The record-union., 1894-08-25
American Bar Association.
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
What Some Leading Interior Papers
Have to Say.

Have TO Say.
fresno Republican,
The fact is that Populist influence sup
ported the strike and buoyed 1t up in
every feature it presented, and for the
evident reason that it was proposed to
bring the labor vote into the Populist
camp at all hazards. In other words,
politics was at the bottom of it, and the
great loss Of money, employment and
public peace was, to all practical lntents
and purposes, sacrifice IN the interests
OF a political party and the demagogues
who have it in charge, and are running
it to destruction as fast as favorable times
and conditions will permit. These are
the causes which lead the Republican and
tens of thousands of thoughtful people to
conclude that the Populist movement has
gone far beyond its original purposes,
which were in some instances indorsed
by the people regardless of party lines.
DON'T LIKE HIM.
San Jose Herald.l
People are not quite so ready TO take
at par the opinions of glib fnancIer
now as they were in the past: and so.
consequently, the circulars of Henry
Clews will not have such an overshad-
owing effect upon public sentiment as
they would have had several years ago.
Thus, his circular of the 18th inst. stating
that good times are ahead, and that the
goose is about to hang uncommonly high.
must be received with many grains of
salt. This is the same Clews who an
nounced that an unprecedented prosper
lty would follow the repeal of the pur-
chasing clause OF the Sherman Act.
UNITED WEALTH.
[Orovile Register.l
If man were to starye surrounded by
an abundance of food within MS reach he
no lICh fhot =
growers and grain-raisers who sit idle
when water in enormous quantities can
readily and cheaply be obtained. There
is no better watered section of the State
than Butte County. The Sierras lie upon
one side and from their canyons flow many
streams which ought to fructify and en-
rich the foothills and valleys of Butte
If it is too costly to bring bitches and
canals in singly then large numbers of
landowners ought to combine and fetch
water upon the land. Not little portion
of their soil but upon all the land. It
will pay TO raise wheat corn and alfalfa
and fruit by means of water. The en-
HANGED value OF the land and its great
productiveness will amply repay the an
nual expense for water. Water here is
an unused wealth which like the capital
stored up brings the owner no returns.
II is boarded wealth, useless to all until
allowed TO give new life and vigor to the
rich soil of our farms. Water in this
hot region means wealth and if it cannot
be obtained in any other manner it should
be pumped upon the land. Water means
greater crops, more varied productions
and larger returns. With water there will
be no poor years. no dry seasons, no short
crops. The number of men employed
will be double or treble those now re-
qured. There will be dairies and gar
dens. orchards and cornfields, where now
only great grain fields cover the county.
Too MANY OF our taxpayers are like the
Virginian who saluted the traveller by
saying. II amt as poor as you think [
am. | don't own all the WOrn-out to-
baceo land in sight.p Water will reduce
the average land-hOldings. but increase
the value per acre and will Tree men from
debt wherever it is applied. Let US put
in circulation the wealth the Almighty
has given us.
NOT a NATTER OF LUCK.
[MarysviIle Appeal.J
Pick out the first twenty young men
you know and not more than five out of
twenty are saving any portion of their
earnings, and out of the five who are
saving not more than one is so investing
his savings as to make it yield him in
crease while he sleeps, says an exchange.
And vet people wonder why luck fayors
only i've men out OF twenty, and why,
out Of those who are lucky, only one IN
five is real lucky.
CATCHES NOTHING.
IStockton independently
Platforms generally have become mere
dragnets, but the State Democratic plat
form is as absurd as the old negro's rab-
bit trap, by which he hoped to ''catch 'em
comm and catch 'em gwine," but caught
nothing.
NOT TO BE DIVORCED.
fSan Jose Mercury.
The Democratic party is engaged in
futile effort when it tries to eliminate ma
tional issues from the canvass in this
State. and seeks to make the campaign
solely on an anti-railway fight.
The Republican party will not turn aside
from the main issues of the day TO waste
its force on side issues. 1t will keep a
close watch on the Democratic guerrilla
warfare, and check it whenever neces-
sary, but in the meantime will press for
ward to the main object, that OF rescuing
the National Government from the in
competents.