The record-union., 1897-07-28

NnOSC ICtOIu Is NIiLlC1i tll ONeI Will
failure, survive the strain. And there
never was a safer prediction made than
if the whole problem of government
We're again put into the hands of these
frothy shouters that they could not
within years time frame a tariff bill
or any other kind of revenue measure
that would give the beneficial results
TO the country that will come TO it from
the tariff measure now to become
law
No man of sound mind would think
of trusting a party so full of undigested
schemes and complicated theories and
general chaos of ideas to take charge
of and manage any kind of business,
to say nothing Of the complicated ma
chinery of this great Government.
MORE BRYAN FALSEHOODS.
Stockton Independent: Mr.. Bryan ap-
peals, in every speech he makes, TO
the spirit of discomfort and in so doing
deals in innuendo which implies with
out saying outright that the country
is landlord ridden and the people OPP
pressed by the tyranny of land own
ers. In his speech in Alameda on the
fth inst. he dealt in this dishonest style
of argument and uses substantially the
same language everywhere he speaks
In that speech he said:
"A land of landlord and tenant, my
friends, is not the land in which free
Government grows A land of home
owners is the land where such a Gov
ernment grows and prospers."
In the compendium of the census of
1890, part 3, recently issued, on page
1,01S, viii be found a very full and
forcible refutation of the falSehoOd Bry-
an thus conveys without plainly stat
ing. 1t shows that of the farmers OF
the United States 81. .4S per cent. lit
tie over half, owned their farms. They
numbered 1890, 152 owners, and of
these 40, 100 were either negroes or
had negro blood On page 1,0S0 it is
stated that of the farm and home own
ers S,O21 ,434 are natives, exclusive Of
the colored 1,410, ,769, which shows that
q, 3,20I ,949 immigrants have acquired
farms and homes, and of the natives
1,Ilo,5 ,523 have foreign parents. From
these figures it is plain that this is not
a country of landlords and tenants, as
Bryan seeks to make it appear and
that considering the vast influx of for
eign immigration it is an excellent
country in which to acquire homes and
be free from the eXactions of landlords.
OF the farms and homes owned by the
occupants 1929 per cent. are free from
incumbrance and only 1911 per cent.
subject to mortgage. When it is re-
membered that this statement includes
homes in large number of cities where
people more generally live in rented
houses, the showing is particularly ia
VOrable for farmers. Even the colored
people, who have been only little over
thirty years free from slavery have
done Well, for 1929 per cent. of the
| negroes have no incumbrance on their
homes, while S7.12 per cent. of those of
mixed blood are equally free. In a
country so much of which is new and
but recently settled and into which has
poured, ever since it has been free, an
almost uninterrupted stream Of immi-
grafton from all European countries.
most of them without the money 10
acquire homes until they have earned
and saved it, this is a remarkably good
showing. Even in Illinois. Mr.. Bryan's
native State, with its Lord Scully" and
other great land owners of rack-rent
| farms and it's large cities, 1911 per
cent of the whole people live in their
own homes and of these 6S.33 per cent.
have no incumbrance on their property.
THE ANNEXATION NATTER.
Contra Costa Gazette: The argument
is used by the opponents of annexation
| that the Hawaiian Islands are too far
from our shores to warrant the coun-
try in annexing them. This shows a
| lack of geographical knowledge. BY
consulting a map it is at once seen
that the Aleutian Islands in Alaska
are 2S degrees of longitude farther
west than Hawaii, and the Island of
AttC, one of the chain of islands, is
but 400 miles from the coast of Japan.
This island has a good harbor, and is
valuable from a naval standpoint.
There is also a good harbor in the
Island of UnalaSka, another OF our
possessions, and this is 1,O00 miles
nearer than Hawaii to Japan. In point
of fact more than half of the Aleutian
Islands are geographically in Asia. The
natives are less intelligent than those
of Hawaii. but no one has objected to
holding the islands on account of the
ignorant population. In addition to the
Alaskan ports the United States needs
the Hawaiian group to defend our
rights in the Pacific and there should
be no necessary delay in the adoption
of the treaty Of annexation.
GO PREPARED.
Oakland Tribune: There is no excuse
now for anyone to go north unprepared,
for the inevitable privations and ex-
penses. During the past few days the
axVInita6 the nTOnOEltiOn
very thoroughly, and although the ad-
vice has been more of the tenor to go
than to stay away, sufficient warnings
have been given to check all foolhardy
| adventures. Those who cannot af-
! ford to lay in the necessary stock or
provisions and meet the climate rigors
| of the Arctic zone have no business
there. For every one who succeeds up
north, hundreds will fail, and in any
event the fight will be the hardest man
| ever undertook. 1t may be argued
| that the trip to Clondyke is attended by
| no more dangers than those that sur
/ rounded the California Argonauts who
/ had to cross the plains and brave the
| perils of the redskin bands, who were
prowling around the trails, watching
/ every opportunity to massacre the
venturesome emigrantS. In that sense
! it is true that the danger is at mini
mum, but On the other hand must be
! taken the terrors of the bleak, Arctic
winter, where the thermometer regis
! ters 80 degrees below zero, and where
nature does not furnish even blade of
/ grass to sustain life. If the prospector
were absolutely certain that his trip
meant a fortune, things might not be
so bad, but when it is remembered that
after having all these terrors there is