The record-union., 1897-07-29
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

! 1uIdre Register. AT idSl lihClC 10 q
new tariff measure to rejoice the coun-
| try. 1t has been a long and hard
| struggle to enact a new tariff law, put
! the struggle is over, and business can
now go forward knowing what to count
on. We will not risk any comments
/ on the tariff law at this time. we 90
not know much about its provisions
and will not until a copy of the law
| has been obtained and comparisons IN
stituted. This much we do know, how
ever, it is essentially protective meas
ure from beginning to end, ana WILL
| as far as possible, give the home mar
ket to the home producer, and that is
as it should be- Let US hope that there
! will be no more tariff tinkering Tor
/ ten years at all events, and 1T would
be better if there We're to be none until
| this generation of men should nave
passed away.
THE TRADE REVIVAL.
San Jose Mercury: Political pessi-
mists of the Bryan faith refuse to ac-
/ knowledge that the times are any bet
ter to-day than they We're year ago,
notwithstanding the fact that the re-
ports from all sections of the country
are to the effect that there is general
feeling of confidence in the future, that
more money is going into clrculatlon,
| that business has been gradually re-
| viving that the tendency OF prices 1or
nearly all staple products is upward,
and that there is not one idle man now
! where there were five last year. NO
man is so blind as he who will not see,
but fortunately the calamity hoWlers
| cannot alter existing facts by STUB
| bornly closing their eyes to them Ihe
ostrich that sticks it's head in the sand
and imagines that it is hidden from It's
pursuers is not a wise bird, but his
foolishness is no more conspicuous than
that of the individual who Will not rec
osnize a fact when he sees 1t because
| it happens to disagree with some pre-
conceived opinion or prejudice when
he has entertained.
IT IS NEWS.
| Los Angeles Herald: The big dailies
print column after column of advice TO
their readers not to go to the Clonoyhe
mines. and deplore the fever that has
come over everybody to seek their for-
| tune in that far-off land of ice and
snow. The same papers publish pages
of matter about these same mines that
1 11Ge the HlluQS VI lllS uiiAOAS NA~ ~N
! fuel to the fire of greed that is re-
sponsible for the exodus to Alaska.
With this infammatory matter left
out, there would be little need of re-
peated warnings for poor people to stay
| at home.-San Pedro American
| The American takes a wrong view
of the matter. The newspapers are pup
| lished for the purpose of furnishing the
news to the public. What they nave
printed in their news columns ABOUT the
Clondyke region is what has been SAD
| and what has been done by those VINO
| have been there But not even the
news columns have deliberately fired
the hearts of those who are greedy for
! gold. They have simply printed the
| facts as the reporters nave 1ouhu
| them. There never before has been
great gold discovery where the stories
! told have been so substantially backed
up by the actual visible product as has
the tale of the Clondyke region.
THE WAVE HAS COME.
| Stockton Record: The first week
under the Dingley bill has started ana
| the country has again launched into
actual conditions instead of bolstering
itself with impalpable theories. me
mere fact that the new bill will sup
ply sufficient revenue to keep the Gov
| ernment out of the clutches or the
Rothschilds is the first great gain. Al
ter that is the confidence that the bus
mess men feel, the activity that conf-
dence brings, and the stimulation OF
renewed hope.
The era that the country now enters
will be the most prosperous in the
history of the country. The habits OF
| the people have been chastened by
the experiment with Democracy and
| CIevelandism: wastefulness has been
checked: exaggeration of values, the
product of over booming, has ceased,
and the people are now ready to ac-
cept prosperity along legitimate lines.
The vaults of the country are filled
with money ready to back enterprise
| the moment it is seen the loud
mouthed agitator has given way to
| the willing laborer. Never in the
| history of the world has there
! been in one nation so much ldle
| money as the stores of the United
| States to-day. 1t is all available for
use, and in less than three years will
| be as actively engaged in enterprise
as it was in the busiest period before
| free trade. Clevelandism and other
errors stalked over the land. The
| country is actually redeemed, and
| those who doubt it are the ones that
| will get left in the race during the
next few years.
San Diego Union: 1t is certainly
unfortunate that there is no way of
preventing men who are almost with
out means and know nothing of min
! ing, from getting themselves trans
ported to the Klondyke, there to take
their chances of finding gold or starv-
| ing to death 1t appears from this
mornings dispatches from San Fran
| cisco that some of the gold-seekers
| who are now hurrying north, belong to
| this class OF course If a man can
| pay his passage, the steamer lines will
| carry him, even though he may not
| have the price of a meal when he
reaches Alaska. Happily, it requires
| considerable money even to go to the
Klondyke, and the man who can get
| together enough to take him there can
| in most cases raise a little extra. There
| is certainly a rush of improvident fell
| lows, and it is very possible that some
| terrible scenes of suffering may be
| witnessed a few months hence in the
new gold fields. But there is no doubt
| that the stiff price of transportation
will deter many who might otherwise
swell the army Of the hungry. Under
! the circumstances it is fortunate that
| the journey is so costly.
NEWS FROM THE FAR NORTH.
| Los Angeles Times: One of the
/ q lna nlzS Of 1ife. in the navy rntin FL