The record-union., 1897-09-09
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects of Living News
Interest.

Reno Gazette: The Hon. Richard
Parks Bland and the Hon. Benjamin
Pitchfork Tillman are both before the
country with statements as 10 wheat
and prosperity. Neither sees any signs
OF actual prosperity anywhere IN the
land. They admit that the farmers
may get a few hundred million out OF
the rise in wheat, with which prospect
they really express themselves as
pleased. but the whole business, they
say, wiz not amount TO anything, ana
the prosperity Of which they hear muir
murings will soon collapse into moth
ing. Mr.. Tnlman characterizes the
prosperity wave as "hot-baIloon-aL-
fair" and Mr. Bland carefully analyses
the situation in the country and sees
nothing hopeful in 1t. Probably not,
nothing hopeful in it-for Richard
Parks Bland.
ILLOGICAL.
Alameda Encinal: By the way is
there not something just a tritie iiogl-
cal in q great paper making a spread
on one page about the return of pros
perity and the revival Of business, and
on another page publishing a lengthy
report Of the effort made by dele
CATION Of leading business men TO con
vince the State Board Of Equalization
that times were never so hard, that
the ely is in the doleful dumps. and
that the hard times have deprecated
property values about 30 per cent.
TIE NEW ROAD LEAGUE.
Napa Register: At a meeting held
in the rooms of the State Board of
Trade. San Francisco, last Saturday
over which Senator j. NJ. GleaVes pre-
sided. steps were taken toward the or
ganizati0n of a State Good Roads
League a constitution was adopted
and temporary officers were appointed
TO serve until the first regular meeting,
which is to be held IN November. To
secure any good thing, good roads in
Guided. organization and systematic eff
forts Gre necessary, and, as public SEN
timent is with this determination to
open new roads and improve old ones,
the league just organized should prove
the central body Of many branches
one in every county of the State.
ENEMIES TO LABOR.
Seattle t-Intelligencer: The worst
enemies whom the laboring men OF
the country have TO fear are the hyster-
ical agitators of the Debs and Sow
erelgn stripe: the railers against the
courts and the laws, who preach the
doctrines of anarchy pirate of an up
rising Of the people to abolish the
Supreme Court disperse Congress and
"enthrone the sacred rights of Ameri-
can citizens and American freedom" as
the particular balderdash of Debs puts
il
At this immediate moment there is
a strike on of a large number of the
coal miners in various parts of the
country There is no question that the
miners have substantial grievances,
that they are underpaid and. in many
instances, victims of onerous regula-
lions which still further reduce their
meager pay The most earnest sym
pathy is felt for these men. and is
freely expressed in all quarters. A
strike for a substantial and well under
stood grievance which can be remedied,
which strike has popular sympathy
strongly behind it, has, as a rule, fair
chances of success; although, it must
be confessed in the present instance,
success seems g. long way Off
A conference of labor leaders of the
Debs and Sovereign stamp is held, os-
tensibly TO concoct measures to aid
the miners in their strike and what
does it accomplish? Absolutely moth
ing but to illuminate furious threats
against the whole framework of So
ciety as il is, attack the courts of the
land in resolutions, framed in tawdry
rhetoric: threaten armed resistance to
the enforcement of the law, and uphold
with approving cheers the propositions
put forward by Debs that the courts
and Congress should be abolished by
bloodsEed. if necessary.
GRAIN SPECULATION.
Portland Oregonian: The old contro
versy over the ethical and economic
meaning of grain speculation is reviv
ed by the activity in wheat. 1t is like
other questions of the sort, not one
sided. Corners and their collapse
are evils with very slight mitigation.
While the operation is going on, as the
Baltimore sun" points out, 1T is the
most hurtful to the farmers. The
market becomes unsettled. and. after
reaching a certain point it suddenly
cOllapses and falls as much below the
normal as it had been forced above.
While the prices are advancing rapid
~. farmers viii not sell. and the fall Is
equally so sudden that wheat cannot be
delivered before the bottom is reached.
And so such operations are hurtful all
around" Yet it would be easy TO miss
the main point, which is that boards Of
trade are only a part of the great mod
ern machinery of ascertaining and pro-
mitigating crop conditions. The recent
rise, coming as it did so long before
the crop was ready for market. is a
case in point. 1t was only through
these great organizations for collecting
news at enormous expense that the in
evitable scarcity, owing to failures,
low stocks and increased power of CON
sumption, was made apparent and
brought to bear on the market so ear
" In this way the farmer that sells
in August gets a decided benefit.
NO FEARS OF A DEFICIT.
Tacoma Ledger: There is every rea-
son for the trainers and supporters Of
the Dingley tariff to be encouraged by
the results of the first month after its
becoming a law As is we'll known, the
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