The record-union., 1899-04-18
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Interest.

/ II tC1 SsSe
Stockton Record: The issue of So
cialism is one that the politicians must
reckon with in the immediate future.
1t may not assume formidable proper
lions in the next Presidential election,
| but that it will be factor in the con-
test is undoubted. The Socialist-Labor
party had a ticket in the field at the
| Rhode Island election Wednesday and
the brief press dispatches state signii-
cantly that the Socialist vote was large
in the cities and mining towns. The
Socialists have ticket in the field for
the coming election in Stockton, and it
seems likely that they will poll d fairly
! large vote
THE PARIS COMMIsIONERSHIP.
! Yreka Journal: Governor Gage is
likely to appoint William H. Mills as
! Commissioner for California at the
Paris worlds fair next year. Mr.. Mills
is certainly one Of the best men in the
State for the position, as he is we'll ac-
quainted with all orr resources and ca
pabilities in. every Industrial branch.
and possesses the requisite energy to
leave nothing undone in showing them
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worker for years past in bringing de-
sirable Immigration and capital to our
State, and is well posted ia all the
branches of agriculture and fruit cult
ure, all the various kinds of mining for
gold, silver, iron, copper, cinnabar, etc,
numbering, stock raising and various
branches of manufacturing. Mr.. Mills
has thorough practical knowledge
from personal experience of many years
past.
LIQUID AIR
Los Angeles Herald: There is good
reason to believe that the most Won
derful and likewise the most useful of
all discoveries will develop in the near
| future. When Professor DeWar first
exhibited his laboratory experiments in
| liquefying air they We're received with
about equal parts of amazement and in
credulity. English scientists We're very
| tardy in expressing opinions about
them. Exhaustive investigation soon
demonstrated, however, that the profess
sor had really made a marvellous dis
covery. But while the scientific world
| accepted it as something wonderful its
practical utility was not thought of. It
was regarded as about on e level with
| the discovery of argon as a distinct
| element in the air. 1t remained for Pro-
fessor Tripler of New York to advance
| Dewar's discovery to a point at least
bordering on utility. The laboratory
experiments of Dewar are mere curiosi
ties compared with the amazing
achievements of Tripler. 1t is not yet
known what the practical possibilities
are, and both scientists and the public
/ generally are on the tiptoe of expecta-
ton while waiting developments While
| it is not wise to assume at present that
liquid air is the foundation of the. great
mechanical power of the future, it is
not rash TO say that appearances
strongly indicate it. Steam, electricity
! and compressed air will be discarded
for liquid air power in the near future,
if we may judge from results obtained
| by Tripler's experiments. The other
wonders to which we referred will prob
| ably be FASTENED by Tripler's work. We
| allude' to the airship and the submarine
boat. The feasibility of aerial naviga-
| ton is attested by Professor Langley
of the Smithsonian Institution. Profess
| sor Bell, the telephone inventor; Maxim
| the inventor of the rapid fire gun, and
many other scientific experimenters. 1t
is conceded that the coming air ship
will be an aeroplane, which is a radical
departure from any gas bag device. The
only material difficulty encountered, III
experiments with the aeroplane, relates
to the weight of machinery necessary
to propel it. 1t looks as if Tripler's dis
coveries might solve that problem.
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT AND
AGRICULTURE.
Colusa Sun: When the farmers
prosper everything prospers and moth
ing prospers in this country without the
farm. On the crop outlook the South
ern Pacific has ordered 1900 cars and
thirty-six locomotives built. The shops
at Sacramento are full of man and it
is said that in a short time the men
will work overtime and of course re-
ceive extra pay All this is not sim
ply for the purpose of moving the grain
crop. but for the increased traffic in the
thousand and one business operations
that grow out of good crops There is
an impetus given all around And yet
some one will claim that it is all BE-
cause an extra tax has been put on
the production of the country! When
it is so we'll known that the prosperity
of the cities depend on the farm in al
most every branch, it would seem that
promoting the well-being of the farm
The men of the cities ought to do all
in their power to promote the irriga-
ton Of the more arid lands and the
| drainage of the low lands-ought to in
| terest themselves in keeping every
young man on the farm. 1t not only
helps them with their business, but it
helps them with the government of the
cities No city of a quarter of mil
lion of inhabitants can govern itself,
and it is to the Independent yeomanry
| of the country that republican form
of government must look for its exls-
tence The true statesman and patriot
will busy himself with promoting the
prosperity of the farm, for when that
prospers all other things follows.
MIR. BRYAN AND THE PHILIP
PINES.
Los Angeles Times: Mr. Bryan and
| every man of intelligence knows that
the operations of our troops in the Phil
| ippines have not been conducted Sin or
der to give a few spectators an oppor-
tunity for exploitation" He knows that
there is neither disposition nor intention
| to stife any sentiments of liberty in
the Philippines, but that it is the
Presidents purpose, rather, to en-
courage and foster such sentiments.
He knows that the F'ilipinos are even
less capable of self government than
are the Cubans, and he is probably
| aware that Cuba has not yet been sur
rendered to the CubanS but that the