The record-union., 1897-10-11

| find it necessary to combine with 9TH
ers in order to protect themselves
| from bankruptcy, until, finally, We
have a sugar trust, or an oil trust, etc,
controlling the entire field.
TRADE AND BUSINESS.
Visalia Delta: While trade and bust
| ness reports of a single week may not
/ always be true Indication Of the gen
eral trned of affairs. a review covering
a greater period gives us something on
which to base our estimate The total
number of failures in the first nine
months of the present year were 1888,
and the total liabilities only $11S,4S4 :
| coo. The number of failures was IL
per cent less than during the first nine
months of 1896. and the liabilities were
! 80 per cent. less than during the same
period last year. These figures show a
healthful condition of business affairs,
material Improvement in conditions
generally and strong symptom of re-
turning prosperity.
BUSINESS IN FINE FETTLE.
| Los Angeles Express: There is no
stay to the onward progress of the
| business world. All influences seem to
work together for the benefit of the
American farmer, manufacturer, arti-
san and laborer.
The commercial centers where clear
| ng-house reports show decrease
seem fated to be limited to six. New
Orleans is the only one of any signifi-
canoe, and the yellow fever quarantine
| fully explains why business is dull at
that point Memphis is the next larg-
est city showing falling off of clear
ances as compared with a year ago.
and no doubt the same influence affects
! business there. The fifty cities show
ing an increase include all the great
| business centers, from Boston and New
/ York westward to Chicago and st.
Louis, and then to the Pacific Coast,
where all the reports are good The net
increase for the whole country is 80
per cent
| All the material interests of the
country report business good. There
has been a reactionary movement in
stocks, but this kind of dealings is
merely speculative, and the great adj
vances made in the prices of most
shares in three months quite natural
| ly lead to conservative views as to the
future In actual industries every
| feature Is u the I1OSl 6uCOuIdS lAel
ture Railroads are all doing a great
business, and their net earnings for
| September We're above recent averages.
RAISE A FEW BEETS.
! Marysville Appeal: There are acres
upon acres of land surrounding Marys-
vile in Yuba and Suffer Counties that
are adapted to the culture of the sugar
! beet
| In order to know just what locality
can produce in the way of sugar beets
! experiments must be made. Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson proposes to dis
tribute several tons of the seed for ex-
detrimental work, and those desiring to
take up this matter can be accommo-
| dated by applying to him, or address
! ing Claus Spreckels San Francisco,
who will test the beets when grown, as
we'll
| 1t is all very we'll to cling to wheat.
| This year and next wheat is bound TO
be a good crop; after this period, how
| ever, it may be a gamble. Now is the
| time to experiment with sugar beets,
| that when the time comes to enter into
| the culture upon an extended scale the
counties of Yuba and Suffer may have
all the necessary data at hand.
Plant a small patch to beets and tend
them well.
Sugar beets may lead the farmers of
California out of the wilderness one of
these days.
A LIVELY PLAN.
Tulare Register: The social democ-
racy'' of Chicago has met and emitted
a sniff at all things that are and has
| 70 no oil fhoV
| never were. Nobody is to own build
| ing which cost more than $4,000;
those of more value now standing to be
| burned. Persons whose ways or pos
sessions render them obnoxious to this
new breed of reformers are to be killed
| off or cleared out in some way. The
| business to be fostered is the combined
| grocery and saloon on the corner, While
| the governing class is to come from
| those who get all their information
| from the gang which hangs around
| them. This will form an ideal social and
political condition from the standpoint
of those who have helped neither them
selves or others, but are stopping over
with dissatisfaction at what others
| have done. And yet these upheayals
are not to be laughed at Intelligent
patriots have found that campaign
! of education for few weeks when an
election is pending is scarcely sufficient
| to overcome the mischievous work
| which has been wrought while wise
men have slept. Methods of good gov
eminent need to be taught continually
| through press, pulpit and rostrum, lest
error become so deeply rooted that seri-
Gus trouble will follow. Were patriot
| ism as active as disorder there would
| be less difficulty in a proper settlement
| of the problems which arise from time
| to time under popular government.
That tired, languid feeling indicates
a lack Of vitality in the current OF
| life the blood Hoods Sarsaparilla
changes all this by purifying, vitaliz-
| ing and enriching the blood.