The San Francisco call., 1897-09-19
ABOUT PROSPERITY IN FRESNO.

iE straits into which led by angular reasoning
L should warn against the example they set
Fresno is interested in rasns. The white ash lands
of the San Joaquin Valley produce the equal of the imported
rasn and their productive capacity far exceeds that of the
Spanish plantations The methods of drying and packing
In the cleanliness and of every STEP commend the Cali
forna raisn every who does not wish to finish
his peck of drt and die untimey The Fresno growers
have than mourned the low and unsatisfactory market of
the last three Those who are mogaged have
their interest lapse and the banks which held the security
have been afraid forecose, that policy would load them
up with real estate beyond profitable management, and for
which there neither buyers renters.
In these conditions the Zante became greater
burden than the gasshopper and joy unconned when
the Naval Office in the Cusomhouse successfully prosecuted
before Judge Morrow suit which made that Greek rival bear
duty of I-2 cents pound.
Of course esteemed contemporaries in Fresno have
stand by asins the who standet not by his
house than heathen Under the tariff rasns
bear duty of cents and Zante currants of cents
pound. Result Rasns have risen from drug in the
market price the sweatbox that maeh glad the heart
of man. Back interest is being paid up mortgages in
process discharge and the people of Fresno aunty
the men of Taunton when the makere This change
the subject of ectaon the columns of the Bryan organ
that county, which mnutey points out the for it, not
serupling to put the tariff at their head.
But there is rift in the lute The organ is greved
goods have gained because in localities interested in these
there like condition of prosperity due advance
values and active market which takes the staples the
increased price, where they did not change hands
all at the low price from which they have been raised The
of tWentyacre rasn plantation has pay S.
for 5000 feet of lumber to build packing which
to sweat and pack his eaop But his crop brings him
thing like 800 account of its advanced price
his S. contributed to the prosperity of the umbermen
felt
What would the Bryan organ have? Does it want rev.
enue policy and commercial conditions under which only
rasns will bring good price, while the market for everything
else shall stand sagnant under prices below the pro-
ducton?
Suppose for instance that under the stimulus of public
policy the price of Lumbar only had advanced and raisins
mained at acknowledgements, would the organ have
garded it proper policy? Yet its angular reasoning
demands that rise While all else stands still We
not believe that this policy of
'My wife and me,
My son John and his wife,
We four and no more,
Will carry the San Joaquin Valley year. the next
ever
There but kind of prosperity and that must be gen
era There has been ali the time money enough in the
try, but it has been stagnan has lain idle. 1t is in
motion in the arteries of trade because there is feeling of
security the stability of future conditions The cheer that is
in the congratulations of the Bryan organ the rasn plant
of Fresno the that thrills all the of trade