The record-union., 1895-08-17
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money and as Keen perception of the ad-
vantages of factories as anyone.
FLAX.
| LStockton independent.
| A San Benito County farmer has found
| flax profitable crop in raising it for the
seed alone. His yield was 1.400 pounds
| to the acre and he received 81 80 per Genital
| for it. In the account he does not men
ton the straw, which, as fodder, is equal
to the best hay, and from which an addl-
! tional revenue could be derived. Farm
| animals in the cold Northwest thrive on
] it during the winter without grain rations.
Flax has been found more profitable than
| wheat in Iowa, Nebraska and the Dakotas
| for many years. where it does not bring
SO high price as that reported from San
| Benito. It would be wise experiment
for San joaquin County farmers to try a
crop which will yield S35 per acre and
! leave him fodder that is SO valuable after
the seed is threshed out.
| THANKLEss POSITION.
lEscond1do Times.l
The man who runs the local end of
| country paper learns in due season that
he must not expect even briefly ex expressed
thanks for any of the pleasant things he
| may say about people; he knows to
moral certainty that the slightest error
Will call down maledctions upon his
head. He may give man compliment
ary notice in his paper hundreds of times
and never hear of it, but let him just hint
at some OF the shortcomings of that same
man and he will make lifelong enemy.
| The newspaper man learns not to expect
thanks for the pleasant things he says
about people, and he isn't disappointed.
SACRAMENTO FURNISHES IT NOW.
Healdsburg Tribunel
| Electricity is relieving city horses of
| drudgery, and the agricultural journals
are looking forward to the time when
electric feed wires will reach out to the
farms to do the pumping, threshing,
churning, chopping, lighting, and event
ually the plowing and hoeing. Already
an electric plow has been tested in Ger
many and it is found to perform it's work
we'll. though not quite so cheaply in this
| first experiment as man and horses.
| The farmer in the course of time will
probably have the choice of getting his
electric power from central stations,
neighboring streams or windmills.
When this happens it is likely that there
will be return drift of population from
| the cities to the country.
ENFORCING THE LAW.
Kern County Echo.l
In closing the gambling houses Sheriff
| BorgWardt has undertaken task in
which he should have the support and
cooperation OF every good citizen. The
point at issue is not whether certain
games are harmful to society Or not, but
whether the laws of the State shall be en-
| forced in Kern County. 1t is serious
charge against a community to have it
| heralded abroad that law Is not enforced
| there. 1t is this belief that makes capital
timid about going into Central American
| countries, and the same will become true
| in smaller way in the counties of this
State if similar condition OF things
| should come about.
RESPECT FOR LAW.
Los Angeles Times.l
| There Is not yet that respect for law
! among men which should exist. Men are
slaves to their evil passions, to the greed
of gold and the desire for power. Selfish
ness, like the coils of monstrous SER
| pent, envelops US. 1t blinds men to
| justice and to human needs. 1t pushes
| aside the forces that would civilize and
puts in their place those that would drag
| men down. Civilization, such as works
good to society, must be based upon the
golden rule OF doing as we would be done
| by. This is the cornerstone of human
| advancement, the one foundation for
strength of State and that condition of
| higher civilization to which we aspire.
HYDRAULIC GRAB.
[Sutter County Farmer.
Of the recent plan az contemplated by
/
water power when the proposed dam at
! De Guerre Point is built. the RECORD
! UNION has an able article. Ia the edi-
! torial appears the following paragraph
| Here is a new illustration Of the bad
| morals of hydraulic mining. Its advo-
Gates have neither the sense of justice nor
| the wisdom TO appreciate the raw, garish
| stupidity which this whole scheme dis
| closes. The most incOmprehensible feat
ure of this marvellous transaction Is the
| confession of the parties in interest. II
| the enemies of the construction of re-
straining works had be6n seeking any
| weaponry of annihilation they could not
! have had better one made to hand. The
| prosecution of Il private enterprise for
! private profit has filled the mountain
| streams of California with detritus.
! Those who have been the benefciaries of
! that private profit turn and say, Now
| take care of our debris or it will ruin
| your rivers" AS members of the Legis-
lature they secure the passage of a bill
| appropriating $3.50. 900 for the purpose of
| protecting their neighbors from their
| own unlawful acts; and then they get
upon the highest housetop and loudly
| proclaim that they have appropriated
water power which will be developed by
| the expenditure of this public money
which is worth to them millions of dol
! lars.
COMMUNISTIC IGNORANCE.
Oakland Times.
| We hear the mutterings of communistic
| ignorance, and now and then threats of
| bloody future; but they come from
! class too small at the present time to Gre
| ate alarm. But should their numbers be
swelled by unlimited immigration of the
| ignorant hordes of other lands, the time
may come when the pessimistio prophe-
cies concerning the future of the Repub-
| lio may come to be sad and terrible
reality.
| The wise man foresees the evil and pre-
parss for it. Wisdom should dictate
policy of prevention, and that without
delay. The red schoolhouse can only