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A. THE FRESNO WEEKLY REPUBLICAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1893. WEEKLY REPUBLICAN Fresno, Fresno County, California. the Fresno Republican Publishing Co The Great Newspaper of Central California. 1-42 Tulare Street, Largest Circulation.

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96.00 Daily Republican, six months, by mall 00 THE FRESNO REPUBLICAN heads an account of a wedding "Matrimonial The annoucement is certainly premature, but let us trust that the hope will be fulfilled. -Sacramento Bee. If it isn't matrimonial bliss at the beginning of the honeymoon, when does it occur? THE San Jose Mercury is prepared to bet that the coming woman will not be able to make jelly out of electric currents. The fruit of the grape vine telegraph may prove a little elusive for the industrious housewife, but just wait and see if she doesn't have it on exhibition at the Midwinter Fair. THE English newspapers are beginning to sympathize with the poor people of this country.

They say nothing about the fact that conditions similar to those prevailing here exist perpetually in their own country, and that depression here is chiefly due to the attempt to follow the English system of finance and tariff. EVERYTHING seems to be going wrong this vear, and the news that Grover's boy is a girl again chimes in harmoniously with the crop failures and other disappointing things. The only thing left now by which the President may perpetuate the political prominence of the family name is to immediately instruct congress to pass a womans' rights bill. ONE of the most sudden changes of heart of recent date is that of Attorney General Olney, whose instructions that there were no funds available for the enforcement of the Geary act had hardly got dry before they were reversed by a manifesto to the effect that the law will be enforced so long as the funds hold out. The fact is that the decision of t.

Judge Ross placed the administration i in a position where it had to uphold the law or nullify it. THERE should be no partiality or favoritism 1 in the enforcement of the law. None should be exempt from its penalties because of the position they occupy in the community. If their standing is above the average their responsibility is the greater. A legislator or peace officer who flagrantly violates the law should be just as severely dealt with as the humblest citizen.

A good start has been made in the enforcement of law in Fresno county, and the good work should go on without fear or favor. GALEN CLARK, the white bearded pioneer and guardian of Yosemite park, recently made his first visit to the outside world in forty years. He settled at Wawona, the charming stopping place of the Yosemite stages, in 1855 built first one cabin and then several more for sight-seers, and finally became a hotel keeper. Later he was made a Yosemite park commissioner, and then guardian. He has just been east to his old home, which he had not seen since the early gold to visit the World's Fair, Niagara Falls and the Yellowstone park.

The old gentleman is one of the picturesque features of the famous valley. To argue that the farmer is oppressed by the tariff has been the last resort of the cornered free trader, because the farmer, being far removed from the battlefield of argument, is generally not on hand to deny it. At last, however, the farmer has denied it. An intelligent farmer named Julius Peterson has published at Washington an exceedingly clear and sensible pamphlet of about 200 pages, entitled "The American Home Builder; His. Relation to the Tariff as Seen from the Standpoint of an American Farmer." The points are well made, the illustrations are such as specially appeal to farmers, and Mr.

Peterson's little book meets a want of which many public men have been conscious in their search for something suitable to put into the hands of their agricultural constituents. We no not think that sufficient reason can be shown for granting the motion for a change of venue in the case of the People vs. Richard Heath. We do not believe that there is any truth in the claim that the defendant cannot obtain a fair trial in this county. To the contrary, we believe that he has already had one fair trial, and that he can get another without going outside this county to get it.

No difficulty was experienced in obtaining a jury for the former trial, and because he has been tried once it does not follow that an unprejudiced jury cannot be found for the second trial. The statement that strong prejudices exist in this community in regard to this case are true, but those prejudices are confined to a ly limited number of persons, and do not affect the mass of the people. It is safe to say that at least 50 per cent of the citizens of the county could legally qualify to act as jurors in this case. This being true, there is no reason why a fair and impartial trial cannot be obtained here. HOWEVER other Democratic journals may wobble in their support of the plank in the Chicago platform which declares that protection to home industry is unconstitutional, the New York Sun stands squarely by the issue and howls for the life blood of the robber tariff in the following language: In the midst of the appalling stagnation and trouble in business, there is under the circumstances one cheering and all sufficient thought to every antiprotectionist, to every individual who, with his mind on the tariff, voted last year against the historic policy of protection.

The shutting, too, of protected factory doors and the clicking of their locks are signals that some robber has ceased to rob. As soon as the mill is closed, the owner, formerly plunderer of the many and the oppressor of the poor, has to sit idle and helpless. He can't wring a cent of his old profit from the labor and savings of others. His outrageous and unconstitutional business is stopped. The wills will doubtless open again' in one way or another under the stress of public requirements, but their stoppage is a tremendous dictate to the Democrate to bring the old time robber barone to an end at once.

Protect on is robbery. Down with it! Enact the tariff for revenue, the sooner the better. THE fact has been established, after a hard struggle, that the Geary law is the law of the land, and considering the sentiments and conditions which existed a few weeks ago, the outcome cannot be considered anything less than a notable triumph for the Caucasian interest of the Pacific Coast and the country at large. It is a notable fact that whereas the advocates of the Chinese were recently talking about the repeal of the Geary law and of its general iniquity, they are now confining themselves to the advocacy of extending the time for registration. If, in the meantime, the Pacific Coast makes use of its opportunity to deport the most objectionable class of the Chinese population, the extension of time for registration can be generally accepted as a fairly satisfactory solution of the problem.

