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SHANAHAN FOR GAGE.
SATS THE PEOPLE'S* PARTY
HAS BEEN BETRAYED.
He Urges All Populists to Vote
Against Maguire and Hla
Single Tax Theory.
T. W. H. Shanahan, who was nom
inated for Governor by the straight
People's Party at Sacramento, has de
clared himself for Gage and called upon
all true Populists to cast their votes
for the Republican candidate at the
coming election. Mr. Shanahan has
stated the reasons on which he bases
his action in a public letter. In fusion
he sees only the betrayal of the Peo
ple/8 Party for the selfish purposes of
a handful of ambitious politicians. But
Ito him, the single tax theories of Ma
guire, which are indorsed by the Demo
cratic platform, are even more offensive
than the dickering and trading of offices
by the self-chosen leaders of three mi
nority parties with the hope of gather
ing the spoils. Mr. Shanahan believes
that the single tax idea is one of the
moot dangerous features of the present
campaign, and he warns his fellow par
tisans to take this opportunity to re
move it once for all from the considera
tion of the people of California by lend
ing their suffrages and influence to the
defeat of Maguire.
Mr. Shanahan's address is as follows:
In reply to many inquirie-s from
throughout the State as to what action
should be taken by members of the Peo
pl< 'a party at the coming election I am
constrained to offer the following:
Except as a matter of independent vot
ing the party has been, for the present,
wiped out of existence; first, by the action
of the Fusionists of the late People's Par
ty Convention at Sacramento, aided, en
couraged and brought about by the at
tendance and participation therein by the
then Chairman of the Democbratic State
Central Committee of a sub-committee of
said committee and a body of persons
styling themselves Silver Republicans;
second, by the decision of the Supreme
Court in favor of the fusionists.
The most influential person in the be
trayal of the People's party In the con
vention was E. M. Wardall, Chairman of
the People's Party State Central Com
mittee, who holds the position of Secre
tary to Congressman Barlow at a salary
of $10U per month, and who, no doubt,
wished to perpetuate himself in that, to
him, very important place by bringing
about fusion and the renomination and
re-election of Mr. Barlow. John S. Dore.
a former leader of the party and a then
fusion nominee for Supervisor in Fresno
County took a prominent part in that be
half. In fact, the fusionists irom the
country districts in the convention were
nearly all Interested in bringing about
fusion for the purpose of securing local
or oiher offices ior themselves or triends.
Twenty-six delegates from San Francisco
voted for fusion despite their Instructions
to the contrary, and since the convention
the two leaders of the number (Kinne and
Gillespie) have been actively engaged in
bringing about indorsements of both
Democrats and Republicans in the city
and county campaign i© San Francisco,
conditioned, of course, on the payment
of assessments into the hands of their
committee. It goes without saying that
neither Democrats nor Republicans have
indorsed or nominated any member of the
People's party in San Francisco. As a
State question the People's party has
been traded out of existence for a few
nominations that carry nothing with
them, even In case of success at the poll-,
other than the few dollars that would
reach the_pockets of the incumbents if
elected. There is nothing in the office
of Lieutenant Governor, Controller or
Superintendent of Public Instruction (the
nominations allowed the People's party
fusionists) cf an executive administrative
or oiher character that could possibly im
press the people of the State with any
idea of the reform measures contemplat
ed by the People's party. The bargain
made by Alford et al. to allow Wardall
et al. one member of the State Board of
Equalization was promptly rescinded by
the Democrats. The nomination of Mr.
Dryden for Railroad Commissioner was
a worthless concession, as the Board of
Railroad Commissioners has been fo fed
by decisions of the courts as to make Its
abolition desirable. Since Its establish
ment eighteen years ago the commission
has cost the State for salaries, rents and
incidental expenses over $300.000, not tak
ing into account fees paid by the State
to special counsel employed by the board.
As a result of this eno mous expendbu-e
of money nothing has, nor ever will be
accomplished by Mr. Dryden or any other
Commissioner In the equalization or re
duction of freights and fares. It is true
railroad companies have made some vol
untary reductions, but never by reason of
the power exercised by the commission.
This brings to mind that the only solu
tion of the transportation question la
governmental ownership and operation of
railroads.
The whole legislative ticket of tha
State, with cne or two exceptions, has
b> en turned over to Democrats.
With neither legislative, executive nor
Judicial nominations given the People's
party by the fusion bargain, how can
that party maintain the semblance of ex
istence, to say nothing of Its identity,
under the arrangement ma le? The so-
C!:lb d Sliver Republican part v, consisting
largely of Nathan Cole, Jr., H. A. McCra
rev Walter Van Dyke and J Noonan
Phillips, has fared better in the fusion
deal. In case of sucess Mr. Van Dyke
will be Justice of the Supreme Court for
twelve years. Mr. McCraney Clerk of
that body. J. Nocnan Phillips Sen
ator, while Mr Cole will occupy the
dual position of a party boss and an ad
miring party constituency. The election
of Mr. McCraney would mean as little as
that of the People's party fusionlst nomi
nees, but the election of Phillips wo :ld
give him the oportunlty to propose laws
in two sessions of the Lc-gis'ature and of
Van Dyke to file opinions as Justice for
twelve years to come.
