The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06

long ago were justice administered in
this country as it should be. The delays
in this case have already become scan
dial, and anything further in that line
will but add to the enormity of it. Mr..
Worden should meet his just deserts,
that the crime of murder may be made
odious.
WHICH IS IT?
Kern Echo: You said last year, did
you not, dear dying Popocrat, that
wheat was low because money to buy
it with was scarce? That it was not
overproduction, but underconsumption
caused by the paucity of spondulix-
What do you think now? Is it idle mints
Or empty granaries that set the price
of grain?
DEBS AND FREE SPEECH
San Diego Union The violent and in
cendiary utterances of Eugene Debs at
the st. Louis labor conference last Tues
day, were as fragrant an abuse of the
right of free speech as has ever been
perpetrated in this country. The words
of the agitator were simply revolu-
tionary appeal, whose obvious purpose
was to infiame his hearers with an I'M
holy desire to overthrow the Govern
ment of the United States. The ideas
that he advanced were as pernicious as
the rabid utteranees of Herr Most, or
any other foreigner who has attempted
an anarchist propaganda in this coun-
try. The question that is now pressing
| for answer is, Shall DebS and his fol-
lowers be permitted to continue to urge
people that it is their privilege and duty
to defy the law and to overthrow the
authority OF Congress- the Supreme
Court, and the Federal Government it
self?
It is true that the right of free speech
is among the most cherished privileges
of the American citizen. The founders
of this Republic were very careful to
throw all proper safeguards around the
privilege of every person to discuss
public affairs. 1t was not designed,
however, that freedom of speech should
ever be permitted to become a mere IL
cense to incite men to acts of violence.
Obedience to the law is quite as much
a fundamental principle of this Repub-
lie as freedom of speech, and when
men abuse the latter to the extent OF
urging violation of the former their Of
Tense, from a moral standpoint at least,
is treason. The constitutional guaran-
| tee of freedom of speech never contem-
plated that this right should be en-
ployed for the purpose of subverting
the Government The Constitution of
the United States furnishes no weapon
for those who would assail the very
structure of the Republic.
WHEAT AND SILVER.
Tulare Register: Yes dear brother, if
wheat ever again gets to be as cheap as
it has been and if silver ever commands
better price than it now does the old
time parity between silver and wheat
will be restored in some measure, but
if these contingencies do not eventuate
there will never be any parity between
silver and wheat any more You
have wasted columns after columns of
your invaluable space to demonstrate
the above self-evident fact and would
better spend your time and undoubted
talents in writing obituaries of the
political deaths of those who still harp
Oh a string that people are tired of,
the sound of which is no longer music
to their ears Respectfully referred
to Brother Francis of the Stockton
Mail"
TO GE.T RID OF BERMUDA GRASS.
Pasadena Star: The Santa Ana
BLADE" has this bit of pleasantly
which may be true:
IAN esteemed correspondent wishes
to know a good way to get rid of
Bermuda grass. The only certain re-
ceipt on file with the agricultural edi-
tor is to move about a mile from the
infested spot
But in the STARS" judgment there is
a possible remedy which is at least
worth trying 1t is this: Wet the sod
thoroughly SO that any roots will easily
pull through it. Then cut into pieces
conv epient for turning over. Then,
from the back or under side, catch
hold of the roots of the Bermuda grass
and pull it through from the under side.
It's roots running deep down, this will
be easily accomplished, and will be
much more efficacious than trying to
pull it through from the top. A good
help TO this process viii be found on
raking the top, before turning over,
with a sharp toothed steel rake, which
will catch up all the surface roots and
latarals of the Bermuda, and, pulling
them loose, make the plant so much
easier of being pulled through to the
opposite side. In this way it will be
practicable to rid a gwen piece of the
pest. Whether it remains clear of it
viii denend upon the care your neigh
bors take-that is, whether seed or
roots from their place is likely to come
from them to you.
SHE WILL FIND OUT.
Stockton Independent: What a vast
amount Of milk of human kindness has
been spilled by Consul-GeneraI Lee in
his exposure of the Cisneros craze. Not
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