The law is really intended to bring about a gradual removal of the Chinese by preventing the smuggling of laborers into the country, and the transportation of those who fail to comply with the law. It cannot be denied that the immediate removal of all the Chinese from the coun- try would create great temporary incon- venience, but a considerable number of the aliens who have so successfully wormed themselves into the industrial affairs of this coast can be spared at once, and the workings of the law under an extension of the registration privilege will bring about the desired result without crippling any industry or destroying the chance of success of any resource in course of development. The outlook for a speedy solution of the Chinese question is becoming decidedly brighter. Later reports indicate that the right to deport Chinese under the law has been peremptorily shut off by the administration, and the opportunity is thereby lost to the people of this state to take advantage of the situation as above mentioned. MISS JENNIE RHODES, Mrs.

James B. Rayner and Mrs. Emma Moseman of Freeport, Long Island, are three women whose services in saving human lives in the gale of last week deserve recogni- tion. Acting upon the absurd theory that storms do not occur in the summer, Congress has failed to provide for the maintenance of crews at the sea coast life saving stations during the summer months. So when the hurricane drove the bark Martha P.

Tucker with her crew of eleven lives ashore near Point Lookout the only member of the life-saving crew present for duty was the captain, Andrew Rhodes. He was joined by Captain Van Sicklen of the Long Beach station, who had seen the wreck, and by two other men. This force was, however, insufficient to haul the heavy beach wagon, on which the little canon, to whose projectile the life line is attached, is mounted. In this emergency Miss Rhodes, Mrs. Rayner and Mrs.

Mosemen came to the rescue like the heroines they were. Side by side with the four men they tugged the beach wagon a mile through the sand. Working with all the coolness and courage of veteran life savers, they helped haul the life buoy with its human freight back from the wreck. Their hands blistered and bled, cut by the rough, wet ropes; but, undaunted by pain or tempest, they toiled on until the buoy had made eleven journeys and saved eleven lives. Then, when their task was performed, like true daughters of Eve, they sat down and cried.

IN the decision of the Shortridge contempt case yesterday the supreme court established the right of the press to print legitimate news whenever and wherever it may obtain it. The superior court of Santa Clara county tried the divorce case of Price vs. Price with closed doors. The San Jose Mercury obtained the proceedings and published them, and the court fined the editor, Charles M. Shortridge, for contempt therefore.

Mr. Shortridge appealed the case, holding that the court did not possess the legal power to thus abridge the liberty of the press in publishing the news. The supreme court took the position that a knowledge of what occurs in the courts is essential to the public welfare, and the press has a right to print same. The power of a court to try scandalous cases behind closed doors does not, therefore, carry with it the power to punish for contempt the enterprising newsgatherer for printing a fair statement of what took place at such trial, if the inforniation may be obtained. The testy judge, intoxicated with a brief authority, and over zealous to amplify it, is therefore restricted to proper limits, and while he may properly close the doors of his court room during the trial of certain cases, may not by the same act close the columns of a newspaper possessing enterprise suflicient to secure information of what there occurred.

THE report that Christopher Buckley is about to return to San Francisco and again take possession of the Democratic machine has thrown the faithful into a state of excitement, pleasurable and otherwise, that is closely bordering upon hysterical. Even the monarch of all dailies illy conceals its agitation under a feeble show of facetiousness, and exposes the harrowing fear which haunts it by appealing to the selfish interests of the friends of the ex-boss as a reason for turning a cold shoulder to their old master. This fear of the Democratic party for the power of this blind criminal, returning from exile, presents a curious picture, and illustrates a phase of modern politics that is not pleasant to contemplate. NOTWITHSTANDING all the difficulties which Fresno has had to contend with since the collapse of the boom, she is today as prosperous as any city of like population on the coast and in no section of the state is there a healthier development of the resources which insure a certain and lasting foundation upon which to build a city. OVER 200,000 baskets of Delaware's peach crop were harvested the other night by a strong east wind.

This was a windfall for the consumers, the market being glutted. THE unseasonable cyclone is still wrecking things in the East. The season, as well as the finances, appear to have slipped a cog or two. CLEVELAND proposed "tariff reform" for a treasury surplus, and now persists in prescribing the same dose for the I treasury deficit, THERE is a good field in Fresno for insurance companies which do not belong to the Pacific Coast combine. WILE other.

counties are talking about an exhibit for the Midwinter Fair Fresno already has the nucleus for an exhibition of products that can hardly be excelled. A SAN BERNADINO paper says: "Patronize your home papers and you will receive your reward in heaven." That may be the case in San Bernadino, but in Fresno the reward comes on earth, promptly and with absolute certainty. OVER insurance is one of the causes of loss by fire, and for this the insurance companies are responsible. The remedy lies in a law compelling the companies to pay the face of their policies. If they were compelled to do this they would not insure property for more than its value.

CARL BROWNE of California has had the honor of an interview with Mayer Harrison of Chicago, the pleasure of which was somewhat marred by the Mayor's insistence in the matter of Browne's departure. The Mayor apparently lacked the information that kicking is the strongest argument with Carl. THE gold bugs who are continually harping on the selfish greed of the silver men who ask that their product be increased in value by the government, very conveniently for themselves ignore the fact that the value of gold is several times greater than it would be if it did not receive the same consideration which 1S asked for silver. THE Reverend J. M.

