The record-union., 1897-07-04
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EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

| Stockton independent: Ex-Governor
Boies of Iowa may not be a seer, MOI
does he or any other person have to =
to perceive that silver is q dead issh
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 its grave and no
lasting monument will tell where 1t
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 abeled 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 more or less
lively run for the Presidential nominal
ton at Chicago in 1S96-has bolted the
16to-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
demands the unqualified free coinage OF
silver at ratio of is to j 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;
"Aii%iB iiC II uIS says, "OdIu ilCISdSc
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 its
place is better instead of worse"
This is sound sense, although it comes
from a 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
dictum that few men of normal intel
lect and unbiased mind can fail upon a
thorough study of the subject to arrive
at conclusions anita gonistic to the the
orles and schemes of the silverite ex-
tremists
THE SAME OLD DRAFT.
Redding Free Press: In this country
seem to be rapidly merging into one
organization with Bryan and free sill
yer the center of attraction. If il is
true that Bryan is trying to save his
country and that the old Democra tic
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
IL mas 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
So,oOO month as war correspondent
Exchange.
Sh! don't crowd the monkey Rud
yard hasn't recovered yet from the Ia
Dor pains that accompanied the birth
OF his now famous expression. "a RAJ
bone and a 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
i'll the San Jose Normal School. Last
year, through the influence OF Governor
Budd, he was deposed from the princi-
pG1Shlp 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 ITICO-HISTORIC QUESTION
Modesto News: There is a politico-
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 inconcMsiveiy. 1t