The record-union., 1899-06-28
VOICE Of The PRESS.
state and Csast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

JCCgD Va AAkVAAs6 ANO~
Interest.
Los Angeles Express: The meanest
men in the United States to-day are
those who are trying to discourage en-
Iistments for the Philippine service.
The cheering thought is that there are
so few of them.
THE LABORER.
Marysville Appeal: A year ago or
thereabouts men were glad to work for
six bits day, and their employers had
hard work to raise the money with
which to pay them. Now these same
laborers look upon 50 per diem with
lofty contempt and demand three silver
plunks as the price of their services.
| The laborer is worthy of his hire, but
he is no more entitled to excessive COM
pensation than are the trusts to their
| illegitimate profits. 1t is always wise
to get all you can, and if man IS
worth Sd a day he ought to receive it.
And even if he is not, yet can convince
some one that he is, he would be fool
| ish not to- take it, If he could get IT..
| However, it is not well to demand too
| much, for others may speedily come
along who are willing to work for less
! than you are receiving, and the upshot
of the matter will be that you will be
hitting the road, wrapped in the mantle
of your own conceit and clouds Of dust
while the other fellow draws down the
| stuff
| AIR SHIPS.
/ Init A
Is attempting to resurrect the vacuum
air ship, which was exploited half a
dozen years ago to the sorrow of sew
eral gullible persons. The New York
promoters promise to carry passengers
across the ocean to Paris in a ship
which will depend for its buoyancy up
| ON a vacuum cylinder The visionary
capitalists who may invest in this airy
undertaking will probably transfer the
vacuum in their heads to their pocket
books, and people will continue to make
ocean voyages according to present
| methods.
CONFESSEDLY MISTAKEN.
Fresno Republican: If protection was
ever robbery it is still robbery; if free
!. trade was ever desirable, it is more
than ever desirable now, since the in
crease of foreign commerce. Yet De-
| mocracy has given up it's crusade for
| free trade, as good, and retains it
only at a single point, where it would
| use it as a punishment. One way to
| break up a trust is to destroy the in
| dustries composing it, just as one way
| to evict an undesirable tenant from
| your property is to burn the property.
But this threat of free trade as an evil
| is confession that the old laudation
| of it as good was mistaken If the
| ''crime Of 1873" was ever crime, it is
still a crime, and it needs redress more
| than ever, now that the country is
drifting more and more rapidly toward
| the permanent establishment of the
single gold standard If free silver
was ever the panacea for industrial in
| equality. it is still needed, for indus
| trial inequality still continues, with
only the difference that increasing pros
perity has rendered its lower limit less
uncomfortable. Yet Democracy has
relegated the silver question to a sub
ordinate place, not because the truth
has changed, but because it Is the sea-
son for a different sort Of bait. The
established principles of the Republican
party are still in force. The Republican
party still affirrns their truth, and the
Democratic party has ceased to deny
it. The new principles Of the Repub-
hcan party On the new issues will be
established, no matter who denies
them. And the Democratic party will
cease to deny them. too.
THE BOERS.
4 II. fx> pf
the Transvaal Beers, in the event OF
war, taking the aggressive, invading
Cape Colony and capturing Cape Town,
which has been suggested by London
newspaper, is rather startling, and in
the way in which the publication of the
alleged plan has been made it must
be regarded as a good deal Of fake.
The Beers are good fighters, but they
| fight best on their own dunghill, as mi
| litia soldiers usually do. To carry war
into an enemy's country five to eight
hundred miles is no light undertaking;
it calls for military organization more
perfect than that Of the Beers, who,
even If they should succeed by dash
in winning their way to Cape Town,
would run imminent danger Of being
cut off and never getting back.
ONE EFFECT OF TRUSTS.
San Jose Herald: It is estimated
that Is, 700 drummers have been throw n
| out Of employment by reason of the in
dustrial combinations known as trusts.
Hotel proprietors in every part of the
country are complaining Of the loss Of
business consequent upon the recall OF
these travelling men The railroads also
feel the satisfaction from their earn
ings.
1t would be interesting, Ii possible, to
| follow the reSults of this business
change. Iff5,Ob0 drumners have been
taken off the road how many other en-
ployes have been discharged by the
business houses represented by these
commercial travellers? How many such
establishments have been closed alto
gether? How many persons are conse-
quently straitened in means and what
less does that meen to dealers OF va
rious kinds. How many advertisements
have been taken out of newspapers?
The recall Of this army o. employees is
| felt in all branches of business.
This Is aside from the question Of the
good or evil effect Of the trusts UPON
production and distribution. 1t may
be argued with some speciousness that
the calling in OF The drummers,. the clos.
! ing of stores, Discharge of employees.
cutting down of advertising bills, ETC.,
enables the trusts to cheaper produc-