The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-28

cigars it is impossible to discriminate,
and the users must take the chances.
But with cigars of local manufacture
| smokers can to a considerable extent
guard themselves. They can get weeds
! which they know are made by local
white labor, concerning which they
need take no chances. They would
thereby effect two purposes. They
would avoid the risk of contagion from
Chinese made cigars, and they would
patronize home industry. No man
] with any sense of nicely would know
ingly smoke Chinese cigar.
A VILE SCHEME.
Fresno Expositor: The dispatches tell
of an enterprising schemer who ex-
poets to make lot of money by TAX
| ing 800 handsome Boston girls to
Alaska in the spring. Stockton women
have been receiving circular letters for
| some time past holding out induce
ments to women and girls to go to the
gold fields. The letters tell of good
wages paid to cooks, ETC., but bear the
same evidence of an immoral scheme
as the above handsome girls" an
nouncement AT the best the Stockton
circular reads like a plan to make
money out of the number of foolish
women who have Alaska fever. One
of the inducements offered is that only
a small sum need be paid down when
passage is secured, the rest to be forth
coming in installments, or when the
steamer sails in the spring. If any
number of women could thus be in
duced to enter this installment scheme,
n n no. Cif 1cla n
the schemer could easily disappear
with a neat little sum and few of his
dupes would confess that they had been
duped. 1t is well for women and even
for men to keep out a weather eye for
schemers who hope to get rich by TAX
ing them to Alaska.
THE GOOD CITIZEN.
| Grass Valley Union: A good citizen
is he who expresses faith in the flu
ture of the town he lives in and who
| is always talking of its advantages as
place of residence. Strangers fight
shy of silurians and never locate in a
place the inhabitants of which seem
to stay there because they can't help
themselves, rather than from choice
and a laudable desire Of lettering their
condition by helping the community
they live in.
OUT OF POWDER.
Placer Herald: 1t is said that Japan
has spent all her money for warships
and has nothing left to buy powder.
The American nation has drawn long
| breath since she has announced her in
tention not to thrash us just at pres
ent. Our nation might lend her powder
enough for Fourth of July purposes if
she will promise not to point her guns
toward the American flag. That is @
piece of cloth that we allow no foreign
nation to monkey with
AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Visalia Delta: Wheat continues to
make phenomenal jumps upward and
silver as surely but more slowly sinks
in value. During the recent campaign
w. j. Bryan said: you Will never have
dollar wheat While silver is not held
at a parity with gold at 16 to L." Mr..
Bryan did not qualify his statment
| in any way. His was a straight-out
declaration that the price of silver de-
pended on the treatment accorded to
silver. The Republican press contend
ed that the price was regulated by the
law of supply and demand-that a
heavy demand and a short supply
would cause wheat to rise, while an
oversupply would lower the price. This
idea was hooted at by the Bryan press.
On silver alone, they said, depended
the price of wheat. But now that wheat
and silver have parted company and are
daily becoming more widely separated.
the Bryan papers-the few that are left
tell us that the growing price is due
to failure Of crops in other parts of
the world, and that such an abnormal
condition was not contemplated by
them. Thus have they come around
to using the same arguments employed
by the Republicans last year. which is
an acknowledgment of their correct
ness.
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