The record-union., 1896-08-09
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
rom Coast Papers on Both Sides of
Political and Other Questions.

From Coast Papers on Both Sides of
Political and Other Questions.
| Placer Republican,: "The way to get
| the boarded money into circulation"
remarks the Stockton Independent"
lis to make business safe, and this can
be done by restoring the condition un-
der which the country fiourished,
namely, Protection"
| LUMBER PRICES.
/ San Jose Herald: Lumber is low in
price now and good thing it is for
every man who wants to build If
Canadian competition has had any eff
feet to break up the combination which
has usually existed on this coast to
keep up the price of lumber it has done
the people at large a good turn The
lumber resources Of our Pacific Coast
are enormous, and lumber should be
cheap at profit, and would be always
but for combination among producers
and dealers. These gentry put their
heads together and agree upon the
amount of cinch which they think the
public can stand, and lay out their
methods accordingly. When a low tariff
or free trade let's in Canadian com
| petitor they cry that 1t is running their
business, when as a matter of fact he
is merely compelling them to adopt
legitimate business methods in dealing
with the people. That is all there is in
this lumber argument
A COINAGE SUGGESTION.
Santa Rosa Republican,: The Record
Union" of Sacramento, one of the most
thoughtful and carefully edited papers
in California, proposes the fixing of
future date, say 1907, at which this
country will enforce the free coinage of
silver In discussing the matter that
paper cites the policy pursued by this
country in regard to the resumption of
specie payments and the abolition Of
the slave trade In each instance a
future date was fixed and. the people
got ready for the change-without any
business or political disturbance. The
Record Union article closes as fol-
lows:
This would accomplish many things.
First, 1t would promote international
agreement in favor of bimetallism The
nations of the earth would be apprised
that the United States had declared in
favor Of the free and unlimited coin
age OF silver to take effect January 1,
19O7. Second, the value of silver bull
ion would be enhanced, because as soon
as it is declared that scme time in the
future, and at date fixed, the unlm-
ited coinage of silver will be estab-
lished, the value of silver bullion will
rise. This would bring the actual par
ity of value between gold and silver
! more nearly to that obtaining before
the decentralization of silver in 1873
Third, and most important, the com
mercial and industrial conditions Of
| the country would adjust themselves
without wrench or shock"
| DOGMA AND DOCTRIANISM
| Stockton Independent: There should
! be neither dogma nor doctrianism in
American politics. Most of the ques-
| tions on which the people are divided
are business questions and should be
decided on the evidences of facts and
the result of calculations Instead of
sitting down like business partners to
| make calm calculations and weigh
probabilities, citizens take counsel with
their pride of opinion, tenacity of a
position once assumed or of traditional
hatred of another party, and strain
every faculty to defeat and thwart
| political opponent. In view of the wide
prevalence of this spirit it is gratifying
to reflect that the Government has sur
vived so long and grown stronger and
better with almost every decade.
MRS. LEASE AND THE PLUTOCRAT.
| Oakland Enquirer: Mrs. Mary Lease
! vas one of the orators at the Populist
National Convention, and she will be
on the stump for Bryan during the cam
| paign. She never fails to score the
| plutocrat, and a sense of personal
| wrong appears to add sting to her
words Mrs. Lease invested in land in
the boom city of Wichita. Kan, and
she mortgaged 1t to the Jarvis Conklin
Mortgage Trust Company. When the
| time came to pay the debt she failed
to do so, and the company foreclosed
and sold the property. This was Mrs.
| Leases misfortune; but how did the
| piUtocratic mortgage company come
out? 1t also failed-went bankrupt SO
many people to whom the corporation
had loaned money failed to pay, just
ar Mrs. Lease did, and the sums re-
allied from forced sale of the property
proved so Inadequate, that the man
ayers of the Jarvis Conklin concern had
no recourse but to go into insolvency,
throwing the loss upon the people back
East who had entrusted to ii their saw
| ings for investment in Western mort
cages.
MEXICO.
| Placer County Republican,: Consid-
cradle stress has been laid on the state
ment that Mexico, under it's silver
standard, Is a prosperous country. La
borers receive from twenty-five to thr-
ty cents a day and skilled mechanics
from fifty to seventy-five cents a day.
That sounds prosperous, don't it?
"ALL RUBBISH"
Placer Herald: The Democratic party
stands for bimetallism whether it suits
any other nation or not. The Republi-
can party says we can't adopt such a
financial policy without international
| agreement. Something over a hundred
years ago we started Government of
our own and managed to get along upon
our own resources. Now that we have
discarded our swaddling clothes and
grown to be the greatest nation on
earth, we ought to be able to adopt q
financial or any other policy without
asking the consent or advice of any
nation. This calamity howl that a
| free silver basis will bring disaster is
all rubbish.
WHAT IS NEEDED.
Stockton Record: Free silver coinage,
with the Government wisely and con-
servatively administered, is one thing,
but free silver. the rallying cry for
coalition that is infused with thou
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