The record-union., 1894-12-27
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions of Coast Newspapers on
Current Topics.

expressions or Coast Newspapers on
Current Topics.
[Santa Cruz Sentinell
The San Francisco WaUe may be op-
posed to the division OF the State, but it
gains nothing for its cause by applying
the loliowing terms 10 residents of South
ern California: IA race Of expecctorating
and lungless beings" 'jaundiced and
distended livers." ''liverless and lungless
lawyers" the coughing countless" etc.
PRECISELY so.
Los Angeles Times
There are certain newspapers which
consider 1t necessary to be continually
calling attention to their own alleged
merits. The reason is obvious: If they
DID not sing their own praises, their
praises would remain unsung.
TO AMEND.
San Jose Mercury.l
There is a growing demand that the
Constitution shall be amended so as to
provide for the assembling of a new Con-
greSS In the Decem Der following its cleo
tion, and the demand is wise, for there is
no reason why the Government should
be left for six months in the hands of
pack-num bered representatives.
THE LIEUTENANT-GovERN
Los Angeles Express.
1t Is certainly very complimentary to
Lleutenant-Governor- or-elect Millard that
the worst thing his political opponents
and Democratic critics have found to
say against him is that he was not
born in this State. That was a mis-
fortune no doubt; but as the vast majority
OF the people now in California are in the
same fix, he has a number of other un-
fortunates to sympathiZe with him, and
except that he will hold next to the high
est place In the State Government, there
Is no reason why he should be abused for
the fact that he was born and lived in
another part of this Union before coming
to this commonwe
GOATS AND SHEEP.
San Diego Union.l
The Cling murder and the Howard
frauds, together with less conspicuous
instances IN which life insurance COM
panies have been the victims OF criminal
plotters of late, including the recent cases
in Los Angeles, should lead TO restrc-
ton in the issuance of policies. Men
who insure their lives for the benefit OF
their families, and who deal in absolute
good faith, should not have to pay for the
risk of business which covers the issu-
ance OF policies to spectators. 1t will
pay the insurance companies to devise
some effective plan of more thoroughly
dividing the goats from the sheep.
SENSATIONAL, NOT SENSIBLE.
Fresno Expositor.l
The other day young De Witt Talmage,
son of his father, while sky-piloting a
Presbyterian congregation heavenward
in Pittsburg, in alluding to the reform
that DIR. Parknurst had aroused the peo-
pie of New York to undertake to ac-
compliSh, said 1.-The man who when it is
none of his business, goes out of his way
into detective work for fun is worse than
the thief he hunts" This is queer doc
trine to be eXpounded from d pulpit in
an orthodox church. 1t is the essence OF
rotten government and social demorali-
zation. Much rather is it the part of good
citizenship for any man who sees bribery
and corruption in public places or
thieves breaking in and stealing where it
lis none of his business to guard and
protect property, to arouse public senti-
ment to demand the punishment OF the
bribers and corruptionists, and to call in
the officers and pursue and punish the
thieves. Young Talmage seems to prefer
TO be sensational rather than sensible,
when he utters such ad capandum flap
doodle from the pulpit as is indicated in
the quotation above given.
CUTTING DOWN STATE EXPENSES.
Los Angeles Express
The question of reducing the expenses
of the State government is one of the
most serious matters that will confront
the Legislature when IL meets. That they
are too high is generally conceded, and
perhaps one of the reasons is that the
State is doing many things that could
more properly be done by the counties.
Then there are a mum ber of commissions
that would be no loss to the State if they
were to cease to exist, and there are leaks