The record-union., 1898-01-25
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects of Living News
Interest.

Tacoma Ledger: 1t. may be admitted
at The outset that changing business
conditions make changes in the tariif
/ desirable. 1t may be admitted also that
/ it is impossible for Congress TO adjust
| a tariff so that it will be exactly equl-
| table, or produce all the results az
| sired. Because this is so it would be
desirable, perhaps, to find means by
| which rates could be more readily ad-
! justed and readjusted as circumstances
| required. This adjustment could De
conveniently and easily made by COM
| mission, but the Constitution, as the
| Ledger" has already pointed out, does
not admit it, and it may we'll be doubs-
| ed whether our people would be willing
! to commit such vast power to so few
hands. By seemingly slight changes in
| the tariff rates a commission could en-
rich or crush many kinds of business.
| Incompet5 MT commissioners would make
much mischief. Corrupt ones could
readily enrich themselves. Punishment
] of malfeasance of this sort would be
difficult or uncertain. Frequent
changes of the commissioners would
| impair their efficiency if efficient, and
stead Cf few if they We're corrupt.
TRIUMPHANT REPUBLICANISM
! Los Angeles Times: The Toledo Bee
| declares that the Republican party has
| ''outlived it's usefulneSs;" that every
| question that made it great in Lincoln
! time is settled" ETC., etc. The moss
| back opponents of the Republican par
| ty nave been making the same decla-
! rations ever since the close of the war.
| But they have succeeded in defeating
! the Republican party at only two ma
tional elections, in both cases by acci-
! dent. The defeat of the Republican
party in 1892 proved to be a national
disaster, from which the country has
not yet fully recovered. The disaster
| of 1897, was in part retrieved by the
people in 1896, at which election they
| gave a most emphatic vote of lack of
! confidence in the opponents of the Re
| publican party, and an emphatic vote
| of confidence in that party, its princi-
! pies and it's leaders.
The public confidence in the Repub-
lican party, expressed by the popular
vote of 1896, has been justified by sub
sequent events, in the return of pros
perity and the general revival of in
dustTy. If popular vote could be had
to-day upon the same issues and with
| the same candidates as those of 1896,
the Republican platform and its can
| didates would be successful by a much
larger majority than that which placed
President Mckinley in the executive
chair of this nation.
BAD TASTE.
Los Angeles Express: Within two
weeks the steel manufacturers in this
country have booked orders for ,000,-
600 tons of steel rails. This calls for
something like S20,000,000 The dark
days of '93 still leave bad taste in the
| mouth, but they will soon become but
an odious memory.
GRIFFITH AND HANNA.
Fresno Republican: The Examiner
| is deeply indignant at Mr.. Griffith of
| the Ohio Legislature because he con
| doned so gross an outrage as that put
on-Mrs. Griffith by Senator Hanna and
| his gang of heelers" and decided to vote
| for the Ohio ogre. There is no doubt
that Griffith is poor specimen of
man, but the Democrats did not find it
out until he expressed his intention 10
keep his pledge and vote for his partys
| choice. When he stated in the begin
| ming of the Senatorial fight that ne
| would repudiate his pledge none of the
| Democratic papers thought he was de-
| serving of contempt; on the contrary
| they hailed him as a hero But now
| alas. there's none so low among them
tand some of them are pretty low to
| do MIN homage AS for the charges
| that Hanna insulted Mrs. Griffith, that
| is as true as most of the accusations
made against him. No charge is too
gross or absurd for the Democrats to
| make against the man whose skill as
an organizer contributed to their de-
| feat last fall.
LET US PAY OUR BILLS.
| Oakland Enquirer: 1t is to be hoped
that Congress will not delay an appro-
priataon of money to meet the claim
which the commission of awards has
| conceded to the British sealers whose
vessels We're confscated. These vessel
owners may be semi pirates and quite
| unworthy personages, but that is not
the question. IT is a question of good
faith on the part of our Government
! in accepting the consequences of arbi-
I tration. The Paris conference. the in
| tefnational tribunal, which passed on
/ the whole sealing question, reported an
| award of damages against our Gov
ernlnent, but as We had the option of
calling for special board to consider
! damages, the Paris award was not paid
| Now the end of the proceeding has
| been reached, and it would be a breach
of good faith to delay carrying out the
conditions.
SUCCESSFUL CAREER.
Riverside Press: The career of Dr.
Thomas w. Evans, the dentist in Eu-
rope shows how genius always makes
itself manifest Here was man who
made his living at a mechanical occu-
patton and gloried in his work, yet
! fashionable and scientific circles
throughout Europe were alike glad to
welcome him. 1t would have been the
same if instead of being a popular
dentist among the rulers of Europe he
had wrought at any other occupation.
even the humblest. The worker honors
the work.
BAD GRACE.
! Mail of Woodland 1t comes with very
bad grace from the Populists to be
/ fighting the new primary law. Weep
/ ing Tom Gator fears it as it will pre-
vent him from using the Populists to
| further his own interests.
SUGAR DEVELOPMENTS.
Stockton Record: One of the most i'm
portant pieces Of intelligence that has
come over the wires for a week is that
ment of three beet-sugar factories in
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