The record-union., 1895-11-14
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions From Papers of the In
terror of California.


! Russian thistle into their fields, and
the prospects for acquiring that pest are
| dClefully good. In the fruit-groWerS
convention it was reported that the
| thistle has taken possession of Antelope
Valley, in Los Angeles County, and IS
| headed north. The subject was dis
cussed and referred to a committee
which means, we suppose, that the
thistle will go on spreading
GRAPE BRANDS.
Bakersfield Californian: Tens of
thousands of barrels of Almeria grapes
are being imprted into this country and
ind a ready sale at high prices These
are nothing more or less than the Ma
laga and Muscat grapes grown in Cali
forn1a. IL our grapes were packed in
barrels in cork dust and branded as
coming from Spain, doubtless they. too.
would sell for high prices. 1t appears to
be all question of the brand. just as it
is with our wines, which sell under a
French label for three or four times as
much as under an honest brand.
THE SAME COAL.
Antioch Ledger: After the blow and
all the talk it has simmered down that
the Corral Hollow coal is exactly the
same as our Mount Diablo coal. It is
soft coal, good steam COAL and that is
all. 1t has been submitted to experts
! for examination, and the San Fran
cisco papers now cOncede that it is the
| same as Antioch coal. Heretofore we
| have been led to believe by it's boomers
that the Corral Hollow coal was only
eQualed by the celebrated Goals from
Newcastle. The character of the Cor
raj Hollow coal and the extent of the
veins has been for many years we'll un-
derStood by coal miners in this section
In fact, coal miners were taken over
there from our mines about twenty
years ago to prospect and develop the
mines. They report that the coal is the
same, but the veins are some thicker
Although the veins are thicker, it was
the conclusion of our miners that the
Corral Hollow mines would be uncer-
tain and expensive to work. They say
the veins have q tendency to chop off
and get lost, and that the ground is OF
such character that it will require q
great deal of timbering and be very e>:-
penSive. In fact, the coal can Ger
talnly be delivered much cheaper from
Antioch, for the cost of TRANSPORTATION.
which is almost by gravitation, to deep
water, is merely nominal The supply
here seems to be ineXhaustible, and it
can certainly compete in price with the
| Corral Hollow coal Added to the ex-
pense of operating the Corral Hollow
mine there is q long haul that AntiOca
escapes. And after all the coal is only
| landed at Stockton, while in Antioch
| the coal is landed on the tide-water
and can be cheaply shipped anywhere.
! The Corral Hollow coal therefore.
must depend almost entirely upon hcme
consumption in Stockton This is a
| mighty uncertain market, when big
| electric power is lying dormant so near
| by.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
| 1'ulare Times: There is a great deal
! of loose talk in certain class of news
| papers about the necessity for a 'vigor-
Gus foreign policy" 1t is doubtful if |
| per cent. of those who indulge in this
| talk have any clear idea of what thew
mean. A vigorous foreign policy" is a
very taking term, but its scope and pur-
! port are nebulOuS in the extreme We
! have no foreign complications of our
own to speak Of and the vigor that is
| demanded must be exercised on behalf
| of somebody else. We have a dispute
with the Dominion Government as to
the rightful ownership of a strip Of ter
ritory seven miles wide on the Alaskan
frontier. 1t has not assumed an acute
stage, and doubtless will be settled
amicably. 1t has been our traditional
! policy to avoid all participation in
! European and Asiatic complications.
and the genius of our Government is op-
! posed to foreign colonization and the
acquisition of territory off the North
American Continent. Ours is a homo
/ seneous nation, inhabiting a compact
| territory, with no disposition to inter
! fere in the domestic concerns of other
! nations unless the rights and property
of our citizens are threatened
LABOR EXCHANGE.
Fresno Expositor: Labor Commits
! sioner Fitzgerald finds that laboring
| men on an average pay $50 a year to
| employment agents in San Francisco
| for information as to where they can
! get jobs. Does any one wonder why
! there are tramps? Could a better areu-
ment be made in favor of keeping open
a free employment agency at the State 5
| expense? Let some part of the un-
equal poll-taX that is put on laboring
T1en with iron severity be set aside to
/ maintain a free employment office il,
connection with the Labor Bureau un-
| til the State becomes civilized enough
| to do away with SO Odious a system of
| raising money.
STRIKING.
| lone Valley Echo: No man will deny
! the right of another to quit working
! for any person or corporation when the
| relations cease to be amica bic or mutu-
| ally satisfactory. But when one quits
! the employ of a party he sewers all CON
nection with that party. He does not
and cannot reserve the right to say
who shall and who shall not be en-
| piOyed in his stead, or whether the Op-
| eratiOnS of the work upon which he
was employed shall or shall not con-
| tinue for the time being until the terms
! that he or the association or order of
| aborers to which he belongs have been
| granted. To claim that he does is an
archy, pure and simple.
ONE SAFE CONCLUSION.
Fresno Republican: One conclusion
may safely be drawn from the State
| elections: Nothing short of the unac-
| cOuntable will prevent the Republican
party from seating its candidate of 1896
in the Presidential chair. Grover Cleve-
! land has steered his party amidst shoals
| and quickSandS from which it cannot
! emerge within the next tWelVemonth.
| This is the meaning of the result in
| Kentucky in Maryland, in New York
and in other States. To be sure, local
! events doubtless had something to do
with the result in all the States, but
without Grover Cleveland no local COM
bination could have made either Ken
| lucky or Maryland Republican.
| CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
Yreka Journal: There are a number
OF amendments for the State Constitu-
| ton to be submitted to vote at the
next general election in November,
| 1896. One is to extend the right of suf-
! frage to women; one defines taxable
| property; one provides for the manner
OF holding elections; one relates to
cities and towns, and one in reference
| to municipal corporations. All the
amendments are very important, and
! should be considered very thoroughly
| by the voters of the State, The Consti-
| tuition adopted by a State convention in
| 1879 has been patched up to a great eX-
| tent since that time, and many amend
ments submitted have been rejected,
especially those adding greater ex-