The record-union., 1897-08-10

for them in Alaska If 1t will pay to
ship them round the Horn from New
York it ought to pay TO make them
here.
CONFESSING.
Tulare Register: Gradually the Bry-
ante press is very reluctantly con-
Tossing that times are improving, that
prices of products are coming up and
that labor is finding employment, but,
having done so much, the aforemen-
TONED press urgently assures the pub
lie that this prosperity can not possibly
last, and that the new Administration
and the attendant return OF confidence
has had no part 'or lot in the better
times that are coming. A downright
confession of general asininity would
be good for these fellows souls-if
they have souls that are not damned
already.
A KITE BOB.
Los Angeles Times: If the situation
between Englands colonies and the
mother country isn't approaching the
straining point there is nothing in ap-
pearances. Why great country like
Canada should continue to be bob on
the tail of the English kite has always
been a mystery to citizens of the United
States That it will not always con-
tinue as it is now is as certain as any
other fact in the world. When the Ca
nadians break loose from the apron
strings Of the widow of Windsor it will
be a great country. At present it cuts
no Ice" as a nation, and its develop
ment is extremely slow. AS part of the
United States or as the republic of
Canada the possibilities of its great
ness are unlimited. Signs of revolt are
in the air.
JEST AND TRUTH.
Oakland Enquirer: William ]. Bryan,
who is making a tour of the Yellow
stone Park, indulged in little speech
on Saturday, in which he remarked
that he lost almost every State he
spoke in before the election last fall,
and carried those he did not speak in.
He added that he was anxious to car
ry the Park at the next election, and
therefore would refuse all future over
lures to speech making there. This lit
tie pleasantly by Mr.. Bryan reminds
us of the saying that many truth Is
told in Jest In the last campaign Mr..
Bryan appeared to entertain the notion
that the only campaign material needed
by his party was his own speeches, and
that wherever he talked he would get
the best of the voting. The signal dis
appointment Of this hope was some
thing more than coincidence, and we
trust the lesson will be taken to heart
by future Presidential candidates. They
should run, as Thomas Jefferson ran,
on his past record, and ON the party
platform, not ON the strength of cam
paign speeches.
BLACKLISTED HIGH SCHOOLS
Santa Rosa Republican: There is
a good deal of captious and uncalled for
criticism in some newspapers over
the action of the representative OF
the State University in reject
ing the work in English OF number Of
the high schools of the State. We are
disposed to take the University side of
this controversy. 1t is a notorious fact
that many who receive high school di-
plomas are woefully deficient in our own
language and it's literature. The blame
for this should be shared by both the
schools and tf1e} students. There is a
tendency to make educational work too
superficial. This is especially true of our
Language, the study of all studies in
which our young people should be well
grounded. The student measures his
own progress better in most other stud
les than in this, which is to great ex-
ent the basis of his future satisfactory
progress. By calling attention to the
defective work in this very important
branch of education, the University peo-
Pile have given teachers and students n
shaking up that will do them good. In
stead of rushing into print to defend
themselves and to criticise the Univer-
sity, the heads of the schools that have
failed to meet the requirements should
arrange to render better service in their
future teaching of our language and
literature, a subject as important to the
student whose instruction ends with the
high school as for the one who COM
pleteS q college course.