The record-union., 1897-08-01

Jay. AUGUST 1, 1897.
| board and lodging. having but little
expense, he is more fortunate than
many who work at other occupations.
Experienced and capable men who
work for others as farm hands are al
ways recognized and given more wages
/ than those less desirable
FINDS OF GOLD.
Oakland Enquirer: Very uneXpect-
| edly the present generation is being
| given an Illustration, by the Clondyke
rush, to show what the California gold
| excitement of 1889 was like. 1t has
| been considered remarkable that the
find of placer gold in a mill-race in
California had the effect of drawing so
many thousands of young men in a
year or two out of quiet homes in all
/ portions of the country, and 1t has
appeared especially improbable that
! those scenes would ever be repeated
I But, few men having made sudden
| fortunes in the valley of the Yukon
we have the scenes of 1913 repeated on
a smaller scale, and if next year the
finds of gold are large, the proportions
/ VI lIlC IuSlI W III llOI InClCis ~ ca AeNA =
as in 1889, but much larger. People
have not changed perceptibly since the
| former date and the cry Gold, goldi"
can still send an electric shock from
one end of the country to the other.
INCONSISTENCY.
| San Jose Mercury: Senator White is
for protection to California products,
because he knew that the producers Of
this State, whatever their pohtlcal
leanings, all favor protection. yet he
made an argument against the whole
! bill, including, Of course, the duties
which he had advocated for California
fruits and other productions. The fact
is, that While the majority OF the
Democratic leaders favor protection for
their respective States, they imagine
that to be consistent they must con-
tinue to combat the broad principle of
protection as applied to the entire
country. In doing so they simply make
their inconsistency all the more con-
| spicuous.
CLONDYKE WARNING.
San Diego Union: The man who goes
to these gold fields, especially if he
has only a slender supply of money,
needs the fullest information. 1t is
trip of several thousand miles-a longer
| journey in fact than that which the
argonauts took who came to California
| across the plains, and nearly as long
as that by the isthmuS route. And at
the journeys end will not be found as
| fair, smiling land, as California was
to the pioneers of long ago; the gold
hunter who seeks the ClOndyke is
bound for a region where ice and snow
prevail most of the time. Under these
circumstances he can hardly have too
thorough a knowledge about all that
relates to the new gold fields. And yet
in spite of the many columns that have
been published, scarcely any trustwor
thy information is available. And the
man without ample money who rushes
off to Alaska under these conditions
takes his life in his hands quite as
much as though he were joining an ex-
pedition bound for the north pole.
PAYING OFF.
Marysville Appeal: The people of the
United States have evidently profted
by the lessons of the hard times dur
ing the past four years. The New York
Sun Democratic published a few
days since, large number of kilograms
from various parts of the country, espe-
cially from farming communities of the
West, indicating that the farmers in
every locality are taking advantage OF
the good prices which they are getting
for their crops to pay off their mort
cages. In every part of the country
farm mortgages and other obligations
of that character are being rapidly re-
duced in number and size, and, with
the splendid prospect and prices in
sight, the coming year will doubtless
see a large reduction in the indebted
ness about which the calamity Shrek
ers have indicated such distress.
WELL ROASTED.
Pasadena News: The Sacramento
Record Union very properly roasts
the action of the members of the De-
partment of Highways for devoting
their time to engineering work in con-
nection with the Department of Public
Works, when the law specifically says:
They shall not actually engage in any
other pursuit while serving as High
way Commissioners" Somebody ought
to enjoin their salaries.
ILLEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Woodland Mail: We are pleased to
through the farce that is being played
by the Highway Commissioners and the
Board of Public Works. The Mall
took occasion several weeks ago to call
the attention of the people to the farce
that is being played at their expense.
LADIES?
Santa Monica Outlook The Sacra-
mento Record Union asks, who are
Ladies?" We don't know how it is in
other places, but according to the class
of job work turned out of this office
lately, they are people of the female
persuasion who take in washing, go out
to work or do dress king either at
home or at your house.