The record-union., 1896-07-18
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALI.
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, Theoret-
iCaI and Current.


hcan protective tariff that will set our
mills, foundries, iron and tin works,
shipyards and a thousand and one other
manufacturing establishments in mo-
ton, and put tariff on wool that will
stop the flow of gold to Europe for
woolen goods that should be made in
this country, thereby giving employ
ment to the millions of men and women
who were thrown out of employment
through the enactment of the German
Wilson Free Trade Act which proved to
be the curse of the country, and driving
our people to the verge of starvation.
Elect William Mckinley President, and
there Will be work again for the work
lngmen and women of the country. No
man or woman can expect to have sill
yer or gold unless they have employ
ment TO earn it, whether we have free
silver" or not. He who works for wages
will get his pay in the coin of the ma
ton; but with the Democratic party in
control of the Government the working
men and tradesmen of the country
cannot hope for any better times than
we are now having. The election of
Mckinley will surely bring prosperity
and misery have been dominant ever
since Cleveland entered the White
House.
THE RED FLAG.
The Mail of Woodland: Herr Altgeld
raised his red flag and waved it over
the land in causing to be inserted in the
Democratic platform a condemnation of
President Cleveland for Invading" IL
linois with Federal troops to put down
the strike of 1894 says the Alameda
Argus" Herr Altgeld from Austria,
thus leads the Democratic party back
to familiar ground. 1t is the revival of
the old question of States rights. Herr
Altgeld may have been a resident of
this country or he may not, when his
party occupied that position before, but
in either case he probably knows that
five-year war was fought and that
thousands of lives and billions OF
treasure were spent in settling this
question. And everybody supposed
that it was settled for good and for all.
and settled against the Altgeld idea
Now, that seems not to be So The case
is to be reopened. Calhoun, after the
lapse Of half a century, is. to have a sue
cessor, who will renew the previous fu-
tile effort to make of the bonds that
bind these States into a mighty nation
mere ropes of sand Will the American
people encourage this effort? Do they
want to take any chance in having to
fight that awful war over again?
LET US SUPPOSE.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Let US suppose
that there is a strike by the employees of
one of the transcontinental railroads;
that the strikers have seized the cars
containing the mail, have stopped traffic
and threaten to destroy the engines
roundhouses, depots and other property
OF the road unless their demands are
complied with; and that the community
in which the strike occurs is in full SYM
pathy with the strikers Let us further
suppose that a Federal Court having
jurisdiction over the matter in contro-
VerSy between the strikers and the
road issues an injunction ordering the
strikers to refrain from the violent and
unlawful acts threatened by them until
the controversy could be heard, but
that the order is disobeyed and the acts
committed. Under such circumstances
the court would have the right to cite
the offenders before it and punish them
by imprisonment for contempt of court
No lawyer would question the right Of
the court to punish in that way those
who willfully diregard it's injunction.
No one conversant with the well set
tied principles of law would think of
depriving a court of the power to thus
vindicate and enforce it's order
tration of the unlawful acts referred to.
it was proposed to arrest the offenders
on the charge of malicious mischief or
other ordinary misdemeanor, and have
them tried by jury drawn from the
community where the offense occurred,
and which, according to the above sup
position, was in full sympathy with the
strikers. Does any sensible person
doubt that the result of carrying out
such suggestion would be farcical
failure of justice and the encourage
ment of condition of things little
short of downright anarchy in that
community? The destruction of the
railroad property would go merrily on.
the blocking of the United States mail
would continue, the current of inter
state traffic and travel would be
stopped, business of all kinds would
be demoralized, and incalculable pecu-
mary loss inflicted upon thousands of
innocent parties in no way connected
with the controversy at issue between
the railroad and its employees. No one
doubts this if he possesses an ordinary
amount of brains
Now, it would seem incredible that
a great political party in such an in
telligent country as ours could deliber-
ately put itself on record as opposed to
the power of the court to punish for
contempt of its authority in such cases
as the one we have supposed, and in
favor of trying offenders in such cases
on charge of misdemeanor, by a jury
in sympathy with the defendants
Nevertheless, the Democratic party has
done that very thing, and has done it
for the purpose of winning the votes of
anarchists. That is the exact meaning
of the plank in the Democratic plat
form which begins by denouncing "ar-
bitrary interference by the Federal au-
thorities in local AFFAIRS" the Inter
ference" referred to being the proceed
ings which ended in sending Debs to
Jail for his anarchistic performances
during the great railway strike
In that plank the Democratic party
has assailed one of the strong founda-
tions of law and order on which the
Government of this Nation reposes.
A REPUBLICAN YEAR.
Yreka Journal: This is a Republican
year. Nearly four years of deficits.
bend issues and hard times generally
have caused a majority-an overwheIm-