The record-union., 1899-09-22
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EXTRACTS FROM ED1ToRIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions ON SUBJ
ieots Of Living News
Interest.
Los Angeles Herald: A man possessed
OF a fortune estimated at q hundred
mlillon dollars has died suddenly as a
result OF oyerwork. That is what
caused Cornelius Vanderbilt's first par.
alytic attack, three years ago. accord
ing to the conclusion of eminent physi-
clans. Mr.. Vanderbilt was the re.
spons1ble head of the vast railways
ana otner interests that his father left
when he suddenly dropped dead in his
home in 1885. In addition to the weight
OF responsibility thus inherited. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt probably doubled the
load upon his shoulders in the dozen
years between his fathers death and
the paralytic attack in 1896 He at
tempted to do Justice to all the vast
interests Of which he was the head, and
the burden was too heavy for him TO
bear. He never fully recovered from
the first attack, and only prolonged life
by substantially abandoning business
cares. He leaves his hundred million
dollars for his heirs. and all he had TO
show for his brief life of work and
worry was his board and clothes.
THE RECORD.
Riverside Press: Those Democrats
who pride themselves upon their devo-
ton to lifelong principles and their
rock-ribbedness. must be surprised. to
say the least, at the record making this
year in export manufactures It viii
be remembered that such old wheel
horses as Senator Vest made violent
opposition in the Senate to the Ding
ley bill, on the ground that it's enact
mept would destroy our markets
abroad for manufactured articles,
which he showed were at that time in
a. remarkably fourishing condition.
Have Senator Vest and his friends no.
ticed that the exports of manufactures
have reached a million dollars a day
under the Dingley protective tariff law.
having been S211. ,904 in the first
seven months of the present year, while
in the corresponding months of the first
year of the Wilson law they We're $Il0,-
3S9, ,946, or but half million dollars a
day?
MARY ELLEN AGAIN.
Yreka Journal: The famous Mary
Ellen Lease, the Populist orator from
Kansas, who is touring the country as
a lecturer. announces that she will go
on the stump next year and help beat
Bryan. She is sure that he will be
nominated, but says that he cannot
possibly be elected, because he is a
compromiser and has always gone back
on free silver. Mrs. Lease, it may be
interesting to know, is an ardent ex-
pansionist, and believes in subjugating
the Filipinos. ''They must be made to
see that America is the biggest place
on the map," she says. What seems
to be the dawn of destruction is after
all only the angel of evolution standing
in eternal service at the font of life.
Mary seems to have lost none OF her
pristine vigor, and Mr.. Bryan Is to be
commiserated. In addition to Mary 5
kick, we may also mention that Sem
ators Teller of Colorado and Stewart
of Nevada also oppose Bryan's anti
expansion heresies. s nn ss<
FINANCIAL EXPANSION.
Los Angeles Times: During the last
Presidential campaign we were fire.
quently told by the Populists that,
should Mckinley be elected. the Gov
eminent would stop the coinage of sill
yer and withdraw from circulation the
silver then in the hands of the people,
so that gold would be at premium
and every borrower would be at the
mercy Of the money sharks What
has been the result? The Republican
silver dollars It did not contract the
gold in circulation, and as for the bor-
rover being at the mercy of the lender
the rate of interest during the past
three years has fallen from 80 to 4o
per cent. During the past three years
the Government has coined over 49,
100000 silver dollars and has issued
S12,000,000 more Of silver certlHcates.
while in the increase in the circula-
ton of gold has been 1856, ,000,0 900. Be
sides making up for the natural IN
crease in population. the Administra-
ton has increased the per capita cir
culation from $21.18 to S25,31 during
the past three years The calamity
bowler will certainly be hard pressed
for battle cry in the next campaign.
CARELESSNESS.
Tulare Register: Somebody's care
lessness, so the gun went off and a life
was ruined. Somebody's carelessness
and man journeys through the rest
of life handless, or eyeless, charge
upon his friends or the public. Some
body's carelessness and horse is left
unhitched to take fright, dash into. g.
crowd and MAIN or kill a lot Of people.
Somebody's carelessness and a train is
left on a track where it ought not to
be, a collision takes place, half a dozen
homes are wrecked. Somebody's cares
lessness with matches. a lamp or a
fire left unmatched and half town is
burned. Somebody's carelessness and
the gas is not turned off and houseful
of sleeping people perish in their beds
Carelessness is a crime. Carelessness
should be punished only less everely
than wilful crime. A person has no
right to head that he does not use.
He has no right to trifle with the lives
of others and the thing that one has
no right to do he should be punished
for doing if he does it. Somebody's
carelessness has caused more disasters
in this world than the wilfully criminal
acts of all the bad people who ever
lived And vet carnlassnacc is q ran1e-