The record-union., 1895-07-30
ROYAL BAKING POWDER
VOICE OF THE PRESS.

VOICE OF THE PRESS
Expressions From California Newspa-
pers on Living subjects.
San Jose Mercury.l
The irrigation question has gone Dack
to the old middle of ten years ago, when
the entire State was arrayed either for OF
against riparian rights, and nobody knew
what the words meant.
THE ROSS DECISION.
Los Angeles Express.
There must be some constitutional
method by which irrigation districts can
be created. for they are certainly OF abso-
lnte and general necessity iii this section.
Thore must be some way by which the
welfare OF the community can be pro-
tected without forcing the people TO rely
entirely on private corporations for their
water.
DISGUSTING.
San Jose Herald.
The reports of the Durrant trial in the
san francisco newspapers, with their
absurd illustrations and brutally sensa-
tional headlines, are enough to disgust
any intelligent person.
WHAT SHALT BE DONE?
LColusa Sun.
And now what constitutional law can
be passed that will give the people water
without giving IA monopoly? 1t is for the
nse of water, and against a monopoly OF
IL, that the Sit7t has made it's night. Irrl-
cation is the great question III California,
but the courts have made small Roadway
in solving the legal status OF water. The
iparian question has not been solved,
and the water used by thousands Of geo
rNIn in a ~ a llo ~
worth OF products is so used by suffer-
ance or by shotgun law. 1t looks as
though we had no lawyers, no statesmen.
1t looks as though a Digger tribe OF Ind l.
ans. whose existence depended on the
use Of water, would settle the matter OF
its use In less than forty years.
WHIT KIND?
san Francisco Call
What kind Of civilization is it where
every jockey has a valet and one-h half the
editors IN the country lave TO black their
own boots?
Fresno Republican,
The same kind of q civilization that
gives US a page in a newspaper about
PuglIst CorbettS new blow, and quar-
ter OF column in the same paper about
a national convention of Christian En-
deavOrers. The same civilization that
makes conceivable the putting of a Dur
rant tragedy on the stage, and leaves able
lecturers with a dozen hearers. Yet, it is
tie same civilization.
WIDE TIRES.
Los Angeles Times.
California should put premium on
wide tires for heavy wagons by taxing
all wagons according to the width of the
tires, ali wagons with tires over SIX
inches to be free from the wagon tax.
Other States have found this an excellent
remedy for bad roads.
THE IRRIGATION LAW.
[Tulara Register.
There is a law that is paramount to the
Settled policy OF free governments" or
the general principles common to all
courts" as Interpreted by Judge Ross
and that is the law of industrial and COM
mercial necessity, and without the estab-
llSnment OF the principle that the use of
water for irrigation Is primarily public
and not q private Use; the western half of
this great republic cannot become the
great, populous and wealthy empire
which its inhabitants believe to be its
destiny, and whom a logical conclusion
confronts and seeks to bar the progress of
an empire the issue cannot be doubtful.
1t may take fifty years of time and fifty
millions Of dollars to establish the doc
trine of public use of water for irrigation,
but it viii be established. This issue does
not lie merely at the foundation of the
district system of irrigation, but at the
foundation OF all systems OF irrigation,
and the cause Of one irrigator is the cause
OF ali irrigators.
a SPLENDID SHOWING.
Santa Rosa Republican,
California wine makers have good rea-
sons to feel proud over the winning ight
their product has been making in Eastern
maj kets. Since 1892 the shipments OF
wine. overland and foreign, have more
than doubled. The overland shipments
have increased enormously. The Central
American and Mexican trades are in
healthy condition, and other foreign mar
kets show encouraging prospects for Cali
fOrnia wines.
All in all, California vineyardists have
much to be thankful for this year. Prices
are much better than they were. Vine
yard property is recognized as stable
property once moro. The wine men have
united. and are moving forward for better
times. Their cellars are nearly empty,
and there is growing demand for their
product. There cannot possibly be any
reproduction for five years at least.
and taken with the growing popularity of
our wines everywhere, should disclose to
the vision Of the wine-makers a very
large patch of blue sky ahead.
LAND DIVISION.
Woodland Reporter.1
Whom hard times have driven our
young men to do as their fathers did
settle down upon small piece of land
and by honesty and trugality make an
independent living-we shall then have
the largest tracts OF land divided, and our
whole country brought into u high state
of cultivation. We shall then have a
class of citizens who will not be troubled
by shocks in the commercial world.
DO IT WELL.
Los angeles Times.l
Santa Clara County, in this State, has
the finest roads in the I nited States, and
only spends $4,000 per year on them.
Los Angeles County has the worst roads
in California, yet spends 500 900 annually
on them. Most OF the money spent on
roads in this county is practically wasted
through lack OF intelligent aud scientific
application OF the best methods of road
construction. 1t would be infinitely bet
ter for The people of the entire county if
few miles of first-cass road were built
each year, instead Of wasting money III
tinkering at bad roads without making
them appreciably better. There is real
economy in building good roads on scien-
tifc principles. The first cost OF such
road is considerable. but the subsequent
cost of maintenance is merely nominal.
y thing that is worth doing at all is worth
doing well.
COUNT SONOMA IN.
Santa Rosa Republican,
The convention of County Supervisors