Gaiser of Stockton, who abruptly lifted the lid off and took a theological snap shot into hell for the diversion of his flock last Sunday, writes the Examiner that he is happy to announce that there are in preparation ample apartments bountifully supplied with intensely torrid sulphur for the reception of Sunday visitors to the Midwinter Fair. Wilt not some defender of common, cart horse sense in Stockton adjust a patent damper in the Gaiser gullet and shut off the draught? A STORY is going the rounds of the papers that Bill Dalton, who was shot in a scrimmage in the Indian Territory last week, was at one time a member of, the legislature from Merced county. Dalton was never a member of the legislature nor did he ever hold any official position in this county. He was a onehorse politician, that is -Merced Star. It seems after all that Bill merely helped the other fellows to go to the legislature, and never personally participated in a legislative hold-up of the taxpayers.

It would appear from this that William's early education was largely acquired by observation. Iris announced that a mass meeting is to be held in this city to discuss an important subject, viz: The Local Press. THE REPUBLICAN is pleased to know that the institution of which it is a hard working member is to come up for public discussion. It is a far-reaching subject, and can hardly fail to prove of more than ordinary interest. The local press has for some time past been a prolific topic for street discussion on the part of a certain class of people in this city, but the subject has not before come up in shape for consideration by the press.

It is a discussion which should not only prove beneficial to the community in general, but particularly to the press and others who participate in it. THAT was a nice little joke Senator Vance got off on the silver miners the other day when he dug up and presented in the senate upwards of 200 assessment notices of mining companies, every one of which read, "payable in gold coin of the United States," showing that the very silver mining companies themselves discredited their silver. Tulare Register. Read distrust their own government for discredit their own silver, and you will be nearer the truth. If the government were threatening to demonetize gold, is it not likely that the gold men would prefer that their contracts be made payable in some other money? Senator Vance may have "dug up" a very nice little joke, but it did not carry with it an argument that is worth a moment's consideration.

R. H. BEAMER, member of the State Board of Equalization, has addressed the following statement to the Yolo Mail: Editor Mail. -The Board labored long hard to get a square deal out of the large cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Political interests combined to defeat the interior, and the big cities win, while the cow counties are again imposed upon.

State levy for the year 1893, 57 cents and 6 mills is the horrible result. I am sick. BEAMER. Commenting upon this statement, the Mail says "it but faintly conveys Mr. Beamer's deep disgust at the conduct of the board.

The action taken by the board was determined by a bare majority, Beamer and Morehouse strenuously opposing the combination that dominated the board. Mr. Beamer is reported to have poured it into his colleagues at the meeting. Mr. Morehouse upheld Mr.

Beamer in his vigorous protest, and in disgust declared 'we have lived too long-we ought to have died last Both of these gentlemen declare that San Francisco's assessment is scandalously rotten, and that Los An- geles' roll is about as AMERICA can live and prosper without the aid of any foreign power, says the Themis. It is a fact, however, that in many respects the great foreign countries are dependent upon American trade and products. There exists no reason why England should dictate our financial or commercial policy. America is great enough and strong enough to take care of itself. American genius has led the advance in all departments of invention.

We invented the electric telegraph and laid the first An American invented the cotton gin. American genius brought the steam engine and locomotive to its greatest perfection of mechanism. It was an American who astonished the world with the telephone and phonograph. All the great electric devices have reached their highest mechanical effects under American inspiration. The first great battle between ironclads was with American ships.

With America, it is a new world of most wonderful powers and adaptations. We have a government within ourselves, great and exhaustless. There is no possible excuse for dependence upon any other nation. We must lead, and not follow. TARDY JUSTICE.

The news comes from Los Angeles that Walter J. Raymond now languishes in the jail at Dayton, with 150 indietments piled up against him by the United States attorney for that district, who in each separate indictment has alleged that said Walter J. Raymond has used the United States mails for 9 fraudulent purpose. That the acts of Mr. Raymond which led up to his arrest by the authorities have had little else in them than frauds seems hard to believe when one is acquainted with the facts.

A part of those facts United States Postal Inspector M. H. Flint, just returned from a tour of investigation, has acquired, and now awaits orders from Ohio to leave Los Angeles for that place, where he will testify on the numerous trials of Raymond. It seems that about 1889 Raymond began to deal in California lands. He first acquired 320 acres of wild mountain land near Tehachapi, in Kern county.

Shortly after he commenced the purchase of two sections of school lands on the Colorado desert. He also got a section of land at Pilot Knob. The country is a bleak, wild, trackless desert, unrelieved for miles by anything save the sparse sagebrush and the greasewood bunching here and there on the white sand, with the hot sun pouring down with a focal fierceness on everything beneath. No human being exists hereabouts save at Ogilby, where there is a small gold mine worked by a white man and a few Mexican miners. These sections were located in October, 1889.

The price at which the state sells them is $1.25 per acre, and 25 cents on each acre has been paid, that being the first payment of 20 per cent of the purchase price required by the law before a certificate will issue. Interest also on the balance of the purchase money up to January, 1893, has been paid, but the July interest has been defaulted. This land, therefore, counting first payments and interest, stands Mr. Raymond today 40 cents per acre. It It is assessed by San Diego county, in which it lies, at $1 per acre.

