The record-union., 1897-07-02
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUD-
jects of Living News
Interest.

Riverside Enterprise: There IS lalh
Of the administration taking up tue
arbitration treaty business WITH Gn5
land for the next session OF congress
It Will not have any greater success
than the last attempt, regardless ol al
possible scaling away Of obJectloIfdole
features. There is more distrust anu
dislike Of anything of the kind To-Day
than at any time since the subject was
first approached.
GREENBACKS.
Santa Rosa Republican: BY the way
for some reason that endless cham, uiie
greenbacks, that Mr. Clevelano anu
other financiers of his school, not eA-
cepting Secretary Gage, used 10 claAiil
to be continually depicting the national
treasury of gold, making the lssuallce
of Government bonds necessary, does
not seem to be doing business under
the present administration we state
the fact and leave the explanation to
those who think they are wise.
IMPATIENT.
Stockton Record: In regard to the ex-
pected sinking of the earth's crust al
Tehuantepec, which Mexican savants
predict, it may be supposed that Provi-
dence has become a little impatient
with the delays of the United States
Government in providing for the con-
struction of the Nicaragua Canal and
has taken the matter in charge and
will make a natural channel across
Mexico.
DON'T FORGET THE GIRL
Pasadena Star: Moody is quoted as
saying that the young man of the day
has three great temptations to over
come the trolley car. bicycling and
the Sunday papers. Don't forget the
pretty girl, Brother Moody, don't for
get the pretty girl.
ITS RECORD.
Santa Rosa Republican: Can any
statistician of American political his
tory point out an administration which
has made more rapid progress in carry
ing out the pledges of the platform
upon which it was elected than that
of President Mckinley? In the few
weeks since his Inauguration he has
called Congress together and procured
the framing of and practical compile
ton of a tariff measure; has appointed
a commission to treat with foreign ma
tions for International bimetallism; has
given consideration to currency reform;
has redeemed the pledge of the plat
form with reference to the annexa-
ton of Hawaii, and is taking such
steps in the Cuban matter as viii soon
make it apparent that he has been
equally prompt and faithful in regard
TO this pledge of the platform.
NOT IN ONE DAY
Bakersfield Echo: In line with the
''Examiner's'' report that 100000 men
are idle in this country, we have an
estimate made by the Buffalo Eek
press'' that 100000 men who were idle
a vear ago are now employed. OF
course, any one but a Democratic ed
itor knows that all the mischief Of the
Wilson bill cannot be undone in a day.
ANTITRUST
Tulare Register: John Sherman has
spoken out strongly on the antitrust
question, declaring that to be the para
mount issue. There may be some
question as to its relative Importance
but none as to its Importance. 1t is
simply another form Of aggression
which humanity has had to struggle
against ever since the serpent entered
into Eden, and will doubtless have to
struggle against until the millennial
dawn. These tyrannies are always
overcome in the process of events but
a new form is straightway discovered
to take it's place A trust is an intel
ligent attempt to adapt production to
needs for consumption, and if all forms
of production could be brought into
trusts the best ends of social organiZa-
tion would be subserved. There would
be no glutted markets and no dearth
anywhere, but as all things can not be
brought under trust control, nothing
should be because the fellow who is
out gets pinched. State socialism is
only an attempt to establish an all
embracing trust, but as the thing is
not possible, human wisdom not hav-
ing the requisite prescience to foresee
human needs, State socialism is a mis-
take All trusts should be prohibited
and must be prohibited.
BOIES AND BRYAN.
San Diego Union: 1t is very possi-
BILE that the letter which Ex-Governor
Boies of Iowa has just written to a
prominent Democratic politician of DeS
Moines, may prove the entering wedge
of a strong movement against Bryan
ism in the Democratic party. In that
letter the Ex-Governor says: For
one I do not believe it possible to sue
ceed on a platform that demands the
unqualified free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to l with gold We have
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