The record-union., 1896-11-18

seek for productive enterprises which
promise a fair return upon the amount
inv eSted.
Tom Reed was right when he said
that What we needed was not more
money, but more capital, and that this
capital should be employed in product
i've enterprises. Productive enterprises
employ labor and in turn labor sup
ports these enterprises by consuming
the products. With the stimulus given
to enterprise in the East and the addi-
tional consuming power which has been
bestowed upon the wage workers of the
country, there will naturally spring up
an increased demand for the products of
this State
FRUIT GROWERS CONVENTION.
Gilroy Advocate: The fruit growers
of Santa Clara County should be ac
lively interested in the conventions held
annually under the auspices of the
State Board of Horticulture. This year
the meetings are to be held at Sacra-
mento and will cover four days from
December 1st to 4th inclusive. All in
terested in this business are cor7ially
invited to attend and take part in the
proceedings of the convention. Here
the fruit growers exchange ideas to
their mental advantage. Many essays
and discussions of interest to al, pro-
ducers can be heard there. The South
ern Pacific Company will issue excur-
sion tickets at reduced rates from ali
points on its lines to Sacramento
BE THANKFUL.
San Bernardino Times-Index: Amer
lean citizens generally will sit down to
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with a comfortable assurance that bet
ter times are ahead, that no rash ex
periments are to be tried, that con-
servative statesman is TO be a. the
helm of state, and that more of them
will have enough to eat next year than
have had enough in the past twelve
month.
UNNATURAL ALLIANCE.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Tom Wat
sons letter would certainly have failed
to help Mr.. Bryan's cause, and that is
probably the reason it was not pub
lished prior to the day of election. On
the whole, it is one of the best COM
mentaries on the unnatural alliance
made at st. Louis by the managers, who
refused to refrain from presenting Mr..
Bryan's name as the latter directed,
and told Watson that Sewall would be
withdrawn when they knew nothing
of the sort would be done.
LOOKING UP.
Placer Republican: In the short time
that has elapsed since the election of
Mckinley the marked increase and gen.
eral activity in business has been noted
all over California. In San Francisco,
vUb +J,a lob bor H.
nant for many months, the merchants.
manufacturers and business men re-
port the most glowing prospects, and
many idle industries have resumed
operations.
CURIOUS FACT.
Stockton Independent: 1t is a curious
fact that some of the loudest shouters
for silver We're hOarders of gold during
the past two or three years Now that
the premium on gold has disappeared
in New York, coin of that metal is
pouring into the sub-treasuries and the
banks all over the country. The men
who cursed bankers for pinching the
national Treasury are depositine the
gold for which they helped to pinch the
Treasury, hoping to get a high pre-
MUM upon it. Gold that last month
would have commanded a premium and
a high rate of interest is now going
back into circulation without premium,
and at low rate Of interest Gold is
no longer dear money, but is the stand
ard and even silver goes out more
freely than it did a month ago All
these facts go to show that during the
scare sober minded and careful men
acted foolishly, and now that the scare
has passed they are acting from good
business sense and doing much 10 re-
trieve the losses which their folly
helped to bring about
FOR BETTER ROADS.
Wheatland Four Corners: One of the
best investments a county may make
is money used in systematic and thor
ough road work. Day by day the ad-
vantages of good roads are becoraing
more thoroughly understood by the
rural residents. Municipalities have
for years made a speciality of road or
street building, but the country has
been considered well enough streaked
across with sheep trails and fenced
ground which may be called roads for
the lack Of any other word to properly
define them. The few good roa.s we
have are working the change in the
farmers mind.