anaheim-gazette 1900-08-02

QUESTIONS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE. A combination of the declarations of the Kansas City platform and the personal statements of Mr. Bryan, concerning questions of national importance, produces a horoscope for the country that its voters will be slow to indorse at the polls in November. Porto Rico would either be erected into a territory or turned adrift to shift for itself, with a pronounced leaning toward the policy of abandonment. The Republicans are charged with enslaving and impoverishing the island, notwithstanding the fact that this year's volume of business there, both in imports and exports, is about 100 per cent larger than it was last year. Cuba would be abandoned at once. All officials, both civil and military, would be withdrawn, and the Cubans would be told to work out their own future. Furthermore, this country would have to trust to the honor and ability of a government not yet created for repayment of the money loaned and spent for the benefit of that island. The mutually jealous tribes of the Philippine archipelago would be given a stable native government without the employment of force. How this is to be done is a detail too simple to be explained. The foreign population would look to the Philippines for protection. The United States, without any rights on land, would use the navy to protect the natives from European aggression, and would take their part in European quarrels. It is worth while to notice also that when the Democ- equipped for it without living for a considerable period under a government which can and will protect life and property and accord to the people that opportunity for progress that can only come of the enjoyment of an untrammeled liberty of person and equality of opportunity. The "White Man's Burden," is to establish among the toppling governments of the partially civilized races of the earth that civic order without which the evolutionary forces of an advancing civilization can not operate. Christianity, commerce and industry will do the rest. And there need be no fear that the peoples in our insular possessions will be governed, after they are capable of being self-governed. They will take to themselves an increasing share of civic functions as fast as they are prepared for it and as readily and naturally as a gowing child learns to walk and talk, just as the people of the United States are taking to themselves, year by year, more and more of the power of government and requiring less and less of their leaders. Thus it is seen that another one of Mr. Bryan's auricular declarations does not stand the test of impartial inquiry. Among men there is conceivable no higher attainment than the establishment and maintenance in perpetuity of a government, by, of and for the people, and few among all the peoples of the earth have yet approximated that goal and none has entirely reached it. How incontestably absurd, then, is the contention of Mr. Bryan, that all peoples, and particularly the peoples who inhabit our insular possessions, who have lived for centuries under a relentless system of Spanish oppression and disorder, are readily equipped to take upon themselves the highest function of human endeavor? HOW WE CAME BY THE PHILIPPINES. Critics of the Republican administration policy would lead people to believe that the acquisition of the Philippine islands was premeditated, conceived as a result of an overshadowing imperialistic spirit and born in very malice of Republicans is easily explained: it should reprint these utterances shows in what desperate straits finds itself. From all appearances the Times is being given the back of its life, and the machete-wielding old gentleman at the head of it frightens at the mouth and switches about extraordinary fashion, scattering sweet incense everywhere. It is he should swim out: he is in his head. AMONG the candidates for Senate the names of George F. C. B. Webster, George R. Freeman and A. A. Caldwell, all of River county, are mentioned. The nation is conceded to that country and considerable campaigning is quietly done. The successful aspirant for the honor will have vote for United States Senator 1903, and this fact is not lost if by politicians who say they have a hand in that fight. Senator Perkins will have option to his aspirations for re-election is generally admitted. The paign comes on apace, and theoodles of fun in sight. THE delay of the Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional! Obviously the court to cognizance of the "heavy experience preparing for the primaries." that is rather an extravagant attempt to apply to the integrity of the law isn't it! POLITICAL NOTES On June 1, 1896, the total circulation of money in the United States was 521,584,283. Of this amount a little than $500,000,000 was in the f The mutually jealous tribes of the Philippine archipelago would be given a stable native government without the employment of force. How this is to be done is a detail too simple to be explained. The foreign population would look to the Filipinos for protection. The United States, without any rights on land, would use the navy to protect the natives from European aggression, and would take their part in European quarrels. It is worth while to