The record-union., 1897-11-09


body begrudges him his big crops, his
high prices, nor his generally improved
condition. On the contrary everybody
! rejoiees with him in his prosperity and
INDUCES in the hope that it will be OF
steady and long continuance. This
| however is not founded solely upon un-
selfishness-t this kindly feeling toward
| the man who tickleS the surface o1
mother earth that abundant crops may
come forth. 1t rests, rather, upon the
| belief that upon the prosperity of the
/ farmer largely depends the prosperity
! of the members of every other class OF
citizens. Santa Rosa's business men
| are already feeling the effects of the
! improved financial condition of the
farmers here, which has come solely as
/ a result of natural causes. This was
! evidenced by the very animated trade
the merchants enjoyed Saturday No
yember 25th has been designated as
| Thanksgiving Day and ii is matter OF
sincere congratulatfon to all that when
/ that day arrives the farmers of Sono-
ma County will be in a more happy and
more thankful frame of mind than they
have experienced on several similar &C.
casions And from what has already
| been observed it very naturally follows
/ that there will be others who can APP
proach the Thanksgiving feast with a
smiling countenance.
GIVE THANKS.
| Fresno Republican: In enumeratins
| the various things that We ought to
/ feel thankful for on the particular day
which President Mckinley has decided
| to devote to audible testimonials OF
our good luck, that great man neglects
/ to name the blessing which his Union
! Pacific deal will confer upon a syndi-
cate Of devout millionaires.-The EX-
aminer.
The aforesaid millionaires may have
been put in a thanksgiving frame OF
mind by the fact that they will have tc
pay some twenty odd millions more fol-
the Union Pacific than the Cleveland
Administration had arranged for them
/ to paw, but to a dispassionate and un-
prejudiced onlooker it might seem that
! the people who pay the taxes and
maintain the Government are not alto
gether lacking in substantial reason fol
congratulation.
AN INDIAN CASE.
|
from the Indian Territory is a char
acteristic exhibition of North American
Indian character. John Watka, g
| Creek Indian, who had killed another
| member OF his tribe in a quarrel over
a girl, had been condemned to be exc
| cuted. But before the day set for exc.
cution, he had been allowed his liberty
and Travelled about the country with a
| baseball team, having numberless op-
portunities to escape if he desired to &C
/ SO. On the day of execution Watka
! Travelled alone to the place where he
was to be shot, took his position on
bended knees and waited patiently foI
the bullet which ended his life. This
stoical fortitude would be marvellous
in any other race but it is not extraor-
! dinary in an Indian, which race pos
sesses few virtues, but has those few
in abounding measure. Not a warrior
in the tribe would have failed to con-
denim Watka as a coward had he not
! been prompt to the moment when he
! kept tryst to be shot.
A SENSIBLE VIEW.
San Jose Herald: We notice in oul
morning contemporary to-day a commu-
nication from q prominent fruit grow
er On tie subject of California prefer
| ence for home manufactures. The
writer takes strong ground against any
discrimination and gives substantial
! reasons therefor. He calls attention tC
/ the fact that the fruit growers of Cali
! fornia want the rest of the United
/ States and the world for their market;
that they should support no narrow ex-
/ elusive policy and that if the manu-
/ facturers and producers of California
cannot hold their own against Eastern
competitors who pay freight over 1900
miles, they should learn more economic
methods.
This is just the view that the Her
! ald' has sought to irApress upon the
| people. We do not know whether OF
not our contemporaries correspondent
reads the Herald" If he does we con-
| graduate ourselves that the seed we
have sown has borne fruit; if not we
! congratulate him on finding his, way in
! dependently to a right conclusion.
! OF course the Eastern papers that
| have been belaboring California for set
| ting up an exclusive policy have done
| it under a misapprehension of the real
/ law in the case
WHY NOT?
Bakersfield Californian: There may
/ be newspaper merit in the production
of the horribly brutal face that graced
or disgraced the front page of Satur-
days Examiner" It is surely an H.
lustration of yellow journalism
which the monarch can so well afford
! to dispense with. By the way, why
doesn't some San Francisco paper take
! the side of decency and begin a crusade
| against prize fighting in that city?
| Easily Ascertained.
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