Raymond has been selling this land throughout the East at $100 per acre, so that he has been making a net profit of $99.60 on each acre of land sold. He then proceeded to advertise these lands for sale and to swindle a number of Eastern people out of sums all the way from $100 to $500 each. It is safe to say that never before has a more audacious and dastardly swindle ever been perpetrated among eastern people to the injury of the reputation of California in the east. The government began to investigate the character of the California Land Company, and as a result prohibited the delivery of money mail to Raymond. He then changed the name of the swindle to the California Land and Water Company.

The government finally took action in the matter and he was indicted as above stated. His trial will come off in October. If the department will now pay some attention to one Guy Webber of New Jersey and his Shelbyville fraud in this county the cause of honesty would be materially advanced. THE Stockton Mail very neatly exposes the insincerity of the administration's attitude. on the silver question.

The Mail says that the proposition to coin the silver bullion now in the treasury vaults involves certain contradictions of policy which cannot be reconciled. The whole argument of the goldbugs has been against any more silver money. It has been asserted all along that there is not enough gold to support any more silver at par, and that if the volume of silver be increased, all silver money will fall below its face value, and gold will go out of circulation and the country be brought to a silver basis. All other arguments run into this one. Now, however, that there is a doubt that an unconditional repeal bill will pass the senate the goldbugs come forward with a proposition to coin all the silver bullion in the treasury after the repeal bill shall have been passed and approved by the President.

The proposition is worth considering, as showing the fictitious basis of the argument against the Sherman act. Senator Mitchell of Oregon stated the other day that the quantity of silver bullion in the treasury was between 140,000,000 and 150,000,000 ounces. The Mail thinks that the last mentioned quantity is nearer correct, for the reason that in the July statement of the condition of the treasury Secretary Carlisle estimates the commercial value of the silver on hand at $119,000,000. Taking the market price of silver at that time it would bring the quantity of bullion up to about 150,000,000 ounces, which is only 12,000,000 ounces less than should have been purchased under the Sherman act in three years. The silver bullion in the treasury will coin 174,000,000 standard dollars.

Does not this offer to coin the silver bullion in the treasury constitute 21 bribe by means of which to win over wavering senators to the gold bug cause? and is it not a confession that the attack on the Sherman act is simply an excuse for increasing by law the purchasing and earning power of gold? MODESTO is having some experience with its city board of trustees which recalls recent history in this city. The Modesto board is charged, with letting contracts to favorite contractors and with generally conducting the business of the city in the interests of the individual members of the board. Public feeling is running so high on the subject that it is thought the objectionable members may be induced to resign. NAPA county has appropriated $1000 for its Midwinter Fair Fresno is trying to make anexhibit on less than half that amount, but will hardly sueceed in doing herself justice without a reasonably liberal supply of funds. About one-tenth the amount spent for the World's Fair would hardly be considered extravagant.

THE sensational report in yesterday's San Francisco evening papers is enough to make Pterodactyl Daniels suicide from sheer chagrin. One would think this country strewn with dead Chinamen. The sensational author of such abominable lies should be deported with tar and plumage. GROVER CLEVELAND will go into history as the first President who has dared to nullify the laws of the land. THE slowness with which the various competing railroads are building themselves is becoming exasperating.

RELUCTANT as they are to do so, a vast majority of Democrats are now admitting that the Prophet is stuffed. WITHE the ouly circus on the coast smashed up in a railroad accident, the chances for fun this season are looking very slim. Goon roads can be made in Fresno county at as little cost as anywhere in the world. There are not many of them made, however. FRESNO has contributed five highbinders to the Geary deportation mill, but there seems to he some doubt as to whether they were arrested in time to escape executive clemency, which is reaching out its strong arm from the national capital to rescue the heathen from the clutches of the law.

Ax exchange says that among the reforms that are likely to be undertaken at Washington this winter is one to provide for a change in the date of the meeting of congress. At the present time congressmen elected in November do not take their seats until the following December, so that their campaign pledges are largely forgotten before they have occasion to act upon them. It is believed that the popular will would be much better carried out if congressmen were required to meet and vote immediately after the general elections, as do the representatives of the people in other countries. As the present congress is disposed to ignore most of the pledges under which elected, the members are duly impressed with need of the proposed reform. IF Fresno is wise she will return to her raisin picking and quit raising cain.

San Jose Mercury, All the facts considered, there is not a community in California which has passed through the ordeal of Chinese agitation with greater credit to itself than has Fresno. More idle men congregated in Fresnothan in any city of its size in the state, and nearly a thousand of them were humanely cared for by public charity for two weeks prior to the opening of the grape picking season. All of these men who want work are now employed, and the money which they earn is coming back to the people who stood by them in their time of need. During all this time there have been but two instances in this city or its vicinity in which any violence was done to Chinese. In neither instance was there any loss of life, or was any Chinese seriously injured.

