The record-union., 1897-09-27
all civilized countries where its work
is carried on-and that is practically
throughout the civilized world.

DON'T DO 1T, PLEASE.
Fresno Republican: Some of the Re
publican's" esteemed contemporaries
are demanding at the hands of the
newspaper cartoonists fin de steele pic
lures of the American farmer instead of
the old-fashioned party from wayback,
with a benignant east of countenance,
billygoat whiskers, voluminous panta-
looms hung by one suspender, and a
general air of untutored simplicity and
geniality. They say that cartoonists
should make the farmer look as he actu-
ally does.
The Republican" protests against the
proposed vandalism. Such repre-
sentation of that good old friend would
be little less than sacrilege We would
just as soon see the Goddess of Liberty
pictured in big sleeves and a S27 Easter
hat, or Uncle Sam with a bristly mus
tache, and arrayed in a blazer duck
pants, sawtooth hat and razor toed
shoes. 1t would not be worse to mod
ernize one than the other. And, then,
our protesting friends, to be consistent,
would have the cartoonist scrape the
abdomen off the bloated plutocrat, CHS
Ell down his neck, remodel his pig nose
and put human eyes in his head, thus
fairly depicting the average man of af-
fairs.
In other words, they would consign
the cartoonist to the limbo of the past
and set up in his place the kodak fiend,
who represents everybody as he actual
ly is.
The Republican respectfully sug-
gests to the iconoclastic contemporaries
that they go out after jack rabbits and
give the cartoonist a chance to live
awhile.
AGRICULTURAL POPULATION.
Pasadena News: The proportion
Of the population of Germany engaged
in agriculture fell between the years
lSo2 and 1895 from so per cent to 43
per cent. which shows the same ten
dency at work there is in the United
States and doing it's work even more
swiftly, says an exchange. In 1880
50 per cent of the working population
IN the United States was engaged in
agriculture, and in 1890 the proper
ton was Al per cent. The production
OF vegetable food and fbers is coming
10 require a constantly smaller propor-
ton of the total number of the worlds
workers, and fifty years hence perhaps
not more than p per cent. of the peo-
pie of the United States will be farm
ers. AS labor saving machinery is in
vented and used, a less number of men
are needed on the farm to furnish the
food supply of the world while greater
number is needed in the cities to manu-
facture that machinery. This mass
ing the people in the cities makes a
danger to the political institutions of
Government that will require wise
craftsmanship to overcome
THANK GOD FOR IT.
Tulare Register: What surpasses
the love of womani And how little
sense women have got in such matters!
Often it seems that the more worthless
the man the more desperately close
does the love Of woman cling to him.
While many a good man goes to his
grave bereft of a love that is squan-
dered on chickens and cats. Down at
Stockton the other day desperate was
shot to death by the officers He was
on rampage and had held up and shot
at number of citizens. He had spent
two terms in the penitentiary for grand
larceny, was a cocaine and opium and
several other kinds of fiend, but he had
a wife over al San Jose who had been
married to him ten years and, hearing
of his death, this little woman took
the last cent she had and went to
Stockton to weep scalding tears over
the remains Of her burglar highway
man. convict, iend of husband. She
declared that he wasn't so very bad''
and yet he had disgraced her, had cost
her home that had been her own.
and done all the things that he ought
not to have done and none of the things
he ought to have done and instead of
jumping up and clapping her heels to-
gether like sensible woman when she
found that he was dead, she went clear
TO Stockton to have a good cry over the
remains. Peculiar, isn't it?
LAWYERS AND WITNESSES.
Stockton Record: The lack of pro-
lection to witness in court and out
of court is one of the loopholes for
criminals. Were witnesses given the
same protection as the attorney, or
were the attorney put under oath along
with the witness when asking the ques-
tons and making his statements and
held to the same accountability for per-
jury and misstatements, it might better
matters somewhat. The protection of
a disinterested witness should be the
first concern in any trial The prac-
tlce is to protect the lawyer first, then
the criminal; the witness is punished
| with all manner of tortures while on
the stand and carries away an inheri-
| tance of bitterness and 1nHattarine o.
publicity that influences him to keep
| dark secrets hidden and suppress truth
rather than again be placed at the mer-
cy OF brutal attorney, who presumes
upon his license in, and the precedents
or the court and the fellowship and
commonality of interest of the Judge,
10 act the tyrant and the prosecutor
respect for law can hardly withstand
| the assaults made upon its dignity and
justice by those who have been licensed