The record-union., 1895-11-04
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions From Leading Coast
Papers.
The Torrens System-Sugar Beets-
Forty-Acre Farms-Temperance
and Christfanity-Etc.

Seattle acknowledgements: One of tn
| interesting features of the fall election
in Illinois will be the adoption or rejec
ton of the Torrens system of lan'
transfer, which, by an Act of the las
Legislature is to be submitted to tn
people for approval. Considerable dis
cuSsion is being given to the merits AM
| dement's Of the proposition, and, a.
| there are few candidates to be votet
for, it is probable the land transfe
| question Will be given a good deal o
| study and attention. Some fifty prom
| Trent members of the Chicago bar, in
| Guiding such men as Lyman Trumbul
! and John n. Jewett, have publicly an
rounced their support of the system
and recommend its adoption by the PEG
| pie
AMERICAN TIN.
Arizona Republican: The Washing
| ton correspondent of the New Yorl
| Post goes into ecstacies over a mono
| graph which has just been issued by
| the United States Geological Survey
He begins with the declaration thai
those who expected the Tariff Act OF
1880, in its relation to the tin industry
of this country, would open up a roaC
t. national wealth, will get cold com
fort out of the monograph just pub
liShed. This is probably true, for thu
pt ople have got cold comfort out OF
nearly every bulletin, monograph and
volume issued by the United States fol
three years past The correspondent
further glOatingly reminds the Ameri-
can people that whoever expected a
| collapse of the tin industry in Cornwall
Will be disappointed for the big mines
there are still on a dividend-paying
basis.
Just why all this should be cause
fer such eXtravagant and triumphant
Ju5ilatiOn, it is difficult to understand
1t ought rather to be a cause for regret
that the efforts of the Act of 1890 to de-
vclop an American industry had failed
FORTY ACRES.
Tulare Register: With a small farm
well titled and products so diversified
as to supply nearly all that a family
can require, there certainly need be no
suffering for any of the necessaries of
life, but the tiller of the soil who can
produce commodities cheapest will. as a
rule, thrive best. Forty acres to fruit
is as much as any man can handle and
is enough, but when it comes to general
farming, the keeping of cattle, horses,
hogs, etc, it is not enough, though we
used to think it was. In the southern
part of the State they still insist that
ten acres is enough but unless used for
market gardening it is not
SUGAR BEETS.
Oroville Register: Too many who are
discussing the sugar question infer
that the soil is the principal point in
producing a very sweet beet 1t is
well known that the hot climate of this
valley gives a raisin with more sugar
than a cooler climate does The peach,
prune and apricot here are sweeter
than near the coast Any good soil in
this valley where it is not too damp
ought to give splendid results in sugar
bets
NO EVIDENCE OF INNOCENCE.
Stockton Independent: Goodness
and calmness in a person undergoing
trial for crime is no evidence of inno-
cence or guilt. 1t is simply evidence of
the strength of the accused persons
nerves and self-control. Young, who
was recently hanged in San Quentin
for an unusually revolving crime went
calmly to the gallows. So did St Clair
and Hansen, who were hanged for the
Hesper murder. Harry Hayward, now
under sentence of death in St Paul.
was calm and cool throughout his trial
and remains so now that his case is
pending appeal. There is no doubt OF
Hayward's guilt, and yet he retains all
his compOsure and mental activity I'M
der the strain. Holmes, alias Mudgett,
who is undergoing trial in Philadelphia
for one of the many murders of which
he is suspected, is marvel of COM
posture with overwhelming evidence
against him.
ALL ONE CAUSE.
Santa Barbara Times-Index: The
Women's Christian Temperance Union
is showing a more liberal spirit. and
proposes to broaden it's field of use
fulness by taking in all the women
workers for the object that constitutes
the foundation of that noble organiza-
ton. At the annual meeting of the
union in Baltimore under the leader
ship of Miss Willard, the following:
resolution was adopted:
Resolvd, That Roman Catholic
women and Hebrew women should be
invited to send fraternal delegates from
their annual conventions to ours. and to
establish branches of tn White Ribbon
Society within their own border.
1t is evidently the intention that the
name Christian shall no longer be a
barrier against the extension of the
usefulness of the union. TEMPERANCE
interests all nations and all creeds, and
workers for it have a common interest
to serve, whether Protestant or Catho-
lies, Hebrews, Mohammedans, Budd-
hists, Brahmans or what not
DRIED FRUIT TRADE.
San Diego Union: It is plain that If
the California dried fruit producers are
ever TO realize satisfactory returns on
their product, some way must be pro-
Vided to avoid the indiscriminate
dumping of the commodity upon the
market. At present plan is being con-
sidered among northern growers for es-
tablishing large warehouses in which
the dried fruit may be properly graded
and held until the market conditions are
suitable. The producers will receive
warehouse receipts upon which, if they
desire, they can raise money. The
scheme is so feasible that it is remark
bic that it has not been put into opera
ton long ago.
A GREAT COUNTRY.
Dixon Tribune: There is no doubt
that we have the grandeSt country that
the sun shines upon, but in such mat
ters rs the prevention of crime some of
the effete commemorative across the
sea are long way in the lead In what
country in Europe would it require O
regiment of soldiers to prevent two
hurly ruffians like Corbett and FitZ-
simmons from fighting.
WARSHIPS.
Oakland Times: The United States is
doing well in the quality of it's warships
at least. but if we are TO keep up with
the procession we shall have to build
more vessels like the Indiana and her
mate. France has issued orders for
nine new battleshipS and moro than