The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-23
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions From Newspapers OF
Interior California.

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Interior California.
San Jose Mercury: Considering the
fact that this Government is doing its
best to discourage the Cubans in their
fight for liberty, Spain should not be
over-sensitive because of the express
sions of sympathy for the Cubans by
the American people.
SHOULD TAKE A HAND.
Nevada City Herald: The Governors
of the Southern States, where these
horrible lynchings are done, ought to
take hand. Some of these prominent
Southern citizens would look we'll on
the scaffold, and they ought to be put
there. The awful murders committed
at Brandon, Tennessee, this week, and
at Paris, Texas, about a year ago. are
blots on Columbias fair escutcheon,
which, like the Salem witch burnings.
can never be wiped out.
ALUMINIUM.
Redlands Citrograph: The project of
manufacturing aluminium in Fresno
County is about to be exploited
BauXite and cryolite-the ores from
which aluminium has been extracted
are both said to be abundant, and the
high smelling power of electricity can
be had cheaply from the San Joaquin
River The project looks practicable,
and if so, the price of aluminium would
be vastly lessened.
EVIL PROPHETS.
Antioch Ledger: The croakers and
prophets of evil have already begun
their dismal twang. They are whining
that the signs indicate q dry year and
hard times. There is no unanimity as
to the indications, but every nissan
thrope has a morose indication of his
own that he gnaws with growing sat
iSfactiOn At the beginning of every
winter we harvest this same crop of
disconnected grOwless-men who are al
ways prophesying evil. The poor
Wretches are so warped with hatred
that they cannot see how the Lord will
bless the earth with a benignant sun,
fructifying breezes and inVigoratinS
showers, and they continue to predict
hateful things. Such men find out too
late that it is safest to trust the Lord
to do his share if they only do theirs.
They are always behind hand in the
march of progress, are the GROWERS
who prophesy evil.
SLICKENS AT MARE ISLAND.
Marysville Appeal: The immense
amount of hydraulic mining material
deposited in the Yuba, Feather, Ameri-
can and Sacramento Rivers and in Sui
sun Bay has not prevented the channel
of the straits of CarquineS from filling
six and a half feet, as testified to by
Major Heuer, and it is no wonder to us
that the Government is called upon to
dredge a channel for its ships to enable
them to visit the navy-yard for repairs.
/ hydraulic mining is rehabilitated and
the monitors are again turned loose, 1t
VIII require buta few years to complete
the entire destruction of the beautiful
San Francisco Bay. Our members Of
Congress should take the dredging Of
the channel at Mare Island as an object
lesson, which it will be well for them to
study seriously. fc
WHAT RESPONSE.
Placerville Democrat: The Valley
Press League is in theory and fact a
very exclusive institution. 1t is SO by
reas son of the environment and purpose
for which it was organized. The cham
pion of one declining occupation and
that only on and along the banks of re-
bellious rivers, its members have
soured on mining and its related indus
tries. Thus they are telling us of time
when the loWlands shall meet US in bat
tie array. With this warning slogan
ringing in our ears, it has occurred to
US that the editorial chieftains of the
mountain press might meet, consult,
organize and send an answering pi-
hostile valleys. What response will they
make to our suggestion? We mean bus
mess.
STREET NAIL CARS.
Bakersfield Californian: The PROPOSE
ton to put mail cars on the street lines
in San Francisco is meeting with much
opposition from organized labor" In
the proposition they affect to see some
sort of mysterious assault on their
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be infringed in any way are the
rights" of organized labor in case of
strike to obstruct the passage of street
cars, throw them off the track, and if
need be blow them up with dynamite
Just as they did during the famous
street car strike several years ago. But
if they try any of their pranks with the
mail cars they will find themselves con-
fronted by the United States law-and
what that means they have cause to re-
member. 1t is to be hoped that the pos
tai authorities will at once put on the
mail car system, organized jaw labor
ers' to the contrary Notwithstanding.
MILK AND MURDER.
Tulare Register: How cheap do some
men value their soulsi The world IS
watching line by line the reports from the
Durrant trial and yet it is only about two
young girls who are dead. The world is
Mortified al the atrocity of their killing
but milk dealers in San Francisco have
for years been numbering little infants by
slow torture and to the number of hun
dreds and scarcely enough public interest
can be aroused to bring the guilty parties
to punishment. To make two cents more
Oh a quart of milk dealer will add water
and chalk and acids which destroy the
stomach of an infant and put in its
grave before it is old enough to discard its
| bottle Perhaps such murder may profit
the milk dealer half dollar by the time
it is contaminated. The 'atrocity is as
ffcndish as that of which Durrant is ac-
cused. and yet little account is taken of it
and little profit is made by it, but it costs
a human soul.
BRUTALITY
Los Angeles Times: The bestial barbar-
| ity practiced by lynchers of negroes in
the South is a foul disgrace, not only to
that section of the country but the
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