The record-union., 1897-07-16

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Endeavor trains who really are Chris
tan Endeavorers is shown by Inc
statement of General Passenger Agent
Byrne, of the Santa Fe, that his road
has brought in over five thousand eX-
cursionists to Los Angeles, and that or
this number he does not think that
one thousand went north. but remain
in this part of the State. The pre-
sumption is that those who did not go
to the meeting are not Endeavorers,
but are only avaiEng themselves OF the
cheap rates.
WE'LL DONE.
Napa Register: Californians believe
in advertising the wonderful resources
of this State and never tire in the work
of sending descriptive literature to
strangers living in less favored sec
tions of the country with the hope or
bringing new people into our common
wealth and face to face with our glo-
rious climate aad all the good things
that go with it. The G. F. convention
has done what tons of printed mat
ter would fail to accomplish, viz:
brought 10000 people to our doors.
They will see for themselves and be
fort and less of hardship to be found
in California than in any other State
or Territory in the Union; that life is
too short at best to have it terrified
and made doubly uncertain by the
blizzards. hurricanes and hot waves
that go with the winter and summer
seasons east of the Rockies They
will return home, many of them, not
to stay, but to sell out and come back
to settle permanently in California.
Along this line the Endeavorers have
done what advertisers of Pacific Coast
resources have long been endeavoring
to do-impress upon Eastern people
some idea Of Californias wonderful re-
sources.
HIS FALLACY.
Stockton Independent: One of Mr..
Bryan's favorite fakes is to ask his
audiences: IF you had 80 cents
worth of silver and could have it
coined into a dollar, would you be
foolish enough to sell it for 80 cents?"
This question is put in little different
phrase at each reptition and the an
swer, in substance, is: mo, you
would take it to the mint and have it
coined into a dollar" This always
catches the crowd who cheer wildly.
Mr. Bryan usually finds it a good place
to drop that part of the subject and
the crowds, who have no silver, do not
pursue the idea to it's full develop
ment and logical conclusion. Mr..
Bryan does not want them to do so
because it would be fatal to his cause.
The great fakir of the Platte only en-
ploys it to capture the plaudits of the
superficial thinkers and those who do
not think but let out their thinking to
such as he. Carried out to its extent
the idea would lead to the disclosure of
the silver trust. The mine owners are
the only persons who have silver in any
quantity worth contending for and
they only would profit by the making
of half and half dollars-one-ha Of
silver and the other half of fiat. These
miners can produce silver in Colorado
for from 80 to 40 cents an ounce and
sell it at the market price at profit
of from 100 per cent. down to 80 per
cent. One Australian mine produces
the metal at cost of % cents an
ounce. The effect of free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver would be to
double the profits of the silver mine
owners and without in any degree ben
efiting those who have no silver to be
coined. Mr.. Bryan is too well in
formed to be ignorant of this truth and
that Is why this highly moral man har-
nesses up a half truth to do the work
of falsehood for the silver trust
A SUCCESS.
| Campbell Visitor: The rural postal
delivery system will be a great boon
| to a very large majority of our citi-
zens, and if it benefits the masses it
should certainly go into effect without
| opposition. The residents surrounding
our town are not going to desert US by
any means They believe in patroniZ-
ing home industry, and we have conf
dence in their loyalty to the institutions
Of the town of Campbell
PAINFUL.
Fresno Republican: 1t is a painful
thought that ''our Steve" after get
ting nearly everything that he advo-
Gated in the new tariff bill, went and
played his vote against it in the final
showdown. But he wouldn't a-done it if
his vote would have been instrumental
| in defeating the bill. He knows that
even his alleged free trade constituents
in California would not stand such
nonsense. His final vote was cast as
a Democrat, not as a representative of
the people of this State.
GOOSE AND GANDER.
Tulare Register: The equality of the
sexes before the law has suffered
backdown in the dismissal of the case
| against the Bradbury woman If Ward
| is prosecuted she ought to be and the
namby-pamby sentimentalism which
prompted the dismissal of the case
against her by the Society for the Pre-
vention Of Vice is not commendable.
What is sauce for the gander ought
to be sauce for the goose
A SIGNIFICANT SIGN.
Stockton Mail; The significance of
| the Christian Endeavor convention is
not in the number of delegates, which
| astonished San Francisco, nor in the
| wide reach of the societys missionary
| effort disclosed at the gathering, nor
| in any of the outward signs of its prog
ress and power. 1t is emphatically in
| the underlying movement toward a un-
ifcation of the different religious bodies
| which acknowledge Christ their cap
| tain. This unification can be accom-
plished only by widening of toler-
ance and broadening of beliefs-all of
| which makes for good
For more than a thousand years the
| believers in Christ were knit together
| on one body. He who has mastered the
profound lessons of history knows how
much mankind owes to this fact. On
that black flood of ignorance, barbar-
ism, sayagery which buried the splen-
did civilization of the ancient times