The record-union., 1898-01-11

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| the United States will cease to exist as
nation. But Teller, as IS well known,
is subject to hysteria. 1t will be re-
membered that he walked out of the
ST. Louis convention-into which he
should not have entered as a delegate
declaring in effect that the country
would be ruined, disrupted and to all
intents and purposes busted" by the
adoption of the gold plank of the Re-
publican platform. The nation still
survives, and is getting along tolerably
well i'll spite of Teller's fearful travail
ing.
ENDLESS CHAIN"
Stockton Mail: The Treasury ruling
that the greenbacks are redeemable in
gold coin alone, if the holder so de-
mands. never had any warrant in law.
It was made by Charles Foster and
was cunning trick to rob the treasury
of its gold and give an excuse for bond
issues-a game which Cleveland and
Morgan worked with a profit Of ten
millions in two weeks.
Secretary Gage is not honest. Let
him obey the law. Let him pay gold
or silver, as most convenient, to those
pres anting greenbacks. The endless
! chain" will fall to pieces in moment.
The treasury need fear no other raids
from thieves of the Cleveland Morgan
stripe.
When the next Democratic Congress
convenes, after the election of next
year, it should go forward fearlessly
and determinedly to compel the Score
tary of the Treasury to obey the law
A joint resolution will break that "end-
less chain in short order.
NEWSPAPER ETHICS.
Solano Courier: A newspaper to be
q combination of popularity, progress
and a power for good, must possess
three qualities. 1t must be unswerv-
ing and unbiased in it's devotion to the
best interests of the community in
which it is published; it must be cap
able OF touching the finer feelings of
the heart, and arousing the best senti-
ments of the human mind in such
way as to lead people onward and up
ward: then it should be capable of
touching the giggle-boxes of its readers
occasionally, as a good laugh is ben
eft 10 any one.
CHINESE FEARS.
Santa Barbara Press: Advices from
Of China and his court are in sackcloth.
He has been informed Of the promised
total eclipse of the sun in January,
and IS unable to rid himself of the be-
lief that the event BODIES evil to him
and his people. He has issued a proc
lamation urging all his subjects to
clothe themselves in black and by hu-
initiation to prQpitiate the offended del
Il. g - 1t
superstition, the poor little fellow it
would appear from the late dispatches,
has real good reason to fear for the
integrity of his empire. For, beyond
any doubt, it is the intention of the
great powers to slice up his realm and
then divide it among themselves.
RIVER ADVOCACY.
Solano Courier: So some of the coun-
ties are to be asked to make another
donation from what little they have
left for the purpose of sending another
delegation to Washington to lobby with
Congress for an appropriation for river
improvements, but we hope to hear that
not a single county in the State will
give a dollar toward such a purpose.
We have men in Congress who are
supposed to be- and we believe are,
looking after the interests Of the State
in the best possible manner they can,
and to send delegation of lobbyists to
Washington for such purpose would
not only be a useless and foolish out
lay of money, but a base, open and
fragrant insult Haunted in the faces of
our Representatives in Congress.
NEEDS THE OLD MAN.
San Diego Tribune: China ought to
have old man Menelik of Abyssinia to
help her out, and give the powers a
razzle-dazzle. Menelik knows how to
fight and doesn't propose to sit quietly
and allow foreigners to overrun his
country. He is again on the warpath
and some one is likely to get hurt.
A NOVEL EXHIBIT.
Humboldt Standard: 1t is the inten-
zion of the management of the Omaha
Exposition to place on exhibition a
mammoth pile of Cancelled mortgages.
paid off during the past and present
years by the Prairie State farmers
the farmers of Kansas and Nebraska
This is novel idea; but it will show
the value of the farm lands and the
mighty productiveness of these great
States.
Will our popocratic friends, right
here, stop and reflect upon Mr. Bryan's
campaign assertions that the honest
farmers and other debtors of the coun-
try could not pay off their debts and
mortgages unless they had cheap sill
yer dollars with which to do it. He told
the people then that wheat and silver
kept company; that one declines with
the other and cheap silver meant cheap
wheat. Now that wheat is around the
dollar mark in good gold coin, and sill
yer is worth 81 cents an ounce, making
the bullion value of silver dollar a
little less than A cents, the farmers are
paying off cords of their mortgages in
those agricultural States. VIII these
farmers who took their political COS
pei from st. Bryan, be deceived by his
fallacies in the future? Will they clam
or for a monetary system that has
cursed every country which has chung
TO it? 1t would seem that these facts.
so patent to everybody, would cure
them of the free silver lunacy.
GOLD PRODUCTION.
Santa Rosa Republican, The gold
product of California for 1897 is put
at S200o0,0O0 This is more than it has
been for a quarter of a century. In the
past two or three years there has been
very increased activity in gold mining.
1t is constantly working into more and
more of an established business. Wealth
IS ground out of the rocks as steadily
and with almost the same certainty
with which it comes from manufactur-
| ing industries. The progress in mining
is likely TO be made on this basis. New
discoveries Will be made and new mills
be erected. The days of diligent in
dustry in mining have certainly sue