The record-union., 1897-07-04

lisbrnen into the heart of the friendly
Roer country. A court of investigate
| into his conduct sat duly. 1t developed
| that certain spectators were going TO
make great money out of African shares
| in a manner some way connected Win
this raid. There were certain kilograms
sent from Africa to London that Wouio
show much light on the matter. Copies
of the kilograms were In existence. Here
| the investigation came dead against d
stone wall and stopped. Gossip saio the
| kilograms would show the Prince Oh
Wales to be among the spectators. Ihe
| kilograms were not produced.
THE HOGS BACK.
;o,usa sun: The NewtoSpn shoa1 IS
the Hogs Back of early days. Inc
steamer Senator, which was an ocean
vessel made regular trips over these
shoals and was never delayed an hour
on account of grounding there When
she got aground she was on shifting
mud. She did not ground except at
the very lowest stage of the TIDE.
Ocean ships drawing as much as three
fatholns of water went over these
shoals without hindrance, except at
very low water, or when the pilot got
changed-and as it was of mud 1t often
changed. Changing of the channei was
one trouble with deep sea vessels. A
hardpan channel does not change. NO
vessel ever got stuck on any hardpan
bottom at that point. The line OF low
water has been raised since that time
Just how much we have not now at
hand. A place in the Sacramento River
hi dot hot a
steamer traffic cannot be called a
shoal. Now on what sort Of evidence
does Mr. Commissioner Manson base
his conclusion that the shoals are
composed of hardpan such as that
upon which the Montezuma hills rest?
1t does make a plain, unscientific man
feel like using cuSs words at such rot.
If we dredge down to the keel Of the
Senator as she glided over these shoals
in 1850 we need not care tinker's
cuss word what is below that That
keel must have been some fifteen feet
below the present bottom of the river.
SEEMS STRANGE.
Oakland Tribune: 1t seems strange
that in country like this where there
are so many vast cattle ranges that
we should have to import hides 1t
in the Senate yesterday that during the
last eleven months the importations at
the New York Custom House were TO-
100000 pounds, of the value Of 81
000, 900. Fresh green hides averaged
about 10 cents a pound and South
American hides about 5 cents.
THAT IS so.
Oakland Enquirer: Prize fighting
amusement if the newspapers would
stop their practice of working up an
article of interest in the bruisers by
reporting all the details of their train
ing and the petty incidents of their
| doings and sayings in a way which
would be nauseating even II it were
applied to a leading statesman or
distinguished author. This daily bull
letin system is now being tried on the
disgusting Sullivan, one of the worst
| brutes who ever beat wife or fell
before bottle, and readers are get
ting very sick of it.
FOR HOME INDUSTRY.
San Jose Mercury: Upon the sue
cess of the home industry movement in
California depends to a very large ex-
tent the prosperity of the State. 1t
polite. to attempt to exclude all classes
of outside products policy of isola-
ton would be absurd and fatal. But
on the other hand it is the part of
wisdom to abandon the long-continued
custom of giving the preference to
Eastern products, regardless of the
quality or the price of the home ar
ticle. Why, for example, should we
jellies and other fruit products when
this State is the greatest fruit section
in the Union, growing an abundance
and an infinite variety of superior
fruits and berries, and when the con-
ditions are so favorable that we should
| not only be supplying our own de-
mands for those goods, but should also
be enabled to manufacture them in
large quantities for other markets.
thus creating and maintaining an in
dustry that would give employment to
thousands of our home people.
So, also, with wooden goods. boots.
shoes and other articles that are made
here. Possibly they cost a little more
than the Eastern goods, but their man
ufacture provides work for a multi
tude of men and women whose en-
ployment is essential to the prosperity
of the community. That California is
backward in respect of manufactures
is due to the thoughtlessness or the
inconsistency of her people, who per
slst in adhering to old customs long af-
ter the conditions which created them
nave passed away. Time was when IT
was necessary to send East for nearly
ever product consumed in this State
Nothing was produced here but cattle
and mustangs, and the army of mon
that crowded into the State after tba
discovery of gold We're too busy min
ing to engage in growing or in manu-
facturing the necessities of life. Later
When a progressive element endeayored
TO build up manufactures at home
to supply the home wants, they found
themselves handicapped by a universal
prejudice against home made goods. so
long had the people been accustomed
to buying goods imported from the
East or from Europe. Then with the
general business depression that struct,
the country four years age came a
hood of cheap goods, including the
products of convict labor in numer-
Gus state Prisons, and instead of
hourlsning, us they should. the manu-
factories in California have been strug-
gllng to maintain a bare existence.