notice also that when the Democracy is talking about the Filipinos, it insists that they should be treated as the Cubans are, and when speaking of Cuba it arraigns the conduct of the administration in Cuba as being burdensome, wrong and imperialistic. It is demanded that the United States take some formal action toward stopping the war in South Africa. How this is to be done is another unimportant detail which the country is asked to leave to the wisdom of the man whom Mr. Bryan may select for Secretary of State. An army of 65,000 or 70,000 men, we are told, is entirely too large for a little nation of 75,000,000. Less than one soldier for every 1000 of inhabitants is a threat and menace to the perpetuity of free institutions, and we are told that an era of militarism is threatened. The Democratic candidate would protect the country from internal disorder and external aggression with Bryan Soldiers' Clubs. Then there is to be a good deal of wiping out all along the line. Trusts and business combinations are to be wiped out; the Dingley tariff is to be wiped out; the gold standard is to be wiped out; national banks are to be wiped out; injunction by the courts is to be wiped out; and the party of Lincoln is to be wiped out. No encouragement is to be given to foreign trade. But the cheap products of Europe and Asia, made by cheap labor, are to come into our markets under a tariff for revenue only, not protection, and they will destroy our home industries and make American labor as idle as it was under the Democratic administration of President Cleveland. These are some of the serious changes promised by the tri-partite candidate for the presidency. OAPACITY FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT. Mr. Bryan is on record as declaring that all peoples are capable of self-government. He would have come as near to the truth had he declared that all peoples are incapable of self-government, and yet neither declaration would be more than half true. Perhaps the gentleman intended his hearers to qualify the declaration by saying that if all peoples are not capitals for self-governance. HOW WE CAME BY THE PHILIPPINES. Critics of the Republican administration policy would lead people to believe that the acquisition of the Philippine islands was premeditated, conceived as a result of an overshadowing imperialistic spirit and born in very malice of capitalistic greed. The truth is that the administration, "did not go to do it" as they say down in Missouri, but was pushed to it by the irresistible logic of events over which the nation had no control. As the nation could not do less, so it did not do more than its whole duty in that regard. Let us look at it, not in a partisan spirit, but as any patriot might inquire into the conduct of a country he loved to see if such conduct were worthy of commendation or reproach. The war with Spain is a historical fact and one whose justice and necessity no loyal American will bring into question. We are all agreed to that. The United States had a vast and growing commerce with countries on the farther side of the Pacific ocean. Spain had a formidable fleet in Asiatic waters ready at any moment to wipe American commerce off the Pacific. Our government had not on the farther shore of the Pacific (a single harbor of refuge in which its fleet, under Admiral Dewey, could coal, victual or replenish its supplies further than to enable it to reach the nearest American port. We had to capture a port or bring our navy home and surrender the Pacific to Spain. Dewey, under orders from Washington, proceeded to Manila, destroyed the Spanish fleet and broke Spain's power in the Pacific, and there is not a man on earth who will withhold justification for that policy up to, and including the battle of Manila. The battle of Manila broke Spain's power in the Pacific and left her incapable of governing her possessions there. She had to part with the Philippine islands, if not to the United States, then to Germany or to some other power possessing an ambition to reach out and expand its commerce and its form of civilization. This much ought to be clear because it is clear that the Philippine islands can not be governed without a navy. It is a fundamental principal of international law that whatever nation destroys an existing form of government must establish another form of government in its place. To fail to do this is to flunk, to sneak, to be a national marplot and to earn the contempt of all nations. We had destroyed the existing government of the Philippine islands because we had destroyed the instrumentality whereby that form of government could be maintained—the Spanish navy. Nor could we delegate this high duty inherit our insult possession, have lived for centuries under a reluctless system of Spanish oppression and disorder, are readily equipped to take upon themselves the highest function of human endeavor? POLITICAL NOTES On June 1, 1896, the total circulation of money in the United States was 521,584,283. Of this amount a little less than $500,000,000 was in the gold and gold certificates. In lowering four years the enormous half-a billion dollars has been added to people's money. This is in addition of the coining value of all those mined in the United States, attaining 16 to 1, since 