The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-10-24


ma, next to San Francisco, is the most
communistic town on the Pacific
Coast. Its population does not hes1-
tate to take up arms against a sea or
trouble or to fly to a remedy ten times
worse than the disease. Thirteen years
ago, a Citizens Committee, of which
the Mayor was a distinguished MEM
Der, drove out the Chinese residents be-
cause it was feared that the Chinese
were cutting into American labor. The
alacrity with which Tacoma has on
different occasions buried itself under
the load Of populism to obtain relief
from economic evils, and the faith
which it's electorate has given to the
demagogic TRADES against the rich man
and every form of industry requiring
large capital made the ground chosen
by Bishop McCabe for the delivery of
his epistle of common sense singularly
appropriate.
1T is growing customary in the pres
ent day" said Bishop McCabe, to the
Tacomans, ito rail against the rich.
Political speakers often play on the
baser feelings of their hearers by de-
nouncing every rich man, without dis
tinction, as one of a class in conspiracy
against his more fortunate brothers.
No more unwise, unpatriotic or UNI
Christian doctrine can be taught, for
the poor man never prospers until the
rich man does" Bishop McCabe'S
words are a singing rebuke to the agi-
tators who are going about Washington
seeking TO array the poor against the
rich and to perpetuate the division of
the people into conflicting classes.
THE SINGLE TAX ISSUE.
Suffer Farmer: A part of the Demo-
cratic papers and speakers are defend
ing the single tax proposition, another
part is attempting to evade it and pre-
tend that it has no issue in the cam
paign. It's defenders apparently are
those who know least about it, its
evaders those who know what it is and
what it's results mean. Mr.. Mcguire
understands it, believes in it, and wants
to see it put into effect to the full ex
tent of the theory He has a right 10
these beliefs, but do the people of this
State advocate them? Do we want TO
put at the head of our State govern
ment man, who, if he is honest, will
do what he can to bring about the in
PRODUCTION of the system? We think
not. The farmers, who now pay more
than their just share of taxes, will then
have to pay all of them.
THE NEXT CONGRESS PROBABLY
REPUBLICAN.
Portland Oregonian: Considerable
anxiety has been expressed by some
leading Republican journals at the East
concerning the outcome of the Novem-
Der Congressional elections. That anx-
iety is rapidly subsiding, and the most
conservative leaders of the party. both
East and West, no longer apprehend
that the Republicans will not be in
majority in the next Congress, or that
the Senate will be controlled by a CO.
alltion opposed to the Administration
and sound money. Representative Hep
burn of Iowa thinks that the Republi-
cans will carry the next Congress by,
OF course, a reduced majority from the
Presidential sound money and anti-riot
wave of 1896. The losses will come
chiefly from close Eastern districts;
while west Of the Mississippi business
is such that the tide is set
ting the Republican way Speaker
Reed, never a sanguine man, expresses
confidence in the election of a Repub-
llcan House, and bases his conviction
upon the fact that we are industrially
prosperous, and that the momentous
issues which the war created will be the
influence of this campaign.
Mr.. Reed is supported in his opinion by
Senators Wolcott and Carter, and other
Republican Senators from the trans
States, who confidently pre-
he Of
give the Republicans the control of the
Federal Senate after the 4th of next
March, when we shall probably be sure
Of fifty seats, and possibly of fifty
three. Senator Kyle, an old-time Popu-
list, confesses that the change in politi-
cal sentiment in the new States of the
West amounts almost to revolution:
and he explains it by saying that pros
perity and bitter experience have done
it, and Senator Kyle himself is among
the recent converts to the Republican
party
Senator Wolcott believes that the No
vember elections will show a striking
change in the sentiment of the people of
Colorado. Two years ago the temper of
the people of Colorado was so violent
that some of the Demo-P opulist free
silver leaders were almost ready for
revolution, believing that in the adop-
ton of the free silver policy depended
the prosperity Of the State To-day,
however, there is a growing feeling
that the election of Mckinley was the
greatest blessing for Colorado which
that State has received. In Kansas
the honest Republicans who drifted off
into Populism have come back to their
old camps.
THAT VILE ATTACK.
Chico Enterprise: Considering the
vileness Of the attacks on A J. John
ston. Superintendent of State Printing.
by the Democratic press two years ago,
and its numerous unWarranted assaults
upon him since, ii is not surprising,
now that he has been renominated by
the Republican State Convention for
the position which he has so capably
filled, that these attacks have been re-
newed, and in a more scurrilous man
ner than ever before. Mr. Johnstons
chief crime consists in being a Repub-
lican. AS such he refused to permit
Governor Budd to manage the office and
put in his pets, so he gained the enmity
of the Democratic Governor. Again,