The record-union., 1895-05-01

York Central Railway expects soon to
operate its branch road from Buffalo to
Niagara with the electric system, and
men OF clear foresight are not slow to pre-
dict that within ten years electricity will
be doing double the work that il is at
present performing. The next century
will not be an age of steam, but an elec-
trio age, in which marvels will be accom-
plished. Locomotion will be switter and
free from many of the dangers that now
accompany it. Our railroad cars will not
only be propelled by electric power. but
will be lighted by it, thus diminishing
the danger from fire in case of accident,
which is one of the supreme horrors OF
derailment. Man is conquering the forces
of nature every day, and life Will be
easier and beset with fewer dangers in the
twentieth century than it has been in the
one just closing.
HOW TO GET PROSPERITY.
Nevada City Herald.l
Neither half-million clubs nor Compel
ing railroads will bring the prosperity to
California that she should have while the
present conditions with respect to land
exist. Much OF the farm land Of the State
is owned by milliOnaires and is held in
0,000-acre tracts. Thousands of acres be-
sides are held at fancy prices, which no
one can pay with any reasonable expecta-
ton of realizing an income from it suffi-
cient to pay fair interest on his invest
ment, to say nothing OF his labor.
A competing railroad up the San Joa-
quin Valley may bring prosperity to the
present inhabitants, but it will not bring
the rush of new settlers that is expected
unless the land is offered at tair prices
ordinarily about one-fourth to one-tenth
of what is now asked. A half-million of
people in San Francisco under present
conditions WOulQ be a calamity.
BAD LOT.
[Placerville Democrat
There are lot of croaking loafers in
every community, whose only business
1T is to wait for something to turn up.
BY fits and starts they begin to pull up
their breeches and yell for some new
scheme oil lie without work. Born
tired, they are always discouraged. They
are all patriots out of job; and with no
productive occupation OF their own, they
are at leisure to look after the industrial
interests of others. Having staked their
last red on the wheel OF fortune, they
would give it another turn for luck with
out labor. To bunco boom for the
miner, merchant and rancher is for them
the crow ming glory of lll-spent lives.
DEPLoRABLE HARM.
[Salt Lake Tribune.l
If the Leland Stanford University is
closed through the Government suit
against the Stanford estate, it will be de-
plorable harm TO the cause of higher edu-
cation on the Pacific Coast while it is
likely that it will never bring any good
to the United States.
SPLIT.
Seattle PostIntelligencer.I
The Democratic party has at last hope
lessly split on the currency issue. the
Presidents recent letter having had the
unexpected effect of making clean
breach between the adherents to his
policy and the advocates of bimetallism.
SURE TO MAKE MISTAKES.
[Denver Republican,
The triumph of bimetallism would be
absolutely certain ii President Cleveland
and his Cabinet take the field for the
single gold standard, for every measure
| they have favored up to date has been de-
feated." 1t is probable that they will do
| it, for as Murat Halstead shows, "the
Cleveland party has not allowed single
opportunity to make mistake pass un-
improved"
THAT COALITION.
tThe Oregonian.
| Now it appears probable that France
will drop away from the Western coali-
ton, leaving Russia alone to bully Japan
out of the treaty with China. With Great
britain appearing behind Japan more
plainly every day, the task of Russia ap-
pears constantly moro arduous and un-
pleasant. Probably she will take coun-
sci OF discretion and abandon it.