The record-union., 1897-06-08
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Oh
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUD-
iects of Living and News
Interest.

Fresno are planting Bermuda grass 70
a largo axtent on sub-irrigated lana
with fine results. Experiments nave
been made in dairying by pasturing Oh
alfalfa for two weeks and ten on Der
muda grass by turns, with the result
that marked difference IN quantity
and quality of milk was developed, anu
to the very decided advantage OF the
Bermuda grass. 1t does not make good
hay. however
WHAT IS PROSPERITY?
Los Angeles Express: 1t seems
strange that any intelligent person can
be looking for a return OF the DAYS
when we missook dust for speed. Yet
thousands are doing just that, making
themselves miserable and holding back
the real return of the only good times
we have any reason to expect, going
around with long faces and asking with
cynical sheer Where is the prosperity
you promised us?''
No one promised a return of the time
when we sold blind puppies for full
grown dogs at $50 apiece. No one
promised that the Eastern gosling
would continue to lay down his hard
earned money for Western wildcats on
foot and harvest the pelts himself. The
man who can't see the change in the
times must be crazy. You cannot find
a man in a days travel who, if he
should find a thousand dollars in the
street, would now spend it as
he would have done four years ago, and
very few who would spend it as they
would have spent it only a year ago.
If We have reached time when every
one is inquiring, What am I to get for
this money tomorrow instead of
next year or the next century, how can
we have as much business of the same
kind as when nobody was so particu-
lar? If no one is going to buy as many
goods as before, We cannot have as
much business, and it is reasonably
certain that most people have discover
ed that they have been long in the
habit Of buying some things with which
they could dispense or could make at
home. Especially is this the case with
the farmers and the lesson they have
learned they will not soon forget. Very
rev will again run in debt as they have
done, and even when they have the
money they viii hesitate long before
investing it in something they can
make at home
Let every man go to work at some
thlng and We shall see prosperity of
the truest kind, the prosperity in which
every one knows what he has and what
he can depend on from the man who
owes him. Be it ever so small. certain
" is the safest and only real basis of
true prosperity.
WORRYING.
Santa Barbara News: If evervbodv
would be honest, conscientious and la-
hlent as far as possible; if everybody
would drop yesterday" and simnIv ar
tend to the burdens of to-day, with
due consideration of Tomorrow hard
tunes would not seem to very hard and
the awfully dreary and vitality-sanninor
expression, hard times" would soon
become obsolete.
The American people, as a whole are
hliilg themselves with worry which
they bestow on matters that do them no
GOOD 1hey are actually paving the
way Tor more asylums of lunacy. and
worse than all gravely imperihng the
future of their children yet unborn.
worrying over what cannot be helped
is unmanly. Your lot will be no easier
from making everybody about you mis-
cradle. 1t helps in no way to cast the
pail OF your own encouragement about
the shoulders of your friends and assoc
ciates.
DEMOCRATIC SPLIT.
Fresno Republican: If the signs of
the times may be trusted. the Demo-
cratic party, as well as that of the Pop
ulists is TO have its NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and ng-for-compromise factions.
and William J. Bryan viii be the leader
of the former faction. Already the is
sue is being made in Ohio and doubtless
it will extend into all of the States.
The issue is on the question, Shall the
Democracy hereafter indorse the Chi
cago platform by reaffirming it, or shall
1t stand on the financial plank of that
platform, dropping others of its radical
provisions? The trimmers of the party
are in favor of doing the latter thing
their idea being that such a half-step
backward would secure the return of
wandering Democratic sheep to the fold.
Mr.. Bryan is opposed to sacrificing any
part OF the Chicago platform, his idea
being that its doctrine was sound and
that principle is worth more than wan
dering sheep.
A WIFE'S RIGHT.
Colusa Sun: A rich wholesale NOR
chant of the metropolis was found shot
to death in his store the other evening,
and in his pocket was found a letter
from his wife begging him to send her
500 or 500 with which to purchase some
necessary wearing apparel, and stating
that the S4-a-week allowance was
hardly sufficient. She promised that
the amount asked for would do her un-
til the holidays. If the letter described
the mans character correctly it is as
Wen that he does not cumber the earth
any more. 1t is not necessary to go into
the realm of woman's rights to denounce
the practice of some men putting the