This record is really a very creditable one to Fresno, and the community deserves praise stead of criticism. The "cain raising" which the Mercury refers to consists almost wholly of the sensational reports which were sent to San Francisco papers by some irresponsible liar whose identity remains undiscovered. The local newspapers have told the exact facts concerning every occurrence of the kind, and these should have served to correct before this time the false reports which were sent to the evening papers of San Francisco. The newspapers which are so quick to give Fresno the benefit of every discreditable thing that a happens within a radius of four counties, should also be fair enough to give credit for the many creditable things which are performed by its enterprising and open handed people. AN eastern newspaper argues that the McKinley tariff has proved to be a failure in one important particular-because it aimed to check importation of foreign goods, whereas imports of many manufactured articles have increased since the act went into operation.

But where is the evidence that the authors of the law entertained the purpose to check importations? The free traders were unanimous, while the bill was under consideration, in insisting that it would nearly destroy our foreign trade; but no responsible protectionist expressed that opinion. The false prophets in this case are the journalists who tried to induce the pecple to believe that if the bill became a law we should not be able to buy from Europe; Europe consequently would not buy from us, and transatlantic commerce, therefore, would become an extinct industry. It was apparently clear to the minds of most of the free traders that as soon as the McKinley act went into operation Americans in the importing business would put up their shutters and go into retirement, while disgusted Europeans would turn their backs upon American cotton planters and farmers, preferring nakedness and hunger to traffic with a nation so unreasonable as to refuse to swap commodities with them. But like the predictions that wool would become so dear that the American people would be compelled to wear shoddv, and that prices of all kinds would rise under the influence of the proposed tariff legislation, the prophecies of paralysis of our foreign trade have been falsified by fact. The purpose of the tariff act was simply to equalize the conditions upon which European and American manufacturers should compete in this market.

It was intended to forbid that an Englishman, making goods with cheap labor, should come into the country to undersell the American who makes goods with dear labor. The main object of the protective system, as expressed in any tariff act, is to permit home industry to be conducted and developed without menace from destructive foreign competition. The authors of the McKinley act sought to repair those portions of the old tariff law which failed to perform this function. This is the reason why the act increased only a portion of the duties. The rates upon about half of the whole number of articles or group of articles were not changed at all, because they were regarded as sufficiently protective.

In some cases, when the duties were thought to be in excess of the requirements of mere protection, as with the duties upon structural iron, they were actually reduced by this law, which was declared to have prohibitory intentions. The fact that imports have steadily increased under the operations of the act supplies conclusive demonstration that this theory of the purpose of the law is correct. And it may be added that the continuous decline of the prices of imported commodities upon which the duties were in fact raised proves, with equal conclusiveness, that Europeans and not Americans bear the burden of the higher duties. TOO MUCH JELLY. The Madera Mercury says that the ladies of that place can render important service to the Midwinter Fair commissioners by making jelly.

Yes, the ladies can make jelly. There is no doubt ofjthat. They made enough of it for the World's Fair to sink a ship. Jelly came pouring in from every precinet by the dozen and by the case. There was practically 110 end to the jelly, except where one invoice ended and the next commenced.

It began to look as though all the fruit in California had been made into jelly, but such was not really the case, for there was some left for other purposes. Now, THE REPUBLICAN has unbounded faith. in the ability of the ladies to render distinguished and important service in the matter of preparing an exhibit of the country's products, and what it desires to protest against is the idea of limiting their efforts to the making of jelly. Jelly is a good thing, of course, but it is one of the few good things which can be made just as well in other places as it can in California. It can be made anywhere and of almost anything, and so far as attractiveness of appearance is concerned a jelly palace made in Chicago from pigs' feet and other refuse of the slaughter house would meet with just as much aproval as the most lovely jars of jelly which the handsome women of California can produce from our most incomparably delicious fruit.

Jelly making, therefore, for the purposes of exhibition, we consider a clear waste of materia! and human endeavor. The magnificent size, form and color of our matchless fruit is destroyed to produce it, whereas if the ladies were persuaded to give the same labor and attention to preserving this fruit in its natural form and color they would have something to show the equal of which can not come from the preserving pans of all christendom, By all means secure the services of the ladies of Madera, Brother Mercury, but don't make the mistake of advising them to make jelly. Listening to your modest request one would think that jelly is the only creditable thing the ladies of Madera can make. The thought is ungallant and absurd. A collection of those fat, rosy Madera babies would attract more admiration than a mountain of jelly.

A VINEYARDIST WAS talking about the tariff on raisins a few days ago, and this is the way he expressed himself: "The trouble with us is that there is not enough duty on raisins; the raisin industry in California is not enough protected. The shipments of Spanish raisins are sold as soon as soon as they arrive in New York, not because they are better in quality but simply because they are put up in better style-are better assorted and packed, therefore more saleable in eastern cities. "We have to pay $1.15 a day to men who never before packed grapes, while the raisin industry in Spain is in the hands of vineyardists and laborers who have been brought up in that business. The wages paid are but 50 cents a day. "The Spanish raisins are all hand packed- work cannot be done by machinery--therefore it is impossible for us to compete unless we have more duty on the foreign article.

There should be some duty also on currants, which now come in free. Times co will be very hard in California for raisin farmers if the industry is not well protected. How can laborer that free trade is a good policy?" -Kern County Echo. It is safe to predict that no sensible American laboring man will say that free trade is a good thing during the next quarter of a century, notwithstanding the fact that tens of thousands of them voted for it in the last election. The votes of the laboring classes of this country were cast for free trade last fall on prejudice, a prejudice created by the constant assertions of the Democratic party that the monopolies and trusts are the sole beneficiaries of a protective tariff.

