The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-26
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

duty on oranges went INTO effect the
United States Surveyor for the port of
New York has found out what we urged
all along as an argument against duty
by the box-that the boxes vary as much
as eight pounds in weight. This shows
the business of a pound tariff-poor
oranges are lighter in weight than those
rich in juice and sugar, consequently
the poorer and lighter oranges will pay
less dut-. The new law Will be found
all right when the change becomes ia
miliar.
THE LAW AND THE MINERS
Fresno Republican,: 1t is gratifying
to know that the first press reports of
the purport of the injunction issued by
Judges Collier and Stone against the
striking miners, were greatly exagger-
ated. Later information indicates that
the injunction was not general in its
application to the miners, but included
only their leaders in its mandate.
Further, it merely enjoined them from
trespassing on the property Of the mine
owners and melting to violence. Such
an injunction is very different thing
from that which the dispatches repre-
scented it to be, and the difference is in
tiAC mt Vi Q6tluGd Improvement. 1t
is pleasant TO know that the situation
is not one to justify lack of confidence
in the courts
Another gratifying feature Of the sit
uation is the remarka bic order main
tanned by the strikers. 1t was not ex-
pected of them They are ignorant and
have been brutalized by the hard condi-
tons under which they lived, and it
was presumed they would resort to bru-
tai force at the earliest opportunity On
the contrary, they have done nothing of
the kind; their order has been perfect
and nobody could have displayed more
patience than they. Their conduct has
been exemplary and pays it's own trb-
ute to the skill and judgment of their
leaders. Judge Collier himself said
that the strike would go down in his
tory as one of the wonders of the CEN
fury, remarka BILE on account Of the ut
ter lack of disorder And for their
order he commended them and said
they had ''the sympathy of the co ~. =
If the miners will maintain this order
| and regard for the law, they will do
more to create public sentiment in their
favor than they possibly could In any
other way The right is on their side:
if they will heed the law, their cause
will not be hopeless.
OUR GOLD MEDAL.
San Jose Herald: California has car
ried off the highest honor at the Ham
burg Exposition, the gold medal for
products of this State. In this achieve
ment Santa Clara County has borne a
great part. 1t was largely owing TO
ha a1ti x-lfN re- ID
an appropriation was made and a CAL
ifornia exhibit prepared. And appar-
emily the products of the Santa Clara
Valley have done much to secure for
California this official recognition of
our resources.
The award of this medal ought to
mean much to our people and their in
dustries. 1t is an official notice served
on Europe that California products are
in the highest degree entitled to the
confidence and custom of the people.
Already from Hamburg as a center the
market for our goods is extending. Our
fruit growers have carried the war into
Africa and are meeting those Of Cen
trail Europe, the Mediterranean and
the Levant on their own ground.
Our domestic market is large but the
European market is almost boundless.
Ii we can capture it there will be no
need to bother about overproduction of
such fruits as are fitted for shipment
across the Atlantic. The population
| of the United States is 100000 that
Of Europe is 375, 900 900. While we
cannot presumably expect sales in Eu-
rope in proportion as compared with the
| United States yet the acquisition of the
European market ought in due time to
be equivalent to doubling the domestic
market
FIGHT IT OVER AGAIN.
| Fresno Exposftor: The Chinese.
wearied with the expense and bother of
lodging the exclusion act, which has
doubled the price of slaves and other
! wise interfered with the happiness of
the sons of the Flowery Kingdom. will
unite their efforts toward having the
law repealed. They have a good deal
! of "sabe" as to American methods. for
1t is said they realize that it will take
a great deal of money The thought of
/ the hordes of Chinese on this coast
/ buying the votes of American Congress
men IS an interesting one. In view of
| the lethargy and indifference, not to
| say ignorance of the Eastern man re-
| garding the Chinese question as we
| have to deal with it on THIS coast. it is
not a pleasing thought, however. that
! the exclusion fight may have to be
/ fought all over again.
| A WHOPPER.
| Pomona Progress: The sugar trust
is extravagantly protected SENATOR
| Stephen NJ. White.
! If Senator White had set out to tell
| a .'whopper" in six words, he could not
| have exoelled the above declaration If
| he had studied it over for seventeen
weeks. For he surely knows that the
| sugar trust has only a little over half
! as much protection under the Dingley
| bill as ii had under the Wilson bill.
| The protection to the sugar refner.
/ alias the sugar trust, under the Dingiey
/ bill was 12l2 cents per 100 pounds,
while under the Wilson bill it was
about 22fla cents. If the Dingley tariff
| is extrayagant, the Wilson tariff was
| robbery
HE WAS RIGHT
/ Santa Rosa Democrat: Many news
] papers questioned both the right and
/ the propriety Of the Secretary of the
/ interior issuing a proclamation warn
/ ing gold seekers away from Alaska I'M
| til spring. In the light of recent re-
ports from the north it was simply an
act of humanity and iustifable as
such. The suffering Of foolhardy
/ prospectcrs who went to that bleak
! country unprepared either physically
/ or in equipment to Withstand the rig
/ ors Of the terrible winters. viii be in
/ tense. end many an adventurous spirit
/ viii never again see the home from
which he was lured by tales of glitter