The record-union., 1897-11-05

| business renewal has followed the re-
covery of the farmers and by expe-
| rience in both directions have been
| brought to an understanding that we
| help ourselves when we help the farm
| ers: and the enthusiastic and capable
head Of the agricultural department
will not lack for funds with which to
carry out his extensive plans.
| ONLY A STEP.
Stockton Record: The Examiner
has succeeded in making a fool of itself
regarding the Union Pacific sale. Not
that such practice is unusual with the
monarch. but then a paper, as well as
an individual may be fool on a small
scale unnoticed. 1t is now fool on a
| large scale. 1t claimed that the post
| ponement in the sale of the Union Pa
cific had been secured through its in
| ffuence. The next day it charged the
| Government, and especially Attorney
| General McKenna, with all kinds of
| mismana cement for accepting the full
| amount of the bonded Indebtedness
from the mortgagor. All the interest
| the country has ends with the settle
ment of its claim. What gals the
| Examiner is the fact that its long ag-
| itation and sensational charges have
| been discredited. disproved by the out
come When the Government became
| thoroughly solvent again by the election
| of Mckinley such railroad properties
as the Union Pacific became solvent too.
| The wave of prosperity brought in
creased values to everything, and it is
little wonder that Bryan papers are
sore and soured 1t is only a step from
a soured mood to genuine Stiffness, and
the Examiner" took the step.
AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY.
One important result of the Dingley
tariff will be the establishment of bur-
lap mills in the States. Christopher Bal
ley, o British manufacturer, in speak
ing on this point recently, said that
not a yard Of burlap is made in the
States, the worlds output coming from
Calcutta and Dundee, of which the
United States uses one-half, valued at
$4,000, 600 to $50, 600, 900. With a
protective duty on the manufactured
| article and the raw material, jute, ad-
mitted free, burlap, Mr.. Bailey thinks
can be made in the States at profit
| which will cause mills to be built in
few years to supply the demand. AT
first the price might be a little higher
owing to the great cost of building tho
mills, but would gradually get back
to the present figures, as competition
comes into the field with the growth of
industry Protection for five years
would yield the Government S6.000,0G
in revenue and establish an industry
which would employ many thous
sands Of hands Fifteen mills, cost
| @Ix-
the home demand for burlap. BY way
of illustration, Mr.. Bailey states that
all the jute carpet yarns used in the
mills of the States were formerly i'm
ported from Dundee. Since the duty
was removed on the raw material, jute
all of the carpet yarn has been made
| in American mills and not a pound i'm
ported. Jute can be brought as cheap
ly from India to the States as to Dun
dee; and it will be easy to secure all
the operatives needed without going
out of the United States, according tC
| Mr. Bailey.
TWO SIDES TO IT.
Pasadena Star: In the move to en-
! courage home manufacture. efforts
have been made to discourage the pur-
chase of Eastern goods. That there is
another view of this than a purely sell
fish one is strongly presented by East
ern papers. They call attention to the
fact that the East is the most liberal
/ purchaser of our products. That every
| thing we have to sell-oranges, nuts,
wine, raisins, olives, ETC., depends upon
the East almost exclusively for a mar
ket, and that, in short, our living comes
| chiefly from fh4ra Moro than
many of the manufactured goods that
we buy from the East are made of raw
material produced in the West These
goods are also literally advertised
throughout the State, and In this way
contribute largely to the support of the
California papers which do the State
so much good.
This State, says the News Letter" +"
wants to expand her commerce, and
open up new markets. 1t cannot be
/ done by q narrow, restrictive policy.
| California must learn that competition
is the life of healthy trade, and that
quality and price alone must regulate
/ the legitimate trade and successful
| commerce of the world.
MISSING WORD CONTEST.
! Marysville Democrat: The Demo-
crat'' has received a postal card on
which is printed a request in the fol-
/ lowing language:
The Overland Monthly is advertis-
ing extensively an interesting missing
word contest The sentence they give
is taken from a New England classic
by writer whose name is a household
word. The prize is $1,000, to be given
! to the person finding the correct
answer, or divided among the fortunate
| finders II there are more than one. The
! only condition is that the guess shall
be accompanied by one dollar as a sub
scription to the Overland at it's re-
| duced price"
| This is followed by request to kind
| ly send q copy of the Democrat" with
notice. to the overland Monthly
Publishing Company. Nothing Is said
Of payment for inserting the same nor
of the opinion that we may hold Of
suchmeans of increasing circulation. On
general principle and in the interest Of
higher standard in journalism, let us
hope that the publishers of the "Over-
land Monthly will reconsider its action
in this matter AS rule the whole
system of word guessing contests are
gambling, pure and simple; a game in
which the chances of success are as
remote as in lottery. The country is
flooded with schemes of the kind Of
fered by the Overland Monthly" many
| Of them fakes of the rankest type
Hundreds of dollars are expended in this
way foolishly, and often without return
even of bogus jewelry. Many intelli-
/ gent persons, men and women, devote
/ time and brain power in working out