The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-27
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next the skin is an importation from
England, which practically never
knows any real summer Wear the
clothes in which you are most comfort
able in America, and these will nat
urally be the lightest and thinnest you
can find.
WE'LL, HARDLY.
San Diegan Sun: An entlcing letter
from Alaska says: Winter is endur-
able TO those who have proper shelter
clothing and food But, really, you
cannot expect every prospector to take
a hardwood finished house. seal skin
suits and a base burner stove with
him.
WAGES AND PROSPERITY.
Los Angeles Herald: It has been cor
rectly stated that wages are the last
to go up and the last to go down. I'M
der the depression that has prevailed
wages have been forced down through
the influence of a surplus of working
/ people. The struggle now is whether
they will continue to be kept down or
forced still lower in the face of the
/ predicted and Haunted prosperity. II
it be true that prosperity has come and
is still coming in large measure, why
should not the men of toll receive some
of the benefits? That is what the
trusts and combines are striving to pre-
vent. The working people are max
! ing a determined fight, but against i'm
mense odds.
NO LONGER AN ISSUE.
San Jose Mercury: The depreciation
Of silver serves to firmly establish the
belief that the Government will never
again undertake to coin that metal on
! private account-that the day has
passed for free coinage When the
Government wishes to enlarge the vol
ume of currency on it's own account
! it viii use a substance even cheaper
than silver and more convenient limit
ing the issue to such an amount as it
can safely and surely redeem The flu
ture Of silver is then the future of a
commodity and it's price will fluctuate
in accordance to the fluctuations of a
private demand. AS it becomes cheap
er its use in the mechanical arts will
increase and it's value will be as stable
as is that of iron or copper.
1t is probable that the free coinage
question as a political issue will not be
| with us in another campaign. The
financial question may, however re-
main a sort of political issue but it
will not be the question of free coinage.
The issue may be that of an increased
volume Of money, and as 70 whether
the issue should be by the Government
or otherwise These issues may be
kept to the front for a short time, but
it is more than likely that greater and
graver questions will agitate the public
mind in the next Presidential campaign.
At any rate, the matter of free coinage
of silver is forever at rest.
WHEAT AND SILVER.
Stockton Mail: OF course. silver is a
commodity. subject to the law of sup
ply and demand. That is the bedrock
of argument for free coinage. The
minis have been closed to silver in the
United States, as we'll as in European
and Oriental countries. This has killed
the demand. The price naturally fell.
How could it help falling?
Restore the demand, open the minis.
Silver will rise again, and not silver
only, but the other commodities which
rise and fan with the rise and fall of
! the white metal.
We hear a cuckoo cry wheat" at
this point. 1t is the new cry of the
cuckoo The bird is so ticxled over
having learned something new-a diff
ficult feat for the cuckoo-that it airs
it's acquisition every time some one
looks in it's direction. But men of
sense know that wheat has increased
in price not because of. but in spite of,
the decentralization of silver.
THE CASE OF MEXICO.
Los Angeles Times: The situation of
| affairs in Mexico is a valuable object
lesson, showing what might have been
the result in the United States if the
| Bryanites had been successful in the
national election of 1896. But the eff
feet would have been tenfold more dis
asltrous here. for the reason that our
whole currency system would have been
revolutionized Not only our silver
money, but all our paper money would
have dropped to the bullion basis, OF
to about half its present value, while
gold would have been at a correspond
ing premium. In Mexico the changes
caused by the steady fall in the COM
| mercial value of silver have not been
so radical, for the reason that gold has
for years been at a premium there
| from 20 to 100.
If silver continues to depreciate. the
results upon business in Mexico will
be disastrous According to the dis
patches, the depreciation of the Next
can dollar is already running many
merchants. who have goods on hand
upon which they cannot realize enough
! to save themselves from bankruptcy.
1t is also intimated that Mexico may
be forced to repudiate her foreign debt.
| but this runlor is probably not based
upon good authority. The burdens of
the public debt have been greatly in
creased by the fall in silver, but it is
not probable that nation which has
met its obligations so honorably in the
past will fail in the present crisis.
TARIFF AND PROSPERITY.
Los Angeles Express: Our friends on
the wrong side of the great political
fence tell us the tariff has nothing to
do with the better times now felt all
| over the country. Let us stay near
| home and see if the Dingley bill is
actually at this moment helping us in
| Southern California. That viii interest
US most.
A yea ago the barley crop Of this
| section was very meager, yet there
1 was no price for this crop, small as ii
was This year there is very large
crop of barley in Southern California,
/ yet the price has jumped to 50 cents
| and upward on the ranches. The crop
| of barley in our Eastern States is spoil
ed by frequent rains. The big brew
ers have to turn TO California for sup
plies. Were il not for the substantial
protection given barley by the new law
| Canada would step in and take this
/ business from US.