The record-union., 1897-11-30

claims to be bound straight for Para
disc. The sooner they are furnished
with the necessary transportation the
better it will be for the credit of the
State Of California.
BUSINESS CONDITIONS.
Tacoma Ledger: Notwithstanding the
immense quantities of goods rushed
into this country ahead of the passage
of the Dingley bill, business has been
so much more extensive than was ex-
pected that importers have already be-
gun making large purchases for i'm
mediate delivery. The same conditions
exist as for some time past-Americans
lending money TO Europe by accepting
and carrying bills Of exchange instead
of cash, which are drawing interest
from foreign banks. Imports are rapid
ly increasing and the Government de-
| ficft proportionately decreasing, with
everything to indicate that it will be
entirely wiped out before many months
FINE BUSINESS PROMISE.
Santa Barbara Press: Not a railroad
man acquainted with the Southern Cal
ifornia field, not a traveller of obser-
vation from the East, but reports that
the prosperous times will result in
fine business year for this section of
the country from the annual crop of
tourists and health seekers. Santa Bar
bara and Southern California gener-
ally feel the hard times slowly, and
recover from their effects slowly. 1t is
on the outer edge of the region of dis
turbance, and as the concentric cir
cles formed by the throwing of a stone
into a pond reach the shores only after
an interval, so we feel the effects of
upheavals of the commercial East more
slowly and the recovery slowly in the
same degree
ANOTHER STATION.
San Diego Tribune: The Redlands
Horticultural Club proposes to send a
memorial to Congress in the effort to
secure tropical experiment station in
Southern California. The club states
that many fruit-bearing trees, shrubs.
plants and bulbs from tropical coun-
tries have been successfully acclimated
and grown in the subtropical belt of the
United States, and many more would,
no doubt, succeed in the practically
frostless part of California and other
States At present all Government ex-
pertinent stations are located too far
north for successful experimenting
with tropical plants and fruits, and
therefore a station in this section is
sought The project is worthy of the
cooperation OF all Southern Califor-
mans. Such a station ought to pro-
duce valuable results.
SUGAR AND ANNEXATION.
Stockton Record: The action of the
beet-sugar millionaires in formally op
posing annexation tends to corroborate
the charge made by the Post last week
that the various schemes of sugar beet
culture under promise of factories, are
simply moves to interest people in diff
ferent communities to defeat annexa-
ton. 1t is rather ludicrous to read
about giving UP large part of our
market to foreign producers" in light
of the fact that the Hawaiian Islands
producers will not be foreign when an
nexation is consummated. That Act
will make them American producers and
their wealth will be American wealth.
It comes with illgrace from Cali
fornians to oppose annexation, esDecl-
ally from such Californians as Stephen
NJ White, who affects the Native Son
spirit which makes Admission Day the
great event of the season-Admisslon
Day which is only reminder that this
| land, too was once a foreign territory,
but was generously adopted and ad-
nitted to compete in wheat growing IN
| the West in fruit raising with all sec
tions in wool production with ONO ana
Vermont, in lumber with the States OF
| the Great Lakes in sugar with Loulsl-
ana and in hops with New York and
Wisconsin.
And why should Millionaire Clark of
Montana or Millionaire Oxnard of Ne
| braska object? Both have made their
| fortunes in States that were carved out
| of the Louisiana purchaSe-States that
| were admitted to compete in the mar
kets of great nation, with the products
! of the Western reserve the Genesee
| Connecticut, Susquehanna and Shenan-
| doah Valleys. These .would-be states
men are mere chance products of once
| foreign territory, which Uncle Sam
years ago took in out of the cold.
FANATICAL REFORMERS
Bakersfield Californian: Professor
| Griggs, in speaking of the great re-
forms in society, says that the worst
enemies these reforms have are the
| fanatics who claim that all the evils
affecting the body polite will be Grad
lcaIeu Dy the SUCCESS u lliiS VI tHdt
movement. And the speaker never
gave voice to truer sentiment. His T.
| lustration of the suffrage movement
was particularly apt, and brings vivid
| ly to mind the fact that such speakers
as Anna Shaw and Susan B. Anthony
have done more to retard the cause
which they profess to advocate than all
other forces combined. Earnest and
honest though such speakers may be,
the public utterance of their radical
views have alienated the support OF
many a liberal-minded man. There can
be little doubt that the suffrage amend
ment would have received heavier
vote in California last election had
these champions Of their sex remained
in their Eastern homes and refrained
from insulting every audience they
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