The record-union., 1895-01-24
ROYAL BAKING POWDER.
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
What Some of the Newspapers of the
state Talk About.
Oakland Enquirer


Oakland Enquirer.
The liquor men have appeared at Sac
ramento, and are said 10 be threatening
with destruction all members of the
Legislature who do not vote with them.
has 1t ever occurred to these bullyrag-
gers that they may be provoking their
own destruction, instead OF that of Sena-
tors and Assemblymen
ONE OF THE WORST.
LOroVille Mercury
One of the worst bills so far introduced
is to appropriate $500, 600 for a State build
ing in San Francisco, where the various
commissions, bureaus and many of the
officers may have their offices. There is
no reason for such a building, and the
people long ago condemned such an act.
Ihe State has magnificent Capitol at
Sacramento, where all the commission
ers should be forced to have their offices.
UTILIZE THE BOTTOM LANDS.
lOroville Register.l
There are thousands of acres along the
river bottoms in each county in the Sac
ramento Valley that ought to be utilized.
The pear tree will stand as much water
as an average canvasback duck, and the
Bartlett Is a profitable pear to plant. We
have known trees in Sutter and Guba
that stood tor several months with water
about their roots and the crop was picked
in boats. The pear then is a safe fruit TO
put on bottom land. The black walnut is
famous in the rich river bottoms Of the
Western States, and as the French Prepa-
turian Walnuts thrive eXcellently when
grated upon black walnut stock, we can
see no objection to putting walnuts on
the river bottoms. In the Southern States
the pecan t1ourishes in the low lands. and
this tree ought to succeed well here along
the rivers. Bottom lands planted to pears,
IyOI1 re nd fn
profitable.
DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT.
Oakland Times
When an actress devotes the major por-
ton of all her newspaper interviews to
dissertations on the5number and fashion
of the gowns she will wear on the stage,
she pays a doubtful compliment to her
own abilities as an actress, or is inclined
to disbelieve in the dramatic taste OF her
theater-golng sisters.
HOME RULE.
San Jose Herald
Governor Budd in his inaugural ad-
dress to the Legislature advocated an
amendment to the Constitution giving
to local communities more liberal self
government III matters purely local. This
amendment should be sharp and express
siye ana beyond all question:" In the
face of such a statement as that the liquor
dealers must be fools indeed if they sup
pose that the Governor will approve the
bill which they have prepared, and which
has been introduced in the Legislature
by one of their tools, taking from local
communities the right they now have to
regulate, restrict and absolutely prohibit
the liquor traffic. \ few of his sharpest
sentences will stamp his condemnation
of such an Infamous measure, and bury
it forever.
\ WELL-TIMED MEETING.
LStockton independently
The Road Convention which meets on
the 7th of February in Sacramento could
not have been better timed. Now that
all the valleys are hub deep in mud the
necessity for good roads forces itself
upon the people. San Joaquin County
should be well represented therein as all
supervisors and County Surveyors are
delegates, and all agricultural and wheel
mems organizations are authorized to
appoint delegates. General Stone of the
Engineer Bureau Of the Agricultural De-
parlment, who will be present, will prob
ably give the convention great amount
of information of great value which
those interested cannot afford to miss.
AN EMPLOYMENT FUND.
[Saula Cruz Sentinel.l
We have several times advocated the
establishment of what we have called an
''empIoyment fund.- by cities and coun-
ties, in order to enable them to perform
their duty to the able bodied and willing
handed unfortunate brother who is beg
ging his felIowman for leave to TOLL
Such fund IS probably not contemplated
by any of the statutes authorizing city
and county authorities to levy taxes. If
this is correct, the Legislature should be
asked to pass a law for that purpose.
There could be no reasonable objection
to such legislation. 1t would not be an
enlargement of the poor fund, because,
under the hypothesis of the case, every
dollar OF the tax contributed to the en-
pl0yment fund would be returned to the
public in the shape of public improve
ments Of some kind.