The record-union., 1897-05-15

| in the planning.
| The equipment of the kitchen, includ-
| time when the shelves were bare and
there were checks still out and then
| there was a collapse and a winding up
,, of the concern. The trouble was that
the lumber could not be sold and, as
| the laborers could not work without
food and raiment, work had to stop.
There was not capital with which to
keep on manufacturing until lumber
could be sold and so there was moth
| ing to do but stop. This experience OF
the Labor Exchange in Santa Cruz
County ought to make one Of two facts
very plain to the theorists who have
believed that the labor check is de-
vice destined to emancipate the world
| from the thraldom of capitalism and
the money power: First, capital is in
| dispensable. 1t makes no difference
whether the capital be supplied by the
members of the exchange or by others.
capital is indispensable to production,
and money is not capital. Capital con-
sists in materials and supplies neces-
sary to continue production until the
product can be marketed, and money
| is only its representative. Finally,
when an exchange gets loaded up with
unstable commodities and emptied Of
saiable ones, the day of it's death is at
hand. Good management is as essen
tial in Labor Exchange as anywhere
| else.
THE CLARK ROAD LAW.
| Marysville Appeal: The Yuba County
Board of Supervisors have been con-
corning themselves much of late re-
garding the probable effect of the Clark
road law. The opinion of District At
/ torney Wehe of Sierra County seemed
to indicate that it would be imperative
for some time at least Now we have
it from the Record Union that the
| measure was stillborn. If such is the
case, what is the use of worrying about
it? On its face it was the most bun
glesome piece of business to which
| Budd has made himself a party. Clark,
twho appears to be crank, got Budd to
stand in With him after his pet meas
ure had been turned down in legislative
committee. The chief aim of the abor-
! ton was to take road management
from the Supervisors and confer upon
district boards and officers without any
provision for securing better qualified
men as road builders and maintain
ers.
However, 1t may be advisable to have
! the legal status Of the piece of bun
combe determined before anything is
! done. Yuba's Supervisors are just as
able to intelligently get such a matter
! into court as any other board. AS it
will cost but little, let them do it. When
| the matter is determined our people
can then take UP the agitation in be-
! half of good roads even to the adoption
of a system which will call for bond
ing.
TARIFF.
Los Angeles Herald: Dingley would
impose higher duties on imports, not so
much to encourage industrial growth
and to protect labor as to secure a sur
! plus of revenue that the greenbacks
may be taken in and boarded in the
/ treasury. This proposition in substance
is to impose on the people increased
medium already too small may be fur
Their reduced.
WANT THE TRUTH.
Los Angeles Times: The output of
| precious metals in this State, so far
from being exaggerated by the statisti-
clan of the mint, is greatly underra ted
by that official The Chronicle of a
recent date overhauls his figures where
he credits Tuolumne County with the
production of only 1928 30 in silver for
+, 1896, whereas the Black Oak mine in
that county has vouchers from the Sell
by Smelling Works, at Port Costa for
1894 in silver from that one mine alone
or over $66 more than the whole
| county is credited with by the statisti-
clan of the mint. The gold miners COM
plain, and rightfully, too, that the
statistician purposely ignores the pres
ence of silver in our goldbearing ores.
This goes forth and leads up to a be-
lief that our mines are spotted and not
/ true fissure veins. What the people
want is the exact truth. Lies only
help to injure the State.
NEEDS PATIENCE.
! Modesto Herald: The new admins
tration has been in power just sixty
nine days. yet for sixty days past the
misrepresentation partisan press-the
small fry, generally of the three-quar-
ter Populist and one-quarter Democrat
ic cross-have been braying because
prosperity has not sprung into the ma
tional arena fully armed and panoplied
as though the legitimate offspring of
tlistrust and Incompetency. Mis-
cengenation has given us a hybrid
press with it's natural concomitants of
idiocy and viciousness, and it is only
from such sources that the issue of
a giant of prosperity is demanded from
a sixty days alliance of confidence and
competency in the house for four years
the bed chamber of distrust and in
| competency.
/ Ladies' don't judge our hats by the
price: it isn't fair. Corwin's, GOT j.
E. A. Bridgford, lawyer, Stoll build
|