The record-union., 1896-11-18
Voice OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression 0
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on Sub.
iects of Living and News
Interest.

Los Angeles Times: Wheat obstinate
ly refuses to go down in price as a con-
sequence of the triumph of the appre-
ciating standard On the contrary
and no doubt because of pure con-
trariness-it continues to climb up
ward, although the election is over and
Republican plutocrats have no longer
any motive for manipulating the mar
ket for political effect This obstinate
and inherently vicious cereal actually
reached S9A, the highest notch of the
year, in the New York market. The
natural cussedness of inanimate things
is proverbial. But for wheat-the old,
reliable friend of Silverite- Populist or
ators and editors-to become so frisky
Is simply scandalous.
GOOD THOUGHT.
Ventura Independent: A prominent
publisher recently said that if the BIZ
cycle maintained its popularity the
next generation would not read so
many books by fully % per cent. as the
present. If the % per cent could be
made to include the trashy books in
fancy covers. found on every news
stand, the next generation would be
largely the gamer.
"A
Modesto Herald: Perhaps in no elec-
tion in the United States has partisan
feeling been stimulated to as high a
pitch as in the election just decided,
yet it may be safely said that at no
time in our history has the clash of
opinions and contest of doctrines been
less free from partisan turbulence and
physical life. In times past the wires
11r lot tnJI Of
counters and of homicides as the out
come of violent speech and inflamed
partisanship, but it is a matter for sim
cere congratulation that the greatest
of all political battles, brought to a
close on Tuesday of last week, was
strikingly free of these foreboding
symptoms.
NOT ASLEEP
Yreka Journal: If the official count
CT the votes in California shows moth
ing else, it demonstrates that the hon
est voters of no party are asleep to be
delivered in deals of the leaders of the
spoilS. That is why fusion did not
fuse. The bargain was too open and
too shameless. Men who believe hon
estly in principles vote for the sue
cess of those principles, not for the re-
Warding of spoilSmen.
SEND ALONG.
Salinas Index: The suits of sackcloth
and ashes provided for sound money
Democrats can now be sent to the mu-
scum along with other relics of the
busted silver craze.
THE SUNS" IDEA.
Colusa Sun: The San Francisco
Chronicle in criticising the conduct
of Captain Glass of the warship Texas,
says that "the taxpayers cannot afford
to let Captain Glass practice with such
expensive machinery" Who, accord
ing to the "Chronicle's'' contention, are
the taxpayers? There is no Federal
tax on property, and when we talk
about the tariff being a tax on consum-
ers, who are the people generally with
out much, If any, property, the conten-
ton of the Chronicle" is that it is the
foreigner who pays for the privilege of
trading with US. So, in fact, we have no
Federal taxpayers in the country If
they are indeed taxpayers then what
q stupendous wrong is being committed
every dayi And the worst of it is that
these taxpayers are told that they must
stand just little more.
TO WHOM THEY LISTEN.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: With a million
of the popular vote by way of majority,
Major Mckinley should apparently
have more electoral votes. But this
can never be while we vote by States,
Of which some must be close and doubt