1896. The per-circulation of the country has exited from $21.35 on June 1, 1896, to $2 June 30, 1900, a gain of $5.15 per year in four years. Everything grown in the soil Western States and everywhere from their mines is needed for Orient. The Pacific is to be thinned twenty century, and continuation of the Republic that ocean will be white with can ships carrying American goods from the field, forest, shop and thus furnishing remunerative payment to unnumbered thousand American workmen and installment of Republican projects. The Director of the Mint there are $16,628,323 of 5-cent and $9,952,892 of 1-cent pieces owing. This gives an idea of these little coinsary to transact the business country. Since the coinage of pieces began the total number have been coined is: Of 5-cent $17,991,298; 1-cent bronze; $10 imports of merchandise at M 1899 were worth $17,450,412; collected thereon being $3,364,640; value of the goods received by United States was $1,350,364 England and Spain each more than this country. The new commercial arrangement with Germany is made under section of the Dingley law within the complete discretion President. The duty on arms imported from Germany is fixed cent ad valorem; brandies or tillled spirits; $1.75 per proof champagne and other sparkling in quart bottles; $6 per dozen wines and vermouth; in caskets; per gallon; paintings in oil colors; pastels; pen and ink statuary; 15 per cent ad valorem exports of meat and food products Germany will benefit by getting some of the exacting and dising duties which have heretoo levied or threatened. The statistical report of this state Commerce Commission on the year ending June 30, 1899, single-track mileage in the States was 189,294, an increase year of 2898. This increase is than for any year since 1893. CAPACITY FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT. Mr. Bryan is on record as declaring that all peoples are capable of self-government. He would have come as near to the truth had he declared that all peoples are incapable of self-government, and yet neither declaration would be more than half true. Perhaps the gentleman intended his hearers to qualify the declaration by saving that if all peoples are not capable of self-government of a good character they are capable of self-government of a bad character and so come within the declaration, which is silent as to the quality of the self-government of which he believes all men capable. The test of the government is: Security of life, security of property, personal liberty. Government may subserve other interests than these, may foster industry, care for the incompetent, elevate the public morals, encourage education, create public utilities, advance the sciences and arts and so order its affairs as to stimulate the evolution of a lofty citizenship, but unless it affords security for life and personal liberty it is a very bad sort of government and only a shade better than no government at all, which is anarchy. This does not imply that, under a good government, there will be no murders, robberies, arsons and that innocent men will never be put in jail, for malefactors are born into the world and will do violence upon occasion, but the test of good government does mean that governments shall have stability of maintenance and honesty of administration, so that life will be reasonably secure and the accumulations of the people will not be swept away by oft recurring revolutions, as in the pretended republics of Central and South America. Unhappy is that people whose only security is their poverty. And yet this is precisely the condition of those Spanish-American republics that have attempted self-government without first equipping themselves for it by having an instructive citizenship. Our insular possessions will be mad-self governing as rapidly as they can be equipped for it, but they can not become It is a fundamental principal of international law that whatever nation destroys an existing form of government must establish another form of government in its place. To fail to do this is to flunk, to sneak, to be a national marplot and to earn the contempt of all nations and of the men of all nations. We had destroyed the existing government of the Philippine islands because we had destroyed the instrumentality whereby that form of government could be maintained—the Spanish navy. Nor could we delegate this high duty of establishing a government in and for the Philippine islands to any other person or powers. Populous islands with cities and towns are not to be bought and sold as uninhabited lands. We could not give those people over to the relentless sway of despotic and imperialistic power, and with no better conscience could the whole teeming group of islands, embracing many peoples, speaking many different languages, be turned over to the ungentle mercies of a single native tribe which chanced to excel the others in ferocity of diplomacy. In fine, the Philippines came to be ours, not through any policy of national expansion that had been preconceived by the party in power, nor, through commercial greed or industrial averice, but simply and solely that our nation might discharge a national obligation with national honor, that obligation arising out of the fortunes of a just war, valiantly