The record-union., 1897-07-18
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

| elsewhere are making against our new
tariff is very pretty, but that VIII be
the end of it, The fifteen nations from
| which have come some grumblings on
! this subject have sold us nearly S2,O00,-
| 600, 900 worth of goods in the past de-
! cade in eXcessof what they have bought
from us, and they are not likely to
take any action which will disturb as
good q market for their productions as
they have in the United States. 1t is
| business for them to do what they
can to prevent our putting high tarlft
| on their goods, but it will not be busl-
ness to do anything which would cut
off the market they have had or Will
continue to have even after the new
| tariff is established.
OH. MOI NOT HOPELESS.
Stockton Independent: The Sacra-
mento Record Union" is trying to ac-
complish a hopeless task, that of pre-
venting misuse of the word lady in
the newspapers. The reform should
begin in the primary classes in school,
and as long as it is neglected there and
newspapers will employ writers who
never had even a fair elementary ed
ucation the lady will figure in brawls,
will advertise for employment at the
washtub, will rob stupid hoosiers, jerk
beer in dives etc, While women will
modestly keep in the background. 1t
is too late to begin teaching him the
proprieties of language after man has
| become a Journalist Such will con-
tinue to report that " a lady" was ar
rested for picking pockets or shop-lift
ing.
IT IS A HOODOO.
Stockton Record: For several weeks
past silver has been quoted at about
60 cents an ounce, which is the lowest
price it has ever touched. At the pres
! ent price of silver the amount of that
metal in a standard silver dollar is
worth about 461a cents. When the
Bland law was enacted on February
2S, 1878, the bullion value of the silver
dollar was So cents.-Atlanta Journal.
Yes, the poor sensitive metal against
| which a great and powerful people
committed such crime, has grown
| weaker and weaker ever since it be-
gan to lean on public favor and spe
cal privilege Still those hardy pa
triots that own the Comstock and the
still richer mines in Montana and Col
orado struggle, wearing out their lives
in piling up wealth that might be
doubled if only silver could stand up
to its own pretensions. If there is a
more distressing condition in the coun-
try than the hardships of the coal min
ers, it is the ceaseess industry of the
Mackays, NeWlands, Jones, O'Briens,
Clarks and other pinched millionaires
in making silver bullion, which in Jack
sons good old Democratic times would
have been worth twice as much and
might have answered q useful purpose
in taking the place of the wildcat"
currency that was issued from every
cross road
The more silver has been coaxed by
legislation and attempted legislation,
the more has it sunk in the estimation
of the public. AS agitation intensified,
quotations went down. 1t is the most
convincing kind of evidence that the
silver issue is a hoodoo to silver itself
as well as to the country.
BRYAN IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Stockton Independent: What is the
important thing in dollar? 1t is it's
purchasing power That is all there is
in a dollar. You never get any value
from a dollar until it leaves you, and
the measure of its value is in its pur-
chasing power Where is the test of
honesty in the dollar? 1t is in the pur-
chasing power of the dollar And yet
the goldbug's definition ignores the
purchasing power"
The falsehood here is in the last sem
tence quoted from Mr.. Bryan's speech,
as must be known to every person who
has read even small part of the argu-
ment for maintaining the gold stand
ard This seems to be a favorite false
hood of Bryan, for he repeated 1t sew
eral times and in varying forms in
that speech and probably continues to
repeat it, well knowing that it is not
true, yet he is lauded as a man of true
morality All through that speech
which has been so much applauded Mr..
Bryan resorted to quip and jest to rid
icule the adherents of the gold stand
ard; he dealt in insinuations and in
uendoes that were more dangerous
than downright falsehoods. Although
the full verbatim report of his speech,
as published in the Examiner" which
is his Jealous supporter, does not show
that he advocated depriving the Su-
preme Court Of the power of pronounc-
ing on the constitutionality of legisla-
tive acts, those papers that so rep
resented him in their synopsis simply
represented the impression he made on
his hearers. That such was the i'm
preston he intended to make is evil
dent from the haste with which edit
ors who admire him came to his de-
fense and the defense of that idea. The
mischievousness of his intention is
therefore evident and is another proof
that though Mr.. Bryan may respect
nine articles of the decalogue there is
one that he violates habitually and per-
sistently.
AN ENVIABLE RECORD.
Santa Rosa Republican: The South
ern Pacific Company made a very re-
markable record in handling the great
crowds who came over it's lines to at
tend the Christian Endeavor conven-
tion. More than eighty special trains
were required for these visitors, be-
sides largely increased regular trains.
Additional engines had to be hired
from other roads and many We're taken
from other divisions of the Southern
Pacific system. At the same time the
regular trains to the East were run as
usual. And yet all this vast business
was done without an accident. Great
skill and care characterized every de-
tail of this vast business. Trains We're
kept moving all the time and there
were few vexatious delays. All the
trouble that occurred was east of Og-
den. The record Of the Southern Pa
cific in handling this business is indeed
enviable.
yruTr- zfnNE-y OTTESTJON