The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-08-08
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
From Coast Papers on Both Sides OF
Political and Other Questions.

FOlltlCal and Other Questions.
Riverside Press: The Bryan Demo-
Gratis and their allies, the silver mine
owners, are striving to hide the fact
that the restoring of a protective tar
III is the vital issue affecting every in
dividual citizen, and to do this they
magnify the Importance Of the free
coinage issue and make the boldest as
sertions regarding the outcome if the
country shall but consent to expert
ment with their theories. 1t remains
TO be seen whether the people who have
been SO sadly deceived by the plausi-
bic promises of these politicians will
again consent to accept such unfortu-
nate leadership. In discussing this
disposition to detract attention from
the one and only issue that holds out
certain beneficial results the Bulletin
says:
THE history of the tariff regulations
or this country proves indisputably
that financial depression follows free
trade. Money panics are directly the
result of a policy which allows foreign
merchants to sell their goods here and
carry away our specie with them.
AN OLD ONE, THOUGH.
Tulare Register: The first campaign
story has started from Chicago to the
effect that an Iowa hotel manager was
recently approached by a man who
wanted to sell him a carload Of frogs
legs. The manager was amazed at
the size of the offer, and told the man
that he couldn't use any frogs legs
that day.
Subsequently, when the Iowa man
called again and repeated his offer to
furnish carload the hotel man or
dered. not a carload, but three dozen.
The next day the Towan reappeared
with basket, which, when opened,
was found to contain one dozen frogs.
When the hotel manager expressed his
surprise at the disparity between the
offer and the net results the Iowa man
said, by way of explanation:
I was burned sure from the noise
they made that there was a carload
of them frogs, but when 1 looked for
them found that these were all there
were"
The moral is that the dealer who
expects to deliver a carload of Bryan
voters and judges from the noise they
make is liable to be disappointed.
MKINLEY NOT A GOLD BUG.
Stockton Independent: Calling Nc
Kinley gold bug has been so persist
ent and oft-repeated that many Repub-
licans seem to be fully impressed with
that error. McKinley's record on silver
is such that his nomination did not
please the extreme gold-standard Re
publicans. He voted in Congress for
most of the measures introduced while
he was a member to promote the larger
employment of silver, but has always
been opposed to it's free and unlimited
coinage, and is, in it's best sense a BIZ
metallist.
Those who will not see any middle
ground between free and unlimited
coinage of silver and the monometal-
ism of gold will not be satisfied with
this or anything else, but to the men
whose minds are always open for the
entrance of truth it will make a great
difference. The object of the sincere
free coinage man is to obtain a larger
employment Of silver. The only differ
ence between him and the Republican
on that subject is as to the means of at
tanning the object. The free coinage
man thinks it can be forced and Nc
Kinley and his supporters think it will
be dangerous to attempt to force it.
Mckinley voted to extend the use of sill
yer by all reasonable expedients, but is
opposed to attempting what appears not
only inexpedient, but which his judg-
ment and experience tell him threatens
great disturbance and damage to the
business of the whole country.
HOW THEY WILL WORK IT.
Stockton Mail: Some days ago it was
announced that the commercial travel
ers of the United States are to be turned
into missionaries in the gold cause. That
IS, their employers, whose necks are
under the heels of the banks, have in
structed them to work against the free
and unlimited coinage of silver. There
is no doubt that the travelling men of the
country could do very efficient work,
were they to prostitute themselves to
the task, but they will not do so, as a
class, as we happen to know that some
Of the staunchest silver men in the
world are to be found among the
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