The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-02-14
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State and Coast Opinions on Sub
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Interest.

rected two of its members to prepare
a bill on the subject, which can be
used as a basis for future deliberations.
This is a businesslike way TO so about
the matter. and inspires the hope that
the subject may be dealt with as mat
ter Of craftsmanship, and not OF pol-
ties. In that case the favorable eA-
perience of other countries with this
method of encouraging economy among
the people makes ii probable that the
plan will be ultimately adopted in mis-
country. OF course there is no reason
why. if Congress were disposed TO eA-
pedite matters, a postal savings bill
might not pass at this session. The
indications. however, are not very IA
yorable for Immediate action.
WHY NOT?
Oroville Mercury: The San iran
cisco News Letter" asserts that no.
body would take the Hawaiian ISLANDS
as a gift Some years ago both france
and England wanted them very Badly
The English landed and took possession
and the French We're only prevented
from landing by the fact that the Eng
lish were ahead of them 1t would be
interesting to learn why those aequisi-
tive powers wouldn't have Hawaii now.
HARD TO RECONCILE.
MarysvilIe Appeal: How are the free
silver advocates going to patch up their
arguments of 1896 to make them con-
sist with present conditions? They as
sured the farmers at that time that
prices could not advance without an in
crease in the currency through the free
| coinage of silver. Free coinage was
not adopted, yet practically all farm
! products have advanced. Their fire.
| quent assertion in attempting tc ac-
| count for the improved conditions of
| the agricultursts has been that it is
due solely to the fact that there is an
| extraordinary demand abroad tor
American wheat by reason of shortage
| in foreign crops. In this they ignore
the fact that practically every article
produced by the farmer has advanced
| meantime.
| POPULISM AND PLAIN WORDS.
/ Tulare Register: We have been &C
cused, falsely and fraudulently accused,
! of hating Populists. We hate them not
| We are as sorry for them as we are
of those distant cousins in far away
| India smitten to the death with bu-
bonic plague, as sorry as for the lepefs
| Of Hawaii. as sorry as for the hectic
| one-Iungers of the East, as sorry as
for any one afflicted with that tired
feeling" Populism is a mental and
| spiritual disorder, and the afflicted are
worthy of commiseration. No man
afflicted with Populism can ever be
hap2y again. unless he gets Office, or
is cured and goes back to the party
of his 81 cestors. To feel that the whole
world is conspiring against one, That
| every rich man is a robber, that eV-
cry public officer is a private pirate, is
/ only one step short of That deluslon
which Lersuades its victims that enc
mics are on his track seeking his life,
and 50 runs him raving and naked into
the wilderness. 1t is not an .ncurable
malady. Rain will cure It. Not too
much ain so as to make freshet, but
| Just enough to make good crops ard
good times. Fusion scans TO ABSORB II
! ii does not cure it, and it is self-lim-
iting disease and by and by gets tired
and quits of itself Topics dislikes
Populism as heartily as he detests lum-
bago. but he is as sorry for Populists
as he is for himself when in order 10
rise from a sitting posture, he has to
climb a convenient clothes horse. 1t is
a terrible calamity to be like Congress
man Castle who sees in every national
| guardsmen an assassin of the people
hired by murderous plutocracy, and
people should hate the disease, but not
the afflicted.
A GOOD LAW.
Los Angeles Times: Santa Barbara
has a high hat ordinance, and hereafter
when a man goes to the theater in the
zenith city by the great salt sea, he will
be able to look upon something besides
/ a straw stack, a conservatory or min
iature ostrich farm. We manage to get
along very well in Los Angeles without
such a. law. because all the young and
pretty women take off their hats at the
| show, and as all our women are Doth
young and pretty, it is only the occa-
sional homely jay girl VINO blows III
from the ''rooral deestrlcks, and SHOWS
her bad taste and worse breeding IN
blocking a view of the stage by the sur
| fering human being who sits pehlnd her.
JUST SO.
| Los Angeles Herald: 1t is the unanl-
nous opinion of the bosses that this
country would be all right were it not
for the newspapers.
OF WHEAT PROFITS.
/ San Jose Herald: Wheat growing N
the United States is not an artiflclally
protected industry 1t cannot be be-
| cause we depend upon the foreign de-
mand for a market. 1t is true that
we have a duty on wheat, but ike
great many other duties on agricultural
products. it is conceded by the tariff
making power merely as blind to
make political interest III certain agri-
cultural sections The past year has
i witnessed a boom in wheat because we
have had good crops in the United
States while Europe and the exporting
countries have had short crops. SO
we have had things our own way me
result is that the wheat farmers have
had money to pay off their mortgages
and 10 buy what they want, railroads
have been pushed to transport crops,
and this rush of business has reacted
more or less on business in general 1t
has made Europe temporarily our
| debtor, and caused importations OF
gold.
THE OWNING ROD.
Fresno Expositor: While alchemy
has been revived in the United States,
the divining rod has gained a fresh hold
| in England. The mystery of this IN
! strument is explained by Professor NJ
Z. Wadsworth in the Michigan School
of Mines, who has often shown his
classes that if any tough twig fork IS
| grasped with the palms upward, the
| branches entering the clenched hands
from the sides fartherest apart, Inc
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