The record-union., 1897-12-28
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

| rance over nlucn, aIlnouSh iNuSoio 10
said to have taken advantage OF the
incident by pouncing on Port Arthur
and making it secure for the terminus
of the great nsSiberian Railway.
Europe is laughing at the Kaiser pc
cause of the fearful conservation OF ms
| brother Henry to the cause OF the "a
| therland III Asiatic waters he IS
merely going on picnic and If he does
not strike a cyclone on the high seas
or run into a rock he Will be as safe as
though he We're in the bosom OF fatner
A braham
CALIFORNIA MORALS.
Stockton Independent: When 1T is
remembered that the East has con-
sidered the West as a dumping ground
for its played-out preachers, politicians
and adventurers in general, during
nearly a century and that large pro-
portion Of the refuse has sought Cali
fornia during half that time, the mo-
rality of this State is remarkably good.
1t must be that clfmati tic or social lnf1u-
enceS have purified most of these ref
ugeeS or adventures or that they have
found the country unpropitious or un-
congenial and left it. Though large
numbers of Eastern criminals are in the
California penitentiaries and a consid-
erable number have been hanged, they
still outnumber the natives who are de-
tected in crime and make trouble, ex-
pense and bad fame for the State.
SILLY POLICY.
San Jose Herald: The Chicago Fed
Grafton of Labor has requested all
trades unionists to leave the National
Guard at once That is an indiscreet
position for any body of Americans 10
take. If obeyed it will stamp members
of trades unions as men separated from
their fellow men. The membership of
all the trades unions in the United
States forms but a small minority Of
the population. Does the minority
want to cut itself off from the major
ity and say that it has no community
of interest in the national defense and
the repression of domestic disorder?
That is not in the direction Of good cit
izenship.
Alameda Encinal: The methods Of the
San Francisco police in reference to the
Clute murder when compared with
those employed in the Figel matter are
in startling contrast. The evidence
is that against Hoff, yet through police
inactivity or intervention there is little
chance of ever discovering the true In
wardness of the Hoffman murder. Yer
lily pull with the metropolitan police
makes a vast difference when it comes
to ferreting out crime.
RECEIVING MEXICAN PLAUDITS.
San Jose Mercury: Mr.. Bryan is being
wined and dinsd by the President and
other high officials of Mexico he is sur
rounded by the luxury of Mexican Off
cial life, and there is no question that
he will return to America with roseate
views of the prosperity Of that country.
AS an advocate of Mexican ideas of
finance he is receiving the plaudits Of the
Mexican people. but his popularity in
that country of 50-cent dollars can hard
ly be accepted as peculiar recon-
mendation for his usefulness as a
financier in the United States. Mexican
dollars buy less than half what United
States dollars will buy; the percentage
of the people of Mexico, with its popu-
lation of twelve millions, who are able
to read write or understand financial
topics is far below that of the United
States; the per capita of money in that
country is about one-third that of the
United States; labor receives about one
third the compensation which that of
this country receives, and is paid in an
inferior currency, while the necessities of
daily life cost more and the comforts
which the people at large enjoy are iu-
finitely less than those of our own coun-
try The workingmen of the United
no ar
doubling whether the plaudits of peo-
pie of that class are recommendations
for Mr.. BRYAN and his theories.
WOOL.
| Alameda Encinal: The wool-growers
Of the country having sold their last
years clip at large increase over VIII
son-law prices, the woolen mills are
compelled to look to the foreign markets
for an additional supply in spite of the
fact that heavy importations were
made during the tendency of the Ding
ley tariff BILL Large contracts have re-
Gently been placed abroad for foreign
wool, and it is expected that these i'm
portations will begin early next month
and add materially to the earnings of
the new tariff law. the manufacturers of
| woolen goods have been running on full
time and over time since the enactment
of the Dingley law, and this fact ac-
counts both for the largely increased
price of domestic woods and the neces-
sity for sending abroad for supply with
which TO meet the shortage in domestic
woods due to the destruction Of American
fiocks while the Wilson law was in oper-
alton.
INDIAN TERRITORY.
Oakland Enquirer: The abollshment at
an early day of that political anomaly,
Indian Territory-which is not an organ