Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-03
EXPRESSIONS OF THE PRESS.

With a few exceptions that we are best
without, it is an indisputabe fact that we
| produce about all that can in anywise con-
| tribute to the comfort or happiness of man.
-Modesto NetUs.
The next thing in order, and it is a mat
| ter in which every Democrat should take a
| hand, is to secure Cleveland delegation of
| the very best men in the party to send to
the st. Louis Convention.-.Stockton Mail
| The Legislature of Ohio is discussing the
question as to the best method of DESTROY
ing the English sparrow. There is nothing
| which gives a sparrow so much amuse-
ment as seeing statesmen thus employed
NeW York World.
1t is believed in Massachusetts commune
ties that the devil has an immense tobacco
patch in the agricultural annex to Hades,
and that it is worked by ministers of the
gospel who smoked or chewed the weed
while on earth.-C0urier-J Journal.
The World is the name of new journal
printed at Charleston, s. G. AT first it was
a puzzle what in the world this World was
for. The explanation of the matter is now
at hand. The World is for David B. Hill
for President.-Ph ilddelphia Record
Denis Kearney threatens to pelt Con-
gresham Hit with dead cats. Somebody
can confer favor on this country by TAX
ing Kearney up in balloon and dropping
him into Shanghai or Hongkong. Give
the Chinese chance at Kearney.-New
York Graphic.
1t must be remembered that the fisheries
treaty is not treaty covering the whole
ground, but merely an agreement about the
Interpretation to be given to the treaty of
1878, a question which has proved a con-
slant source of irritation to the two coun-
tries since 1866. r. Alta.
By system of figuring based on the in
crease of postal business, the Chronicle cal
culates that Oakland has $4,000 population
By system of triangulation somewhat
similar, John Phoenix discovered that the
distance from Oakland to San Francisco is
only half a mile.-Oaktand Enquirer
The Castor Oil Trust has succeeded in
raising the cost of that purgative COM
modify from 40 cents to 81 "a per gallon.
Perhaps this little arrangement shows as
well as any other the disposition of specu-
lative capitalists to go through the consum-
ers of the country.-PhiIadetphiG Record
The California high prices, of which
Senator Blackburn complains, originate
with the climate out that way. There is
still good deal of gold dust floating in
serb no small quantity of precious metal,
must expect to pay for what they GET
Courier Journal.
These pitched battles between EMPLOYERS
and employees are bound to come some
times, but they should be made as infre-
quent as possible and never waged except
for good cause and when there is Teasona-
BILE prospect of success. Industrial wars
are like other wars in this respect. Every
nation must fight occasionally, but that ne
cessity does not justify a nation in being
always engaged in a war or in conducting
its warfare with unnecessary cruelty or de-
Oakland Enquirer.
The fault with Central California has
been that she is too large and her soil too
generous and extensive to be cornered,"
but the signs of the times portend a change;
change that will astonish the oldest in
habitant; change that will substitute the
finer breeds of herds and fiocks, all requr-
ing more labor and deeper thought, is
bound to stir up the lethargy of our people
and inaugura.e new era of progress that
will fill our State with new population,
new industries, new vigor and greater and
more enduring prosperity.-RedB Bluff Peo-
pies Cause.
The olive is to be source OF great wealth
to Northern California. 1t will flourish here
better than in Italy, where about two
million acres are devoted to the tree. We
say better advisedly, because in the new
soil of this State the yield is fully double
to the acre attained in the worn soil of
Italy. There is no tree worthy of so much
attention here. It's pre- eminently adapted
to the foothill region, since it thrives in the
driest and most rocky soils without irriga-
ton, and in such situations gives oil of q
finer quality than that obtained from olive
orchards on rich alluvial soil. But both
valley and foothills are suitable to the
olive.-Orovitle Register.
Senator Mitchell is not apparently dis
posed to accept the antiChinese bill re-
ported by the Senate Com mittee on Foreign
Relations as a fair substitute for his own.
The difference mainly is this: Senator
Mitchell proposes to stop Chinese immigra-
ton after two years, while the Stewart bill
only proposes to take from Chinese who
departed from the United States between
November II, 1880, and June 6, 1882, the
right to return unless said right is exer-
cised within ninety days. Both bills are,
in strict sense violation of the treaty
Mitchell. however, proposes to violate it
after due notice and upon broad princi-
pie, while the Stewart bill proposes to vio-
late it to relieve the country from admitting
Chinese in the habeas corpus process. The
position of the Stewart bill and the Courts
is illogical The Courts have admitted the
Chinese on the previous-residence plea on
the ground that the treaty gave certain Chi
nese the right to return, and that an Act of
Congress could not properly take that right
from them. Yet the Stewart bill proposes
TO do by Act of Congress what the Courts
have declared could not be done by an Act
of Congress-. +. Call.