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it's way to popular favor, because of
the undeniable advantages 1t now pos
sesses over vehicles drawn by animal
power. These advantages appear, on
the whole, to be much greater than the
disadvantages of the vehicle in COM
parison to horse power propulsion. or
course, in many cases. the use OF
horses will be indispensable, even II
| motorcycles came into general use. But
! for a large variety Of purposes the
horseless vehicle will win It's way py
| reason of its inherent superiority ana
adaptability to the service required.
| There is still much dlHerence OIL
opinion as to the best motive power.
| Naptha, steam, compressed air ana
electricity each has it's enthusiastic ad-
| vocates. and highly-efficient vehcles
have been constructed, employing
/ these sources of energy, respectively
as the motive power. But the contest
seems to lie principally between
naphtha and electricity. The latter
| for various reasons, is preferable TO
| all other sources of energy II Its use
| can be made as economical in a con-
mercial sense.
SEND GOOD ONLY.
San Diego Union: California has an
abundance of sound wholesome ITull
| to send to market without shlpplng
pound of that which is overr1pe or IN
! fected with scale or other noXious par
asites. The success of some recent con-
signments to England was in great
measure due to the elaborate precau-
tions that were taken to forward only
the best fruit. Unfortunately the same
| care is not always taken IN the case
! of shipments to points nearer NOME
and complaints of bad fruit have been
made several times recently at Puget
| Sound points The PACING Rurai
/ Press" too declares that the pack
streets of San Francisco swarm Wltn
| hawkers whose wagons are niied Win
the disgusting product of injected or
chards No doubt there are men VINO
think it clever to realize something, be
it ever so little. on bad fruit Ii their
folly reacted upon themselves alone
nobody would be much concerned over
their unscrupulous greed. Unfortunate
ly. however. it is their honest neighpors
who are the principal sufferers.
n.HE STRAW BOND EVIL.
Los Angeles Herald: An example
|
make false statements regarding their
property when they go on the pono Oh
persons charged with various offenses
A case was cited the other day Where
two men swore that they were pos
sessed of property valued at S9,6o0. IN
vestigation showed that the property
in question was assessed at just S9lo
Cases of this kind are altogether too
| in ha TnStiCR
courts. 1t may not be practicable for
the court officials to investigate at once
for themselves the statements made by
bonlsmen, but it is their duty to make
themselves reasonably sure that the
statements made are correct.
WHAT, IN STOCKTON?
Stockton Mail: The Hanford Demo
crat" remarks that Stockton is to-day
the most prosperous city in California
but, oh, how they do need visit from
the angel of death to carry off moss
backs"
The Democrats" remark is in the
likeness and similitude of a glittering
generality. Nevertheless there is truth
enough in it to hurt. There are moss
backs in Stockton, and if discrimin-
ating angel of death should erase them
there would be ample cause for observ-
ing the happy day as a picnic.
A WORLD QUESTION.
Riverside Enterprise: 1t is rather
more than a coincidence thatat the very
time when American single standard
advocates We're congratulating them
selves on the death of the "silver
craze" it has broken out across the
pond with a virulence that recalls some
of our own liveliest periods. The truth
is, silver is world-question. Not alone
the "untutored' Western American pro-
ducer sees in its legislative aSsassina-
ton a blow at his hopes of material
comfort and prosperity, but also the
same classes of Europe realize the
same truth though lacking the oppor-
tunity for as vigorous protest against
it, And, finally, While Asia's masses
suffer oumbly and reason not at ALL or
all around the question, every humane
statesman and thinker who would
ameliorate their miseries recognizes
Europeans and more particularly Brit
ish f1nanceerfng, have doubled their
poverty and aggravated distress among
them.
So when a temporary prosperity
comes to the American producer be-
cause of foreign famine, it means that
those who suffer from it are feeling
more and more keenly the turn of the
devlsh gold screw, and naturally these
latter cry aloud in their anguish Nor
can their appeals go unheeded in safety
by the men upon whom responsibilities
of government rest in European lands.
This in despite of the snarls of bankers
and usurers and the reptile press. Here
we can have an explanation of a coinci-
dence.
TRUTH SACRIFICED TOO OFTEN.
Riverside Enterprise: "Oh, that is a
newspaper storyi" lis too often the ex-
preston of people of a doubtful turn
of mind, intensified by Investigations
into press reports, or personal expert
enees as to what happened and what
the papers reported.
The facts are that there has recently
been a dreadful amount of careless
writing, and that in the fight for exclu-
sives many papers have grown careless,
both in holding their men responsible
for what they write and in Investigate
ing the truth or falsity of rumors.
Every body knows that there is wide
difference between the accounts of eye
witnesses, which lawyers term the
personal equation" while astronomers
and other scientists use the same term
in accounting disparities due to vary
ing quickness and accuracy of observa-
ton.
This personal equation" is essential
to the establishment of truth, but when
papers are regularly and diametrically
opposed in their news statements it is
but natural that the public should be-