From the foregoing it will be seen th it
the fusionists of the People's party were
v filing to and did sacrifice every offl c
that in Its nature would give any oppor
tvnitv to carry out or perpetuate any
principle of the People's party. In ottier
words, the fusionists have been careful
Coughs
Thai Hill
are not distinguished by any mark
or sign from coughs that fail to be
fatal. Any cough, neglected, may
sap the strength and undermine the
health until recovery is impossible.
All coughs lead to lung trouble, if
not stopped.
Ayer\s Cherrp Pectoral
Cores coups
**My wife was suffering from a dreadful
cough. We did not expect that she would
long survive, but Mr. R. V. Royal, deputy
purveyor, happened to be stopping with us
over night, and having a bottle of Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral with him. induced my wife to
try this remedy. The result was so beneficial
that she kept on taking it till she was cured."
R. S. HUMPHRIES, Saussy. Ga.
" My little daughter was taken with a dis
tressing cough, which for three years defied
all the remedies I tried. At length, on the
urgent recommendation of a friend, I began
to give her Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. After
using one bottle I found to my great sur
prise that she was improving. Three bottles
completely cured her."
J. A. GRAY,
Tray. Salesman Wrought Iron Range Co n
St. Louis, Mo.
Ayer's
fjheirg Pectoral
is put up in half-size bottles at half
price—so cents.
to prevent a nomination for any office
falling to the People's party that by the
enunciation, advocacy, maintenance or
carrying out of a principle therein would
Permit a People's party incumbent to be
heard of or from in the ensuing four
years.
It may be suggested that the nomination
of Castle and Barlow (two of seven nom
inees for Representatives in Congress) is
at variance with the foregoing, but such
is not the case. Their re-election would
only mean that they would be again in
cluded in what is popularly known as
Ihomas B. Reed's list of reconcentradoes,
without power under the rules of the
House of Representatives to carry or be
heard on any question except with the
consent of the Speaker, in which the en
tire power of the House is at present vest
ed. On the other hand, if the Legislature
is carried by the fusionists the Democrats
will be represented In the United States
Senate for six years by a Democrat, who
will have the right under the written and
unwritten rules of the Senate to call up
measures for consideration and to advo
cate or oppose any and all measures be
fore that body. So it will be seen that the
People's Party fusionists have practically
given up every office that would tend to
perpetuate the life of the People's Party.
The Democratic party is not a national
party in any sense at the present time*.
The Democratic platforms of New York,
New Jersey. Pennsylvania and Connecti
cut do not mention the silver question,
yet the fusionists of the People's Party
of California and other States have allied
themselves with the party that in the
States mentioned is as much opposed to
them as the Republican party on that and
nearly every public question. Except for
fusion the People's Party would to-day
f>resent a solid and unbroken front and
Ine of battle to the Republican party in
every State in the Union. It was there
fore necessary that the People's Party
should be fused out of existence, to the
end that the few crumbs of official place
and emolument scattered from the table
of Republicanism by the haste and greed
of allied monopolies should fall to the
Democratic party, and the Republican
party be perpetuated in power by having
opposed to it from a national standpoint
a party whose strength is represented by
a chain with broken and missing links.
In consonance with this end the Supreme
Court, in its decision validating fusion,
held that there could be no inquiry into
the betrayal of the life of a political party
even where the delegates so betraying it
were under instructions to the contrary
from the source from which they received
their power to act as delegates. The de
cision was the last step required to de
stroy the independent political existence
of the People's Party In this State.
As the one whom the "Examiner" gave
credit editorially with carrying Aus
tralian ballot reform in the Assembly, I
have believed, and still believe, that the
theory and intent of the law was not only
to maintain the existence of, but to en
courage the formation of political parties,
so that all political opinions might be ex
pressed and protected on a ballot printed
at public expense. That so long as any
number of persons were desirous of vot
in a party ticket as such they should
have the right so to do where such party
had polled 3 per cent., the percentage re
quired, of the entire vote at the last pre
ceding election. It would have taken only
five weeks from and after the decision of
the court for the people to have decided
on their ballots whether or not the party
had the necessary 3 per cent, to entitle it
to remain in existence under the operation
of the law itself.
To show the party's complete annihila
tion it is oniy necessary to suggest that
two years from now it will be impossible
in view of fusion for any certificate to be
filed, with the necessary affidavit attached
that the party as such polled 3 per cent,
of the vote at the preceding election. The
court stated that that point would be de
termined when properly an issue before
It. The rule that perjury' consists of
swearing to that which one does not know
to be true, as well as that which one
knows to be untrue, will prevent any such
certificates being filed in behalf of the
people's Party.
