The record-union., 1897-07-19

greSSIVe as she is SAID 10 De IN the
Hawaiian business, she is pursuing the
very course best calculated TO secure
the speedy ratification of the treaty OF
annexation.
THAT COMMISSION.
Oakland Enquirer: Just how much
Importance is to be attached to the re-
ports of the success of the American
Bimetallic Commission in France, and
England is something which it is diff
cult TO tell now. Diplomatists and
sometimes Cabinet officers are like low
ers-they have such a fiattering way
that their sincerity can be judged only
by the outcome We hope Senator Wal
colt and his associates are not deceived
but before we believe they are not we
desire to see Balfour stand up in the
House of Commons and corroborate
what has been said.
A FOOL PROJECT.
Los Angeles Times: The project of
photographing Durrant and exhibiting
the degenerate creature in the animato-
score plumbs the lowest depths Of moral
depravity. And yet it is the logical
elimination of that damnable manifes-
tation known as yellow journalism" !"
the last expression of morbid sensa-
tionalism and mental degradation. The
guilt or innocence of Durrant is a ques-
tion entirely aside from this matter.
He is to be exhibited because of the
crimes attributed to him, just as he
has been pictured with loathsome per-
sistency by the tumble-bug press since
the day of his arrest. Faugh! The
ic in nf 1cy11
house cleaning, and the work should
begin in San Francisco.
HOW A DEMOCRAT SEES IT.
Placer Herald: The Republican pa
pers say prosperity has now practically
arrived. If this be so, why have the
Pennsylvania coal mines (simply one
illustration). suffered a reduction of
their wages? Another sign of prosper
ity, perhaps, is the strike order in Co
lumbus, o., among the miners in the
districts affected by the sweeping re-
ductions in wages. This may be pros
perity, but. if so, it is only prosperity
for the rich mine owners
OHIO DEMOCRACY.
Oakland Tribune: Editor Williamson
of Hamilton, Ohio, who reports himself
mocracy," has the frankness to admit
that the Ohio Democrats are not as sure
of carrying the State this fall as they
have been claiming. Talking to a St
Louis newspaper man recently he said:
Il don't look so hopefully on the out
come as do some of the Ohio Democrats,
and, in fact, would not be shockingly
surprised if we lost the Legislature
NOT AFLAME
Alameda Argus: 1t is, of course
understood by Well-informed persons
tendance and enthusiasm at Bryans s
meetings are not painfully accurate. The
Alameda meeting was respectful and
eventful to this town, but it was not en-
thusiastic, and it fell a good way short
in every particular of the expectations
of Republicans as well as Democrats
We presume the same can be said of the
other meetings. Certainly the Alameda
meeting, being the first one about the
bay anywhere should have attracted
very large and enthusiastic crowd if any
of them could be expected to do so. The
truth is that the country has not been
set af1ame as it was expected to be-
though any reasonable person should
see that all has been accomplished that
was possible under the circumstances.
Bryan is man of phenomenal endur-
ance, and if the race for the Presidency
was a physical contest, which the can
didate would get who could appear in
public most frequently, travel the
farthest in a given time, speak the
earliest, oftenest, hardest and longest
Bryan would win hands down.
THE PLEDGES KEPT.
Amador Record: Citizens of the
United States who want to brush up
their knowledge of political history in
their own country would find an inter
esting method in comparing the pro-
gress made by the Republican party in
1897 in carrying out the pledges of it's
platform with the records of preceding
administrations. The pledges of the
platform, it will be remembered, were
an honest effort in favor of International
bimetallism, a reform of the tariff, a
reform of the currency system, the pro-
lection of American citizens in Cuba
and the restoration, if possible, of peace
there, and the control of the Hawaiian
Islands by the United States. Every one
of these pledges has been either carried
out or is so far under way as to render
success highly probable. A commission
has been sent abroad to negotiate for in
ternational bimetallism; the doors of
Spanish prisons have been opened to
American citizens who We're confined
therein; the general Cuban policy is
being outlined in a way to insure inn
provement in that unhappy land: a Ha-
waiian annexation treaty has been
signed; recommendation for a currency
commission to prepare plans for gen.
eral revision of the currency system will
be sent to Congress as soon as the tariff
bill passes. Can anybody find in the
history of the United States more rapid
work in carrying out party pledges?
A FINE WORK.
Tulare Register: California. the
Land of Promise" just issued by the
State Board of Trade and gotten up
under the editorshipof of William II Mills,
is the best immigration document yet
published in this State. 1t is not a
boom document, but it gets right down
to plain facts and gives the sort of
information that intending homeseek-
ers will want to know and informa-
ton also that it would be a mighty
good thing if Californians knew better
than they do.
THE HAWAIIANS
Kern Standard: If the United States
Senate is as favorably disposed toward
Hawaii as it was in 1898, then these
beautiful islands, under the name of
the Territory of Hawaii, viii probably
be Joined ere long TO the American
Union.
The campaign of the people of the
islands for annexation has haan man