The record-union., 1898-03-06
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
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/ this way and eiucidate. We are free
/ 70 confess that we are rot competent
the job is toe big or as. The markets
are demoralized everywhere. II looks
/ as if the Eastern buyers had pooled
and set prices at their own sweet win.
In the face of selling delivered" il is
/ hard work to maintain +. O. b. prices.
Our packers have stood up nobly and
done better by the growers than il
| they had sold delivered"
INCOME TAX.
Tulare Register: A proposed amend
ment TO the Constitution Of the United
States has been introduced in Congress
providing fer an income tax. we are
/ free to say that we would like to see
such an amendment submitted to the
/ states, provided that it were a reason
| able and just one. The income tax
should he uniform and not graduated.
It is a fact that rich men do not pay
! tariff or internal revenue taxes IN pro-
portion to their wealth, and what they
/ do pay should be supplemented by a
| tax on incomes.
A FAIR PROPOSED.
| Stockton Record: The modified prop
| osition to hold sort of midwinter
fair in San Francisco in 1900 and 1901,
after the close Of the Paris Exposition,
is much better than an attempt to run
I a counter exhibition at the same time.
But there is no time to waste if the
exhibition is to be made creditable.
BEGINS TO SEE IT.
san Jose Mercury: Germany is be-
ginning TO realize the fact that unjust
| discrimination against American pro-
| ducts viii certainly lead to a policy of
| retaliation that viii seriously injure
| her own industries During the fiscal
1 year 1896 the exports from Germany
TO this country amounted to 800. SO, 773,
/ While for the fiscal year 1S96-97 they
/ aggregated S111.S62, ,552. being a net
I increase Of sd. .2t9,7T9 within a period
! OF twelve months. In view of this large
I and increasing trade it is not likely
/ that the German Government viii be
guided in its commercial policy toward
/ the United States by the clanorous de-
mands of the agrarians.
TAXATION.
Los Angeles Times: The abolition OF
all taxes on personal property is advo-
/ Gated by many economists, on the
/ ground that such taxes are in effect a
tax on industry, which it should be the
aim Of Government to promote rather
| than to discourage. Radical differences
/ Of opinion are bound to exist on this
subject, and the arguments pro and con
are interesting, if not conclusive. One
! group Of tax-reformers would throw
upon land the entire burden of taxa
/ ton. Another class would derive from
| incomes, inheritances and the larger
/ aggregations Of capital Of whatever
kind, the principal revenues for the
maintenance of Government Between
/ these widely divergent views the true
I theory and the most feasible plan Of
taxation undoubtedly lies. and it may
in the fullness of time crystaIlize into
practical and just legislation
IT INCREASES.
| Riverside Press: The money in cir
eulatien in this country continues to
increase, despite the assertion of the
/ friends of free coinage that this could
not happen without the adoption of
! their favorite proposition. The Treas
ury Departments statement Of money
! in circulation on February /, 1898, gives
the total as 81, 729 991 DDS. and esti-
mates the per capita at $23 -. This is
an increase of more than 10 per cent
1 per capita in the circulation since the
/ date Of Mr.. Bryan's nomination, and a
gain Of $223. 556 261 in the total amount
/ in circulation since July /, 1896
AFTER REPUBLICANS.
| Merced Sun: Have you observed with
/ what ravishing eagerness the Republic
an papers throughout the State are
| printing anything they can get hold Of
| which opposes a fusion Of the silver
/ forces in the approaching campaign?
| My but how they do love a middle Of
| the road Populisti And why shouldn't
| they? If fusion can be prevented Re-
publican success is assured. 1t doesn't
| require a very large brain very much
| time to figure that out. And you know
| if you note passing events that besides
a high protective tariff, the gold stand
ard and Hanna and Mckinley the Re
publicans love to hold office. And they
know they can hold it if they succeed
/ in splitting the ranks Of the opposition.
| The Republicans won't have quite so
much love for the -of-the-road
| Populist after next November. A Pop
ulist in the Republican mind will then
be an idiotic dreamer and anarchist
and an object of pity for their superior
| gold standard brethren.
TOWNE ELOQUENT, YET SILENT.
Stockton Independent: In the Gree
| ley campaign liI IOi- IHeSG Wdc OiAlS
| one speech. Ex-CongTessman Towne,
like other silver orators, finds himself
in much the same plight as the Greeley
stumpers. There is but one silver
| speech, and Mr. Bryan has rJrng the
changes on that until it requires more
| than common genius and fertility of re-
| source to introduce any new features
| into it. Towne tries to vary that speech
| by drawing upon ancient history. even
| going back beyond the organization of
Governments or even society, to enter
| tain his audiences He appears more
| learned. as we'll as less eloquent than
| Mr. Bryan, but has Bryan's trick Of
| leaving a branch of the subject treated
at the proper moment, leaving his au-
/ ditors with the idea which he we'll
knows to be illogical, that his ancient
| or classic references are in any way
| applicable to the silver issue in the
United States Though he goes back
to Rome for historical illustrations,
quotes Aristotle, almost prehistoric GUS
toms and modern legislation, he is 81
/ lent on the vital question of the rela-
/ ton of silver to wheat, which Bryan
told California farmers was so intimate
/ that the grain could not rise in price
while silver was neglected. 1t is evi-
/ dent that Mr.. Towne does rot lack edu-
| cation. His speeches mark him as q
| man of wide reading and observation,
for he seems to have studied the money
and Governmental problems in most, If
not all, of their bearings, but eloquent
as he is and as resourceful as he seems
/ in "erabroidering the same old silver