The record-union., 1897-05-19
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUBJ
iects of Living and News
Interest.


Oroville Register: Too few people
make the little thin@s count as they
ought to. The eggs from the poultry
yard can be made to pay the grocery
bills, the Strawberries, blackberries and
raspberries all pay handsomely if at
tended to- Few cows pay we'll if
man has the pasture land for them.
Every man that has a few rods of
ground ought TO raise something that
will bring him some profit. 1t is the
little things that often pay best in pro
portion to the labor they require. There
is no money in growing hay or grain on
a big ranch but if the land owner will
give heed to small industries he will
find many things that will pay him
| handsomely.
TIMES IMPROVING.
Oakland Enquirer: In the midst Of
all the talk of hard times and some
thing of the realities of them, the late
report on the volume of business made
by the Dun Commercial Agency is at
tracing a great deal of attention, as it
deserves to. The actual sales of lead
ing houses in the region east of the
Rocky Mountains for the month of
April are reported by this authority as
April, 1892. which was a boom year
AS compared with 1896. the sales show
an increase of a little more than per
cent The basis for this very encOurag-
ing comparison is the statements made
by 601 leading firms, including all lines
of merchandise, and hence the CREDIBLE
ity of the showing can hardly be ques-
toned. There are also fewer failures
for I1a1 than during
the corresponding months last year
which is corroborative evidence that
times are improving.
IMPORTATION OF WOOL.
! Eureka Times: The importation of
raw wool for the month of April last
is reported to exceed 100,000000
pounds. That amount is nearly as
much as was imported in one year un-
der the tariff known as the Mckinley
BILL This foreign wool is now being
sold in American markets in competi-
ton with the American producers, and
at prices which will not justify the
home producer in keeping up his herd
even at the low wages now paid for la
Dor in caring for his flock When wool
was on the dutiable list the wool grow
ers were in a prosperous condition.
! HtS COulQ Clll)ION dOuilidutt VI IGlD
at fair wages. Since the product was
! placed on the free list they have been
compelled to dispense with their hired
help and let their fiocks dwindle to
mere nothing. and to-day, few wool
growers in this country are solvent.
At the present time foreign wool is
arriving daily into our ports by the
ship load in order to take advantage Of
IL
goes into effect.
KEEPING PLEDGES.
San Bernardino Sun: No party ever
gained anything by violating its
pledges. The Republican party in 1896
pledged itself to a protective tariff and
another effort TO bring abe 1T interna-
tional bimetallism. The people who are
complaining that these pledges are be-
ing carried out ought to realize that q
failure to keep them would not only
be bad faith but bad policy as well.
LET CONGRESS ALONE
Riverside Enterprise: There is no
occasion to become excited over the
tariff bill as it stands. It is practically
certain never to become q law in it's
present shape The Dingley bill has
been riddled and raveled out of all re-
semblance to itself The Senate sub
committees substitute is destined to be
riddled and raveled in the same way
in many respects in the Senate. Then
there is the House with "non-concur-
renee" conference committees and the
rest, still further to change the meas
ure before it can become a law
The significant fact is that there is
no working majority" in the two
two houses which is substantially in
| agreement with itself as to what a tar
iff bill ought to be, and there is no
agreement among outsiders directly in
terested in the matter.
GILsONITE BEDS.
San Diego Union: The matter of the
gilsonite beds in Utah, which has oc-
casiOned so much debate in Congress.
is really one of great Importance, out
side of that State. OF late years as
phalt has become very valuable for
street paving in cities. and experts say
that the gilsonite of Utah is not only
| an asphalt but it is superior to that
which is found on the British island Of
Trinidad and which has been regarded
as the best Heretofore the price OF
this commodity has been so high as TO
preclude its general use. If the pro
duct of the Utah gilsonite beds were
brought into the market the cost might
be reduced 30 per cent, and this would
mean a great advantage for cities in
the betterment of streets. The question
whether in opening the Uncompahagre
reservation in Utah. the Government
should lease the gilsonte beds, or in
clude them in the land available for
pre-emption, is the one that has
caused the dispute in Congress- The
matter will come up in the House to-
morrow, when it will attempt to finish
the Indian appropriation bin.
SPEAKER REED.
Woodland Democrat: Republican
papers are paying Speaker Reed the
compliment of saying that in the game
of repartee he is equal to Mr.. Blaine
Nothing occurred during his rather
tame tilt with Jerry Simpson that en-
titles him TO any such distinction.
WHICH Is HE?
Oakland Enquirer: The unspeaka-
! BILE Turk has made up his mind that he
must have not only a war indemnity
but also a part of the territory of
Greece. but the presumption is that he
received some prompting by Russia or
Germany before he made that demand
This affords Lord Salisbury a fine
chance to show whether he is a man
or a mouse II he is a mouse he will
acquiesce in the Turkish demand. but
| if he is man he will not We shall
soon see whether he is a grand old man
| or a grand old funk
| THEOSOPHy