The record-union., 1896-08-15
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Coast Newspapers in
Brief
On All Shades of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics Of
the Day.

San Jose Herald: The farmers of the
United States have been studying this
question of protection, reciprocity and
tariff reform and they have learned
something. They have learned, for in
stance, that a. high protective tariff can
not help them to higher prices for their
products in Liverpool, Hamburg or
Havre. They have also learned that as
the United States cannot for the pres
ent, or for some generations to come,
take up all their products they must
seek a market abroad, and that conse-
quently the foreign market will set the
price. AS for reciprocity they have
learned that it is a snare and delusion
for them. 1t does not help them to sell
their products and offers but slight and
limited advantage in the way Of get
ting foreign goods of any kind at lower
prices. In fact, it is only a feeble and
halfway movement toward the true
principle and practice of tariff reform.
Having learned these things by expe-
rience as well as by argument, the
farmers Of the Granger States and Of
the rest of the country are taking no
interest in reciprocity or in the tariff
question at large except to oppose any
advance in duties. The money question
is now paramount with them. Unques
tionably they are for free silver by a
large majority. They know that if they
elect the free silver Democratic ticket
the tariff question will be all right any
way.
BRYAN'S SPEECHES.
Los Angeles Times: Mr.. Bryan's trip
from his Nebraska home to the At
lantic seaboard, where he is to deliver a
set speech accepting the Chicago nom
ination, was evidently planned by his
managers with a view to dramatic eff
feet, and in the expectation that his
much vaunted eloquence would make a
favorable impression upon the people
all along the route. If such was the ex-
pectation, those who planned the tour
must feel sadly disappointed at the re-
suits. In the several short speeches
made by Mr.. Bryan on the trip from car
platforms and improvised rostrums IS to
be found only dreary mass Of plati-
tudes; paucity Of ideas; a parrot-like
repetition of trite and meaningless
phrases; an utter absence of anything
suggestive of eloquent speech, deep con-
victions or logical arguments.
Not one of Mr.. Bryan's utterances
since his well-studied speech before the
nominating convention, rises even to
the level Of mediocrity. He is rapidly
dispelling the glamor with which he
has been surrounded, and is revealing
himself as a shallow thinker without
any wide knowledge of statecraft or
deep conception of government
DEMAGOGIC CRY.
Pasadena Star: The demagogic cry of
the poor against the rich will be heard
ad nauseam upon the stump this fall
Candidate Bryan is sounding it on his
eastward journey to New York and all
the indications point to the conclusion
that the Popocrats will make their fight
for the Presidency on that as the main
plank in their platform The hope that
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
will bring down the men who have mon
ey and send up those who have none
will be held out to voters by orators and
newspapers. and it is expected to have
an all-inspiring effect. The trouble our
friends Of the other side will find in
carrying out this programme is that it
will be so overdone that the intelligent
V.
will see that it is impossible for any
governmental policy to be consummated
that Injuries and cripples business with
out injuriously affecting also the labor
ingman and people of small means.
Their interests are mutual and common
and it is impossible to separate them
ard line them up on opposing sides
without injuring both.
AN EXPERIMENT.
Oroville Register: The Stockton
Mali says gold has no intrinsic value
that silver does not possess, save the
value given to it by law. Take a bat
tered or punched coin of each kind to the
mint or a jeweler. For the gold coin
you get the bullion value, which is also
the coin value. For the silver coin you
get only the bullion value, which is
hardly more than half of the coin value.
Is there no difference?
Is IT REPUBLICANTSM?
Santa Cruz Penny Press: There is not
a trace of Republicanism in the bastard
platform made by Mark Hanna at ST.
Louis. None of the great men who led
the party In the days of it's glory would
stand on that platform. There is moth
mas
been sold. Do you think you are a
good Republican when you vote against
the teachings of Lincoln, Of Sumner
of Blaine? Does voting a so-calIed Re-
publican ticket make you a Republican
when the men on that ticket are pledged
to overthrow the cardinal doctrines OF
the great party? Can you make a negro
white by calling him a Caucasian? Will
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white ever so vociferously?
| A LEADERLESS DEMOCRACY.
| Fresno Republican,: It does not re-
quire much penetration to see that the
| Democracy lacks leader. There is nc
master mind at the head of it's organi-
zation, no man who fully realizes the
great difficulties that beset it and who
| has the courage to deal boldly with