With the party manipulated and traded
and finally adjudged out of existence ex
cept on a fusion basis, as heretofore ex
plained, the question arises as to'the duty
of the individual voters of the People's
Party. If they vote the fusion ticket they
will be voting with a party which when
in full national power did nothing for a
postal telegraph system, nothing in the
line of Governmental ownership and op
eration of railroads, nothing to refrom
the currency—in fact, nothing in the line
of People's Party principles. Reasoning
by analogy, if the Postoffice system of
to-day were In the hands of a private cor
poration it would remain there forever
so far as either the Democratic or Re
publican parties are concerned. A vote
for fusion is a vote for Democracy and the
complete extinction of the principles of
the People's Party; a vote against fusion
will constitute a rebuke to the fusionists
who bargained away the life of the party
that sprang into existence in opposition
to the two old parties alike.
The candidacy of Mr. Maguire is in di
rect opposition to the fundamental prin
ciples of the People's Party. In a speech
In the House of Representatives February
13, 1898, he said:
"Socialists, Populists and charltymon
gers, the people who would apply little
remedies for a great evil are all bark
ing up the wrong tree. The upas of our
civilization Is our treatment of land. It
is that which is converting even the
march of invention into a blight. There
is but one cure for business depression;
there Is no other; that is the single tax."
What Is the meaning of single tax as
the words are used?
It is a tax imposed solely on land values
to the exclusion of all other taxes, not
only for local and State purposes, but for
rational purposes as well, this last being
evidenced by Maguire's motion to strike
cut the income tax feature of the Wilson
bill and insert in lieu thereof the tax on
land values. Every single taxer is a free
trader, and on principle opposed to any
tariff, license or any tax except on lanel
values. Henry George, of whom Mr. Ma
guire Is a disciple, supported Cleveland by
reason of the latter's opposition to tho
tariff. Let us see what the single tax
would mean for this State: The report of
the State Board of Equalization for 1*94
the latest I have been able to obtain)
shows that the total assessed value of real
estate in this State for the year 1894, after
deducting value of improvements, to be:
Country realty, $331,980,210; city and town
lots, $135.".59,59t: total value of all realty,
less improvements, $470,669,50 T. From the
last named figures there would probably
be exempted from taxation under single
tax, aa that tax is amied at the equity
of ownership, the value of mortgages
thereon, amounting to $218,714,706, leaving
actual value of owners to be assessed,
$251,855,101.
The valuation cf all property In the
State for assessment purposes In the year
1894 was $1,204,976,952, upejn which the State
tax levy was $0,493 on the hundred dollars.
The amount collected therefrom, less costs
and delinquencies under the rate levied
of $0,493 was $5,511,634. Taking the valua
tion of that year on realty alone, after
deduction of the value of improvements
and mortgages, the rate of taxation re
quired to produce the sum raised in taxes
of $5,511,634 would have been almost $2.19
Instead of $0,493 on the $100 valuation.
Thus there would have been imposed more
than four times the burden on landown
ers for State taxes on land as a whole
proposition than they paid that year.
But that Is not all. The valuation of
property for county purposes being the
same as the valuation of property for
State purposes of assessment, and In
crease or diminution of property assessed,
taking the counties of the State as a
whole, affects the county rate and levy
In exactly the same proportion as the
State rate and levy would be affected.
Therefore, taking an average of all the
county rates and levies of taxation for
the same year 1894), we find the average
rate and levy for county purposes was
$1,125 on the $100. Assuming that the coun
ties would have stood in the same need
of money for public purposes under the
single tax system as was then the case,
the rate and levy for county purposes,
being confined solely to land values of
owners, would have been, taking an av
erage of all the counties, over four times
the rate then levied on all property, that
Is. $4.99 instead of $1.12' on the $100 of val
uation of the land of the State.
A State rate and levy of $2.19 and a
county rate and leyy of $4.99 (dropping
minute fractions'), making the rate all
told of $7.18 on the $100 valuation of land
under the single tax, as against the State
rate and levy of $0,493 and the average
rate and levy for county purposes of $1,125
making a total of $1,018. the State and av
erage county rate levied In 1894. or $7.18.
the rate that would have been required
under single tax. against $1,618. shows the
difference between the present and that
system so far as landowners are con
oerned. It may be claimed, though, that
even under the single tax the mortgage
would be treated as an interest in the
land and assessed to the hold'sr. Admit
ting that to be true, the additional bur
den of taxation would have to be met by
additional Interest paid to the mortgage
holder, thus leaving the mortgagor land
owner in no better position than if he
had paid the tax in the first instance.
BtlH the weight of the single tax is not
all shown, for the single taxer would do
away with the tariff, internal revenue and
all license taxes, national, State and mu
nicipal, thereby placing additional bur
dens on land in taxes for the purpose of
carrying on the Government.
Under the single tax system the land
WCNlld soon be sold to the State for taxes,
and the dream of the single taxer of State
ownership or "nationalization of land."
as he terms it, and State rental of land
for taxes, would be realized. would
be valueless as security. No owner could
pay the taxes. The money loaner would
Withdraw loans aa speedily as possible, or.
THE RBCOBP-uTTIOy, &ACTtA>TIEyTO; 'frtrESPAY, OCTOBER 25, 1898.
failing in. that, would let the land be sold
to the State for taxes. No banker would
foreclose to become the owner of prop
erty on which the rate of taxation would
represent twice the interest of Govern
ment bonds, for which a premium is paid.
