The record-union., 1893-07-05
PRESS VOICE
On Topics Timely and Full of Interest
and Thought.

ana 1nOuSnt.
Mountain, CPlacerville) Democrat: The
result of the pitched battle at the Folsom
Branch Prison is something of which the
State and Ell Dorado County may we'll be
proud. For the gallantry with which
| Lieutenant Briare faced a double danger,
| and for the determined, downright fight
ing qualities exhibited by Warden Aull
and his guards, they should all be bre-
vetted and promoted. For the manner
in which Captain Murphy acquitted him
self we congratulate his people and his
many friends in this county. If Sontag's
legs could be amputated just above his
shoulders, nothing better could be de-
sired.
Oakland Times: AS "the little white
hearse' passes the door of the silurian
| who voted against the reclamation and
parking of the West Oakland marsh. per-
haps the mossback will think of his own
little ones and wonder if the paltry dol
| lars saved by the defeat OF the bond prop
| osition will compensate for the loss of
| even the least of these"
Santa Rosa Republican: Governor Alt
geld Of Illinois may be a very humane
individual, but it will be long time be-
fore he can convince the people that he
has done good thing for humanity in
pardOning the Haymarket anarchists. In
undOing the good work done by Judge
J =
nois has probably accomplished about the
only act of his administration that will
be remembered.
Los Angeles Herald: Nobody will be
| astonished il another tragedy should grow
out of the Heath trial for the murder of
McWhirter in Fresno. There is more
! bad blood exhibited in that trial than
in any other we can call to mind. The
attorneys in the case seem to have been
selected with view to their com mbative-
ness, and there is strong evidence
| throughout the case of bitter and vim
| dictiVe tactiOusness existing in the COM
munity, both tor and against the party
on trial and the man who was slain.
Scarcely day passes in court in which
the prOprieties are not outraged and in
| which bellicCse scenes do not occur.
Marysville Democrat: Saturday last
meeting of the property owners of Butte
County was Geld at Oroville TO consider
the adyisability of bonding the property
of the county for the road purposes. A
man named ID. Hurlbut, said to be a resi-
dent of Biggs, offered a resolution in op-
position to good roads in general and
! newspapers in particular. He was the
orator of the occasion, and was seconded
in a mild way by that well-known
! farmer, Major Jones. The real farmers
who would be benefited by good roads
! were not present; therefore Mr.. Hurlbut
and Mr.. Jones will continue to walk
when the roads are too bad to ride.
| Oroville NetC Era: AS to issuing bonds
/ to have good roads there need be no
alarm. The tax necessary to meet the in
terest and establish sinking fund need
| be no greater than that now collected for
road purposes. The bond can be made to
/ run for q long period. and the generation
to come will have the benefit OF good
roads, and will be better able to meet the
! bonds than our people are at the present
/ to build good roads from direct taxation
! No great public improvement has ever
! been made III any other way than by the
! creation of an Indebtedness which those
who come after must pay. Railroads.
canals and irrigation bitches, public
1 buildings, parks and all other improve
| ments have always been and ALWAYS
| will be built and made by bonding for
future payment.
! Oroville Mercury; As we expected. the
press all over the State has taken M the
resolutions passed by the bond road con-
/ ventiOn and is discussing them. Their
remarks on Butte County III general are
not very complimentary. We venture to
say that these same resolutions in the
way that they were' written and rushed
| through will do the county more harm in
the eyes of the enterprising outside world
than even the presence in the county of
such orators ~ as made an exhibition of
Z
BILE.
The Palermo Progress, speaking Of the
road convention, says: In conclusion.
we will state that some day in the near
future another road meeting will be called
at the county seat which will not be mo-
nopOlized by those who wear the silurian
mantle of their forefathers but will he
composed of men who, if they do not be-
lieve it to be policy to issue bonds under
the existing financial conditions. will at
least have the decency and SELF respect to
draft resolutions becoming pl ogressive
community.
Colusa sun: The Executive Committee
Of the Press Association passed a resolu-
ton suggesting that a statue of the late
Senator Stanford be placed in the statuary
hall of the National Capitol, where each
State is entitled to place two statues.
California has none as yet, and we sup
pose no one will object to having one of
Senator Stanford placed there. The sug-
gestion is a good one, and we hope the
members OF the association will indorse
the action of the committee and push the
matter ahead.
San Diego Union: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
wants the girls taught that jealousy is
immortality" Now Jealousy is not the
most pleasant quality to possess, and it is
particularly unpleasant in its application
to those who have done nothing to merit
it, but jealousy is certainly not immoral.
1t tends to prevent immortality. MANY a
man Of easy disposition mas been de-
TERED from vicious practices by the ieal-
Gus questioning OF his wife, and MANY a