In the face of the fact that the standard of living and wages of the American workingmen is the highest in the world, they were led to an alleged attack on the robbers and tyrants otherwise known as the manufacturers and producers. Some of the fruits of their victory are already before them, and in the light of their present experience the reversal of their verdict would be overwhelming if the proposition were again submitted to them. The raisin industry is but a fair sample of other protected home industries, with the difference only that some of them have a larger share of protection than is afforded by the present duty on raisins. The Kern county vineyardist is eminently sound in his conclusion that the tariff on raising should be increased. It is not now sufficient to equalize the difference in cost of production.

THE Pacific Insurance Union by its raise in the rates which have prevailed in the counties of this valley for several years, is making the way clear to much needed legislation on the matter of insurance. If there is any truth in the complaint that the companies have sustained serious losses by reason of incendiary fires, the proper remedy does not lie in higher rates, but in a law which will compel the companies to pay the face of their policies, thus preventing over insurance, the principle cause of incendiarism wherever it exists. As matters now stand the insurance companies are participants in every crime of this kind which is committed for the purpose of securing indemnity. In order to premiums property is over-insured, and the companies themselves, out of their own greed, furnish the motive for kindling destructive fires: then, when loss comes, they fall back upon the law which permits them to prove that the property was worth less than the amount for which it was insured. This is a condition of things which the public cannot afford to submit to, and it must be remedied by a law which goes to the source of the whole trouble, and prevents the insurance of property above the line of safety.

THE free silver men who talk of retaliating by becoming free traders might inflict further anguish upon themselves by joining the Prohibitionists and shutting off their supply of booze. THE reasonable suggestions made by the insurance companies' representative relative to the prevention of fire should be promptly acted upon. GROVER CLEVELAND should be taught the important lesson that no man is greater than the laws of this country. $1.85, higher ever before. San county's tax rate is fixed at THE STATE TAX LEVY Unfair Assessments Made in Some Localities.

THE COUNTRY COUNTIES CINCHED How San Francisco After Absorbing the Wealth of the State Avoids Sharing in Taxation. Taxpayers, no doubt, are surprised to learn that there has been an increase of the state rate from 46.6 cents of last year to 57.6 cents for the current year, a difference of 11 cents. During the session of the legislature Governor Markham knifed appropriations right and left where they were not matters of absolute necessity and his course was consistant with the declarations of the platform upon which he was elected. As usual San Francisco resorted to its old time tactics of an unfair and inadequate assessment in order to avoid paying its just portion of the taxes. It was expected that the state board of equalization would raise this assessment to some decent figure, but such was not the case.

The Sacramento Bee has given some interesting facts for this increase of the rate. The board did this after it was thoroughly conversant with the careless and slipshod manner in which San Francisco property is assessed. There was a vast amount of cumulative evidence before the board to show the negligent and almost criminal methods pursued in San Francisco by those authorized to levy an assessment and collect the taxes. This evidence in reference to the assessment may be summarized as follows: First- January 1, 1893, until the first Monday in March, 1893, when the assessment was made, the Hibernia Savings bank and the German Loan and Savings bank loaned $615,072 on property assessed at $413,716. Second Out of 120 appraisements, made between January 1, 1893, and the first Monday in March, 1893, the assessment on the properties was only 46 per cent of the appraisements.

Third--During the ten months prior to the first Monday in March the real estate sales in San Francisco amounted to $4,344,490, while the assessment on the property sold amounted to only $2,140,555. The Hibernia bank and the German Loan Savings bank are two very conservative and safe monetary institutions. The law says that savings banks shall not loan money on property above 60 per cent of its valuation. The banks mentioned have conformed to the law. It will thus be seen that these banks in their loans exceeded the assessments $101,355.

Those who watched closely the proceedings of the board were confident that, in justice to the property owners of the state, the assessment of San Francisco would be raised by the equalizers fully 20 per cent. The action of the board in letting the assessment of San Francisco remain where it was last year, has brought contumely upon that body. The efficient chairman of the board, L. C. Morehouse, and also R.

H. Beamer, fought gallantly to have the assessment raised to a figure commensurate with fairness. Their views were first shared with Equalizer J. R. Hebbron from the southern district, for Mr.

Hebbron, during an executive session of the board, moved that the assessment of San 1 Francisco be raised 25 per cent. Subsequently he voted to raise the assessment 20 per cent. Los Angeles county is in Hebron's district. The assessment of Los Angeles county is nearly as faulty as San Francisco. The city assessment of Los Angeles is several million dollars higher than the assessment of the city made by the county assessor.

In outside property a wonderful low figure is placed on it; a figure far below its real or selling value. The highest assessment on orchard land in Los Angeles, not including the trees, is $150. In Yolo county, wheat land, adjacent to Woodland, is assessessed at $150 an acre. In Fresno county similar land near the city is assessed at $250 per acre. Monday in March, $5,000,000 capiBetween January 1st and first nthe tal was invested in Los Angeles city, which was not recognized by the assessor.

Both Mr. Morehouse and Mr. Beamer made a personal investigation of values in Los Angeles county. From the result of this investigation and the data which they had prepared concerning the wealth of the county, these gentlemen favored raising the assessment of the county 15 per cent. Mr.

