The record-union., 1896-06-28
VOICE OF TEE PRESS
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALL
FORNLA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, The0ret-
ical and Current.


business. One statement is that 1000
tailors are out of employment in New
York because the vast army of wheel
men have ceased to wear fine clothes on
Sunday. On the other hand, the profits
of the rubber men last year were over
S3,O00.O00. There are always two sides
to business revolution.
NO INDICATION.
Nevada City Herald: 1t is very true
that there seems to be a strong current
among the Democracy in favor of free
silver, but that does not indicate any
thing. The Democracy is trying to work
up enthusiasm without having a single
pronounced candidate who has the cour-
age to take his chances on any kind of
a platform.
THE CANAL.
Tulare Register: There is one declar-
alton in the Republican national plat
form that ought to efdear the Repub-
lican party to the California heart. 1t
is that The Nicaragua Canal should be
built, owned and operated by the
United States" This is explicit and a
great forward step taken. So far as
the Register" is concerned, it has not
cared how the canal is to be built so
that it is to be built, whether the
Government builds 1t or guarantees the
building of it, but let us have the canal,
so that it can be opened by the first
year Of the new century.
CAN'T AFFORD IT.
Riverside Press: An exchange sug-
gests that the nomination Of Teller by
the Democrats can never be brought
about. They will nominate a Democrat
and not a renegade Republican. They
have experimental in that direction in
the case of Greeley, and the experience
is not forgotten. A party like the Popu-
lists, that is made up of renegades, can
afford to nominate a renegade, but the
Democratic party cannot
THE TARIFF PLANK.
Stockton Independent: This plank is
not alone concise, it is complete. It
asks the American people to apply the
home principle to National affairs. 1t
would enlarge the same methods that
every successful and enterprising COM
munity employs to build UP its produc-
tive industries to cover the Union.
There is a clear expression of the
controlling principle Of protective
tariff. 1t is enacted for the benefit of
the Nation in it's Governmental capac-
ity and for the people as a whole 1t
provides revenue while protecting
American labor from the blighting ef-
fects of pauper competition. AS the
plank SO fittingly states, it is a principle
that should be firmly established, with
sufficient elasticity IN the schedules to
Sarya cha nerinp nondiftopc ona +l,ox, ~, O.
country should have rest.
THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS.
Los Angeles Herald: The result of the
general election in Canada on Tuesday
sustains the system of non-sectarian
public schools, and should preclude the
possibility of the Province of Manitoba
being coerced by the Dominion Govern
ment to amend its public school Act
Sir Charles Tupper, the Premier of the
Conservative Government which intro
duced remedial legislation, has been de-
feated, and the Liberals, led by Wilfrid
Laurier, a French-Canadian Of remark
able ability, will assume Office with a
majority of at least 20 votes in a house
of 213 members. Tupper, who sacrificed
the important, high-salaried and COM
Portable position of High Commissioner
for Canada in London that he might
assume the reins and drive the Con-
cervative party out of a political quag-
mire to the goal Of victory, If really
guided by selfish motives, as his enc
mics maintain, has bitter pill to swal-
low in having now to take his seat on
the wrong side of the house. But Lau-
rier's position is also unenviable He is
himself a Roman Catholic, and his
natural sympathies are of course with
his brethren of Manitoba, who object to
paying taxes for the support of the pub
lie schools to which their consciences
forbid them sending their children. The
rank and file of his party, known in
Canada as 'the grits,'' are unalterably
opposed to any interference with Mani
toba and her system Of public schools.
A HUMMER.
Modesto Herald: Even the Exam
iner," which has been doing it's level
best to represent that the nomination
of Mckinley has been coldly received
in California, comedies that the ratifi-
cation procession and meeting in San
Francisco last Saturday night was q
magnificent success in point of num-
bers, spectacular effect ana enthusiasm.
leaving nothing to be desired The peo-
pie of this part of the State are in the
midst of their busy season now. hence
local Republicans propose to postpone
ratification until the County Conyen-
tion is held, when the harvest rush will
about be over. That ratification will
be "a hummer too.
TRUE TO THE SOLDIER.
n
has been true to itself and the country
in the justice and gratitude it has dis
played toward the men who were true
to the flag and the Union in the time
of peril. This loyalty to the Union SOL
dier Is almost the only surviving senti
ment in politics. 1t is a sentiment that
elevates the party above the issues and
strifes of the day that are based pri
marily on gain-dollars, greed.
AGRICULTURAL CHANGES.
Stockton independent: That much
capital will virtually be DESTROYED by
the abandonment of grain farming is
true, but the same was true of milling
when burr-stones were supplanted by
rollers. 1t has been true of many other
industries in which capital has been
invested In machinery which became
useles beside new inventions, and the
time seems already at hand when the
farmer must lose much of what he has
invested in harvesters gang plows, ETC.,
which are only adapted to vast fields.
However regrettables the truth. 1t still
seems the truth, and such a truth that
all must yield to it's force. Fruit is not
the only resource of the farmer, how
ever The sugar beet offers another
way out of the grain business, but even
fruit alone is better than grain, and
those who are the earliest to yield to