The record-union., 1895-12-03
VOICE OF TIE PRESS
Expressions From Newspapers of In
terror California.

Stockton Independent: Some Callfor-
MIA lover of posterity should try the ex-
pertinent OF planning grove OF ash.
maple, or good Eastern oak trees. The
ash and the SOFT maple are rapid growers,
and man in middle age might live 10
reap the benefits OF them. They botn
make good manufacturing timber and
are the better tor cultivation. The OAK Is
OF slower growth and only young
planter would reap The benefit. Some
kinds OF poplar are also useful IN manu-
featuring and all varieties grow rapidly.
y grove OF the white wood variety might
yield Il miudle-aged planter small 1or-
tame III his old age.
SHALL CIVILIZATION GO BACK
WARD?
Fresno Republican: American civiliza-
ton is to-day confronted with the graVest
problem that has ever monaced lis onward
progress. Oriental competition STANDS
III its pathway armed with weapon
against which there Is but one delense
! The walls OF protection must be raised
against the impending deluge OF Oriental
! manufactures or American Industry III
many lines must succumb TO practical
! extinction and American labor To sucn
! degradation as the most pessinllstlo can
| not readily conceive OF. .
The Japanese, with their millions of
/ lRborors To whom existence is the only
/ problem, have finally become awake TO
/ the possi ibilities which the use OF this
! labor and modern machinery present TO
/ them in an industrial conquest OF those
/ countries whose labor has thrown OH the
! chains of serldom and claims It's share
/ OF The enlightenment and comfort that
/ is enjoyed by other classes, and aided
/ by foreign cupidlty, are fast securing
I the means by which they can place
manufactured goods i'll the markets OF
/ all countries where labor is something
more than chattel. at less than half the
price at which they are now produced.
Il is useless to deny this fact, Tor the
product OF this labor, degraded 10 mere
animal existence by ages of absolute sub
| lection, is now coming III quantities 10
| this N esiern shore, and II IS lmbecIle TO
attempt TO beittle the far-reaching and
/ disastrous effects of such competition.
! Fine spun theories of free exchange Of
! commodities and the unshackling OF the
| worlds commerce fail i'll contenptlble
confusion before such fact as that which
we are forced TO contemplate in the
equipment with the finest modern ma
! chinery which civilization has produced
| OF The millions OF Orieutals. who are sat
/ istied with wages of 50 per month or less.
/ With the cost of living reduced to min
J imum in this country, where would the
American workingman be, with his fam
! lily to clothe In decency and educate as
BELTS the citizens OF free republic, when
it came to competition with such human
chattels?
NO TURNING BACK WARD.
Fresno Exposilor: If civilization could
be ruined by the policy of buying what
people live on cheaper than by making
il, civilization would have been ruined
long time ago. 1t would have been set
back when the cotton gin was invented;
when the use of steam as motive power
was dlscovered; when railroads threw
stage coaches and freight teams out OF
use; when the sewing machine made II
! possible or people TO buy their clothing
cheaper than they could make 1t them
selves or hire others 10 make it for them;
when ingenious Inventions that now
turn out shoes supplanted the old, Iaborl-
Gus methods Of shoe making, ana when
thousand other inventions began to do
the work OF human hands.
1t is not the aim OF civilization or OF
human am mbition TO make work, but
rather to obtain what man needs with as
little work and Is cheaply as possible,
and when any man or any nation can
buy what he or it wants cheaper than he
or it can make it, the natural law OF pro-
gress and prosperity is going to induce
the man or the nation to BUY 1t, rather
than spend twice as much unprontably
making it, just 10 keep at work.
These natural laws of progress toward
q higher civilization, i'll which the luXu-
ries of one generation become the neces-
sites OF the next and all the people are
benefited are becoming better under
stood and except for the political pur-
poses of selfish, rapaoiOus and soulless
combinations of capital there would be
no attempt to drive people who do not
yet comprehend the subtle forces OF civ
iliZation that are steadily at work, into
Mysteries of fear that they are going to be
ruined because they may, in the coming
time, buy what they must have for half
what they formerly had to pay.
Most OF the necessaries OF life are to-
day obtained for much less than they
were twenty years ago. and civilization
hasn't gone back ward on that account.
i isn't going back ward at all. but for
ward. and that's one thing that every
body should be thankful Tor on this glori-
Gus Thanksgiving Day.
THE ENLARGEMENT OF WOMAN'S
SPHERE.
Los Angeles Herald: What different
world the woman of to-day finds from
that in which her grandmother, or even
her mother, lived Much may yet be
lacking, bat il is we'll to stop and think,
sometimes, OF the advantages already
gained by women. of the many avenues
(which are now open for her industry, her
talent or her ambition.
IL is quite within the recollection of the
middie-aged when the " Woman who must
earn her livelihood was confined to a
choice between teaching and the more
purely domestic occupations of sewing,
nursing or housek eeping. Noble oc-
cupations these, requiring the best quail
tiles OF mind and heart, and more suited,
perhaps, to the nature Of woman than
any other pursuit in which she engages
or attempts 10 engage.
But tho law OF supply and demand
must be considered in relation to
woInan's work, as well as that OF men.
and the same results would follow If
women were restricted to these few lines
otindustry that we sse when any trade
or profession is OVercrowded among mon
wages would bo reduced TO the lowest
limit.
AN IMPORTANT CELEBRATION.
Los Angeles Tirles Yesterday, No
venher nth. there was celebrated in
England tire sixth centennial of the most
important human event o. that kingdom,
an event which concerns our own cOun-
try ana The remainder OF the civilized
world outside OF Great Britain. ester
day was completed full six centuries
since England possessed regular Par
lament, essentially, though with tnodl-
ticutions, as il is to-day. n other words,
lor $50 years England has had 4 constitu-
tional form OF government, where the
Will Of tho people could be heard through
, their representatives, and this has been
maintained mo matter who was the oln-
inal head OF The reaiml through persecu-
tiou, internal strife and foreign war. The
people OF tho United States have in
hcrited Whatever was best in these
parlamentayy rights, while there is not
n constitutional government existing in
.he world. unless It IL that OF SwItzer-
land, which is not modeied more or less
after that OF England.