The record-union., 1896-12-07
Voice OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on Sub
jectS of Living and News
Interest.

Oakland Times: Eli Perkins says
Mckinley has hobby and that 1t Is
to gain fame by making this country
prosperous again. He believes he can
do it He believes in his theory OF
good tariff for revenue as much as ne
believes in his religion. He says what
made prosperity for thirty years and
paid $4,000, 100000 of the national
debt will do it again. Less than that
will make a deficit and run us In debt.
He believes our whole financial trouble
has come from reducing the tarlH ana
killing reciprocity. He believes the two
armies now fighting in Cuba should be
eating our -four to-day, which by
bad policy is prohibited from going
there. He believes we are getting
hundred million dollars worth of cloth,
pottery, silk, carpets and laceS from
Europe every year that would have
been and were made here by the old
tariff.
NOT NEEDED.
Stockton Independent: Talk about de-
Tending California from her calumnia-
tors is idle She needs no defense and
none would put an end to calumny.
California people cannot only stand
comparison with the rest Of the world,
but can challenge 1t. While they have
their full share Of the corrupt among
them it is the corrupt who come Of
fensively to the front, while the vast
and virtuous majority go quietly about
their business and give slander little
or no attention.
NOT A CURIOSITY.
Riverside Press: The report that Mr..
Bryan is to receive 81 ZOO per lecture
for series of addresses on free silver
Is very shrewd piece Of advertising.
Mr.. Bryan is not so much Of a curiosity
to the American people as he was, and
there are very few towns even in the
silver States where people will fall over
one another to buy tickets at 81 so
apiece to hear him make defamation
on the money question.
A BRUTAL EXHIBITION.
Stockton Record: The prize-f1ght be-
tween Fitzsimmons and Sharkey in San
Francisco not only exhibited the bru-
tality Of the participants and others
connected with the affair, but it clearly
demonstrated that among those who
are sunk to the level of the prize-fighter
there Is no such thing as fairness, JUS
tice or honor. AS an exhibition it was
as brutal as any that human beings
could engage in, but the exhibition
of moral depravity at the wind-up,
when the excited crowd of special tors
had witnessed F1tzsimmons' triumph,
yet heard the referee deliberately give
the decision to Sharkey ON account of
an alleged foul, which the spectators
did not see was even worse than the
brutal contest itself
OF FROST.
Sutter Farmer: Before the spring sea-
son begins and the fruit buds open, our
fruit-growers should thoroughly inves-
tigate the various methods Of dealing
with sudden frosts, which on some oc-
casions occur Just as the almond and
apricot buds are most susceptible to
damage. Last season If the proper eau
ton had been taken and smudges or
fires made on few nights in the orch
ards many thousand dollars would have
been saved. Other portions OF the State
have saved crops of fruit by preparing
for such emergencies, and our fruit
growers can well profit by such expert
ence. 1t is well worth investigating at
any rate.
OF WAR
Stockton Mail: The Springfield Re
publican" says there Is no danger Of
war, now that the millionaires have won
their fight at the polls. 1t says: IF
we went to war even with Spain, what
would happen to business and the gold
reserve? Had you thought Of that, you
voter for Mckinley? Any one who
wants the gold standard maintained in
the United States can have no immedi-
ate use for a foreign war, for wars are
worse than silver agitation in destroy
ing confidence and 'expelling gold.
Now these are points not necessarily de-
terminative under all conditions, yet it
is just as well that they be understood" +"
GO SLOW.
Stockton Mail: The State will go
slow in adopting voting machines. 1t
is beginning to look as though there
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