The record-union., 1899-05-01
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.


jects Of Living News
Interest.
Oakland Enquirer: It is a pity that
| 1t is so much easier to be a hero than
it is to exercise good, plain, common
sense. Captain Coghlan Of the Raleigh
was one Of the most gallant and efficient
of Admiral Dewey's Captains, but as
soon as he reached New York and began
making afterdinner speeches he in
volved himself in such a series of indis-
cretions as seriously concerns his
friends and has caused the Government
of Germany to inquire what it means.
1t is stated that Secretary Hay has al
ready expressed to the German Gov
eminent his disapproval of Captain
Coghlans conduct and that the Berlin
officials say the incident can be dis
missed with the explanati that Cap
tain Coghlan was drunk. But this is an
explanation which would be extremely
humiliating to Coghlan, and the diplo-
matists, out of consideration for the
feelings of a courageous sailor, might
seek for some easier way of letting him
down. In other words, the extreme
penalty of making a blooming fool of
ones self may be waived in this in
stance.
FRUIT PRICES.
Alameda Argus: They say the pros
poets are excellent for a good price this
year for nearly all varieties of fruit
growing so abundantly in California.
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and is said to be reasonably certain of
peaches and apricots. The Florida or
ange crop is failure, and the Eastern
crop is much below the mark. Apricots
have been a practical failure in Cali
fornia for a couple of years. They are
extensively grown in no other section
of the country, and are the best canning
fruit there is. Good prices and a big
crop will change the commercial aspect
of California entirely.
THE FARMERS PROSPER.
Humboldt Standard: If anything
were wanting to prove the utter fallacy
of Bryan's contention, that free silver
at 16 to is the only panacea for f1nan-
cial depression. and especially for the
hard times which the farmers suffered
most of the years of C1eveland's second
term in office, the fact that his oft-re-
peated prophecies have utterly failed
should be sufficient. During the whole
campaign of 1896 the free silver orators
paid special attention to the farmers.
All who titled the soil were assured in
the most positive manner that low
prices of farm products were the direct
result of the refusal to allow unlimited
| free coinage of silver, and that prices
would continue to go lower and lower
until silver should be remonetized at the
old ratio and coinage should be made
free. The only cure for hard times,
Bryan insisted, was the passage OF
law allowing any man owning silver to
take it to the mint and have it coined
! into dollars free of charge, and the
dollars, with the Government stamp
upon them guaranteeing them to be dol
| lars, returned to him. All the silver IN
the world was thus to be coined free, If
it could be brought to the United States
minis, and made into legal tender dol
| lars. This done, Bryan promised the
| farmers good prices for all their pro-
ducts and good times generally, but if
free silver coinage were refused the
farmers were to get less and less for
| their corn, wheat, wool, potatoes, beef,
pork, mutton, butter and every other
farm product The Popocrats went so
far as to tell the farmers that unless
Bryan were elected no man would ever
get more than % cents a bushel for his
wheat or 10 cents for his oats. What
has been the result of Bryan's defeat?
Money has become more plentiful and
interest rates have been decreased. Men
can now borrow money at from to 8
per cent. on good security, whereas four
years ago they could scarcely get it for
10 per cent. Not only this, but all kinds
of farm products bring more good
money than they did then. Horses, cat
tie, hogs and sheep are from 10 to 5O
per cent. higher all over the country
than they We're when Bryan made his
false prophecies. In 1876, domestic, ami
mails and farm products were certainly
cheap, and the demagogues charged it
up to the Crime against silver!" Voters
must have very short memories if they
can again be deceived by such alb
surdities.
A BLUE LAW.
Hanford Sentinel: The newspapers
of California will present a peculiar ap-
pearance to-day the beginning of the
reign of the blue laws for the press.
Those San Francisco dailies that
brought on the law propose to fight it.
1T belongs to them to make the fight;
let them go at it,
A SUCCESSION OF CALAMITIES.
Mountain Democrat: BY their anti
railroad jeremiads the black-listed pi-
rates of yellow journalism excite only
public indifference, or commiseration.
Their warning forebodings have served
to invite the calamities they deplored.
All their saving schemes OF railroad OBJ
struction, completion, litigation and
confiscation, have come to grief.
! The General Pacific Railroad, with its