The record-union., 1895-08-31
VOICE OF THE PRESS.


VOICE OF THE PRESS
Expressions of Newspapers of the Pa
cfic Coast.
Fresno Republican,
! 1t is satisfactory to think that the Col
orado bull fights were failure. 1t leads
to the blessed assurance that they will
not be repeated
| LOTTERY DEALERS ALARMED.
Oakland Enquirer
| Indications point to the belief that, for
the first time, the Chinese lottery dealers,
who have been accustomed to taking sew
eral thousand dollars q month out of Oak
land, are thoroughly alarmed. More
than that, they are indignant, and regard
the new prosecutions as all invasion OF
something very like vested rights; they
not only want new Chief of Police, but
also a new Judge. Their attorneys talk
| by turns of change of venue and of con-
testing the right of Justice Wood to hold
the office OF Police Judge. One way OF
getting rid of Judge Wood would proba-
| bly, suit him as well IS another; the essen
tlal thing with him is change.
THE CHINA OUTRAGEs.
Dixon Tribune.l
| The storm OF Indignation which the
recent massacre of European missionaries
in China has occasioned promises to put
an end TO the system of terrorizing
| foreigners which has prevailed with more
or less regularity for years. A realiZa-
ton of the full facts in the case has made
the powers determine that China must
| be taught to respect her obligations, or
forfeit the right to be treated as a civil
| lied power.
| NO SMALL FARMERS COMPLAIN.
[Oroville Register.
! If one studies the statements made be-
! fore the State Board of Equalization he
will see that no small farmers are kick
ing, even II prices are low and times are
| hard. Ii Is only the men who own great
tracts, men who farm thousands OF acres
to wheat and barley who ask for reduc-
tions, who assert they are running in
| debt, but claim they are assessed too high.
| The small farmer who diversities his
crops, who owns hog, COW and some
chickens, makes a living, pays his taxes
and keeps out of debt. 1t is not then the
fault of the crop as much as it is the
method pursued. When men farm
smaller tracts that can be manured and
taken care of, they will be better off and
can lay by little money.
MATTER OF BUSINESS.
| Merced Star.
| The Hanford Sentinel speaks right out
| IN meetln' in regard to booming the bus
mess of the coast manufacturers. It's all
we'll enough when the interior press give
up their space free to lauding the good
| things to be found at the Bay City, but
when any OF the papers ask these people
for an advertisement they wink the other
| eye and mention something about the
business not standing it."
OCCASION FOR RIGHTEOUS WRATH.
IHealdsburg Tribune.]
| AmarioanS' 9Vmuathatio faaru for q
safety of their countrymen in China are
| fully justified, as is their demand that the
/ heatben Government make reparation
| for the injuries inflicted by its su ubjects
But there IS occasion for righteous wrath
nearer home. Native-born citizens of the
| I United States have been beaten. killed
and driven from their homes by an alien
mob, and the great State of Illinois has
! done nothing to help them. If the Italian
miscreants of Spring Valley go unpuu-
ished, as the neg gligence of the authorities
| seems about to allow them To do. at least
| one Northern State will have little right
to denounce Southern Ku-klux outrages.
THE WALLER CASE.
Portland Oregonian.
France will probably let Waller 90
presently, or as soon as the matter can be
reached dramatically; for his offense
against France is not OF a serious nature,
and that country appears 10 be OBTAINING
! him chiefly to give the world notice that
it will have no intrusion from any quar-
ter in affairs in Madagascar.
John l.. Waller is colored man. born
a slave in Missouri, but was purchased
and set free in his boyhood by a citizen
of Iowa. who helped him also 10 get an
education. Waller afterward went to
| Kansas, and, being man of quick and
| bright parts, soon obtained public notice.
| he became lawyer of considerable note,
a men ber of the State Republican Com
mlttee, was candidate on the State cleo
| torlal ticket il the Presidential election
of 1888, and obtained the largest majority
received by any elector in the nited
States. The Kansas delegation in Con-
! gress, lod by Senators Ingalls, and Plumb,
| then asked President Harrison to appoint
him Consul to Madagascar, which was
done, and he held the place till relieved
! by successor sent out by President
| Cleveland in 1893.
COSTS MONEY.
San Luis Obispo Breezel
Every line of space in newspaper
costs money, and those who have the
| benefit of that space ought to pay for it,
1t is no more public property than is the
animal produced by the breeder, or the
machinery and implements produced by
! the manufacturer, or any other article
| produced by the brains and money of
those engaged in bringing it forth. News
papers are run like all other kinds of
business-for the money that is in them
and those who expect benefits from them
should expect to pay fair value there
| for.
THE OLD STYLE.
[Santa Cruz Sentinel.l
The old style of man, the slow style Of
man, the man who pays for what be gets
and gets only what he pays for, may be
considered a little slow in q rapid race,
but when 1t comes to financial pinch he
is found in the ranks of those to whom
the people look for stability.
A GRAPE SUGGESTION.
IWillows Review.l
A number of people owning small vine
yards in and around Willows say the
grapes are becoming ripe. The supply is
greater than the demand in our home
market. These grapes are large and
there are many varieties. 1t will take
long time to dispose of the crop by ped
ding them around town at the rate of
fifteen cents bucket We offer a sug-
gestion which may be of benefit to all
these growers. There is complaint of
scarcity of good grapes in the San Fran
cisco market. as all the good stock Is sent
East Now, then, our growers could hold
a meeting, and each man state about how
many and what variety OF grapes he has.
Let q committee De appointed to charter
cars enough to convey the grapes TO San
Francisco, or any other place where ar
ranpements have been made with some
reliable dealer. The same varieties of
grapes can be boxed in the same kind of
boxes and be delivered at the depot ready
for shipment on the same day. By this
means every grower can sell his grapes
I'D I1nt fo.t