The record-union., 1897-07-04
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

| Stockton Independent: Ex-Governor
Boies of Iowa may not be seer, nor
does he or any other person have to 9
| to perceive that silver is {, dead isslh
All the noise that is being made over 1t
| is in the nature of a wake" that pre-
cedes the burial. Like the greenback
craze, it will soon be in it's grave and no
lasting monument will tell where it
sleeps when the few craven images its
vctaries now worship have gone to their
rest with it.
A WARNING.
Fresno EXpositor: A man in San
| Francisco gave his little three-year-
old daughter a teaspoonful of carbolic
acid which he mistook for cough med
| icine. If the child dies. in addition to
| the fathers sorrow he will carry with
him through life the bitter, overshad-
owing thought that he was to blame
| for his child's death. Yet in thou
sands of households everywhere deadly
drugs stand unla beled on shelves, quite
as accessible, even to children, rs the
family milk can.
BOIES BOLTS FREE SILVER.
| Los Angeles Times: Ex-Governor
Boies of Iowa-one Of the candidates
| who gave Mr.. Bryan a more or less
lively run for the Presidential nominal
ton at Chicago in 1S96-has bolted the
| 16-to-1 free coinage platform. In a
recent letter to Colonel D. M. Fox of
| Des Moines he declares that he does not
believe it possible for a political
party to succeed on a platform which
do cd of
silver at ratio of 16 TO / with gold.
I'VE have fought that battle and it is
lost" says Mr. Boies I'VE can never
| fight it over until circumstances are
more favorable to ourselves. If we are
to succeed we must abandon this ex-
treme demand The friends of free
silver, although once defeated, are not
| yet demoralized This will not be
true after a second defeat. In our
next battle we must win or our cause
| is lost
In giving at some length his further
reasons for the position he has as
| sumed, Mr. Boies expresses, indi-
rectly but unmistakably; his belief
that free coinage would mean silver
monometallism, pure and simple
which, he truly says, would increase
instead of diminishing the misfortunes
attributed to the single gold STAN
dard. 1T matters not" he adds, how
we convince the people that the gold
standard is wrong, unless we con-
| vince them that what we offer in it's
place is better instead of worse
| This is sound sense, although it comes
from source to which we have not
heretofore been accustomed to look for
| very much in the line of sound political
| doctrine. There can be no reasonable
doubt that many other of the free-sil-
yer advocates hold substantially the
| same views If they had the candor and
the courage to express their true views
| In an open and public manner The
plain facts of monetary science and of
political economics are so directly and
| so forcibly opposed to the free silver
dlctum that few men of normal intel
lect and unbiased mind can fail upon a
thorough study of the subject to arrive
at conclusions antagonistic to the the
ories and schemes of the silyerite ex-
| tremsts.
THE SAME OLD DRAFT.
Redding Free Press: In this country
| the Democrat and Populist parties
SNNAAi ~ OC dp1uly IHeTS1nS INTO one
organization with Bryan and free sill
yer the center of attraction. If it is
true that Bryan is trying to save his
country and that the old Democratic
party has been born again." then why
not! 1t has been truly said that the
Democratic party has more lives than a
cat, and that it cannot die. Once a
strong protection party, it went over to
free trade with Grover the first. Now
1t has gone over to free silver with
Bryan. 1t is anything to WIN but with
all its disguises it is the Democratic
| party still, and as such combines all
dissatisfied elements in a warfare
against the Republican party and prog
ress.
DON'T CROWD.
Fresno Republican: In a general way
the world would like to know what
Rudyard Kipling is doing to earn his
SoUuO a month as war correspondent -
Exchange
Sh! don't crowd the monkey. Rud-
yard hasn't recovered yet from the la
Dor pains that accompanied the birth
OF his now famous expression. "a rag
a bone and hank of hair" When he
has and begins writing about the
Graeco-Turkish war Steve Crane Will
not be in it,
CHILDS OUT
Bakersfield Californian: Professor
CEilds has lost his position as teacher
in the San Jose Normal School. Last
year. through the influence OF Governor
Budd, he was deposed from the princi-
p&lship and this year he goes out en-
tirely. Yet he is one of the ablest school
men in the State and if we mistake not
his removal will not prove best for the
institution With which he has been so
long connected.
A POLITICO-HISTORI QUESTION
Modesto News: There is a polltico-
historic question OF the present day
which threatens to go into history along
with the unsolved mystery Of the man i'll
the iron mask. 1t is the question as to
what made the Jameson trial in England
end so suddenly and inconclusively. 1t