The record-union., 1896-11-28
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUBJ
iects Of Living and News
Interest.

Interest.
Placer Republican: Since the tri-
umph of sound money at the polls, the
premium on gold has gone down ana
the restoration of confidence has caused
any amount of gold to be placed on the
market.
A GOOD SHOWING.
ST. Helena Star: According to the
newspapers more than 2oO,OoO loie
men have been put to work since the
election. This is more than nve times
as many as were employed In silver
mining during the most prosperous Pc
riod in the history Of that industry.
WIRE NAIL TRUST.
Oakland Enquirer: Another trust
has gone down the mill race. rms tnie
it is the wire nail trust, which Tor
year or two appeared to be one OF cne
tightest little monopolies in the Unfteo
States It put up the prices repeatedly
and maintained them against the tend
ency to increased production. But there
is no limit to the number OF machines
that can be made and started 10 Work,
and the supply of steel rods Is lnuen-
mite. So the corner could not outlast
certain period, and just at this tlHle'
when there is an upward lift IN nearly
everything, the wire nail trust goes u
pieces. There is a natural law "hicn
DEGREES the death Of combinations 10
restrict production and advance prices
of articles of which the supply IN tha
nature of things is unlimited
GLORIFYING BRYAN.
Calaveras Citizen: Even the gratifi-
cation of success cannot quite reconcile
the goldbug organs to the commanding
position attained by the great silver
champion in the short period OF Presl-
Dental campaign. Greeted with rlol-
cule and contumely from the very day
of his nomination, Bryan marched CAIN
ly on at the head of his enthusiastic
supporters, easily the superior OF all
his detractors in mental force. In moral
grandeur, in patriotic devotion TO prln-
ciple; and in final defeat towers to-day
supreme above any living contempor-
a1y, peer of the sages and heroes OF the
past Hail to the great chief!
RAISE THE WAGE.
Willows Review: Now that wheat is
steadily advancing and the price is
liable to be good for year or more, the
farm hands will naturally look for
raise in wages. Their wages were cut
down when wheat was low and they
should be raised as wheat advances
Seventy-five cents day Is not enough
for the poor workingman who tolls In
the fields for ten hours. Recollect the
rise in wages when you realize well on
your grain crop. Farmers, let the lab
orer share your prosperity with you
Who will be the first to make the raise
NAVY YARD CIVIL SERVICE.
Vacaville Reporter: A prodigious ef-
fort will doubtless be made to prevent
the application of civil service reform
rules to navy yard employees. The hum
cry crowd who have aided in the selec-
ton of Mckinley electors in California
will demand that political influence con-
troll appointments on Mare Island. We
have always held that the question Of
a mans skill as mechanic should cut
more figure in the determination Of the
fact of his securing work at the yard
than the question of his political faith.
While there may be strong desire for
a change in the present system, we are
of the opinion that the people who are
planning, possibly, a suspension of the
rules at Mare Island while the Republi-
cans are getting satisfactory places, are
likely to find themselves reckoning
without their host. There has been an
extension of civil service rules at Mare
Island from time to time, and the scope
Of their application is likely to be
widened instead Of contracted. It ought
to be.
HATCH'S DISASTROUS EXAMPLE.
Stockton Independent: A. T. Hatch,
whose ambition was to own the great
est orchard in the world, has fallen
victim to that ambition. He succeeded
so far as possession of such an orchard
was conaxrned but not in the matter
of ownership, as a foreclosure suit in
volving 100000 witnesses. The eager
ness to own "the 'jinin' piece" has
caused the ruin of thousands Of farm
ers all over America, and now that
wheat promises to bring good prices
for few years there seems danger
that like ruin will follow a fall In prices
which is more than likely to come in
few years. The man who has land
that Is free should keep 1t so and he
whose land is mortgaged should seek
to free it first, and thus be prepared
for what may come. The area that can
be devoted to wheat raising is almost
unlimited, while consumption Of the
grain is limited, not alone by the needs
of those who would be consumers. but
by their ability to buy and the extent
to which they can substitute other
forms of food. While the area can be
approximately estimated form year to
year the ability to buy cannot. This
uncertainty, together with the long pc
RODS of low prices, should cause farm
ers to proceed with prudent caution
and to incur no debt that they can
avoid and none that they cannot see
their way with reasonable clearness to
pay off at the close of each season or
more rapidly if possible.
NOT DEAD.
Placer Herald: The silver fanatics"
are neither discouraged nor cast down
over the result of the recent election.
| They remember the solacing words OF
Wendell Phillips; What is fanaticism
too day is the fashionable creed to-mor-
row ana as tflte as the IIlultlpilCatlOn
| table a week after" Free silver will
| be the fad four years hence.
ACCEPTING THE RESULT.
| Stockton Record The expressions of
the press of the East on the result of
the election are significant. 1t Is not
! that they are exultant and self-con-
| graduating, nor that party pride is
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