The record-union., 1894-12-06
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
What Some of the California News
papers Are Saying.

VOICE OF THE PRESS
What Some of the California News
papers Are Saying.
[Chico Chronicle -Record.l
Persons who are familiar with the mat
ter under discussion, and have been in
the opera-houses of our large cities, will
agree with Mrs. Elizabeth G. Grannis
and Mrs. Ormiston Chant when they say
that no living picture exhibited on the
stage in New York is half SO shocking as
the living pictures in the boxes of the
Metropolitan Opera-house during per-
Torrance. \ person who wants 10 study
the female form divine can find ample
opportunity to do so at most any of our
fashionable theaters. And there will be
no tights or cheese cloth to obStruct the
view.
SAME HERE.
Fresno Republican,
During the recent election some boards,
after counting more than 200 ballots, were
through with their work soon after mid
night, while others, with the same num-
ber of ballots, did not complete their
work until late the next evening.
In this connection 1t may not be out OF
place to pay tribute to the stupidity of
the bungler who prepared the tally sheets
for the recent election. \ considerable
saving of time might have been effected
!
come In the same order as those on the
ticket
A NEEDED REST.
Santa Barbara Press.
Republican Senators are good naturedly
serving notice upon Democrats that no
tariff tinkering will be allowed at the ap-
preaching session OF Congress, no matter
what Mr.. Cleveland may or may not
recommend in his message. That the
notice is jocularly served does not indi-
cate that it is intended for joke. On
| the contrary. the Republican Senators
were never more in earnest. They are
fully determined that the country shall
nave the rest which was promised by
Republicans on the stump If a Republi-
can Congress was elected. They would,
of course, prefer that Democratic Sena-
| tors amicably allow this rest, but are de-
termined that the country shall have it
even if they have to fight every hour of
the remainder of the life of the Fifty
| third Congress.
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
[Willows Review.
Those who are building hopes on a
great raise in the price of grain next sea-
son, may 'see their fondest hopes decay"
| With all the new countries of the world
going into wbeat-growlng business; with
cheaper labor to cultivate the land, and
the same machinery we use to harvest
| the grain, and with no extra demand for
! flour or bread stutfs, we ask, is there any
| foundation upon what to base your hope
| for great demand and consequently
! better price for grain? Most assuredly,
no Then the wheat-grower must of ne
| cessity turn his attention to diversified
| farming. Grow fruit, vegetables, alfalfa,
! etc. Feed your COWS on corn, beets and
pumpkins. Sell milk, sell butter, make
cheese, raise chickens, turkeys, ducks
and geese. If the farmer is wise he can
| keep all these branches OF INDUSTRY alive
on his ranch and among all he will find
some to bring him round income each
| year.
THE HORSE SHOW.
Oakland Times.
The Horse Show At San Francisco-it
would be nearer the mark to call it the
| tracted attention greater than was antici-
pated. The attendance has been OF two
classes, apparently-the women who went
| to be seen and the men who went to see
| the women. OF course, there was small
attendance of appreciatlve horSemen
| and horsewomen, who had, TOR the most
part, animals Of their own on exhibitions;
and again, there were a few who under
| stand horses and are Interested profess
sionally in their development. But both
| these elements were quite lost among the
| crowds VINO were enthusiastic about
something which is represented to them
| only by name. The horse is fashion,
able hobby at certain seasons of the year,
and so society takes it up and makes the
| exhibition of those animals a success.
| That is the whole story, and while there
| is nothing to be said against society TAX
! ing pleasure in such an innocent amuse-
ment, it is absurd to talk about the in
! telllgent interest manifested by itin horse
flesh.
THE SYSTEM ALL RIGHT.
Antioch Ledger.i
There is great deal of complaint going
up from the press of the State against the
new style of voting. They say the
Australian ballot is too complicated and
| that voters cannot make out their ticket
that the voters do not understand it and
| a whole lot more OF such rot. TO us it
seems to be as simple as Gin fact it
is about as simple as voting can be made
| 1t is question, too, whether voting
ought to be made more simple. Speed in
voting would be good thing and sys-
tenn that would give the result would be
an improvement, but the idea of hav-
ing the actual voting simplitied does not
meet with our approval.
RUSSIA.
[Colusa Herald.l
The purpose to start a popular move
ment in this country in favor of a con-
stitutional government for the Russian
| people is likely to do more harm than
good. 1t will ertainly prove very irri-
| tating to the Russian Government and
perhaps result in GOODNESS between the
two nations. If the Russians are to
achieve any degree of constitutional lib
erty, it must be chiefly through their
own eXertions, and not those of the out
side world.
| WITNESSES TO 1T.
Winters Express.l
The banks of Yolo County are witnesses
to this assertions: The small fruit-grow-
ers of the county are holding their own
and paying out, while the wheat ranchers
are becoming all the more deeply in
volved. Many of the ranchers have
/ reached the limit of their borrowing and
with a threatened permanent decline in
land values find themselves worth moth
ing, although few years ago they
counted themselves fixed" and esti-
mated their fortunes by the tens and the
Titles of thousands. Smaller farms.
more thorough cultivation and diversifi-
cation of crops, these are the things that
alone will redeem US from this condition
of affairs, says the Mat of Woodland.