The record-union., 1896-10-21
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
expressions Of Coast Newspapers In
Brief,
On All Shades of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics of
the Day.

Los Angeles Express: 1t is all nom
sense to say that the present dollar is
too good and will buy too much. The
man has not yet been born who is going
TO register a complaint because he gets
TOO much in exchange for his dollar.
NO INTERNATIONAL LEGAL TEN
DER.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The Pop
ulists in arguing for a debasement of
the standard of coinage attempt to be-
fog the question by talking of prices
ard values as synonymous terms. They
talk of free coinage as doubling the
price of wheat. Admitting that it does
will not in any degree affect the re-
turns which the farmer gets. There
Is no such thing as an international
coin; there is no such thing as an in
ternational legal tender coinage. The
value of wheat is measured by it's sell
ing price at the place where the sur
plus is marketed. The surplus of the
great wheat producers of the world is
marketed in England. The price there
is paid without the slightest reference
to the currency system of the country
In which it is produced. The buyer of
worth "A cents; the buyer in Russia
will pay in rubles; in Argentina in pa
per pesos: in Australia in sovereigns,
and in the United States in whatever
may be the money in current use. But
in determining the price to be paid the
buyer takes the London price in Eng
Esh sOvereigns as the basis Of his
transaction, and pays the farmer in the
of inc in, hp
portion of the value Of it as compared
to the gold sovereign. If our silver dol
lar under free coinage was worth but
&C cents in gold the farmer would thus
get for each sovereign's worth OF
wheat, in round numbers SO. These
ten dollars would, however, in purchas-
ing value be worth no more than the
sovereign, or it's nearest equivalent in
American coin, the So gold piece. He
would be not whit better off.
DON'T BE FOOLED.
Ukfah Press: Voters should not be
deceived by the specious arguments of
Bryanite organs, which claim that the
Popocratic party is in favor of a pro-
tective tariff. The local Bryan organ
says that if Cutler and Sanford are
elected we will have a greater tariff
cIiO I1OHty. Hc P6O-
pie have been fooled every time they
have trusted the Democratic party, and
its attempt to gain power by subter-
fuge, forgery and misrepresentation
viii avail it nothing.
THE SAMB THING.
Fresno Republican,: The main issue
is. shall the trusts. and combines rule
or be ruled.-Stockton Mail.
That is the identical issue which the
Democracy alleged that it submitted to
the people four years ago. The Demo-
cratic party then lifted its hands to
heaven and swore by the beard of the
prophet and the memory Of Jackson
and Jefferson that it would crush the
trusts out of existence if given the
power to do so. The people took the
party at its word and gave it the power
it asked for. The people have not fallen
into the habit of rewarding political
pledge breakers and hypocrites.
SERIOUS AND IMPORTANT
Nevada City Herald: Will the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, coupled with
free trade or a tariff that does not raise
money enough to pay running expenses,
be the best policy for this Govern
ment? In less than a month the ques-
ton will be decided by the people of
this nation. There never was a more
serious or important issue.
DON'T BLAME EN-
Alameda telegram No one blames
the silver mine-owners for bowling
themselves hoarse over the proposition
for free silver coinage. There are mill
ions in it for them, and they know it.
There is not a cent in the proposition
for anyone else, and it is time that every
one understood the question. Under
free silver coinage the mine-owners
will take the place of the Government
in the coinage of silver dollars. They
will then run the mints for all there is
in them, and will build other and larger
ones if they need them.
ADDING VALUE.
Colusa Herald: The free silver prop
osition IS simply this: Can you add
value to anything by simply stamping
1t as weighing so much and being gen
uine? Can you make a dollar out of a
shingie by stamping on it that it weighs
an ounce and IS genuine pine? Can you
make a dollar out Of a tin can by stamp
ing on it that it weighs an ounce and is
genuine tin? The Government under
free coinage simply stamps so much sill
yer as weighing about an ounce and
1T then passes for what it is worth as
silver bullion
WHAT TROUBLES HIM.
Stockton Independent: How to earn
money of any kind is what troubles the
man who lives by toll under Democratic
low tariff, which Bryan does not think
is low enough 1t matters less to the
average laborer what kind of money he
receives than that he shall get enough
of any kind to support his family. II
never has been as hard to earn enough
to live on since the panic of 1887 as it is
now under the Wilson abomination.
DO NOT FORGET.
Tulare Register: Let 1t never be for
gotten that the Republican party OF
this nation is not committed to the
single gold standard as preferred the
ory of money; that it stands now as 1t
has ever stood for bimetallsm, but that
il believes that the only bimetallism
possible is international bimetalism,
and that independent free coinage
would not only not result in bimetal-
lism but in silver monometallism, which
nobody wants and which would yield