The record-union., 1896-10-25
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Coast Newspapers in
Brief,
On All Shades of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics Of
the Day.

money light this year on a metalllc
basis Almost every speaker shows his
strong leaning toward fiatism and COM
mon sense teaches them that the large
supply of mnoey they desire cannot be
obtained from the mines. We venture
to say that the Populists will never be
caught in such a narrow corner again.
ABSURD.
Stockton independents: According to
the Oakland Enquirer there are some
persons in Alameda County who be-
lieve that Bryan is prOtectionist. If
it is true they cannot believe Bryan's
word, for while the Wilson bill was un
der discussion he made several speeches
in favor of it, while complaining that
the duties it imposed were too high all
around. He also in many, if not all of
those speeches, declared that protective
duties and bountieS were indefensible.
He compared a bounty to highway rob-
berry and a protective tariff to sneak
thieving. Those who do not willfully
entertain the delusion can find proof of
these odious comparisons in the Con
gressional Records" report of the de-
bate in the House on March ~ 1897.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
Tulare Register: Do you understand
why the producers of California should
be taken in by the confidence game
devised at Chicago when they are not
yet recovered from the staggering eff
fects of another of the same kind?
Do you understand why this aggrega-
ton should pretend to venerate the
names and records of Lincoln, Grant,
Garfield, Blaine, Conkling and host of
rho vii nd
ligned in their day by this same ele-
ment much as Mark Hanna is to-day?
Do you understand why any old
soldier should support this outfit whose
leaders, orators and newspapers have
characterized old soldiers as national
beggars for whom pensions are a use
less and foolish charity?
Do you understand why a working
man should vote to continue a policy
which has sent so many of them to the
souphouse, when foreign-born artisans
are receiving letters from the old coun-
try to come back where shops are run
ming night and day since America in
vited the world to some in and take
possession of the best market on earth?
TIME TO STOP
Yreka Journal: 1t is about time to
cease talking of the crime of 'I3, since
it has been shown that the bill des-
ignated was pending nearly three years,
was frequently referred and reported
upon, was debated at great length and
was voted for by the very men in Con-
gress who are now denouncing it as a
crime; and what is more, that it was
not discovered for years that anybody
had been hurt" by the bill, not in
deed until the silver mine owners hit
upon the free coinage device for max
ing silver mines pay we'll.
A COINCIDENCE 90
Alameda Telegram: A few years ago
some ardent advocates of free silver
coinage hit upon the coincidence in the
decline of fine silver and wheat between
1873 and 1893 to put out the fiimsy
but plausible theory that the fall in
both articles was due to the demone-
tization of silver by Congress in 1873.
There was striking singularity in the
downward movement, and the theory
was accepted by many as gospel truth.
Believers of the new dogma did not care
to investigate the facts for themselves.
They simply knew that the price of an
ounce Of pure silver was about the price
of a bushel of wheat in 1878 and again
value considerably during the interval
Coupling these two facts with the allie
cation that both were the result of the
withdrawal of the privilege of free sill
YER coinage, and the case was made
out, to their own satisfaction, at least
The low price of wheat in the past few
years has bore heavily upon raisers
who have scarcely been able to get a
ln1lo fnr In nl1 E11t f1
charge the decline in wheat to the clos
ing of the Mints against the free coin
age of silver is about the most stupid
thing that can be conceived. The de-
cline in that article, as in many others
has been simply a case of overproduc-
ton.
RECENT CONVERT.
Riverside Press: Mr.. Bryan is him
self very recent convert to the 16 to
theory. A little over three years age
he said:
mo people except the greedy owners
of silver mines, anxious to make inordi-
nate profits, are interested in coinage a.
the ratio Of Is to /. No people except
those avaricious owners of money, who
profit by contracting the currency, are
interested in prohibiting honest free
silver coinage at ratio of | to -. We
have no silver mines in Nebraska and
the interests of the people of this State
simply require free and unlimited coin.
age of silver upon the basis of its rea-
snnable value which cannot be fal
from / part Of gold TO % parts of sill.
YER"
TRULY AMERICAN.
Colusa Herald: The Republican party
promises to open American factories tC
the free coinage of American muscle
and in it's policy of protection it de-
clares a deathless loyalty to all that i.
truly American, backed by patriotism
eternal as the stars.
HARD HIT.
Merced Star: The majority Of tn,
newspapers published in the Seventh
Congressional District have voiced tn,
sentiments of their localities, and hav,
condemned DR.. Castles snap shot arti
Gle on the National Guard as revolu
tionary, unmanly and above all un
american. The Chronicle vigorousl,
asserts that no person entertainin.
such ideas regarding the institution.
of our country is worthy the supper
of a self-respecting voter. The Visali;
Delta" in an article full of American
ism and loyalty to the laws says: Th
sentiments are those of an anarchist
and the false statements, which are in
excusable show that the writer of then
didn't care to know the truth or 4
deal with it, The San Bernardin.
sun holds him up before its reader
as a blatant demagogue,' and asks