The record-union., 1897-12-03
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provement. but for the proper pro-
lection" Of the laborer. some law 10 that
purpose should be enacted. Il will re-
ceive the approval of President Mckin-
ley and will be enforced TO the letter.
Under the existing laws much good
work has been done during the present
Administration in stopping at our ports
or deporting contract lahorers.
HAVE TRIED.
Portland Oregonan: 1--WE are opposed
to free coinage of silver, except by in
ternational agreement with the leading
commercial nations of the world. which
we pledge ourselves to promote. and
until such agreement can he obta ned,
the existing gold standard must be pre-
served" Thus the Republican nation
al platform of 1896 The pledge to
promote international agreement has
been kept. The effort has been made,
through commission thoroughly de-
voted to silver, and it has failed. That
part of the Republican platform is OBJ
solete. The pledge remains that the
existing gold standard must be pre-
served How can this best be done?
Clearly, by reducing the Government
demand notes payable in gold, or those
which the Government is bound to keep
at par with gold, to an amount that will
be kept constantly in circulation. Then
the trouble will be over
A LITTLE MORE SLEEP, A LITTLE
MORE SLUMBER.
Redlands CitrograDh: The whole
State is watching San Francisco TO
see whether her merchants have the
sand and energy necessary 20 capture
the spring trade of Alaska aud the
Klondike country. Thus far Seattle has
spent thousands of dollars in the Last
in advertising that energetic city as
the only proper place to outfit. San
Francisco ought to have the trade, pul
she can never succeed of she persists IN
her do-nothing policy. "Nafural ad-
vantages'' do not build cities unless
there is pluck and hustle to back them
up. Chicago had a painful lack OF nat
ural advantages. st. Louis mad a pie
thora of natural advantages. Compare
the two cities thirty years ago and
now. Chicago has wrestled success in
the very face of apparently insur-
mountable obstacles. Pluck, energy.
sand, hustle, git-up- and-git, has done
the work. San Francisco can win this
Alaska trade, and it is worth untold mil
lions. Every farmer and fruit grower
in the State is interested in seeing San
Francisco win out. Will she continue
to fold her hands and ask for little
more sleep and little more slumDer:
We shall see.
A GOOD PROPOSITION.
Fresno Republican: The Directors
of the State Board of Trade have ap
piled to the State Harbor Commission
ers for space in the new ferry building
at San Francisco, that being consd-
cred the most suitable place in which
to exhibit the products Of California to
Eastern visitors The Harbor COM
missioners. it is sad. will grant the APP
plication and set aside ample space for
a creditable exhibit. The new ferry
depot is certainly an excellent location
for such an exhibit. Indeed none bet
ter could be found in San Francisco,
and dozen persons will visit the dis
play to one in any other location.
THE TRUTH WILL OUT.
San Jose Herald: Vs. recent investi-
cation by the New York Tribune
shows that the advance in the price of
imported articles under the Dingley law
is less than l per cent. Our protec-
ton contemporaries have been informing
us all along that the advance in prices
due to the Dingley bill was what is en-
abling our manufactures to compete
with the pauper labor of Europe and
bringing good times to the country
Now on the authority of the leading
newspaper of that faith 1t appears that
the Dingley bill has had nothing to DO
with it, for it can hardly be argued.
even by the most infatuated advocate
of protection that an advance of lass
than l per cent. in prices could be of
any material service in starting up
American mills.
The Tribune" finds in the same in
vestigation that there has been a
marked increase in the prices of farm
products generally. That of course is
matter governed by circumstances
over which the tariff can exercise no
influence We are therefore once more
convinced by Republican reasoning
that the tariff has nothing to do with
whatever improvement has happened IN
business conditions. Of course we new
er had any such absurd idea, but some
Of our Republican contemporaries, with
more zeal than sense, have been making
remarks TO that effect, so it is just as
well to remind them that their own au-
thori1ies, to whom they go for guidance,
repudiate any such nonsense. We are
not quite prepared to say that they VOL
unfairly and Willingly repudiate it; but
the truth sometimes slips out in spite
of than.
BLEED NO MORE.
Oakland Enquirer: Let bleeding
Kansas bleed no more. The State Board
of Agriculture has issued an annual
crop bulletin showing the value of the
| products of the earth for the present
season. The total winter wheat yield
was 50.000.C00 bushels, worth nearly
s34. 600 ,Oo0, and the combined values of
winter and spring wheat, corn and
oats approach S67 600 600, an increase
of s15. 100000 over last year The net
increase in value of this years agri-
cultural products over that of 1896 is
$40, ,000. 600 and of live stock also $50.
O00, ,000-a total net increase of $40, ,OO0,-
900. There is plainly no reason why
Kansas should be erratic in her
| politics this year.
HERE. GENTLE SILVERITE.
Tulare Register: Here, gentle silver
ite is something for you to think of.
More than half the silver produced in
the world is produced by two systems
of mines, the Anaconda in this country
and the Broken Hill miles of Australia.
In both of these mines silver is pro-
duced absolutely without cost, the other
metals taken out with it paying all
! the expenses of operating the mines.
And these mines are now owned in
7 op5or and chiefly hy tha Rot hSc bildS