Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-07
wHAr THE PRESS has TO SAY.

Woodland Mail, Newspapers are not
free from the temptation to scatter broad
cast the shortcomings of their neighbors.
From the metropolitan and national Jour-
nals, with their gossip about the Presi-
dent, to the little cireumscribed one-horse
weekly of some rural hamlet, the same
spirit prevails to some extent. We have
here and there a dignified, gossipless Jour
nal, that rises above the vocation of gut
tersnipe, and considers its mission to diff
fuse light, and disseminate knowledge, and
advance morality as its speciality. Its pock-
cts are not filled with obscene pictures. 1t
does not smell of the sewer and cesspool.
Winnemucca SilUer State The railroad
reductions have gone into effect. The
people should bear in mind that these re-
auctions have not been made by the poll.
ticians or by legislative enactments, but by
the voluntary act of the company. The
public ought to understand by this time
that party platforms pledging the reduc-
ton of fares and freights are mere bun
combe, calculated to mislead, and are never
intended to be fulfilled, and that to the
railroad companies themselves, and not to
politicians, they must look for satisfact-
DRY settlement of the railroad question.
Solano Times: Facts should be looked
squarely in the face, and, in trying to
break up opium smoking, 1t is folly to I'M
derestimate its hold upon the peo-
pie. In conversation with one OF our citi.
zens the other day, man who claims to
have had the run of most opium joints 10 the
principal cities and towns lying between
Puget Sound and Los Angeles, says that
opium-smoking is more extensively prac.
ticed in Vallejo than in any other place of
its size on the coast.
Oregon Enterprise. Ninety per cent. of
the immigrants which arrived during the
month of March by ocean steamers are &C
tual settlers, and come well supplied with
funds. Ten per cent. are mechanics and
laborers. The average amount brought
by family is 81 900. In one colony of
eighty six Swedes and Norwegians who ar
rived from Michigan, Wisconsin and Hi.
nois recently, the lowest amount held by
any one family was $500, and the highest
amount s., 200.
The OregOndn Beef, once the most
abundant, is now becoming the scarcest of
our necessary commodities. There is no
probability that we shall ever again have
as cheap beef as in the years gone by, and
very probablyit will never be much cheaper
than it is now. On the one hand the
natural grass ranges are being rapidly mar
rowed, and on the other the consumption
of beef is greatly increasing. Growing
scarcity is the consequence.
Virginia Enterprise i. 1t is not to be ex-
pected that any reduction of rates made
by the Central Pacific Railroad Company
will satisfy the inveterate enemies of that
incorporation. As we have already stated,
the company has reduced its passenger
rates on round trip tickets along the en-
tire length of its route in the State of Ne
vada. Certain reductions will soon follow
on the portion of the road in California.
Stockton Herald It is strange that
bright and worldly-wi women such as
actresses generally are, should almost
unanimously make fools Of themselves in
their matrimonial ventures 1t is only
when an actress marries man who takes
her off the stage, or one of her own pro.
fessiop. that she has reasonable chance of
getting a husband who will not be drag
and shame to her.
Marysville appeal Californians are az.
sured "glorious times" Business will
soon feel the influence which must come
from the fatterlng agricultural prospects.
There will also be better demand for
labor, and wages will 90 up higher. The
money which is locked up in the banks will |
soon begin to move, and the purchasing
power viii be better equalized.
The Stockton Independent believes the