The record-union., 1897-07-11

therein" Men who have that errone-
Gus impression have gained it from
the oft-repeated statement that the
proposition of the friends of silver, If
adopted, would drive us 10 a silver ba-
sis Such a statement is made only
to mislead-it is too illogical to be in
| tended as a truth. No one should make
the mistake of supposing that the
friends of the white metal are mono
| metallists because the opponents of sill
yer are gold monometallists.
CALIFORNIA THE LAND OF PROM
ISE.
Oroville Register: BY far the ablest
work ever issued in the State for the
purpose of making known to strangers
the merits and advantages of California
| for homes, is the recent book lately is
sued by the State Board of Trade un-
/ der the editorial supervision of William
H. Mills. The work is complete in all
directions. Mr. Mills, the ablest man
| in California in his knowledge of the
State, has selected a corps of unusually
able writer's to set forth California; $
diversified claims to people seeking
| homes.
NOT A WORD THERE.
Pasadena News: But Bryan didn't
say anything about a protective tariff
of cent pound on orange and lem
ems, or a tariff on deciduous fruit, raj
sins, almonds, ETC. Though the newly
established tariff will bring millions Of
dollars into California, yet Bryan is
against all this protective tariff, and
if he We're in Congress to-day. as he
was he would vote against this whole
pro ective tariff system as he did before.
Bryan is a rank free trader, and it is
we'll that he does not say anything
about his position on the tariff queS-
ton
BRYAN AND BRYANISM.
Los Angeles Express: Mr.. Bryan
came, the people saw and heard him,
but there is no tangible evidence that
he conquered. 1t was the story of 1896
over again. Great crowds, great curl
osity, great enthusiasm, an endless flow
of words; yet, when the votes were
counted, the people in their sober senses
weighing carefully the conditions the
facts and the theories laid before them,
had rendered a verdict in favor of
sound money and a business admin
ist ration. So when the defeated leader
of the Democracy came to Los Angeles,
in a sense the guest of the city and of
Southern California, he was cordially
received. The people of the Golden
State are proverbially hospitable, and
Mr.. Bryan, as the representative of a
great party and as a type of clean, able
American citizenship, was we'll worthy
of the honors bestowed upon him.
The most enthusiastic and the most
prejudiced partisans of Mr.. Bryan Will
hardly assert that all the large crowd
assem- bled ait Fiesta Park yesterday
afternoon We're advocates of the free
silver craze. Doubtless, at least half
We're there to see the man. Americans
are fond of oratory, and they Will go
far to hear good speaker, even though
they do not indorse a word that is said.
They like to be entertained.
There the drawing power and the in
f1uence of Organism stop. Those who
are afflicted with the silver craze were
not there to analyze, to compare, to
consider carefully what they had heard.
They went to hear a Fourth of July
political oration, and. they got it.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE.
Modesto News: Some time ago a
prominent physician of Pittsburg in
augurated movement in favor Of
the death penalty Recently the Penn
sylvania Medical Society has given it
further consideration. The doctors as
sert that death by asphyxiation is alb
solutely painless Allowing it to be so,