The record-union., 1897-11-19
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

proposition that the Government shall
/ do something more than it is now ac
compllshlng in giving the farmers O
the country timely information of croE
prospects in different parts of the
world. Secretary Wilson'S idea is tha
one of the attaches of American En-
baSsleS shall be an expert agriculture
statistician and that a sufficient ap'
preparation shall be made by Congress
| to allow the reports TO be telegraphet
and published without the delays which
] now occur, and which lessen the value
of the intelligence. This is one of the
most practical things which the De
partment of Agriculture has yet pro
| posed.
ON THE YUKON.
Yreka Journal: There is apparently
| chance for enterprising farmers tC
ply their vocation in the valley of the
ui1on. They can raise whatever vii
mature in three months, and there. are
varieties Of wheat and barley, and, o
| course, many vegetables which will dc
this. There is an immense and very
| rich valley open to settlement. Abou
ten feet of the top soil thaWs out dur
ing the summer, and this can be cult
waited. The mosquitoes and flies make
1t impossible for most farm animal:
TO exist during the summer and they
would eat their heads off during The
long winters. The work will have tC
be done with reindeer. The summel
day is about three months long, and
SO is the winter night. There are ne
summer frostS.
OUGHT TO KNOW
San Jose Herald: Gomez and the
other Cuban Generals declare that au-
| tonomy for Cuba would not be worth
the paper it was written on. They
ought to know. They have had exper-
ience with Spain's promises and under
stand just what they are worth Tbs
fact that they expect nothing from au-
| tonomy indicates that the war will &C
on and that the substitution of Blancc
for Weyler will not put the Cuban ques-
tion any nearer settlement Yet it is
perhaps we'll enough for our Govern
ment to give Spain a little time in which
to test her new policy, SO that no one
can say she has not had a fair chance
to settle the matter before we proceed
TO settle it for her.
OOINhANI > CON
Tulare Register: The pious conf
dence that Durrant expresses that GOO
VIII not let him suffer death at the
hands of the hangman would be touch
ing II it We're not so irrational. Grant
ing that he is, as he claims. innocent
why should the good Lord take mar
tlcular paints to save his neck from
the moose when he has suffered tens ot
thousands of innocent persons to perish
on the scaffold or be buried alive? 7,
was the palpa bic fact that the innocent
suHer IN TINS Wosld that caused the He
Drew people to believe in a future life
IL ne is innocent, which is possible bu,
tremendously improbable, he is merely
one victim among millions of the fall.
pIilty of human institutions, and there
IS no help for him. After all wba,
would be the result if the future sho,1ld
uiselose that Durrant is indeed inno-
cent as ne continually protests that he
is' Wouid any jury ever convict of muir.
der IN the first degree again? 1t would
work the practical abolition of capita
punishment in this State. So iustice
oe not defeated in the end what matters
lew weeks more or less of delay.
EARL4 ORANGES.
FRESNO Republican: Porterville is
again in evidence with the first chin.
ment of ripe oranges and the cron II
that locality is being sent to markat
rapidly at good prices. In the King,
River district of this county oranges
are also ready for market and tbs
growers are realizing highly profitable
prices 1or the early-ripening varieties
ihas portion of the San JOAQUIN Val.
icy IS destined to take first place il
proiltable citrus fruit production tn,
carry market is the best market
APPEALS IN CRIMINAL, CASES
STOCKTON Record: Let the people ono.
determine that the jury which inouires
INTO criminals guilt is the highes,
authority, and the hangman is only ar
agent OF that jury and must carry ou-
It's edits within six months after th.
Verdact, and our troubles with s1,nrem.
| technology will be ended. And sbopIf
any court attempt to interfere witt
speedy punishment, it should be suffi.
clent ground for impeachment Az
radical as this reform appears If I,
very little different from that recon-
fnended by Justice Brewer one of the
most original and bfoadest minded
| OF the justices of the United State.
supreme Court. He has publicly ad
! Niseo that appeals should be denied
IN criminal cases-the power of appea
/ taken away. We believe that right
| we oeileve that there should be nc
appeal from the verdict of the Jury
| tnat reprieves should be altoget he1
abolished and that the right of mar.
don should be SO modified that it can.
not be exercised in case of the dAa r.
penalty only when a majority of thu
jury requests it within six months 81
the return of the verdict.
SYSTEMATIC CROP REPORTS
! Bakersfield Echo: The Mckinley Ad.
ministration is entering with apparent
zeal on a most important work
Through the consular service it is try.
| ing to evolve a system of crop reports
covering all countries which will be al
once reliable and beneficial. The chic
wonder is that this has not been un-
dertaken and accomplished before Med.
ern methods of warehousing and ship
ping grain, for instance, afford an easy
and accurate means of ascertainfng al.
most to ton the amount of harvested
wheat and oats and corn in the world
The task of reporting harvest prospects
"a matter of equal Importance with the
amount Of grain on hand-is somewhat
more difficult. but if all nations would
cooperate and bring consular agents
Postmasters and other representatives
of the respective Governments into SER
vice, few years would suffice to evolve
a system of reports that could be re-
lied upon. The result would be of the
greatest Importance to farmers. Just
| now. as the wheat of this country is
ready for the foreign market the cror
in the Snllt herrl Har,aisnharn iS ,raa,,s,, Q,