The record-union., 1897-11-01
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Fresno Republican: The Selma
Farmers Club starts out with gooo
membership and is now prepared 20
look after the interests OF agrlcuitut-
In that locality. There is no more use
full organiza ton than well-conducteo
farmers club and every agricultural
center should have one.
PROSPEROUS KANSAS.
San Diegan Sun: The report rom
Kansas of an increase in bank uepos-
its aggregating nearly ten millions ana
a total deposit equal to SoU per capita
for the people of Kansas, is the kinu
Of a report that has substance 10 H.
Having those actual conditions, the peo-
pie of Kansas are not bothering them-
selves about confidence" and sucn the-
cries. Having the deposits they are
not waiting for the advance agent OF
prosperity. With an ample supply OF
the medium of exchange, the Kansas
people are able to transact business
with each other on cash and not
credit basis and they are happy, ana
all the world looks upon them and
say they are prosperous.
This prosperous condition came upon
Kansas as the result of the sale CT
wheat. The farmers there were blessed
with a big crop, and they sold it at
good prices. They exchanged millions
of bushels of wheat for millions of gold
dollars. The dollars came from peo-
pie who had less need for dollars than
they had for wheat. So in exchange
for wheat, the people who had dollars
inflated" the financial conditions of
Kansas, and brought about condition
by which the per capita in cash is $50
GOOD BYE, BUDD.
Humboldt Standard: The Exam
iner'' of the Goth contains a positive
statement from Governor Budd to the
effect that he will not be a candidate
for reelection, and that he will retire
from politics entirely after the close
of his present term. Whatever else
may be said of Budd, he is a shrewd
politician. Years ago when his FAM
Gus blackboard campaign got him a
seat in Congress in a strong Republi-
can district, he knew when to quit. and
was not humiliated by a defeat for re-
election. Until recently Budd has been
talked of as his own successor among
a coterie of admiring followers. He, far
shrewder than they, now sees the
content to retire from office when his
term expires and allow some other
man to be defeated at the polls. 1t is
just as we'll that he announce now
that he will not be a candidate for
United States Senator against Stephen
M. White; for he is not in Senator
Whites class.
INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE.
Oakland Enquirer: President An
drews of Brown University is gentle
man whose hold upon the public has
been considerably strengthened by re-
cent events, but ii is doubtful whether
it is strong enough to withstand the eff
fects of the kind of talk which he in
dulged in during a recent speech in
Chicago. The newspapers there re-
port Andrews as saying:
Great Britain regarded the United
States still as a colony. We might
laugh at the idea but the fact re-
mained that from the beggar in the
street TO the Prime Minister in Down
ing street, America was nothing but
part Of the empire. The United States
was not feared in England, he said,
and the fiscal policy of our country
was dictated by British agents in the
capital A stronger national sentiment
in the United States was necessary 10
preserve our traditions
This is a sort of talk which there
seems to be but one word to character
ize, and that is ''tommyrot." Il is not
classical expression, but we know Of
no other fit term. We do not under
stand why a certain class of bimetal-
lists cannot talk upon their favorite
topic without wishing to belittle their
own country. If it were not that they
had sufficient prejudices to set up as a
valid defense against the charge of
falsehood, they would certainly be ac-
cused of that vice. Look at the tone
of the British newspapers during the
past three months in discussing the sill
Yer question and the seal controversy
and then say whether Englishmen re-
gard the United States as colony of
Great Britain, subject to it's political
centrol, or whether they regard the
United States as a harassing rival or a
threatening enemy
NO RIGHT TO KICK.
Stockton Mail: A deluge of Eastern
Journals has been raining upon the ex-
change table. They are all marked and
are all full of pain. The burden of their
anguish is thus expressed by the Spring
field Republican:
California seems to believe in protec-
tion on State as well as national lines.
AT least it appears that a statute ex-
lists in the State requiring officials in
purchasing supplies for public institu-
tions to give the preference TO COM
modities produced within the sta. e.
This is plainly an effort to protect
home industries against competition
from other States. This is not only a
very unneighborly thing to do, but an
unconstitutional thing"
We do not know who pays for these
editorials or who sends them to us in
wholesale lots. But they are all in Re-
publican papers. And as protection is a
Republican tenet, We fail to see wherein
the esteemed have cause for this stimuli
taneous uplifting of heels.
We do not believe in protection. We
think it childish folly to hamper trade.
We believe that the proposition to tax
people into prosperity is akin to the
idiotic.
But II protection is good for the
United States IL is good for California.
Our Republican friends have prescribed
the dose. They should take it and be
good.
ENGLAND BARS THE WAY.
Los Angeles Times: 1t was not ex-
pected that the proposition for an In
ternationai bimetallic conference would
be met by England with any degree OF
favor. When 1t was announced. some