The record-union., 1897-09-04
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest,

The Calistogan: The professional
fault-finders are not finding the well
come ears that they did last fall. Peo-
pie are too busy now to listen to COM
plants that they know are not founded
on fact, and they are suspicious of men
who offered them a theory which
would not hold good even for one year.
ANOTHER ODIOUS FARCE.
Stockton Mail: Again the feet Of JUS
tice have been tripped up by legal cum
ming. To-day Benjamin Hill, the cow
ardly murderer of his wife was to
have been hanged. a jury found him
guilty, the court had pronounced SEN
fused to exercise the prerogative of
mercy. AT the last minute the attor-
neys of the condemned man went be-
fore Judge De Haven, asked for writ
of habeas corpus on an absurd and
untenable ground, were refused, as they
expected to be, and then took an ap-
peal to the Supreme Court of the
United States. It is the procedure Of
the Durrant case repeated.
Now, then, one thing is certain. If
a condemned murderer can apply on
any trivial excuse for a writ Of habeas
corpus and upon the denial of his Pc
tition can carry his case to the Su-
preme Court, there is no reason why
the procedure cannot be repeated
again and again, and the murderers
punishment be delayed until natural
death steps in to end the farce. The
law of the State is made of no effect,
the courts of the commonwealth are
brought into open contempt, and JUS
tice is Knocked at upon her own judg-
ment seat And if this shameful farce
is to be played over and over again,
the people will surely, sooner or later
take into their own hands the law the
courts are impotent to administer
Judge Lynch will hold his courts in
California.
JORDAN AND ELLIOTT.
Los Angeles Times: Professor Jor-
dan has expressed the opinion that Pro-
fessor Elliott knows nothing about the
question of branding seals, and dis
courses upon the subject in so lucid a
manner that it is clearly apparent he
is talking with a full knowledge of the
question. Professor Elliott is simply a
disgruntled individual with sores, and
if he makes any further exhibition OF
them he should be arrested for indie
cent exposure. The branding of seals
is simple remedy for the illicit and
indiscriminate slaughter of the meek
eyed creature who wears an expensive
garment, and by it a long-disturbing
question will be laid on the diplomatic
shelf As for Professor Elliott, he has
already branded himself as an ire
claimable and picturesque ass.
FAVORABLE CONDITIONS.
Yreka Journal: President Mckinley
is often referred to as being mighty
lucky" in having so many things hap
pen to help out his administration.
But not as many things happen as
some may suppose. Gold is unexpect-
edly discovered and wheat fetches a
good price through causes that were
not foreseen; but manufactures and
general prosperity do not flourish ex-
cept under favorable conditions. Pres
ident Mckinley and his administration
and the party that put him in power,
have been supplying these conditions.
And the President is not Dragging
about any part he has taken in it,
either, nor has he consumed valuable
llIil6 III ullGI1uS lDuOCuOuS pldlllQQCSs
ADMITTED TOO MUCH.
Tulare Register: President McKin-
ley admits rather too much in stating
that the abundant measure of pros
perity which has now reached the West
is due to advanced prices for products
caused by short crops in other parts of
the world. He is right so far as wheat
is concerned, but a shortage of wheat
in Europe is not what is making dried
peaches sell at 6 to cents per pound,
which makes wool a good price, hogs
higher and cattle hard to get at great
ly improved prices. 1t is not the short
wheat crop in Europe which is making
horses command better figures, hay
and almost every commodity the farm
er has to sell bring better prices No,
the tariff has a hand in the Western
prosperity as we'll as that of the East,
and our great chief of protection to
home industries should not have miss
ed the opportunity to score a point for
the new tariff in the West as we'll as
the East, where it's beneficent effects
are clearly visible.
THE BEAUTY OF IT.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: The beauty of
the IISG III meat COISlStS III IuG 1dCL
that the profits, instead of being large
ly or almost wholly absorbed by the
speculators, go to the farmers. A few
months later the crops would have
passed into the hands of the agents
engaged in controlling and transporting
the wheat supply. A very large part
of this years crop is still unsold, and
the farmer gets the benefit of selling
at a time when the market is particu-
larly strong.
AS MINING PAPERS SEE THE
FAKE
Stockton Mail: The Amador Ledger
is published in the heart of a mining
country. 1t depends absolutely for
support upon a mining community.
We commend to the San Francisco
Reports prayerful perusal this bit of
plain talk taken from the Ledger:
Verify, the San Francisco papers are
fakes and fakirs to an almost unlimit-
ed extent Hardly a column of legiti-
mate mining news ever appeared in
them until within the past few years,
and then only when prize fights, scan
dals Church and others), sensations,
murders, suicides or sea marriages
have not occurred to take precedence.
And this, too in the face of the fact
that about S15000,0G0 annually are
being added to the wealth of the world
by our State through gold mining.
Please call TO mind when you read this
that the residents in the mining sec
ton of the State are not a set of COR
morants waiting for you to rush the
gold seeker in so we can fleece him
We will be extremely happy if the city
press viii keep its scandal-stained