conducted and honorably concluded. The fact that the Los Angeles Times is forced to the recourse of reprinting extracts from Democratic papers to bolster up its position in its fight against a Republican candidate for Congress, suggests the idea that it must be a pretty poor Republican paper that is forced to do this sort of thing. The spectacle of the Times reprinting paragraphs from Democratic papers in approval of its mad policy reminds one of the fact that these Democratic papers relish nothing more than to see the seeds of discord within the Republican party so persistently sown by that paper. That they should approve of the Times' warfare upon wines and vermouth, in casks per gallon; paintings in oil colors, pastels, pen and ink dastuary, 15 per cent ad valorem exports of meat and food products Germany will benefit by getting some of the exacting and dising duties which have hereto lievied or threatened. The statistical report of the state Commerce Commission on the year ending June 30, 1899, single-track mileage in the States was 189,294, an increase year of 2898. This increase is than for any year since 1893. Gregregate length of mileage tracks of all sorts, was 252,366 were 36,703 locomotives in sight the end of the year, or 469 m for the year ended June 30, 1897 total number of cars of all type was 1,375,916, and of 49,742. The number of people employed on railroads was 928,997 crease for the year of 54,366. Improvements are a part of increasing prosperity under this jurisdiction. Since Mr. Bryan began to people four years ago that wanted was more money, he added at the rate of $135,224 annually to the circulating medal. Five hundred and forty thousand an hour, more than $90000 or $150 per second, is the rate the people have increased during medium of the country in four years, if we count the acting day of eight hours' duration. On the shipping question crats at Kansas City confirms to "denouncing" permanent legislation. They remedy to propose for our lapping upon the sea. They preferance for the presence (chiefly British) monopoly oneign carrying, rather than legislation that will give them to Americans. More than 40 per cent of money in the country, and half the aggregate in circ specie. There has been consideration in the amount of money since the campaign of 1882. Elegant new Vose & Son sale at a sacrifice on easy Inquire at Dickel's store. Publicans is easily explained: that should reprint these utterances in what desperate straits it puts itself. From all appearances, times is being given the battle of life, and the machete-wielding gentleman at the head of it froths the mouth and switches about in ordinary fashion, scattering his incense everywhere. It is time should swim out: he is in overhead. Long the candidates for State governor the names of George Frost, A. Webster, George R. Freeman, A. A. Caldwell, all of Riverside city, are mentioned. The nomination is conceded to that county, considerable campaigning is be quietly done. The successful effort for the honor will have a hand in that fight. That politician who say they will be a hand in that fight. That Perkins will have opposition to his aspirations for re-election generally admitted. The campaign comes on apace, and there is sense of fun in sight. The delay of the Supreme Court rendering a decision upon the new tax law is deemed by many an occasion that the act will be upheld by that tribunal, as it is argued the court could not permit the variances to incur the heavy expense of preparing for the primaries. The act were to be declared illegal. Santa Ana Herald. And the same day the Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional! Obviously the court took no cognizance of the "heavy expense of preparing for the primaries." But it is rather an extravagant test to rely to the integrity of the court, but it! POLITICAL NOTES. On June 1, 1896, the total circulation money in the United States was $1,-584,283. Of this amount a little less than $500,000,000 was in the form of public opinion. THE POWER OF WORLD'S OPINION. Clear headed economists have long since agreed that our government is by public opinion, that there is a power in the convictions of the people that neither combinations of politicians nor aggregations of capital dare to override for any considerable period of time. There is a power in public sentiment that has its way in due process of time. It may be a trifle slow in realizing its aim, but its final authority is not seriously questioned. But not all see as clearly that there is a world opinion as certainly as there is a public opinion and that it has its way in affairs affecting the whole world as certainly as public opinion finally has its way in domestic affairs, but such is the fact. There is a power in world opinion that exerts a restraining influence upon all that nations do. For this reason it has ever been the policy of nations to issue manifestos justifying their wars or international policies of any sort and it is very seldom that a policy affecting the world at large is entered upon that does not command the sanction of at least a respectable following among the nations. And it is this world opinion crystalized into international law that has modified in many ways the policy of the Republican