The record-union., 1899-10-11

/ LIE people IN udtlOildl SlSClioiiS, elAo
which, enacted under the false plea OF
protection to home industry, proved a
! prolific breeder of trusts and monop-
olies, enriched the few at the expense
| of the many, restricted trade, and de-
prived the producers of the great
American staples of access to their nat
ural markets" But the threat the Re
! publicans made to restore the McKin-
lew law was followed by the enactment
| of the Dingley law, fashioned after the
Mckinley law, and following its prln-
ciples. What has happened? The law
which they say has restricted trade
has given to America the largest vol
ume of business ever known in her his
tory, Our great staples, wheat, corn,
pork and cotton have brought magnifi-
cent prices and are still bringing them,
and the farmers were never more pros
porous. Last year We sent abroad over
| 81, 200, 100000 worth Of our products,
and it was the first year we sold more
manufactured goods to foreign coun-
| tries than we bought abroad. THIS
year will be no exception. We are SELL
ing our manufactured goods abroad at
the rate of million dollars worth each
day and more than S2000,000 worth of
our great staples are sold abroad every
day Of the year. Does this look like
locking fast the prosperity of the peo-
pie in the paralysis of hard tines
! Does it look like depriving the pro-
ducers of the great American staples
of access to their natural markets?
/ THE IDEAL OF SPORT.
Fresno Republican: The interest in
the international yacht race is partly
patriotic, party artificial, but princi-
| pally a manifestation of the interest of
the worlds two sporting nations in
their most spectacular sport. 1t is q
part of the general sporting character
/ of our race-for the contending nations
j are one race-and chiefly valuable as
| an illustration OF what sport is when
at its best. The essence of sport Is
honor. The essence of commerce, un-
fortunately, is gain. The sporting ideal
is therefore especially needed in a COM
merical age as an antidote to the conf
mercial ideal. A man who gains wealth.
| by any means short of criminal is usu-
ally tolerated and often honored; a
man who gains a trophy Of sport with
| even the suspicion of dishonor is for
/ ever tabooed. There is no vindictlVe-
| ness no ruthless pursuit OF an ad-
vantage no gloating of victory nor de-
| spair of defeat in true sport, but only
the honorable rivalry of honorable men
in strength or speed or skill. Not all
sport comes up to the standard, but
this is it's ideal, and in its ideal is It's
value. If athletic sports We're merely
a subterfuge, to give interest to physi-
cal culture, if racing were mere
means of testing and improving horse
flesh, if yachting were mere scientific
trial of mathematical lines, the inter-
est in all of these would be purely
technical and professional. The inter
est is popular because the object Of 1t
corresponds to a popular instinct and
realizes a popular ideal. 1t is an ldeal
for which the rest of the world retains
the mediaeval trappings of chivalry,
/ but to which the Anglo-Saxon race has
| given the modern garb of sport
ATTENTION, CALAMITYITES.
Mail Of Woodland: The Bank Com
missioners in their forthcoming reporl
| will show that the money placed In
the banks of California by depositors
for safe keeping is increasing at the
rate of nearly $4,000 a day, including
Sundays and holidays. In two years
the total increase in deposits has
amounted to S5O,0OOO0O, in round fig
ures. The growth is not confined TO
any locality or to any class Of banking
| institutions. It has been distributed
| in almost equal proportions among
commercial, national and savings banks
| in the city and country alike. There
are fifty-three savings banks, Ito conf
| merciaI banks and eighteen private and
/ hirty-fiyeranational banks, concerning
which the Commissioners will report
! The increase in deposit in one year in
| the San Francisco savings banks has
amounted to S6,961 ,372.35, and the
amount due depositorS was S113,294,
| 1889 at the date Of preparing the re-
port. The savings banks of the in
terror have deposits amounting to $751;
/ GAS, 1880, which is an increase of
! 50, ,S62, $50. .33 for the year. This is the
| evidence that convicts the calamityites
| when they tell you that California is
not enjoying prosperity. How great
| the difference between the present con-
| ditions and those that existed under
| the public souphouse era of Cleve-
| land.
SOME ANALOGIES.
Fresno Republican: Commissioner
Schurman says that the Filipinos can
not govern themselves because they are
not nation, but set of unconnected
tribes The Cali replies that this
| was exactly the condition Of our own
country at the beginning of the Revo-
luton. The fallacy of the reply illus
trates the fallacy of the whole argu
ment of which it is a part. There is
a difference between nation ON paper
and a nation in fact.
The F'ilipinos could easily be made
nation on paper, but only long develop
ment, under enlightened guidance, will
make them nation in fact. The colo
nies had hard work to make themselves
| a nation on paper, but they were al
ways a nation in fact. 1t is facts We
have Tn daal with in the Phi1ip1ipez