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tend itself throughout the country un-
der general regulation, then the cry for
more money would be shortly an
swered. In fact, there would soon be all
the money needed by the business of the
country.
THROUGH EUROPEAN SPECTA-
Giles.
Los Angeles Express: In the July
Forum" Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, editor
of 'L' Economiste Francais," has a very
readable article on 1.-THE Presidential
Outlook as Europeans View It." The en-
tire essay is an argument against the
election of Mckinley because he repre-
sents protection and bimetallism.
| The election of Mckinley, Mr.. Beau
| lieu thinks will be the death blow to free
trade He says that "the only restraint
on the tendency of the protectionist par
| ty in Europe to new eXcesses is the op-
! position of manufacturers for export.
1.-The fear of seeing foreign markets
closed against them binds these in a
common effort to bride the energies of
| the landowners and the land-cultiva-
tors" 1t will be noticed that the writer
! admits that protection is a good thing
! for the farming classes, the exact op-
poSte of the position taken by the Amer
/ lean free traders. He thinks, however,
| that with the United States leading the
way Europe would follow it's policy of
protection, and he declares that even
| in England there is being built up a
protectionist party" and he looks with
| dread at the future. He argues that
protection will check the progress of the
! mi inf
with immigration and railroad traffic.
That, however, has not been the eXpe-
rience of this country 1t has encour-
aged immigration too much and the rail-
reads never did as much business as
under the Mckinley tariff The Amer
lean people do not look upon immigra-
tion as a blessing, and if Mckinley s
election would curtail the flow of for
eigners to this shore, that fact would be
a very strong card in his favor.
POLITICAL HISTORY.
Alameda Encinal This is good time
to recall some political facts which show
that it has been hard fighting and the
gaining of comparatively few votes
which have settled each of our last three
Presidential elections, not to mention
the contest of 1876, when it was one
electoral vote, that in such a grave dis
pute that it could only be settled by a
tribunal made for the occasion-the
memorable Electoral Commission. In
| 1854 Mr.. Cleveland won by a margin of
about 1200 votes in the State of New
! York, and in 1888 he lost to Mr. Harri-
son by his inability to carry the same
State. The contest of 1892 is frequently
called Democratic tidal wave, because
Cleveland got 217 electoral votes, while
Harrison only got 145, and Weaver ID,
| but a glance at the popular vote cast
at that election will show that it wasn't
much of a tidal wave, but was in reality
only the change of comparatively few
votes, probably largely caused by men
who stayed at home and didn't vote at
ALL The total popular vote was
12,11O,636 Cleveland got 5.556,91S;
Hsrrison SIG los: Weaver 1,041, OPS,
and Bidwen 264, 1873. Clevelands vote
was only 1865 greater than it was four
years before when he was defeated,
while Harrison's vote was 264, los less
than it was in 1892 when he was elected.
| That shows what small change is re-
| uuired, if they are in close States, to
make what the people call ii lal wave
winning for either side.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
| Stockton Independent: There is mani
| fest in the Democratic platform as re-
ported by the majority of the commit
| tee spirit entirely new to the formal
| declarations of the party. Never be-