The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-29
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an excess of last years crop, but that
the increasing foreign demand will take
up the excess What we have never
been able to find out yet is how we can
meet and supply foreign demand and
at the same time require a high pro-
tective duty to enable us to hold the
| home market. If some Republican
economist will please to explain this
matter in a way that will be intelli-
gible and satisfactory to the average
| intellect, he will be qualified to fill the
Chair of Political Economy in the Nc
Kinley University.
WHEAT AND POPULISM.
Stockton Record: What difference
| there is in vision, The farmer in his
agricultural capacity is congratulating
himself that wheat has reached a dollar
a bushel-a dollar a hushel in good,
honest. hard money worth 100 cents.
But some farmers in their Populistic
capacity are still morose because wheat
is not 50 80 a bushel in Bryan dollars
of the Is to l or tintype cast. Why is
it that the Government cannot make
a concession to the Populists by issuing
silver 40-cent piece with a vignette
y
eagle and the inscription, This is a
Bryan Dollar. In God We Trust? On
the other side it might say, ITO Gold
bugs, This Is 40 Cents" With such
a device everybody could be humored
and satisfied The Populist could sell
his wheat for 50 30 bushel and thus
verify his convictions and then he
could flip his silver pieces upside down
and pay off his mortgage with the 40
cent side and please the goldbugs.
LYNCHING.
| San Jose Herald: Yesterday in Ken
lucky a man sentenced to twenty years
| for criminal assault was taken out Of
| Jail by a mob and lynched. Mob law
| thus assumes to fix the character OF
penalty as we'll as to assure it's execu-
| ton There is more lynching in the
| South than in any part of the Union
and also more crime of the kind that
prOvokes lynching. Apparently the
punishment does not fit the crime. Be
tween Southern lynching and Califor-
MIA failures to enforce legal penalties
there is a hard choice to make.
QUARTZ MINING.
Humboldt Standard: From the num-
Trinity County by the prospectors who
are swarming there and in Shasta
County. there can be no doubt that the
Standards" oft-repeated prediction
that a new era in gold mining is about
to begin in that section will be verified
The rich placer mines, which have been
worked along the Trinity River and its
tributaries, indicate the existence of
immense quartz lodes in the mount
aims adjacent. That many of these
| lodges. and probably the mother-lode
will be opened before long there can
be little doubt.
The recent placer discoveries on
| Coffee Greek have caused such a boom
in mining circles that Trinity looms up
! in all it's pristine glory as a rich gold
mining country The great wonder is
that these rich deposits were not dis
covered long ago. Trinity's hills and
mountains will be yielding millions of
| gold long after this generation shall
have passed away. The Argonauts
merely scratched the surface, secur-
| ing the loose gold that had been eroded
from the great, rich quartz lodes
which lie hidden beneath the deposits
| of crumbling rock and sand which
have been forming for ages. Hereafter
| the lodges from which this gold was
washed will be found and the quartz
miner will bring the product to the
surface
AN INTERESTING QUESTION.
Los Angeles Herald The Dingley
tariff law discriminates in favor Of
American shipping by imposing duty
| 10 per cent higher on imports trans
ported in foreign ships than on those
brought here in American bottoms. The
holding by the Collector of Customs at
Buffalo that foreign made goods
brought to Vancouver in foreign ships
and thence transported by the Canadian
Pacific Railroad to the United States
should pay the discriminating duty
raises an interesting question. The
goods in question were produced in
! British Asatic territory.
! It is a question that arises under our
commercial treaty with Great Britain.
Article l of the treaty of December p,
| 1896 contains the following general Ian
guage:
There shall be between the territories
of the United States of America, and all
the territories of his Brittanick majesty
| in Europe reciprocal liberty of COM
merce."
The article proceeds further to state
that the citizens of each country shall
have the right to establish officers, ware
houses and generally conduct mercan-
tile business in the other country on
equal terms with the citizens of the re-
spective countries, subject only to the
| local laws and regulations.
Article provides that mo higher du
ties shall be imposed on importations
into the United States of any article the
growth. produce or manufacture of his
Britannica majesty's territories in Eu
rope" and the same inhibition is ac
corded to products of the territory of the
United States imported into British Eu
ropean territories. This treaty was ex-
tended in 1918 for an indefinite period
and is still in force.
A COMPARISON.
San Jose Mercury: The first six
months of the Mckinley administra-
ton is in marked contrast with the cor
responding period under the Cleveland
administration. Then banks We're burst
ing, business houses were putting up
their shutters. manufacturers closing,
farm prices falling, railroads were going
into the hands of receivers, men were
idle everywhere and strikes and riots
were the order Of the day. Now the rail-
roads can not furnish cars enough to
move the crops, the prices are good and
the farmers hunting for more help, mills
and factories reopening, banks are COM
planning only of plethora Of money and
general activity and cheerfulness pre-
vail.
BAILEY AND KLONDIKE.