The record-union., 1896-08-25

demands of the Popullst part Of the
silver combination is for cheap
money" The cheapest money in the
world is in England. a gold standard
country, and the dearest money is in
silver countries. Money is freely Of
fered in London at per cent. per an
mum, and even less on choicest securi-
ties, while it is worth II per cent. and
upward in Mexico, China and other sill
Yer countries. The best money, like the
best of any article, is the cheapest
UNBELIEF.
Oakland Enquirer: When Bryan was
nominated at Chicago silver bullion
was selling in)the New York market at
69A cents per ounce, and yesterday the
price went down to g., cents, closing at
634 cents. This decline in silver bull
lion during the past six weeks may be
susceptible Of explanation in sundry
ways, but one thing is demonstrated by
the fact-that there is no belief among
owners Of bullion thai Bryan is going
to be elected and that free coinage is
going to raise the price of silver
THE FRIEND OF THE TOLERS.
Healdsburg Tribune: The Demo-
cratic managers are seeking to present
Mr.. Bryan as the especial representa-
tive of the toiling masses. But Major
Mckinley is, in fact, a better repre-
sentative of the men who toll on the
farms and in the shops than is Mr.
Bryan. He represents the cause of
protection to American Industries, While
Mr.. Bryan represents the cause of free
+,s~ L. I1l,
outside of the economic policies repre-
sented by these Presidential candidates
Mckinley won his first public recog-
milton as the defender of coal miners.
while Mr.. Bryan won his first recogni-
ton III a speech in favor of free trade
and equal opportunity for European
industries in American markets.
TO FIND OUT.
Woodland Mail: While making a
speech in New York recently Mr.. Bryan
was asked what he would do for the
working classes and he replied as fol-
lows:
You take what I have done and
think it over and let the people de-
eide for themselves. I desire to urge
you to find out what your duty is and
then have the courage to do it."
AS his Congressional record shows
him to be an uncompromising free
trader, it ought not to take long for the
workingmen to find out what their
duty is"
PER CONTRA.
Contra Costa News: The silver min
ers want free coinage of silver at a
ratio of is to ! so that they can double
the value of the product. Per contra.
the people do not Wnt free coinage of
silver, 16 to /, because it reduces the
purchasing price of silver dollar one
half In other words, to coin all the sill
yer of the world at a ratio of Is to |.
and still maintain the purchasing price
of a silver dollar. is greater undertake
ing than any one nation can accom-
plish. DO this by international agree
ment, as the Republican platform sug-
gests, then, if the purchasing price of
a silver dollar should be decreased no
great damage will result, for we are all
on an equality.
DEMOCRACY AND CAPITAL.
San Jose Herald: Some eminentlv
respectable and conservative Republi-
can papers object to the assaults made
on capital" as they term it. by the
Democratic press. They declare that
the interests of capital and labor are
Identical; that a blow at one is a blow
at the other, and that ali the capitalists
are not Republicans. AS the
Herald understands and inculcates
Democratic principle it is far from de-
nouncing capital There would be no
sense in any such denunciation. What
is capital but the savings of labor de-
voted to business purposes and the pro-
duction and reproduction of wealth ?
What sensible man objects to that
The possession of capital makes the diff
ference between civilization and saw
agery. Even the lowest savage has
some capital II it is only a bow and ar
row with which to kill game and make
his living.
What the Herald" objects to. what
true Democracy objects to. is not capi-
tai but the abuse of capital 1t objects
to the aggregation of capital for the op-
preston of the people: to the combina-
tion of capital for the purpose of arbi-
trarily fixing wages and prices: to the
monopolization Of facilities for the pro-
duetion. distribution and exchange of
wealth. to all those modern operations
which tend to throw the control of the
business of the country into the hands