The record-union., 1897-10-12

was u failure, IN View Oh the TACT THAI
the farmers in the United States ex-
ported in August more of their products
than they exported in the correspond
ing month of the two preceding years
combined.
AGAINST THE PEOPLE"
San Jose Mercury: There is no charge
more false, hollow and insfncere than
that which is being continually made
by political demagogues and the dema-
gogic press to the effect that the courts
of this country are under the influence
Of wealth and are against the people.
A few recent decisions illustrating the
falsity of these repeated charges are
cited by the st. Louis "Globe-Demo-
crat'' and, if necessary, many others
could be pointed out. A week or SO
ago Judge Foster of the United states
Court for the District of Kansas, de-
cided that the Kansas City Live STOCK
Exchange is a combination in restraint
Of interstate commerce and violation
of law, also that it is trust and IN con-
fiict with the antitrust law OF 1871.
The United States has brought an ae-
ton against the South Omaha 1--we
Stock Exchange, involving essentially
the same points, and undoubtedly the
decision will be the same. Only lew
months ago the Supreme Court decided
that railroad pooling is illegal, being
in conflict with the antitrust law.
Another case cited is that of Wis
consin Judge who was a candidate for
reelection and who, having been crit
icised by a local paper, hauled the edl-
tor before him, found him guilty of con-
tempt of court and sentenced him 10
thirty days Imprisonment. The editor
appealed to the Supreme Court Oh the
State, which body, in rendering
decision in favor of the editor, said:
TT must be a grievous and mighty ne
cessity which will justify so arbitrary
a proceeding whereby a candidate for
office becomes the accuser, judge ana
| jury, and may within few hours sum-
marily punish his critic by imprlson-
ment. The result Of such doctrine is
that all unfavorable criticism of a sit
ting Judges past official conduct can
be at once stopped by the Judge him
self, or if not stopped can be punished
/ by Imprisonment. If there can be any
more effectual way to gag the press and
subyert freedom of speech we do not
know where to find it,
AS the "Globe-Democrat" says, these
decisions, and many similar ones, show
that popular rights are endangered
neither by the entertainments of trusts
or combinations nor by the arbitrary
action of men who interpret or admin
| lister the laws. Popular rights are de-
Tended and not menaced by the courts.
Reasonable persons are satisfied on the
point. The government by injunction
pretense, under cover of which the
courts are indiscriminately assailed,
will, when examined, also be found to
be wise exercise of power"
THE BLIGHT OF SELFISHNESS.
| Marysville Appeal: Individual selfish
ness is the frost that kills the roots and
blights the blossoms of friendship. Or
ganized selfishness is the bane of socie-
ty. Friendship is the condition of civil
| ization. Barbarism is based upon self
love. In rejecting upon the deep sea
of selfshness that has surrounded
mankind, we perceive that no line is
| long enough to measure the depth of
it's cruelty, moraliZes the Wool Rec
| ord
| History resounds with clanking chains
and dying groans. Force has ruled the
world with an iron hand. From the re-
hottest to the most recent events in his
tory the really shocking incidents and
spectacles have not been seen where
pestilence, or flood, or earthquake OF
famine came, but where man made
| o1o ID,,t
with every instrument and agency of
oppression, persecution and destruction
Man has been worse foe to man than
| have all the beasts of the forests and
all the storms, famine and plaques in
nature.
THE MAN WHO MINES.
Ell Dorado Republican 1t is a curious
fact that in mining, and particularly in
quartz mining, most men seem to aban-
don entirely those economical business
habits and principles that usually di-
rect their movements in other ven
| lures. If a man expects to farm, he
will lovingly squeeze every nickel he
| invests and will refuse to let go of it
till he has calculated the results and
provided against any waste or unne-
cessary loss. If he enters into manu-
featuring or commercial business his
plans are all carefully laid in advance
he prudently limits expenses, he looks
for the most experienced and efficient
management, and, to use popular ex-
preston, he makes every edge cut
that his business may in the end show
a profit. In all these ventures he seems
to comprehend that the difference be-
volved in what he saves by careful and
prudent management or in what he
| wastes by lax control and extrava-
gance. In mining it all seems different
and if we may judge accurately from
| the methods of many who invest il
mines, they seem to believe in the ex-
| istence of some patron saint or deity
who presides over mining to protect
those who engage in it from the disas-
trous consequences of their own foolish
conduct. The prudence men display il
ordinary business is in mining ex.
changed for recklessness; thrift give:
away to lavish expenditure; business
Judgment and foresight are abandoned
for mere plunging that is fit only fol
the devotees at a faro bank
DRAW COMPARISONS.
Marysville Appeal: The sixty days
since the enactment Of the Dingley law
are in marked contrast with the cor
responding period of the first year OF
Cleveiand's administration. During ths
sixty days from July 10Th, to Septem.
Der 20, 1893. banks were closing theil
doors. business houses suspending
manufacturers putting up their shut
tiers everywhere. while during the sixty
das following the enactment of tbs
Dirrlky Ia " the l,a MI re arr,O,,r,c.ir