Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-21
WHAT THE COUNTRY PAPERS SAY.


Stockton Herald. That the people as a
general thing are thinking for themselves,
and are not-as much as they used to be-
| allowing others to think and conclude for
| them.
| Truckee Republican That when asked
if the industries of this section are of a
permanent character, it is only necessary
to refer to the constant increase and steady
growth of all kinds of trade in the Truckee
basin.
| San Jose Times. That in Young Utah -
there is hope of final solution of the
Mormon problem, nor can the wholesale
Importation of the most easily deluded and
superstitious of Europeans protract the re.
suit very many years.
| Petaluma Argus. That all over the land
there seems to be a glow of generous and
good feeling which inclines all to direct
their energies toward the repair and build
ing up of their own material prosperity
instead of wasting their time and energies
in bootless partisan strife.
| Los Angeles Commercial. That it seems
as if class of persons in Arizona desire
the war to go on for the sake of the loaves
and fishes it might bring into their net, but
General Wilcox has spoiled their high
hopes and golden expectations by driving
the savages out of the country.
| Vallejo Chronicle. That it is unjust to
commercial interests to permit the present
monopoly of pilotage from San Francisco
to Vallejo and Mare Island any longer to
continue. It would be quite as sensible to
entirely abolish this branch OF the pilotagc
as to confine it to one person.
Sai;nas City Iaaer That the hydraulic
miners must not be permitted to wash
down the mountains and cover up and
destroy the homes of the people in the
valleys below; they must either stop that
kind Of mining or see to it that their tail
ings do not fill up the rivers and lay waste
the farms along their banks.
| Placerville Democrat. That the legal
presumption should be in the American
widows capacity and fitness for taking
possession of the property and charge of
the children, and the rule should be against
any interference with such cases by Courts,
except on showing of incapaeity or un-
fitness.
San Diego Ne,cs.. The caucus system
seems to grow and strengthen. 1t seems
more now the third house than even the
lobby, filed with parties interested in se-
curing doubtful legislation. Scarcely any
thing can be done, apparently, without the
caucus. It has its good points and its bad
ones, like all else pertaining to politics, or,
in fact, other matters.
Nevada Transcript. That if the Gran
gers on the doomed lowlands must waste
their time railing and cursing while they
are being buried, let them hurl their in
vectives ut the real enemy-the glowering
Storm King who opens the clouds and
sends oceans of water down on the loamy
hills, causing them to melt away like ice
beneath summers sun.
San Mateo Gazette That there is some
thing far more practical and far more i'm
portent than the mere qualification of
national vanity, in the series of brilliant
victories recently achieved by American
horses on the French and English turf. In
| fact those victories, while they excite our
enthusiasm and fatter our pride, possess
at the same time substantial commercial
value.
Marysville Appeal. That the hydraulic
miners have the temerity and boldness to
Jump" ali the land they need in the Sac
ramento valley for dumping ground. With
out resemblance of right the miners have
occupied the river channels till they are
checked up and rendered useless for COM
mercial purposes, and they now insist upon
appropriating and destroying the private
lands of the farm er.
Oakland Tribune That the majesty of
the law is becouing enyeloped in the cob
webs of mystical technical absurdities, and
the people are losing their respect for it.
It is time that the Courts dealt out more
sense and less sophistry more law and less
legal technicalities more sound reason and
less sublimated rigmarole more attention
paid to equity and justice, and less to
special pleadings.
Marysville Express That there is now
in the river beds enough debris to cover
| the whole country between here and Wood
land ten feet deep in slumgullion. The
Courts can't stop it. They may enjoih
miners, but their injunctions on the great
God of nature would be quite harmless.
And this vast body Of slickens is bound to
come down on the valley if measures are
not taken to arrest its downward flow.
! Keep tine slickens in the mountains. Dom t
permit it to ever reach the valleys.
This has been good wheat season. The
yield was fair and prices are satisfactory.
| It costs less to raise wheat in Merced coun-
| ty than in any other part of these United
States. Land is cheap. Rents have been
very reasonable, and in good seasons. with
a fair market, wheat is a good profitable
i industry. There is much substantial i'm
provement in town and county this season.
More fencing and building lumber has been
shipped here than at any time since the
town was built. The material increase OF
population makes good showing. Mer-
ced Star.
Salt Lake Ne,cs: That /" Mormon plu-
raj marriage lacks the essential elements TO
the crime of bigamy. In it man who
has living wife marries another with the
knowledge and consent of all the parties.
He does not deceive the first wife neither
does he betray the second. The ceremony
| is performed with full understanding of
the relations existing and to be established.
The man, the women, the minister and all
| the participants believe that they are doing
right. They have no doubt that the plural
marriage is as sacred in the sight of God
and as binding upon the principals as any
solemn covenant can possibly be.