But the single taxer says improvements
would not be taxed. Very true, as I have
already shown. Unable to pay taxes on
the land, the owner could uproot his vines
and trees and remove his buildings or
mining or other improvements — where?
The homo would be destroyed; we would
become nomads. By rendering land so
worthless by taxation that any person
could secure a portion of it, it would not
be taken under the burdens imposed, and
would ultimately fail to furnish even rev
enue to carry on the Government.
Henry George in "Progress and Pov
erty," page 380, quotes Mrs. Fawcett ap
provingly, as follows:
"The iand tax, whether small or great
in amount, partakes of the nature of a
rent paid by the owner of land to the
State. In a great part of India the land
is owned by the Government, and there
fore the land tax is rent paid direct to the
State. The economic perfection of this
system of tenure may be readily per
ceived."
If the single tax works so beautifully
in India as a cure-all for poverty, wnv
was it that in 1897 the Legislature of this
State passed resolutions asking the Na
tional Government to furnish shipping to
carry food donated in the United States
to the wretched and starving inhabitants
of that country?
Since the American revolution any vari
ation at any time in existing methods of
taxation has been a political question;
yet the fusionists claim the single tax is
not an issue. It is an issue. When the
Democratic State Convention indor-ed
the acts of Mr. Maguire it indorsed his
acts on the single tax question as well as
his opposition to the funding bill and hlfl
opposition to Hawaiian annexation. In
fact, th ?i Democratic party is more nearly
committed by the acts of its representa
tlvee to the single tax than to anti-fund
ing, as Senator White failed to vote
against the funding bill. Mr. Maguire
has loaded the "Congressional Record"
with speeches on the subject of the sin
gle tax for the purpose of making con
verts, and. in the end, electing men to
office who will carry out his views. On
the evening of September 14th, In his
speech in San Francisco, Mr. Maguire
claimed it was not an issue, and then
forthwith delivered what constituted a
column of close prir.t in a morning news
paper on that question. Among other
things, he claimed that the single tax
would break up the monopoly of Miller &
Lux of 14,000,000 acres of land in the Pa
cific States and Territories. He forgot
to explain that the Constitution of this
State requires that land, improved and
unimproved of the like quality shall I c
assessed at the same value, thus going
as far as law can equitably go against
holding lots vacant or lands unused for
speculative purposes. He neglected to «ay
that a tax on land values that would
up the monopoly of a greater acre
age would as effectually break the mo
nopoly of an acreage devoted to a small
home.
Prior to ISS2 the "Examiner," referring
to "Progress and Poverty," Henry
George's work on single tax, said: "Pro
gress and Poverty" must In time produce
deep effects and give to the most impor
tant discussion a new turn. It cannot he
long ignored by those who regard its doc
trines as dangerous.
At page 326 of the above mentioned
work George says:
"But when the times are ripe for them
Ideas grow, even though insignificant in
their first appearance. One day the
third estate covered their heads when the
King put on his hat. A little wh'le
thereafter and the head of a son of St.
Louis rolled from the scaffold. The
ar.ti-slavery movement in the United
States commenced with talk of compen
sating owners, but when the four mill
ions of slaves were emancipated the own
ers got no compensation, nor did they
clamor for any. .And by the time the
People of any such country asi Eng and oi
the United States are sufficiently aroused
to the Injustice and disadvantages of in
dividual ownership of land to induce them
to attempt its nationalization, they will
be sufficiently aroused to nationalize it in
a rmich more direct and easy way than
by purchase, that is, by taxation. They
will not trouble themselves about com
pensating the proprietors of land."
Following the above predictions, we
have the single tax before us. If Mr,
Maguire is elected the single tax will be
j indorsed; and if as zealous in that be
half here as he was in trying to secure it?
I adoption in Delaware, he WUI, with the
j rower in his hands, keep the people in
strife on that question to the exclusion
of all genuine measures of reform for four
years to come. But the single tax c-*n
be removed from politics and from public
corstderatlon by the defeat of Mr. Ma
guire on the Bth day of November next.
Two years ago I introduced an income
tax bill in the Legislature. Our Constitu
tion has provided for such a law since
1879. I believe in taxing incomes whether
derived from land or 'rom stocks, bonds
or property of any description. I do not
believe in taking a mouthful of food from
any hungry human being by taxation, nor
do I believe in taxing the homes from
men who In most cases have labored the
better part of a lifetime to earn or main
fair, them. Surplus wealth should be
taxed, and any person who has a net
income over and above operating ex
penses and cost of living for himself a ">d
family has surplus wealth shou'u
be taxed. The Republican majority in
the Assembly did not dare kill my bill,
but, as a matter of delay, referred it to a
crmmittee of three* to consider and report
upon to the Legislature which meets text
Jar aury. It should then be reintroduced
and become a law. But the election of
Maguire would give *ueb an impetus to
the single tax, as I have before suggest
ed, that the income tax and other mea«
uhes of reform would be lost sight of for
years to come in the strl'e on that ques
tion. While on the subject, I cannot re
frain from stating that many otherwise
well-informed persons think a State in
come tax unconstitutional by reason of
: the decision of the United States Supreme
1 Court on the income tax feature of the
Wi!=on bill. Instead of so holding the
ecrt held the income tax to be a direct
tax, and that as such the power to levy
it was vested solely in each of the State's
ard not in the Fede-al Government.
