The record-union., 1897-10-17

ures were taken. The Herald reiter
ates that the County Supervisors, the
District Attorneys office and the Bar
Association ought to take steps that
will put a short stop to a most vicious
practice. The legal profession cannot
afford to have such tricks characterized
as the legitimate practice of law; and
the people will tolerate no such pro-
| ceeding on the part of the public serv
ants.
When it comes to such a pass that it
is the practice Of attorneys to make the
law a protector of the criminal rather
than an agency for his punishment, it
is time to call for a change of some
kind. The ethics of the legal profession
demand that the attorney shall defend
his client; but they do not require that
he shall bring the law and the legal
profession into disrepute by so doing.
FROM TWO POINTS OF VIEW.
Stockton Mall Mr. Hearst's New
York paper the Journal" has sprung
upon the world the greatest newspaper
sensation of years. The agents of that
newspaper have broken into Spanish
prison, carried off Miss Cisneros, a
prisoner of State, and escaped with her
to the United States. AS a sensation,
the exploit is a gorgeous success.
But there are other and higher planes
upon which judgment must move to
verdict. There is the plane of respeck
due to the sentiments of people with
which we are at peace; there is the
obedience due to our own laws and the
lJItbnTitU M Mt
there is that decent regard for the law
of nations-all of which have been
rudely violated by the Journal; vio-
lated, too, not out of any passionate
love of humanity or in obedience to any
high, unwritten law craven only on
the hearts of men, but to the sole end
that the Journal might be talked
about and its business increased. Sure
ly the end sought cannot and does not
justify the means used.
CALIFORNIA FRUITS ABROAD.
Los Angeles Herald: The New York
Sun notes the fact that for the first
| time since California fruits were ship
ped to foreign markets, the demand
| for them is satisfactory this year, at
| prices profitable to the exporters. Then
| it proceeds to tell some of the reasons
| for this gratifying state of affairs The
| fruits sent abroad were of the best
quality, they were more carefully
| packed than formerly, and the proviS-
| ion made for their transportation
| across the Atlantic and across the con-
tinent was of a more scientific charac-
| ter then it had been in other years.
While the Sun is pleased over the
success of the California fruit growers
| in gaining a market abroad after years
of failure, there is fly in the ointment
| of it's rejoicing. There are other States
of the Union, it says, much nearer to
Europe than is California, which can
| help her along in the foreign markets.
| And speaking Of canned goods, it says:
For California canned fruits there
| is an increasing demand in Europe.
| We have to inform Europe that the
canned fruits of New York are luscious
and wholesome, and unsurpassed by
any that can be bought in this world" !"
| Perhaps. California does not claim a
monopoly of fruit raising in this coun-
try. But California has created the
market abroad that the "Sun" looks
upon with such envious gaze, and it
will hold it against all comers. Com
petition is free. California does not
want to crowd anybody out. Having
| led the way it can remain in front.
| It is a. little strange, however, that
New York, having 5000 miles the bet
| ter of California in the matter of dis
tance, should have let the opportunity
| go by.
The New York papers have for years
rallied against California fruits, often
with reason, it must be admitted. Cali
| fornia has not been raising fruit for
many years, as time flies, and there
were many obstacles to overcome. But
our fruit growers have never given up.
| They have persisted until they have
won a great victory They will be
heard from more and more as the years
go by.