The record-union., 1893-05-22
PRESS VOICE.
What Some of the Interior Papers
Say.
A Free Field for Free Expression by
the State Newspapers on
Different Topics.

| C0luSa san: w hat whole neap OF nom
sense can he gotten up on the very short
est notice! 1t is reported that Mr.. Cleve-
land is masticating, or digesting, as the
case may be, new civil scheme. lie is
| going to have the best, and none but the
| best, regardless of party, in all the offices,
but he is to have nothing to do with pass
| ing on qualifications. He IS going to
| have the Supreme Court do that! All APP
| plicants for all Offices and clerkships
must stand an examination, and that con-
| Quoted by the Supreme Court. The court,
OF course, has plenty of time to attend to
it. Next.
Marysville Appeal: In the matter of
| fruit packages and the picking of the
! fruit itself California has undoubtedly
distanced all competitors. The Golden
State is so far away from every leading
market that she is forced to study and
adopt the best packages as well as the
| best methods in handling packages and
! forwarding. In both packages and style
| of packing she has set the pace for the
rest of the States, and has apparently APP
preached perfection in the art of picking
and packing fruits to secure the best re-
| suits. However, not content with her
! leading position, she has gone further
and is now adding highly attractive la
| bells to render her goods and packag
more inviting to the public eye. 4 box
of California oranges can now be recog-
| niZed block away through its decorated
surface and various hues and colors.
Sonora Union Democrat: Many people
| have been led to believe that mining is a
very hazardous business, and to some
extent it Is. Conducted on business
! principles, for legitimate ends, it is as
safe as farming and more remunerative.
| Crops may fail, oVer-prOduCtion may re-
suit in low prices. Markets must be
sought for farm products, but the mar
lrrfsa rNf& 4 -
There is no danger of over-production of
the precious metals, for the trade of all
nations demands it,
Tulare Register: With representatives
| of one nationality posting notices in San
Francisco offering a price for the head of
a fellow countryman who has incurred
their displeaSure; with another imported
gang in New York plotting to blow up
the police, this brotherhood-Of-m fool
ishness is about played out. If anybody
wants to associate with these savages let
them go to their breeding grounds. If
/ uncombed reformerS want to overthrow
governments and slaughter representa-
tives of law let them try it on in their
own land. 1t is high time to put sense in
the seat of sentiment. In order to secure
one good citizen it is not necessary to
admit ship load of murderous outlaws.
Calaveras Prospect: Do rich men have
rights that poor men or murderers are
bound to respect? AS soon as the
would-be murderer of Mackay, in San
Francisco, was put on trial every paper
that panders to the taste Of the low and
vicious began to attempt to create false
! sympathy for the man by drawing dra-
matte pictures of his poor and friendless
condition as compared with the dapper
and fresh appearance of the millionaire.
Surely this could be no defense for de-
liberately planned crime, which nothing
but an accident prevented from consum-
nation. Never was a murder more de-
liberately considered, or the attempt more
coolly carried out, than was this, as ap-
pears from the testimony. The plea of
temporary insanity only causes a broad
smile, no one pretends to accept it seri-
ously. Yet with all the facts plainly in
evidence one man was found that could
hang the jury. Nor is he wholly
to blame. The city papers are really
more deserving of censure because they
sin after having the light. Because a
man is rich is no reason he should be set
up as a target for every crank to shoot at,
or because a crank is old and feeble and
poor, is it any reason why he should
escape punishment for making use OF
such target?
Petaluma argus: Never since the first
administration of Lincoln has President
been brought face to face with so many
questions of grave and weighty import
and so hazardous to party unity as those
with which Mr.. Cleveland is confronted
at the present time. Tariff reform, the
silver problem and Chinese deportation
must all be met in the near future. and in
each is many Of the ingredients of politi-
cal dynamite. 1t is our judgment that at
the next meeting of Congress all the Re-
publicans will have to do will be to look
on and see the Democratic circus.
Contra Costa Gazette; The latest decis-
ion is that the Worlds Fair will hereafter
be open every day in the week, Sundays
and all. The pressure for admission on
Sunday, the eworkingman's holiday, is toe
strong 10 resist. The ultra religious peo-
pie and the saloOn-keepers united to op-
pose the opening, from widely different
motives, of course, but they worked to-
gether to that end. And now the great
mass of people will have an opportunity
to see the wonderful exhibition without
sacrificing their means of livelihood, and
the saloons will miss rich harvest from
the idle crowd.
Oroville Mercury: The mineral exhibit
of California at the Worlds Fair is said
to be far from satisfactory, and the visit
ing editors are reported to be greatly dis
appointed at the lack OF management and
the total neglect of those in charge to ad-
euuately display the mineral resources OF
this State. In this county this most i'm
portaDt resource was almost entirely
neglected by the Commissioners, and had
it not been for the torethought of one or
two gentlemen, who expended their own
money and time in collecting and for
warding an exhibit, the county would
not have had display Of minerals there
at all.
Colusa SLa: Let US be honest with
ourselves, and look at our own interests
all round. When the harvest for our
grain and our fruit comes around it takes
all the available labor, white and Chinese,
to take care Of it. The fruit industry oi
California is struggling tor footing. The
labor problem is always the serious one
for the growers. 1t is now almost impos-
sible to get labor. Most OF the white la
borers are in the cities and they would