The way to reach and carry the meas
ures of reform heretofore proposed by
People's party and to restore the life of
the party is to defeat Mr. Mastllre and
the s'ngle tax. If the defeat of the s : ngle
tax ides in if incipiency In no. a
!of politics it 1? a question of natrio'lsm
j And to the end of esrrtOTing the single
tax from public consideration \ shall as
a member of the People's party vote for
Mr Gage, who. as a private ci'izrn and
lawyer, recovered millions of r.cps of the
public domain from the a : l oads, who,
a? a lawyer, never fOTfCIOSi d a mortgage
on a home, and who, as a « andidate for
Co\ernor, declares himself against the
single tax and against taxing 'and own
erthin and homes out of existence. With
his election, barter of principle for office,
being all things to all men, the candidacy
on three platforms, the destruction o* a
political party for personal ends, will be
rebuked. And the men. -women and chil
dren of Califo-nia wi'l rest in compara
tive neace. knowlnsr that the instru
mentality of destroying their homes by
an insidious and unjust method of taxa
tion has been defeated.
T. W. H. SHANAHAN
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
SYLLABUS.
(Sac, No. 440—Department Two—Filed
October 21, 1898.)
J. C. McCabe, respondent; E. M. Jef
ferds, Auditor, appellant. Mandate. Re
versed.
The respondent contended that the
Legislature, by Section 170 of the Act
of 1897 (stats. 1897, p. 452), failed to
provide for the salaries of officers of
counties of the thirteenth class. He
based his contention upon the last
clause of the section, reading, "This
section shall take effect immediately,"
upon the ground that the said clause
was special legislation and unconsti
tutional. Upon appeal, held, that the
provision giving the section immediate
effect is distinct and separable from
all its other provisions and may be
stricken out without affecting it other
wise than to leave the time at which
it should take effect to be governed by
another provision of the same Act. See
Cooley on Constitutional Limitations,
fourth edition, p. 215.
Scandinavian Political Club.
Last Sunday afternoon the Scandi
navian Political Club held its weekly
meeting at its headquarters, Seven
teenth and J streets. J. E. Berg pre
sided. Addresses were made by vari
ous county candidates, and the meet
ing was an unusually enthusiastic one.
He Found New Evidence.
John Buckley, who on Saturday last,
In the City Justice's Court pleaded not
guilty to a charge of vagrancy, yes
terday withdrew his plea, entered one
of guilty, and was sentenced to serve
forty days in the County Jail.
Try McMorry's 45c tea. 531 M. *
PLEA FOR CLEAN STREETS.
MACADAM PAVEMENTS NEED
ATTENTION.
Capital City Wheelmen Appeal to
the Trustees to Remove
the Mnd, Etc.
The following memorial was last
night presented to the City Trustees
on behalf of the Capital City Wheel
men. It is a plea for the better pro
tection of the macadamized #treets of
the city, which have had virtually no
attention paid to them since the ma
cadam was laid. The memorial was
read to the board and referred by that
body to the Street Committee:
Sacramento, October 24, 1898.
To the Honorable Board of Trustees of
Sacramento—Gentlemen: The special
Street Committee of the Capital City
Wheelmen, an organization ot reputable
citizens representing large interests, and
having the highest well-being of the com
munity at heart, respectfully represents
by direction of such body:
That the macadamized streets of tha
city should be immediately after the next
rains cleared of the 'droppings" and mud
accumulations of the summer.
That it is the unanimous testimony of
experts and road engineers that for such
accumulations to remain, is to work se
rious injury to the macadamized streets
to say nothing of great inconvenience to
all who ride over them. The droppings
of mud retain the waterfall and prevent
its draining to the gutters. It is thus, so
much as does not pass off by evaporation,
induced to penetrate the macadam, and
thus the underpinning so to speak, is
Caused to settle.
We are advised that the accumulations
may be removed without any kind of in
jury to the surfacing. If macadam is
properly laid, after one season the sur
facing is, or should be hard and firm
enough to suffer removal of all above it
by wooden scrapers, or blunt shovels with
ease and perfect safety.
Your memorialists most respectfully reP
lesent that such removals are effected
with perfect success in other cities, thus
giving, all winter long, comparatively dry
streets.
Your memorialists beg your honorable
body to consider the fact that on Sunday,
the 23d inst., your memorialists examined
blocks of streetway on X street where the
mud and manure accumulations were
three inches deep and in some places four
and five. In other places we found the
pushing of the accumulations by travel,
towards the gutter sides, has resulted in
piling up the matter so deep and thick
that dralnac c is wholly stopped.
