The record-union., 1897-12-10

| ing. Meantime in the morning: Ihe
people of Dawson are starving" In
! the evening: 1.-The people of Dawson
are not starving" Does anybody
know anything about It?
! WILL BE A SUCCESS.
Contra Costa News: Democratic
members of Congress who voted for the
| new tariff law will find no reason to
regret their action when they reach
Washington in December. The treas
ury receipts under the new law nave
now reached such figure that It Is
| perfectly apparent the measure IS 60
| ing to be a success as revenue pro-
ducer. The earnings of the present
month are running at the average rate
| of a million dollars for each business
| day and will be ample for all Govern
| ment expenditures when the increase
which must come after the stock OF tor
| eign wool, sugar and manufactures
now in the country have been con-
sumed is realized.
A GOOD SIGN.
Benic:a New Era There is one thing
very noteworthy, that this year the
country is not looking forward to the
meeting of Congress with any alarm.
| --~~-
kets, Lor trade generally testifies to
any disturbance because of the ap-
proach of the session. The Populist
and Democratic press have done their
best to create a feeling of unrest and
! trepidation, but not the slightest indi-
cation is noticeable that they have at
| all succeeded Financial and Cuban
questions will be before both houses,
i,J< .f vaf ton
of Hawaii, but there is nothing indi-
eating any fear in business circles
that their disposal will effect the pres
ent flattering conditions, and the
steady growth Of confidence and
prosperity.
THE NAVY AND HAYTI.
San Diego Union: From the Euro
pean standpoint the United States navy
| is a rather insignificant affair, and this
fact causes the press of the old world
to speak contemptuously of it some
times. 1t is worthy of note, however,
that the proposal to send the cruiser
Marbl ehead to Hayu seems to have
greatly disturbed the Berlin Govern
ment. OF course the explanation given,
that the vessel goes to Port au
Prince to look after American interests
| can hardly be questioned by the Ger
man Foreign Office, and no doubt it is
strictly true so far as it goes. AT the
same time the prompt dispatch of this
warSnip to the scene of trouble is very
likely to have a soothing effect upon
the German purpose to push matters to
extremes at Hayti.
AN AWAKENING.
Stockton Mail: At last San Francisco
business men seem to have walked to
the fact that next spring will see thou
sands Of people on the way to Alaska
and that these thousands of people will
spend millions Of dollars in some port
on the Pacific Coast. A few men have
had sense enough to see that Seattle,
with its fine railway connections and
it's superb energy, is in fair way to get
the SD, 600, 900 to 100000 trade Of
the goldh hunters. So San Francisco
has begun to move. And the beginning
| is characteristic of the most listless
and silurian lot of shopkeepers on
earth. With all this tremendous stake
at issue. San Francisco has commenced
what the Chronicle with a total lack
of any sense of the ridiculous, describes
an all energetic campaign The
Chronicle" relates that the mer-
chants have combined their forces"
and though '.it is only a few short
weeks since they combined, they have
done wonders.
JUDGE DE HAVEN AND THE
EBANKS CASE.
Stockton Independent: Judge DELAY
en- Of the United States District Court
in San Francisco deserves great credit
for the promptness with which he act
ed in the last Ebanks case. He was not
in the least confused by the attempt to
becloud the case by a web of technical
sophistries and refused to allow an ap-
peal to the Supreme Court from his de-
cision, saying TO do SO would subject
him to reprimand from that tribunal
Now if Ebanhs gets his case again be-
fore the Federal Supreme Court it must
be ny direct application to that court
and on the lawyers who apply for any
writ for that purpose will fall the rep
rimand to which Judge DeHaven re-
fused to subject himself Trffiing with
justice and the courts has gone too far
and been repeated too often.
DON'T WORRY.
Tulare Register: Do not allow your
self to worry about what the coming
season is going to be. 1t will not make
much difference with the season, but
it may make a whole lot of difference
with you. BY taking thought and wor-
rying you may turn black hair white.
but you will be powerless to turn white
hair black and, while gray hairs are
honorable, we like to stave off their
coming to as remote a period as possi-
BILE.
And please do not ask us what the
next season is going to be. We have
not the remotest idea, and neither has
any one else. Be prudent, do not
gamble on the next season more than
you have to, make the best use of
every drop of water you can get, keep
up the little things on the farm and,
what sowing of grain you do, let it be
done well. Then leave the rest to
Providence, at least until March and
April, when the most philosophical of
us viii worry more or less for the
simple reason that we can't help it.
LAWS. LAWS!
Alameda Argus: Lawsl laws, laws!
When a thing doesn't suit man he
wants to have a law passed against it.
The coupon system and all such little
devices to help along trade seem to in
woke the desire on the part of somebody
or other to have law framed to knock
them out. We have too much law. We
have too many petty. flea biting ord-
nances. We don't begin to enforce our
big laws against aggravated wrong
doing, so what is the use of piling up
statutes on minor issues? Most potent,