ehadamet Silk Mack and Colored Faille Francaise at Extremely Low Priees SAMUELS Kearny St jliii Ooratoek tbebieMaortedandoarprlcelh4 i iwa in KB mi tMKS Ail Silk Rhadames at COc Black AO Hllk kervellleur at 76c India bilks la light mtim on yarn CDlora Heavy Silk Fhsshes In every ahade at 65c KIIK COMBINATION 81MT9 100 new BILK COMBINATION SUITS hrt opened at the exceedingly low tutce 129 a fuU pattern DKESS GO Dll DRESS GOODS Sew Stiles at ta Leu est Price EXt OAXT COMBINATION SUITS At S8 59 50 ComttaaflonSCrr PATTERNS Fine MarrtaJ with Handsome Trim mtagv good valoeerJTO At 9 50 Combtaatloa HIIT PATTERNS Ei ire Quality UeodswiUi TrimmtiiSa to ma ch good valae at SIX 100 Combination HUIT FATTEBXSai aia and sit 60 well worth SIS to 17 50 SILK IHBKKiLAsI Just opened tbe most complete stock of Stlk Cmbrellaa rrer ahowa Tb genuine Windsor Umbrella the most darahla ambralla In the market with natorat ticks and elegant aUVer gold and Ivory ate2 Kli LOVES Kfn ILOTKSt SPECIAL JlEDLCTrnxa Oar Fonr BuaoD HUE Ell GLOVES warranted reduced to SL OarDKKBT EID ULOVK reduced toSlSSt stlri mIiv mt 1 71 Count rr orders receive sronnt attantlAiL Goods sent tt or oa receipt of Puto31ee order Hamplea aant free per Weiuv Jarg Cos Express noon application SAMXTEIiS 104 106 108 Kearny Street New Lwr Beer A too riness uujev orewea ea on coast lie Heaved ta Xaga aad Bottles an urt ot the CM free On Draogbt at elf the riacepal eioaisa UlLLUEBUANDT CSTK prUtoraMU toSOiS EolaomaUeeV ranrxcrxp bead SS Boats ttmvtmitttnfJV rixtTtnit vrn Htvt rx aTi iiu ftaoeaa si ear oar sm ii i praams before jtoreoee SiaaeVelaySwoeTestfaeaeedi rciVTIY rrUVKUrn MTHM ekhor fleets ea eresa tor moats i i Lia um a buuiuuuv vvi laiin fKJUZXffi5 Troossrt ooaat7e Wia Slls Apply oa premis FASHIONABLE CLOTHIERS 130 Seamy Street sax rnAKCxsco Respectfully and sincerely tlunk onr many friends and the kind public forj the patronage bestowed upoaTnt since our Grand Opening And solicit a continuance of tame We are in addition to our already large stock of Mens Youths Boys and Childrens WEARING APPAREL On hand In daily receipt of FEESH XI2STES Of the most stylish and elegant kinds of the above named articles that the principal Eastern marts produce and we invite the public to come and purchase We are ready willing and pleased tojhow our goods and more so to sell them Glias Colmaii Co i THURLOW BL0CKK 130 EzoaxnyStreet Jtff SiJ jffiAtfi1 ffi A Vw i an if SSSargfcri.