The record-union., 1893-07-08
PRESS VOICE.
Expressions of Interior Papers o.
the State
On Topics of Current Interest, News
Value and Worthy the
Public Thought.

San Diego Union: call for a
State Road Convention has been issued,
to be held in Sacramento on the 7th
day of September next. The Sac
ramento County Humane Society takes
/ the initiative in the movement. IT is
understood to have the approval of Gov
ernor Markham and many prominent
citizens. The plan, as outlined, is to dis
| seminate information concerning the adj
vances that have been made in road
. building within the last few years; to
gather data about the cost OF road-con-
struction and maintenance in California,
as compared with the cost in other States
and countries under more economical and
! benefcent systems. The relation of such
cost to the profit and loss on articles
which the consumer has to sell will be
the subject of inquiry. If the convention
/ should adopt plan for vigorously press
/ ing the matter Of road reform some pract-
cal results may be expected. The passing
of resolutions declaring the necessity for
/ better roads would amount to nothing
| unless supplemented by more practical
/ action. The people know that they need
better roads. The question which should
! be discussed in convention is how to get
them. Legislation is needed providing
! for the districting of the State and the
systematic improvement of the public
! highways under the direct authority of
the State. If rural life is to be made at
! tractive in California it is by the con-
! struction and maintenance of smooth
roads connecting city and country. Good
roads invite settlement and the develop
ment OF the latent resources of the agri-
cultural districts on which the prosperity
OF the State depends.
| Oroville Mercury: The Sacramento
1 Humane Society has issued call for a
| State Road Convention to convene in sac
ramento on September I, 1893, to fully
| consider the methods for the better MAIN
/ tenance of public roads, To that end the
/ Supervisors of the various counties. in
| Guiding Butte, have been asked to nomi-
1 nate delegates to attend. The importance
/ OF this matter cannot be over estimated
/ and the benefits to be derived are fully
/ set forth in the call issued by the society.
/ We hope to see our board act on the mat
/ ter regardless of the action of the most
/ famous convention which met in Oroville
a couple OF weeks ago and which so en-
/ phatically denounced such attempts. Re-
1 CARELESS OF the sentiment of that meeting
it cannot possibly do any harm for the
4 board to send delegates to listen to the
I talk OF men wiser than we are on the sub
! ject Of good roads.
Bakersfield Californian: Warden Aull
/ of the Folsom Prison has done q good
| thing IN refusing to permit George Son
/ tag to further make himself a hero by
the aid of sensational newspaper writers
/ of the Petite" Bigelow order No more
interviews with the wounded desperate
are to be permitted, and he will in the
future have TO content himself with soli-
| tary musings between four stone walls.
and without the aid of a,newspaper organ
in which to glorify himself and his pals.
Santa Rosa Republican: A more terri
bic object lesson than that from the ty-
phoid infected mining town of Irdnwood,
Mich, was never laid before the Ameri :
can people. Four hundred cases at once