The record-union., 1897-09-26
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Another
lesson has been well taught by the hard
times, whether people heed it or not. 1t
has been shown that Individual ability
avails but little as a safeguard against
adVersity, When the general conditions
In the country are bad. Adverse con-
dltions can defeat success, however
great the effort, however we'll trained
the faculties. Success that men at
tribute to their personal abilities has
been shown to be impossible in the alb
sence of favoring, or, at least, permit
ting circumstances. The best of US are
not masters of fate.
OPENING THEIR EYES.
Los Angeles Express: The fiat money
craze. the free coinage Of silver notion
and all kindred economic heresies OBJ
tam thelr hold ON the popular mind not
from any principle underlying them,
not from any force, of logical reasoning,
but solely from the desire of change.
which always gains possession of the
| NINA When times are hard, business is
| ouIl and chances of making a living are
poor. The argument which went fur
| lneSt with nearly all who followed the
| Chcago platform last fall was that the
| Tree coinage of silver would put more
| money into circulation and thus Stim-
| ulate industries and make times bet
! ter The stimulus to business has
come without opening the mints to
| silver. 1t has come from natural
| causes, which are better and far more
lasting than artificial causes and with
the return of better times the pleas of
the Bryan people fall on deaf ears. The
| people are prosperous under existing
conditions, and hence they want those
conditions let alone
BASEBALL BUNCO.
San Bernardino Times-I Index: That
baseball bunco affair, the Examiner
tournament, is about to go to pieces.
The players are up in arms because the
examiner in giving only 20 per cent.
to the teams that play 20 per cent to
charity and the remaining 60 per cent.
to itself. Some of the San Francisco
games produced an income of 81, 300
and upward. This would give the
Examiner $780, while the ball mines
would only get $13O each. The man
ager of the Reliance Club claims the
Examiner has made over $40, 900 out
of the tournament. The California
Markets, VIII & Fincks, Reliance and
Heesemans have announced that they
will not play unless fair division is
made. The sooner the Examiner
tournament is ended the better it will
be for honest sport.
SUPERANNUATED.
Oakland Enquirer: The Presbyterian
ministers discussed yesterday whether
a clergyman is superannuated when he
is 80 years old They did not express
it in exactly those words, but that was
the meaning of it. 1t was generally
agreed by those who contributed to the
discussion that the biggest charges are
run by men who are over 80, and that
at that period a clergyman ought to be
in the full career of usefulness. Seeing
that in this day of long preparation for
professional work-When a university
course and a special course and a trip
abroad for study are considered neces-
sary-a man is hardly fit until he is
30 years old, it would be pity if he
lost his usefulness at 80. Twenty years
would be a very short working period.
A minister, a lawyer and a doctor
ought to go on improving up to 90
years of age.
A QUESTION OF RIGHTS.
Stockton Mail: They strangely mis-
conceive the principles upon which re-
publican institutions rest who declare
that a citizen has no right peaceably
to persist in exercising a notoriously le-
gal right because a peace officer illegal
ly forbids him to cease; and who as
sert that that the peace officer may le-
ga1ly kill a citizen so persisting in
disobeying an illegal command If
that, indeed, be the spirit of our insti-
tutions we would do we'll to replace
such tyranny with the tyranny of Rus
sia- The tyranny of Russia is at least
exercised by a magnificent despot. Bet
ter would it be to be the slave of the
splendid Czar than to be the slave of
a horde of petty officials. But such is
not the spirit of American institutions.
Our Institutions God be thanked, are
clothed in no such rags of mean SER
Witty.
'HOW'S THAT FOR HIGH"
The Mail of Woodland: Woodland has
the highest per capita per population
of any city in the United States. Also
the handsomest ladies. How is that for
a combination?
STATE POLITICS.
Oakland Tribune: Quietly but sys-
tematically, political wire-pulling is in
progress all over the State. 1t will be
nearly a year before the nominating
conventions are held, so it might not
appear to the casual observer that there
would be anything gained by commenc-
ing a canvass at this early date. Those
who understand the workings of poll
tics, though, are aware of the fact that
this is the time when the battle is in
the main lost and won, for the tying
up process cannot be started too soon
for those anyhow who expect to hold
leading places on the ticket
There are few Democrats even who
will deny that the indications are that
California will return a solid delegation
of seven Republican Congressman. The
protection afforded to California farm
ers and industries by the new tariff bill
is relied upon as the leverage with
which to swing the entire State into
line, and that it Will be very effective,
even in the most rabid Democratic dis
to the interests of those protected to
send to Washington only men pledged
to a continuance of the favors, and even
the district that has so often returned
Congressman Mcguire and has thereby
obtained the reputation of being solid
Democratic district, will, it is believed,
this time declare itself for protection
and prosperity.
There VIII be little to fear next cleo
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