The record-union., 1897-08-07
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

| years and is accounted pretty shrewd
in his line, said recently that in plac-
| ing orders for the fall trade his house
was buying more heavily than for sew
eral years past. This, he said, was es-
| pecially true in those lines of which
| the farmers are chief buyers. They
have studied the situation and believe
that this class of customers are going
to have more money to spend this year
| than heretofore.
No one can doubt that this is true
of the grain farmers. They are gath
ering the largest harvest they have
had for years, and yesterday wheat
was above the 81 80 mark in San
Francisco; barley is also climbing up.
Every day brings additional evil
dence that fruit prices are likely to
rule higher this fall The crops, though
| not the heaviest, are good in quality
| and the producers have their business
in hand better than ever before. All
of these things tend to give them more
money to spend.
1t need no longer be argued that
the sheep men are to see better times
they are already enjoying them.
There have been eager buyers this
| season at more than twice the price
| that ruled last year.
But it is not in agriculture alone
that business is improving. On every
hand people are to be found who are
planning to do this or to do that
some new expenditure for material or
labor-which means in the aggregate
the movement of much capital and a
big resulting benefit to all.
SCOOT.
Santa Rost Press Young man, go
| north and freeze up with the country.
Heed not the warnings of the Eskimo
willie boys. Be not deferred by the
wierd tales of woe that are percolating
| through the frosty, soggy whiskers of
the Yukon Sooners. Be not discouraged,
nor cast down by the fantastic stories
of pneumonia, mosquitoes and other
natural advantages that are coming in
huge invoices from that picturesque
summer resort just now. When every
| minute is making a millionaire delays
are dangerous. Therefore, l say, scoot!
A PLAY GROUND.
Riverside Press, Southern California
will some day become the great play
ground of America, and this without
at all deteriorating as a richly pro-
ductive section. 1t has more magnifi-
cent mountain resorts and delightful
seaside retreats, and natural SANTA
riums-a greater diversity of attrac-
lions of this sort with unlimited posi-
bilities of development than any other
section of the United States of the
same area. So much for the summer
time. In winter-who shall describe
With any new power of pen the beauties
of the whole earth in Southern Califor-
MIA? Beauties that have inspired the
pens Of poets and philosophers of all
countries. With the rapid development
of water power and the marvellous i'm
provements in electrical appliances, it
| is but question of a few years when
| electric railroads will traverse all parts
of our valleys and mountains, almost
| annihilating time and distance and diff
| ficulty in transportation. And the
| eyes of the teeming millions of the
East are upon us.
AMERICANISM
Riverside Globe: Governor Bradley of
Kentucky manifests his genuine Amer
| icanism in these ringing words: while
l am Governor of this commonwealth,
no man however obscure and friendless,
shall be punished for killing a member
of a mob who elected to take his life
| or drive him from his home The ac-
CASTOR was the shooting into a mob of
| regulators by an old colored man whom
| they were trying to drive from his
| home He killed one of the attacking
party and then they wanted him hung
| for murder The Governor answered
| in the above words.
MINING EXCITEMENTS.
Nevada Evening Herald: People al :
ways think the grass is greener, the
skies brighter and conditions better just
over the hill 1t is the feeling of dis
content with present surroundings that
| peoples new countries and starts new
enterprises. When the Reese River, the
Comstock, the Caribou excitements
| We're at fever heat, the adventurous all
went with the tide, oftentimes leaving
| better things at home than they could
hope to find in the new fields 1t will
| prove SO again in the Alaska excite
ment. It win be good thing for the
| country TO have enterprising men go
| there, for they will not only dig out
| gold and put it into circulation, but
| they will build up industries that will
give employment and enrich the nation.
| The worst feature of such excitements
| is that it tends to demoralize those who
| cannot go and makes them careless
about improving the opportunities sur
| rounding them. When men read of for
| tunes suddenly made and glowing de-
| scriptions of returning adventures,
| they compare their own lot and find ii
so slow and uneventful that they be-
| come restless and Indifferent The same
| industry, economy and patient endur-
ance practiced in California for a series
| of years VIII give better average re
| turns to the same number than they
Will in Alaska.
THE WAVE is HERE.
| Santa Barbara Press: While the long
looked-for closing of the gap has again
1 taken a step into the dim and misty
| future the city, it must be confessed.
| is doing quite we'll" When its situa-
ton is compared with a large number
of California towns. it must be ac-
| knowledged by the most confirmed ca
lamity -howler that there is room for
rejoicing. The buildings now erecting,
| the stir in the domestic mining opera
tions, the rise in cattle and farm pro-
ducts all point the same way. With
good times in the East, our winter
visitors should be more abundant this
year, and our summer season Is in man
ner distinctly liyelier than usual. With
but a couple of unimportant failures to
record in tough year" we have GER
tainly little reason for unhappiness in
the futre, which every day seems more
promising.