Hebbron was in favor of raising the assessment of the county, for, during the deliberations of the board, he moved that it first be raised per cent and subsequently 9 per cent. When Mr. Hebbron found, so it is charged by his associates, that Los Angeles county would be raised 15 per cent, he formed a coalition with Equalizer Swan and Controller Colgan, the result being that the motion to raise San Francisco 20 per cent was reconsidered and the last year's assessment substituted, Los Angeles also escaping a just and equitable raise. What was the result of this plot? The raising of the tax levy 11 cents, cents higher than the limit fixed in the Republican platform, on which the present state officers, including Colgan, were elected. But the renouncing by Colgan of the platform on which he was elected is of trivial moment, great as it is, when compared to the injustice which has been done the tax payers of this state.

The counties, outside of Los Angeles and San Francisco assessed for nearly twothirds of their -have an additional tax placed upon them in order that San Francisco and Los Angeles may escape being assessed at a ratio corresponding somewhere near to what the other counties are assessed. The result is that every county in the state. except the two mentioned, is paying 3 cents more on every $100 than it should, owing 2 to the machinations and chicanery of three members of the state board of equalization, who, thirsting for refuse further to political discharge the preferment, duties deliberately they were elected to perform. This is a crying shame. It is a difficult matter to arrive at the value of personal property in large cities, but the value of real estate can be easily determined.

That real estate in San Francisco and Los Angeles is assessed far below its real value and sometimes not at all is beyond question. However, this is on a par with practice long in vogue of stufling the census of children of school age with fictitious names for the purpose of securing an undue proportion of the state school funds to the detriment of the rural counties. Doesn't Want It. The Merced Star hopes the efforts to have the next trial of the Heath case held in Merced county will fail. The Star says they have enough troubles of their own up there.

It adds: "The attorneys who conducted portions of Heath's defense would find themselves in jail for contempt of court if they introduced such methods in the superior court of this county." Red Bluff celebrated the arrival of the snag boat Seizer Wednesday. It is the first boat to reach Red Bluff since 1881. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY TRAINS LEAVE FRESNO DAILY: 1.25 A.M.-Los ANGELES EXPRESS--For Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside. 100 A.M. EXPRESS- For Collis, Mendota, Newman, San Francisco, Sacramento and North.

3.20 A.M. -PRESSO LOCAL -for Merced, San Francisco and way points. 5.00 A.M.- MIXED TRAIN--Wednesday only, for Sanger Junction, Reedley, Porterville and Poso. 7.00 M. -MIXED for Eelma, Trever, Goshen Junction and Tulare.

1,30 A.M.- MIXED TRAIN -Daily except Sunday and Wednesday, for Porterville and way sttions. 8.15 A. TRAIN -Daily, for, Lathrop and all way stations. 10.15 -MIXED TRAIN--For Pollasky and all way stations. Arrives at Fresno returning at 2 m.

12.10 P.M. -EX PRESS- For Merced, San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, Ogden and East. 5.80 P.M. DAILY -For Sanger Junction, Reedley, Porterville and way stations. 5.50 POL- SUNSET ROUTE ATLANTIC EXPRESS- -For Los Angeles, New Orleans and East.

RICH GRAY, Gen. Traitc Manager, T. I. GOODMAN, Gen. Pasg, Agent.

U. S. Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, FRESNO, Sept. taken at 5 p.m. Dew Humidity, per Wind, miles per hour Maximum temperature for past 21 ROUES Minimum temperature for past 2 Rainfall past 24 hours, inches.

.00 Total rainfall for season, .01 Weather Forecast. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Official forecast for twenty-four hours ending midnight, September 15. Fair weather; warmer Friday; variable winds becoming westerly. EVENTS.

TO COME. September 16-Examination of new pupils at city schools at September 16- Meeting of City Board of Editcation at 7.80 p.m. September 18- Trials begin on Judge Holmes' criminal calendar. September p.m. -City Council, Regular meeting October 3-Motion for change of venue In The People vs.

Richard S. Heath. October 9. Criminal cases set for trial before Judge Harris. MIZPAH.

As I leave thee, thou fondest and fairest, And take up this journey apart, The tenderest wish and the dearest Springs up to the lip from the heart. It is "Mizpah," -that old older, none sweeter to me, Than this: "The Lord, our Preserver, Keep watch between me and thee." Through moments of longing and hoping, Our hearts throbbing quick from the fears That mist-like our pathways oft darken; When grief shall break forth into tears; When the trials of life shall beset 115, Our city of refuge shall be: He wills it, 'tis well! and we'll trust Him To keep watch between me and thee!" Through days that are glowing with gludness, When love lends its luster to life; When with radiance of smiles and of sunshine Life's pathway with beauty is rife. Though absent so far from each other, Over mountains, the vales or the sea, May the author of goodness and mercy Keep watch between me and thee. As the Moslems turn always toward Mecca. Their faces and thoughts when they pray, So, to thee, shall I turn while we're parted, With this wish on my heart every day: May the Father in peace and compassion, May the King of the land and the gen, May He that kept watch over Israel Keep watch between me and NATURE'S MONEY." By the almost unanimous consent of all civilized nations, and one may say by the fiat of Nature herself, gold is and will continue to be the money of the orator in the United States Senate.

