The record-union., 1897-08-17

| times in the past, and as it will be many
times in the future.
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
Oakland Enquirer: At the present
| moment the farmers of California, are
! furnished with an illustration of the
great prospective value to them oe the
| Nicaragua canal Wheat is rapidly in
creasing in price in the Liverpool and
Chicago markets, but the big shipping
! firms Of San Francisco have ceased
| buying, or will purchase only at the
prices which prevailed several days
ago. They say they fear the present
prices will not be permanent and that
/ if they should purchase at these fig
ures and send the wheat on five
months voyage to England il would
have fallen in value so much before
] arrival that they would lose money.
/ Therefore it is likely the California
farmer is going to fail to get the full
value of his wheat in the markets Of
the world this season, but it would be
different if the Nicaragua canal We're
open to traffic, because then the voy-
age would be so much shortened that
1 California wheat shippers could afford
/ to buy nearer the price in the English
markets.
A PROFITABLE DISCUSSION.
Alameda Argus: The Bimetallic Club
is announced to discuss, next Friday
evening, the question of the right of a
West Virginia Judge to forbid the
holding of public meetings on public
! highway. Bimetallism is a fine and
/ complex subject, and free speech is
the palladium of our liberties; but what
relation has one to the other? That
| is something we can't see. What the
Bimetallic Club might discuss with in
terest is the decline of silver coinci-
IDENTIFY with the incline of wheat and
all other products, which it's members
solemnly and continuously asserted
one year ago could never come to pass.
GET INTO THE SWIM.
| Oakland Telegram: The wave of
prosperity is approaching and prices
of products are being lifted all along
| the line. Instead of standing back and
arguing with one another as to wheth-
er the wave came in by the Klondike
| or the tariff route, it We're better to
! get into the swim and enjoy some of
| the sport.
BETTER TIMES.
! ltSliO LNSpllbl1NsAll. II ID AiO IJii3Cl q
| theory, but a condition, which con-
| fronts US. The promise of prosperity
has been made good, and it ful6llment
is with us, not in its entirety, but in no
| inconsiderable degree, either. The man
who prophesied the coming of better
times no longer is secuted and ridi-
! culed. and the wall of the calamityite
grows fainter and more faint. AS for
the professional howler, ne may as
well close his shop and wait for an
other Democratic administration to
give him business.
| We say that the condition, and not
alone the theory of prosperity is with
US. Look at these facts: There were
| less business failures in this country
last month than in any month of July
within the last seven years Dun's,
! Bradstreets and every commercial
! agency in the United States reports
that business is improving. Seventy
! five per cent. of t<a bankers according
to recent investigation, make a similar
report While only per cent report
/ the contrary.
NO CORE LEFT
Los Angeles Express: The Canadian
| Government has cut down the size of
claims in the Klondike region so per
cent, beside eXacting an enormous roy
atty on all the gold taken out well,
lemme have the core, woncher?" plead
ed the small boy, watching hungrily his
big brother in the process of eating an
apple. There amt goin' to be no core, y
responded the greedy big brother. The
Klondike core is fast disappearing.
yV0NE,N IOCKEYS
Fresno Expositor: What's the use
in trying to stop the onward march of
women. brethren. There's no use, and
you may as we'll get out of the way
or you'll get run over. For now she s
going to sit on a bicycle sulky and
drive race horses-she IS going to be a
! jockey. In fact, she is a jockey. Four
of her, all young and handsome, drove
| a race over the track in Pittsfield,
Mass, last Saturday, and they sag it
was so successful that feminine driv-
/ ers are going to be made features of all
| the leading meetings in the State. The
/ dispatch states that "as the race was
/ an experiment the women were all
very neatly attired in bicycle cos
! Tunes Having passed the expert
mental stage will they-but, no; We'll
never utter the thought that jars US.
! It's bad enough to contemplate staid,
/ conservative old Massachusetts get
! ting giddy to the extent of introducing
| this innovation of women jockeys in
! bicycle costume to a guileless world.
! Now, in the wild and woolly West
but comparisons are odious.