The record-union., 1899-07-21
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
HxPHESsIONs.
State and Coast Opinions On SUBJ
jects Of Living News e
Interest.

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49,
Oakland Enquirer: Though not much
given to the folly Of prophesying, the
Enquirer said when an important
railroad concession to Americans in
China was announced that at last
something had occurred which was
bound to bring the United States into
the international struggle over the as
sets of the moribund empire, and the
prediction is in a fair way to become
true without loss of time, since already
Secretary Hay has promised to investi-
gate the grievances of the American
railroad syndicate and to exert inf1u-
ence with China to compel her to fulfill
her agreements
"A DUTY UNDERTAKEN.
Los Angeles Times: We did not go
to the Philippine Islands in order to
combat the natives, but to destroy
Spanish supremacy in those ISLANDS,
because of the fact that we were at
war with Spain. That feat accom-
plished, the islands were. ceded to the
United States, and we have undertaken
the duty of preserving peace in those
islands, as becomes a civilized ana
peace-loving nation. While engaged in
this occupation the serhi-savage Tagal
natives, under the leadership of the
bribe- taking ;Aguinaldo, fired upon our
soldiery, and for months past they have
been in open riot and insurrect1on
against the authority of the United
States, which is as supreme in the
Philippine Islands as it is in Califor-
MIA. That is what the Filipinos did to
us, and that is why they are being
punished.
IT YIELDS REVENUE.
Humboldt Standard: During the first
ton the free traders We're constantly
asserting that the Dingley law did not
yield the revenue that it's trainers had
promised. Those who knew thing
or two about tariff matters said: wait
and see what the law will do when
the surplus goods imported during the
free trade period are worked off and
consumed 4 The time has arrived TO
demonstrate the correctness OF their
views For the fiscal year ending July
l, 1S99 the customs revenues have
amounted to upward, of 9OOOO.OOO.
What have our free trade brethren to
say to this? The tariff revenues for
May 1899, amounted to S5,OOO,OOO
more than for the same month OF the
previous year, and the customs reve
nues for the month of June, just closed,
exceeded those of the month of June.
1898, by over $13,000,00O. The Demo-
Gratis declared that the Dingley law
would prove. failure and breed only
deficits, yet the first full year under
that law yields $30,000,00O more reve-
nue. than the closing year under the
Wilson law, even though immense
amounts of goods were rushed into
the country during that year in an
ticipat1on of the higher. duties which
the, new law provided. Wool and
wooden goods were imported by the
millions and the surplus thus brought
into. the country has but just been
disposed of. Last year we heard the
sneering inquiry of the free trader,
What has the high tariff. done for
wool?'' But their jeers came too soon
Wool sold for 9 to 10 cents pound
then because of the large surplus i'm
ported under free trade in wool; but
it is different now that most Of this
supply has been used up, and Wool
which a year ago went a-begging for
buyers is now selling at from IL to
20 cents, and buyers are hunting up
the wool-growers to secure their wool
crop. The American Economist" well
says: '"The Dingley Act yields for the
fiscal year just closed a larger amount
of revenue than the Mckinley Act OF
1890 yielded in its best year, and, as
the New York Tribune points out,
little more than was calculated upon as
the amount sufficient, with the internal
taxes then in force, to cover ordinary
expenditures of the Government. The
credit due to it's trainers is all the
greater because they were compelled
to make their estimates in the face OF
a depression of trade and Industries
which, had it continued, would have
rendered satisfactory results impos-
sible. But they had full faith that a
sound protective law would promptly
restore prosperity without any OF the
monetary changes so persistently urged
and the result proves that they were
not in error. Measured by it's results,
the Dingley bill will be assigned to a
place in history as one of the wisest,
best conceived and most widely benefi-
cial enactments ever placed upon the
statute books of any country"
COUNSEL THROWN AWAY.
The Oregonian: That there are those
in the Democratic party who realize
the impolicy of further support of the
free silver cause was manifested last
week by letter addressed by Judge
Tuley of Chicago to the Jefferson
League of Illinois. Seeing clearly that
the party cannot win on the silver, issue
and that defeat will be both disas-
trous and demoralizing, Judge Tuiey
suggests a series of alternative
schemes by which the issue may be
subordinated. He would prefer to drop
silver entirely; but, he says, IF we
must have silver plank, let it be the
free coinage of silver without reference
to fixed ratio" OR" he goes on, If
we must have a 16-to-1 plank, divest
it of all taint of dishonesty of declar-
ing that all silver coined under it shall
not be a legal tender for either public
or private debts heretofore incurred"
The silver scheme, Judge Tuley holds,
is merely protection for the silver in
l,dustry,' and this being the fact, he
would have the party-if it must sup
port silver-stand fairly upon it, free
from pretense%or equivocation. Neither
of these three plans of letting go will
be accepted. The party is too firmly
bound to the silver miners, too deeply
committed to the Populists, and too
weak in moral courage to do other than
remain in the ditch into which it has
fallen 1t is as certain as any future
thing can be that the Democratic dec