The record-union., 1896-07-27
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iCal and Current.

Yreka Journal: No Presidential NOM
inee in the history of the country has
ever been so much in sympathy with
the man who earns his living by the
sweat of his brow as William Mckinley.
Years before there was any probability
Of his becoming Presidential nominee
he has fought for the welfare of the
American workingman, and in what
ever legislative body he has been he
endeavored to legislate to protect our
laboring class from competition either
directly with foreign pauper labor by
passing strict immigration laws, or by
competition with the product of this
foreign cheap labor in passing protec-
tive tariff Mckinley is an American in
every sense of the word, and, like all
Americans, he is proud of the high
standard of the American home, and
will fight any measure which tends to
reduce the comforts or bring want to
those homes.
FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION.
Riverside Press: The workingmen
were told by the office seekers four
years ago that if they would only in
dorse the beautiful theory of free trade
they would have higher wages and
steady work. Through the failure Of
the theory then so glibly urged, the
workingmen have either worked ever
since at reduced wages or had no work
at all. Now they declare they have
settled the old question, and have a
brand new theory that is bound to be
eflicacious in making every working
man a. millionaire by fiat of the Govern
ment. The men who were SO badly
fooled four years ago had some excuse
then for accepting the plausible prom
Uses of the of1ice-seekers, but it is in
conceivable that they should, after such
experience, again be hoodwinked into
accepting the new promises of those
whom they have proven to be dishonest
dema gogues.
KANSAS AND INTEREST.
Santa Rosa Republican,: Nine years
ago the best farm loans in Kansas were
made at = per cent. interest. Loans
could not be secured on the same prop
erty the last four years at less than 10
to II per cent. We have just come from
Kansas and base our statements on
conversations with loan agents who
told us that it is still difficult in the
central portion of that State to get
loans on the best farms at any rate, and
that most Of the big loan and insurance
companies have withdrawn their bust
ness from there. About two and one
half years ago the writer received a let
ter from the Connecticut Mutual Life
Insurance Company stating that no
loans We're being made in Kansas by the
company because of the disturbed polit-
ical conditions there, and that it was
getting it's business out of that State
as rapidly as possible. We know per-
sonally that large number Of the big
loan companies quit placing money in
Kansas farm mortgages when the re
form" party came into power and began
legislating to make collections there
more difficult.
TWO BLUNDERS.
Oakland Tribune: The Democratic
slogan, "a tariff for revenue only" was
a craze as uncalled for as the present
free silver epidemic that is turning the
country topsy turvy The free traders
said, reduce the tariff and increase the
importations and give the Government
more income. That is to say, If goods
dutiable at 40 per cent. are imported to
DIOuuCe
$4,000, 900 revenue, a reduction to 80
per cent. duty would induce double the
amount Of importations and increase
the revenue to $50. 100000. This plea
was not only adopted, which was blum
der No l, but changes were also made
from specific to ad valorem duties, cut
ting down the revenue still further; and
the result has been to flood the country
with European cheap labor productions,
to pay for which there has been a con-
tinuous flow of American gold to Eu-
rope; but worse still, the receipts have
not been sufficient to meet the running
expenses of the Government, while
American wage earners have been
thrown out of employment and business
generally demoralized.
INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLISM.
Los Angeles Express: The Republican
party in it's platform has pledged itself
to do all it can to promote international
bimetallism. France, Germany, and a
strong party in England stand ready
to second its efforts and no doubt be-
fore McKinley's term closes interna-
tional bimetallism will be an accom-
plished fact. For those reasons the Re-
publican press is standing by it's party
platform and candidates, while the De-
mocracy is deserving both creed and
ticket
SADLY TRUE.
Kern Standard: The National Guards
men were jeered and Kissed by a crowd
of ex-strikers at Kern City on the Sd.
1t is not to be wondered at in this day
of license. There is a spirit of disre-
spect to law and government abroad
that is damnable, and it BODIES no good
for our free institutions. Hanford
Sentinel
With the exception that it was not the
ex-strikers who insulted the Guards
men here, the above is lamentably
true.
IT IS THE ISSUE.
Stockton Independent: BY saying that
protection is not an issue the Demo-
Gratis seem to mean that Republicans
should be silent while their orators and
editors continue to condemn Mckinley
ism. What is McKinleyism? It is pro-
lection TO American industries by means
of a tariff high enough to keep the
products Of foreign labor from throwing
the American laborer out of employ
ment. That is McKinleyism and the
thousands of men who have found their
employment and their earnings reduced
by the free trade of those who de-
nounce McKinleyism, want it restored
because it will restore their wages.
KEEPING 1T ABLAZE.
Fresno Republican: We say that If it
is a good thing to keep the smoldering
field of enmity ablaze between labor and
capital. if agitation, dissension and
class enmity are beneficial, then the
Democratic party is to be commended.
II, upon the other hand, it is good
thing to cultivate harmony between
classes whose interests are inseparable,