The record-union., 1896-09-04
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Coast Newspapers in
Brief,
On All Shades of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics Of
the Day.

Tulare Register: Never until the
Justice Court lawyer from Lincoln
went East to talk of the 'enemy's coun-
try has a man nominated for the high
office of President attempted to array
men against the one who provided
them with work tits "a species of cam
paigning which would not be resorted
TO by a candidate for Constable in Tu-
lare County. 1t is a method which
ould not be resorted to by an honest
man with sufficient judgment to realize
the nature of his work.
LOPSIDED VIEWS.
Fresno EXpositor The whole argu-
nent of the Eastern gold standard
papers is from the standpoint of the
consumer without regard TO the pro-
ducer They do not seem to consider
or comprehend that the prosperity of
the one cannot be maintained on the
downfall of the other, that they are
interdependent and must rise or fall
together. And this one-sided view is
largely characteristic of the Republican
party itself in its later phases. Its
system of political economy is founded
on the narrow manufacturing town
side of life-a view which assumes that
the labor question is circumscribed by
the four walls of the big factory. The
millions of toilers in the fields and on
the farms and in the mines are not only
looked upon with contempt, but their
claims are considered of no weight or
consequence on economic questions.
Heretofore they have been practically
voiceless class to be used and hood
;nIy hai lai 9
ignored with impunity, but such is no
longer the case.
MINT CAPACITY.
Oakland Enquirer: Charles @. Yale,
the statistician of the San Francisco
Mint, is one of the writers represented
in the silver edition Of the Exam
iner" He was asked to show what the
real capacity of the mints Of the United
States is for the coinage of silver, and
he answers that the greatest amount
coined in a single year is $39, 2O2.
sos 20, and that by taking the largest
silver coinage in different years of the
separate mints, an aggregate of S49,
304 ,415 is obtained: but this was only
reached by reducing the amount of gold
coined. In conclusion, Mr.. Yale says:
| Statements that the San Francisco
Mint has coined as nigh as $4,000 a
month, and that all the mints could
coin from 100000, 900 to $3.50, OO0, ,00C
Of silver annually. are manifestly in
correct, as shown by the above state
me nt." This ought to set at rest one
nlisstatement made by our free silver
| friends.
| AN ANSWER.
! Reno Gazette: In answer to the Car
son Appeals editorial asking the
| Gazette" IF the free coinage of Amer
| lean silver is good, why would not the
| free coinage of the worlds silver be
| better?" we will say that the United
| States is a great and powerful nation
| but when it tries to regulate the none
| tary system Of the world and open heI
mints to the free and unlimited coinage
| of the worlds silver that is only worth
sixty odd cents an ounce, she is, to use
a vulgar saying, biting off more than
| she can chew. Such a course would
| throw us to a silver basis and pull
us down to the level of China, Japan
and Mexico.
| We think the United States could
| take care of her own silver by wise
and comprehensive system of protec-
| ton, and not particularly overburden
her people, and the TWO metals, gold