The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-10

remains no doubt that tobacco which
will 50 a ton to the acre and fetch
from - cents a pound upward can
be grown on San Joaquin soil-not on
all of il, of course but on thousands
of acres
Tobacco farming can be carried on by
the mar of small means. The market
is an open one The returns depend
upon the skill. judgment and industry
of the grower No ether industry Of
fers such a premium for care and skill.
One grower viii get 10 cents a pound
and another 81 for his leaf.
Mr.. Wetmore has grown good wrap
per leaf. Others can do what he has
done. The pick of common Pennsyl-
vania wrapper leaf is % cents.
A few acres of tobacco handled with
skill anG judgment, would lift many a
mortgage in this county. The farmers
should lock into this matter. The
Mail will give the results Of MIR.
Wetmores experiment. The facts with
be stated truthfully. 1t will pay anS
farmer to read and act upon this in
formation.
Consider this question of tobacco.
Put it in your pipe and smoke it, as it
were.
APPEALS TO FEDERAL COURTS
Kern Echo: Commenting on the
frequent appeals TO the Federal courts
in murder cases the Stockton Mail
Unexpectedly remarks: And if this
shameful farce is to be played over
and over again the people will surely,
sooner or later. take into their hands
the law the courts are impotent to ad-
minister. Judge Lynch will hold his
courts in California There is moth
ing shameful about this unless it be
because the laws are not so amended
as to take away the right of such APP
peals \ man on trial for his life is
justified in resorting to every legal ex-
! pedient TO save his neck and the courts
are not to blame for granting him the
opportunities afforded by the statutes.
The evil of these appeals-and it is an
undoubted evils born of unWise leg
islation Has the Mali ever asked
! Congress to repeal this bad law? If
not, suppose it lays its ak at the root
of the evil before it becomes the ad-
vocate of lynching.
ABSURD CARICATURE.
Alameda Argus: The Oakland Sat
urday Press calls attention to the uni
versal custom of newspapers, comic
and serious, OF depicting farmers and
the agricultural class in general as
goat-whiskered louis, ignorant and alb
surd. The fact will strike all who give
a moments thought to the subject. The
farmer is always represented to be a
most impossible person, in cowhide
/ -1,o h cir
a single suspender, eternally with hoe
in his hand and a straw in his mouth,
dancing ludicrously over 'pluvial dis
pensaton" or bringing an equally i'm
possible summer dude to grief with his
dog. There is not only no class to an
swer to this description, but no indi-
viduals The modern farmer or tiller
of the soil is an alert, appropriately
dressed man, who works, it is true, but
has as good a knowledge of current
business affairs as men of almost any
pursuit. He is intelligent, progressive
and keeps abreast of the times. An
other fad OF the press is the tramp. He
may not be libeled in appearance, but
it is absurd to make him a genial phil
osopher and his life a sort of idyllic
existence, with an easy living without
work The tramp is odious and if he
was always made to appear so there
would not be so much of him encoun-
tered in real life.
CREDITABLE.
San Jose Herald: The most credit
able thing we have noticed for some
time in connection with San Francisco
affairs is the fact that a widely adj
I two Xx-nl1
! known heavy weights could not draw
spectators enough last night to make
sufficient gate money to induce the
pugs to put up their hands" But
satisfaction with this result is alleged
| by the reflection that one Of the pugs
is a notorious duffer who has been
chopping block for any good man
! he has ever gone against, and perhaps
/ the San Franciscans were not so much
virtuous as they were afraid of not get
/ ting their moneys worth.
| KANSAS WHEAT STORIES.
| Santa Rosa Republican: Years ago
it was the regular thing for Kansas
/ newspapers to harvest a big crop Of
farm yarns every season. Then for
long time this industry languished. For
some reason the Kansas editor became
very modest. He ceased to boast. His
attention was given to politics and the
violation of the prohibitory liquor law.
He published little about wheat and
corn crops The cattle business was
neglected by him. If he was Populist
or Democrat, he was sure that the gold
bugs and the railroads had ruined the
State; if he was a Republican, he made
an effort to appear wise while awaiting
DEVELOPMENTS But conditions have
changed there the past few weeks and
our Kansas exchanges are again filled
with big crop stories They tell of
fabulous yields of wheat and oats. They
are not saying much about this years
corn crop, but they tell of last years
yield and the amount of it still in the
hands of the farmers. If we are to be-
lieve half the wheat stories from that
State we must conclude that many
farms have paid for themselves the
past year in the yield of this cereal.
And there is considerable foundation
/ for these reports. OF this we have no
doubt and we are glad to note the re-
joicing of our editorial brethren of the
/ Sunfiower State.
The Soured Cynic.
It" said the Innocent Youth, cannot