The record-union., 1896-07-11
VOICE OF TIE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALL
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, TheOret-
ical and Current.

Los Angeles Times: So far as posi-
| ble the goods consumed in the United
States should be produced In the
| United States. A man who, though out
| of employment hires some other man
| to do the work which he ought to do
and could do as we'll as not, is justly
| regarded as not many removes from a
| fool. Yet the free trade advocates
would have Americans buy the prod
ucts Of alien labor while our own work
men are idle and our workshops closed
| because of foreign competition.
THE TRUE ISSUE.
Bakersfield Echo: The Echo" claims
| to be as warm a friend of free coinage
as the Californian" the Sacramento
bee" or any of the other boilers are,
but it sees in the 100000 factory
hands whose prosperity is threatened
| by free trade as much cause for solicit
tude as in the 81 900 employees of both
gold and silver mines. 1t sees, too, that
the effect of free trade does not stop
at the factory doors, but reaches out to
attack the farmer, the fruit-grower and
the wool producer. 1t is convinced that
the American farmer loses more every
year by Democratic free wool than by
the proposed policy of the Republican
party toward the mining interests.
A DIVIDED HOUSE.
Los Angeles Express: Unless all the
signs fail there are liable to be several
silver tickets in the field, and the
friends of bimetallism will have no hope
Of gaining anything unless they fol-
low the advice of Senator Shoup, upon
which we commented yesterday, and
| fight it out within party lines. To ask
Republicans to give up all their views
or protection and other cardinal prop
ositions, and follow rne lead of Alt
geld, Tillman or Taubeneck is asking
more than any reasonable person would
| be willing to concede; even if Senator
Teller or some other silver Republican
| is nominated for the Presidency, he will
have no prospect of carrying the West,
| except three or four States whose cleo
| toral vote will not figure very heavily
when the 447 electoral votes of the
whole nation come 20 be counted.
The old Democratic States will go
| Democratic, except Maryland, Della
ware and West Virginia If a silver
Democrat is nominated most probably
and possibly Indiana or Iowa may fol-
low in their wake if either Matthews or
Boies is nominated; but the West,
which is as deeply interested in pro-
| lection as it is in free silver, will not
agree to sacrifice a certainty for an
| uncertainty. In other words, it will
not vote to give up the certainty of
protection if the Republicans win, for
the uncertainty of everything if the
Democrats are continued in power.
| THEIR DAY HAS GONE.
| Williams Farmer: Should Governor
| Altgeld of Illinois and Governor Till
man of North Carolina succeed in con-
trolling the Chicago Convention as
Mark Hanna did the ST. Louis Conven-
| tion, the DETECTION in the Mckinley
| ranks will be no comparison to that
which Will follow in the wake of the
| Democratic Convention. The day of
sandlotters and anarchists is happily
past in this glorious land of ours
| JUST SUPPOSE.
Corning Observer: Suppose you pass
silver bill, what would be the result
All the silver mined would be sent to
the Mint to be turned into coin and,
like the coyote scalps, the silver of for
eign nations would soon find its way to
our Mints. Silver in the market is
cheaper than the silver dollar Now who
would be benefited by coming silver into
money by wholesale? None but the
owners Of the silver; and you would
make them all miiionaires. because the
| Government gives them back in dollars
a great deal more money than their sill
yer was worth. The silver dollars be-
coming too numerous they would fall in
value, and it is the humble masses of the
people that would suffer by it, Passing
a free silver bill would not make silver
coin legal tender
| Mckinley and his party say in their
platform-the standard to test the party
by-that they will first protect home
| industry, and then make the silver a
| legal tender, with paper notes. for ali
| debts. We believe Mckinley and are
sure he will carry this Nation back into
prosperity, and give us plenty of sound
money to carry on business with.
This sudden cry of silver is throwing
dust into the eyes Of the people, to dis
rupt them, and while they are scattered
| INTO dlherent parties quiet and well
drilled party sweeps into power. True
| anu liOIitSl men VIII SUCK to their party
and then work with united strength for
all improvements in finance and trade
The observer" is neutral but the
| editor cannot help giving his private
| views on the present cry of silver. as
many have asked us to do The edito,
! Is strong protective man. In the
| English agitation of free trade he was
strongly opposed to it. because it would
kill all branches of business in Ireland
| and it did kill them as dead as door
| rail OF course we took an Irish view ol
the matter, not an English one
Before the previous Presidential cleo
tion, when the agitation was red hot 70,
free trade. we were strong against il. as
We saw ahead that 1t would beggar the
| Nation The cry swept Cleveland into
office and the Nation las been ruined
We now prophesy the greatest com
mcrcial crash this country has ever wit.
| nesses if a free silver party is elected
and does not carry oat protective law
| Please remember our words
Secretary of States Salary.
In June 1872, Mr. Livingston (our first
Secretary CT State, known then as Sec
retaIy of Foreign ATairs) resigned tt
laCceut the office of CtangeIlo,. of tbe