The record-union., 1896-08-27
VOICE or THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Coast Newspapers in
Brief,
On All Shades Of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics of
the Day.

Grass Valley Union: 1t is good news
to the people of California that Senator
Henry M. Teller of Colorado will be the
leading champion of the silverites in the
discussions which are proposed to take
place in the Exposition building during
the approaching State Fair.
Teller is to the silver cause what Wen
ton of slavery. His heart and his soul
are in the battle, and he speaks from the
very depth of sincerity, and with an
earnestness and singleness of pur-
pose which no one can mistake. He is
not witty; he is not humorous; he
spends no time in curving sentences in
to fantastic-but he talks straight from
the heart and straight to the heart
NOT GREAT MONEYED MEN.
Colusa Sun: The tilt is against bank
ers, and bankers are not generally great
moneyed men, but they make
money handling the money of
other people. In the present stagnation
of business no class has suffered more
than the bankers. 1t is true they are
generally men who can live through
any sort of storm, but they not only do
not make money during a financial dis
turbance, but they actually lose it. The
man, however, who has capital Ii. e.,
stored labor) enough to live through,
while he adds nothing to his store, is
better off than the one who has nothing
stored. There is, in fact, no business
policy that win hurt the bankers and the
rich that will not ruin the poor.
NO OBILLINGSGATE
Redlands Citrograph: We are glad
to see that by far the largest number Of
papers that use abuse and billingsgate
in this campaign are of the Bryan and
free silver persuasion. The Republican
papers are chary of calling names and
making fool statements regarding per-
sonal probity. There is no use in fling
ing mud and bandying epithets. 1t does
no good at all, and the party that the
soonest commences this vile method of
conducting a campaign generally gets
beaten.
A LESSON OF HISTORY.
Calaveras Prospect: One of the great
lessons of history, as expressed by Hon.
William Mckinley, is that agriculture
cannot rise to its highest perfection and
reach it's fullest development without
the aid of commerce, manufacture and
mechanical arts. All are essential to
the healthy growth and highest ad-
vancement of the others; the progress
of one insureS the prosperity of another.
There are no conflicts, there should be
no antagonisms. They are indispensa-
BILE to each other. Whatever enfeebies
one is sure to cripple the rest.
WHICH?
Stockton Record: Bryan favors the
opening of our American mints to the
coinage of the silver of the world. That
is the sum and substance of all the
craftsmanship that he pretends. Nc
Kinley favors the opening of American
mills to the anxious and needy labor
of American freemen, and that each
and every laborer should be paid in
the same coin as the bankers bonds.
Which is the friend of the distressed?
HOW 1T IS BASED.
Stockton independent: Every argu-
ment employed by Colonel Burns in ia
vor of free silver is based on it's power
to operate as a protective tariff. How
silver works as a protective tariff may
be judged by one instance: Barbed wire
sells to consumers in Stockton for 81 10
per 100 pounds. AT a point about equally
distant from the seaboard on the Pa
cific side of Mexico it sells to dealers for
S13 so. The cost of transportation to a
Mexican port is trifling, but the cost Of
transportation inland, in silver, brings
the cost up to Sc 90 in gold, and the
dealer pays $13 80 in silver
HOW?
Alturas New Era: How can the coun-
L.,
lowing the silver mine owners to sell
their product to the United States mint
at double it's market value? Why not
buy the farmers wheat or the fruit
growers peaches or the miners cop
per at double its market value?
MEXICO AND WHEAT.
Fresno County Enterprise: Accord
ing to the Demopops the price of wheat
in Mexico is 81 so per bushel. Why
is not our wheat shipped there instead
of going to England? Because Mexico
has no money to pay for it with. To
| a great commercial ration, the money
of Mexico is not worth so much as
! the cocoas used for money by the Aztecs.
1t is simply silver bullion and the
worlds market being now glutted with
silver bullion it is not marketable The
cocoa would be better. OF course the
United States can change all that by
making it possible for Mexico to bring
| its two dollars worth of silver bullion
to our Mints and get two of gold so
| long as our gold lasted; but how are we
to replenish the supply? And what ad-
vantage is that market to be to us
when we have made good that coin and
made it possible for the nations Of
| Europe to trade with Mexico for our
gold? The country confronts the most
dangerous era in it's existence It is
| no longer a question of office getting
| by cunning subterfuge. 1t is a ques-
ton of Juggling with the Nations COM
mercial industrial life.
BE JUST AND HONEST.
| San Diego World We believe IN
every man being just and honest in all
matters, even when dealing with his
worst enemy. Fear, prejudice, spite or
the utterances of blackmailing news
papers should not cause justice and
honesty to be withheld by the Govern
ment in dealing with the Pacific rail-
roads as to settlement of their indebt-
edness. Their offer to pay in full. 100
cents on the dollar, with interest added,
should be considered by the Govern
ment in the same honest spirit in which
| 1t is made.
THE SHADOW OF DISASTER.
| San Diego Union: The financial and
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