The record-union., 1899-09-11
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EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
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Interest.

bushelS OF corn this year. Yet the pro-
ducers are not at all fearful of any
great decline in price. They are In
position to hold a considerable bulk of
their crop, if the price offered is not
TO their liking. In some past years
| they have been compelled to sell at any
fgures offered, and burn the residue
because the price realized would not
buy coal; but this year, thanks to the
return or prosperity and a widening
market, they are not SO dependent upon
buyers. This is one of the conditions
that William Jennings Bryan has to
meet IN his contention for a revision
OF the currency that will give the
farmer chance" The farmer is TAX
ing his innings in improved market
conditions and getting his pay for his
products on a gold basis.
DEMOCRATIC ADVICE.
Los Angeles Herald: What means
this news from Manila? ''The insur-
gents have a wholesome respect for the
British on account of several threats
of British war ships to lombard their
towns, unless the rights of British sub
Jects are respected" What! British
war ships destroy American property,
100000 paid to Spaini Along with this
news we get the speech delivered at
Indianapolis by the Presidents close
friend, Senator Fairbanks "By virtue
of the ratification of the treaty with
Spain,' says the Senator, "The posses
sion of the islands passed to the juris-
diction of the United States" And
shall we allow these Britons to buster
4 sah out ~, TO-
to destroy our towns and blow our Fill
pino pepole to kingdom come? Here's
a sure-enough international question.
ambassador Choate should be admon-
ished at once to put coat of rosin on
his hands and proceed to twist the
lions TAIL
DIAMONDS.
Stockton Record: Many people will
learn with surprise that there is a dia-
mond field in the great lake region of
this country. This region, according
to Professor William Fl. Hobbs of the
Madison University, is about 600 miles
in length by 200 miles in width, with
its longer axis trending almost exactly
northwest and southeast, and it en-
braces in all eight localities in Michi-
gan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois and Min
| nesota, where diamonds hMve been
found. Professor Hobbs, in a recent
| number of '"The Journal of Geology"
has an interesting paper giving an ac-
count of the different discoveries of
diamonds in this region to date and
says that seventeen well identified
diamonds, varying in weight from one
half karat to more than p karats,
have been discovered in the region re-
ferred to. The publication of Professor
Hobbs report will probably cause the
farmers and others in the lake region
to carefully examine all the pebbles
they run across, but there is some
| doubt as to their finding gems in sufTi-
cient quantities to make them all mil
lionaires.
A LESSON.
+ Yreka Journal: There is a lesson for
those who believe that America is be-
hind Europe in medical science, or in
anything else, in a cablegram received
several days ago by Surgeon General
Sternberg, from the Director General
of the Army Medical Service of Great
Britain. The cab1egram asked that 300
copies of a United States official pubIi-
cation, entitled Sanitary Lessons of
War" be sent for distribution among
| the medical officers Of the British army,
and if that number of copies could not
be furnished, permission be given to
reprint the pamphlet in London This
cablegram is proof of the newspaper
statement that England is preparing
| for. war with the Transyaal republic,
as we'll as very complimentary to the
medical branch
SHOULD HAVE.
| Tulare Register: There is a lot of
should have" talk going the rounds
now, all being done by Democrats and
relating to- the Philippines. Democrats
always were strong on telling what
should have" been done, but the ques-
| ton is not a should have" affair It
| is should be" proposition and gem
| tlemen discussing the Philippines
| should stick to the question before the
! house: Are we to lick 'em or not lick
| 'em?
THE RAGGED BRETHREN.
| Stockton Mail: Bishop Ninde's sug-
| gestion last Sunday that we try to
solve the tramp problem by treating
! the tramsp as brothers was timely. It
could not have been made more sea-
sonably, as there are virtually no
| II dAilp5 hON. oNiuS 10 the dDuuQdnI
| harvest, which, of course. is due to
| the wise Administration of Mckinley,
/ there are so few able-bodied men out
| of work in the San Joaquin Valley that
our thrifty felloW-citizens who have
| conscientious scruples against paying
| a days wages for a. days work cannot
| get the chores done around their re-
spective residences. Hitherto they have
relied upon the occasional arrival of
| enough to chop the fire-wood or weed
out their door-yards for a meal. more
or less square; but now the wood re-
| mains uncut and the weeds flourish.
If any one would agree to do what
| is necessary for a meal on condition
that he be addressed as brother they
would willingly make the concession
and thank the Bishop for hint The
present scarcity of the tramp should
show our sociologists, who are so fond
Of the tramp question, that the tramp
| question is really the employment ques-
ton, and that the chronic hobo" who
tramps because he likes it and does
not work because he won't, is largely a
creation Of the Constables who make
fees out of distress the railroads that
are averse to extending charity to mon
eyless travellers, and the humorous
artists, who, without their tramp,
would be left with only the mother-in-
law, the ice cream saloon and the Polish
Jew for their stock in trade.
OF SCORCHERS.