The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-02-03
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects o2 Living News
Interest.

/
| cent Chicago speech. Bryan and 9TH
! er free coinage advocates invariably
represent President Jackson as A silver
man, when the fact is the General was
a goldbugs and the gold bill was
/ passed by his friends during his adj
ministration and received his signature.
| The yellow metal had been driven out
| Of circulation by the legal ratio of 10 TO
| /, and there WAS loud demand, es-
| peeialiy among the jackson men, that
| the ratio should be changed in such a
way as to bring back the gold. Ben
| ton, who was the leader of the Jackson
men in the Senate, led the fight for the
gold bill and secured its passage. The
Post" rightly says that to claim Jack
| son as silverite in the face of these
facts implies either dense ignorance &c
| history or remarkable development
| Of cheek
WHAT IT REALLY MEANS.
Los Angeles Times: The Teller res
| olution merely provides in general
! terms that the Government shall pay
the principal and interest of the bonds
! of the United States in silver This
| proposition, as we have seen, will be
! comparatively harmless so long as the
, declared policy of the Government .
| maintain the parity of all forms of cur
rency is adhered to- AS that policy Will
certainly be adhered to during the Nc
| Kinley administration, there is little
present cause for alarm as to the fate
| pro or con, Of the Teller resolution.
| AS matter of fact. the Teller reso-
| luton is both illogical and superf1uous.
| AS shown by Senator Fairbanks of In
| diana, in the debate on Wednesday, the
| Government is at the present time act
ually paying its bonded obligations, not
In gold, but in legal tenders On the
| first day of January S29.0o0000 of
| bonds matured and We're paid off in le-
| gal tenders. which, under the present
| policy, are as good as gold, and are re-
deemable in gold or silver on demand,
| at the option of the holder. 1t has not
| been the custom to pay the principal
| and interest of the bonds in gold coin
unless the holder especially requested
! it, for the very good reason that one
| kind of money is as good as another.
| and there is no special demand for gold,
the creditors preferring paper. as rule.
because of its lightness and portab ility.
THE FIRE ESCAPE.
Oakland Tribune: The good results
| of The fire escape crusade that was
| waged ca the coast few years ago
! is shown by the excellent use to which
| the device was put on the occasion of
| the great fire at Spokane on Monday.
| The proprietor of the hotel in which
! the conflagration took place was one
| of those who opposed the law most
| strenuously and it was in fact neces-
| sary to arrest him in order to induce
| him to comply with it. Yet that very
| escape was the means of saving the
| lives of a score of the guests of his
! hotel. One part of the fire escape law
| should be insisted on strictly every
| where, and that is keeping the landing
| clear Of Instructions. Roomers in no.
/ tells are apt to use them as storage
| places for flowers and so forth, thereby
| robbing them Of much of their USE
| fulness
THE MAINE.
| Los Angeles Express: Looking at
| the more serious side of the matter,
| the presence of the Maine at Havana
| VIII be a great relief to the Americans
in that city, who will have a safe place
/ OF refuge in case riotng should brea X
| out Indeed, the Blanco Government
might be compelled to flee beneath the
| protecting arm of Uncle Sam should
| the oppo1ents of autonomy among the
| Spaniards in Havana manifest their
| displeasure in practical manner. In
| the meantime, let us give Sagasta due
credit for his joke. The visit of the
| Vizcaya need not be the signal for a
retreat to the country and the burial
of Wall streets cash, stocks and bonds.
PUBLISHING FILTH.
| Alameda Argus: There is another
| immense installment in two of this
mornings papers about the Clark muir
der at st. Helena, and the moral mon
sters concerned in it. The Chronicle y
| however, treats the subject in little
| more than a column, under normal
heads. l. appears that the Chronicle
| is trying to tone down the salacious.
the repulsive, in its treatment of the
| news Of the day. If that shall really
| prove to be so it ought instantly to re-
| celve recognition and approval For
the public cries out continually and
| loud against erotic Journalism. If fha
| pubic doesn't say one thing and do
| another II will encourage any attempt
| TO overcome the yellow hue of modern
metropolitan journalism
| WE'LL, THEY DO NOT DO 1T.
| Riverside Press: How do the calau-
ity howlers who insisted that the pros
| perity Immediately following the cleo
| ton OF Mckinley was only temporary
account for the steady and continuous
growth or activity in business succa -
/ IN That extremely important branch of
/ the industries of the United States. the
| IRON trade2 IT is a full year now since
/ the Improvement which became appar-
/ ent immediately following the rejec lion
| OF the silver proposition and the adou-
/ ton Of protection and sound money.
ana this Improvement still continues.
Dunn's review of last week, comment
ing Upon the condition of the iron trade.
| says: The iron furnaces in blast Ian
uary lst report an output of 226 ,f,S
| tons weekly against 226, 024 tons weax-
| ly December LIST. with an increase If
| l2,4sl tons in the unsold stocks hel
| by furnaces. While this shows a CON
sumption of 52ia per cent. larger tha,
| that of last year. there would be dis
| courasine indications of consumption
! but for the fact that several furnaces
/ We're stepped for the HOLIDAYS. and
| these with several others have starred
| since January LIST. while the demand
/ for finished products does not diminish
| The Pennsylvania Railroad has ord .rt-.,
| 10000 tons Of steel rails, and a naw
railroad in Maine 1000 tons. and 9TH
er orders for cars. railroad supplies
| plates. bars and structural material arc
unusually large for the season.
JUST FINDING IT OUT.
Alameda Encinal. New York has just
| found cut that the Chinese make prac