The record-union., 1896-09-25
VOICE OF The PRESS.
expressions Of Coast Newspapers in
Brief,
On All Shades of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics of
the Day.

Marysville Appeal: Of the eight Con-
gressmen elected SO far this year every
one is a stanch Republican. 1t looks
as though a Republican President would
be supported by a strongly Republican
Congress. This is what is needed to
bring about the return of prosperity.
YES, THERE is.
Los Angeles Herald: Why should the
industries of the country be ruined or
seriously checked by the success Of the
Bryan ticket? The peoples candidate
stands for the free coinage of gold and
silver on equal terms, and independent
Of all nations other than the United
States. Is there anything ruinous or
dangerous in that proposition? The
Mckinley supporters, as rule say
there is, but reasonable people require
something more than bald assertion
FARMER AGAINST LAWYER.
Stockton Independent: The "Inde-
pendent has shown from statistics
that the assertion that wheat and sill
Yer rise and fall together is not true,
but Farmer George W. Ashley now
shows from his own account of sales
that the assertion is away off, VIII
some of those learned theorists now
please explain why wheat sold in Eng
land at 81 % in 1881, when it brought
only 3715 to 40 cents in the ports of
Lake Erie, or why in 1910 to 1916 the
price in England fell from 81 95 to 81 40,
and in 1916 rose to 81 05, when it did
not average 80 cents in Chicago? The
ratio Of silver to gold during those years
ranged from 1912 to 1898, practically
unchanged. In 1859 the ratio was 1919,
when silver reached its highest price
since 1914. 1t was then SLIGO an ounce,
but wheat in England only commanded
IL % per bushel, yet the next year It
brought 81 81, while silver fell frac-
ton. In 1854 wheat was 81 Is, in 1Soo
it was 81 20, and in 1886 81 O3 in Eng
land, but in 1857 it fell to 81 66, and in
1858 to 81 30, while the variation in sill
Yer was hardly ) cents an ounce. Some
OF the learned theorists should show why
this variation occurred when silver was
not an issue and when comparatively
little silver was mined in the United
States and there We're no silver mill
icnaires backing politicians to raise
false issues.
HEREDITARY DEGENERACY-
Tulare Register: The newspapers are
discussing an investigation made by
Professor Peellmann of the University
OF Bonn, Germany to determine to
pears in the veins Of succeeding gener-
ations. He selected for his case the
descendants Of a woman who was a
confirmed drunkard early in the present
century He has traced S34 persons
as having descended from her and Of
these he has obtained the record Of lO9.
AS a, result Of the inquiry the Professor
reports that 106 of them were of ille-
gitimate birth, 162 were professional
bEggarS 81 We're inmates Of almShOuSes,
Isl women who made a business Of un-
chastity, as were convicted of serious
crimes, and I were condemned for muir
der The total cost to the State of car
ing for these paupers and Furnishing
these criminals, and the amounts pri-
vately given in aims and lost through
theft, he computes at SI260,00o or
about $4,000 a year" This array Of
outcasts is ftly described by the New
York Tribune" as generation Of Vi
pers" and it has a bearing upon the
inclination Of Americans to sift immi-
grafton. This country cannot afford
to continue an asylum for the outcasts
Of all the earth, for we are inheriting
evil for years to come when disorder is
bred as in the case mentioned. There
is no doubt that viciousness descends
with marked regularity, and that what
is bred in the bone viii almost in
variably appear in the flesh.
THE MILL HAS CLOSED DOWN.
San Jose Mercury: Owing to its
rich resources, California has suffered
less. perhaps, from the dep~e ssion
caused by adverse legislation than any
State in the Union but the far reaching
influences Of the WilsOn-Gor,nan law
have not failed to strike even here, in
2 State whose manufactured interests
are comparatively few. The dtpres-
sion here as elsewhere, has been gem
eral and widespread. No class Of busi-
ness. no form Of labor, has escaped.
it. 1t is witnessed in the enforced idle
ress Of thousands Of WorkinTmen; in
the diminished demand for products e
every kind in the reduced wages; in
the low prices for all productions Of the
farm and Of the orchard and the
lack Of business among the merchar IS.
And finally, in our county, in addition
to these numerous evidences Of tire re
suits Of free trade, it is seen IN the
closing down Of the San Jose Wooden
Mill
AN APHORISM
Los Angeles Times: OF all trite aph-
orisrns in modern politics, none seems to
preserve it's freshness and fidelity TO
truth like General Grants declaration
that "the Democratic party can al
ways be relied upon to do the wrong
thing at the right time" 1t finds ex-
qualification more accurately now than
when it was first uttered, for, while its
ranks are torn apart by every possible
Internal animosity, the Republican
party, under the leadership Of the hot
quietly marching on to victory.
THE MEXICAN PUZZLE.
Los Angeles Times: An Eastern
newspaper published some time ago a
statement which has since come to bc
known as "The Mexican Puzzle" The
statement was, in effect, as follows
"A Mexican farmer owing SOD raises
one thousand bushels Of wheat which
he sells for one thousand Mexican dol
lars. paws his debt and has 500 left