The record-union., 1898-08-21
VOICE Of The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

Los Angeles Times: For many years
mining for the precious metals was
looked upon as more or less OF gam
BILE, and even now there are many who
hold this opinion. When the facts are
investigated, however, it will be found
that mining for gold, or silver, or cop
per- when carried on in practical and
conservative manner by those who un-
derstand their business, involves nc
more risk than commerce or manu1ac-
turing, while, on the other hand, the
profits, within a short time, are often
fabulous.
TYING THE LEGISLATURE. E.
Fresno Republican: The seventn
amendment to the Constitution TO De
voted on this fall is, even more than the
present provision which it is intended
to supersede, an interesting commen-
tary on the way in which the Legfsla-
ture of this State is regarded Under
the present provision the legislators are
permitted to sit at the expense of the
State only sixty days in two years, the
obvious inference being that the Legisla-
ture is a necessary evil, which must be
kept down to the lowest possible limit.
Under the proposed provision, the Leg
days, for the introduction Of bills, and
then, after an adjournment to recon-
vene for the consideration of bills, pay
being allowed for only seventy-five
days in all.
We are not disposed to quarrel with
the estimate put upon themselves by the
legislators in thus proposing to
curtail still further their liberty of ac-
tion, while slightly increasing their pay,
but we submit that if, after making pol
itics the chief interest of life, after CIV
ing to it more space in newspaper dis
cussion than to all other subjects COM
bined, the best we can do in regard to
the highest governing body in the State
is TO protect ourselves so far as possible
against it, something must be radically
wrong.
The true remedy would be to give the
Legislature not less power Of doing
harm, but more ability to do good. Of
course this cannot be accomplished by
new laws and constitutional amend
ments,- but it can be accomplished if the
people will elect to the Legislature men
who can be trusted.
THE WAR BONDS.
Portland Oregonian: The one supreme
reason why the bonds were not put up
at auction and a premium realized is
found in a popular misapprehension as
humiliating as it is idiotic. People have
been told chiefly by those who knew
perfectly we'll they were lying, that the
Cleveland bond sales We're conspiracies
between the Administration and the
money power. 1t was rotten nonsense,
Il I@ylo
Isle, and in the end costly. The result
is that we have sacrificed these millions
in order to get the bonds among the
people, and now that the people have
them they are turning them over to the
capitalists who would have been glad to
buy them at a premium in the first
place.
Such disposition Of the bonds at this
time. was almost a necessity. The Ad-
mnistration could hardly sell the bonds
to the highest bidder without stultify-
ing itself. 1t fell into a pit Of its own
digging. The ST. Louis platform de-
clared that Cleveland's Administration,
with a record of unparalleled incapac-
ity. dishonor and disaster had piled
up the public debt by S262, 100000" and
''pawned American credit to alien syn
dicates." 1t was a, barefaced lie and a
monStrouS wrong to the two men who
had by decision and courage preserved
the gold standard. The Ohio Repu5-
hcans perpetrated the same injustice
when they described the Cleveland bond
issues as sales in secret to foreign
syndicates." This is how we laid the
foundation for the present popular"
loan.
SHUTTLE AND SHIFT.
Redlands Facts: AS evidence of the
shuttle -and-shift character of the dis
gruntled all over the land, it is inter
esting to note that the Populists got
severely left in the recent election in
Alabama, where that party once had
heavy following. The Democrats showed
them under so deeply that an Alabama
Pop must wonder where he is at" On
the contrary in Nebraska, where the
Democrats once were on top, the Popu-
list movement has made such inroads
as to capture the bulk of the offices. and
the Governor in the fusion nominating
convention recently held. The Demo
Gratis name in Nebraska is Dennis The
demo-popo-silvo circus goes on, to the
delight of the G.. o. P, which carries
the banner of victory.
REAL GEM OF THE ANTILLES.
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat: If
Cuba be the Pearl Of the Antilles
which is open to doubt, Porto Rico is
its diamond, its ruby, it's Kohinoor.
the most precious stone in the carcanet
which Spanish luck and enterprise
plucked from the misty, mysterious re-
gions of the West four centuries ago.
IT Is inferior to Cuba only in it's attri-
butte of size. In fertility of soil, in SAL
uority of climate, in strategic position
and an the character of it's people,
which, after all. is the most serious con-
dition confronting any country which
desires to annex or govern the West
Indies, 1t is far superior 1t is, indeed,
well worth having, which cannot be said
of every colonial possession on the rent
roll Of Spain.
A GOOD RECORD.
Salt Lake Tribune: One ship disa-
bled in collision, but not much hurt.
none lost by battle or storm, Zone dis
abled in the hundred days war; two
fleets of the enemy annihilated, and no
end of bombarding of forts and shore
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