The record-union., 1896-07-05
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALI.
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, TheOret-
ical and Current.

OF running down Wheelnen is not quite
SO common as it was d year or two ago,
but it occasionally happens NOW. A few
evenings ago a brutal fellow driving
on Ell Dorado street with plenty of room
on either side of a wheelman who was
out of the way of vehicles, deliberately
collided with the bicycle, and had not
J the Wheelman been faster than the horse
he would have been hurt If that fell
| low could have been arrested and fined
even the value of his skeleton horse and
| shaky cart he would have been served
| about right. Drivers of vehicles are
not the only offenders against the amen
tiles of the road, however. Scorchers
| often rush past a vehicle and, without
| giving the horse a chance to see what is
coming, suddenly turn in front of him
and cause him to shy. When women are
| the drivers and the horses are timid,
| this practice, which is somewhat COM
| mon with the smart alecks ON wheels,
| becomes dangerous to those in the vehi-
cles and should be made so to the wheel
man by means of arrests and fines. The
bicycler has rights equal to those OF
| drivers of horses, but some of them
seem to magine themselves a privileged
| SlctSo etIIO Tire GI OAlSOuS ld0Ni c4lOuid NC
fined out of them, as they can be refined
IN no other way.
BAD POLICY.
! Los Angeles Herald: If the Cuban in
surgents blow UP Havana they blow up
| the prospects of Cuban independence
| in the near future at the same time.
| Such barbarous act ais dynamiting a
whole city and destroying the lives and
property of disinterested people would
deprive the rebels of the consideration
and support of the remainder of the
world. For the credit of the insurgents
it is to be hoped that the report that
| they contemplated such a scheme is un-
| founded
WILL NOT DOWN
American protection is not to be forced
| into the background as AN issue by the
| currency question or any other. In the
| manufacturing centers especially it is
felt that the adjustment of the tariff
upon revenue-raising and home-pro-
duet basis is what IS needed above all
things to promote general prosperity.
Los Angeles Times: The editor of the
Los Aangele Times: The editor of the
| San Pedro American" recently ad-
/ VI tSSSQ d ltllCI " JUuu 1GIllSle,
| Secretary of the Treasury, asking for
his opinion as to why the free coinage
people demand the mintage Of silver at
| the ratio of 16 to l when it's CONNER
cial value is only 81 to !, and also if a
| coinage at a ratio of 81 to / would
not be virtually the free coinage of
silver. In reply was. received the fol-
lowing letter, over Mr.. Carlisles per-
sonal signature:
Your favor of the 9th inst is just
received. and, in response, 1 have the
honor to say that, in my opinoin the
coinage of silver at the ratio Of 40 to
| !, or 81 to i, would not be the free
| and unlimited coinage demanded by
! the people; that is, by the free coinage
| people. Their demand is for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver; that is,
& coinage without any charge whatever
for mintage, at the ratio of 16 to /,
which would put about 81 or 80 cents
in the silver dollar.
ITO coin silver at the ratio of 16
to /, or at any other, ratio, and charge
the holder of the bullion the differ
ence between its commercial value and
| its legal value at the ratio established,
would not be free coinage, nor would it,
! in my opinion, change the relative val
ues Of the two metals to any consid-
cradle extent, If at ALL"
WHAT THEY PROPOSE.
Los Angeles Express: The bimetal-
lists among the Republicans take the
position that the country is suffering
from a complication of diseases; and
| that it needs not one, but several kinds
of medicines to cure it. Bimetallism is
| e ~
other diseases of free trade a weak
foreign policy, ETC., have full and un-
restrained control of the political sys-
tenn while the medicine of bimetallism
is being applied. Such a policy they
believe would not only be bad for the
country, but bad for the cause Of sill
yer, because when bimetallism was
secured the country would still
be in a bad way owing to other
! troubles, and the enemies of silver
would claim that the failure of busi-
ness to revive was due to bitmetallism
when it really would be due to free
trade, a deficiency in the national rev.
enues or some other cause.
| With a Republican Congress pledged
to bimetallism and at the same time to
other reforms, the prospects would be
brighter and better for the country
than If the Democrats had control with
only one good. sound plank in their
platform. That is the very logical DO
sition taken by Senator Shoup and
lcthers who think like him both as to the
value of Republicanism and the i'm
portance Of bimetallism
GOES HARD.
| Woodland Mail: A1tgaId hoSsics,, oroae
down hard with a large number of
prominent Democrats. and they will
cast many quiet vote for Mckinley
as consequence, which will much
more than offset the number of bolt
ing silver Republicans.
No NEED TO GO CRAZY.
Placerville Republican: We do not
need to go crazy over the torpid condi-
tion of the country and howl like lu-
ratics because rich men are losing
money and because poor men are los
| ing jobs. We shall simply invite the
fool-killer of financial destruction if
| we. rush recklessly into an effort to
| help everybody at once by making a
| lot of money for the people generally
The Republican party can be relied
| upon to obtain revenues for the treas
ury and to protect our own industries
by an adequate tariff if it regains
power. It will discontinue the dis
| graceful borrowing of money on
United States bonds in time of pro-
found peace. 1t will give this country
a safe, stable business management
that will do more than anything else
to restore confidence in productive
industries and to put men to work by