The record-union., 1896-08-02
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALL
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, TheOret-
iCal and Current.

Stockton Mail: No one pretends to be-
ileve that there can be an International
agreement on the silver and gold COIN
age tor the present. No rational being
pelleVes that the leaders of the Repub-
lican party ever thought of negotiating
for such agreement. If by chance a.
Well-balanced person ever did think so
reading of the Eastern newspapers
and the speeches Of Eastern gold men
VIII speedily dispel the hallucination.
BEWARE OF FIREBRANDS.
Stockton Record: What this country
needs al present is confidence and hope
fulness. The industries and energies of
the country have broken down by a car
nlyal of falsehood. The relations of busi-
ness have been disturbed. The profits
and prospects of producers have been
destroyed. A party that has been op-
posed to every advance step taken by
the country for the past forty years
has Systematically attacked every es-
tablished policy of the Government that
contributes to stability and encourages
enterprise and development.
1t attacked the revenue system of the
Government and went before the coun-
corruptionist," and ringing the changes
on the billingsgate that seemed to spring
up as do noxious weeds when the hus-
bandman abandons industry and joins
the idle throng. 1t was a direct appeal
to prejudice and finally created such dis
trust that the Democrats prevailed and
the panic and depression followed. The
country was helpless. With all its re-
NJ, 1f
stood aghast, it's energies paralyzed, its
credit shaken, it's hope gone. Honesty,
toll, steadfastness, enterprise, these had
disappeared, and fear, distrust and un-
rest filled the whole land with misery.
SILVER, OR GOLD AND SILVER.
Kern Echo: Advocates of free silver
coinage will do we'll to bear in mind
that in all gold-using countries silver
circulates both as full and limited legal
tender, while in all silver-using coun-
tries gold is not in circulation as mon
ey. Examples of the truth of this state
ment are found in Mexico, China, Japan
India and South America. = Bulletin.
This proposition will hardly be dis
puted by any rational free coinage ad-
yocate. But it does not follow that
free coinage in this country would result
the same way. That would all depend
upon how free coinage was backed up.
II we still retained the gold standard,
the gold would not go out of circulation.
If, however, the theory of the new De-
mocracy and Of the Populists be adopt
ed and it be attempted to make silver
stand alone nothing is more certain than
that gold VIII go out of use There is
ali the difference in the world between
free coinage of silver backed by gold
standard and unsupported free coin
age.
ANARCHY IN THE AIR.
Los Angeles Times; Now, the
Times" does not for a moment wish to
be understood as saying that the mem
bers of the Popocratic Convention
which met at Chicago, or a majority
Of the members of the Populist Conven-
ticn which met at St. Louis, are all an
archists. 1t is unrea sonable to sup
pose that such men as Bland and Boies
and Teller are not as patriotic as the
average American citizen, or that they
would not as quickly resent any in
suit to the American flag from open
foes without, or secret enemies within
The Times does not say that the
Democrats, or Popocrats, or Populists,
or free silverites or whatever they may
call themselves, are all anarchists, but
it does say they are harboring in their
ranks men who are anarchists at heart,
whether they have openly avowed
themselves as such or not In training
with such men, in lending the machin-
cry of their party to such men, they are
playing a dangerous game-they are
pl1Vinp &c t.,
the air. Democrats who have at heart
the honor and prosperity-nay, the
very existence-of our common coun-
try. may well hesitate at this critical
juncture before they add their influence
to movement, the full result of which
no living man can foretell.
FISHERMEN
Los Angeles Herald: Both Sewal and
Hobart are reported to be expert fish
ermen. Whether Watson is similarly
an angling adept or not has not vet
been discovered, but his proficiency in
gaffing his fish and sticking to his
prize was sufficiently demonstrated last
week
SILVER VIEW.
Sutter Independent: There is a plain
moral in the remark that if the United
States would venture to cut herself
adrift from Europe and take outright
to silver she would have all America
and Asia at her back and the command
Of the markets of both countries. The
barrier of gold would be more fatal
than any barrier of a Custom house.
The bond of silver would be stronger
than any bond of free trade. There
can be no doubt about If that If tba
United States were to adopt silver |
basis tomorrow British trade would |
be ruined before the year was out.
WHICH IS THE GREATER INTER |
EST?
Fresno County Enterprise: AS be- |
tween this Government attempting to
double the value of the property of the |
silver barons throughout the world or |
aiding the producers of wool and the |
manufacturers, by levying a duty on |
foreign products, thus retaining the |
home markGt-the best market on earth |
as all foreign commercial nations know. |
We ask an bipartisan reading of the |
following statistics taken from the |
United States census of 1890:
The total value of all the mineral |
product of the United States in 1889 |
was $3S7 ,230 .662. The value of the |
gold and silver product was sos, ,2S3.
I32. The total operating expenses of |
the cold and silver mines was S63. .451.- :
1856. The capital invested was S4SG.- |
:3}2233 :333S
For the purposes of the last census
1S6,147 manufacturing establishments |
reported The value of rented property |
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