The record-union., 1896-08-05

| rotten, corrupt, inSincere and wholly
untrstworthy in their advocacy Of free
silver. And now they are riding and
whooping like lunatics in the Demo
cratic band wagon.
TWO KINDS.
| SisSiyou News: Some of the local
| Populists received the news Of Bry-
ans Endorsement by their representa-
tives at ST. Louis with wry face, not
withstanding the large majority favor
ing fusion at the convention. They ar
/ que that the Democrats have made one
bite of the Populist party and have
gulped it down without salt, platform
and all. There are other Populists,
however, who are not afraid to lose
sight of their national organization for
four years, SO long as one of its prin-
ciples, which they could not hope to
advance unaided, has been adopted by
the people under the banner of another
political party. Such members of the
Peoples party are convinced that it is
better to accept any measure of reform
two in the bush.
FACT VS.. FANCY.
Oakland Enquirer: The Coinage Act
! of 1873 simply recognized the fact that
by reason of it's overweight as COM
pared with half-dollars the silver dol
lar had ceased to circulate, and ac-
cepted upon the statute books con-
dition which had in fact existed for
many years.
Since 1860 the money supply of the
| United States has increased 240 per
cent, raising the per capita circulation
from $14 06 to S21 50, with a new gold
| increase in the worlds supply of 81
526, ,S34 900 from 1878 to 1895. This in
crease has doubled the supply in the
| last twenty-three years. If hard times
were caused by lack of metallic
money, it is remarkable that they are
now being experienced at time when
| the gold and silver money far exceeds
| any previous date in our national his
tory.
| From the passage of the Bland silver
bill in February, 1879, until June, 1890,
this Government coined 100000 sill
yer dollars every month. During twelve
years there were coined every four
months as many silver dollars as in the
whole of the eighty years preceding
1873, when the alleged "demonetiza-
yer Purchase Act passed in June, 1890
| seventeen years after the so-called de-
monetization business-our Govern
ment actually undertook the purchase
of the annual output of the silver mines,
then estimated at 100000 ounces a
year. The silver product has increased
so enormously since that date, how
ever, by reason of increased facilities,
that the silver men now insist that
there shall be no limit to the coinage Of
the white metal.
| PROTECTION THE ISSUE.
Santa Ana Blade: No voter should
allow himself to be carried away by
the free silver" cry, but should study
for himself the questions which are
to-day before the American people.
Chief among these, and Of far greater
Importance to the people Of this coun-
try, is the matter Of building up the
industries and enterprises Of the United
States. This the Republican policy of
protection has done in the past and will
do in the future If the American peo-
pie are true to themselves and their
| own best interests. The issue before
the people is not free silver" as our
Democratic friends would vainly have
us believe, but the vastly greater one
| of protection. If there Is a single
doubt in the mind Of any citizen as to
which way he should decide upon the
tariff question, 1t should be settled at
once and for all time, by mere refer
ence to the fact that the champions
OF protective tariff are honored In
America and its opponents receive their
plaudits in England.
BUNCO TRICKS.
Marysville Appeal: The numerous
political bunco tricks that have cropped
out even at this early date must make
some of the back numbered bosses fee
as though they were of very small
caliber.
VULGARISM.
| Oakland Tribune: Here is a timely
criticism made by the illustrated
American" Seer" is bad enough as
a vulgarism Of speech; Don't YOU
known" is worse. "See?" belongs to
| the grossly uncultured The voluble
man of this class makes some trif1ing
| statement which he deems q shade
above the plane of his most common
utterance, and he calls attention to its
intellectual grade by rounding it with
the inquiry Seer" He says, for ex-
ample, MY bicycle needed oiling
see?" In him it is pardonable. Be
| ing uncultivated there is no reason why
it should occur to him that the inquiry
is useless, foolish and impertinent
nlannerism. But Don't you know?'
because it is used in precisely the same
| irrational way by people Of more or
! less claim to cultivation, is unpardon-
| able. Some people. nc doubt, say it
when they are a bit embarrassed
Others have adopted the habit because
they want to be regarded as having
through familiarity fallen into the
| modes of swelldom. Still others use
it occasionally and unconsciously be-
cause it is in the air. But the man
who is sure of his thought and speech
would sooner use his bootblack' s
"See?" than this inexcusable British
affectation.
Protection the Battle Cry.
| We not only use glasses to see with.
but to protect and preserve the eye as
well. F. de Wolfe Hennah tests and ex-
amines the eye free of charge at his
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Public Schools
Have closed. Conditioned scholars
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