The record-union., 1897-05-21


the tariff of 1888. The revenue will be
less under the Dingley bill than it was
under the Mckinley Act, and in no
other year in the history of tariff legis-
lation has the deficit been so large as it
was under the last year of Mckinley
| ism.
LABOR EXCHANGE STORES.
! Alameda Encinal: The labor eX-
change sawmill and store in Santa
Cruz have passed into the hands Of
private owners. The experiment has
awakened a widespread interest among
| the class of people of most affected, and
the result only confirms the fallacy of
attempting to do business on principles
at variance with the accepted laws of
competition, supply and demand-Post.
| This is a repetition of what was pre-
dicted regarding the fate of the coop
erative stores when they were first
started in England. Yet those stores
have achieved a phenomenal success.
/ There have been some failures, owing
to bad management, but that is no
argument against the system any
more than is the failure of the Santa
Cruz Exchange an argument against
| that idea. The trouble with the Santa
Cruz scheme was that the exchange
produced but one thing for sale, and
the market for that one thing was al
ready oversupplied. 1t was bad man
agement and not the fault of the labor
exchange plan in any way.
| PAY FOR LOBBYING.
Riverside Press: The Regents of the
State University have under consider
alton q claim of 81 $50 from ex-Assem-
iblyma julius Kahn of San Francisco for
legal services Investigation shows
that the legal services" in question con-
sisted of lobbying at the Legislature in
the interest of securing an increased ap-
preparation for the university. 1t was
acknowledged at Sacramento that the
main work of securing the increased ap-
proDriation was done by Senator STRAIT
ton, Assemblyman Wright and Regents
| Rodgers and Slack. 1t certainly seems
a very curious condition of affairs if it
| is necessary for the State University to
spend 81 80 to lobby in it's behalf at the
Legislature.
WOMAN KEEPS MOVING.
Carson Appeal While Irish and Eng
lsh girls are coming to this country to
look for work, it is noted that there is a
large influx of German girls at London.
Berlin may have to make up the def
cheney from Russia, and Russia from
Central Asia. SO the world goes round
and woman keeps moving.
SHOULD REMEMBER IT.
Riverside Globe: There are over 600
paragraphs in the new tariff bill, and
in many cases each paragraph relates
/ - Il &c ;<.1-
1t is not surprising, therefore, that
manufacturers are not able to push
business when the prices at which these
articles will be brought into this coun-
try are still undetermined. Those who
complain that business activity is not
yet fully apparent should remember
| this.
THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER.
Marysville Democrat: The prevailing
opinion among advertisers, that the val
ue of a publication as an advertising
medium depends wholly upon the ex-
| tent of its circulation, works great in
justice to the publishers of legitimate
| country newspapers, and is the cause
of much pecuniary loss both to such
| publishers and to the advertisers them
selves This absurd and damaging idea
| is unconsciously fostered and kept alive
by the makers of newspaper directories
who, in their zeal to correctly report
the circulation of every publication in
| the land, entirely overlook the more
! important feature of the character OF
the publication.
The circulation of the average coun-
try newspaper is uniformly small, but
1 ar1xr of
into the rural home, where it is read
and e-read-advertiseme and all
by nearly every member of the family;
it is then often loaned to the neigh
bors, who eagerly devour its contents
from first to last, and finally it is
wrapped UP and mailed to an absent
| friend ito save writing letters
THE CUBAN MESSAGE.
Oakland Enquirer: President McKin-
| ley does not blow a very loud note upon
the trumpet of nationality in the
message submitted to Congress to-day
It is remarkably brief and is confined
to giving information of the distress
of 600 or 700 Americans in Cuba, and
! to recommending an appropriation OF
| $50, 900 to relieve their necessities or to
take them out of the unfortunate coun-
| try. If the President thinks the time
| has come for any change of policy re-
garding the war in Cuba, he must be
keeping the fact for discussion in an
other message. We think there is a
general feeling among even conserva-
| tive people that the time has come to
say something, and hence we hope for
another message of a different charac-
/ ter in a few days
TARIFF PROVISIONS
San Diego Union: The tariff bill as re-
ported to the Senate contains some pro-
visions that viii please people who be-
! lieve that legislation should make easy
| the path to education and culture. The
billin this respect is quite different from
that which passed the House BY the
Senate books, prints and charts more
| than twenty years old and books in
foreign languages of any age are kept
on the free list. 1t was the idea OF
putting a % per cent. duty on such i'm
portations which called forth the most
| objections. Works of art are also
placed on the free list of the amended
bill, where they are at present. Gus
| toms officials claim that there have
| been many fraudulent importations un-
der cover of such provisions. but the
Senate Finance Committee thinks that
free entry of bona fide works of art
is not to be set aside on that account
II iS probable however that in view Of