The record-union., 1897-12-14

thize with young man Who mas Killed
lanother to ayenge a sisters wrong; but
when it comes to approving iynchlng
as brutal as that of Tuesday, they
draw the line. and we are glad they Go.
There was no doubt of Ubert's punish
ment if the law had been left to deal
with him, but his personal friends
wanted the pleasure of executing Ven
geance with their own hands. This is
savagery, and it should not be toler-
ated for a moment in a community
claiming TO be civilized
A QUESTION OF METHODS.
Alameda Argus: We haven't much
faith in the proposal to send out cir
culars and equip an advertising car to
induce people to come TO San Francisco
to outfit for the Alaskan country. That
sort of advertising is effective for some
purposes. but it is doubtful if it will
avail for this purpose. What would be
effective would be to have it under
stood that San Francisco is a big, hos
pitabie place. whose merchants are
liberal and square, and whose goods
are honest. the best obtainable any
whera, and as cheap as they can be
had The general reputation of a place
is always taken account OF by the man
who wants to buy. If it is good he will
put himself out to patronize it. But
he will not be lured very far or very
hard by poster
CUBAN CONDITIONS.
San Jose Herald: Really these Cuban
insurgents are very uncomfortable peo-
pie for Spain to deal with. Just at
the time she is talking about giving
them the right to govern themselves.
provided they will do it in the way she
wants them to, they are proceeding to
do it entirely in their own way without
any difference to her wishes. They are
taking possession of towns and max
ing public declarations that all they
want Of Spain is to be let alone Mean
while President Mckinley preserves a
mastery inactivity, and Congress is
showing symptoms of having been
pulled down by Wall street; that is the
Republican part of it.
DOES FARMING PAY?
Santa Rosa Republican: Assuredly
grain growing does pay and pay hand
somely in the good year 1897. At the
present price of this cereal the wheat
of an eishty-acre farm, with land value
the land itself, and a little is left to pay
for the house and barn.
Fruit growing is not a losing propo-
sition this year The Santa Rosa
banks have a million white and yellow
dollars on deposit at this time, much of
which is in custody for the fruit
grower.
Hops didn't ruin any growers this
season. Sonoma County produced H.
900 bales. Figure the value at II cents
pound, and deduct cents a pound
for cost of production, and the profits
run we'll into the six figures.
Does wool growing pay in Sonoma
County in these fin de steele times?
Ask the sheep that gathered around the
hall when Congressman Barham de-
livered his tariff talk up in the hills
a year or so ago. Ask these sheep
who "baa ed" their disgust at the re-
suit of the Wilson bill. Have grape
growing, hay farming and stock-rais-
ing paid? The calamity howlers van
ish into the air and no reply is vouch-
safed.
SATISFACTORY.
Riverside Press: The operations of the
tariff law during the four months since
Congress placed it upon the statute
books and left it to begin it's career in
the face of adverse conditions have
been very satisfactory. With a hun
dred million dollars worth of surplus
foreign importations upon the markets
of the country, the conditions in which
it entered upon it's work Were of
course, extremely urfavorable In the
face of that fact however itS aarn-
ings have steadily increased begin
ming with little over S19, 100000 in
it's first month, and now reaching more
than S25, ,O00, 900 in November.