The record-union., 1896-11-13
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jects of Living and News
Interest.

Colusa Sun: In view of the fact that
men have grown poor with several
thousand acres of land to the
family, the assertion OF the
sun, repeated SO often In
the last several years, that the IN
Eabitants of the town of Colusa-about
~,CUO-could live well and have a sur
plus from the 600 acres of the town
plot, has seemed eXtravagant, but now
try the statement by the light CT what
has really occurred in Detroit. The re-
suit of these experiments is also vim
dication of the Suns" contention for
county farms. In fact, without know
ing it, Mr. Pingree and the editor of
the sun" have been working in prac-
tically the same groove-varied only by
the difference in the conditions-and
now the eminent success of the one is
a vindiCation of the other. In carry
lag this experiment to a successful
issue amid the slurs and jeers of the
less thoughtful, Mr.. Pingree has done
more for the poor people of this coun-
try than any man in it, and the people,
recognizing that fact, have elected him
Governor of their State.
OBSTRUCTING PROSPERITY.
StOChlOH 1uuepeuuSul a. lcdSl
10000 more men were at work in the
factories and other industries during
Friday and yesterday than had been
employed for many months previous
to the election. This is only one of the
first fruits of the triumph of financial
sense over financial nonsense When
its full effects are seen, the increase in
the running on full time of most of the
manufactures, the extension of rail-
roads and the pushing to completion
of irrigation and electric enterprises
the silver craze will have great diff
Guilty in galvaniZing the corpse of free
coinage into life again. Unhappily for
the country, it appears from yester-
days dispatches that the Senate may
not be in full accord with President
Mckinley and the House in the matter
Of tariff amendment. If the silver Sem
atcrs hold the- balance of power be-
tween the protectionists and free trad
erS, they may retard the full raaliZa-
ton Of the peoples hopes of the res
toration Of protection and reciprocity,
which did so much to stimulate enter
prise and give employment to labor
AS IN DAYS OF YORE.
Chico Chronicle-Rec If the vol
ume of money is not enough for our
present needs, let us not wait until
enough is coined, wasting the substance
OF the producer in the interval Let us
SC straight at it now, and go back to
the trade and barter as a matter of
economy in exchange, and wherever the
members of a rural community can ex-
change their products in direct inter-
change let them do so, and let them
daVote their thought and their energies
10 solving the problem of how this can
be done to the utmost possible extent.
saws an exchange. Every such inter
Change of products saves freight. COM
mission, insurance and risk of loss. and
this saving, mind you, in every such
an exchange, is double saving by both
parties TO the transaction.
WORK FOR THE WORKERS.
San Jose Mercury: If the election of
1ckinley means one thing more than
another, 1T is that the people have re-
huked the party which has taken en-
p'oyment from American workingmen
and have indorsed the party whose pol
icy has ever been to provide work for
American workingmen. Mr. Mckinley
advocated the principle of sound money.
he was pledged to international BIZ
Inetallism. but he stood pre-eminently
for protection to American industries
and labor. His nomination was due
CHIEFLY to the fact that he was the
recognized leader of the protection
forces, and his election was also chiefly
due to that fact.
DEMOCRATIC VIEW.
san Jose Herald: The latest advices
indicate that the silver men will be
srrong enough to control the Senate
or at least to prevent any legislation to
which they object. If the silver Sena-
tors hold to their former attitude that
there shall be no financial or tariff leg
islation that does not provide for free
silver coinage, the prospect of new
Mckinley bill is remote. 1t Will be Of
no use TO call an extra session of Con-
gress next spring unless that body is
IN shape to do prompt and effective
work. Indeed. there seems no very
strong probability that there will be
any material changes in the tariff for
the next two or three years In view
Of this fact. the attribution of renewed
activity in business and industry to
tariff changes TO follow Major McKin-
lty's election, seems a little nonsensical
business men do not start up shops
and lay in stocks on the strength of
legislation which cannot be enacted and
put into operation before next summer
and which IS not very likely to materi-
aliZe for several years, If at ALL
LET THE CHALLENGE BE NET.
Los Angeles Times: The action of the
Examiner in charging election frauds
upon the Republican party of this coun-
~ is on par with its other actions in
:his campaign. The Republican party
Cf California, in this. its supreme hour
OF triumph, cannot afford to LET such
baseless charges pass unnotiecd. And
when the Examiner charges that
1000 Bryan ballots have been de-
stroyed, secreted or otherwise misplaced
by election officers, the Republican
rarity is ready to meet such infamous
assertions and refute them. McKin-
ley's election is a triumph Of good Or
der decency and obedience to the law.
all over America 1t was carried by
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