The record-union., 1896-09-20
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Coast Newspapers in
Brief,
On All Shades of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics Of
the Day.

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often made that the Cleveland bond
issues were made for the sole purpose of
maintaining the gold reserve. AS a
matter of fact, the issue of bonds was
rendered necessary because the reve-
nues of the Government were INSULT
cient to meet its expenditures. The gold
reserve was used for current expenses,
and in selling bonds to replenish the re-
serve, Cleveland was really borrowing
money to pay the ordinary running ex-
penses of the Government.
THE EFFECT
| Pajaronian: Free silver coinage will
not do the producer any good SO long
as he has to compete with the effects
of free trade The value Of our soil pro-
ducts is many times the value Of our
mineral productions. our farmers vastly
outnumber our miners,and our present
tariff has cut the value of everything
the farmer has to SELL Protect the
hcme market. It is of first Importance.
FREE COINAGE
Oakland Enquirer: All men who be-
lieve that free silver means repudia-
ton, degradation of national honor and
untold business calamity and disaster,
base their belief upon the unchanging
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will not raise it's price. This belief is
shared by the franker (and perhaps
more honesO of Mr.. Bryan's followers.
Witness the following from the Detroit
Tribune" the most earnest protago-
mist of free coinage of all the Western
press, and the most ardent advocate of
Mr.. Bryan's election: 1T is the conten-
| ton of rational defenders of free coin
age that it would not raise silver to a
| parity at the existing ratio, and upon
! that fact they base chiefly their claim
that free coinage will bring relief. We
| insist that free coinage is a good thing
| because under it the dollar as at pres
| ent expressed by 23.2 grains Of gold
metal will disappear at once and never
| return to oppress u.s." Here We have
repudiation in all it's nakednesS, but at
the same time an astonishing conflict of
| opinion upon the part Of those who
would be guides for the footsteps Of the
nation.
EXPLAIN
| Pasadena Star: How do the free sill
yer people explain the present declining
attitude Of silver? 1t is going down In
price despite the assurances held out OF
the election of Bryan in November FL
| nanciers in the money centers say it is
| falling because of short demand, ETC.,
/ but according to the free coinage people
| that should not affect 1t In the face OF
| their confident promises that the free
silver cause is going to triumph. 1t
must be that the election of Bryan is
not believed in throughout the financial
world.
BRYAN'S ORATORY.
| Dixon Tribune: At the beginning of
the campaign it was urged that Bryan
was a one-speech orator. The newspa-
pers have reported him faithfully ON
his tour and this opinion has given way
to the belief that the Democratic stand
ard-bearer is a powerful orator with
prolixity Of ideas and ability more than
sufficient to direct the affairs OF state.
| William J. Bryan will make a President
Of whom the people of this country may
we'll be proud, whatever their opinions
may be on the issues which are now agi-
tating the public mind
! FILLED CHEESE.
/ Oakland Tribune: The tax on filled
| cheese and the revenue regulations have
killed the home market, which has been
rapidly growing. The Chicago Record"
ADDS this: When Collector Mize was
approached on the subject for informa-
/ ton as to the foreign trade he was sur
prised to find that there was no proVi-
sion in the Act for exporting cheese
without the payment of the tax. But
| the Constitution prohibits export duties.
/ The Collector referred the matter to the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue at
Washington but no answer has been re-
ceived. The Elgin factories are very
much interested. The filled-cheese In
dustry was confined exclusively to lili-
nois, and the Act was passed at the IN
! stigation Of Eastern skim milk cneese
manufacturers, whose product was run
| out of the market by filed cheese There
were 100000 pounds manufactured
last wear in Illinois and 3 100000 pounds
were exported No application for the
sale of the filled cheese has been made
by local grocers or produce dealers"
A CONSOLATION.
! Placerville Nugget: There's one
| consolation Tom Watson has, and II he
| is not working the consolation FOR all
there is in it no one knows how. Tom
views with alarm" his Vice-President
| impossibilities, but philosopher like he
| points with pride" at his newspaper
| wherein he vituperatively roasts the
| whole combination, marks copies Tor
his exchanges so that his utterances
are reproduced and people are sub
scribing for his paper all over the
country Tom may not succeed in pre-
vailing upon Sewan to drop out, but
he is building up subscription list
| in about as willy manner AS 1t can
| possibly be done
THE ULTIMATE QUESTION.
Mountain Democrat: 1t is said that
| by arresting the coinage of silver at
| 16 to 1, one-half the standard money
| of the Nation was demonetized, and
the exchangeable value of the other
| half. consisting of gold, has been en-
hanced 100 per cent. Hence the pend
ing financial question. if the demone-
| tization of one-half the standard
money of the Nation has doubled the
purchasing value of the remainder,
what will be the effect Of duplicating
it's volume? Will it be to reduce the
purchasing value Of gold, to double
that of silver, or to establish a parity
between them? Up one side and down
the other. this is the question SUBJ
mitted to the people, to be decided
after election by actual experience.
NUMBER SIX.
| Mountain Messenger: To our mind
the most important Of the six constitu-
tional amendments to be submitted to
the voters in November is Amendment
No. g. 1t is in regard to the electoral
franchise and simply amends Section
l of Article II. in the Constitution, by
| leaving out the word male and thus
giving to women the right of franchise.