The record-union., 1894-09-15
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Selected From Editorials
In Coast Papers.

Expressions Selected From Editorials
In Coast Papers.
[Carson News
Four or five times during the past
twenty years the Democratic House has
voted for free silver. 1t was always just
before a Presidential election, and the
object of the vote has been simply for
campaign purposes. When at last a Re-
publican Senate voted for the measure
and sent it to the House, that body
promptly beat it, and when the Demo-
Gratis got into power-had the President
and both Houses of Congress-their first
important official act was to take from
the American silver miner the last chance
OF disposing of one ounce of his product
anywhere within the limits of the United
States. That is the Democratic record on
silver.
BRECKINRIDGE.
[Dixon Tribune
The Breckinridge-O Owens campaign in
Kentucky is a disgrace TO a civilized COM
munity. Breckinridge deserves the re-
buke which defeat would give him, but
the owen forces are not conducting their
campaign in manner TO give the people
respect for their candidate, and Breckln-
ridge is likely to win in spite OF the
strong opposition.
TOO MUCH OF THE GAMBLE.
[OroviIle Register.l
Our people are firm believers in all or
nothing. 1t is all wheat, all barley, all
hay, all fruit or all stock. They believe
in exceling all others in their special pro-
Guctions. They are thus placed at great
disadvantage, for what they don't raise
they must buy, and this constitutes
big item. There is too much of the gam
BILE III California farming. Men seek to
make the largest amount of money with
out caring to be on the safe side in case OF
d failure, Thus, if there comes a poor
wheat season the grain farmer is plunged
head over heels in debt If the year is
bad for fruit the orchardist goes hum
dreds, possibly thousands, of dollars be-
hind. Other States diversity their crops
more and thus there is less loss. There is
less speculation, less gambling, and, we
may add, less debts, less mortgages and
fewer people lose their homes.
REVIVE THE SPIRIT OF '76!
[Walla Walla Union.l
If we are to keep an American market
open to American people it must be by a
revival of the spirit of'76. Buy Ameri-
can goods only" was the watchword of
that era in which it was war to the death
against the political supremacy of Great
Britain. 1t should be the watchword
now that it is war to the death against
British commercial supremacy.
1t IS IDG uloTSSL lEul5tl ludJ as ROOu
wooden cloth can be, and is made in the
United States as in Europe. Yet there
are many people silly enough or snob-
bish enough To insist upon imported
goods" though very often they buy an
inferior article at higher price in conse-
quence of their unpatriotic demand.
With the deluge of shoddy cloths that
Europe is likely to cast upon our shores
under the new tariff provisions the vul-
orc p will hp tenn MT l6 10 ana the V1lUar
rich in their boast of Il wear none but
imported stuff" Ask for and insist on
having good, honest American goods,
made by we'll paid American labor.
THEY LOOK BETTER.
[Colusa SUM-
The pictures of the Native Sons in the
papers are better than they were four
years ago. Everybody will remembe
those pictures because they appeared soon
after those of the members OF the conven-
ton four years ago, and all had such a
pulled-too-soon look.
Since then the boys. have grown older,
and bigger thoughts Have developed their
heads, and they have grown more like
their pioneer fathers, who opened up and
made this glorious country for them.
There are some, though, who still talk
about the old pioneer as tigure-head, too
slow for anything, too poky and old fogy.
But they are mostly the very young ones
who will grow as those of four years ago
have grown. just think, boys, you
would not even have been here if it had
not been for the old pioneer. If that
thought does not lessen your bonn mbast
you are beyond redemption, and will die
of the swelI-head.
THE SCOTCH PLAN.
Oakland Enquirer.
Inasmuch as the tendency in California
is to rush all of the insane people into a
few big asylums, upon the theory that
insane people are usually dangerous and
that only in an asylum can they be prop
erly cared for, it is worth while to mem
ton that in those countries in which the
insanity problem is most scientifically
dealt with, the tendency is all away from
this kind of herding. Scotland has Is, 800
registered insane, and Of these nearly
1900 are kept in private families at an
expense to the public OF $500, 600 year
The State of Massachusetts has adopted
the Scotch plan to some extent. and finds
that the cost OF maintenance in families is
not greater, while it avoids the expense
of building the enormous asylum struct-
ures with which California has been so
badly burdened.
PURITY OF ELECTION LAW.
[The Mail of Woodlandl
The purity of election law passed at
the last Legislature is one of the most
salutary enactments to be found in the
statutes. 1t is modelled on an Act bearing
on the same subject passed some time ago
by the English Parliament. Its prime