The record-union., 1896-07-08
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALI
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local. Gov
ernmental, Practical, TheOret-
ical and Current.

Tulare Register: When a political
party has 'fhoodooed' everything it has
touched, when it has monkeyed with the
tariff only to queer" the whole business
without curing a single injustice it has
prated of for years, when to face its rec
ord is to be covered with shame and to
fight on old lines is to be beaten from
the start there is only about one alterna-
tive for such a political party. 1t has
either to diSband or take UP with the
first popular craze that comes along.
That is the condition that confronts the
Democratic party to-day. 1t can't talk
tariff without blushing to the ears. 1t
can't talk reform for it's fact will not
give its mouth leave to speak; but 1t
can howl for free silver all the more
Justify because it can't howl for any
thing else. Its incompetency has stop
ped its mouth on every other PROPOSE
ton.
BRANDY DISTILLATION.
Los Angeles Herald: The enactment
by the last session Of Congress allowing
the distilling of brandy from apples,
oranges, apricots, pears, prunes,
peaches. berries, grapes and pineapples,
ions regarding the form of distilling,
except those relating to the tax, should
be a welcome one to Californians. 1t
will result in the utilization of a large
amount, some seasons aggregating
thousands of tons, of fruit that up TO
date has gone to waste.
CATTLE IMPORTATION AND PRO
lection.
Merced Star: In 1891, under the Nc
Kinley tariff, there were imported into
the United States II, 392 head of cattle.
During 1895 under the Democratic tar
iff, there We're imported 149, ,1S1, which
shows the kindly interest the Democ-
racy takes in the farmer. Secretary
Morton, who furnishes these figures,
requests that the duty now imposed on
the Importation of Mexican cattle be
reduced or taken off altogether so that
importations can be increased indefi-
nitely Under the Mckinley law such
importations had to pay a tax Of SlO
per head for cattle one year old and
over and So for calves. Now they have
to pay 20 per cent on their valuation.
Most Of these cattle come from the wild
ranges of Mexico, and yet California
farmers are told that free silver and not
a protective tariff is what they want to
make their cattle fetch a good price. 1t
is said that the Armours alone have
bought more than 200, 600 head of cattle
in Mexico within the past year. These
facts are good for the California stock
grower to take home with him to think
over.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
Stockton Independent: When the Re-
publican tariff shall be restored work
and wages will come again; the laborer
will begin again to buy lots and build
homes instead Of selling them at a
sacrifice to buy bread for his children.
The carpenter who is now raising
chickens in the country will return to
town to raise buildings; the plumber
who is working on railroad or street
grades will follow the carpenter into
new buildings; the brick yard will be
running full force on full time and me-
chanics generally will not be competing
with stevedores and ranch hands for
the little there is is to do and cheaper
ing labor in all lines. The unavoidable
is bad enough, but the Democrats per-
sist in the policy of aiding avoidable
evils and the laboringman, who depends
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his brains to consulting his appetite,
and ne will not be fooled by the false
cry Of free silver which is only raised to
make him lose sight of the policy of
free trade, from which he suffers.
AN OLD LINE DEMOCRAT.
Placerville Democrat: Should the l6
to l silver lunatics succeed i'll the com
ing campaign, in less than two years,
with financial wreck on top of them,
they will be begging the dear people
TO shoot them. Then the job can be
turned over to their dupes.
The Republican party has gone to the
country with two well-defned and
clear cut propsitions-first, high pro-
lection and second, SOUND money. On
the first it can and ought to be beaten.
on the second it can and ought to beat
any combination of anarchists, com
munists and sand-lotters on earth. 1t
remains to be seen whether or not the
Democracy has sense enough to join is
sue on the first to the exclusion of the
second proposition.
FINANCE VS.. TARIFF.
Napa Register: If there is anything
that has distinguished Cleveland's ad-
administration it is the financial poll
icy, and it is that on which Democrats
split.-Antioch Ledger.
And in the absence of any well-de-