The record-union., 1899-11-27

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NOVEMBER q, 1899.
more serious in nature than that there
Is something of Adam still in us ali
and some of us have a good deal OF
it. Rome fell because of the decay OF
the national spirit, and the national
spirit was never SO strong in the his
tory Of America as it is right now.
Join the Don't Worry Club, General.
GRANDLY MISTAKEN.
Humboldt Standard: How grandly
silver Democracy was mistaken in the
temper of the American people may be
gathered from a comparison of the pre-
dictions of their recent elections and the
results given at the polls.
HOW ONE FOREST WAS MADE.
Stockton Mail: The Kansas City,
Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad looks
to the future, apparently 1t is not
proceeding upon the California princi-
ple-after US the deluge, the drought or
any old thing. Twenty years ago it
laid out an experimental plantation of
trees and for three or four years the
young trees We're carefully tended. At
the end OF that time the company noted
the trees that had thriven best and
adopted them for purposes of future
timber supply. 1t planted two entire
sections of land with the chosen trees,
and it is now estimated that with ju-
dicious cutting 1000 trees of from ten
to fifteen inches in diameter and from
thirty to forty feet high can be taken
off each acre during the next ten years
without impairing the original tree
capital, so to speak. The whole cost
of the land, trees, planting, cultivation,
interest on the capital and general at
tention for all the years has been less
than $1O0 an acre, while telegraph
poles yielded are worth from So to $3.50
each.
This shows what can be done with
trees when there is a will to do any
thing with them, and California is a
much better field for tree growth
than Kansas is. The railway company
did not wait for Congress, or a State
convention, or a university, or any
body else to take action and conserve
or restore forests. 1t just experiment.
ed for itself, ascertained what kind Of
tree suited it's own purposes best, and
now has a forest of it's own, as any
county in California might have now.
or any corporation, if it had stopped
talking twenty years ago and planted
trees, and as any can have a few years
hence if it will plant trees It may
continue the conversation and plant
trees both, but it must plant trees.
What corporation could do a State
oil 10 To-
by establishing forest, taking it out
Of politics and putting skilled men in
charge of it. 1t should be needless to
state that the Kansas forest was not
begun or continued under partisan aus
pices.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
Santa Rosa Republican,: The annual
imports Of manufactured articles are
about a hundred million dollars less
in this country and our export manu- :
factures about two hundred millions
more than they were in 1890. The for
mer have been decreasing most Of the
time, and the latter steadily increasing
for several years, thus largely inCreas-
ing the balance of trade in our favor
and adding to American wealth.
UTAH, NOT ROBERTS.
Fresno Republican: Congressman
elect Roberts publishes a long defense Of
himself in a New York paper, the gist
of which is that he is no worse than
plenty of other men, and that there are
worse enemies to the sanctity of the
home in New York City than the rem
nants of polygamy in Utah can ever
be. All of which is unquestionably true,
and just as plainly has nothing what
ever to do with the case.
In fact, nearly all the arguments on
both sides are aside from the point.
The issue is not Roberts personal
character, which there is no occasion
either to attack or defend. Congress
has contained professional prize fight
ers, common buns and notorious de-
bauchees, besides men whose public
and political integrity was conspicu-
Gus only by it's absence. These men
were disgrace to Congress and to the
country, but they were not expelled.
Neither will Roberts be expelled, nor
ought he to be expelled if there is moth
ing against him but personal i'm
morality.
1t is not Roberts, but Utah, that is
on trial. Utah did not enter the union
unconditionally, like other States, but
under strict conditions, Of which the
election of Roberts amounts to a vio-
lation. There is no way to rebuke this
bad faith, and remind the State forci-
bly, that a right of representation con-
ditioned strictly on anti-polygamy can
not be exercised by the election OF
polygamist, except by the application OF
the power of arbitrary expulsion.