The record-union., 1896-09-07

man Will have to pay more for what he
buys without his wages being increased.
Wherein, then, does he expect to be
benefited?
WHAT 1T MAY DO.
Tulare Register: When law can make
one ounce Of silver worth as much as
one ounce Of gold, regardless Of COM
mercial conditions, then can law make
eight ounces or one ounce the full equiv
alent Of an ounce of gold. If it is
question Of law there is no need for
sticking over few ounces, more or
less, that is to be turned into value.
PIG IRON.
Woodland Democrat: Coincident with
the effort Of the Mckinley managers to
make protection the slogan of the cam
paign comes the news Of more shipment
Of American pig iron to Europe.
HALF CASTE DOLLARS
Stockton Independent: AS the Bryan
demand is that half-caste dollars coined
for private account be made legal ten
der, if it is made law, they will pass
ostensibly as dollars, but If one pos
sesses real dollars of gold he can make
each of them buy as much or pay as
much as two of the others, simply be-
cause they have full value behind them
or within them. Should the price of
silver bullion further fall, however, the
silver dollars will fall in their relation
to gold and goods in the same proper
ton, but would continue to buy labor
from week to week and month to month
and the laborer would lose just the
amount Of the increase In price during
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increases Of pay Mr. Bryan carefully
avoided these phases of the subject.
He did not do SO from ignorance. The
manner In which he set out to discuss
that part of the subject shows that he
possesses mind that has been trained
sufficiently, but 1t is evident that his
training as a special pleader, jury
lawyer, is greater than his education
as a publicist, and that his skill in be-
fogging juries is brought to play on
the stump, while he silences conscience,
if he possesses any, intent only on ac-
quitting his client, the Democratic par
ty, now on trial for having robbed the
people Of thousands of millions, which
the international fence" John Bull has
safely slowed away.
KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.
Marysville Democrat: AT Cleveland,
the other day, Bryan pledged himself,
If elected, to put in force every word
of the Chicago platform If there is
power in the Government to do It," AS
the platform calls for a tariff for rev.
enue only, Federal subservience to
mobs and a political Supreme Court,
people who want these innovations will
know for whom to vote. 1t will do such
patriots no good to vote for Mckinley.
He isn't in the factory closing, rail-
way-striking and court-stuffing line Of
business.
TAKE 1T OR LEAVE 1T.
Riverside Enterprise: The English
can take our silver or let 1t alone, as
they like. If they don't want 1t they
can sail over this way in their war ves-
sells and demand gold, as they have
done on some heretofore occasions. In
which instance they can take lead,
without any regard to the ratio, either
16, 81 or 100 to las much as is neces-
sary to settle the account.
FAIR PLAY.
Carson Appeal: Much has been made
of the speech Of Mr.. ,Estee, who said
that Wealth is king in peace and
war" We consider the remark as
harmless one with the paragraph pro-
ceeding It, What he said was this:
1.-THE strength Of a nation in peace
and in war is no longer measured by
the number Of it's soldiers. It's debt
paying power is its strength. Wealth
is king in peace and war"
1t is unfair and boyish journalism
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out Of this. Such tactics are unfair
and no honorable man will care to see
them resorted to. People like to see
fair play, and the party that INDUCES
In the most of it will win out. Cali
fornia can be carried for Bryan on the
square and Bryan don't want 1t carried
in any other way.
THE CORNERING OF MONEY.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: One Of the
favorite complaints, says an exchange,
of the free silverites is that under the
present system the bankers and capi-
talists are permitted to corner" the
supply of money, and prevent 1t from
being used for business purposes and
the promotion of general prosperity.
The folly of this view Is so plain that
any man who knows enough to pitch
straw should be able to see it. Money
is worth nothing to the bankers and
capitalists when it Is withdrawn from
circulation and locked up in their safes
and vaults. That kind of cornering
simply means the voluntary surrender
of chances Of profit, and men of that
class are not in the habit Of having
fun with themselves in that way. 1t
ic to their advantage to keen their
money employed, and not let it lie in
idle piles for the purpose of annoying
those who would like to have it. They
favor the largest possible use of money,
not from patriotic or philanthropic mo-
tives, but because that is their source
| of gain.
A PHASE.
Petaluma Courier: The assertion that
there was not a silver dollar coined be-
| tween 1906 and 1886 is correct in fact,
and serves the gold men in good stead
| as political thunder; but there is a
| phase of the silver question of that
| time which they carefully avoid in their
arguments, in the further fact that dur
| ing that time more than S50,OOO.OO in
silver half-dollars, which were legal
tender were coined In an amount more
than double the amount of all other
coins-gold silver and copper.
TIMID CAPITAL.
Amador Republicans: The actual
harm in dollars and cents, not to men
ton the moral features of the case, that
the Chicago platform has done to this
country is in the aggregate already
startling. Capital has fairly run for
oovar over since the puiSSant feature of