The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-10
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Interest.
Sisson Mirror: SANITY, benevolent
woman is brushed right off her tidied
pedestal BIZ the rude hand OF Pension
Commissioner Evans. He SAYS she has
acquired a pernicious habit of marrying
old soldiers with one foot in the grave
solely to secure a pension for the rest
of her life. Therefore he urges Congress
TO pass legislation to prohibit hereafter
any woman who narries a veteran
from receiving a pension in the event
OF her surviving him. The abuse from
this multiplication of pensions through
the remarriage of old soldiers is illus
trated by our revolutionary pension
rolls, where the names of seven widows
still appear. 1t is even limited that spu-
rious offspring have undoubtedly been
made TO serve as tappers Of the pen
sion treasury by designing women Mr..
Evans may be right, but it is hard on
the defender of his country to be de-
prived of so small thing as d pension
attraction in courtship.
PRUNES.
Chico Record: The State Board Of
Horticulture finds that there are $4,000
acres of bearing prune orchards in Cali
fornia to-day and about 5000 acres
more to come into bearing. Conservative
estimates put the total crop of Califor-
MIA prunes in favorable year at not
less than 10000 tons. In few years
more full yield of the fruit in this
State will be more than 10000 tons of
green fruit
BROKEN SILENCE.
Oakland Times: Mr.. Byan's lips have
broken silence on the subject of wheat
and silver, and this is the sound which
they utter: The fact that silver and
wheat have parted company will cause
no dismay to those who understand that
the law of supply and demand regulates
the price of BOTH Very true. And 1t
regulates the price of the two separate
ly, not together. as the free silver boom
ers shouted last fall. They cried from
the top of every stump in the land that
wheat and silver were Siamese twins,
and that when one went up or down
the other did likewise Yet now Mr.
Bryan admits that '.silver and wheat
have parted company" Of course they
have, and because there was never any
ans friends alleged.
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.
Los Angeles Times: While the plan of
rural free delivery has been tried on
very small scale, the comparative
measure of its expense and benefits has
never as yet been fairly determined 1t
is interesting to know, therefore, that
the postal authorities are contem-
plating the substitution of a system of
rural free delivery for some of the POST
offices and star routes that are now in
operation
An experiment is to be instituted in a
town in Vermont which is favorably sit
uated for the purpose, that is expected
to show the extent to which the substi-
tuition can be made. Unless the system
can be made substitution rather than
an innovation to be added to the system
already in vogue, it is not probable that
it will be adopted by the Government on
account of the great expense that it
would necessitate.
It is estimated that the establishment
OF a system of rural free delivery
throughout the country would result in
an increase in the annual expenditures
amounting to from $50000,000 to $780,
100000. IT, however, such delivery
could be made to take the place of exist
ing offices and star routes, the expense
might, the postal authorities believe be
cut down to the extent of $4,000, 600 or
$50, 000, GEO
1t is to be hoped that the system is
feasible and that it will be generally
introduced. 1t is logical feature of the
increased recognition that is being given
the rural districts in such matters. The
plan of sending the weather predictions
into the country has worked very well
and has saved the farmers no small
amount through advance warnings
given of storms.
ADVERTISE CALIFORNIA.
Oakland Tribune: The plan to ad-
vertise California in the East is a
good one and Oakland should certainly
furnish her proportion of the expenses
that will be entailed. No one nova
days questions the truth of the state
ment that advertising pays, and if this
is so of an article how much more will
it be of a city. Many people are on the
fence rs regards their location. Ameri-
cans are restless anyhow and as they
have none of the traditions that bind
families in the old world to remain in
one place all their lives, they are ever
ready TO make a move if they think it
will bring about the slightest advant-
age to themselves. That many East
erners are on the verge of coming to
California is certain. The State has
had some good missionary work done
in its behalf of late by the hosts of
Christian Endeavorers who We're re-
Gently our visitors and we should fol-
low up the good opinion thus created
by evidences of our enterprise.
A permanent exhibit in New York
on the scale proposed could not fail
TO do good. 1t would attract the atten-
ton OF the hundreds of thousands of
transient population that passes
through that city annually and in adj
dition TO the permanent residents we
would obtain, it would divert to this
direction a large percentage of the
stream of tourists that constantly pour
into the country The exhibition we
can make is one that can vie with that
possible from any other of the United
States, for apart from our natural at
fractions our crops are now command
ing attention throughout the world,
firstly for their excellence and Sec
ondly for their variety.
The expressions of opinion set forth
when the subject was discussed at the
Merchants Exchange shows that not a
note Of discord viii be sounded to the
proposition. 1t is hard to see anyhow
where opposition could come from for
the expense is trifling compared with
the probabilities of the returns. The
idea to make the display one of the
State at large and not a sectional one
SHOULD be generally Endorsed. for it