Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-12
WHAT THE coUNrRY PRESS SAY.

San Jose Mercury That there are many
towns in this State, with only few hun
cred inhabitants and some that are but
little more than cross roads, where news
papers are published-journals which, in
the matter of appearance and ability, would
do credit to city of ten thousand inhabi-
tants. How their publishers manage to
live and pay their debts is one of the mys.
teries of existence that we have never been
able to solve. Some of them, we appre.
hend, have hard time of it-can scarcely
keep soul and body together. They are
too proud to beg, too honest to steal and
SO they go on from week to week coming
their brains into golden thoughts for the
instruction of the young for the promotion
the edifcation of all.
Stockton Herald. That the San Fran.
cisco Stock Boards have transacted COM
paratively little business for several months
past, and every effort that is made to get
up an excitement to create boom in stocks
proves a failure. In the meantime the
banks of the State have been forced to re-
duce their rates of interest, and legitimate
business enterprises are being projected
which must add materially to the perma-
nent prosperity of the people. The results
of stock speculations have been most dis
astrous to majority of those who have
engaged in that business, and the develop.
ment of the latent resources of the State
has been retarded by the mania
for gambling, which has so generally
prevailed among all classes of people.
Petaluma Argas That we have become
used to seeing the announcement made in
California journals that this or that bank
ing institution has been examined by one
or all cur Bank Commissioners, and found
to be perfectly solvent. These announce
ments may be, and doubtless are, satisfac-
tory to the general public, but to those
who know that some members of that Com.
mission have not business education enough
to enable them to understand anything
about banking business, these reports sig
Nifty little or nothing. If the cashiers ard
officers CT banks are honest, and faithfully
discharge their duties, all will be well, but
if not, they can, in ninety.nine cases in a
hundred, deceive the sharpest Bank Com
missioners.
CoIusa Sun. That Colusa county is woe
fully behind in the matter of fruit. The
of land is below that of other localities less
favored. From other sections of the State
pears, grapes, ETC., are shipped fresh and
green to the Eastern States. In some Sec
tiors fortunes have been made raising and
canning apricots. As high as $500 an acre
has been paid for land near San Jose to
plant to French prunes, and four crops
has paid the money back. All these things
will grow just as well in Colusa county.
We are foremost in wheat-why not be
foremost in fruit? We have the soil and
climate. What else is lacking?
Oakland Times. That the destruction of
farming land and the obstruction of water.
courses are not the only evils-the effect
of this controversy has been damaging to
the good name Of the State abroad. In
tending immigrants are fearful that if they
come and secure land it may be rendered
worthless. A contest of this kind pro-
notes corruption in public matters, retards
investment, and is an incubus upon indus
try. We believe that the miners can take
care of their debris at their own expense
and still derive very large profits from their
operations. If their business is not good
enough for that, there can be no reasonable
excuse for maintaining it.
Oakland Times. That modern trials have
very often depended upon the testimony
of what are called "experts" in some pro-
fession OF trade. The list of matters
which can be spoken of on the witness
stand only by these experts, is constantly
increasing and the policy tends to defeat
the true ends of justice. In the Guiteau
case, there will be this fictitions respect
for the testimony of experts, to which the
public cannot attach any more Importance
than they would to the declarations of any
men who are fairly well informed
Marin Journal. That taxation is the
great question .before our people. We
are the best taxed nation in the world. A
great European statesman said that free
people would impose more taxes on them
selves than any despot could collect at the
point of the bayonet. We are proving his
words to be true. The great Republic is
about the best taxed people on earth.
Colonel Hogg, in speaking TO the citizen
meeting at Albany. Oregon, recently, said /:
That al reports to the contrary notWith-
standing. the Oregon Pacific Railroad will
be built, owned and controlled by the pres
ent owners. and that as soon as possible
the iron horse will run between Corvallis
and the Yaquina bay, and the road be
pushed forward to Boise City.