The record-union., 1896-08-06


kersfield Californian.
Yes, the wool growers of Napa, Lake
and Mendocino, whose faces have
heightened with the shrinkage of their
flocks and the shortening of their
purses, will vote for Bryan and free
trade if party is more to them than
person or estate.
HOW TO BE RID OF EN-.
Stockton Independent: Hard times
came in with the Democratic Admins
tration, and if the people want them to
go out they will vote in November to
oust all Democratic Administrations.
Bryan was an advocate and supporter
CT the Wilson bill which has deprived
the American laborer of wages and
made good times for the laborer in
England
WANTED, PROSPERITY.
Marin Journal: What we want is a
return of prosperity. This is above
party success. Above individual am
bition. Above every other considera-
tion whatever. 1t is time for change
of Administration. For a new national
policy. And it behooves us to act with
wisdom. Judgment and experience
should direct our conclusions. In our
Political course we should consider
measures, not parties. No party, no
policy should be adopted because it is
new. No party discarded because it is
old. There is nothing new. That which
has been is that which shall be. Par
ties and policies are neither good nor
bad by reason of age. If party is
old it should be judged by its fruits,
by the results of its policies; if new,
we must seek other lights to determine
it's wisdom.
LET US SEE.
Bakersfield Echo: The Mckinley bill
helped the trusts and combines and the
Wilson bill was in the interest of the
farmers, they say. Let's see about that.
The Mckinley bill imposed duty of
SO head on cattle over one year of
age. The Wilson bill reduced this to
about 81 cents per head Now for the
results. In four years of the Mckinley
bin Mexican and Canadian cattle,
numbering 1861, We're imported In
twenty-three months under the Wilson
bill, 346, OCT head were shipped in to the
United States markets. How much did
that class of our farmers benefit by the
low IdflII CndnSe
THE WHYFORE.
Tulare Register: Some of our more
or less esteemed contemporaries are
worried over the inconsistency of in
dorsing the National Republican plat
form and supporting avowed advocates
of the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer heresy for Congress. So far as this
district is concerned Republicans do not
believe that silver is the only question
which concerns our people. They be-
lieve that if every warehouse in the dis
trict were piled full of gold eagles from
foundation to ridgepole it would do the
farmers and fruit growers no good
were the country being flooded with the
products of pauper labor from the old
world. They believe that the expert
ence of the past four years, including
the time the ak was held over the cOun-
try, has not been to the interests of our
producers of wool, raisins and Cali
fornia fruits. They believe that no in
crease of any money would be of benefit
if they could not get it in fair measure
for their products and they do not be-
ieve that fair prices would obtain
under the Democratic policy of buying
Japan.
Even when Republicans do believe in
free silver they also believe that COM
bination of free Silver and free trade
will take this country into ruin and en-
tire industrial collapse. Whatever they
may think of the silver issue as pre-
sented by the double-tailed opposition
they want no more competition with the
dry-rot nations of earth. That is why
man sound upon the chief issue is sup
ported for Congress.
BIMETALLISM.
Riverside Enterprise: The McKin-
ley talk of international bimetallism is
a delusion and fraud. The same talk
was used four years ago. We are far
ther from the international agreement
now than we We're then. Four years
ago the internationalists told us that
by 1896 the country would be ready for
free silver. They unw1ttingly told the
truth. as to the people of the country.
But they misstated the matter as to
themselves. Now they are SO wrought
up in opposition to free silver that they
stand aghast and shout anarchists"
at the silver forces.
DEMOCRATIC VIEW.
Vacaville Reporter: The use of an
article measures the demand. The de-
mand measures value. For the last
quarter of a century the great nations
of the world have legislated against
silver. They prevented it's use as a
money metal. The demand was lessened
and the price fell. The men who advo-
cate free silver propose to restore the
use of silver. The greater demand for
silver will be followed by an increase of
price to it's old-time ratio to gold, 16 to
l. If it does not rise to 81 % per ounce,
what happens? A premium on gold,
possibly. What does this mean? It
means simply that we shall enjoy the
same condition under which we ex-
listed, fought great war, and advanced
as no nation ever before advanced in
the history of the world, and the man
who is satisfied with the products of
American factories will be able to buy
them at living figures, but that the
man or woman who cannot find any
thing good enough for them in America
and insists upon buying the products
Of European labor will, in addition to
the tariff cost, have to pay whatever
additional premium there may be on
gold.
THE CONSUMPTIVE COW.
Stockton Mail: 1t is beginning to
look as though the crusade against tu-
berculosis in cattle We're to be extended
over the whole State
The discovery that many whole herds
of. cows in San Francisco are con-
sumptive, and the announcement that
probably 90 per cent. of all the COWS on