The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-06

viz: The men who resort to lynch law
because they have been maddened by
some deed of peculiar atrocity COM
mitted in their midst. Such men do not
think Of power, nor do they pause to
ask whether or not the courts will suffi-
GENTLY punish the criminal; they mere
ly feel that the brute should not live
and they yield to the passionate in
stinct which prompts them to put him
out of the way. They do not act as
| logicians, but as the human animal
which defends itself and its kind.
| One need no more than look within
| his own nature to know that this is so.
! Suppose that a little child We're to be
/ outraged by some brute of a man in
this community. There probably is not
a man of us who would not feel within
himself the prompting of the thought,
The fiend should be killed, and
| would like to help do it" We might
not yield to that suggestion, but almost
certainly we would feel it,
A PROOF OF PROSPERITY.
Santa Rosa Democrat: Surely the
fact that S13 100000 of the advance in
sugar stock has taken place within the
! last month is high tribute to the
virtue of Republican legislation. The
| only drawback to general rejoicing over
| this manifest tidal wave of prosperity
| is that while spectators in sugar stock
secured S13 100000, the money to pay
these millions comes out of the pockets
of the people. Tariff protection makes
sugar stock valuable and it also makes
! the poor man contribute his share of
| this tax with every teaspoonful of su
gar which he uses.
OH, MARY!
| Los Angeles Record: Can it be that
designing politicians have lured Mary
E. Lease of Kansas from the pursuit of
the Goyernorship by so tawdry a thing
as the queenship of Topeka's fall festi-
val? OH Mary, Queen of Pops, do you
know where your head is at?
AN OBJECT LESSON.
Pasadena News: Yesterday the
| writer received an offer on some of his
new wheat 1t is just twice what the
same wheat would have been worth at
the same place a year ago. AS the cost
of production is about stationary the
present price yields many time the
profits, for indeed, there We're no pro-
fits at last years price. At the same
time silver continues to go down. Those
tables of Coins Financial School,
quoted by Bryan last summer about
wheat and silver always going up and
down together look rather amusing
these days.
TARIFF DISPUTES.
Riverside Press: The Fresno EXPOS
itor'' says in one breath that ''raisins
4 he az
tion they enjoy" And in the next it
shouts that the Republicans talk of
| celebrating the final passage of the
tariff bill. Rejoice in their shame
For less provocation our forefathers
held the Boston tea-party and lighted
the torch of freedom" We suppose
the exponent of free trade and Democ-
racy in the Fresno raisin district con-
siders it shame" that under the pro-
lection afforded by the Dingley bill
raisins may sell at cents a pound
We wonder if the raisin growers of
Fresno ALSO thing it a shame" Only
recently the 'Expositor'' was extolling
the Democratic leader, A. B. Butler, for
his part in securing the tariff ON raisins
AS an example of consistency, our DEM
ocratic contempary is certainly con-
spicuouse jewel; and the editor ought
to come to our tariff celebration next
Tuesday night and tell the orange grow
ers what a shame" it is that they
should have protection to the extent of
a cent a pound.
WE CAN GET ALONG.
Petaluma Argus: The St. James Ca
zette'' is a respectable English journal
that formerly indicated public opinion
in that country, but of late it seems to
enjoy bluffing at Uncle Sam It says
that Japan's protest against the an
nexation of Hawaii by the United
States means, in European diplomatic
usage, a warning to the United States
tha they must give up their views as
to Hawaii or prepare for war" The
Gazette" further says that the pro-
test does mean just so much in the
mouth of Japan, though the Americans
do not seem to think SO. But they have
such odd ideas of diplomatic language
that they are no great authorities We
can get along tOlerably we'll with or
without annexation, but at the same
time this Government will not be in
fluenced one way or the other by the
threats of Japan or the buster of our
English relatives.
A CHANGE
Riverside Globe: People who talk
about the ar-offness of Hawaii fail to
remember that while Hawaii is four
days distant from San Francisco,
when California was admitted to the
Union it was only reached by an over
land journey lasting months, or six
months at sea around the Horn.
DRIED APRICOT SALES.
San Bernardino Times-Index: The
Fresno Republican" remarks that
there is a suspicion abroad in the land
that a good many dried apricots have
been sold at little more than one-haf
the prices they will bring later in the
season" Should this suspicion prove
well founded, the action of the growers
who have sacrificed their crop will be
A., - Death grin1ly