The record-union., 1899-11-26
GRANGER DEMANDS.

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Stockton Independent: 1t will be op-
served that most of the reforms oe-
manded by the Changers, who represent
perhaps the most intelligent as we'll as
the safest progressive thought among
agriculturists, are quite reasonable.
The rural mail delivery in sections
where the population is not too Sparse
is justified by the experiments already
made. Postal savings banks are iaV-
ored by other classes besides tne
Grangers. The election of United states
Senators by the people is change tnat
is urgently demanded by at least Two
thirds of the people. Any enlargement
of the powers of the Interstate COM
merce Commission would tend to equal
ize rates and prevent eXorpltahl
charges.
The regulation of the sale of shoddy
and adulterated food is in the interest,"
of truth and honesty. There is no rea-
son why the Government should not IN
sist on honest trading and protect the
people against those who resort 10
fraud. The selling of an inferior COM
modify under the name of superior
is the practice that the Changers WISH
to reform. The canal from the lakes
to deep water and the one across MIC
aragua are enterprises that the
Changers demand in common with most
other interests. OF the whole list OF
eleven demands made by the National
Grange the only one that would prob
ably occasion bitter dispute would be
that of revising the schedule OF Federal
salaries. And yet not one OF these
eleven reforms or changes is likely to
be accomplished without years of agita-
ton Lawmakers are very deaf to de-
nlands of change.
CITRUS ADVICE.
The Riverside Press has some sug-
gestions regarding present conditions.
Some speculative orange buyers" says
the paper, "who are anxious for rea-
sons of their own to bear the orange
market, are telling the growers that
Southern California will ship over 1,O0O
cars of holiday fruit and that prices
are sure to rule low. The fact is that
the fruit is coloring slowly and with
the Eastern market as bare as it is of
foreign oranges there seems likely to
be a good demand for all the properly
colored fruit we have to ship. And
it is mighty poor policy to ship fruit
that isn't properly colored."
MONEY IN BEANS.
Fresno Democrat: T. j. Hammond
was thinking of beans when a Demo
crat' reporter walked into his place OF
business. When asked for news he
stated that the price of beans this year
is enough to make a man wonder why
there are not more of them raised.
Why" said Mr. Hammond, "if a man
wants to travel in this part of the coun-
try just now all he needs to do is to put
few beans in his pockets. They'll pay
his way"
The reporter had previously heard OF
they were not the kind that grow on
vines, so this statement was a start
ling one. In order, therefore, to YER
ify it, he asked Mr.. Hammond the
prices of them and was answered that
the Bayou, large white and pink varie-
ties have a jobbing price of 1925 pei
hundred pounds, while small whites are
worth S375.
'Well,'' said the reporter, "I suppose
that with prices as high as that you
can get all the beans you want right in
this county?"
Not at all.'' said the bean dealer.
"Only about twenty tons of beans are
raised in this county, and that isn't a
starter. Most of the beans I sell I get
in San Francisco, for that is the only
place where there are plenty of them,