The record-union., 1897-04-20
STRAIGHT TALK.

other dollars worth of property on the
university grounds.
STRAIGHT TALK.
! Placerviile Nugget: The Carnival or
the Golden Gate has turned cut to be
an iridescent dream. but it was beau
| tiful while il lasted. Perhaps next
year. when San Francisco will not have
I so large an army of unemployed to pro-
vide for, the dream may be a reality
San Jose Mercury.
BAH Dream be blowed. Unemploy4
ed Stuff and nonsense. What sub
terfuge behind which to hide. The sub
terfuge is the iridescent feature Of the
fizzle The long and the short of it is
that San F'ranciscans saw that the
ell-deserved rebuke administered by
the railroad company in cutting San
Francisco its pack of bowling, snarling
demagogues and sandlotters and abus-
ing, Matchmaking newspapers off the
excursion ticket list was going to ruin
the whole proposition of fiesta. They
expected their patronage from the in
terror at excursion rates. The city had
refused to protect the railroad that
made 1t city by passing law against
the scalpers who are under the ban
nearly everywhere else, the papers
abused the company, the demagogues
yowled and the railroad simply protect
ed itself and now--no fiesta and proba-
bly, no convention in little while. The
bitter has been bitten. To paraphrase
the Mercury next year,
| when San Francisco will not have
such a small modicum of common
horse-sense. there will be a fiesta
WHAT IT WANTS.
Contra Costa Gazette: What this
country wants is not more money but
as President Mckinley has aptly put it
| more use for the money We have"
With the passage by the Senate of the
!! Dingley tariff bill, the people will have
an opportunity to use the money they
have in manufacturing enterprises.
there will be plenty of work for labor
and as a consequence there will be so
much money in circulation that we
shall soon cease to hear the cry for
more money.
COUNTRY SIDEWALKS.
San Bernardino Times-Index: In
making country roads it has ordinarily
been assumed that they are made ex-
clusively for wagon travel, and that if
pedestrians wish to use them they must
walk in the roadway and stand aside
when teams come along That it is as
much the duty of the community to
make paths for pedestrians as drive
ways for horses has not hitherto been
recognized, but the late Legislature
passed law which contemplates the
making of side paths on all roads in
thickly settled districts. This law has
already been called to the attention of
the Sacramento County Supervisors.
and they have promised to try to carry
out its provisions. All paths estab-
lished by the Supervisors will come I'M
der the provisions of the new law.
| which prohibits their use by wagons
and livestock. These have public roads
for their use, and the pathways are to
be for pedestrians and riders Of BIZ
cycles. Any person caught trespassing
on the pathways will be prosecuted and
punished.
HAWAIIAN TREATY AND BEET
SUGAR.
Colusa sun: The San Francisco mer-
chants, with a unanimity quite sur
prising have signed a petition asking
for the continuance of the reciprocity
treaty between this country and Ha
wall, ana strange to say they give as
reason for the continuance the very
reason given by those who petition for
its abrosation. The petitioners for the
abrogation put the same case much
stronger than the others They saw.
Cor example. that a few men have
made some SI2000,000 in eight years
and collected it out OF the Pacific
States. while those who want 1t con
tinued say that the net profit up to
1894 amounted to SOS, DO. 6Gs. and from,