The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-04
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
iects of Living News
Interest.

Contra Costa News: The wave of
prosperity has arrived. The Yukon
gold fields the golden harvest from our
farms and the tariff bill are sure evil
dences of prosperity. During the past
week the bank clearances from San
Francisco increased nearly $400O,00O
The croaker has lost his job.
LOOK OUT FOR THEM.
Yreka Journal: A new and danger
Gus imposition is now being practiced
upon the people in the agricultural
communities by the silver-mine owners
and their political allies. The dan
gerous characters who We're hired to
stir up dissatisfaction and SOW the
seeds of anarchism and riot in the cit
les last fail are now being sent through
the country districts for the same pur-
pose. They travel in gaudily paint
ed wagons, bearing false or misleading
quotations from distinguished men,
which are into apparent support of the
free coinage of silver, which is now
worth less than one-haf what it was
when these utterances are alleged TO
have been made. To conceal their
real purposes these men profess to be
obtaining subscribers to a free-silver
publication, with which is furnished a
copy of a book by Coin" Harvey
whose writings are now recognized as
not only untruthful and misleading
but purposely and maliciously so and
an imposition upon those before whom
they are placed. This attempt to dis
tribute the seeds of distrust, anarchism,
and riot, in the agricultural commune
ties for the purely selfish purpose of
making a market for the property of
silver mine owners and placing a few
politicians in office deserves the con-
tempt Of those upon whom it is being
imposed.
BEST FEATURE.
Sonoma Farmer: The best feature
about the advance in the price of wheat
this year is that it comes while the
grain is still in the hands of the farm
er and gives him, as well as every one
else handling it, an opportunity for
profit.
ODD
Pasadena Star: Governor Budd has
pardoned a convict sentenced to eight
years Imprisonment IN San Quentin
for robbing the house of M. NJ. Estee,
who was Budd's rival for the Govern
ors chair The odd part about it is,
according to the dispatches, that as far
as the records go, nobody asked for the
pardon. The pardon was issued three
weeks ago but was kept secret.
WHAT REASON.
nnIr 10, &c mol
days since Governor Budd issued the
pardon to Smith, the burglar who broke
into the house of M NJ. Estee, during
the Gubernatorial election in 1894 and
the Governor has made no statement
which indicates a reasonable ground
for the clemency he has exercised in
the interest of Smith The affair is,
to say the least a very singular one.
Smith was convicted on positive testi-
mony and was sentenced to serve eight
years in prison. Apparently no rea-
son whatever, other than politics, ex-
listed for the pardon Of this criminal,
and the theory which some of the San
Francisco papers are putting forth,
that Smith was pardoned because he
is a nephew of Boss Rainey, will prob
ably go into history as a correct one.
But what politss for the Governor of
a great State to dabble in, Politics
which reaches down into the prisons
and relieves felons of merited atone
ment for the crimes, in order that a
Governor may become a United States
Senator!
ADVERTISING.
San Bernardino Times Index: Two
hundred million dollars We're spent last
year for advertising in the United
| States. If advertising did not pay,
| this vast sum would not have been
spent The bulk of it was done by
large, able, shrewd dealers and mer-
chants who achieved success by means
of advertising. Advertising is a ne
it is not, think so to their own detri-
ment and ruin. Whenever a man has
something that somebody else wants
or wants what somebody else has, it
pays to advertise. Judicious advertis-
ing is the life of trade.
THE AFTERMATH TO HEAR FROM
Sission Mirror: The number of men
who come home disappointed, disguised
and broken from the Klondyke mining
region in a few months will be in ex-
act proportion to the number who rush
thither this fall expecting to acquire
fabulous wealth for the mere taking
The rush to California in a past era
involved relatively little hardship, as