But is it true? Has nature miser turned, That she deals money with a niggard hand? she the way of parsimony learned Has she to starve her children lately planned? Six hundred million dollars she allows For fact ries, commerce, and the needs of state! (Two-thirds of which our speculators house) Then nature's turned niggard and ingrate! Nine dollars, then, in every free man's purse! (Of which to millionaires we donate six) The last by far exceeds the primal curse. Faith! Nature's put us in a deuced fix, And let's suppose the mines refuse to yield, The gold runs out; we're moneyless, forlorn; For lack of coin the grain rots in the field, And starving thousands wish they ne'er were born. Still "gold is nature's money; if it's scantThe more's the pity, pity 'tis, 'tis trueYet on that platform we'll our banner plant. Making our dimes the work of dollars do. And if we starve, why, still 'tis nature's law; Let us in deep submission bow each bead, Holding Dame Nature in mysterious awe, And crying "Selah! while we lack for bread.

fall. -A. J. in Stockton Mail. BORN.

What ROT it is! Yet financiers" maintain That, lacking gold, the fact'ry's wheels must still, And men must starve while rots the yellow grain, And hushed must be the 'foretime busy mill, And so of money, which is a machine, We've made a Juggernaut to crush us a We've made a god of tinsel, yellow sheen, Which fools and madmen worship ere mey MORRISON- -In Temperance colony, September 7, 1898, to the wife of D. Morrison, a son. LARSEN-In this city, September 6, 1893, to the wife of George Larsen, a son. DONAH0O-In San Jose, September 9, 1898, to Mr. and Mrs.

F. L. Donahoo, a daughter. MARRIED. BAGBY-GIBBONS- -In this city, September 18, 1898, by Recorder A.

M. Clark, A. W. Bagby of Fresno, and Miss Hattie Gibbons of Auberry Valley. HUNSAKER STURGEON -In this city, September 13, 1893, by Judge A.

Holmes, Sam HunHunsaker of Merced, and Miss Laura Sturgeon of Sanger. -In Fresno, September 12, 1598, by Judge Holmes, John Foye and Mrs. Unity Cranmer. OSBORN-GRAVES -In Fresno. September 8, 1893, Justice W.

Crichton ofliciating, R. E. Osborn of Caruthers and Ellen Graves of Lemoore. -In Fowler, September 7, 1893, C. C.

Hudson and Miss Jennie Priest. LUDHER--In Kutner colony, September 11, 1892, A. Ludher, aged 70 years and 9 months. FRESH -In this city, September 11, 1892, James Richter Fresh, aged 2 years and 1 month: son. of Mr.

and Mrs. T. W. Fresh of Glenn evenue. GOINS- In this city, September 13, Reuben Moses Goins, (colored) aged 58 years, a 118- tive of South Carolina.

BOLLINGER -Near Pollasky, September 7, Mrs. Lavina Bollinger, aged years. REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. FRIDAY, September 8. State of California to Edward Prothers, of of see 17, 14 8, 28 e.

Knowles etux to A Orr, lots 15 to 18, bik 4, Arrant's add to Selma, $10. United States to William Connor, of sec 17, 14s. 12 e. Stevens to Emma Stevens, lots 5 to 9, 22, 23 and 24, blk 30; lots 30 to 15, and 24 to 30. blk 31, Belmont add to Fresno, $10.

Mrs Mary Monroe et al to Mrs Toe A Barr lots 15 to 19, Monroe tract, MONDAY, September Arnold et ux to McCaleb, lot 1 1, see 30, 14 17 $75. George Sterling et ux to Fred Dwight, lot 5, Sterling colony, $2000. Fred Dwight et ux to Hooker, lot 5, Sterling colony, $2030. Dwight et ux to Hooker, lots 12 and 18, 80 aud 31, blk 3, Spelton's add to Selma, $1. Johnnie Walton et al, lots 27 and 28, bik 160, Sanger Heights add to Sanger, 9500.

Milton Guion to II Guion, 1 17 and 18, bik 7, Fresno, $1. Jay Scott. sheriff, to Phillip Duffy, lota 96 and 134, Central California Colony, $2034.90. Jonathan Esrey et ux to Daniel Rhoads, of of sec 28, 18 1 20 $5084. R.

Tibbetts et ux to Williams et al, lots 17 and 18, b1k 29, Coalinga, $10. Jay lot Scott, sheriff, to IT McKenzie, portion of 6, Terry tract, $1280. United States to Franklin Murray, of sec 15, 15 15 e. Smith to Wright, of of ne) 4 of see 6, 14 22 $25. Louis Einstein to Louis Rosenberg, lot 25, blk 76, Fresno, $10, TUESDAY, September 12.

Charles Gomez sel, to Mary Blasingame, of and ny, of of see 28, 11 6, 21 $500. State of California to Cohn, of of sect, 14 28 e. THURSDAY, September 14. Brattin to Minnie Dill, lots 26 to 40, Taylor's add to Huron, $10. Jay Scott, sheriff, to Vartanian, lots 25 to 32, blk 221, Fresno, $1050.

FT Berry, commissioner, to Colsou, of Edmund of sec 13s, 21 $78.8. Garrette et ux to Julia Jones et al lots 6, blk 18; lot bik 14, Parkhurst's South Villa add to Sanger, $131.80. Lucy Kenneson to Butler, lots 15, 16 and 21, blk 5. Altamont add to Fresno, $10. -BACH.

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