The record-union., 1893-05-24
PRESS VOICE.
Expressions of California Newspa-
perS
Upon Topics of Living Interest-Fresh,
Crisp and Free Opin-
ions.

| ment lin the matter of Capital removal
and taxpayers are beginning to ask
where they be at' if the measure should
carry. That the removal will cost mill
ions goes without saying. And these
millions must come from the taxpayer.
/ Riverside Enterprise: The people of
! the Pacific Coast who have felt the bale
ful effects Of Chinese within our midst, to
the detriment of the American citizen,
want the Geary law enforced. That
means the deportation of more than two
thirds OF the Chinese in the Union, or all
those who failed to comply with the law
by not registering.
San Jose Herald; In. San Jose we are
sadly lacking in that grand spirit of pro-
| gleSS and cooperation which prevails
down south. Too often it happens that if
man would spend his money in public
enterprises he is so thwarted and ham
pered by those in power that he becomes
discouraged and disgusted. And the
! people themselves do not work well to-
gether. Nothing, for instance, is needed
| Tor the building of a railroad to Saratoga
but the active and cordial cooperation of
| those who would be directly benefited
by it and the assent of the city and county
authorities. The money that is needed
could be raised in two days if the people
Of San Jose and Saratoga would join
| hands with the owners of the property
along the route, and each and all contrib
ute in proportion to the benefits that
would be gained.
Lassen Maii: When once land ag-
| glomerates in single hands its redistribu-
| ton is a slow process. Two thousand
years ago the land lying between Rome
and Florence, Italy, flowed with milk
and honey. 1t was SO rich that annual
raids by barbarlans scarcely reduced the
wealth of its ownership of its owners,
but III the connections of the middle
ages and the subsequent vicissitudes of
war, the soil gradually drifted into single
/ ownership, and now one of the principal
owners, an Italian Duke, who boasts that
he can ride from the Vatican to the Arno
without going Off his own land, is CRATE
/ tul when the Bank of Rome will dis
count his note for $1,000.
| Oroville Butte County, Register: This
county raises and spends for its roads
about S42, 900 year, which gives in round
| NUMBERS SlZ per mile each year for the
/ roads, as there are 1000 miles of public
! highways In the county. Under systems
1 OF letting contracts for keeping the roads
in repair this cost will be lessened per
| mile, as the contracts average about $50
/ per mile. Here is saving of SD per
mile, or 1000 to the county on the total
number of miles. Surveyor Mccoy.
! from whom we obtain these figures. be-
| lieves it would be wise to raise half
million or more, bonding the county for
| a long period, and then with the money
/ put the roads in the best possible condi-
tlon. He thinks the cost Of keeping the
| roads IN repair, after they had once been
well built and well drained, would be
considerably less than the present sum
required to keep them in fair condition.
Shasta Courier: Ten thousand Ital-
lans embarked on ships for New York in
| one day. IS the text of a dispatch Of a
/ few days ago. 1t was furthermore stated
! that the majority were not a desirable
| class OF Immigrants. No doubt Of it, Eu-
| rope has made dumping-ground of the
| United States for her "undesirable''
| classes for quarter of a century. This
| country is and has been too free The
! better and really desirable classes of for
| egners who have come to this country
| and become good industrious citizens.
and having the good of their adopted
4 country at heart, are as much, if not
| more, opposed to the coming here of the
| ignorant and vicious hordes of Europe
than are the native-born Americans.
Fresno ErpOSit0r: The Sacramento
! RECORD UNION makes vigorous protest
against the use OF the coined word "elec-
trocution," which it denounces as a vile
corruption without sensible derivation.
| 1t is undou btedly right. The word is an
! abominatlon, and, like Senator Nes-
mith's mule, is without pride of ancestry
or hope of posterity.
Los Angeles Express: 1t is a singular
! thing that the papers which now con-
| denim the deportation clause have not
word Of censure for the refusal Of the
! Chinese to obey the law. The REQUIRE
/ ment OF registration is certainly not un-
reasonable. 1t involves no expense to
the Chinese, and is no more of hardship
/ than is the registration required of
! every voter in this country. Every Eu-
ropean Government obliges aliens enter
ing its territory to hold passports, and
| would promptly order out of its territory
any foreigner who might refuse to thus
/ identify himself.
| Marin TOcsin: There are doubtless
many lll-lnformed persons who honestly
! believe that every Mongolian in the land
should be on his way 10 China by June
lst, and that in the event of this not being
| accomplished, someone in official life will
! be to blame. Doubtless there are many
! politicians unscrupulous enough to en-
| deayor to create such misrepresentation
! Of the facts. But we imagine that the
/ calm, sound common sense Of the people
| of California will see only reasons for
congratulation in the present status of the
! Chinese question, and in their profound
| thankfulness that at length the solution
/ OF this long VeXed problem is in sight and
| near at hand they will not be in the mood
/ for unjust and captious fault-hnding.
/ bakersfield CdtJornidn: The multipIi-
/ cation of statutory crimes is a disagreea-
! BILE feature OF the new nation we are so
/ industriously building up; felonies with
out any moral evil, and misdemeanors
/ innocent of injury, the free efforts of
men to promote their own individual
/ happiness. For example, in New York.
/ besides the laws against voting 100 much,
/ there are bills to punish men for voting
| too little, the penalty for declining to vote
! being fixed in the proposed bill at S25.
. 1e4N
| passed. making it felony to act as a
lobbyist, or to employ an agent to secure
the passage of any measure.
| Colusa Sun: 1t is habit some ilI-in-
| formed people have fallen into of talking
about our worthless tule land. There is
! not an acre of worthless tule land in tho
state. We assert that it can all be thor
! oughly reclaimed Tor 80 an acre, and then
/ 1t Is worth SlOO on the average Nothing
/ worthless about that. 1t is astonishing to
I find so many misinformed people, especi-
/ ally among engineers" as to the condi-
/ ton OF the Sacramento Valley. There is
not one so-called engineer in the State
of California who has as vet shown the
/ least possible comprehension of the river
and the valley.
/ Oakland Times: 1t must not be under
stood that all this hullaballoo over the
arrival of the wife of Don Antonio is pre-
linary to her exhibition among the freaks
of Midway Plaisance at the Worlds Fair
NOT at all. She is ''the guest of the
nation" and as such will receive the hom-
age of our American aristocracy. She
will be feted and dined and wined and
fawned upon by the American parvenu,
the daughter of the pork packer, the wife
of the dry goods peddler, the sister of the
soap fat millionaire and the family of the
goldfish merchant. The Infanta is not a
freak, but the American aristocrat is.
Santa Barbara Press: There are four