The record-union., 1899-10-05

" Lie interests OF HoiLG papers uAio
contrary to the principal of home trade.
The country newspaper is deserving OF
all possible local support and offers OF
the kind stated should be ignored by
the home merchant. The word sfree
simply amounts to bait. Like all
other inducements of its kind the pur-
chaser has to pay for all the so-called
gifts. While calling attention to this
matter we take occasion to refer TO
another diversion of patronage from the
home paper. we often observe certain
firms using business forms printed IN
San Francisco. The withdrawal of such
patronage is both unfair and ungener~
Gus to the local newspaper fraternity.
Such condition Of affairs possibly ex-
lists in every vicinity, and the interior
press has right to kick against sucn
undeserving treatment and condemn
the same with the strongest adject1ves
that can be used.
THE TRUSTS ARE DISCOVERED.
| Marysville Appeal: When Christopher
Columbus, that ancient individual who
so believed in expansion that he pur-
posely set out to look for a place big
enough to- suit his imperalistlc ideas,
and thereby laid the foundation Tor
our present troubles over the Philip
pines, saw the Indians on the American
coast giving him the curious eye he
! is alleged to have remarked in Serlo-
comic tone of voice: Sacramento! we
are discovered"
! And SO the trust octopus which has
been cruising around looking for fresh
victims must feel over the recent ex-
posures which have been made of them.
/ And this is about what the show
down" amounts to up to date:
! 1t has been clearly and amply demon
| strated by the Chicago and st. Louis
| trust conventions that huge combina-
tions of capital do exist; that some OF
| these combinations are injurious in
their effects; that a good many are
neutral in their influences, and that a
few are beneficial.
| 1t has, also, been conclusively proven
that no man or set of men know really
very much about the trust problem;
| that quite a number pretend to a
knowledge which their speeches and
proposed remedies would indicate they
| simply imagined they possessed; that
trust manipulators and stock holders
are as a rule as thoroughly satisfied
with existing conditions as the unfor-
4 tunate who hold no stock are dissatiS-
| fed, and that political shylocks and
| partisan leaders are endeavoring to
make the trust question an issue in the
Forthcoming Presidential contest with
out rhyme or reason.
As to any positive knowledge we
must patiently wait for future devel-
opments.
ATKINSON SQUELCHED.
Los Angeles Express: Edward Atkin-
son has received a severe dressing
down at the hands of Congressman
Shattuc of the First Ohio District, and
| has been told some very unpleasant
truths in unmistakable language. The
| Congressman and the Boston anti-ex-
! pansionist have been carrying on let
ter writing war. General Shattuc be-
gan the contest by objecting to Atkin-
son sending any disloyal publications
to Shattuc's home. Atkinson in return
| threatened to make a personal fight
against General Shattuc in the First
| Ohio Congressional District. The re-
suit has been that Shattuc has made
more friends than he ever did in his
life by his patriotic stand.
/ In reply to a brief letter from Atkin-
son notifying General Shattuc that he
had commenced fight, the Congress
man returned the following hot shot:
Cincinnati, O., Sept. 1S, 1899
Edward Atkinson, President Anti
Imperialist League, Boston, Mass-Dear
Sir: Replying TO your letter of Sep
tember 18th. 7 thought I could start
your rebel, press in a hurry. I was
quite sure you would not want to print
a pen picture Of yourself, true to life,
in one of your own publications. I OBJ
serve that you are less frisky, less
demonstratiye, in your last letter than
you were when you commenced this
corresponding, I had an idea when
you sent me. your first egotistical.
patronizing letter, that you might pos
sibly discover your mistake before you
got through With the correspondence
You say in your letter of September
9th that I should not use bad Ian
guage." My Language" expresses my
sentiments. Any language" that
stands for patriotism. love of country
and loyalty to same is bad language
to you. Any Language" that breathes
the spirit of secession, sedition and
treason is approved by you. Now let
me call your attention to the fact that
my language has not been prohibited
from passing through the mails. Your
language has been so prohibited It
was prohibited, too, because it was
reasonable, set1itious and disloyal Au
1revoir. w. B. SHATTUC."
Of course the language is hot, but
no hotter than the facts justify In re-
senting a bold attempt to hold him UP.
and at the same time showing up the
methods of the anti-expansionists Gen
eral Shattuc has done the loyal citi-
zens of the entire country a great SER
vice. 1t is to be hoped that public men
everywhere will put themselves square
ly on record against the impudent pre-
tensions of this small" but pestiferous
band Of agitators.
WHAT HAPPENED TO JERRY.
Oakland Tribune: Some of the wild
/ eyed eranks who have been figuring on
taking the stump and declaiming
against the Administration on the lines
advocated by Edward Atkinson will
| probably do little hard thinking in
view of what has happened to Jerry
| Simpson in his own bailiwick When
| an audience believed to consist of Pop
ulists rises in its wrath and boots him
off the platform because he said he
gloried in the spunk of Aguinaldo and
his men, it is easy to see the finish of
any campaign conducted ON those
lines. The Democrats will assuredly
! find that thew have got out of the fry-