administration at Washington. The unknowing do not see this because the public is not and can not be taken into the confidence of the administration while negotiations are pending, but only after they have been consummated and an historical perspective has been afforded to the incident. Behind the diplomatic scene a world of work was going on that those outside knew little of but could only surmise, and if sometimes the public felt that there was needless delay at Washington it was because the public could not see what was going on at Washington and why the moment for action had not come. The president's action was influenced by world opinion when politicians and newspapers were concerning themselves with what appeared to be the opinion of the public about them. It is because the United States wants the friendship of all the world that The People of Orange County than Our Great Clearance being the occasion. Concern Notice a few Shoes for Men and Women Lot Women's Oxford and Slippers, odds and ends, all sizes; original prices up to $2, now selling at..... Lot Women's all-leather Shoes, odds and ends, all good, original priced up to $2, now reduced to..... Lot Women's Dongola Kid Shoes, were $3, now..... Lot Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co.'s French Kid, genuine hand-sewed were sold at $5, reduced to..... Men's Finest Cordovan and French Calf, hand-sewed, regular price $5, reduced to..... Men's Genuine Kangaroo Button and Fine French Calf, worth $5 reduced to..... Lot Boys' Button, Lace and Congress Shoes, odds and ends, original prices up to $1.75, now..... Boys' Button and Lace Shoes, worth up to $2, now..... Boys' Button and Lace Shoes, worth up to $2.50, now... Men's and Boys' Wear Men's black clay worsted suits, sack, round and square, were $1 now..... Men's medium and heavy suits and cheviot and cassimere suits were $8.50, reduced to..... Were $10.00 and $12.50, reduced to..... Were $13.50 and $15.00, reduced to..... Were $18.00 and $20.00, reduced to..... Lot Men's Fancy Worsted Cheviot and Serge Suits, all wool, fine finish, at less than 50c on the dollar. The prices are really too small to mention. Men's Pants, cotton stripe, worth up to $1.25, broken lines, burgary for the price at..... Boys' school suits, sizes up to 16 years, well made and worth up to $1.50, now offered at..... Were $2.25, now offered at... POLITICAL NOTES. On June 1, 1896, the total circulation money in the United States was $1,-584,283. Of this amount a little less than $500,000,000 was in the form of gold and gold certificates. In the following four years the enormous sum of a billion dollars has been added to people's money. This is in excess of the coining value of all the silver used in the United States, at a ratio of 1:1, since 1896. The per capita circulation of the country has expanded from $21.35 on June 1, 1896, to $26.50 on June 30, 1900, a gain of $5.15 per capita four years. Everything grown in the soil of the western States and everything dug from their mines is needed in the client. The Pacific is to be the ocean the twentieth century, and with a continuation of the Republican policy that ocean will be white with American ships carrying American products from the field, forest, shop and mine, furnishing remunerative employment to unnumbered thousands of American workmen and insuring a maintenance of Republican prosperity. The Director of the Mint states that there are $16,628,323 of 5-cent pieces and $9,952,892 of 1-cent pieces outstanding. This gives an idea of the enormous number of these little coins necessary to transact the business of the country. Since the coinage of these pieces began the total number that have been coined is: Of 5-cent pieces, 7,991,298; 1-cent bronze, $10,072,316. Imports of merchandise at Manila in 1899 were worth $17,450,412, the duty collected thereon being $3,364,090. The value of the goods received from the United States was $1,350,364; China, England and Spain each supplying more than this country. The new commercial arrangement with Germany is made under the third section of the Dingley law, and is within the complete discretion of the president. The duty on argols imported from Germany is fixed at 5 per cent ad valorem; brandies or other distilled spirits, $1.75 per proof gallon; champagne and other sparkling wines, quart bottles, $6 per dozen; still wines and vermouth, in casks, 35 cents per gallon; paintings in oil or water colors, pastels, pen and ink drawings, saturny, 15 per cent ad valorem. Our exports of meat and food products to Germany will benefit by getting rid of some of the exacting and discriminating duties which have heretofore been evicted or threatened. The statistical report of the Interstate Commerce Commission shows for the year ending June 30, 1899, the total single-track mileage in the United States was 189,294, an increase for the year of 2898. This increase is greater than any year since 1893. The agreements declared the law unconstitutional. Obviously the court took no notice of the "heavy expense of preparing for the primaries." But it is rather an extravagant test to verify to the integrity of the court, but it! Behind the diplomatic scene a world of work was going on that those outside knew little of but could only surmise, and if sometimes