The record-union., 1896-09-11
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Coast Newspapers In
Brief,
On All Shades of Political Belief and
Upon leading Topics Of
the Day.

Upon Leading Topics of
the Day.
Stockton Independent: If silver
caused all the depreciation Of
values it's effects should have been
apparent before 1898, when the free
trade simeon struck the country If it
took ''the crime of 49, twenty years to
work so much damage why is it that
1t didn't take the criminal folly of 1888
81 twenty years more to throw millions
of American working people out of en-
plOyement?
MKINLEY'S VIEWS.
Los Angeles Express: Here are Nc
Kinley's views of the Populistic plan of
making the farmer better off: IF you
can increase the value Of anything by
lowering the measure of value, and
you want to benefit the farmer then
make the bushel smaller, the pound
lighter, and declare a legal dozen less
than twelve
EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED.
Humboldt Standard: When Demo-
have repeatedly done of late, to make
it appear that this campaign is a fight
between employers and those who are
employed, they are playing with fire
which will burn their fingers, as we'll as
misrepresenting the facts. Can work
ingmen prosper unless the men who
employ them also prosper? 1t is alb
surd to say that the laboring mans in
49,, l., ~
who hires him and pays him his wages.
How long can the wage-worker get work
unless the man who hires him can make
some little profit in his business? Work
ingmen are not fools, and they can see
the absurdity Of such demagoguery.
WORTH CONSIDERING.
Humboldt Times: One of the stock ar
guments being used to laboring men in
this country is that their employers are
in favor of the gold standard because
il is to their interest to operate under
that standard, but that silver will bene-
fit the working man and that he should
look out for his own interest. No ex-
planatiOn is given as to the manner in
which the free coinage of silver will
benefit the wageworker, but he can
understand how the single gold standard
will benefit his employer, for does not
the employer openly claim that he is op-
posed to free silver. The laborer then is
pursuing a policy which he knows his
employer does not approve and which
may seriously effect that employer. The
wageworker, however, if he can be led
without reasoning to follow the silver
myth, does so with the forlorn hope Of
reaping some unknown benefit even
though his employer suffer. The free
coinage of silver will not make it pos
sible for a person to earn a single dol
lar without giving something Of value
in return and the prosperity to those
who employ men .s the essential cOndi-
ton that will afford wage-earners an
opportunity to secure money. While
capital is being withdrawn from the
country and all business enterprises are
in a state Of stagnation the laboring
man cannot prosper. Under these condi-
tions the currency question can effect
him but little, and the only thing that
can is a period Of industrial prosperity
which cannot be looked for under pres
ent conditions.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE.
Contra Costa Gazette: The Dem
reduction Of the wages of labor,
but not content with that the Bryan
wing Of the party is now working tooth
and nail to reduce the value Of the mon
ey with which the laborer is paid.
POOR MANS MONEY!.
Calaveras Chronicle: The Demo-Pops
say that silver is the money of the poor
man. That's correct, and it's the only
true saying they have made thus far in
the campaign. 1t is the money of the
poor man of Mexico, of Japan, Of China,
Of India,-and you won't find poorer
man anywhere than the poor man of
those countries.
THE LOSS
Stockton Independent: The loss of Cal
ifornia farmers on sheep and wool alone
is greater than the increased cost of
anything they had to buy under "the
robber tariff" When to this amount is
added the loss of wages to mechanics;
Of trade to merchants; of traffic to rail-
roads and to the people at large, in
the reduced values of real and personal
property, California has lost more by
the Wilson bill than it cost the whole
United States in duties on imported
goods.
WHEELS IN ENGLAND.
Santa Cruz Surf: A recent number OF
the London Daily Mail' contains an
article regarding the invasion of the
English market by American bicycles
It is admitted that the American wheels
are handsomer, lighter and cheaper
than the English machines. The 'Mail''
does not cry out that the British Gov
ernment should put protective duty on
American wheels, but it urges English
manufacturers to study American
STYLES and industrial and business meth
DDS 1t recognized that nothing can
be done by appealing to patriotism of
the ordinary British buyer. The only
thing for the British manufacturer is
to compete with the Americans by en-
terprise, ingenuity and skill. 1t is a
rity that we do not have some of such
independent. business-like thinking in
the United States
HOME MARKETS AND LABOR.
Oakland Tribune: The Republican
party has always adhered to the policy
of creating home market for all the
products of the field and forest. 1t Of
fered a bounty on some products and
protection for others. 1t stimulated the
manufacturing industries of the coun-
try thereby creating a large demand
for labor. Every operative in shop, fac
tory and foundry, was a consumer Of
home products. Four years ago there