The record-union., 1897-10-15
he States of the Union in point of pop


data compiled The assessed valuation
of property within the City of New York
| is placed at 81, 49,, 900, COO There is not
4 single State in the Union. whose as
| sessed valuation approaches this col
| lossal representation Of wealth. This
| city therefore ranks higher than any
State, except New York State, in point
| of wealth.
! HYPOCRITICAL NONSENSE.
| Tulare Register: Much commiseration
is expressed for the overworked Amer
lean tourist who tries to get back into
| this country with personal baggage"
in the shape of score or two of trunks
AS big as the cabins in which our
grandfathers lived when they first
Went west to grow up with the country
and which are stuffed with enough
| fine apparel to set up a furnishing
| goods store One woman tried a few
days ago to slip into the United States
with something over hundred silk
waists "alI her own''-the abnormally
| big sleeves of which were found to be
padded with silks, laces and ribbons. II
is all hypocritical nonsense to bemoan
the fact that such people are compelled
! to pay duty on their plunder. They
can we'll afford to pay on such stuff,
and ought to be made to pay. There is
no chance whatever herein for the WOOL
en- shawl and castor oil wall which has
been so industriously worked by small
orators.
A STAFF OF LIFE.
Kern Echo: A dispatch tells US that
| Senator White pronounces the fore
closure of the Union Pacific mortgage
| ''scandalouS Job" and there is a Sus-
| piciOn that he is shedding copious
tears thereat We haven't any doubt
that the Senator is grieyed. He belongs
| to that order of Californians Who
! would grieve over any settlement OF
| the Pacific debt question. All his days
| it has been to him as the staff of life
| With this and ON this he grew to his
present political stature, and now TO
have it taken away is of course agon-
| izing. But it is distinctly remembered
| that when, a few months ago, a re-
| funding proposition was before the
country, there were many, and Sena-
tor White among the number, who
| called for foreclosure instead.
ANNEXATION.
opposed to the United States acquiring
control of the Hawaiian Islands by am
nexation To use his own words: Il
oppose annexation because the carrying
out of such a policy will not result in
| benefit to the people of the United
| States This is a bare opinion with
out reason being given Some very re-
spectacle people have opposed each and
| ,ifal1
country has made because they were
not far-sighted enough to see the bene-
| fit. Some of them have lived to ac-
| knowledge their mistake. The Louisl-
| ana purchase was opposed on the
grounds that we had territory enough
| and that the region named was occu-
pied by foreigners and barbarians who
would never assimilate with our popu-
lation. 1t was urged that we We're
buying trouble. The man who looks
over the map and realizes what an
! immense region is embraced in that
Louisiana territory will understand
that nothing but ignorance of the ex-
tent and possibilities of the deal could
| have supported the opposition. Con-
troll of the mouth of the Mississippi
alone was and is worth more than the
cost of the whole territory, and this
ought to have been realized at the time
even if the boundaries of the purchase
were in a haze. There was a school
of statesmen that did not want Texas
and the purchase of Alaska was de-
nounced as a crazy scheme. Yet the
wisdom of these acquisitions is not
now questioned. SO it is likely to be
with those Pacific islands. Senator
| live to admit his mistake in his early
assumption that no benefit can follow
their acquisition. One fairly good
reason for believing that the possession
of those islands would benefit the
| United States is found in the fact
that Europe and Asia are opposed to
American control in the islands. Those
Powers are not disturbed by the be-
lief that we will lose in the venture.
COMPETITION.
| Colusa Sun: The tree and the fruit
are as God made them. II we take the
Biblical account the two first-born of
earth came into competition and be-
cause thereof one slew the other. In
profane history we find competition be-
| tween individuals and communities to
be the handspring of all human action
from the savage to the most enlight
ened of the human species We find it
in the very lowest forms of animal ere
| alton; we find it even in the vegetable
| l1ingdom-everywhe the survival of
the fittest, and the fittest determined by
| individual growth, individual fitness,
| competition. This is world Of con-
fiict; world where the strong feed off
the weak: where the hawk eats the
sparrow and the big fish swallows the
| little ones. Without conflict this would
be a dead world; man would not have
| advanced even as far as the fig leaf
without it. 1t may then be ones opin
ion that the tree is bad or that the fruit
is bad, but it is all as God made it. He
| might have made a world after diff
ferent plan, but He did not Our cor
| respondent might think he could have
done better job-many men think
| they could-but he was not consulted
| in the making.
BLEACHING WALNUTS.
Redlands Citograph: The nut bleach
| ing proposition still agitates some
/ growers and fruit journal editors. Let
the good work go on. No nut grower
will go TO the expense and trouble of
| sulphur bleaching if the bleaching was
| rot called for by the dealers. When
| the people are educated up to the high
| standard of demanding non -sulphured
| nuts, uncolored butter and other food
products, the practice will cease AS
| long as they pay high prices for arti-
fciaIlv 9oc+orpd food prOductS lust so