The record-union., 1896-07-29


will continue to be true long after that
famous traveller from New Zealand,
standing in the midst of a vast soli-
tude, shall from a broken arch of Lon
don Bridge sketch the ruins of St.
Paul'S.
A SILVER ARGUMENT.
Los Angeles Record: If there is but
81 or 80 cents bullion value in silver
dollar, it nevertheless passes for a dollar
| just exactly as easily and effectually as
a greenback dollar which, by the gold
bug Secretary of the Treasury, is re-
| deemable exclusively in gold. 1t is full
legal tender money. A piece of silver
bullion weighing 1922 grains is not
Your merchant or your grocer never
says you can have this or that article
for so much in gold, or for some other
and greater price in silver. And when
you come to pay your account your
merchant or grocer will credit your ac-
count for just as much paid in silver as
| if paid in gold. If you make contract
| with your neighbor to work for time by
the day nothing is ever said about pay
in silver or gold. Your employer never
thinks about paying you 81 day in
gold or 81 30 a day In silver. And your
! employer would just as soon pay you in
sold if he has it about his person. You
might just exactly as well tear your
shirt about paying 50 for a gold orna-
ment at your jewelers. which contains
| only 81 or 50 actual worth of gold as
! to rant about the dishonest 50-cent
| dollar"
THE DEMAND FOR OLIVES.
Stockton Independent: California
ripe olives, which several Eastern gro
GERS said could never command a mar
ket, are now practically sold out. The
amount picked last year was the
largest ever known, but they are all
gone, and it will be several months be-
,, fore the new crop is ready for the mar
ket. This shows that olive growers
should give no heed to what the Eastern
wholesalers say on the subject. All the
ripe olives put up in this vicinity have
long been exhausted and the growers
=, will put UP more than double the
| amount the coming fall, because the
yield viii be greater and they win have
no call for the green fruit. American
taste is being rapidly educated to the
ripe olives, and their consumption is en-
couraged by physicians, who regard
/ them as great promoters of digestion
and as containing more nourishment
! than the green olives, which are princi-
pally used as relishes. The success that
! the ripe olives have met should encOur-
| age landowners in the foothill region
| to the eastward of Stockton to put in
| as many olive trees as possible, for the
demand for the fruit is rapidly growing
| and as California cannot supply the
State demand, there is no probability
that 1T can for many years supply the
| East as fast as the taste and the de-
! mand increase.
PUBLISH IN FULL.
The Mail of Woodland: We see the
Oroville Mercury has fallen into the
error Of many of its Democratic con-
temporaries by publishing the inter
view with Jay Cook on the silver ques-
ton, minus the last paragraph, in
which he says that he will support the
Republican ticket because he believes
that it is the party that is capable OF
solving the financial question Publish
1t in full
THE MEXICAN QUESTION.
Santa Rosa Republican: Mexico is
rot on a bimetallic basis In that coun-
t;y both gold and silver are coined
neither standing sponsor for the other
AS a result the highest priced metal
the dollar in which there is the most
value as measured by the worlds stand
ards, has passed out Of circulation ant
that country is now actually on a silver
basis
Now Mexico is said to making very
good progress at this time The larger
cities are making considerable progress
Many improvements of a substantial
character are reported at the capita
city. There is considerable activity ir
the mines, and, on the whole, the coun
try is getting ahead. From these fact:
silver monometalliSts reason that thi.
country will be prosperous under like
conditions
| But who are prosperous on the silver
basis of Mexico? Are the laborers do
ing well there-the plain, common peo
pie, for whose welfare Mr.. Bryan de-
clares himself so solicitous? The ricl
in Mexico declare that times are good
The mine owners have no complaint t.
offer. Even at the low price Of silve
their product is selling at an enormous
profit. Not so with the everyday toilers
Their wages are but fifty cents to sew
| fiily live CtIilS pei ddy, dydDlc III Sll
yer, which cannot be converted into bu
twenty-five cents to forty cents in golc
In that country.
Now. if American lahorers are willin,
to accept employment on the Mexican
basis, there will not long be any excus
for idleness. If they will work for eve,
twice the sum paid in the land of silve
monometallism they will all be in de
mand very soon. II by their votes the,
succeed in bringing this country to tn,
Mexican monetary basis, how will the,
avoid the Mexican labor conditions
Reduce the value of the dollar and tn,
wage rate is reduced. II is the silve
dollar of equal value with the gold dol
lar that every creative industry of thi
country needs.
NOT NEW AND IMPROMPTU.
Riverside Press: A good deal of ridi
cule is likely to be directed at Mr.. Bryan
now that it is discovered that his speecl
| which so stirred the delegates at tn
Chicago convention was not an i'm
promptu speech at all, but merely a wei
rendered recitation by an exceptional.
gifted elocutionist. Not only was thi
speech delivered at Chautauqua as
| sembly in Iowa a week gefore the con