The record-union., 1896-07-09
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALI
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, TheOret-
icaI and Current.

Oakland Tribune: California, of all |
States in the Union, is directly inter- |
ested In protection. There is hardly an |
industry in this State, except mining, |
that is not directly ard specifically de- |
pendent upon protection for success |
Especially is this the case with its infant |
manufacturing industries-and greater |
still in it's present wool and wine pro-
ducts. 1t is a gold producing State |
and it's agricultural productions COM
mand gold payments. and the people |
ought to fully comprehend their inter- |
eStS and welfare in this crisis upon |
which depends a return to prosperity |
or another four years of depression |
stagnation of business and demoraliza- |
ton which threaten u.s. It is time for |
calm reason and careful study of the
situation, that the best remedy for pres |!
ent evils may be seized upon.
THE ANARCHIST SYMPATHIZER. !
Los Angeles Times: The prominence |
OF the anarchist sympathizer, John p |
A1tgeld of Illinois, is what is distress
ing the law abiding and loyal element in
the Democratic party. The Peoria Con-
vention, last week, failed to show that
anybody else but Altgeld was 'in it,
from start to finish. There was never |
more devilish lot of villains than the
Haymarket rioters of Chicago, and Alt
geld pardoned all of them that he could
find unhung. Should he receive a
| place on the Democratic national ticket?
The law-abiding men will break to Nc
| Kinley just as the war Democrats rail-
| lied in 1861 to the support of honest old
Abraham Lincoln.
WILL CARRY CALIFORNIA.
Los Angeles Times: That Mckinley
will carry California by a larger major
| ity than any candidate has done in the
| past is foregone conclusion, but just
| how large is point on which the best
| judges disagree. The Democratic pa
| pers all point to the money plank in the
| st. Louis platform and talk about the
detection of silver Republicans from the
! ranks. But they overlook one point in
| McKinley's favor that will make him
three votes where he loses one on the
silver craze. 1t is his authorship of
| the tariff of 1890, and the men who
will rush to his support are the fruit
growers of California. in a legion, on
| that very account.
| Just hereabouts 1t will not make any
particular difference. The vote of the
counties south of the great Tehachapi
range is naturally Republican, and they
| will see no reason for boiling so sturdy
and manly an exponent of Republican
principles as Mckinley at this late day. |
| The great protectionist will lose no
strength in Southern California, either
| from the recalcitrance of silver advo-
| Gates or for any other reason. The only
| Republican losses by reason of Teller's
bolt will be In the counties Of San Fran
cisco and Alameda, where silver clubs
have been in existence for several years
and are we'll organized. But there will
| be gains elsewhere.
TRUE BIMETALLISM.
| Portland Oregonian: The Bimetallic
| League in its official statement, says:
| The aim of this league is to secure by
| international agreement the opening of
the mints Of the leading commercial ma
| tions to the unrestricted coinage of gold
and silver at such fixed ratio as may be
| mutually agreed upon amongst those
nations"
| This is bimetallisn1- 1t Is the only pos
sible bimetallism. It Is Is the bimetal
| lism that the Republican platform calls
| for. 1t is the bimetallism that Whitney
mending to the Democratic party, in
stead Of that silver monometallism
which would be the result Of free and
independent coinage of silver by the
| United States. The "Oregonian" freely
admits that it sees little present pros
pect of securing international action
and agreement, and is not altogether
sanguine as to the result, even If such
| agreement should be obtained But
neither of these doubts is any part of
the present question. No nation can do
this alone. The leading commercial ma
tions may accomplish it together. But,
whether they do or not, or can or not,
there is no other way. Isolated action
by any nation, in the name of bimetal
| lism, would not give such nation the
| joint standard, but would throw it off
| the gold basis and reduce it to silver
| monometalliSm.
THE GUILTY ROGUE.
| Stockton Independent: Hildreth, in
| his history of the United States, which
! is one Of the best, IL not absolutely the
| best, ever written, shows that all the
| serious errors on the subject of the tariff
were perpetrated by the Democrats and
! their predecessors. He says in sub
stance that protection was always sue
| ceSSfuI When managed Dy It's fr1endS,
and only failed when it's enemies, who
| did not understand 1t, attempted to act
upon it. The Republican party has al
ways been the friend of protection, as
| was it's predecessor, the Whig party,
and is the safest to trust to restore and
manage protection, because it under
stands it, believes in it and sympathizes
| with it's object, the up-building of
| American industries.
NEVER HAD BUT ONE.
| Tulare Register: 1t is popularity sup
posed that the coinage Of silver has en-
| During June the mints We're especially
| busy and among other coins struck were
| 100000 standard dollar pieces. There
were also coined 81 ,643, 423 in subsidiary
silver coin, 500, ,019 in nickels and cop
| pers and last, but by no means least
were $4, ,623, ,929 in good gold of the
realm. Kindly remember, too, that
every one of these dollars is as good as
the. best gold and it Is all standard
money except the fractional pieces used
! for change. Two half dollars do not
weigh as much as silver dollar. They
/ have not since 1853 when the weight
| Of the half dollar was cut down from
206A grains to 1872 grains and for the
reason that all the silver coin of full
| weight was put into the melting pot as
soon as issued for it was worth more as
bullion than as silver and it all went
abroad or was used In the arts. To stop