The record-union., 1897-07-04

lisbmen into the heart of the friendly
Boer country. A court of investigator
into his conduct sat duly. 1t developed
that certain speculators were going 10
make great money out of African snareS
in a manner some way connected with
tb;c raid There were certain telegrams
sent from Africa to London that Wouio
show much light on the matter COPIES
of the kilograms were in existence Here
the investigation came dead against
stone wall and stopped. Gossip SAID the
telegrams would show the Prince Oh
Wales to be among the spectators. Inc
kilograms were not produced
THE HOGS BACK.
Colusa Sun: The Newtown shoa1 IS
the Hogs Back of early days. Inc
steamer Senator, which was an ocean
vessel. made regular trips over these
shoals and was never delayed an hour
on account of grounding there. When
she got aground she was on shIftinS
mud She did not ground except at
the very lowest stage or the tloe.
Ocean ships drawing as mucn as tnree
fathons of water went over tnese
shoals without hindrance, except at
very low water, or when the pllot got
out of the channel, or the channel nad
changed-and as it was of mud IT often
changed. Changing of the channei was
one trouble with deep sea vessels
hardpan channel does not change. NO
vessel ever got stuck on any hafdpan
bottom at that point. The line OF low
water has been raised since that time
just how much we have not now at
hand. A place in the Sacramento River
at this date that would admit of ocean
steamer traffic cannot be called Il
shoal. Now on what sort of evidence
does Mr.. Commissioner Manson base
his conclusion that the shoals are
composed of hardpan such as that
upon which the Montezuma hills rest?
1t does make plain, unscientific man
feel like using cuss words at such rot.
If we dredge down to the keel of the
Senator as she glided over these shoals
in 1850 we need not care a tinker's
cuss word what is below that. That
keel must have been some fifteen feet
below the present bottom of the river.
SEEMS STRANGE.
Oakland Tribune: 1t seems strange
that in a country like this where there
are so many vast cattle ranges that
we should have to import hides. 1t
developed though during the debate
in the Senate yesterday that during the
last eleven months the importations at
the New York Custom House were TO-
100000 pounds, of the value Of 81
900, OO0 Fresh green hides averaged
about 10 cents a pound and South
American hides about 3 cents.
THAT IS SO.
Oakland Enquirer: Prize fighting
would soon cease to be a popular
amusement if the newspapers would
stop their practice of working up an
article of interest in the bruisers by
reporting all the details of their train
ing and the petty incidents of their
doings and sayings in a way which
would be nauSeating even II it were
applied to a leading statesman or a
distinguished author. This daily bull
letin system is now being tried on the
disgusting Sullivan, one of the worst
brutes who ever beat a wife or fell
before bottle, and readers are get
ting very sick of it.
FOR HOME INDUSTRY.
San Jose Mercury; Upon the sue
cess of the home industry movement in
California depends to a very large ex-
tent the prosperity of the State. 1t
is not desired, nor would it be Just or
polite to attempt to exclude all classes
of outside products; a policy of isola-
ton would be absurd and fatal But
on the other hand it is the part of
wisdom to abandon the long-continued
custom of giving the preference to
Eastern products, regardless of the
quality or the price of the home ar
tlcle. Why, for example should We
buy Eastern or European brands of
1eliies and other fruit products when
this State is the greatest fruit section
IN the Union, growing an abundance
and an infinite variety of superior
fruits and berries, and when the con-
ditions are so favorable that we should
not only be supplying our own de-
mands for those goods, but should also
be enabled to manufacture them in
large quantities for other markets,
thus creating and maintaining an in
dustry that would give employment to
thousands of our home people
So, also, with wooden goods. boots
shoes and other articles that are made
here. Possibly they cost a little more
than the Eastern goods, but their man
ufacture provides work for a multi
tude of men and women whose en-
of the community. That California is
backward in respect of manufactures
is due to the thoughtlessness or the
inconsistency of her people. who per-
sist in adhering to old customs long af-
ter the conditions which created them
nave passed away. Time was when il
was necessary to send East for nearly
ever product consumed in this State
Nothing was produced here but cattle
and mustangs, and the army of men
that crowded into the State after tha
discovery of gold We're too busy min
ing to engage in growing or in MANN
featuring the necessities of life. Later
when progressive element endeavored
TO build up manufactures at home
to supply the home wants, they found
themselves handicapped by a universal
prejudice against homemade goods. so
long had the people been accustomed
TO buying goods imported from the
East or from Europe Then with the
general business depression that struck
the country four years age came n
hood of cheap goods, including the
products of convict labor in numer-
GUS State Prisons, and instead of
hourishing, as they should. the manu-
factories in California have been strus-
ging to maintain bare existence.