the public felt that there was needless delay at Washington it was because the public could not see what was going on at Washington and why the moment for action had not come. The president's action was influenced by world opinion when politicians and newspapers were concerning themselves with what appeared to be the opinion of the public about them. It is because the United States wants the friendship of all the world that there must be a prudent, politic man in the presidential office and not an enthusiast who entertains the idea that because the United States is, to a certain degree, off by itself it can do what it wishes without regard to the sentiment of other nations. This world is fast becoming a co-operative, and yet competitive, family of nations, each member of which must consult the others in regard to whatever it does that affects in any way the rights or privileges of other nations or their subjects. No nation can any longer live to itself alone. With entangling alliances we may well dispense, but we can not disregard the comity of nations without incurring the enmity of nations and to incur the enmity of nations is to suffer in commerce, in influence, in industrial life and in a thousand ways that would tend to make conflicts frequent and security uncertain. Only Washington and Lincoln have been called upon to handle diplomacy with so much circumspection as William McKinley and George masterly manner in which he, and his advisers, have dealt with the other nations of the world has challenged the admiration of the world. The wise course is, therefore, to keep him right where he is until the Asiatic entanglements have all been straightened out and the commercial status of the United States with relation to transpacific commerce has become definitely assured. The oratorical Bourke Cochran who, like Mr. Bryan, has the gift of eloquence but is left without a very abundant store of common sense or information, declares specifically that two antagonistic tendencies in government cannot safely be permitted to exist in one government at the same time for the reason that one will eventually overpower the other. The gentleman has evidently not heard of the checks and balances of the American constitution and of the fact that we have in our form of government some survival of every form of government that ever existed on earth. In mass conventions we have pure Democracy, representative government in legislatures and congresses, the royal prerogative in the appointive power of the president and governors, an aristocracy in the special functions which are reserved to the senate. These antagonistic elements work in an almost perfected harmony Men's and Boys' Week Men's black clay worsted suits, sack, round and square, were $1.50 now. Men's medium and heavy suits and cheviot and cassimere suits were $8.50, reduced to... Were $10.00 and $12.50, reduced to... Were $13.50 and $15.00, reduced to... Were $18.00 and $20.00, reduced to... Lot Men's Fancy Worsted Cheviot and Sergee Suits, all wool, finished at less than 50c on the dollar. The prices are really too small to mention. Men's Pants, cotton stripe, worth up to $1.25, broken lines, burgundy for the price, at... Boys' school suits, sizes up to 16 years, well made and worth up to $1.50, now offered at... Were $2.25, now offered at... Youths' 3-piece suits, ages 12 to 20 years, all-wool Cheviots, we... Were $10.00, reduced to... REINHAUS Santa Opens His Barrel. NEW YORK, July 28—United States Senator W. A. Clark of Montana left this afternoon on the Lucania for a vacation in Europe. He will be gone two months and will visit the Paris exposition, Switzerland and France. Before sailing, Clark was asked if he had made a contribution toward the Democratic campaign fund. He replied: "Yes I may have given a check for $100,000 to the Democratic campaign fund. Perhaps it was for more than that amount. Of course I sent a contribution; that was my duty as a Democrat. I believe it is to the advantage of the country and my own personal interest to help elect Democratic candidates." Asked if he intended again trying for honors in the race for the senatorship in his State, Mr.' Clark said: "A good Democrat never refuses to answer a cry of his country or of his party you know. I hope I'm a good Democrat." The Latest Yarn. A Pittsburg drummer tells this new yarn: I always carry a bottle of Kemp's Balsam in my grip. I take cold easily and a few doses of the balsam always makes me a new man. Everywhere I go I speak a good word for Kemp. I take hold of my customers—I take old men and young men, and tell them confidentially what I do when I take cold. At druggists, 25c and 50c. "All Aboard for Catalina" The Southern Pacific company will sell special summer excursion tickets to Avalon and return via San Pedro; for $3.50, return limited to September 30, 1900. The Wilmington Transportation company grant free camping ground and water to patrons of their steamers only. They have a daily service connecting with train leaving Los Angeles at 9:15 a.m. Two additional trips made on Saturdays; connecting with trains leaving Los Angeles at 1:40 p.m. and 5:03 p.m. Special excursion tickets to Long Beach, San Pedro and Santa Monica during the summer at greatly reduced rates. Excursion The Southern