The record-union., 1895-05-10
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Some of the Newspaper
of the Times

VOICE OF THE PRESS
Expressions Of Some of the Newspapers
of the Times.
bakersfield Californian.l
The only possible outcome of the Hunt
ington-Stone pass business has been
reached. The courts have decided
interstate commerce law. incidentally,
that no crime was cOmmitAd and
they have also decided that the Federal
Grand Jury of San Francisco made holy
show of ITSELF OF course, there will be
demagogic howl about rich men con-
trolling the courts, but no man with a
grain of unprejudiced common sense ex-
pected anything else or thought any
other conclusion was possible.
A HINT TO FARMERS.
| Visalia Delta
| Various methods of reelaiming or util-
| izing alkaii lands have been suggested,
and here is another. the result Of
little experiment by Mr.. Lebrasse of
| Goshen. He has about ten acres of un-
productive alkali land on w hich he de-
| cided TO plant rye. He sowed one and a
half sacks of seed on four acres. 1t was
| put in late, and the same day wheat was
sown on the same piece Of land. The
wheat is dead but the rye is tall, with
heads six to nine inches long, and it is
estimated that the little tract will pro-
duce one and half tons of hay to the
acre, or ten sacks OF seed per acre If al
| lowed to mature. Here is hint that is
worth remembering. Rye sells for the
same price as wheat. and if alkali land
can be made TO grow this grain as well as
ordinary land produces wheat, large
addition may be made annually to Tulare
County's grain yield. Perhaps a few years
cropping with rye might make otherwise
Improbable land suitable for growing
other grain crops.
CITY AND COUNTRY PRESS.
| Modesto News.
| If the country editors of California
have not In the past at all times been as
| fulsoine in their praise of the worth and
glory of the chief city Of California, no
fault should be found. The average
country editor like the people of the bal
ance OF the world, must OF necessity draw
their information chiefly from the great
journals of the metropolis. In this San
| Francisco is only, we assume, paying the
penalty for its support of sensational
| Journalism. A years constant reading of
any of the leading journals of that city,
where everything is painted so black,
would very likely prejudice any honest,
inquiring mind against the place. Hence
country editors who have not, as it were,
grown up with the State and among its
people, should not be too severely CEN
sured for au apparent lack of enthusiasm
on measures emanating from San Fran
cisco.
ROT.
[Oroville Mercury
Rarely has such an effusion of more in
sutferable rot been thrust on meek and
patent public than is the silly, senseless
| letters as published in the Examiner on
the Durrant case.
NO VIOLATION OF LAW.
Oakland Tribune.1
Considering the amount of campaign
capital that it was proposed to make by
the arraignment of e. Z. Huntington on
a charge of illegally issuing pass, the
results are ridiculously small. The orig
! inal plan was to bring Huntington from
New York to California by a criminal in
dictment found here, which did not hold
water on the other side of the country.
| Huntington had done no more than any
other railroad President had done, and is
doing nearly every day, including Chaun-
cey Depew. But this particular case was
singled out for special notoriety. 1t was
written up in the newspapers as an awful
example. There was not little malice
at the bottom of this business.
a Federal court in California was to be
made the instrument for bringing man
| across the continent three thousand mil es
to answer a criminal charge, when it did
not appear that he had committed any
crime at all. Fair play is just as much of
q jewel when it relates to rich man as it
! is when it touches the Interests of poor
man. Foul play is just as contemplate
in one case as in the other Even those
with whom Huntington is no favorite
will hardly miss tho secret feeling of con-
tempt for the abortive effort to make an
lawful example"