Your memorialists most respectfully rep
resent that this is a most important mat
ter, Involving very heavy and unneces
sary cost later on, if now neglected. We
beg to invite your thought as to what the
mass of theise accumulations must be on
une'eaned macadam streets, by reflecting
for a moment on the mass of manure
alone daily removed from the bituminized
streets. We are informed that when this
mass of mud and filth is softened by
water it is easily removable: that such
removal Is distinct economy to the city;
a< tual money saving. We respectfully
represent that by careful calculation and
count, 3,250 citizens daily traverse the
street surface of X stieet alone on bicy
cles, in carts, wagons and buggies, and
that the uncleanliness referred to on that
one street, thus impedes and greatly in
conveniences such citizens.
Your memorialists are fully aware that
your honorable body has very small
means at command to accomplish all you
are called upon to do. Nevettheless we
most respectfully represent that it Is
highly essential to health, cleanliness and
the preservation of pavements that have
cost property owners hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, that something should
be done in the premises. It is bid enoueh
that our handsome city, in which we all
take such pride, should have no fund for
systematic cleaning of the residence
e-reets, and that the daily accumulations
must remain for months, to be churned
over and over, and be blown about or
waded through, and that we must, until
able to create a cleaning fund endure
th s uncleanly evil; but we most respect
fully represent that such should not be
come the fate of the macadam streets.
In conclusion your memorialists beg
leave to submit one other matter namely,
that your honorable body will take steps
to compel parties political and otherwise,
who use streets surfaces on which to
burn bonfires, and all others who burn
rubbish in the street, to clean up and
carry away the cinder, ash- and other
debris remaining, at once. This refers to
an uncleanly evil and unlawful procedure,
that la prevalent, an offense to the sight,
a danger to those who use the streets,
ard a reproach in the eyes of visitors
Your memorialists beg to express their
2 When a young
lyl/Y) woman starts
[jg out in married
.mmw X ... Itf* with a
Jrc?9 1 pjjftfe modest home
-jTalLir ! aliv k are neces-
- [jffi "i**"***" tures herself in
s i° n > contain
jftl com
fr\ ' Sy/|"j#£l forts anci !uiu -
S^- «es of life. i n
ly > xQtl Tlfv\ tn at dreamland
/ \ iK) of **** future
ft% ** /Ii ML u Uk there will be
!K\vff / / rg^^^ls|'v ricQ car Pets on
tw / / the floors, fine
r / paintings on
- tne walls, a
' magnificent
lideboard loaded with silver and dainty
tableware in the dining room, musical in
struments, books and all that the heart of
a sybarite could yearn for, and—a baby.
To either man or woman, all the com
forts and all the luxuries of life and all the
wealth in the world soon become a bore
and a weariness, unless there is a baby for
whom they can both contrive and plan and
work. A woman who, through ignorance
or neglect, suffers from weakness and dis
ease of the delicate and important organs
concerned in wifehood and motherhood,
blasts all these hopes. Either she will be
childless, or will lose her own life in the
struggle of maternity, or her babies will be
born puny, sickly and peevish and unable
to withstand the ordinary ailments of child
hood. Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription
surely and completely cures all these del
icate complaints. It is the discovery of one
of the most eminent living specialists in
women's diseases, —Dr. R. V. Pierce, for
thirty years chief consulting physician to
the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
at Buffalo, N. Y. The "Favorite Prescrip
tion " acts directly upon the sensitive or
ganism concerned. It imparts to it health,
strength, vigor, virility and elasticity. It
fits for wifehood and motherhood. It
robs maternity of its perils and insures a
healthy, robust child.
Free. Dr. Pierces Common Sense Med
ical Adviser. Send 21 one-cent stamps to
cover mailing only for paper-bound copy.
Cloth-bound 31 cents. Address Dr. R. V.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
I THE FALL HAT. f
The ultra fashionable ladles' fall ••
** hat is large in size and striking In ••
** design. We have a line of such as ••
** welJ as others less and less pro- ••
** nounced, until modesty and quiet ••
** taste combined with becomingness ••
II are reached.
i VAN ALSTINE'S I
MILLINERY,
T 817 X Street.
£±£*±±&±* •M-1- t±±±±±±±±±j±
SPECIAL If OTICM.
wholesale hard
ware. bicycles, carts, buggies, carriages,
§haetons, Lain farm and header wagons.
end for catalogue.
AUCTIONS.
Auction Sale of Tw~Hoiises and Lots.
TO CLOSE AN ESTATE WE WILL
sell at auction, on THURSDAY, October
27th, at 10 a. m., on the premises, the
property known as 1816 and 1818 Q street,
each lot being 40 by 160, with a fine house
thereon. Sale subject to confirmation of
Superior Court.
D. J. SIMMONS & CO.,
i Auctioneers.
contidence In the present Superintendent
of Streets and to bear witness to his vig
ilance generally, and his endeavor to do
all that should be done.
Your memorialists submit this petition
as citizens, voters and taxpayers, having
only the highest public good at heart, ant
who being brought by dai'.v travel close
to street surfaces, are intimately ac
quainted with their exact conditions
And your petitioners will ever pray,
(Signed), E. A. Canfield, Chairman of
the btreet Committee of the Capital City
Wheelmen (incorporated)
DOGTCR "POSTUM."
