The record-union., 1896-07-01

currency. The claim of the silver mono
metallists to the title of bimetallists is
utterly spurious.
THE NEW FAIR WIFE.
Colusa Sun: What is to become of the
Fair millions is matter of perfect IN
difference to the "Sun," but the de-
moralizing effect of the manner OF the
contest is a matter of moment to the
whole State. AS the case progresses 1t
becomes more and more plain that the
Suns" application of the story OF
poor ould Con Cregan" to the case is
apropos. Here we have woman who
claims that Fair, in consideration of
"love and affection made her mill
ionaire. and this woman is a teacher in
the public schools, and yet there has
been no move made to put her out of
the schools. If the Board of Education
shall let her establish the claim and
then resign, it will be disgrace to San
Francisco that can never be wiped out.
Not twenty-four hours should have in
tervened between the filing of the deed
with such a clause without an action
on the part of the board, and each hour
adds a mountain of disgrace to the
city. 1t may be that the heirs are not
in very good position to fight the
deed, but If it is once established that
a person may get millions by clev
erly forged will or deed the art of the
forger will find a much better field
than in swindling the banks. And as
for notary's certificates! How many
would $4,000 buy in blank? Fair
sought to shut off the scheming women
with whom he had much business by a
clause in the will giving anyone claim
ing to be his widow $50 But the heirs
We're not satisfied with the way the
man who made the money fixed the
matter, and opened the door to just
such doings as we have going on now
IT children who had been left a few
hundred dollars each were to cover a
fathers name all over with mud in a
squabble over the matter, public SEN
timent would overwhelm them, but rich
people may demoralize the State and
the goose hang as high" as everI
RIGHT YOU ARE.
Shasta Courier: The enthusiastic man
1ter in which Republicans are rallying
to Mckinley ratification meetings in
different parts OF the State shows the
popularity of the Carton man.
STRAIGHT OUT.
Selma Enterprise: The St Louis plat
form is an unequivocal declaration for
an international bimetallic agreement,
and until it can be obtained for unim-
paired credit 1t conforms with the plat
form of the Republican party in 1892
in meaning, but is more direct in ex-
preston. The tumult which its adoption
has created would lead to the supposi-
tton that it was something heretofore
unheard of. The Democratic platform
of 1872 expressed the same sentiment,
but went farther in its denunciat ton of
the Sherman Act. The Democratic party
is now preparing to not only eat crow,
but to perform some extraordinary gym
nastics.
LAW
Santa Ana Blade: Under the Wilson
bin we are buying six times the amount
of English woods that we We're under
the Mckinley law. The result of this
is, that our 1,360 wooden mills are turn
ing out less than half the goods they
We're previous to the enactment of the
present law, with the inevitable effect
that 700 of our mills We're compelled to
close, depriving $4,000 operatives or
employment. There is another signifi-
cant fact growing out of the free wool
provision of the present law, which is
this, that, though the output of our
woolen factoses is only about two-fifths
of what 1t was when the Mckinley bill
was in force our mill men are purchas-
ing three times as much foreign wool
as they We're under the former law.
So that, while three-fifths of the wooden
goods worn by the American people are
of a foreign make, cne-half Of the re-
naming two-ffths made in home mills
is composed of foreign wool.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Dixon Tribune: With all this fuss
and feathers about woman suffrage, it
is an incontrovertible fact that the av-
erage woman is anything but clamor-
Gus for the privilege of voting, and the
attention which is given to the subject
in political conventions, when a few
masculine appearing females appear
| in its behalf, is incomprehensible. This
lack of enthusiasm among women in
Tie lUdllEi - Ntl dDpGlGI4t anu an
| enc with enough interest to investi-
gate the subject may canvass his COM
nunity, county or State and he will
| fird that not one woman in ten yearns
for the ballot. All the noise is being
made by a few, and these are looking
orly to their own aggrandiZement and
not to the emancipation and ennobling
| of their sex When the mothers and
wives who preside over the homes of
the nation ask for the privilege it will
/ be time to seriously consider the ques-
tlon, but the assertive women and the
sentimental men who are now urging
the matter are entitled to but little con-
! Sideraion.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
| Stockton Record: Our foreign policy
should be at all times firm, vigorous
and dignifed, and all our interests in
| the Western Hemisphere carefully
watched and guarded
The highest patriotism consists in as
| certiOo and defending OIlr nationality