The record-union., 1896-11-06

the less occasion for signing with relief
when it is over.
THE TRIUMPH OF TUESDAY.
Stockton Record: The landslide of
1894 has precipitated itself into 1886.
The sober sense of the country has
come to the defense of it's institutions
and it's credit The raising of the cry
of discomfort has proved a dismal fail
ure and Democracy and distrust have
been fittingly rebuked. Mckinley and
Hobart have been selected to the chief
executive offices in the country and the
lew era of prosperity begins this morn
ing. The Democratic party made des-
rerate plunge for continuance in power.
1t ignobly deserted the leaders and
rinciples which carried it to victory
four years ago. 1t lacked the courage
to defend and support its own admins
t-ation. 1t lacked the candor to admit
IT'S own errors. 1t fled to the Populist
party and half way to anarchy for the
sole purpose of winning the spoils in a
single election.
THE TWO POLICIES.
San Jose Mercury: Although Mr..
Bryan at the beginning Of this cam
paign declared that the tariff was not
an issue, every well Informed man in
the country knew that it was an issue,
and the result of the election has shown
how thoroughly the producers, MANY
facturers and business men We're con-
vinced that the one thing needful for
the prosperity of this country is protec-
ton AS the American Economist;
says: In 1891 and 1892, after the pas
%E ha D1yy
which has ever adjusted the tariff on a
purely scientific basis, the only bill in
accordance with which duties were lev
led solely for protection, the country
saw such prosperity as had never before
been witnessed in the history of the
world. The results of this application
of purely scientific protective tariff, of
this equitable, consistent and states
manlike adjustment of duties on COM
peting products, and of removal of
duties from all competing products
except luxuries, were such as to amaze
even the supporters of the protective
tariff system.
THE PROSPECT FOR WHEAT.
Stockton Independent: "As good as
the wheat" will again be synonymous
will remain good for several years to
come. 1t is estimated that 1t will take
six or seven years to accumulate a
worlds surplus if crops in the wheat
growing regions are normal, and If this
should prove true California farmers
have several years in which they can
make money at the business. Within
that time, however, the wheat growing
area will be greatly enlarged. Every
available field everywhere will be sown
to that or some other bread grain and
farmers must during the years of pros
perity prepare for the inevitable return
Of an era of cheapness and provide for
the growing of other crops. When the
rev Siberian railroad is completed vast
new areas will be opened and send their
I'VE and wheat to Pacific and Mediter-
ranean ports again to compete with the
American product. To guard against
this competition two measures must be
adopted. The production of wheat must
be reduced and the home market pre-
served and increased to the farmer.
The latter can only be accomplished by
a policy that will increase consumers
by a protective tariff that will not only
reopen the suspended industries, but in
crease investments in mines and mills,
and make both profitable to investors
and laborers. This will not only increase
the number of the farmers customers
but reduce home competition by at
tracing labor back from the farm to
the factory. This may be a disagreeable
truth to some farmers, who say they
cannot make the change from wheat to
other crops, but 1t must be made wher-
ever it is possible, for, although the
United States can regulate its own af-
fairs, it cannot prevent the spread of
the wheat growing area abroad and the
consequent increase of foreign compe-
tition.