Some Coffee Experience In Mexico.
"Some years ago I went to a city of
Mexico, where I increased my coffee
allowance quite considerably.
"In about three months my nerves
became seriously affected. A sort of
stupor seemed to possess me all day
and I suffered great discomfort from
dyspepsia. I kept on, however, with
thei black coffee until just before I left.
W. A. DESBOROUGH.
Captain Battery A, Light Artillery,
Sacramento, Cal.
when I could not keep it down any
longer. Had to quit and took up cold
water and milk.
"When I reached New UJork City, a
lady friend who used Postum Cereal
Food Coffee regularly, recommended
it. I gladly tried some of her coffee
and found it all the owners claimed
for it, a very delicious beverage the
way she makes it.
"I have been entirely cured and am
in perfect health in every way. Am a
regular missionary for Postum.
"Whenever I hear a man or woman
complain of any pain or disorder that
arises from the nervous system, I pre
scribe Postum. Several of my busi
ness friends dub me 'Doctor Postum,'
because I have cured them of their in
digestion and dyspepsia."
NEW TO-DAY.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
•PURSUANT TO DESIRE OF VERY
many, Miss Katherine Ruth Heyman will
very soon give another concert prior to
her departure for the East. It
HON.J. J. NIEMOER
President Afro-American League,
AND
HON. T. B. MORTON
Will address the
COLORED
CITIZENS
Tuesday Evening, October 25,
AT THE
OLD F*/W/ILIOIN,
Sixth and M.
By order A. J. BRUNER,
Chairman Rep. Co. Cen. Com.
R. M. Richardson. Secretary. It
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
SEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED
by the Trustees of Arcade School District.
Sacramento County, Cal., for the erection
and completion of a one-story frame
school-house in said Arcade School Dis
trict, according to plans and specifications
which may be seen at the office of J. W.
Wilson, 31S X street, Sacramento; bids to
be submitted on or before Saturday, No
vember 5, 1898, by mail or personal deliv
ery to E. S. Culver, Del Paso, Cal. The
Trustees reserve the right to reject any
or all bids.
E. S. CULVER,
G. L. SWAN,
Trustees.
_Del Paso, October 25, 1898. 025-10t_
NOTICE—ALL PAINTERS ARE IN
vited to attend the Democratic rally at
the Shady Corner, Twelfth and C, to
night. It
AMUSEMENTS.
Two Nights More !S£
By Request—Return engagement at Popu
lar Prices. lOc, 20c and 30c, Jossey
& Marvin's Big spectacular War Drama,
The Signal of Liberty
Showing America's victory over Spain. To
enable all to witness this stirring war play
popular prices will prevail, 10c, 20c and SOc.
Box office open Sunday, 9 a. m. Reserved
seats secured in advance will be held each
evening until 7:45 o'clock only.
Orpheum.
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 281h and 29th,
Matinee Saturday,
The Great New York LAUGHING SUC
CESS—AH New and Original—GlLMOßE <fc
LEONARD'S Latest Comedy Creation,
HOGAN'S ALLEY
With all its fnnny characters as seenTn the
New York World.
SEE THE YELLOW KID. SEE Hogan's
Alley with its Goat and Parrot. SEE the
Pretty Military Girls. See Everything, for
Everything is New.
HEAR the Latest Songs; the Newest Jokes.
All the Catchy Music. Soothing to the Nerves.
Box office open dally at 9 a. m. 25c, 5 >c, 75c,
SI. All seats ordered in advance will be held
until 7:45 p. m. only.
MILITARY DRILL.
ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTO
ber 26th, Company F, Sixth Infantry, Cal
ifornia Volunteers, Lieutenant J. L.
Hughes commanding, will give an exhibi
tion drill in the New Pavilion for the
benefit of the Sisters of Mercy. The
music will be by Neale's Band. Admis
sion 1:5 cents. Company F is recognized as
the best drilled of all the California com
panies. 024-3t
GRAND FAIR
FOR THE! BENEFIT OF THE SISTERS
of Mercy, at Armory Hall, THURSDAY,
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, October 27th,
28th, 29th. .Admission, 25 cents. Dancing
each evening. A varied program of en
tertainment. Dinner from 11 a. m. to 2
p. m. Meals 25 cents. Admission free
during the day. 023-lw
CAPITAL CONCERT SERIES.
