The record-union., 1897-10-02
VOICE OF THE PRESS
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

in parting company with silver. A
large increase in the price OF cotton
seed and cotton seed meal is reported,
with a prospect of still further ad-
vanccs. Indeed it is difficult to find a
farm product anywhere that has not
advanced during the very time that sill
yer has been falling. If our silver
friends are unable to account for all
these advances through the famine
abroad, will they admit that any part
of it is due to the Dingley bill?
LABOR LEADER SALARIES.
Alameda Argus: The salaries of la
Dor leaders have been published. Debs
gets 5000 a month, and Sovereign 81,
500 year. The pay is not very munifi-
cent, and considering the turmoil that
surrounds the gentlemen-comingf from
within as we'll as from without-they
might almost as well go to work. But
it is probable they might not do so
we'll at work. The successful labor agi-
tator is commonly a poor hand at Ia
boring. 1t is not, however, in order
to say that workmen should not have
leaders. or that the leaders should
serve for nothing. But it is unfortu-
nate that the leaders should not have
wisdom, and a sincerity that is like
unto Caesars wife.
THE EXTENT OF PROSPERITY.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: So immense is
this country and varied its resources
that no cne can form an adequate con-
ception of what prosperity means, or
how much it affects, without making
comparisons or estimates by figures.
With wheat crop of 500, ,000, 900 BUSH
els, which has advanced 80 cents in the
last month, and corn crop of probably
5000, 00Q, 600 bushels, advanced cents,
we are somewhat familiar. But let US
take in some other things of better
prices and we can more fully realize
what prosperity means. There are H.
000 600, 600 pounds of hog meat, raw
and manufactured, which has advanced
an average of 3 cents pound. There
are 325, ,000, 600 pecks of garden truck,
the avera ge advance in which has been
| 21h cents per peck. It is a well known
economic law that the market value
of productive property depends upon it's
earning power. The earning power of
| farm land has increased 33 per cent.
since July 1st. Hence, there are p
650, ,0C0 farms in this country which
| have appreciated in value an average
| of $500. per farm, at a moderate eSti-
mate. And there are $50, 900, 900 600
worth of railroad securities which, by
reason of the agricultural prosperity,
have Increased u per cent. in value.
| Better times on the farms means a
! larger output and higher profits for
the factory. There are $4,000, 900, 900
invested in factories, and the average
| iparn1Sn in, yo1i1a ic IN
ter times for the factory means greater
activity and more profits for the ur-
ban merchant There are 800, ,000,0 ,000,-
900 invested in retail mercantile es-
Establishments, which are now worth &c
per cent. more than they were eight
weeks ago. Naturally the increased
| prosperity means an advance in the
value of city real estate-say Is pei
cent on $3.50, 600, 900, 900. Add say. IL
per cent. on 100000, 100000 represent
ing all the saloons, theaters, sanitar-
iums patent medicines and other in
dustries which will participate in the
boom, and we have a neat total of $40,
COO 100000, or 81 900 for every man.
woman and child in the United States
A BABY CRIMINAL.
Grass Valley Union: A desperate
criminal. years DID, has been arrested
and is at present in the County Jail al
Los Angeles, waiting sentence for petit
larceny The desperate "stoled a
shovel and is crying his heart out fol
his mother. And now will the fathers
and mothers of this goodly country rise
up and say whether there is a word in
the English language strong enough to
express their contempt for the man who
complained against this baby boy or the
Justice who committed him to Jail. Is
it any wonder that there are people
who doubt the existence of an all
powerful and just Supreme Being?
WHAT FOLLY.
Alameda Encinal: What folly it is for
any one osay that Mckinley will give
the Union Pacific Railroad $50, 100000
or any other sum. When the funding
bill was beaten and Government owner
ship defeated, there was nothing left
but to do as the people apparently de-
manded-foreclose just as any money
lender forecloses when default is made
in the payment of a mortgage. If the
millionaire newspaper owners who are
busy accusing Mckinley of bad faith
think that there are so many millions
to be made by buying the Union Pa
cific in at the foreclosure sale, why dc
they not form a syndicate and buy ii
themselves? The whole thing is bad
business, but it is not fair to charge il
on the present Administration any more
than the preceding. But, so far as we
can see there is nothing, or at least
has been nothing, to prevent more
than one person or syndicate from bid
ding on the property at the foreclosure
sale.
DUMMY VICE-PRESIDENTS
Pasadena Star: The News Letter
says that of $50 persons lately named
as Presidents of a meeting, and
their names published in the daily
press. not one attended the meet. This
is a remarkable instance; but not ar
isolated one, of the humbuggery OF
Vice Presidents" of meetings. The
method is a farce, and not creditable
TO the good sense of the American peo-
pie One ce-President would be in
order but more than that-neyer, ana
appointing any more is simply using
bit of quackery to induce the people
TO attend. The idea has been, of course
that the officers would attend; but il
seems from this that they do not.
/. GET IN AND BOOST.
Petaluma Courier: Those who ex-
pect to grow up with a town and pros
per with it's prosperity shouldn't sit idly
by and wait for the town paper and
more influential people" to push them
along. Get in and boost. If you cant
boost, don't hang back and hamper
others. If you haven't enough strength
TO shove, try to muster up enough tc