The record-union., 1898-02-23
A COMPLIMENT TO OUR CHAMBEf
or COMMERCE.

JeCl.
A COMPLIMENT TO OUR CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE.
Woodland Democrat: During the per-
iod of industrial depression that has
extended over the last three or four
years we have been impressed with
the idea that Sacramento has been
| less affected than any other city or
town in the State. We have never
made any special effort to ascertain the
reason for this, but suspect that II
careful investigation were made the
| fact would be disclosed that TO the
Chamber of Commerce much credit for
| the progressive spirit and healthy tone
| that pervade the business sentiment of
| the community is due. That body IS
always active in supporting and en-
couraSng every legitimate enterprise,
public or private that has for its pur-
| pose the development of the resources
of every section of the State that has
industrial and commercial relations
with Sacramento. The gentlemen COM
| posing the chamber are progressive, en-
| ergetic and public-spirted citizens who
| deal with public questions in an in
| telligent way and who lose no oppor
tunity to advance the material interests
of Sacramento and incidentally of the
whole State If there existed in every
county such an organization California
would not be long in entering upon a
new era of prosperity.
GOOD JUDGMENT.
| Santa Cruz Sentinel: Chairman Ding
| ley and his Republican associates in
Congress showed their good judgment
| by ignoring the threats, expressed or
| implied, of the various countries which
made protests against the Dingley tar
if during its discussion. Not only have
those countries bought more from us
since the enactment of the Dingley
law than they did in the corresponding
months of the preceding year, but Ar
| gentina, from which a particularly vig-
orous protest came against the imposi
| ton Of duties on her wool, hides and
other articles, has just put new tariff
| law upon her statute books in which
she neglects to carry out any of the
| threats of retaliation or discrimination
which were promised in case those fea-
lures of the Dingley law were placed
upon our statute books.
THEN AND NOW.
Los Angeles Express: Take a file
of the daily papers and look up the
Saturday issues of two or three years
ago, when the wonderful Tariff Act
made for deficits only by Professor Will
son was in force, and lay the CONNER
cial pages side by side with those of
the present time. 1t is a study which
will do a great many people good. The
! men who never read these pages of the
No
contempt for facts, but a solemn rever-
ence fcr tne-spun theories, go on howl
ing, Calamity Calamity" now just
as they did then. By their reckonings
hard times ought to be here, and they,
therefore, aver they are here.
In the old days the bank returns week
by week showed a great falling off IN
the use of money as compared WITH
two or three years previous to that
date, when the Mckinley Act was in
force. Money was piled up in the
| banks, some weeks to the amount Of
| S60,o0O,0O0 No one had any use for
money. Rolling mills were closed and
WOODEN mills We're shut down. The
farmers did not want pig iron nor wool
| and there We're no pay rolls to make
| provision for. The decrease" columns
| of the bank returns were fat with de-
| ficits. The mercantile reports of week
following week told of more factories
closed, and the only movement Of
money was that of sending gold across
the Atlantic to pay for goods made in
England and sold to the few Ameri-
| cans, who We're able to buy anything
at all. Just year ago. here in Los
Angeles, we We're busy getting money
subscribed TO, put hungry, Idle men to
work i'll the park.
WON'T FUSE.
San Bernardino Times Index: The
Highland Populist Club has adopted
some red-hot resolutions against fusion
which will make the office-seeking
Democrats sweat blood.
Thay Indignantly refuse to permit
unauthorized persons to trade with the
| birthright of the Peoples Party for a
mess Of pottage,' even though it be
cooked in silver pot, free of charge,
| in Democratic kitchen and favored
with few petty county officers.
They call attention to how the Peo-
/ pies Party was seriously injured by
fusion with party which betrayed the
trust reposed in it so shamefully as to
defeat the election of Bryan for Presi-
dent, and to give the plutocracy an
overwhelming mapority in Congress"
They refer to the Populist as the lamb
and the Democrat as the lion and say:
THE Ion and the lamb never lie down
/ together in modern politics, except
when the lamb is inside the lion." The
Populist lamb don't propose to be found
| inside the Democratic lion.
They finally clinch the matter when
they say: "All Populists worthy of the
name look with distrust upon any pro-
posed alliance which has no firmer basis
| for unity than a division Of officers and
spoils''
STOP AND THINK
| Sutter Farmer: A great howl went
up when the reports came recently that
Germany had refused to admit diseased
apples from America to that country.
| Ii the howlers would stop to think a
moment of the Importance of proper
quarantine laws in this line they might
| find that Germany has good and legal
right to stop all kinds of fruits from
| going there if the said fruits are in
any way diseased. The lax quarantine
| laws of this country have cost the fruit
/ growers of California hundreds of
| thousands OF dollars, and the numerous
pests and diseases that they are now
! fighting is one of the legacies of i'm
portations of foreign fruits and trees
| that Were diseased or infested with
pests.
THE WAR SPIRIT.
| Fresno Republican,: Judging from
| local sentiment the voice of the Amer