The record-union., 1896-11-19
Voice OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression 0
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jects of Living and News
Interest.

| Stockton Mail: If a man were held
! prisoner on an island, deprived OF all
| sources of information from the Worio
| at large, save the San francisco EA-
aminer," he would soon hold no h1gher
| opinion OF San Francisco lie, OF San
! Francisco men and women ana san
| Francisco business methods than does
| the "Oregonian" If Californians, their
characters and business methodS, are
misunderstood abroad the fault lies not
within themselves, because the accusa-
| tions against them are not true. Such
| ideas are not founded on experience,
on actual contact with the men ana
women of this State. Such ideas are
illusions, fancies; they are fgments OF
the brain, derived not from association
with Californians, but from reading
about them, from the car1cature OF
things in California found in part
of the daily press of the States metro
politan city.
If the people Of San Francisco and
of the State have any Indignation to
express over this matter they should
wreak it on the press which misrepre-
sents, ISLANDERS and maligns them with
every issue. Nothing the "Oregon1an
has said will hurt them.
WHEN THEY COME.
Tulare Register: When good times
come again will we know it or will
we go right on grumbling about hard
times and wondering if times ever will
be good again? We remember that In
1887 and 1888 people prophecied that
boom would soon strike this valley and
that times would be good. Ever since
then we have been speaking of those
years as the boom years. We did not
know that we had boom when we
had it, but only when 1t had passed
did we recognize that there had been
boom. Four years ago there was
scarcely q laboringman in America
who really wanted work who could not
find work, and yet that was the year
of the great Homestead strike, and the
Populists howled that there were 4,OoO,-
900 tramps roaming up and down the
land seeking for work which they could
not find. 1t was the best paid labor In
America which struck at Homestead,
and those who tramped tramped to
avoid work and not to find 1t, but II
these times were to come again would
we regard them as good? The 1oo
taken by the Republican party is big
one It Is not only to bring good times
again, but to prove that the times are
good when we have got them. And that
Will not be a light task, either.
PERNICIOUS METHODS.
Los Angeles Times: One Of the
marked features of the national cam
paign just closed was the demagogic
and mischievous denunciations by Bry-
| an and all the lesser oracles Of Popoc-
| racy Of capital and capitalists. The
Chicago platform set the pace, to which
| Bryan and his satellites gladly kept
step. The Presidential campaign,
which should have been a contest of
great national principles and policies,
was perverted and degraded into vul-
| gar and vicious warfare against wealth.
Thousands Of wage earners whose very
existence as self-supporting citizens de-
pends upon the confidence which keeps
capital employed in productive enter
prises were cajoled, deceived or dra-
gooned into joining in the senseless
crusade against capital and enterprise.
They were made to believe that some
sort Of conflict was pending between
apital and labor" and that by voting
for Bryan they were aiding the cause
of labor In this imaginary fight
1t should hardly be necessary to say
to intelligent Americans that no con-
flict of the kind exists or has existed,
save in the diseased and narrow minds
of professional agitators and self-seek
ing demagogues, who endeavor to ar
ray class against class and to crea'e
unnatural antagonisns for the purpose
y, Il
Vampires Of this class feed upon the
life blood of both labor and capital.
They thrive upon social discomfort,
upon disrust and upon class hatreds.
Without these things their occupation
would be gone Mr.. Bryan himself, if he
were unable to deceive those who give
heed to his oily sophistries, would find
it necessary to go to work like an hon.
est man to earn an honest living.
CUBA AND SPAIN.
Alameda Enquirer: French and Span
ish editors insist that "the pride and
honor of Spain" will never permit her
to let the Cuban rebels go. But the
pride and honor Of Spain have permit
ted her to give UP one by one all the
republics of Central and South Amer
lea and Mexico. She did 1t because she
could not help herself. If she was able
to grin and bear the blotting out of her
claims to nearly all North and South
America, the loss of mere island like
Cuba ought not to keep her awake
nights.
KEEP 1T IN MIND.
Woodland Mail: Let 1t be kept in
mind that the Republican hope Of bet
ter times was held out to the work ng-
II an; not to the idler, the drone or the
vicious. The law of God declares that
''the wages Of sin is DEATH; the human
| law of economics that the wages of
idleness Is want. No human power can
change either. Whoever violates the
| one or the other will surely incur the
penalty. Neither the clergy, in the
| first case. nor politics In the latter can
save the transgressor. Be good, and go
| to work-and be happy.
THEY ARE COMING.
| Calaveras Prospect: The good times,
predicted by the Republicans that were
to follow the election of Mckinley. seem
to be coming even more rapidly than
the most sangufne believed possible. In
1 every city manufactures are starting
up. thousands of men have been put to
work at increased wages, and money is
flowing in millions into the channels of
| trade. Confidence, not silver, is what
the country needs to do business on.
TIME TO EXERCISE.
Los Angeles Express: 1t was Doctor
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