The record-union., 1899-04-27

nave been so plentiful that one might
suppose that they would continue album
| dant forever. But during the past half
! dozen years the market hunter has
4 made such inroads among them that
they are now scarce in places where
only a little while ago they were most
numerous.
PROSPERITY FOR FARMERS.
| Ukiah Republican-Press: In the CAM
paign of 1896 the farmers were given
| especial attention by the managers of
| the silver party All who titled the
soil We're assured that low prices were
the direct result of the treatment of
silver and that values must inevitably
continue to droop until the Government
consented to coin at the old ratio all
the silver that could be carried to the
minis. This view of the case was
backed up by an avalanche of silver
| literature, to say nothing of an earth
quake of silver gable. Farmers know
now that the prices Of their products
advance without the slightest regard to
silver, and that the Popocrat purpose
in 1896 was to overwhelm them with
financial fallacies and deception. Z In
that year the value of domestic animals
was certainly low and dema gogues
charged the fact upon their great catch
all, the alleged crime against silver A
chance is now presented to consider the
subject freed from political absurdities.
DON'T BE HASTY.
| Bakersfield Echo: There are indica-
tons that the Republicans in California
are about to do the usual thing In West
ern politics, namely, hinder rather than
help its officers to serve the people ac
! ceptably. 1t has come to be the COM
mon thing with all parties in California
! to get in and elect what officers they
can and as soon as the ink is dry on
the election returns to turn about and
begin to pull down the officials. This
is popularity known as Independence"
in politics-as standing for the man,
not the party"
| There are indications that some of the
Republican papers are going to treat
Governor Gage in this way He has
not done. all things as these papers
hoped he would, and now it is thought
to be the proper thing to take him rude
ly to task, and by articles more or less
bitter in tone, create as wide a breach
between him and what should be his
nat ural allies and advisers as possible.
Such course is neither good politics
nor good citizenship We have a Gov
eminent by parties very largely in
America, and no man in office can stand
erect without the aid and support of
his party. Neither can any man do all
official things to suit every member or
every organ Of his party.
Governor Gage has not had great
deal Of schooling in governmental af-
fairs. He had not given a great deal
of his time to study of the States
institutions and the needs of the COM
monwealth prior to his election. He
is now entering upon that task, and for
its faithful performance he needs and
should receive the advice and support
Of the Republican ournals.
THE CARS LOVE FEAST
Los Angeles Herald: We observe that
the American delegates to the Cars
love feast are not sanguine about dis
armament, but they hope the horrors
of war may be mitigated. 1t is said
they will urge the abandonment of tor
pedoes and rams,. also, the use of ex-
plosive bullets, and small shells. In a
general way our delegates will strive,
as we understand it, to have war con-
Quoted on a plan that will eliminate
the drawback in the present style, |
whereby people are hurt.
A HARD NUT TO CRACK.
Tulare Register: All signs point 10 |
the attempt ON the part of the Democ
racy to make the trusts the central
issue in next years campaign. OF
course that is demagogy pure and SIM
pie. The issue presented by the trusts
is not political. but economic and very
serious, too. There can be no differ
ence Of political opinion regarding
trusts. Republicans are no more in
favor of them than are Democrats and.
in fact, the antitrust law on the
statute books of the nation was drafted
by Republican Statesmen, enacted by
a Republican Congress and signed by
a Republican President, and Republi-
can prosecutors have instituted suits
against many of them, and have dis
solved some of them only to have the
dissolution rendered Intellectual by or
ganiZing as one corporation in con-
for1nity with law and SO accomplish it's
purpose just the same. The trust
problem is indeed a hard nut to crack.
8 in DEALING WITH THE TRUSTS.
Santa Rosa Republican: Mere rail-
ing against the great combinations of
capital formed and to be formed fol
business purposes will not affect them.
Corporations have become a necessity
TO our time. Many of the great en-
.terprises of the age could not be han
died without them. Granted the alb
stract right, based on industrial and
commercial necessity, for the corpor
ate combination of capital and the linn
itation of such unity of interest be-
comes a serious question. If, say five
men, having a capital of one thousand
dollars each may unite in corporation,
why may not any number of men hav-
ing or controlling ten million dollars
each do the same? Who shall deter
mine when the union of capital is de-
sirable and not against the public well
fare or when it is AN menace to our
corporation for the purpose of conduct
ing a newspaper, a bank or creamery
is unobjectionable why may not such
corporations own several newspapers,
several banks several creameries, ETC.?
Immense businesses requiring great
capital must be conducted either by
corporations or by partnerships involv-
ing large numbers of people. The lat
ter plan being impracticable the former
has taken it's place. But what should
be the limitation of capital eSpedieht
OF even possible under the conditions Of
the present or probable in the future?
By what laws should these necessary
private corporations be governed? What
should be the policy of the nation and
the States in dealing with them?