The record-union., 1893-02-22
OUR ANNIVERSARY.

This journal to-day enters upon the
forty-third year of its existence, the
present number being the first of the
eighty-fifth volume. The files of this
paper during all that long period really
represent the history of California as a
State of the Federal Union. They cover
the most marked and important period of
the nineteenth century.
Since the first number went to press in
1851 the paper has witnessed the remak-
ing of the map of Europe, the opening
and close of the two most stupendous
wars fthe worlds history, the spanning
of the continent by railroads and the
bridging of many oceans by telegraphic
cables.
1t has seen the slowest give way to the
most rapid means of transportation and
communication. 1t has been a factor in
the most progressive marches ever made
in the annals of civilization. 1t has seen
what were the wilds of the continent peo-
pied by industrial human beings, villages
and cities supplant the wigwams of saw
ages and railroad depots take the place of
far outlying border military stations.
1t has in that period recorded the won
ders of electrical development and kept
its columns abreast with the march of
discovery and the advance of science. 1t
has noted the wonderful progress made
by sanitary science and preventive medi-
cine, and made record of the almost mag
ical development of labor-saving devices.
Its pages prove that all conditions In
this eventful period have really been bet
tered; that time and distance have been
communication; that labor has been
lightened by inventive genius, rewarded
by larger wages and broader opportuni-
ties; American literature fostered by lib
eral laws; art and discovery promoted by
enlightenment and by public and private
generosity; systems of education broad.
OF government extended. preserved ant
strengthened; individual human right.
guarded and their guarantees made
stronger; new States carved out of once
unoccupied territory; the bowels of tn,
earth explored for useful minerals, anC
The fartherest and once inaccessible por
lions of the globe explored and mapped
out.
Indeed, in all directions, upon all sides
the record of our pages reveal expansion
progress, betterment and broader knowl
edge of the earth we inhabit Save il
two essential particulars has there beer
10 marked progress in the half century
TINS almost embraced, and that is in th
unveiling of the icy mysteries of the tw,
polar regions.
The REcoRD-UNIoN and WEEKLY
UNION to-day hail and greet their tens O
thousands of readers with much of Opt
mistic congratulation, believing the worl,
better. wiser. happier and men bette
conditioned, freer and more hopeful thai
in any other period of the history of tn
qlobe, These two journals look out int
the future with the hope inspired by tn
same sentiment, satisfied with thei
record of helpfulness in the past, an
fred by an honest ambition for the tim
TO come.
We have sought to make these journal
models of cleanliness, fairness, helpful
ness and progressiveness. We are nc
conscious of having thrown any obstacle
in the way of truth, and entertain th
pardonable pride that these papers hav
not been unimportant factors in breakin
the way through paths beset by errc
and numbered by fossilized and MOI
progressive ideas.
Rejoicing in our own birthday ann
versary we send greeting to all toilers
the press with the wish that they ma
one and all take still loftier and broad'
views of their vocation; more and mo-
realize the importance of their self-in
,osed trusts. and more and more be col
victed of the truth that, as they are pov
arfnl agents for great good, that by ne
Loot and prostitution of their high Off