The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-27

| foreign soaps captured the markets
| They viii not do so under the new law.
| American soaps will come into use
| again; the soap factories will be open
| ed and tallow will be salable
| Sugar beet growers are getting p
cents per ton more for their crop as a
| direct result Of the new Tariff Act The
net gain to the farmers on 10000 acres
at the estimate of fifteen tons to the
acre, is $50, 1000.
Oh, yes; the Dingley bill has a good
deal 10 do with prosperity.
THE COAL STRIKE.
Kern Echo: A factor in the great
coal strike that seems to be overlooked
is the surfeit of labor in those regions
compared with the recent demands for
coal. Some Pennsylvania papers have
recently published many interviews
with miners and the average employ
i ment was below eighteen days per
month. Many of them did not have
ten days work Whatever the rate OF
wages might be, SO much enforced idle
ness must result in scant living for
ones family with discontentment as the
inevitable sequence. The remedy for
| this is beyond arbitration or adjust
J
er. It can come only from an in
creased demand for domestic coal.
WHO GETS IT?
| Santa Rosa Republican,: The wool
growers Of Humboldt County alone
/ have received fully $4,000 more for
this years spring wool clip than they
! did for the last one sold under the VIII
son law.-Humboldt Standard.
The Humboldt spring wool clip was
| sold under the Wilson bill at from l3
| to Is cents. Since then the Dingley Dill
went into operation with an average
protective duty of II cents a pound.
Still northern wool is quoted at Ii TO IL
cents a pound and San Joaquin clip at >
to 9 cents. Who gets the IL cents duty
added since the middle of July?-Santa
| Rosa Democrat.
II the Democrat knows anything II
knows that immense quantities OF
foreign wool were rushed into TINS
country under the free trade provision
of it's own party and in anticipation Oh
a Republican tariff-this too While
members of its own party were hololhS
up the tariff measure by talking III
Congress for the purpose OF giving I'M
| porters every possible opportunity TO
| beat the Government by rushing IN
| goods under free trade and low tarlt.
In spite of this fact there has been
| decided advance in prices in ant1clpa-
tion of conditions that are certain When
| the American market is held under the
Dingley bill for the American producer.
Even when that time comes, the COM
! petition of American shepherds may
bring the price below eleven cents per
pound-in which event nobody would
nav or receive the tariff tax, but
America would be steadily enriched by
all the wool grown in this country.
THE OLD RING.
Kern Echo: There is some of the old
time ring to the resolutions adopted by
the Populists in Iowa day or two ago
The platform adopted reaffirms the St
| Louis and Omaha platforms; declares
! for direct legislation; for a sufficient
amount of sound and flexible money !;
| for the issuance of money to State
county, township and municipal govern
ments, the principal to be paid back TO
/ the Government at per cent. per an
mum. without interest AS PROPOSE
! ton to win votes among the people ap-
pealed to by that party, there is MOTH
| ing like IS to l to compare with the OLD
sub-treasury scheme and Government
| loans at a low rate of interest
WHO MINDS?"
Chico Record: who minds what the
newspapers say?" This was a COM
mon question among those who were
hurrying Alaskaward during the last
| few weeks, when the newspapers were
warning people to make haste slowly to
| the Klondike Now many of those VINO
sneered are fioundering in mud and
sleeping without shelter around Dyea;
paving robbing rates for packing their
effects over passes when they can get
them over at any rate. Letters and
kilograms telling of the difficulties
are multiplying, yet other adventures
are Fastening over the same route with
out the least prospect of avoiding the
difficulties. They are of the class who
sneer at what the newspapers say, yet
| in a short time all who sneered will
realize that the newspapers gave them
wise warning as well as the news that
| caused them to start.
RETALIATION.
| Alameda Argus: If General Weyler
| is torturing helpless women as he is
reported to be doing, the Cuban insur-
gents would be justified in hanging and
shooting every Spanish prisoner that
| fell into their hands. A drastic remedy
| of this kind might convince General
Weyler that cruelty and assassination
was game that has its penalties.
GUESS WORK.
| Oakland Times: The distinguished
scientists who have been attending the
| meeting of the British Association IN
Toronto have been theorizing concern
| ing the fate of Professor Andree and his
| balloon, and some of them guess that
| both are all right. If we should guess,
| too, it would be to the effect that these
scientists know no more about the prob
abilities than does the rest of the World
TIME ENOUGH.
| San Jose Mercury: The year the Call
| fornia placers We're discovered they
yielded S5,000,000; the next year, S23.-
coo 600; the next, $50,0OO,000; in 1851,
$50, 100000; in 1852, $60,000,000; in
| 1858, $50, 100000. When Alaska or the
Northwest Territory begins to make
such a showing as that it will be time
enough for sensible people to get rat
| tied over it.
THE WHEAT PROMISE.
San Diego Union: There are cheer