The record-union., 1897-10-30

SlStent. Ihey desired only 10 see
good, broad, modern highway construct
ed, on easy grades, so as TO make the
wonders of the valley accessible TO all
who desired to visit it, but as TO the
point of entrance, or the proposed route,
they had little choice.
Commissioner Price explained that
an easy grade might be had by ascend
ing the Tuolumne River number or
miles and then crossing the divide into
the Merced River Valley, and also that
an excellent and perfect grade might pc
had by ascending the Merced RIVER
from the boundary of the park TO the
Yosemite.
After considerable discussion the
sense of the meeting was found to be
that the Merced River route was the
proper and most practicable one, ana
it was decided to so recommend to the
Federal Government by petition or
otherwise
HE WAS RIGHT.
Redding Free Press: 1t was Just
about this time a year ago when Bryan
was asserting that the country was sut-
fering from a lack of currency which
could only be supplied by the free and
unlimited coinage of silver. But 1ree
and unlimited coinage was not put IN
operation yet the October statement
of the Treasury Department shows that
| there is $96, ,53S 249 more money in cir
culation than in October, 1896. Just
think. almost ove hundred million dol
lars more in circulation. Surely Nc
KinIey was right when he said 1t was
better to open the mills of the country
| than the mints.
THE CHEROKEES.
San Jose Herald: Now the full-blood
Cherokees are talking about armed re-
sistance to the proposed change in the
government of the nation. That would
merely hasten and vindicate the
change. Between resistance and emf
| grafton TO Mexico the latter would be
preferable. But still would it be for
| the Cberokees to complete the civiliza-
| ton to which they have advanced half
way and become a full-hedged Terri
tory and eventually State of the Union.
GIVE US A REST.
| Los Angeles Express: The expected
| has come to pass. Lord Salisbury has
| notified the Wolcott International Mon
| etary Commission that the British
! Government is not able to open the
| indian mints at present and that it
does not see the desirability of an IN
ternational monetary conference.
President Mckinley has conscien-
tiously discharged the obligation i'm
posed by the St Louis platform. He
has done everything in his power to
! bring about bimetallsm through inter-
national agreement The Wolcott COM
mission accomplished far more than
even it's friends expected of it; but
the stand taken by the Government and
| people of Great Britain early preclud-
ed hope of final and complete success.
| Now, let us have rest for a time.
The country needs it. This everlast-
| ing agitation of the currency question
| for political purposes has done much
to injure the business interests of the
country, which are beginning to recover
from the effects of the terrible panic
of 1898 and the ensuing season of de-
preston. The new tariff law is get
ting into good working order Conf
dence is restored. Let us give the
natural course of business a chance.
1t is proper that such bodies as the
indianapolis Commission, a private or
ganization, should take advantage Of
|
thoroughly investigate the currency
situation, with a view to the ultimate
adoption by the country of an improv-
ed system, which is certainly badly
needed. But there is no need to take
the matter up in Congress next winter
Such a move would obviously be fol
political purposes. 1t would danger
ously disturb the favorable conditions
that now exist.
A year from now, when the condi-
tions have crystallized into reason.
able degree of permanency, and wher
there " i'll probably be no fear that the
discussion of the currency question
would be a menace to business anC
industrial interests. it will doubtless bt
a favorable time to consider what re
forms are needed and to put the bes-
feasible plan into practice. Just now
we need a rest more than we do any.
thing else.
A MERE FAD.
Alameda Argus: The big journals
which have fallen into the fad of the
double column editorial have, uncon
sciously, perhaps, instituted a new
worry for their readers. The wide edi
torial is not inviting. 1t is a dreary
block of printing, with few photographic
rests, and, unless its opening sen
tence is peculiarly incisive and strik
ing, is not so apt to get read as is the
single column editorial. We have Il
confess that we seldom read it, while
the opinion of the editor set in norma
fashion, with an expressive heading
and frequent breaks in paragraphs, WI
are often beguiled into perusing. We
have come to the firm conclusion tha
the readers of newspapers do not de-
mand topographic gymnastics, bu
know good reading when they see it
and appreciate simplicity in the me.
chanics of their paper. They are moi
likely to be compensated by freakS