The record-union., 1897-06-22

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state commerce 1t is upon the political
and International side that the question
assumes its greatest Importance. The is
| lands exist and cannot be eliminated,
and the native population, steadily de-
| clining in numbers lost nearly all polit-
cal Importance. In comparatively few
| years they will cease to exist as race,
| and their place will be occupied by
others. Who those others may be, Will
be of vital Importance to the United
States under certain contingencies.
MORE FRAUDULENT PACKING.
San Jose Mercury: There must be a
| few packers of California fruit who are
determined, if possible, to ruin the repu-
tation of our orchard products. The
| Mercury has commented upon the
frauds that have been perpetrated upon
buyers of California dried fruits in Ger
many and other foreign markets which
the growers are endeavoring to work
| up, and now comes fruit trade paper of
/ New York with the assertion that sew
eral of the dealers in that city who have
] bought California cherries this season
| are complaining of the fact that the
| boxes are topped off and that the top
| layers only are eatable. If this is
| true" adds the paper, 'it is great mis-
take for shippers of early fruit to in
| jure later receipts by prejudicing that
part of the public which gets the under
layers of California products. 1t is pos
sible that this is one of the explanations
as to why the New York market has
been in such a demoraliZed condition
this week particularly as compared with
other markets.
Possibly it is If any considerable
quantity of these cherries has been sold
it is natural to suppose that neither tn
| dealers nor the consumers will be eager
to pay remunerative prices for more of
them. But we cannot believe that these
frauds have been general or in any con-
spicuous number The great majority
of the packers are honest, and besides
! they are aware that to commit such
I frauds is to kill the goose that lays the
golden egg. They can no better afford
to ruin the reputation of California fruit
than can the growers themselves Yet
it is a fact that there are few ire
sponsible packers who look to immediate
profits and care nothing for the future
status of the industry, who are engaged
in swindling Eastern and foreign deal
ers and consumers and who are thereby
working serious injury to the market.
AS the Fruit World" says, we do not
know that the charge made by the New
York paper is true regarding more than
one box in a thousand, but the man that
| packed the one box did lncalcuiaDle
! harm to the other thousand. ShOuid
this happen again it may be well to have
the names and brands published-that
the thousand honest packers may not
be injured by one who seeks slight ad-
! vantage by putting fruit up in false
manner"
A SUNSTROKE.
Colusa Sun: 1t is rather funny, come
| to think of it, that twenty free trade
Senators, mostly from the South, voted
to put cotton on the dutiable list, but
| then that was their home commodity,
and a great many men, Senators as
we'll as other folks, are not able to see
| beyond their immediate surroundings.
l-Tulare Register.
Why funny? While a man may be-
lieve it to be absolute robbery to get to-
gether and put burden on this and
| that lot of consumers for the benefit of
| interests strong enough to force 1t, he
would be recreant to his constituents If
he did not get as much of the Swag for
/ his constituents as it would be possible
for him to get. Senator White is getting
all he can for California products and
he is doing precisely right, but that is
no sign that he believes the whole pro-
ceeding right But duty on cotton
will not help the South. Some two hum
dred millions of dollars worth of cotton
is exported annually, and when such is
the case a tariff can do the producer no
good. As we'll have a tariff on wheat.
THE HALF HOLIDAY.
Tulare Times: The Saturday half
holiday question that is being agitated
on the coast atCpresent is an important
one and should receive the hearty sup
port of the people at large. We would
like to see all of Saturday taken as
holiday each week, but we will be glad
of half a loaf if we can get it. There
| is no reason in the world why an am
pie living cannot be procured by labor
| ing five days in the week. Then Sat
urday should be spent in recreation and
personal culture, and Sunday in rest
! and worship.
IN BAD TASTE.
Fresno Expositor: Such little para
graphs as this from the Los Angeles
Times are unworthy of the editorial
columns of any paper:
"Mr. and Mrs Durrant have engaged
apartments at San Quentin, which they
are to occupy a week prior to July 9th.
They act as if there was going to be
/ Queens jubilee or something up there
about that date"
In heavens name why not let those
two parents alone They have not been
accused Of any crime, they have enough
to bear and they have a right to be near
their son if they so desire. One need
| not believe in Durrant's innocence to
protest against this unfeeling per-
secution of his father and mother.
A joke on the subject of their natural
parental feeling is in very bad taste.
| THE NEW MINING LAW
| Mother Lode Magnet: The new min
| ing law promises to be the source of
| much annoyance and expense to the
| miners taking up new claims and to
afford a rich harvest for lawyers We
all know that Uncle Sam is the only
party that can give a good title to
mining property by means of a patent,
and this is done only after all the re-
quirements of the law have been OBJ
served The Federal statues permit
the enactment of laws by the various
States regulating mining when not in
conflict with its own provisions. Well.
| what did our late Legislature do? It
passed a law giving the text of a pre-
liminary mining notice in which they
ignore entirely two important provisos
of the Federal law, making it reason
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