The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-30

that industry, for the very good reason
that we should have had no tin plate
industry to pay wages to any man.
1t will be remembered, by all those
who care to remember the fact, that
we had no tin plate industry until the
Mckinley law called it into existence.
This industry is purely and solely due
to the protective tariff of the Mckinley
law, and the Wilson-Gorman Act did
not kill the industry, SO that now we
have immense tin and terne plate
factories employing thousands of men.
Formerly all the money paid for tin
had to be sent to Great Britain to pay
British workingmen, and the price OF
tin was higher than it is now since we
make our own tin. Does it ever occur
to our Popocratic friends that the
prosperity which enables our farmers
and wool-growerS to sell their product
for a reasonable price comes from the
prosperity of our Eastern neighbors,
and that the strikes now on in certain
industries are not organized to fight
against reduction in wages, but to fight
for increased wages and fewer hours
of labor? That is why McKinleyism
y.
now get up strikes to get a proper in
crease in wages and thus get their
share. of prosperity. Most industries
increase wages without compulsion.
GENERAL OTIS.
Napa Register: General Otis may
have made mistakes in action and pol
icy since he has been in command of
the American forces in the Philippines,
but that he has been grilled and
scorched in an unjust and unwarranted
manner by newspapers who permit
their hostility to the Administration to
overweight their sense of fair play, is an
undisputed fact. The following words
spoken in his behalf by Cabinet off,
cial seem to be timely: why should
General Otis be relieved unless he had
some reason for asking to be sent back
to the United States? The President
has had no reason to find fault with his
work. It is true he has not ended the
war, but he has certainly made much
progress and has shown himself equal
to every emergency. He has certainly
taken good care of the troops and by
the manner in which he has provided
for his army has shown himself capa-
BILE of handling large bodies of men.
He has made known his general plans
of the operations when the campaign
begins in the fall and the experts
here, together with the President, con-
slider that he has a thorough and prac-
teal program mapped out for his future
work To relieve him now would be an
admission that he had failed. We can
not admit this, for certainly the official
dispatches from the Philippines show
material extension of our lines far be-
yond the points controlled by Spain. To
place a new commander in control and
make him independent of General Otis
would cause no end of friction. There
can be but one intrusted with plenary
powers, and can repeat that the Pres
ident is we'll satisfied to trust General
Otis with these powers"
WILL BE RENOVATED.
Amador Republican: From the pres
ent political outlook President McKin-
ley will be renominated and reelected
by a large majority of the electoral
vote The Democrats appear to be
hopelessly beaten in advance, for they
have no issues. Bryan is about para
lived, and there is no certainty that
he will be the nominee of his party in
1900, although a great many OF the
Democratic leaders profess to be Tor
him. He might have rival in German
who is popular in the East, and II
nominated would put up stiff fight,
but he would hardly be satisfactory to
the radical element Of his party in the