Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-11-22
NOVEMBER 90. 1855
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
EDUCATION FOR PRESIDENTS

It is stated that President Cleveland
is coming to California after the expira-
tion OF his term of office. The visitor
will be accorded royal Californian
weIcom ;, for now that the quadrennial
period of calling names has passed,
mon Of both parties are free to &c.
knowledge thnt he has made an honest,
earnest, level-headed President. Es-
pecally will Mrs. Cleveland be
received with all the splendid though
somewhat unpublished ohivalry of the
West.
But Mr.. Cleveland should have made
the trip before: He should have visited
this Coast before going into Office. No
man can be thoroughly qualified to act
as the nations Chief Executive who has
no personal knowledge of the needs and
desires of large portion of the
country. Without knowledge of the
conditions which prevail in the various
sections be cannot do exact justice as
between them when thei interests con-
Hict.
President Cleveland guessed the Pa
cific Coast Alright on the Chinese ques-
ton. but he does not to-day appreciate
our position with regard to the coinage
of silver. Had he spent q month or
two among people who have prospered
under system of transacting business
with good, hard, Clearly coin as q me.
dunn of exchange, he would not stick to
his opposition to a freer coinage of sill
yer dollars.
The New York merchant does not
like silver; the San Francisco merchant
does. Mr.. Cleveland knows New
York. He does not know San Francisco.
Consequently he looks upon the silver
question from but one point of view.
The small tradesman of New York and
the Eastern seaboard accepts payment
in silver dollars with a very bad grace.
He feels almost the same aversion for
them as the Oalifornians did for the de-
based nickels when they were first in
troduced here. But he also looks
askance at good, yellow gold, fearing
that each piece is a counterfeit which
his limited knowledge Of hard money
will not enable him to detect. He much
prefers his beloved currency, though
the bills be ragged, dirty and disease
laden.
1t is but natural that the public man
of the Eastern States, knowing of this
feeling and being more or less imbued
with it himself, should oppose any
measure which tends to increase
the circulation Of the coins so much
disliked. Nothing but personal confhct
with people who honor the silver dollar
and rather disfavor rag money" will
teach him that the whole world is not OF
the same way of thinking on this
great question as his friends and neigh
bors.
SO President Cleveland's visit at the
close of his term is fine thing in its
way. But Gen. Harrison is the man
who should make the westward trip as
n matter of duty, and he should make it
before going into office. If he could
bring with him the men who are to
compose his Cabinet 1t would benefit us
and them. With the filthy horrors of
Chinatown orce firmly fixed in their
minds and an Impaired knowledge of
tho industrial torpor prevailing in the
sections where Chinese labor is almost
exclusively employed, we would be rid
OF all uncertainty OIL TINT question for
at least four years Then, too, they
would learn something of the wants OF
the men who dig the money AZ we'll
rs those who handle it in trade Elk.
aminer.