Pacific company's an... The statistical report of the Interstate Commerce Commission shows for the year ending June 30, 1899, the total single-track mileage in the United States was 189,294, an increase for the year of 2898. This increase is greater than for any year since 1893. The aggregate length of mileage, including tracks of all sorts, was 252,364. There were 36,703 locomotives in service at the end of the year, or 169 more than for the year ended June 30, 1898. The total number of cars of all classes in the service was 1,375,916, an increase for the year of 54,366. All these improvements are a part of the existing prosperity under this administration. Since Mr. Bryan began to tell the people four years ago that what they wanted was more money, they have added at the rate of $135,210,000 annually to the circulating medium. Five hundred and forty thousand dollars an hour, more than $9000 a minute, or $150 per second, is the rate at which the people have increased the circulating medium of the country in the last four years, if we count the actual working day of eight hours' duration. On the shipping question the Democrats at Kansas City confined themselves to "denouncing" pending congressional legislation. They have no remedy to propose for our lack of shipping upon the sea. They indicate a preference for the present foreign (chiefly British) monopoly of our foreign carrying, rather than effective legislation that will give the carrying to Americans. More than 40 per cent of the total money in the country, and more than half the aggregate in circulation, is specie. There has been considerable expansion in the amount of money in circulation since the campaign of 1896. Elegant new Vose & Son piano for sale at a sacrifice on easy payments. Inquire at Dickel's store. aug2-2t* Orange County are now buying goods cheaper than ever before, Great Semi-Annual Clearance Sale Occasion. Come and join in the money-saving. Notice a few prices which illustrate: Men and Women Odds and ends, all sizes; original 49c and ends, all good, originally 73c were $3, now...$1.23 Bunch Kid, genuine hand-sewed, $1.98 Calf, hand-sewed, regular price $2.98 Good Fine French Calf, worth $5, $1.98 Shoes, odds and ends, original 73c up to $2, now...99c up to $2.50, now...$1.23 Ladies' Wear Full line Percale Shirt Waists, all sizes, newest patterns, well worth 50c each, while they last they go at...27c Better quality 65c, now offered at...39c Better quality 75c, now offered at...43c Ladies' Taffeta Silk Waists, were $4, reduced to...$2.63 Black and Fancy Satin Waists, regular price $3.75, while they last at...$2.49 Ladies' Percale Wrappers, in all the newest patterns, well made and cut full with flounce and big collars, were 75e, now...59e Were 85e now...63e Were $1.25, now...98e Ladies' Crash Skirts, were 50c, now at...24c Ladies' Crash Skirts, braided, were 75c, now...39c Ladies' Covert cloth and Duck Skirts, were $1.50, now...98e Ladies' White Pique Skirts, were $1.50, now...98e Better quality were $1.75, now...$1.13 Boys' Wear Round and square, were $12 Cheviot and cassimere suits, $4.79 to...$7.49 to...$9.87 to...$12.49 Serge Suits, all wool, fine color. The prices are really too up to $1.25, broken lines, but well made and worth up to 99c years all-wool Cheviots, were $1.38 Domestics PRINTS. Shirtings...4c American fancies...4c American Indigos...5c Turkey Reds...5c Grays...5c Black and whites...5c Best quality German Indigo...9c Good quality 4-4 light colored Percales...81c Very best grade light colored 4-4 French Percales...111c CHECKED GINGHAMS. Cohasset...5c Boys' Wear round and square, were $12 cheviot and cassimere suits, $4.79 to $7.49 to $9.87 and Serge Suits, all wool, fine dollar. The prices are really too up to $1.25, broken lines, but ars, well made and worth up to 99c years, all-wool Cheviots, were $3.49 $4.37 Domestics PRINTS. Shirtings... 4c American fancies... 4c American Indigos... 5c Turkey Reds... 5c Grays... 5c Black and whites... 5c Best quality German Indigo... 9c Good quality 4-4 light colored Percales... 8¢c Very best grade light colored 4-4 French Percales... 11¢c CHECKED GINGHAMS. Cohasset... 5c Amoskeag... 6¢c Heavy checked Shirtings... 9¢c HAUS BROS. Big Department Store, Santa Ana, Cal. STERN BROS. THE LEADING MERCHANTS OF ANAHEIM, CAL. Pearl Stockton Flour 90c per sack Java and Mocha Blend 15c per lb Boys' Wash Suits 65c per suit Ladies' Shoes from 50c up Straw and Crash Hats 50c on the Dollar August Defineator and Patterns Ready We are Sole Agents for the Kiffefer Orchard Steef Riding Cultivator During the month of August we will give on all Summer Dress Goods a reduction of 20c on the Dollar. STERN BROS. California Hams 8½c per pound Uncolored Japan Tea 35c per lb Boys' Shirts Soft and Stiff Bosoms Latest Styles 50c Men's Shoes from 90c up Men's Linen Suits and Trousers 25 per cent discount The California Consolidated Petroleum company has behind it some of the strongest men, financially, in California. They are determined to make their oil company the most successful on the coast, and they have the brains and capital to attain this result. They MONEY SENT WITHOUT DANGER OF LOSS. ABSOLUTELY SAFE. MONEY ORDERS ARE ISSUED BY THE NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Estate of William