The record-union., 1896-10-01
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Coast Newspapers in
Brief,
On All Shades of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics of
the Day.

Stockton Independent: It has cost the
wage workers more than three billions
Of dollars to experiment with free trade
and it has cost the sheep men $4,000
900 to attempt to cheaper the working
mans coat and blanket. Isn't the cheap
ening process of the Democratic free
traders too expensive a luxury to be
continued?
A QUESTION OF OUR OWN INTER
ESTS.
Fresno Republican: A contemporary
engaged in the laudable purpose of con-
Quoting campaign of education says:
The Republican party has always
loudly proclaimed that its policy was
one Of absolute independence from all
foreign influences. 1t now takes the re-
markable stand that the United States
must act as the tail to a European finan-
cial kite that the people of this nation
may more highly prosper. Truly, the
monometallists make US exceedingly
weary
About the thinnest of all the cruelty
stuff that is being given the voters by
the free coiners is this which is favored
with the idea that hesitancy to commit
this country to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver is due to a spirit of
disposition to favor the interests of for
eign nations at the expense of our
own.
Is it reasonable to suppose that the
political party which has persistently
antagonized foreign interests in the
most direct way possible. by a pro-
tective tariff, would be inclined to yield
anything to foreign dictation on the
financial question? Nothing could be
more absurd There is no question of
foreign interests under consideration, as
a matter of fact. The only question IS
that Of results in this country.
WHERE IT LIES.
Chino Champion: The financial ques-
tion before the country to-day does not
lie between bimetallism and gold mo-
nometallism, but between bimetallism,
advocated by the Republican party, and
silver monOmetalliSm, advocated by the
Populist party. A bimetallic currency
with the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at 16 to / has been demonstrated
to be impossible by Mexico and other
countries which have tried it, and had
their gold driven out of circulation and
out Of the country.
a CURIOUS THING.
Redlands Citrograph: Seems like
curious thing, this "crime of 'I3,'' To
hear our Demopop and Popocrat friends
talk, it must have been a terrible out
rage, and yet the country went right
along for twenty years and fiourished
and waxed fat, and never knew what
a terrible crime has been perpetrated.
In fact, the people might have forever
remained in ignorance had 1t not been
for the remuneration of protectonist
principles and the sbstitution of partial
free trade. Had protection prevailed
the past four years the crime of 'I3
would never have been found out.
HIS ABILITY.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: The great abil
ity of General Harrison was not recog-
nized till he made his wonderful series
of speeches in the campaign of 1888.
The same result is following from Ma
jor McKinley's speeches. Up to date he
has addressed all kinds and conditions
of men, and his speeches show wealth
Of knowledge, versatility, grace of ex-
preston and a broad patriotic fervOr
far away from the feelings of a parti-
san, which have placed him in the very
front rank of our political thinkers and
statesmen.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Los Angeles Herald: We should de-
plore the exercise of the right of ballot
by women. Our reasons are sentimen-
tal but are none the less, in our con-
ception, cogent and deeply lodged in the
breasts of a multitude of the men and
women who are most genuinely and in
telligently interested in the welfare Of
the human race. The editor of the Her
aid" believes the true trinity Of estates,
in the wholesome evolution of the race,
to be: The democracy of men, the aris-
tocracy of women and the monarchy of
God. SO long as the eternal feminine
is the inspiration of mankind we shall
have an ever advancing civilization and
the finest effiorescence of the mind and