The record-union., 1896-08-12

w HAT Is N EEDED.
Daily Humboldt Standard: The time
has come when every man who believes
in honesty and integrity in national
as we'll as in private affairs should
show, his colors. The people of this
ccast have been surfeited with argu-
ments for the unlimited coinage of
fifty-cent dollars, manufactured and
sent out by the bonanza silver miners,
who have a bureau at work, and paid
men in their employ to preach the doc
trine of free silver" Up to the time
OF the ST. Louis Convention the great
Republican papers on this coast were
advocating this Populistic doctrine, and
it is no wonder that the free silver
craze has taken strong hold upon the
people. Through it's press the Repupli-
cans of this State had famed the flame
of this heresy into great blaze which
it will take the utmost efforts of the
honest money advocates to quench be-
fore election.
The standard" lorg ago warned
those papers that they would be COM
PEELED to fight this campaign upon the
money question as the leading issue,
but they persisted, to the point of send
tc the ST. Louis Convention. If this
State shall cast it's electoral vote for
Bryan and all the isms for which the
Populist party stands, with fifty-cent
! dollars as their battle cry, they have
themselves to blame for the result The
people who vote, as a rule, are honest
and sincere, and If they can be shown
the enormity of the panic and general
distress that will follow in case silver
monometallism prevails, they will
stamp out the heresy at the polls.
FREE TRADER.
Riverside Press: Republican protec-
| tionists who are tempted to forSake
their party on the silver issue are re-
minded that Mr.. Bryan is not even a
tariff for revenue" man, but an out
| and-out free trader of the Golden
school He believes in buying nothing
produced or manufactured in America
that can be bought more cheaply
abroaAe or at least that is what he has
repeatedly said in his speeches in Con-
gress and upon the stump. California
fruit men cannot afford to have a free
trade extremist in the Presidential
chair.
THE SUN WAS HONEST THEN.
Stockton Mail: 1t was not many years
ago that the New York Sun" was en-
gagged in pointing out the dangers GER
tain to flow from the rapidly increasing
purchasing power of gold. 1t then not
only favored bimetallism, but went far
ther, boldly declaring that the single
silver standard was preferable to the
gold standard and it's attendant evils.
The goldbugs generally did not them
selves understand how rapidly the nat
ural gravitation of affairs was enriching
them, while it was impoverishing all
the rest of the people. The Morgan
geld syndicate was unknown then and
no effort had been made as yet to COR
rupt the press and enslave the people.
The "Sun" was honest then. When on
June Is, 1885, the Sun" used the fol-
lowing language, it's mental vision was
clear and its judgment unbiased:
Gold has risen so that the proper
way of expressing the truth is to say
that the gold dollar is worth III cents,
while the silver dollar remains at par.
The prompt adoption of silver as q
standard instead of gold would, there
fore, arrest the decline in prices to a
great extent, and palliate. if it did not
cure, the evil of free trade
Now that gold has advanced to a
premium of 100 per cent, when one dol
lar in gold will buy two dollars in
| wheat, the ''Sun'' sees no evil in the
single-gold standard. 1t believed that
1.-The prompt adoption of silver as a
standard would then, not drive out
all our gold'' and create panic" but
instead arrest the decline in prices
and "palliate, if it did not cure, the evil
of dull trade
That these results would follow has
been the contention of the Mali for
these many years and that is the belief
of the foremost political economists the
| world over. Such, too, has been the
experience of the world, whenever sill
yer has been given a chance. If the
| .Sun" believed silver would have check
ed the downward tendency of prices
when gold had advanced only IL per
cent in its purchasing power, is it not
strange that it should now regard the
free coinage of silver with prophecies
of unutterable evil?
Charles A. Dana was in personal COM
mand in the office in 1885. The Sun
was honest then.
THE TRUSTS.
Los Angeles Herald: The trusts are
for Mckinley and the syndicate The
| trouble with the trusts is that they
| have not as many votes as the ceStui-
| oui-trusts. That is what is the mat
ter with Hanna. The betrusted millions
are commencing to look into the trust
domination. Some trust went fairly
we'll, but all trust on the part of the
producer is getting everybody into
Financially ShOal water.
BREAKING UP THE OLD PARTIES.
Riverside Enterprise: While our
workingmen are idle these dull times
they are gaining some very valuable
information on political economy, and
not from the monopoly papers, either.
These they have learned to distrust
and cannot be led as of old by their
favorite paper. In fact, this campaign
is breaking up the old parties as moth
ing has had power to do since the war,
and it never enters into anyone's head
nowadays to ask where were you born
North or south of Mason and Dixon's
line. The only question is 16 to 1.
If a man is sound on this point in ia
vor of the peoples money, the hand
of brotherhood is extended. This makes
a very serious situation from the Wall
street standpoint and Bourke Cochran
is reported as saying: Il regard it as