The record-union., 1897-08-19

we only gave a chance to the deserving
TO show that there was something in
them we could afford TO be harsh with
! the element that Is really tri1ng. If the
counties had each spent as much money
on fixing place for these people-many
of them really unfortunate-as they
have paid to Constables and Justices of
the Peace and to jailers there would be
nc such thing as tramp. Such could
not exist, for the tramp must claim the
! benefit of the doubt in order to exist as
such. With a place to work and all the
deserving at work he could make no
pretense of being in good faith on his
rounds and he would Immediately be
subject to the harsh treatment hu-
mane view of his case would permit
Yes, let the Legislature act, let the coun-
ty authorities act.
WHAT 1T MEANS.
Riverside Press: 1t is very easy to
take a pencil and figure out that the
cent pound tariff on oranges means a
protection Of 65 cents per box; that
Riverside ships / 200. 600 boxes and will
therefore be benefited $650,000 a year;
and that Southern California ships
100000 boxes. and will therefore be
ange- growers are growing rich very fast
on paper just now by such estimates as
this.
We do not think, however, that We
are at all justified in inferring that the
tariff means that We shall receive a cent
a pound more than we have been re-
ceiving on all oranges and lemons sold.
The result that can be reasonably
f1,1 l-af oil
crop at a far price by reason of the
checking of importations. Navels of
regular sizes have usually commanded
good price, but seedlings and other vari-
leties have often been marketed at loss,
or allowed to go to waste because the
Eastern markets We're flooded with for
eign fruit. Our average importation of
lemons amount to nearly 5000
boxes, and of oranges to nearly l,o00,0O
boxes.
NICE DISCRIMINATION.
Oakland Times: The latest injunctions
ISSUED in connection with the coal strike
are against the marching companies of
strikers to localities where miners con-
tinue working, and this creates new
and rather puzzling problem for the
judiciary 1t is certainly the privilege
of citizens, under ordinary conditions,
to march about from place to place as
they please. And. on the other hand
for miners who choose to so on work
ing to be intimidated by crowds of
strikers and made to abandon work
against their will is not right. The
situation calls for nice discrimination
between permissible liberty and OBJ
lnoxious abuse of it.
THE EASIEST WAY.
Oakland Telegram: A terrible fuss is
being kicked up over the action of two
masked highwaymen in relieving a
Iparty of Eastern tourists while visiting
the Yellowstone Park. 1t is surely a
reflection on the intelligence of the
highwaymen that they adopted such
methods in plundering the tourists. Dis
guised as hotel clerks they could have
attained the same results without be-
ing tainted with the odium of the crime.
NOT WANTED HERE.
Los Angeles Herald: 1t is not pro-
lposed that the United States shall be-
come the asylum of the anarchists drlv-
en- out of France Spain and Italy by
the concerted action of the great con-
tinental Powers. The day has gone by
/
country the dumping ground for their
Imalefactors, anarchists ana worthless
agitators.
1T HAS COME.
Mail of Woodland: The calamity plat
form is in a bad way. Events of the
past few months have demonstrated
the falsity of the assertions that no
prosperity could come without the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at a
false ratio. Reports from every section
show a marked increase in business,
farmers paying off their mortgages,
prices of agricultural products good
more money coming into the country
for our own productions than ever be-
fore in a single year, silver using ma
tions abandoning that metal and going
to the gold standard, largely increasing
productions of gold, the international
lbimetallic conference now almost a GER
ltainty, the tariff bill a law, manufactur-
Ing reViving and all of this in spite of
the persistent claim of the silverites
that none of these things could happen
without the free coinage of silver.
MEXICAN FINANCES.
Riverside Press: The report that Mex
leo is getting scared over the continued
low price of silver should be taken with
a grain of salt. The whole matter hinges
on the amount of Mexican Indebtedness
lpayable abroad in gold. This can hard
lily exceed two hundred millions, the in
lterest on which will approximate ten
millions annually. Mexican financiers
will hardly lose faith in their monetary
lsystem. or invite the disturbances that
must invariably follow the substitution
of the gold standard because of the pre-
lmium now upon the yellow cetal now in
that country. Mexico's debt-p paying
ipower is so largely increased by reason
of the general prosperity under the
silver standard that her statesmen are
likely to maintain it as the surest way
of getting out of debt without crushing
the energies of her people,
COMMERCIAL WAR.
Redwood City Times-G Gazette: Those
nations that talk of waging a CONNER
cial war against the United States will
probably not execute their threat. Un-
less they can show that the first con-
| sideration in passing the law was 10
do those nations an injury and that
the interests of our own Government
and people were made subordinate to
that-and this they cannot do-such
action would be utterly indefensible
from any reasonable standpoint. More
over. they would certainly lose more
than they could gain by waging such