The record-union., 1896-10-03

doubled" All right, Mr.. Dittmar, our
people are heartily glad of it, and well
SatiShed with the present situation.
Could we want anything better than
money coined from gold taken out or
our hills and streams, worth twice It's
race value in purchasing power? our
farmers sell their products in our home
markets for gold and with this gold
can buy everything needed to carry on
the farms for half the money they
could with silver without the credit
of the Nation behind it. All of cur pro-
ducers are in like happy situation.
In this county all clesses Of laborers re-
ceive their wages in gold, and there
with they can buy twice in the markets
the quantity of the necessaries of life
and of those things that add to the
comfort of living. Siskiyou County
mines produce annually about $1,000
600 in gold. With double purchasing
power this gold is worth $2,OOO,OOO.
Our people who weigh this question
carefully will hardly vote to reduce the
purchasing power of Siskiyous gold.
Mr. Dittmar evidently overlooked the
fact that he was talking to Siskiyou
miners.
BUT ONE RESULT.
Calaveras Prospect: There can be
but one result of free silver in con-
junction with free trade. The gold
would quickly disappear from this
country and we should have only sill
yer for money. We could not buy
abroad, for silver and all our gold
would have to be used for that purpose.
1t is a fact that cannot be denied, that
under low tariff we buy abroad more
than we sell, and there could be no
other result than that our gold would
all go in time.
TOO MANY NOW.
Oakland Tribune: Much as people
In this country sympathize with the
Armenians, it is a misdirected charity
and bad policy to send money for the
importation Of these people. The Phil
adelphia Ledger" makes this sensi-
BILE comment about the benevolence Of
good woman: Lady Henry Somerset
Is a woman who means we'll and who
does great deal of good but she let's
her philanthropy carry her too far
when she advocates a subscription in
England to pay the passage Of desti-
tute Armenians to the United States.
The sum required is S25 each, and Lady
Somerset's coadjutor, Miss Frances
Willard, has a plan for providing the
immigrants with work when they reach
here. We have too many pauper i'm
migrants already. This country used
to be refuge for the oppressed of all
nations and was proud of the fact, but
1t has learned better since it began to
be oppressed itself with the numbers
that came here"
CAUSE OF OUR TROUBLE.
L. P. D. in Mendocino Beacon: Can
anyone deny that if we kept our facto-
ries running the past four years and
bought at home the 249,O00,000 pounds
of wool per annum that we paid out to
Australia, or the S60,00O,000 worth of
woolen goods bought of England, Ger
many or France, or the millions upon
millions of dollars which we spend for
other manufactured goods imported
from other countries, which could have
been made at home, that we would not
have experienced hard times? 1t is low
tariff and not the want of money or
free silver which has caused the
| trouble.
PROTECTION FOR LEMONS.
| San Diego Union: Reports from East
ern cities indicate that the lemon mar
ket has seldom been in worse condition
than at present. The cheap fruit of Sic
| lily has been brought over in such guam
| titles that prices have been forced down
! to figures as low as any that have ever
| prevailed. 1t does not benefit the lemon
| growers of this country that the for
| eign producers will lose money by these
reckless shipments. The fact remains
that the market is for the time being de-
moralized, and the home growers are
| losers as well as their foreign compet-
| itors. There will be no remedy for this
/ condition of affairs until an adequate
| tariff is placed upon imported lemons.
| SO long as the present low duties con-
| tinue the products of Sicilian cheap la
Dor can be periodically shipped into this
country in such quantities as to prac-
| tically rob the California lemon grower
of his just profits.
| There is no county in the State that
has so great an interest In this question
| as San Diego. Lemon growing in the
| course Of two or three years will be
the great industry here. There are, is
! is true, many other pursuits which
promise well. But the fact remains that
| there are in round numbers 375 90
| lemon trees here. and their product,
now several hundred carloads annually,
| will aggregate from 1000 to 5000 car
| loads in the near future. These lemon
orchards have been set out with much
| labor and expense, and that, too, at a
| time that was most unfavorable for
launching a new industry. The orchari-
lists Of San Diego County can hardly BE-
| given too much credit for their perse-
verance and pluck under adverse con-
| ditions. They are certainly entitled to
| their reward.
Salvation Army Music.