The record-union., 1897-08-12
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

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| two is that one is characterized by
rocks and glaciers, while on the other
glaciers and rocks predominate. They
are selling even in the pools.
ENCOURAGING.
Inyo Register: With the price of
wheat steadily advancing and Alaska
producing millions, the deadly grasp of
the money trust may be loosened and
prosperity smile once more upon the
| country.-Reno Journal.
When the worthy but extreme Jour
nal" feels encouraged over the outlook,
times are certainly improved.
TIMES IMPROVING.
Fresno Republican: Wheat has in
creased 40 per cent. in price since
1894; cotton has advanced 16 per cent
| in the same time; barley, hay, pork
fresh and dried fruits, all have reached
a rising market. One does not like to
suggest it, because nothing seems to
give greater pain to the Democratic
brethren, but is it not a fact that these
things seem to indicate the approach
| of that much discussed wave of pros
perity? Or, if they do not, what does
herald prosperity, anyway? Times are
better, and he is a glorious partisan
who can bemoan himself because of
the fact
| DIABOLICAL HEALING.
Oakland Enquirer: The success of di-
vine healing, 70 which there are so
many testimonials in the statements of
persons who claim to have been healed,
is now being duplicated by a gentleman
of Michigan who claims to practice dia
bolic healing. He aVoWs that the
power which he shows in curing peo-
pie of disease, real or imaginary, is
derived from Satan. Although it
might be supposed that this avowal
would scare away good Christian be-
! levers, it is related that many of them
| are going to him to be healed. Ac-
cording to old traditions, the price of
such relief from bodily torment ought
to be a contract, signed and sealed, for
the delivery of the patients soul after
death, but no mention is made of such
an arrangement, and we are left to
assume that the old medieval methods
on which Mephistopheles conducted his
business, have been abandoned through
respect to progress of the age.
BAD EXAMPLE.
Amador Record: Business men set a
bad example when they send away for
printing when they can get it done at
home The same business men will
as a general thing soundly berate the
newspaper man If he does not patron
ize them or some other home mer-
chant It's the old story of whose dog
is poisoned.
CANADA AND THE MINES.
Alameda Argus: There may be a ne
cessity for the Canadian Government
to send something of an army into the
Klondike if it is to maintain stiff tariff
laws against foreign miners. That
/ would lead to no end of complications
| Immediately. 1t is pretty sure that in
the far-off region not too much respect
will be paid by the gold-craZed hordes
to the enactments and mere commands
unbacked by some tangible authority
| and force. 1t is to be an entirely differ
ent proposition than the enforcement
| of law in a settled community. The
respect that men who rush into a new
| country have for reigning authority in
that country is we'll illustrated by the
| way the earlier pioneers pushed aside
the Mexican authorities of California,
| doing just as they had a mind and ig-
noring the Government and people they
found here. The Canadian Government
is not as feeble as was the Mexican in
the forties, but its dependency is very
far removed from headquarters, and
any determined enforcement of rigor-
Gus laws would lead to a national I'M
broglio very soon, the danger is.
BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: In his address
before the National Education Con-
vention recently DR.. Lyman Abbott
said: Il vote against the reading of
the Bible as a part of the school exer-
| cises. It is not the function of the
State to carry on public worship, and
where there is objection to Bible read
| ing it should be taken out Of the
schools. 1 do not plead for the per-
functory reading of the Bible in a
place where much Of the work is in
danger Of becoming perfunctory." This
is pretty blunt language for the pastor
of Plymouth Church, and there are peo-
pie who will think that, as DR.. Abbott
is rather loose in his opinion about the
larger portion of the Bible, he was on
this account led to make the utterance
quoted. Nevertheless, it is a grand old
book, and whether read carefully or
perfunctorily the music of its solemn
and beautiful words will ring in the
most careless ears and in time find a
permanent lodgment. The wisely con-
servative mind will not agree with DR..
/ Abbott.
ADVANCING WAGES.
Reno Gazette: Since the passage of
| the tariff BILL the southern planters
| have voluntarily advanced the wages
| or field hands from 10 to 16 per
cent. while the workers in the refiner-
les viii have a still greater advance.
This will undoubtedly do much to rec
oncile the free trade South to policy
of protection.
In like manner the big clothing man
ufacturers of the East are advancing
the wages of their employees. OF course,
it viii be said that the people who
| are consumers must pay for this ad-
vance, but when they are getting bet
ter prices for their own products they
are we'll able to do so. With wheat
| advanced one-third in price over this
| time last year, and going higher, with
wool at a good figure and advancing.
live stock once more a source of profit
and the farmers of this great middle
section of our country jubilant and
paying off their mortgages. with our
own mining industries taking on new
life. we can all afford to regard the
! future with confidence.
TO GET UP EARLY.
Oakland Tribune: Another reform
wave is about to break over the bay