Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-14
EXPRESSIONS OF THE PRESS,

The more we think about irrigation in
| this country, the more we become con-
WINGED that it is question requiring ma
| tional rather than local solution 1t is too
| big subject for local treatment, except in
the merest experimental way.-Reno Ga
| zette.
In view of the fact that Butte county is
on the eve of great prosperity and the rip
| piles of springs tidal wave of immigration
are already breaking on our country, it
| stands US in hand to have everything ready
to meet the emergency. Inquiries for land
! are of every day occurrence, and sales are
readily being made.-BiggS Argus.
While the political ideas of the Emperor
have not been progressive, save from mil
itary and imperial standpoint, the unifica-
ton of Germany marks his reign with a
great achievement. And that consolida-
ton was necessary step towards more
liberal government and the coming sover-
eighty OF the people.-Marysrille appeal.
New residents of California. who are
pleased with the country, may in private
correspondence send back accounts of
| what they see; but few have the time to
devote to elaborate letters, and brief ones
will not be satisfactory. These people can
better accomplish their purpose by send
ing the local papers regularly to their East
ern friends.-Sdn Jose Times.
1t is the obvious Republican policy to
welcome the New South" to practical and
| efficient cooperation in rescuing it from
| the destructive or repressive Bourbonism
of the old Southern Democracy based on
slavery and free trade, and in giving TO its
new industrial and mining developments
the alliance of the Republican States in
the North Virginia (Neu.) Enterprise.
We have the bill of the Democratic
Committee of Ways and Means. Is it a
revenue reform bill? 1t is impossible to
to call it such. A bill merely to reduce
revenue would not necessarily be reform
| bill still less is bill reform bill when it
proposes to reduce the revenue on princi-
pies of manifest injustice, chiefly to SUBJ
serve partisan Objects Portland Orego,aian.
II it is really the wish and intention of
Congress to advance the interests of the
| industrial classes, why don't it set about
it in practical, common sense way? In
stead of placing tax upon everything the
poor man requires for subsistence, should
not Congress direct its attention to re-
striction of immigration to the betterment
of the producers of the country ?-Lompoc
Record.
No one wants the output of the precious
metals curtalleQ. Our uS1l is against the
destructive methods employed to extract
the gold from our hills and mountains
against the ruin of our farms, valleys and
navigable waters. Our opposition is justi-
| fed by every consideration, even to the ex-
tent of demanding that the gold be allowed
| to remain in the bowels of the earth for all
| time rather than to sacrifice these great and
abiding interests.-Sutter Farmer.
| Surprising the United States to be en-
gagged in foreign war, how many coolies
| could be relied upon to enlist in the mill
tary ranks and of what value would thew
| be. when found there? 1t would be safe
To say that not dozen Mongol volunteers
would turn up in the whole country If a
draft were declared, in which they were
| included, there would be such an exodus for
the Flowery Kingdom as had never been
witnessed before.-Oakldnd Herald.
Be- the removal of the tax on lumber we
gain almost inestimsble advantages. The
price of lumber enters into the cost of liv-
| ing of all the families in the State, no mat
ter whether they live in their own or in
rented houses. 1t is one of the chief neces-
sites of modern life. Besides, the tariff on
this commodity operated as a bounty on
forest destruction. and its abolition will be
check to the timber rings which have
been robbipg the Government of its tim
ber.-Ialarc gGaes,