The record-union., 1896-07-06
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALI.
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov.
ernmental, Practical, Theoret-
iCal and Current.

Napa Register: Upon the suggestion
of William H. Mills, of the Executive
Committee of the October carnival in
San Francisco, all the materials and
features of the festival are to be pro-
vided by home labor. That's right.
There should be no importation of labor
or the products of labor in furthering
any State county or city enterprise in
| land as highly favored and as we'll
supplied as is California with brains,
Skill muscle and energy.
A DANGER FORECAST.
COlusa sun. People are prophesying
hard times because of the extent of the
so-called silver craze, and they say that
1t is because of an understanding on
W all street. If men get it in their heads
that the free coinage measure is likely
to pass through Congress and receive
the signature of the President, times
may be such as no man in America has
seen 1t will not take any planning to
bring it about and Wall street is as
much opposed to panicS as any one-as
any other interest. The self protecting g
action of each individual will do it if it
shall come about ait all. The man who
has gold that he can hold will hold it if
there is prospect of each dollar being
worth a dollar and a half; each man
who has an obligation sdue him will
want it while he can get 1T in gold if
there is a good prospect of his being
paid in something not worth SO much.
All that each reader of the Sun" has to
do to determine what other people will
do is to ask himself what he would do
under like circumstances and he Will get
good answer-let him, however, make
to himself an honest answer. If you had
gold that you were able to hold, would
you not hold it if you thought it would
be worth 80 per cent more in a year?
Then if you had outstanding debts that
might be paid in something else would
you not try to gather them in? If these
matters would only be taken home to
ones self and there discussed much use
less froth and idle talk would be avoid
ed Just in proportion as men believe
In the success of free silver we will see
these movements taking place-and no
two men need talk to each other about
it either. The action of each individual
makes the action of the whole.
SENSIBLE TAKERS.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: President Har-
rison never made a poor OF foolish
speech during his campaign. In fact,
SO admirable were they in tone, Ian
guage and thought that the people
soon discovered that they had leader
of far more ability than they first i'm
agined. The same fact has been dis
covered in the addresses so far made
by Major Mckinley. They have been
excellent in temper, bold in utterance
and full of suggestions neatly spoken.
Before the end of the campaign 1t viii
again be demonstrated that the Re-
publican party has candidate who
has deeply pondered our political his
tory and is conversant with all the in
terestS of our complex social and ma
tional status.
AN ODD POPULIST.
Santa Rosa Democrat: A new and
surprising kind of Populist has come
into view-the sound money Populist.
The ST. Paul Pioneer Press says that
there is no more ardent supporter of
the sound money cause than o. B. Ma
ben of Minneapolis, who is a PopuliSt
leader. Mr.. Ma.ben talks so nationally
that It is to be doubted whether he
really is Populist- He says: Il can't,
for the life of me, see how silver coin
age would help the people of Mime
sofa. Silver legislation is class legisla-
ton, pure and simple, and all the re-
mainder of the States not producing
silver would have to pay for granting g
the privileges that the Fopulists pro-
pose to give to the silver States
ORANGES AND THE TARIFF.
Riverside Press: The absolute need
CT a better tariff schedule regarding
oranges is suggested by the fact that
the export of oranges and fruits from
Mexico to the United States is to be
largely increased from points on the
eastern coast of Mexico. Consul Cor
man reports that inquiries from Amer
lean merchants are being made through
this Consulate for Mexican oranges,
and if line of fast steamers were put
on between Tampico and Galveston
(three days. the Gulf Coast of Mexico
would soon rival the East Coast of
Florida in its production of early vege-
tables and tropical fruit California
fruit growers cannot afford to make
subordinate the tariff issue just now
IL they would retain reasonable share
of the American market for their own
product. They need to see that the de-
cision of California in November is
favorable to Mckinley and to Con-
STessmen whose opinion on this sub
Ject is in no manner of doubt.
NO CHANGE OF FRONT.
Los Angeles Times: The issues of the
pending campaign are clearly defined
There need be no misunderstanding on
any question, for the Republican plat
form is clear and explicit ON every point
There is no 'straddling" of any issue as
a bid for votes from this or that fac
tion. The st. Louis Convention laid
down an admirable declaration of prin-
ciples upon which every true and loyal
Republican can stand truly and Loyalty
In this platform the Republican party
stands precisely where it has stood on
the great questions of the day for a
quarter of a century The claim of its
opponents that it has assumed a new
or strange or unrepublican position on
amy question is absolutely false This
preposterous claim is put forward chief
ly by traitors to the Republican cause,
who hope thereby to hide their own
treason to the party and its principles.
A HINT TO MECHANICS.
Oakland Tribune: Here is a hint for
the mechanics of California. Hoshi
Turf. the new Minister from Japan,
makes a suggestion to American manu-
facturers that seems to have merit He
states that Japan is entering on a period
of railroad construction and that there
is an opportunity for employing Ameri-
can products in that work. 1t would
seem as if there were an opportunity
afforded 20 our engine and car-build-
ers and steel rail makers to secure some