The record-union., 1893-05-27
PRESS VOICE.
Expressions and Statements from the
Interior
Newspapers on Topics of Every Day
and Living Interest to Gem
eral Readers.

Tulare Register: There are unemployed
in San Francisco as IN all cities, but there
are not the alleged thousands. Further
more, California is able to relieve any
cases of destitution found within the
State. Appeals for outside help are un-
warranted and mischievOus. When
wholesale charity from outside is needed
the fact will be proclaimed through au-
thorized sources, and not left to advent
urers without standing or backing.
san Jose Herald: Let us hope that,
while the city authorities are looking
about them for money with which to
make many needed improvements, they
will not overlook one prolific source of
revenue. They may be quite certain that
they could raise the liquor licenses to at
least a thousand dollars a year with
the approval of fourtitths Gf the people
of the city. There are at least one hundred
and fifty saloons in the city. and while
license Of a thousand dollars a year
might compel half OF them to close, the
other half would pay into the city treas
ury $4,000 quite nice little
sum in addition to that raised by
ordinary taxation. 1t will build q gurbage
| crematory. go long way i'll the improve
ment of streets, and relieve the Council
| from the alleged necessity of transferring
| money from one fund TO another without
| the slightest warrant Of law. And such
| a license on saloons would not only
| greatly increase-the revenues of the city,
and thus relieve the burdens of the tax
| payers directly, but it would also tend to
| decrease vice and immortality, and thus
| lessen the cost of providing for paupers
and criminals. 1t would also remove the
dens that now detile and disgrace the
| residence streets of the city, and bring
| the liquor traffic more fully under the
! supervision of the police.
Oakland Times: The Infanta Eulalia
| has set the hearts of our ''social leade
in flutter by announcing that She in
tends to visit California on the occasion
OF her next royal progress through this
country. Imagine the Princess holding
| a reception in San Francisco or Oakland!
Let your imagination picture the bowing
down, the back crookinE, the servile
homage of our local Four Hundred
What a scramble is in prospect by
maidens and matrons to kiss the taper
ing tips of the royal digits 49, maidens
whose pedigree dates back to the time
"when the water came up to Montgom-
cry street,; matrons whose husbands
tended barr in the early days preceding
the Washoe excitement and who bought
their right to move in the best societv''
with gold robbed from washerwomen.
dressnakers, kitchen girls and cham ber-
maids foolish enough to invest in
stocks' manipulated by the bandits OF
the Coipstock and bonanza brigands.
The society of New York is very
''raw'; the social conditions of Chicapo
are tough; but the swell set'' OF san
Francisco fairly reeks with rottenness.
II the Infanta comes to California we
hope for her own sake that she will
travel ''incognito."
Los Angeles Herald: It is not what we
think OF ourselves but what others think
of US which makes or mars US. All OF us
are inclined to boast of our own-especi-
ally we dwellers in new places of which
we are fond. 1t is rare to find a really
promising " estern town through whose
center the axis OF the earth does not pro-
trude visibly," as DR.. Holmes declared
twenty-five years ago, when defending
Boston against the critics who assailed
| her well-known local pride. But there is
a limit to local pride. 1t is, in fact, easy
| to descend from this into provincialism,
which no one can defend. Now, the
whole country has begun to think so well
OF Los Angeles that she can afford to be
| composed and complaisant Above all