The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-03
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SUGAR TARIFF.

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SUGAR TARIFF.
| Redding Free Press: Cheap sugar
is very nice thing. The people are
fond OF sugar because it is sweet, and
they use lot of it, But just the same
we believe that the people of the State
of California would be better off if a
tariff is placed on the sugar of the
| Sandwich Islands. We believe in pro-
lection, and We want to protect the
| farmer whenever we can, and we
should protect the California growers
of sugar beetS and increase the produc-
ton of beet sugar. If we do this, in
a little while home competition will
reduce the price, and at the same time
great industry will be established.
This is the true theory of protection 1t
may be said, incidentally, that we have
built up the sugar interests of the ISL
ands long enough.
| DID 1T PAY?
| Pomona Times: The fourth Fiesta
| De Los Angeles is over Equally in
telligent and successful business men
hold different views as to the value of
the week of frivolity. Major George
Bonebrake, General E. P Johnston
and others of similar standing, contend
that the Fiesta is of no business value.
All concede that as a spectacular dis
play and advertisement, it is all its
friends claim for it. The "All Fools
or Saturday night doing are marked
by excuses which are discreditable,
and many say they will not again sub
scribe if these antics are included in
! hn 1r,1r, n
haps majority, say they can we'll af-
ford to have a promiscuous special
| debauch" once a year. And there
you have it,
FOR SHAME! LOS ANGELES.
San Diego Tribune: Los Angeles
may be proud of the distinction she
achieved on Sunday afternoon in the
way of bull fighting. A local paper
says of that affair: 1T was only 3:15
o'clock and already one horse and rid
er had been lifted clear off the ground
by the bull who managed with singu-
lar adroitness to miss the rider, while
succeeding in burying his horns deep
in the horses belly. The crowd was
highly delighted with the result of this
performance and applauded vociferous-
ly the efforts of the horse to avoid
stepping on his entrails, which were
| dragging on the ground. The
| horse which was so badly gored was
| shot" Finally the police stopped the
| fight. If the city of Los Angeles has a
society for the prevention of cruelty to
| animals, the officers of that organiza-
| ton ought to be ashamed of them
| selves. few weeks ago Los Angeles
newspapers deplored prize fights as
brutal. The torturing of dumb brutes
is ten times more horrid. This Los
Angeles bull fight was on a par with
| Spanish and Mexican brutalities and
| appears to be SO popular in Los Ange-
| les that even the police did not make
arrests. The armorial bearings of the
Los Angeles society for the protection
of animals should represent a gored
horse with its entrails dragging on the
ground.
COTTON AND PROTECTION.
| Oakland Enquirer: State Agricul-
tural Commissioner Nesbitt of Georgia
publishes an article upon the cotton
| production of the world, in which he
claims that the Southern States have
established a practical monopoly. These
States produce three-fourths of all the
cotton grown in the world and this
proportion tends to increase all the
| time. Within the past twenty-seven
years other cotton-growing countries
| have increased their output only ten
| per cent, while the cotton crop of the
United States in the same time has in
creased over 200 per cent. Measured
in bales, the increase has been as fol-
lows: Increase in American cotton
6,311 900, increase in foreign 25S, 900,
increase in American over foreign cot
ton 6,0o9, 600 bales. There is however
another way Of stating it which makes
different showing. A few weeks ago
some Of the Southern members of Con-
gress were endeavoring to induce the
House of Representatives to put a pro-
tective duty on cotton, and inquiry as
to the reason for such action brought
out the statement that a good deal of
Egyptian cotton is imported: that 1t is
long staple and takes the place of sea-
island cotton from the South; that the
imports now amount to 1000 bales
annually. and that this importation has
| beaten the price of sea island cotton
down from 20 cents to 10 and II cents