The record-union., 1897-06-14
. VOICE OF TEE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
iects of Living and News
Interest.

riverside Press: Mr.. Bryan mas au-
vised the Fresno committee to make the
platform from which he is to speak
there small, near the ground and
strong" 1t is possible that he still has
faint recollection of the collapse of
the Chicago platform on last election
! day, and his experiences in that con-
n6ction has made him cautious regard
ing all sorts of platforms. A platform
that is small and near the ground" is
certainly about Mr.. Bryan's size.
WHAT, AFTER ALL?
| Tulare Times: Now, it is reported
that perhaps after all the sugar trust
will not get all the tariff they have so
nicely planned for. What! Is it pos
sible that the protestations of the
American people are to have some eff
feet on the sugar-cured hearts of the
Senators at Washington?
A QUESTION OF PATRIOTISM.
Fresno Expositor: There are 125
young men in the San Bernardino High
School, and when the Principal asked
how many would volunteer to march in
the Memorial Day procession only seven
responded. 1t is evident that lessons in
patriotism are not sufficiently instilled
! in the minds of the youth in many of
the schools of this State. Such a show
ing as that reported is a disgrace, and
| is evidence that there is something rad
ically wrong in the conduct of the
schools which can produce youths who
are so ignorant of the first principles of
patriotism as this would Indicate
Alameda Encinal
Oh we don't know. 1t can hardly be
called lack of patriotism Perhaps
thoughtlessness is the thing it is 1t
can hardly be expected that the young
people now growing up should have an
| appreciation of what the war meant
| But we have no fears that in the event
of another such war in the future our
young people would not be found just
as ready to take up arms in their
country's defense as were those of an
earlier generation.
The survivors of the war feel very
different about this question They
come out to pay tributes to the valor Of
the comrades dead and to refight in
their minds the battles of yore To
them it is almost real, but to those who
have been born since the war it is not so
real. To them it is sort of a dream,
| JN-e 49, NAAN oNOAy VI Ii ~ anu 1O1Z Is
to us.
These San Bernardino High School
| boys are not lacking in patriotism.
That impulse in their natures has not
been played upon. They are undoubt-
edly just as patriotic as their elders.
The latter are called upon by the Grand
Army every year to join in the Memo
rial Day professions, but how many
turn out. Not one in a hundred. but
they are not unpatriotic, they are SIM
ply thoughtless, Indifferent.
SPURIOUS COINAGE.
Santa Rosa Republican,: The Govern
ment has a vexatious silver coinage
| question to contend With-an evil that
is now great and that continues to in
crease. 1t is estimated that silver half
dollars whose face value aggregates
Sl,oO0,OO have been coined outside of
national mints by private individuals.
These contain the requisite amount of
silver and cost the coiner about "A
cents each. They are so nearly per-
| feet in workmanship that it is well nigh
| impossible even for experts to detect
them. Banks receive them everyday
ana there is little doubt of many of them
having found their way into the ma
tional treasury. The policy of the Gov
ernment makes each of these twenty
four cent pieces a half dollar-thus en-
rlching these spurious coiners some
three-fourths of a million dollars at the
| expense of the entire people. 1t is an
evil that comes from having coins whose
face value and intrinsic value are diff
ferent The longer this condition pre-
walls the more spurious coinage will be
put afioat until the country will be
literally flooded with 24-cent half dol
lars and 50-cent dollars. 1t is not likely
that the country will have much busi-
ness stability while such a financial con-
dition exists.
HE STILL LIVES.
Los Angeles Times: The killing of
one lawyer by another in open court on
Tuesday last in Arkansas, and the
slaughter of an eX-Mayor by a Mayor
in jamestown, Miss, on the same day,
afford evidence that the Southern fire
| eater was not exterminated by the war.
He and his ready gun or trusty bowie
may be depended upon to turn loose and
shoot and cut on slight provocation.
Gamey, hospitable and chivalrous as
are our Southern brethren, they are at
times little too ready to let daylight
into their fellowman to make next-door
| neighborship thing to be desired.
A GOOD LAW.
Alameda Argus: In New York they
have passed a law making it a misde-
meanor to distribute advertising matter
in private letter boxes 1t is a good law.
Iony.p ie- Of
strict the nuisance of throwing around
circulars and advertising matter of var
ious kinds. In Alameda a variety of
this litter is every day thrown upon
nicely-kept lawns and upon front
porches, or showed under front doors, to
the extreme annoyance of the house
holder. And strange part Of it is that
the stuff and method of its distribution
is of no avail in the way of getting trade
1t offends people instead of inducing
their patronage. The practice is a very
great annoyance, and there will one day
be an ordinance against it,
USELESS WORRIMENT.
Placerville Nugget: The Santa Bar
bara News" has a happy way of put
ting things. 1t is, in this instance, a
bit of philosophy that fits into the
times with the nicely of a dove-tail ar
rangement. It says:
If everybody would be honest, con-
scientious and lenient so far as possi-
BILE; if everybody would drop 'yester-
day and simply attend to the burdens
of to-day with due consideration of
tomorrow hard times would not seem
so very hard, and the awfully dreary
and vitality sapping expression hard
times, OH Late