J. Smith, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY THE undersigned. Executor of the last will and testament of William J. Smith deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons The California Consolidated Petroleum company has behind it some of the strongest men, financially, in California. They are determined to make their oil company the most successful on the coast, and they have the brains and capital to attain this result. They are cautious and conservative, but withal aggressive, and their policy is to absorb the weak and become the masters of the field, and beyond any reasonable question, the California Consolidated Petroleum company will earn for its stockholders dividends that will send the stock many times above par, and make many investors comfortable for life, if not rich. Its stock should be bought before it advances, as it surely will. Stock redeemable on demand at any time within thirty days from date of certificate. All money paid in installments refunded on demand at any time within thirty days from date of first payment. If you do not want your stock, send to company, and you will promptly get every cent of your money back. Santa Fe Excursions To Redondo Beach, Santa Monica, Ocean Park, Long Beach, San Pedro and Terminal Island. Every Saturday and Sunday the Santa Fe Route will sell round-trip tickets to the above named points, good to return Monday following, at the very low rate of $1.30 for the round trip. To Avalon, Catalina Island, and return, good to return Sept. 30th, via Santa Fe Route, only $3.50. Drying preparations simply develop dry catarrh; they dry up the secretions, which adhere to the membrane and decompose, causing a far more serious trouble than the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all drying inhalants, fumes, smokes and snuffs and use that which cleanses, soothes and heals. Ely's Cream Balm is such a remedy and will cure catarrh or cold in the head easily and pleasantly. A trial size will be mailed for 10 cents. All druggists sell the 50c. size, Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., N.Y. The Balm cures without pain, does not irritate or cause sneezing. It spreads itself over an irritated and angry surface, relieving immediately the painful inflammation. With Ely's Cream Balm you are armed against Nasal Catarrh and Hay Fever. MONEY SENT WITHOUT DANGER OF LOSS. ABSOLUTELY SAFE. MONEY ORDERS ARE ISSUED BY THE CITIZENS BANK OF ANAHEIM Payable in all parts of the United States. Do not send money in a letter by mail; purchase a BANK MONEY ORDER. This way of remitting money is absolutely safe. The purchaser of a Bank Money Order may feel confident that the payment of the amount named therein will certainly be made to the person-for whom it is intended. Bank Money Orders are cheaper and more secure than any other method of sending money. The Government is not responsible for loss of a registered letter, so purchase a Money Order. If a Bank Money Order is lost in the mails, we issue a duplicate without delay or charge. See schedule of fees below and compare with others. We pay a license tax—others do not. THE COST OF BANK MONEY ORDERS IS AS FOLLOWS: For Orders for sums not exceeding $10.00... 5c Over $10.00, not exceeding $50.00.... 10c Over $40.00, not exceeding $100.00.... 15c Over $100.00, not exceeding $500.00,... 15c per $100 Also Bank Money Orders for sale on all Foreign Countries. NOTICE. BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim will sit as a Board of Equalization at the City Hall on MONDAY, AUGUST 13TH, 1900, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, And will continue in session from day to day until all the returns of the Assessor have been rectified. E. B. MERRITT, City Clerk. aug 2-2t RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW And Notary Public. Special attention given to Probate Matters. —Center Street, Anaheim. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Estate of William J. Smith, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY THE undersigned. Executor of the last will and testament of William J. Smith, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the same, with the necessary vouchers, within ten months after the first publication of this notice (which publication was first made on the 26th day of July, 1900) to the said Executor at the office of Richard Melrose, Attorney Center street, Anaheim, Orange county, California, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate in the County of Orange. Dated this 24th day of July A.D. 1890. Executor of the last will and testament of William J. Smith, deceased. RICHARD MELROSE, Attorney for Executor FOR SALE. Bids will be received for the sale of the dump at Buena Park (Tim Carroll's patent); also scales and other property belonging to the Buena Park Beet Growers' association. Bids must be in writing and contain 10 per cent of the purchase price. Bids will be opened August 9, 1900, at 10 o'clock a.m. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids. Terms of sale, cash. Wm. B. PECHSTEIN. Secretary B. P. B. G. Assn. Buena Park, July 14th, 1900. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Sts. JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer DEALER IN Furniture and Bedding Repairing Done.