The record-union., 1897-08-13

hear the increasing hum of busy in
dustry; never chronicles the reopenin
OF a mill or a factory. nor makes note
of Improvement in trade. But, let
strike occur, a bank fail or factory shut
down. and it is given with all the une-
ton of a sweet morsal; with big black
headlines and double-leaded plea type.
GIVE THE BOYS A CHANCE.
Los Angeles Times: Now that the
military comapnies are going into camp
it is to be hoped that employers are gen
erously giving .'the boys" a chance to
turn out and perform the duties of a
soldier 1t is important TO the tSate
that the young men of the National
Guard should be given an opportunity
to get soldierly instruction, and their
employers should cooperate to that end
with a cheerful spirit. There is war
talk all along the line, and while hostili-
ties are not imminent, it is we'll that our
young men should be given a chance to
acquire such knowledge of real service
as is afforded by these annual midsum-
mer encampments, where the routine
of life in the field is encountered. Give
the boys a vacation-it will be a good
thing all around.
GOOD FROM EVIL.
Pasadena Star: Good from evil has
rarely been better Illustrated than in
the mining experience of the last few
years. Hard times and the demonetiza-
tion of silver have forced men into the
search for gold with the results that
vast new territory have been added to
the known area of mineral wealth, pro
fitable employment given to a multitude
of people, and millions of money sent
forth to enrich all the arteries of COM
merce. This would scarcely have hap
pened if everybody had been contentedly
employed at home, and while hard times
| is a pretty dear price, the reward is
worth it.
TWO KINDS OF FOOLS.
Stockton Independent: Those too
previous souls who chatter about the
Americans in the Klondil1e region re-
belling against Canadian regulation and
/ taxation, raising the stars and stripes
and carrying the country over TO the
United States, are silly and bring re-
proach upon the American citizenship.
Sacramento Record Union"
A demurrer to the last clause of this
quotation would be sustained The Uni
ted States, like other countries, have
I their full share of fools, but the pro-
portion is too small to bring reproach
upon American citizenship. They
/ should be balanced against those of
/ British fools who are claiming large
/ slices of Alaska without foundation in
/ right, reason or law, burt neither Brit
ain or Canada are to blame for iheir
! chatter.
| RIGHT OF F-GOVERNMENT
/ San Diego Sun: The report that Ha-
waii has given notice excluding the
/ Chinese from those islands may cause
another row over there, but the action
of the Hawaiian Government will gem
orally be approved In this country. and
! the approval will be supported with
/ something more forcible if necessary.
Hawaii has a right to govern itself in
/ its own way, and the least this coun-
| try can do is to see to it that it en-
/ joys that right without fear of threat
/ or harm.
NO LAND LIKE OURS.
/ Santa Rosa Democrat: The annexed
interesting note Is extracted from a re-
port Of Ed. Leake, who has just re-
! turned from an extended tour in the
! Eastern States: Wages are higher and
| farm products are worth more in Cali
/ fornia than they are in any Of the
/ States and Territories we visited dur
/ ing our vacation. This is indfsputable
evidence that the effects of hard times
! have been less felt in California than
! elsewhere and that the State has with
stood the stress of the general stagna-
[
! industries better than any other sec
tion Of the country The wage-worker
who leaves California for the Eastern
and Middle StaIs, with the expectation
of bettering his condition, is guilty of
a stupid piece of folly he will regret as
/ long as he lives. During our trip we
| did not meet a single man or woman
who had ever lived in California who
was not ANXIOUS to return.
BETTER THAN KLONDIKE.
San Francisco Call: The rise in the
! prices of wheat and wool will bring
! to this country more gold than forty
/ Klondikes, and we will not have to
freeze to death striving for it either.
PROSPECT AT HOME.
San Jose Mercury: If the Californf-
an who has an idea of starting for the
Klondike with an outfit and capital to
the extent of $500 would expend the
same supplies and money in carefully
prospecting the foothills of the Sierra
/ Nevada Mountains in this State be
would undergo no hardships, enjoy the
splendid climate and the ordinary COM
forts of life, his means would go four
times as far as they would in Alaska
or the Northwest Territory, and his
chances of striking a rich mine, con-
sidering all the, circumstances, would
be as good as if he were prospecting in
the region of almost perpetual ice and
snow.