The record-union., 1897-07-30

manufacture and the profits of the
manufacturers. 1t seems probable that
the result will be reached through the
recent action of Congress.
THE TARIFF.
San Jose Herald: AS an instance of
the curious ideas of public policy held
by the protectionists We may cite the
clause of the new tariff which provides
/ for assessing duty on goods at the time
of their importation. By the Wilson bill
weighable goods were assessed on their
withdrawal from bond. Many kinds of
goods dry and shrink a great deal IN
storage 1t is held that the law will be
OF great benefit in this case because 1T
/ will save a loss to the Government on
! the Shrinkage of goods.
1t may be a good thing for the Gov
ernment but not for the people. By
! the new law the importer must pay
/ duty on all the wind and water con-
tanned in shrinkable goods. OF course
! then he must charge the jobber with
his profit on the amount of that duty;
! the jobber must charge it to the re-
/ taller, and the retailer to the consumer.
/ That is piling up profit on wind and
water. The whole intent of the new
bill seems to be to make it as burden
! some as possible to consumers.
A NEW TRIUMPH.
| Los Angeles Herald: California fruit
has at last carried the day in the East
more particularly as relates to the City
of New York It's victory is undeniable
and complete The surrender is un-
conditional
| The victory was not won in day
| The battle has been long and vigor-
ously contested. The citidels of preJu-
/ dice have been abandoned one by one;
and as each has fallen, the enemy has
voiced derision and defiance from its
remaining strongholds. But now not
one is left
1t was only a few weeks ago that the
New York World after printing
very able and interesting editorial on
the navel orange, praising that luscious
and unique California product to the
1 skies, indulged in it's annual fling at
! the California peach, denouncing 1t as
worthless and wooden and utterly in
competent for purposes of comparison
with it's cousins of Delaware and New
Jersey.
We of California said nothing. We
/
Gus denunciatory utterances. We knew
| that it was the fault of the distance
and lack of facilities rather than of the
| fruit itself We were as patient as
Job and as meek as Moses, for we knew
! that enterprise and ingenuity were at
work and that the day of the despised
peach would eventually arrive.
1t has come. The New York Times"
.i11 asaf To r.
| fornia peaches, says: Our markets
have for the past few days attested the
| final triumph of the California fruit
| growers" Confession is good for the
soul.
THE CLAP TRAP ABOUT TRUSTS.
| Yreka Journal: Every movement
made in Congress to better the condi-
| ton of the people of this country, and
afford protection to American industry,
| is condemned by our Democratic
friends as working in favor of trusts,
and many of the persons so condemn
| ing are managers of or connected with
trusts. Democratic Senators and Con-
gressmen yelp as loud in efforts to Gre
ate prejudice against a protective tariff
as they did during ante-slavery times
towards arousing bitter prejudice to-
wards every effort to curtail or abolish
| slavery.
They are urged forward in this hue
and cry by unprincipled newspapers
| publishing charges of trust comblna-
| tions. whose editors refuse to divuige
| the facts, foundation or authority for
their statements, a very low down
method certainly. They shield them
selves behind the plea of having been
posted confidential1y, and thus cannot
divulge the authority. When publish
ers or public speakers resort to such
| skirmishing, they are not entitled to
credit for any truth, or else they would
face the music like men.
| During the last session of the Legis-
| lature the San Francisco Examiner
played this style of accusation, and re-
fused to give authority or names or
informers for Investigating charges,
! because the information was given by
| friends in confidence, too coWardly to
openly assert charges preferred. Pos
sibly the charges may have been con-
cocted in the editorial sanctum of the
paper referred to, as a good move FOR
gaining the sale of thousands of papers
and raking the nickels.
| In England the authorities are now
| taking steps to hold editors personally
responsible for accusations, regardless
of the confidential dodge, and for their
| efforts to incite riot and disorder. Or
course editors or any one else can be
| prosecuted for libel, but that is an in
dividual affair in law, while there is no
ADEQUATE protection where a large
number or probably majority of the
! community are slandered without any
cause except partisan animosity, under
| the bogus plea of doing so for the pub
lie good.
A GOOD APPOINTMENT.
San Francisco Post: The appointment
of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst to membership
on the Board of Regents, vice Colonel
G. F. Crocker. deceased, will be COM
mended by the people of the State of
California. There is no sex in mind,
and the State University being a CO.
educational institution, it is high time
that wonlanhood received this deserved
| recognition.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst is in every re-
spect qualified for the discharge or the
duties of the Office to which she has
been appointed She has the necessary
business Judgment, and, above all, she
has enthusiasm in the cause of higher
education. out of which the highest
wisdom comes.
There is a sense in which the regency
of a university is held up as model
| of manly and womanly character; ana
| Mrs Hearst. as a model of virtuous
minded womanliness, will not fall short
of the highest standards. Her official
relation with the University will have