The record-union., 1897-07-28

lation, the bill was not referred or con-
sidered. This became Senate bill NO 81
and was reported back without change,
with a report embodying many OF the
leagues important facts and argu-
ments. Confidence is now expressed
by the league that this measure Will
be promptly enacted, when Congress
reassembles next winter Such action
by the majority will be only in ac-
cordance with the Republican party 5
platform pledges.
THE UNHEARD FROM.
Oakland Enquirer: Several newspa-
pers have remarked as evidence of the
richness of the Clondyke mines that
every person returning brings a ia
vorable report and generally a we'll
filled sack of gold. 1t may not have
struck these papers that the miners
who have been unlucky are the ones
that do not return. The latest report
shows that there are several hundred
unemployed men in Dawson City at the
present time, and these men have no
way of getting back.
NOW FOR QUARTZ.
Los Angeles Times: There may be
great placer fields in the Northwest,
but they Will probably be as nothing
in comparison with the quartz lodges
that viii be discovered and worked
long years after the gravel beds with
all their golden richness are but a rec
objection. The gold in the creek beds
has washed down through cons of ages
from greater deposits in the mighty
hills, and when those reserve lodges are
uncovered by capital and Drawn, we
may expect to see millions of dollars
poured into the worlds lap from that
great country of gold and riches.
SETTLED POLICY.
Peta1uma Argus: A few months ago
the country was wondering where the
votes We're to be found to pass even a
moderate tariff bill in the Senate. But
when the time came to- take vote
the highest protective tariff ever adopt
ed was passed in the Senate by ten
majority, with four Senators withhold
ing their votes. after publicly stating
that they would vote for the bill If
needed. just on the eve of roll-call
Senator Stewart of Nevada made
good speech, n which he said: 1T is
now generally recognized by members
of adj political parties that protection
is the settled policy Of this country.
There was no denial of this, and there
could be no denial in the face of the
work of the past three months in the
Senate The only real issue in the max
ing of the tariff has been the amount
of protection If there is one fact made
more significant than all others in the
treatment of the tariff this time 1t Is
the general recognition and acceptance
Of the theory of protection. The bill
is rightly entitled ''An Act to provide
revenue for the Government and to en-
courage the industries of the United
States" Free trade is a dead Issue for
long time to come.
BRIGHAMITE MORMONISM.
Tulare Register: The Brighamite
Mormons have just been holding a cele-
bration in honor of the fiftieth ami
versary of the foundation of the Nor
mon colony in Utah. That has cer-
tainly been a wonderful people and a
wonderful colony but Topics" hard
ly knows what it is most, a monument
in honor of hard headed and autocrat-
ic old Brigham Young himself, the CO.
operative idea, the credulity of gull
BILE humanity, the lusts of men or the
shallowness of the hearts of woman
kind Industrially the Mormon colony
in Utah has been about all that it we'll
could be. but from every point of view
it was, first, an ugly blot on the face
of the wilderness and afterwards an
ugly blot on the face of our Western
civilization. 1t has endured fifty years
in some shape, but in another fifty
years it win be little more than mem
ory, a historical curiosity which Curl
Gus men will study, finding here and
there a vestige yet remaining. Let it
pass. The little good there was IN It
will never work its redemption.
A CURRENCY COMMISSION.
San Jose Mercury: Probably no Presi-
dent in the history of the country has
been so prompt and expeditions in car
rying out the wishes of his party and
of the country and the policies an
nounced as favored by him during the
campaign as has President Mckinley.
Even before being inaugurated he took
steps to fulfill the promise of the party
to exert itself in behalf of international
bimetallism, and the commission sub
sequently appointed and dispatched TO
Europe is making the most gratifying
headway Immediately upon being in
augurated he called Congress in extra
ordinary session to enact a tariff meas
ure that would insure sufficient reve-
nue. to meet the regular expenses or
the Government and to provide protec-
ton for American indnustries, as prom
ised by the Republican party before
the election and demanded by the peo-
pie at the polls. Less than five months
have passed away, and the new tariff
law is an accomplished fact. Anoth-
er important reform promised was the
revision of the financial system of the
country and now that the tariff is out
of the way the President has lost not
a days time in taking it up and max
ing a recommendation concerning 1t to