The record-union., 1893-06-12
PRESS VOICE.
What Some of the Interior Papers
Say.
Commentary on Living Subjects
Topics of the Hour Freely
Discussed.

Riverside Press 1t looks as if the Ad-
ministration would be forced by the
course of the loyalists of Hawaii to put
matters back under precisely the same
conditions as when Blount arrived and
again assume the protection of the islands.
1t would have saved much trouble and
expense if the President had promptly
carried forward the plans as inaugurated
by President Harrison. This is just what
ne will ultimately do.
Los Angeles Herald: All talk of using
Federal troops to keep the gates Of the
White City closed on Sundays is mere
leather and prunella. Such a manifesto
ton OF Federal authority would be greeted
with displeasure by the people Of the
United States. There was very offensive
manifestation of the spirit OF militarism
in that city i'll 1871, on the occasion Of the
great fire, when General Sheridan under
took to run things with a high hand.
General John NJ. Palmer was at that time
the Republican Governor of Illinois. AL
though gallant soldier, and then Re-
publican, he wolld not brook Sheridan's
overriding the civil authorities of the
State. His vigorous protest did much in
laying the foundation of a popularity
that has never known waning since. 1t
may be safely assumed that with Grover
Cleveland as President of the United
States the bayonet will cut very small
figure in any controversies about the
Worlds Fair remaining open or shut on
Sunday.
San Bernardino Times Inder: Dir.
Briggs has been kicked out of the Pres
byterian Church as hereto, but he seems
to be orthodox enough for the Episcopal
and Congregational Churches, who have
invited him to come along and sample
their doxy. Religion, like politics, surely
makes strange bedfellows, but the trouble
with some sectarian snoozers is they
never seem to get any rest.
Santa Cruz Surf: California has not
met with any calamity or sustained any
serious loss to entail hard times The
State has not been scOurged with fire or
flood, drouth or disease, nor with that
greatest evil, financially speaking, the
fever of speculation. For years we have
been crying out against its commercial
conservatism ana there is scarcely an in
sufficiently secured asset in the State.
There is nothing the matter with Califor-
MIA to-day but-lack of confidence. -
There are tens OF millions OF gold coin in
California bank vaults to-day, but bank
ers dare not loan it for fear some sudden
impulse may seize depostors to demand
their money. 1t is not a lit time and
place to discuss the merits of any finan-
clal system or the evils attendant upon
undue Accommodations of coin in savings
banks just now is a time for depositors
to consult their common sense and not
their impulses.
Hum boldt Standard: We believe it to
be better policy to sustain established
home institutions than to jump at Cheap
john bargains offered by migratory
class of vendors. When purchaser has
had a chance to ascertain the value. or
rather the lack OF value, of his purchase
the dealer of whom he made his purchase
has probably lett the town, having added
nothing to its material prosperity. ON
the other hand, dealers who make the
city their home have permanent inter-
est in the place. They spend their money
there, they patronize home printing Of
fees, they buy their family supplies in
the town and build homes. If there is to
be 4 local celebration or some improve
ment for which the public is asked to as
sist, the home dealers head the subscrip-
ton list. Ii an error has been made or
the goods are not what they We're repre-
scented to be, tie home dealers are still in
town TO rectlfy the mistakes, while the
birds-Of- passage" merchants have de-
parted to pastures new. Home dealers
make towns; migratory ones destroy
them.
Truckee Republican: What we shall
particularly mss i'll the death of Edwin
Booth is his elevating influence upon the
American stage. Booth belonged to that
higher class OF actors, which, with his
DEATH loses its last representative of any
note. He appealed to the higher
emotions. His influence was elevatIng
and inspiring. He used none of the
tricks so common in the profession, but
depended upon legitimate acting. We
well remember the inspiration of a
higher ambition which took hold of us
when we first heard such men as Booth
and Lawrence Barrett. The explanation
is found i'll their ability to portray &C
curately and justly the higher emotions
OF the soul.
Los Angeles Times: The Administra-
ton appears to be adopting a policy of
letting the financial situation get as bad
as possible, in order to frighten the silver
men. 1t is said that Cleveland will use
the gold reserve to the full extent neces-
sary, and not issue bonds. The only
point in this complicated monetary ques-
| ton upon which there appears to be no
I doubt is that there is not sufficient circu-
lating medium for the use of this coun-
try, whose population has increased
/ faster than its tokens of value. When it
/ comes TO the question of what description
of circulating medium shall be provided
that is another story" as Kipling would
/ say. 1t is a problem which demands the
/ deepest study and the most deliberate
action. Between the two extremes of
mono-metalIism and unlimited coinage
of silver, there should be path of safety,
to find which is the duty of our legisla-
! tors