The record-union., 1897-05-24

9o ~ per udy, aIlu the idiS INDY pS
low, considering the accommodations
extended. One newspaper may charge
So 80, 81 80 or 80 cents square for
given period, and the rate may rest en-
tirely on the value Of the space occu-
pied, and another paper may charge 40
cents for the same amount of space,
and yet charge out of all proportion to
the service rendered.
PROTECTION IN THE SOUTH.
San Bernardino Sun: The growth of
the protective sentiment in the South,
which was clearly shown by the fact
that over thirty Southern votes were
cast for the Dingley bill in the House,
will be again emphasized when the
votes for the bill in the Senate are
counted. At least five Southern votes
will be in favor of the bill in the Sen
ate, one of them by Democrat who
announced before his election that he
should vote for protective tariff.
When it is considered that every one of
these five Southern Senator's who will
support the protective tariff bill sue
ceeded men who voted for the free
trade law now upon the statute books,
the growth of the protective sentiment
in that section will be recognized.
in that section vii be recognized.
Twelve months supply of foreign goods
in stock is not a condition likely to en-
courage manufacturers to start their
factories, at least until they know
what the new tariff law is to be.
ALFALFA AND SUCCESS.
Kern Echo: During all the hard
hp n1f fa1 hos C
near to smiling at the ruin around
him as if living on salary out of the
public treasury He has certainly suf
fered less than the banker, lawyer or
any of the others who are supposed
by many to fatten on the sufferings of
the rest.-Los Angeles Express.
This may be true where the market
has been found in large city near at
hand, but it has not been the case in
this section, where stock-raising is
largely the foundation of the alfalfa
business. When wool and beef went
down under the weight of heavy i'm
portations, alfalfa went down, too. But
now that the sheep and cattle-raising
industries are reviving, the hay crops
and pasturage are increasing in de-
mand.
ARE THERE OTHERS?
Alameda Telegram: The people up
about Colfax have been accused of
Puritanism because an ordinance has
been passed prohibiting the local brass
band from playing on Sunday. We
know Of several towns in this State the
inhabitants of which are not certainly
Puritanical, but who would be willing
70 d.
looking to the prohibition of their local
brass bands from playing any day in
the week.
TULARE CANALS.
Tulare Register: Our canal system
has done a great deal for Tulare this
season. The country is getting thor
oughly wet up, and the people are using
the water as far as possible. They
probably make the mistake of putting
on too much, but the system is paying
all that it costs to run it this year and
very large percentage on the cost of
the plant, eXorbitant as that cost was
The taxes are high and a compromise
with the bondholders ought to be made
that would scale both the Indebtedness
and the interest down reasonably but
what would we do without the bitches
and how else, than under the district
system, could these bitches have been
obtained? These are facts that it
stands us in hand to think over. that
there may be less everlasting grum-
bling about the district.
THE REAL BOOMERS.
Oakland Times: The San Francisco
dailies continue to mourn over the free
advertising given to the Atherton wo-
mans latest publication by reason of
the Mechanics Institute Library Di-
rectors having refused to allow the
book to be placed on its shelves, one of
the papers suffering so keenly from it's
distress over this free Advertising
that it cables to Atherton in London
and asks what she thinks about it, to
which a long reply is cabled, at the pa
per's expense, of course, to the effect
that the author casually referred to by
the San Francisco press as "the fair
authOr') is convinced that it's polii-
ical move. No one questions the right
or the duty of the directors of a public
library to exercise discretion and judg-
ment in the selection of books, and to
to throw out those of an Objectionable
is Objectionable on account of its silli-
ness if for no other reason, if the sam
pie extracts printed at length in the
San Francisco press before the library
directors took action in regard to it.
afford true index of its character 1t
is the San Francisco editors and not the
Mechanics Institute Library Directors
who are booming the Atherton woman
and her trashy book.
THE BIG BASIN.
San Jose Mercury: 1t is to be hoped
that the press of the State will see the
merit of the proposition recently re-
viyed by the Santa Cruz Surf TO pur-
chase the magnificent redwood forest
known as the Big Basin for a public
park. 1t is directly in line with the
modern policy of forest reservation and
it possesses a value as a measure of
practical utility in addition to the per-
feet adaptation of the forest for use as
the peoples health and pleasure resort.
The splendid redwood forests of Cali
fornia are rapidly disappearing, and all
legitimate means should be used to
prevent their total extinction. The pres
ervation of the great sequoias has been
| undertaken by the National Govern
ment, and the extreme park set apart
in the Sierra Nevada Mountains is
carefully guarded every summer by
| Federal troops. The Governments chief
purpose in setting aside that large sec
( tion of forest was to preserve the trees.
But in the case of the big Basin two
| purposes would be achieved were it
purchased by the State-the trees
would be preserved and the peopIe