The record-union., 1896-08-22

Montana 9,335, 551
New YORK O,fIo,ooo
Pennsylvania .............. b,44l,I Io4
wisconsin f,So1,Ooo
1fC1and 1,Coo,fof
Illinois 4,490,773
Total iii ,452, ,073
Out of q total production of 165, 49,
239 pounds produced in this country,
these eleven States have supplied ILL.,
45Z, ,073 pounds. The great bulk of the
wool is produced by farmers who keep
sheep as an auxiliary to their farms,
and not on the great ranges. The price
of their product has been greatly re-
duced since the protective schedule was
removed from the wool industry until
sheep raising is no longer profitable
when brought into competition with the
foreign article.
"OBTUSE"
Vacaville Reporter: In view Of the
fact that President Cleveland lacks
sufficient clearness of vision to recog-
nize a state of war in Cuba which clear
ly exists there, it is not strange that the
mass of the people refuse to follow his
advice in matters relative to the coin
age question. In effect they are inclined
to paraphrase a maxim often quoted by
lawyers and say, obtuse in one thing,
obtuse In all things.
WHAT 1T DOES.
Stockton Independent: What does
protection do for the carpenter, the
bricklayer, the painter and the dry
goods clerk?" asks a Democrat. The
answer is that it gives employment to
factory operatives who build homes and
employ those mechanics. It gives the
wife of the operative money to buy dry
goods and increases the demand for
clerks, male and female. 1t enables
manufacturers to build fine homes and
extend their factories in which car
penters, etc., find more employment. 1t
thus gives more employment to servant
girls, teamsters, laborers and every one
else. When the Democratic panic Of
1893 threw men out of employment cit
les all over the country had to make
work for men at 81 a day. Among
those who did that work in Stockton
were carpenters, blacksmiths, car
drivers, and at least one newspaper re-
porter. Protection sends employers
looking for laborers, and free trade
sends the laborer begging for employ
ment.
A FLAT TIRE.
Tulare Register: Business the coun-
try over is at a standstill or running on
fiat tire" and no general movement
need be looked for until after election.
1t is not plutocrats who cause this, but
the whole population is flying as close
to the earth as possible. Nobody will
invest money, nobody will spend
money beyond absolute needs. There
may be little local spirits in favored
localities, but even these will be excep-
tional. Local buyers of products In
California are not hunting for the sea-
sons crop because they can get practi-
cal1y no encouragement in the way of
offers at any price. Dried fruit is not
| moving, and all that is expected soon
is slight demand for immediate con-
sumption. Bear in mind, reader, that
nc body has ordered" this condition of
things 1t may be due to different
causes, but the chief cause is the feel
ing of uncertainty caused by the pro-
posaI to tear down and rebuild the sys-
tenn upon which the country has been
doing business.
AT HOME.
Los Angeles Herald: On the tariff
issue, however, William Mckinley Is
perfectly at home. 1t is easy for him
to tell the people that the tariff makes
good times, provided the tax levied on
importers is high enough to thorough
" protect wage earners and farmers
from the ravages of "pauper labor"
and foreign markets. Nobody with or
binary intelligence who has carefully
investigated the subject can really be-
lieve such foolishness, but Mckinley
and his tariff -worshiping colleagues
will keep right on repeating that kind
OF nonsense, just as if they knew the
people to be fools.
Just now the money question is
properly predominant, but If the Re-
publican leaders desire to lock horns
with Democrats on the subject of tariff
for robbers, they should be accommo-
dated. Well-equippped advocates of
freedom in commercial transactions as
one of mans inalienable rights have
nothing to fear in a controversy on
that line
A QUESTION AND ANSWER.
Stockton Mail: Suppose you coin a
billion dollars in silver, what benefit
will that be unless you open the work
shops, build the furnace fires and start
the spindles?-Healdsburg Tribune
That's exactly what free coinage
would do. Instead of being locked up
In the treasury to rust, the coin would
be put into immediate circulation,
lighting the fires in the furnaces, set
ting in motion the wheels of industry
everywhere, bringing remunerative la
Dor, hope and happiness to the wage
Garner and steady and profitable trade
to the storekeeper.
WHEN AND WHERE?
Oakdale Graphic: A day or two ago
gentleman made use of the express
sion, "Cowardly action of Mckinley"
When? Where? Under what circum-
stances? Was it the act of his young