The record-union., 1895-11-30
VOICE OF THE PRESS
Expressions from Newspapers of Inte-
rior California.

Expressions from Newspapers Of Inte-
rior California.
st. Helena Sentinel: While we have
nothing else to do let us prepare for war.
Not that war is necessarily inevitable.
That it may come and to us is quite
possible. Emergencies are likely to
arise and make us change our attitude
and national policy. The Atlantic and
Pacific Coasts are practically defense
less. Puget Sound, with her several am
bilious young cities, could be laid I'M
der tribute. England has big navy
at Esquimalt, near Victoria, 3. G. True,
the United States has started one at
Port Orchard, on Puget Sound, but as
yet it is but a small promise of a big
thing. 1t ought to be pushed. There is
a difference Of opinion as to the Monroe
doctrine. No matter. We are in no
good condition to enforce that doctrine.
A king might easily set foot on South
American soil now There was a time
when plank with Yankee on it was
considered a navy; for what the COM
bination lacked in natural terror the
ingenuity of the Yankee was supposed
to supply. 1t is otherwise at present,
for the sea is big now with inventions
and ingenuity of war, and when the
battle ships of to-day speak the i'm
memorial thunders of the sea are
u.
get ready to fight, for this is a world Of
bloody business.
1T WAS NEEDED.
Bakersfield Californian: So long as
labor unions or their members obey
the law they have nothing to fear.
When they break it they should be pun
isheG. There appears to have grown up
a queer sort of sentiment in the past
few years that any laWless deed COM
mitted on behalf of organized labor,
even to murder, as in the railroad
wreck at Sacramento, is justifiable. 1t
is well that the supreme tribunal of the
land has put its seal of disapproval on
such false sentiment. 1t was needed.
WHAT GOOD ROADS WILL DO.
Marysville Appeal: During the past
two months there has been quite an
agitation in Sierra County in behalf of
good roads The talk has been for the
building of new trunk lines, of improv-
ing those in existence and Of purchasing
all toll roads and making them free.
There appears to be a division of senti-
ment in regard to the matter How that
sentiment will affect the determination
OF the question is not known 1t is
known, however, that if Sierra County
abollsheS toll roads and doesn't do bet
ter by them than by some of those it
now owns, it will make a serious mis-
take. Sierra is a mining county, and
seeks the investment of capital. Capt.
tai is generally in the hands of men who
take life easy and seek comfort and
conVeniences. They don't, as a rule,
protest against the payment of tolls.
even though they be exorbitant but
they do most emphatically object to
having the life jostled out of them on a
rough road, and also to having that
same life put in hazard by an abrupt
turn or breath-taking declivity. To
those people who are now opposing good
roads there the Appeal desires to assert
its firm belief that they are taking a
very direct means of driving away CAPT
talists and their representatives. If the
roads in Sierra County were made bet
ter than are those owned by the county
to-day and the tolls were taken off
those vested in private ownership the
great stores of mineral wealth in its
several gold-bearing localities would re-
celve consideration from investors far
beyond that accorded it to-day Sierra
County to be made permanent should
always wear its best bib and tucker
PART OF THE SOCIAL PROBLEM.
Los Angeles Herald: The predomi-
nant scandal of San Francisco, the de-
bauching of a multitude of girls ranging
in age from 6 to - years, by a trio of
potency of poverty. Poverty furnished
the inspiration of evil that made the pa
rents of many of the children accesso-
ries to, If not instigators of, their Off
springs sins, and poverty threatens to
thwart the efforts of the officers of the
law TO bring the ancient scOundrels to
merited justice.
The disgusting incident suggests that
the wrOught-up mothers and spectacu-
i'm cta # Co
turn their investigative and curious fac
ulties to a consideration of the causes
OF the social condition that prompts pa
rents to sell the bodies and souls of
their own flesh and blood for the where
withal to sustain life in one of the
wealthiest cities of the world 1t is an
unnatural condition that is necessarily
the logical product of unnatural causes
suppose the Rev. DR.. Ollie and his theo-
logical coadjutors stop proclaiming and
exhorting and denouncing, and do a lit
/ tie calm studying of economic cues
tons to be followed by considerable
thinking as to the why and wherefore of
the impoverishment that breeds sin and
degradation, not only in San Francisco
/ but in every other metropolis of the
world.
AMERICAN SPIRIT.
Riverside Press: Those engaged in
promoting the growth of a true Ameri-
can spirit have now an excellent oppor-
/ tunity to take a stand for the country's
institutions as against the demagogue
and anarchist. The individual citizen
has rights which no Organization NAV
deprive him of. The Supreme Court
unanimously affirms this, but it's action
has drawn from one of the labor organ
izations q denunciatory resolution
which is nothing short of treason. The
country has deemed itself so big and
/ strong that it has hardly needed the
mutterings of the anarchist and fool.
Their demands if granted, would ami
( hilate personal freedom and cause the
death Of the republic. The strong hand
! OF the Government needs to be used a
little more frequently if men will con-
spire in disloyal attitude toward it, and
when so used it deserves the enthusi-
astic support Of the intelligent and loyal
elements.
To Destroy Rats.