The record-union., 1897-10-21


last and best of all we are here 800
days in the year to correct errors. That
we cannot afford to bunco our custo-
mers for a days trade. That with US
it's money back and no misrepresenta-
ton.
Then it is that the relevancy of the
newspaper to the community's welfare
becomes apparent. its offices are in
voked and it jumps into the breach and
disseminating gratis information that
should years ago have been drummed
into the public by proper advertising,
carries the day for home and the home
merchant.
The entire secret of keeping the home
| trade OF home lies in proper utili-
zation of the columns of the home
newspaper in connection with other
wise proper business practices.
THE CISNEROS CASE.
Grass Valley Union: Now that the
! ''persecuted Cuban maiden Evangeli-
ma Cisenros, is safely on American soil,
the escape from prison having been
planned and carried out by the repre-
! sentatives of two large papers. has it
struck the average thinking man or
woman that the lawless act of Mr. Du-
val might involve this country into a
war costing thousands of precious hu-
man lives and billions of money? They
would have committed murder, these
highlypaid knight Grants, to carry
out their plans If they, however, had
been shot down by the prison guards
this country would never have bothered
about their fate. This Cuban girl, in
the iirst place, was in prison on Sc
rious charge. She tried to lure the
Governor to her place to have him as
sassinated there. Had she succeeded
she would have been more guilty Of
cowardly murder than the man who
actually struck the blow The halo
of romance thrown around her led
many prominent ladies of this country
to send petition to the Queen Regent
of Spain for her release.
Consul General Lee, a Southern gen.
tleman and chivalrous soldier, pricked
that romantic bubble Had Evangeli-
ma Cisneros done during our civil war
what she attempted to do in Cuba, it
IS hard to say what would have been
her fate. Mrs. Surrat, at whose house
the plot to assassinte President Lin
coin was hatched. was hanged. To re.
verse the situation. Had at any time,
or should at any time, the correspond
ents of some foreign paper attempt to
rescue a prisoner out of our jails how
quickly would they be shot, hanged or
| lynched.
SALOONS AND POPULATION
Los Angeles Herald: The fact that
| the City Council of Los Angeles has
passed resolution to limit the num-
Der of saloons in the city to 200, or one
to every ol5 Of the population is caus-
ing sighs of envy and exclamations OF
amazement on the part of some of our
esteemed contemporaries up north. The
| Sacramento "Record-Union," for in
| stance, says:
Los Angeles by a recent city CEN
sus established that she has 1913, 900
| population. That city has therefore
declared that the drain of 200 saloons
upon the wages Of industry in a group
of people 103 900 in number or one to
every 515, is all that the people can
stand. How, then is it with San
| Francisco? That city, according to
latest official reports, has one saloon
for every ninety-f four of her population.
If we place the population of Sacra-
mento at $4,000, then we have in this
| city somewhere like one saloon to ev-
cry 176 of population ON the official ba-
sis that there are 1877 saloons, exclu-
sive of beer licenses for restaurants.
Time was when they exceeded that
number by $50. The question that the
statement gives rise to is. Which pro-
ceeds upon the correct idea, Los An
geles ON the one hand, or San Francis
co and Sacramento upon the other?'"
There is no need to institute guess
| ing contest or debating society for the
purpose of answering the question ask
ed by the Record Union Los An
geles is undoubtedly proceeding upon
the correct jdea-' Human happiness,
law and order, temperance, good gov
ernment and good morals, all uphold
the stand taken by the Police Com
| mission of this city.
The saloon element is sufficiently rec
ognized when there is a saloon for ev-
cry 515 men, women and children in
the city Two hundred saloons judi
ciously located in those parts of the
city where such places are permissible,
| are surely enough to satisfy any rea-
sonable amount of thirst.
The Los Angeles Capital cites as
a statement of fact that in 1890, when
the population of the city was $4,000,
less than half what it is now, there
were 22S saloons here. That would
make one saloon to every 220 of pop
ulation. The different proportion can
by no means be a matter of regret.
But why did not the Record Union"
answer it's own pertinent and interest
| ing question, (which has the correct
idea of conducting the saloon business
Los Angeles on the one hand, or San
Francisco and Sacramento on the 9TH
err"