The record-union., 1896-08-03
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complain.
SENSIBLE SICKLES.
Marysville Appeal: General Sickles
says that he and his comrades of the
Union army were not accustomed to
use blank cartridges when in the pres
ence of the enemy; therefore he did not
propose to throw away his vote on
third candidate. Nor were they in the
habit of withholding their fire when
asSailed; therefore he doesn't mean to
stay at home and not vote at all. Il
shall give a patriotic vote for my COM
rade Major Mckinley" he declares,
believing that in so doing / am re-
peating what I did in "a, when as a
war Democrat, I voted for Lincoln and
the Union" General Sickles is only
one of many thousands Of loyal and
sensible Democrats who take this view
of the situation.
FAVORS BIMETALLISM.
Sunday News: A correspondent asks
If we are opposed to bimetallism. Not
on your life; but we are opposed to any
scheme to enrich a few rich silver
miners at the expense of the people,
or to any scheme whatever that will
force our people to take dollars that
nobody else on earth will take. We
favor an American dollar that is good
the world around bearing on it's face
testimony to the honor of the republic.
DON'T FORGET IT.
Pasadena Star: The real issue be-
tween Democracy and Republicanism
is protection and free trade; but when
Democracy gets hard pressed, as in the
present instance, it has the faculty,
like the cutie fish, Of obscuring its
true position by an inky substance
that beclouds the water and covers it's
flight. So now when free trade is SO
clearly beaten that it no longer serves
as a decent defense, the foxy old party
amuses the public with the financial
question and obscures the water with
that until voters have well nigh for
gotten all about the real issue-protec-
ton Of free trade. Don't be deceived
by it, citizens, it is only clap-trap.
APPLIED FREE TRADE.
San Jose Mercury: 1t is char
acteristic of the Democratic free
trader that in discussing the tariff
be eliminates completely the question
Of labor. He holds to the theory that
If American labor cannot live UP to the
American standard of decency and
comfort and still compete with the
pauper labor Of Europe or of Asia, then
so much the worse for American labor.
Let the American workingnan get used
to living on black bread and rice; let
him sleep in a hut, refrain from mar
fying, give up all aspirations for the ac-
Guirement of information or knowl-
edge, cease to strive for the betterment
q his condition, and DE content to exist
on the same degraded level as his for
eign competitors, and then we will
have no difficulty i'll competing with
them. He can at least hold his own
with the two-bit labor Of Europe, and
by still further lowering his standard
Of living he can in time hope to sue
cessfully compete with the five-cent
labor Of China and japan. When that
stage shall have been reached, this
country will luxuriate in the ideal free
trade.
DEMOCRATIC ADVICE.
Oroyille Mercury: The dull times,
and hard times, and the financial strin-
gency that throttles business, are
caused by the very policy the people
are asked to indorse by the election of
Mckinley Vote for silveri Don't be
foolish and vote for protection" That
only means that you must tax yourself
for the benefit of those who promise
YOU better times.
FREE" IN NAME ONLY.
Visalia Delta: People who are car
ried away with the prospect Of free
and unlimited" coinage of silver should
consider the matter fully before voting
in November The word free" has a
It1< iy,nn &c
are misnomers The Delta" believes
in legislation favorable to silver, and
should like to see the whole American
product coined or represented by silver
certificates, but it is not in favor of un-
limited coinage of silver. We must not
forget that coinage of silver was great
er after demonetization than before
From 1892 to 1873, when silver was de-
monetized, period of eighty-one years
there was coined 10000, 900 silver dol
lars, whereas in the twenty-th three years
since 1873 there have been coined 500,-
100000 silver dollars. We must re-
member that there is a distinction be-
tween legislating in favor Of silver an6
legislating in the interest of silver mine
owners and spectators.
What advantage will it be to have the
mints running to their full capacity
coming silver If the people have no
some means of getting possession Of it
1t is not to be distributed to them like
air. To get 1t they must exchange fol
it products or labor Without a demand
for produce or labor they will be unable
TO obtain any portion of the free" sill
YER What is needed is a policy that viii
restore confidence, reopen manufactor
les, shut off the supply of foreign-madt
articles, and produce and use article:
of home manufacture instead, thus re
quiring the employment of American
operatives whose families will consum,
the product of American mines, farms
and mills
BANKS AND BANKERS.
Oakland Enquirer: A certain clas.
of people insist that bankers have al
interest in the money question antago
nistic to that of the public generally
that said interest is to be served by
continuance of the gold standard. Will.
that Of the common people" is to b.
best served by the adoption of fre'
coinage of silver. Such an argumen
indicates a lack of information. Bank
are conducted on precisely the sam
business principles as are mercantil
establishments, manufactures, hotels
railroads or any other enterprise whicl
depends upon public patronage. None.
locked up in bank vaults is as exasper
atfng to bankers as is stock of mer
chandise with no demand therefor t
the owner To savings bank deposit
ors interest must be paid whether th'