The record-union., 1895-12-10

pldce. Inen we need the SHIPS. Ehere
is no line here now and none in pros
pect Immediately unless this should be
selected as the terminus of the Japan
line OF steamers that now appears like
~. If that should come to a Southern
California port it would carry back
large amounts of the products of this
country.
MR.. JOHNSON'S EXCLUSION BILL.
| Ell Dorado Republican: 1t is not prob
able that Congress will enact law as
radical as that contemplated in the first
| of these bills, but we believe 1t would be
| far better to do so than to continue the
present system, which has proved SO
ineffective in preventing the United
! States from being, as it has been
! termed, the dumping ground of all the
nations. Public attention has again
and again been called to the fact that in
the Eastern mining districts especially
the lowest and most debased class of Ia
borers have been imported in defiance OF
law and almost without let or hind
rance Far better Mr.. Johnsons radical
measure than such condition as this.
And that the condition is not confined to
the mining districts of the East is a
matter OF common knowledge.
FREE MARKET.
| Bakersfield Californian: Mr.. Mills
public market idea is a, good one, and
San Francisco ought to lose no time in
carrying 1t out. In almost all large
Eastern cities there are such markets,
where consumers are brought into con-
tact with producers, without the me-
diumship of any go-berween. The result
| is satisfactory all round. The producer
/ gets better prices for his goods, and the
consumer gets fresher articles at lower
/ figures than he has to pay those dealers
who buy through the commission
houses. Such a market-place would be
a great boon to the poor or economic
ally disposed housekeepers of the city.
The consumption of fruit, vegetables
and other farm products would be
| largely stimulated, and there would not
be any cause for the dumping into the
| bay of tons of melons and fruit, as has
frequently been the case in the past.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
Oroville Mercury: The calm dignity of
the Administration and the steadiness
of its purpose in the face of the carping
press is highly commendable. States
manship and diplomacy are not ex-
pected in a partisan press, whose sole
purpose is to oppose the powers that be
and place the Government in control of
| its friends. Some Impotence on the part
of the people at the delays attending
diplomatic questions may be eXcusable,
| but there is no excuse for the abuse
heaped upon the Administration be-
cause it has not informed the press of
the status of every question pending be-
tween this and other Governments.
VARYING VIEWS.
| Tulare Register: Comments on the
| Presidents message are as various as
the whims and crotchets of the papers
and persons commenting. Those who
are claSSed as cuckooS see in the PreSl-
| dent a Moses who will lead the people
out of the wilderness, a Daniel come to
Judgment. Those who believe in Gov
eminent by gable" characterize the
message as a specious plea of a hired
tool of the money power. Republicans
generally do not like the Presidents
views of the tariff, but are divided on
his financial views. Cheap patriots, the
kind who are invisible in war, are dis
appointed because there is no element
of jingoism in the message, but the
great, conservative mass of our coun-
trymen who will have to do the fight
| ing if there is any fighting done, are
measurably well satisfied with the part
of the message which treats of foreign
relations, and especially that part
which refers to the Venezuelan diff
Guilty.
AS for ourself we are more impressed
with the earnestness and sincerity of
the message than with anything that
1t contains. President Cleveland is no
tool of plutocrats or of any other inter-
est. He believes every word that he
utters and speaks from the heart as
we'll as from the head.
A GOOD BILL.
Bakersfield Californian: Representa-
tive Grove L. Johnson of this State has
introduced a most important bill into
! the House. 1t is a measure to protect
American laborers from unfair compe-
tition, and to prevent foreign-born Ia
borers from coming to the United
States.
1t is high time that something of this
sort were done. 1t used to be very
| fashionable to pirate about this country
being a refuge for the oppressed of all
| nations, but the time for that has gone
| by Already is every line of trade or
occupation overcrowded, and opportu-
mites for employment are becoming
[ Scarcer and scarcer. In justice to our
own people it is time that indiscrimi-
nate immigration be shut off, and the
Californian hopes that no time will be
lost by Congress in passing this bill and
putting it into operation.
CLEvELAND's STUPID OVER
SIGHT
Stockton Mail: The more one reflects
|
to recommend such a revision of the
tariff as would remedy the deficiency
in our revenues, the more remarkable
it seems. The unconcern with which he
treats the evergrowing deficit is indi-
cative either of Grass stupidity or means
that he has abandoned the Democratic
principle of a tariff for revenue only in
favor of some Clevelandic scheme with
the details of which we are to be made
acquainted later on. Mr.. Cleveland has
| furnished considerable proof that there
| is a good deal in economics and finance
that he does not know, but it is painful
ly surprising that he should be ignorant
of or have forgotten the primary fact
that deficit has no more place in a well
governed country than it has in we'll
managed household. The latter can
not prosper under an ever-increasing
burden of debt, and the same is true of
| the former.