The record-union., 1897-09-30

Southern California which are suff1
| GENTLY we'll watered would prove prof
liable. 1t takes much water and a COM
parative freedom from frosts. The
| profits from pineapple culture would
be immense here
NOT POLITICAL.
| Los Angeles Times: Just now certain
demagogical writer's for the press are
seeking to make it appear that the re-
cent strike Of coal miners was in some
manner brought about by the Repub-
| lican party, and that the Mckinley ad-
/ mlnistration is responsible for 1t, and
| for the bloody affair at Latimer, Pa,
where a score of men lost their lives
While engaged in a lawless enterprise.
In setting up this flimsy contention,
! these writer's appeal To the meaneSt in
/ stincts of human nature.
THE STATE FRUIT GROWERS.
! San Jose Mercury: The next conven
tion of State Fruit Growers, which will
| be held under the direction of the State
Board of Horticulture at Sacramento
about the middle of November, will be
one of unusual Importance The place
! OF meeting is central the convention
/ Will be held at a time of year when
! growers are comparatively at leisure,
and all conditions are favorable for a
| gathering that will be notable among
the conventions of the State horticult-
uriSts.
/ Among the subjects that will be con-
sidered at the convention, as an
nounced by Secretary Lelong. will be:
/ The transportation of all California
products to all markets, rates of freight
and the abolition of rebates or other
means of giving one shipper an unfair
| advantage over another shipper; the
| possibility Of shortening the time of
| delivery to Eastern points. and the
probability of eliminating the icing of
! cars and thus in a large measure re-
4 ducing the cost OF transportation; the
! best system of distributing green and
dried fruits to nearby markets; the dis
| tribution Of green and dried fruits to
Eastern markets, and the best system
of distribution to foreign markets;
should the production of deciduous
! fruits be checked until q more perfect
system of distribution is effected? the
relation of the olive industry to the
fruit industries of the State; the pos
sibility of this State producing all the
olives and olive Gil consumed in the
United States; the adulteration of olive
oil and the failure of the pure food
law to suppress it's adulteration, or to
prevent the sales of imported oils which
have been adulterated, or to prevent
the sale of other oils as olive oil; adul-
terated foods and the influence of their
sale on the productive industries of the
State; the olive industry including the
area in each county in the State adapt
ed to the production of the fruit, and
the probable increase in production
THE U. P. FORECLOSURE.
Los Angeles Express We are dis
posed to think that if the Union Pa
cific road were a solvent property, as
valuable as the Times seems to
think, the Administration would know
it, and would see a way to get the
peoples dues out of the corporation
But as between losing $4,000 900 and
taking the road with all it's debts and
the complicated difficulties of Govern
ment operation, we say the Admins
tration is pursuing a wise course. Busi-
ness mer who are not prejudiced will
agree with this view.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
RedlaEds Citrograph: If the people
] start an earnest prolonged fight for
them The members of Congress seem
either to be opposed to the project or
else very Indifferent. TSe people them
selves must stir up their Congressman
by first studying the question-if not
already posted-and then petitioning
and writing letters and getting others
to write. Continual agitation will bring
| a1o nd
but continual fighting will ever win.
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
Colusa Sun: The Sun" is painfully
aware Of the fact that the unequal
distribution of wealth is largely due
to individual exertion and thrift on the
one hand and the want of those quail
ties on the other. 1t is willing to ad-
NIT that it is within the range of pos
sibility for nine-te tenths of the SS per
cent to better their condition very
materially if they could only be in
duced to follow the plainest common
sense methods, but that we are poor
by our own fault, or that the others
are rich by their own exertion, is no
reason why the Government should lay
all its burdens on the improvident.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Oakland saturday PreSS: IN Illus
tration of the work now being done
by the better class of daily papers may
be cited the circulation of petitions by
the Sacramento Record Union" and
the Chicago Record" The California
paper is urging the building. of a high
class permanent wagon road into the
national forest reserve through the
counties Of Kern, Tulare, Fresno, Ma
dera, Mariposa and Tuolumne, and the
Chicago Record is exerting its power
full influence in behalf of a postal saw
ings bank system.
HOLES IN IT
Santa Barbara Press: The Iowa sill
yer Gala nifty platform has one or two
holes in it where the planks have
dropped through. One of the planks
reads, Prosperity has not made its
appearance; the mills and shops are
closed down; the army of the unem-
ployed is growing larger, and the farm
ers of Iowa are marketing their crops
at lower prices than ever before" This
is one of the planks which took a big
in