The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-21

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My rule in life is 10 do the duty that lies
nearest me. Before came here 1 stood
one day with my wife on the front porch
OF our house at Oakland, and as we looked
together ont upon large meadow where
the harvesters were cutting and baliug
hay She said, speaking of my term in the
Senate:
George, YOU are now going to Wash
lngton TO take your place among the great
est statesmen of the land. Thework will
be new to you, and how do you think YOU
will get along in such a tight place."
Il looked out over the hay field and an
swered: My dear, you see that great
area Of hay standing out there on the
Meadow It comprises many tons and
the reaping and baling of it seems to be
an impossible job. Two weeks from now
it will be al gone. 1t will be cut whisp
by whisp and straw by straw. 1t will be
put into wagons, pressed into bales, and
little by little the impossible will be ac-
complished. That's the way l expect to
do at Washington. l will do just what
can do from day to day, always doing the
best l can, and whether I succeed or not
l will have the satisfaction of having
done the best / could / am, however,
only business man, and I want to say
here that my colleague, Senator.White, is
the statesman of the delegation. He Is d
man of ideas, and I predict that he will
make a reputat ton for himself in the Sen
ate. am republican and he is dem
ocrat, but | want to say this of him"
CALIFORNIA FINANCES.
7 here asked as to hard times in Cali
fornia. Senator Perkins replied:
California is in a much better condi-
tion than any other state We have no
such troubles there as you have here in
the east. There is some depression, but
not great deal. We are a rich state
and wonderfully prosperous one. We
are the greatest fruit and grain raising
state in the union, and the metal of our
agricultural possibilities has not yet been
assayed We only have about 1000
people. Our territory would support an
empire, and we have valleys, one of which
could feed our population"
How about your silver mineS?N
I'VE have more gold than silver, " re-
piled Senator Perkins. "The present
crisis viii not ruin US or overload US with
idle miners. 1t may close some of our sill
yer mines, but look for no great dis
| tress."
How about the times}"
Il think the present hard times will
| soon pass away" was the reply. by
| January next the country will be on the
up grade. These periods of hard times
| comes every now and then. The causes
are the uncertainty as regard the tariff,
our lack of currency, and, last and least,
the silver question"
CALIFORNIA; BIG FARMS.
How about the big farms of Califor-
| MAJ Do they not hinder the growth of
| the state, and will they ever pass
| away"
Yes, they are being gradually divided,
! and they Will eventually go into small
! holdings. We have now a number of
tracts of $4,000 acres and upward. /
know one man who has 800, coo acres, and
who farmed 10000 of these last year
| StanfOru's Vina ranch contains over So.
COO and it can be easily farmed Hagen
and Tevis are dividing up their lands into
| small holdings. Miller and Lux, the
rich cattle men, are selling off their lands
and lucky Baldwin is selling his. Sales
are going on all over the state and in the
far future California may be cut up as
| France is today"
by the way, senator, you are engaged
! in the whaling business, and you are, ]
! believe, the firstman who ever built a
| steam whale snip. How about the whal
! ing industrya Is it not dying out?n
Senator Perkins replied:
NO, the whaling trade on the PacfiC
! coast is very good. We have now seven
steamships engaged III it, and our CAPT
| tai is a bout S1,200,U00 We catch many Of
| our whales in the extreme north, anG
| these ships wfnteT at the Mckenzie river
! in order to be there when the whales
| come up in the spring The whales push
their way through the broken ice to this
point to feed on the animalcul@, and
they are either caught with harpoons OF
shot with bombs The harpoons are bet
ter, as the bombs Sometimes shatter the
whale So that it sinks and is lost. 1t may
surprise you to know that whalers come
from New Bedford to San Francisco and
fit out there to go into the whaling bust
ness"