The record-union., 1899-10-31

prove they rallied at the prosperity
howlers'' and denied that there was any
improvement as long as they could look
prosperity brazenly in the face and
deny it's own existence, but when they
could do that no longer they reluctant
ly admitted that times are good but de-
clare it is all due to big crops and not
at all to a restored confidence born OF
new tariff and prudent administra-
ton of affairs. Verify, though the
truth were written on the heavens in
scroll these doubling Bryanites would
not believe.
OLIVE GROWING.
Oakland Enquirer: 1t is supposed by
most persons that the growing of olives
is one of the successful fruit industries
of the State, but the Pomona Times"
asserts that it has been a grand failure
in Southern California. The nursery
men there are still selling olive trees,
but it is hard to find an orchardist who
will say that olives have been a COM
mercial success. Some of them were so
enthusiastic over olive culture about
ten years ago that they pulled up fine
vineyards to put in olives, but have
| failed to make the trees pay, and now
! they are proposing to change back TO
! vineyards, or else plant some other
! fruit. In other countries the olive Is
| planted very largely on land which
| otherwise would be waste, and it may
| be found that that is the best way to
grow olives in this State. If the olive
crop does not pay on land worth from
! $3.50 to $3.50 per acre, in choice fruit
sections, it might be different on land
worth from So to $50 per acre.
THE ORANGE FREE STATE.
Los Angeles Times: It has been evil
dent from the beginning that the Or
ange Free State made grave mistake
| in joining forces with the Transvaal
in the latter's hopeless warfare against
Great Britain. The result will be, as a.
matter of course, the ultimate absorp-
ton of the Orange Free State by En-
gland, along with the Transvaal, when
| the war ends, as it will surely end,
with victory for the English arm. Had
| the Free State seen fit to remain neu-
trial. it's neutrality would have been re-
spected by both combatants, and the
| independence of the little republic
might have been preserved indefinitely.
This independence was fully as
| sured up to the time when the two
Dutch republics formed a federation
which virtually made them allies in
case of war. The Orange Free State
mortgaged away it's independence when
it allied itself, for better or for worse,
to Paul Kruger's alleged republic. The
present indications are that the union
will be for worse rather than for bet
ter, so far, at least, as the matter of
independence is concerned. But there
is this saving clause in the situation,
that after war is over, and the names
of Orange and Transvaal have been
blotted from the map, the people of
both these little republics may, if they
will, enjoy the benefits of the liberal
and just and free government which
other colonial dependencies of Great
Britain enjoy; SO that, after all, the
war may not prove an unmixed evil
for the Orange Free State.
OLD ENGLAND'S WAY.
Marysville Appeal: The English Gov
ernment, seeing that the sensational
papers of London proposed to pattern
after the yellow journals Of the United
States and publish what war news they
saw fit, with variations; Indifferent to
the laid and comfort" such unpatriotic
actions would necessarily give the
enemy, promptly put in force the
strictest of press censorships, issuing
frequent bulletins from the War Of
flee for the benefit of the public and
thereby shutting off all chance of the
mongrel sheets making a scoop, or even
getting the regular news first hand.
One can't help experiencing a feeling
Of admiration for Old England, even
while perhaps disappearing of some of
her methods, simply because of the bus
iness-ike manner in which she does
things England is a magnificent ma
tion-essential1y of this world, worldly;
but she makes no bones" of a self
evident fact and proceeds by craft, cum
ming and force to work out her mighty
destiny Indifferent to the i'll will and
: jealousy of the world-and the wrong
she sometimes does.
Her army and navy are superb. Her
soldiers and sailors cannot be surpassed
for discipline and bravery. That charge
of the Kings Rifles and Irish Fusiliers
at Glencoe the other day for splendid
dash, indomitable courage and genuine
heroism was a thing of beauty; an
achievement that will make men of
other nations understand the pride
which an Englishman always feels in
his country and in himself
GOLD PRODUCTION.
: Stockton Record: Unless the African
supply is cut short the worlds gold
production of 1900 will undoubtedly be
more than double that Of 1896. The
director of the United States mint sev-
eral months ago estimated, from the
gold output of the world for 1898, that
the 1900 production would be S40O,
600, 600, but the st. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat' shows that the increase which
he allowed for 1899 has been thus far
this year largely exceeded in the South
African fields and in those Of other
producing localities, and that if the
gains are maintained which have al
ready been shown for 1899 the direc-
tors estimate of $400, 100000 will be a
long way behind the true returns for
1900. The gold production in 1896 was
S202, 100000, and during the campaign
of that year Bryan predicted that the
output would be smaller in 1897 and
would continue to fall off thereafter.
Just the opposite in this prophecy has
resulted. If Mr.. Bryan is the leading
, figure in the coming Presidential cam
{ paign there will doubtless be some in
! teresting deadly parallels" printed of
prophesies of 1896 and their falsifica-
tion in 1900
INCREASE THE ARMY.
Los Angeles Express: Secretary of