The record-union., 1898-03-21

osition and formulate a taxation sys-
tenn that will be just, not too difficult
of enforcement, and furnish ample rev
enue for national, State and county
purposes
ONE VIEW OF IT.
San Diegan-Sun: The steamer Paris
carried 425,00O ounces of silver from
New York for Europe on Tuesday. 9th
er steamers brought $2.200000 in gold
from Europe to New York. Mr.. Bryan,
what's the matter? Why are American
goldbugs allowed to act thusly? If
all our silver is to be exported we may
yet have a white metal famine.-San
Diego Tribune.
What cheerful idiocy lis there, my
countrymen," America is buying that
gold. and is paying for it in cotton, and
corn. and flour, and wheat, on which
Europe fixes the price by putting us in
competition with the cheap labor of
India That is how we buy the gold.
And, although there is no necessity for
so doing, we meekly sell the silver the
same way-again allowing Europe to
fix the price; in fact, even helping Eu-
rope to secure it at low cost by ad-
verse legislation on our part. The state
AAiNii' % SIMPLY pat stp ny TIC 1ilD~
une" is not one for an American to
feel gleeful over But, then, some resi-
dents of America are only imitation
Americans.
GOOD ROADS WITH A STRING
San Jose Mercury: The Mercury
is in complete sympathy with the move
ment for good roads. 1t appreciates their
value to every county and to the State
at large. 1t will assist, so far as it is
able, the efforts of the Good Roads
League to arouse public sentiment-C9 :.
Keen realization of the Importance and
the economy of good roads and will
gladly lend its service in the work Of
establishing Good Roads Leagues in
this county and elsewhere. But it will
not approve of any measure the pur-
pose of which shall be to compel those
counties and communities which lava
had the intelligence the business judg-
ment, the enterprise and the liberality
to construct good roads for themselves
to pay out money for building roads in
counties which are too inert and an
progressive to build roads for them
selves.
WHAT MAY BE-
Stockton Mail: The European press
is never tired of polling fun at Kaiser
Wilhelm. And certainly he is a fair
butt for little wits and big wits. His
indefatigable prosecutions of all who,
speak contemptuOusly of his sacred
person; his mediocre poems and paint
lngS; his eXtravagan claims to almost
divine hOnors; his endless outbreaks of
Whim and temper-all these things con-
spire to make Germany's War Lord
very much of a clown. Yet it is we'll
to remember that this royal buffoon
has another side to his character
The Kaiser is the most indefatigaDle
worker in his Empire. He resembles
IN his restless energy, his great ances-
tor the renowned Frederick In fact,
there are many points Of likeness to
Frederick which will strike the careful
observer. The great King was also a
bad poet, Wretched painter and a pes
tilent meddler with everybody's busi-
ness. Had he made no wars he would
have lived in history with almost exact
ly the character which contemporary
annalists unite in bestowing upon the
present German sovereign.
1t is almost certain that a great Eu-
ropean war will break out before the
century closes. When that war has
ended the master of Germany's tremen-
| dous military strength may possibly
stand before the world a victorious and
imposing figure among the sovereigns
of his able and warlike race.