FIRST CONCERT. CONGREGA
tJonaI Church, THURSDAY EVENING,
October 27th. Season tickets, $2 each, are
transferable, and admit one person to
fcur concerts, including reserved seat. On
sale only at Pommer's. Single admission,
50 cents and SI; no extra* to reserve. Sub
scribers can reserve seats at Pommer's
music store. Ninth and J, Monday, Octo
ber 24th, at 9 a. m. Non-subscribers can
reserve Wednesday, October 26th. Doors
I open at 7:30. Concert 8:15 sharp. 023-5t
1^
Sacramento, Tneiday, as October, ito*.
|For the parlor j
© Our absolute iiipremacy in the furniture business®
« of Sacramento is attested by nothing else so well as in our show ffl
|l ing of furniture for the "best room" of the house. Nearly one en- {5
H tire floor we devote evclusively to the showing of upholstered m
2g parlor set samples. Here your fancy can have full play, from the I!
if most magnificent of plush coverings in fancy frames to the W
jj modest tapestry in plain, but neat frames. S
H The picture above will give you an idea of one ol H
g our $50 five piece sets —sofa, patent rocker, arm chair and two re- J
|| ception chairs. The frames are finished in handsome polished §1
R mahogany. The upholstering is excellent, with all spring edges, J
w the covering being silk tapestry in assorted colorings. A rich, g
Jj looking set that will give long service. fl|
q At $25 we have a five piece parlor set, finished in Ig
B mahogany and upholstered in cotton tapestry without the spring B
edges. g)
H Visitors are as welcome on the parlor floor as
Jf elsewhere in this store. We appreciate that a looker to-day may B.
® mean a buyer to-morrow. (g
BedrOOm Th re e Pieces. Solid oak
C 4- de with antique finish, or
Z?£L <J>Z5 birch with mahogany
finish, your choice. The
cabinet work is first class and the
polish Is excellent. Bedstead is six
feet high, six feet two inches long, and
four feet six Inches wide. Bureau is
forty-four inches wide and has bevel
plate mirror twenty-four by thirty
inches.
The bed posts and rails are extra
heavy, and the bureau and washstand
have paneled ends, double tops, cast
brass trimmings and swell fronts. The
entire set is fitted with patent Fox
casters.
This bedroom set comes from one
of America's best factories —a factory
that sells to but one deaier in a city.
It is to be had in Sacramento ONLY
at Breuner'a.
In corduroy If yo »
„ J seven dollars and a
$7.50 half to spend for a
couch, buy this one.
If you have more, buy a better one.
That's plain talk, isn't it? But it's
honest talk.
You'll get your moneys worth out
of this couch, that's certain, for it has
an oak frame, is 5 feet 10% inches
long and inches wide, and is fairly
well built. But if you want a fine,
long-wearing couch, get a better one
And get it here. We have them up to
$50.
CORNER SIXTH AND K.
I Swiss I
| Watches r
EJ are preferred by many, £|
3C and there are many ar- 1
3 guments in their favor. <g>
f The foreign makers are T
w the only ones now \
turning out watches %
f with the stop attach- «
1 ment. Patek Philippe j|
& Co. of Geweva, estab- %€
§f lished since 1839, man- <|
ufacture a magnificent <M
w line of watches, of c»
V which we are sole /
JS agents.
| KLUNE & FLOBER6, j
Jewelers, 528 X Street,
N. Dingley's Mills,
MANUFACTURERS and
WHOLESALERS
GROUND AND ROASTED COFFEES.
Originators of the celebrated Star D brand
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS
MILLS, - - I STREET. NEAR FRONT.
THE WEEKLY UNION—THE BEST
weekly on the coast. Only SI » year.
Prom New Invoices
, of matting ar-
China and riving con-
Japan stantly keeps
r the stock in
the Breuner carpet store always
fresh. No danger of finding out
of-date patterns here.
At 15 cents the yard, fibre
warp in fancy colors or plain
white.
At 25 cents the yard, plain
white, Jointless and extra heavy.
At 26 cents the yard, hand
some Japanese linen warp; Joint
less and very pliable; green and
white blocks, red effects and
natural straws.
At 30, 35 and 40 cents the
yard, superior high-grade linen
warps in the latest fancy pat
terns.
And at 50 cents the yard, two
patterns of the Imperial high art
matting have just arrived.
MattreSSeS the poorest
kind of econ
omy to buy a cheap mattress.
It's economy that will cost you
many an uncomfortable night
and a great deal more money in
the long run than if you had
bought a good mattress to begin
with.
The gray hair mattresses that
we sell at $20 are made of pure,
fresh hair that comes to us di
rect from the factory. This hair
is long and bushy, and there is
more of it than in any mattress
sold for this money In America.
The ticking Is strong and thick
and the hair will never come
through.
Come in and let us show you
the hair and then the mattress.
! New Shapes in Collars |
T for autumn and -winter styles we t
♦ have Just received in the beet 4- ♦
•fr ply linen, the E. & W. and Coon +
▼ brands, In all the swell fads and ♦
T handsome designs. Our stock of +
♦ shirts, collars, neckwear, under- 4}
♦ wear sox, etc., furnishings of all
4> kind", are all in the latest styles 4}
and best qualities. In union suits 4.
4% we have an elegant line. 4>
| MASON'S I
f Shirt Factory and ♦
T Gents' Furnishing Goods, X
X 528 J STREET. +
+■1 »J_af ♦ T + T ♦ T ♦
WATERHOUSE & LESTER.
(Incorported.)
WAGON AND CARRIAGE MATE
rials, Hardware, Lumber. Iron, Steel am»
coal. Horseshoers' and Blacksmiths' Sup
plies. 709. 711. 713. 715 J street. Sacramento.
ONLY ONE DOLLAR A TEAR—THE
. WEEKLY UNION. The bast weekly.