The record-union., 1896-12-06
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on Sub.
jects OF Living and News
Interest.

Modesto News: The United States
might make a proposition to Spain to
let Cuba purchase her independence, the
United States guaranteeing the pay
ment of sum not too great. II the
Cubans would accept such settlement
it would let Spain down without COM
promising her dignity.
OF STATE REPUTE.
Colusa Sun: At a recent meeting of
the California Press and the Valley
League at Vallejo, Colonel John P. Irish,
In speaking of the attack made by the
''Oregonian" on our people in a moral
way, said: ''The people of other States
take a community to be what is re-
f1ected in the columns Of it's press" This
came home to all as a startling fact.
The advertising and magnifying OF
every vicious action and criminal occur
renee has been such as to make vivid
impression upon the minds of those at
a distance, causing the good to hesitate
to come to our land and giving the bad
an invitation which they accept with
great alacrity. We have been held up
to the outside world as moral lepers.
1t is not until those who come from
afar and dwell for a time among us and
then return, that our distant neighbors
come to think of us just as they do OF
other States which, like us, have good
laws that are not always well enforced.
WOULD PROVE TRUE.
Fresno Republican: Republicans
have a right to insist that their party
shall not be judged by the utterances OF
mugwump or Democratic sheets. This
statement would not appear to be de-
batable, and yet it is a fact that certain
of our exchanges, referring to the arti-
cles of the Post and Sun" are in
clined to say, There! Did we not tell
you so? The Republican party intended
only deception in the financial plank OF
it's platform" If these exchanges Will
go to Democratic or mugwump papers
for their authority, they will not lack
charges against the party that is about
to take the reins of government. But
their course in doing so will be subject
to the drawback that nobody will be IN
fuenced by the charges. for very rev
people will fail to recognize the weak
ness of such authorities. The Republic
can party will keep it's pledges.
NOT FEASIBLE.
Los Angeles Times: The plan for a
tariff commission, as advocated by Sen
ator Cullom and others, is impractical
bic, for the reason that such a commits
sion would have no authority to impart
to its decisions the binding effect OF
law. Congress is empowered, under the
Constitution, to deal with the tarif
question, and Congress cannot abdicate
its powers nor waive its rights in this
matter. Congress is chosen by the peO-
pie to perform certain duties and to ex-
ercise certain powers. 1t is not vested
with authority to shirk those duties, nor
to delegate those powers to others.
PROTECTION FOR FRUIT.
Stockton Independent: If those fruit
growers who ask for protection to their
industry would all do unto others as
they wish others should do by them,
equal and just protection would be
easier to accomplish Among those who
are now asking for protection to their
products are many who in politics op-
pose protection as unjust. They seem
TO have minds capable of thinking one
way in politics and quite the contrary in
business. They all see not only justice,
but good political economy in protec-
ton to their industries and defend the
principle just as long as it operates in
their interest. They even go little fur
ther and the prune-grower joins with
the olive-grower in efforts for higher
tariff; both aid and encourage the al
mond grower and all join in asking for
tariff that shall protect each against
the competition of the cheap labor prod
ucts of Europe. If those Democrats in
attendance at the conventions In Sac
Tamento would reduce their business
ideas to practice in politics the exam
pie might prove valuable in inducing
other Democrats elsewhere to do like
wise. If all Democrats who want tariff
protection for their own industries
would do as the fruit, nut and olive
growers of California are doing the tar
iff question would soon cease to be a
party issue, which it never should have
been made. AS parties now stand the