The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-27
A GOOD SUGGESTION.

A GOOD SOGGESIlON.
Fresno Expositor: A few days ago
William II. Mills of San Francisco gave
an interview to a Call reporter in which
he suggested a project that if carried
out would operate to the great advan-
tage not only of the people of San Fran
cisco but of the producers of the whole
State This is nothing more than the
opening of a free market in that city
where people may take their products
ID sell, and where the city people may
buy.
Mr. Mills instanced potatoes and
grapes and fruits and melons, and
showed how, under such system, men
could market their produce directly to
the consumers and realize handsome
profits. where now they get barely
living, and that with infinite annoyance
and trouble. He showed how the people
of one section could cooperate in the
sale of the produce of their fields and
gardens and have a given space in the
| free public market assigned them
While free market would at once be
! of great benefit to that portion of the
! State that is tributary to San Francisco
| by water, it would be a distinct adVan-
/ tage to places like Fresno in the coming
time when railroad competition will
bring down freights and diversified ag-
ricultural industry here will produce
butter, cheese, eggs and chickens and
| fuits that can, under such conditions,
! find profitable market, instead. as now,
Of having to bring such things here
| from San Francisco.
This project is one that ought to be
carried out, for it is in the interest both
of producer and consumer in facilitat-
ing the exchange of the necessaries of
| life. This is a feature of life in the old
world that would do well transplanted
to America.
GOOD IDEA.
| Los Angeles Times: San Bernardino
and Riverside Counties through the dec
larations of their Boards of Supervisors,
stand ready to cooperate with the
other counties of Southern California
| for the betterment of the system of
highways in this section of the State
| Now let Los Angeles and the other
southern counties fall in line and all
work unitedly for good roads.
| THAT HOME EXPOSITION.
! Oakland Enquirer: The Oakland EX-
! position enterprise is gaining in extent
and momentum at every meeting of
| the committee like SNOWFALL rolling
! down hhl It bids fair to go beyond all
The anticipations of the projectors The
| plan of holding an exhibition in this
! city of the products of home manufact-
urerS has already attracted the atten-
tlon of the press of the State and is
! doing much to correct the impression
! that Oakland is a suburb of San Fran
cisco, and simply nice, quiet place to
| sleep in
Progressive and broad-gauge bust
ness men are quick to see the benefits
which will accrue from such an exhibit
ad to catch the purpose of the affair
which is to bring before purchasers the
variety and character of articles of
Oakland manufacture which may be
purchased in the open market so that
money may be kept in circulation in
the community.
1t has never been the object of the
OK position promoters to simply get up
a sort Of bazaar or midwinter fair on
a small scale, but the purpose has been
the encouragement of the purchase of
home products Few people have any
idea of how many infant industries that
nay be fostered by following the lead
Of these patriotic and progressive Ia
dies Much surprise has been mani
tested at the fact that though the eX-
position is scarcely a week old about
100 local manufacturers have already
applied for space and half have not
been heard from.
THE LAWYERS DUTY.
Colusa Sun: The courts and lawyers
are getting a good drubbing just now
from the pulpit and the press. The
question as to whether or not a lawyer
may defend and try to get clear hard
ened criminal, whether he may take
| the confession of such and still go on
md defeat the ends of justice is being
| closely questioned. The lawyers seem to
be proud of the fact that man without
money may go into court charged with
crime, the court will appoint him an
attorney who will take him out. hear
his story be it a confession or a denial,
and come into court and do his best to
clear him. But if we go a step further
we find that the lawyer on the side of
the prosecution conceiVeS it TO be his
duty 70 convict whether he thinks the
defendant guilty or not; so that we may
have one lawyer prosecuting who be-
iieves in the innocence of the accused
and one defending who knows his client
10 he guilty. But most of the old no.
tiGps such as confidence between
man and his doctor or his preacher or
| his lawyer are founded in common
sense We may never disturb those
| condolences, but the matter of the law
yers duty to society, after he has heard
tie story, is quite another matter. The
| accused sends for a lawyer and makes
| his statement, and it is then the law
! ytr's privilege to take the case or not.
| II appointed by the court and the ac-
cused confesses it is then his duty to
Sc that the proceedings are legal
| nothing more.