The record-union., 1895-04-05
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions of Newspapers of Interior
California on Public Topics.
lSanta Rosa Republican,

have been. There is no sense or decency
in such raids on the State Treasury. Ii
the number of employees and the daily
wage rate of each had both been cut IN
two in the middle, making the contln-
gent expenses Of the Legislature just one
fourth as much as they We're, 1t would
have been aboat right.
DAIRY PRODUCTS.
[Oroville Register.l
Each year Butte County pays out
large sum for butter made in other
counties. Just how much money is paid
1t Is impossible to tell, but in all the large
towns the merchants depend upon get
ting their butter from either the mountain
valleys or from the coast. There is no
reason except the Incidence OF the
farmers TO prevent them from supplying
all the butter that is demanded. Some
may think the merchants won't buy of
them, but If this were true the people
VIII. Let any map bring good butter,
hrst-class, sweet-tasting butter to a town
and he can sell it for cash. If wheat
growers would turn their. attention to
daryl some radical changes would fol-
low. They would give employment to
men, enhance the value of their property,
enrich their lands, increase the amounC
OF money received each year, lessen their
store bills and gradually get out of debt.
THE EXEMPT FIREMEN.
lNacavile Reporter
The bill by which the exempt firemen
are TO receive pension has been signed
by the Governor. The individuals COM
posing the organization are said to not
exceed fifty, at least it Is thought the bill
will only apply TO that number. We feel
sure that it viii increase amazingly now
that the law has passed. That has cer-
tainly been the history of all legislation
of similar character.
TREE PLANTING.
[Petaluma Courier
The people who own the Val Verde
tract, near Perris, have just closed con-
tract which calls for setting five hundred
acres to deciduous fruit trees. 1t is such
enterprises as this that builds up the
country and shows to the world that
landowners have faith, both in the future
OF the fruit business and in California.
COLD LEAD.
Los Angeles Herald.l
The euterprising train robbers or out
laws seem to have come into . heritage of
hard luck of late, and the profession is
getting a set back which will perhaps
give pause to the hardy youths that had
contemplated entering It's service. The
attempted hold-up OF a train i'll Ken
tUcky, where two of the robbers were
killed outright and a third very badly
wounded, and the effort to take possess
sion OF an Arkansas train, which re-
suited in the killing of two of them, is
very fair record 1or the two leading GRIM
iuaI events of the week. There is proba-
bly, no better treatment for the bacillus of
robbery than the hypOdermic injection of
cold lead. A trial by jury, with the pos
sIDIiIty OF Imprisonment at the far distant
end OF the laws delay, is not to be COM
pared with the other for real effective
ness.
THE LIVING PRESENT.
Pasadena Star.1
"Let the dead and the beautiful rest"
is an old and very gloomy song that we
could never see any use for; but now we
think it has a practical application
to the magazines that are fill
ing up their pages with intermin-
able series of historical characters
Our idea OF a magazine is that it should
be for current literature and not for an
cient history, and that if we are to get
nothing but Napoleon and Lincoln and
Joan OF Arc and so on from them, we had
as well read the cyclopedla and be done
with il.
TO DOWN CLEVELAND"
LColusa SUM-
Every insult offered this Government
by foreigner, great or small, is the sub
Ject OF much coDgratulatiOn by the silver
and sugar trust papers. Anything to
that it is contrary to all usage for an ac-
credited representative of foreign coun-
try TO go into the newspapers of the
country to which he is accredited, to dis
Cuss, directly or indirectly, the affairs of
the two Governments, or, for that mat
ter OF either OF them; it has to be admit
ted that ThurstOn, the representative of
the rObDer Government Of Hawaii. did
thus go into the newspapers of the coun-
try, but if he talks insultingly about the
action of the Government in sending him
home, he is applauded by the subsidized
press.
a PROBATE OF NO PUBLIC INTEREST.
lPlacerviIle Democrat
If people cared continental about the
estate of Jim Fair, or the scramble to
steal it, the press of San Francisco might
sell some stock in its sensational bonanza,
| But they are absolutely Indifferent to the
whole business. They take it tor granted
that his wills and heirs are chiefly for
geries. But as the gossiping old dailies
have more space than sense, they assume
that the fools are not ali dead, and harp
/ on topics Interesting to them alone. To
| change a suDiect deader than Fair him
! self TO something more interesting, they
/ might resort TO Rabelais and say: 81 Let
down the curtain; the farce is done. |
| owe much; [ have nothing; the rest l
give to the poor"
NATIONAL POWER SUPREME,
Los Angeles Times.
Attorney Olney, in stating the
case ofthe Government in the Debs habeas
corpus case, brought out one point
which is highly important, and is in
strict accord with every principle of
sound government. The moment Con-
/ gress acts upon any matter which is
! part Of commerce." said Mr.. OIney.
from that moment the jurisdiction Of
! the United States becomes absolute
and excludes all other authority, All
! the interstate com mmerce railroads of the
country are practically put in charge of
| com mission which is to see to it that
! their duties as IN terstate carriers, as pre-
/ scribed by Congress, are faithfully dis
charged"
There is no logical evasion OF this sim
/ pie proposition. There is in this doctrine
no invasion of State rights.
Are You Ever ANNOYED