The record-union., 1895-04-30

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goods to us: therefore shut up about our tear
Ing down the hills and sending the mountains
TO the sea-" And a considerable number of
tlm1d people are influenced by this threat. If
such men would broaden the horizon of their
view they would see that present gain is as
vanity before future permanency and rapid
development.
Here are the Japanese now Offering half
tone engravings as good as the best we do at
less than half that our skilled workers can
afford to take, and what are we going to do
about it? Shall our halftone and process
artists go out of the business and give it over
to the Japanese in Japan?
Here is another illustration of how difficult
it Is to compel observance of the anti-debris
law. AT Smartsvilie, the Excelsior Company
runs It's waste into pit, and thence through
tunnel into the Yuba River. 1t is possible
for 1t to drive out enough debris for its set
Ting works. from time to time, by turning on
water TO make room for more detritus, and SO
on ad infnItum. The tunnel is reported
stopped with rock, but it is near by.
When the people awake to their proper
senses and elect a Legislature that will give
home rule to counties we shall be on the
right road for economical county government,
change greatly needed ana desired. Until
then we must squirm and writhe under the
present unjust and bulky systematic Vista
News.
The attempt at every Legislature to classify
the counties and map out Tor each class a syS-
tenn OF government never will be successful
in domain as wide and of as varying condi-
tions as ours What true policy dictates is
the LEAST possible legislative planning in de-
tail for counties. Lay down a few general
principles, give the counties power to legis-
a wit de
we will have no more trouble about county
government.
The dams, no matter how high, thick and
broad, cannot restrain the passage of the finer
matter that is carried in soIution-the almost
impalpable matter which goes over with the
water and chokes the channels of the streams.
Indeed, some eminent Investigators hold this
matter to be more damaging than the debris.
One thing after ali, OF good developed from
the trip OF the representatives OF the Half
Million Club of san Francisco-they discov-
cred that the metropolis is not all there is OF
California, and that great city is at its best
when it is conserving the development of
great country.
Some of our contemporaries published in
the hydraulic mining sections find no other
reply to the plain statement of facts by the
RECoRD-UNIoN than general denial and i'm
pugning of our motives. 1t would be wise for
them TO make specific denial; TO point out
in what we mIsrepresent; wherein we talsify;
what charge make that is not true; finally,
what motive has TO do with statement OF fact.
If we were as bad and had as ulterior motives
the mining papers charge, the question re-
mains, are the facts as we state them?
The Bakersfield Californian well says
About the last notch in indecent journal
ism" appears TO be reached when a great pa
per gives entire pages to gha6tly Illustrations
OF the blood stained garments, omItting moth
ing, worn by the two murdered girls whose
deaths are the leading topic OF conversation
at present.
All such journalism is not only indecent"
but it is demoralizing in that 1t pampers the
taste for the bloody, feeds the abnormal appe-
Iite for the CHASTITY and the murderously SEN
sational, and to just that extent makes muir
der and outrage more frequent and criminals
more difficult of detection.
One of our hydraulic mining contempo-
raries complains tnat a 290-foot dam now in
course of construction cannot be completed
in time to use before next winter because of
the red tape' exactions of the engineers and
their lnsistence that things shall be done thus
and so. Which illustrates what the RECORD
UNION has charged, that the hydraulic min
ers are restive under even a feeble effort to
make them take some precautions against
burying the valley beneath slIckens.
If engineering is unable to construct dams
and restraining works that will keep back
the fine matter that silts the rivers to the de-
struction of their navigability, why should
dams be built at all? OF what use is it to
hold back debris, and yet fill the river with
snckens?
The Omaha brewers are out on strike be-
cause the boss brewers will not furnish free
beer to the laborers every hour The bosses
agreed to give free beer every two hours but
that didn't suit the workmen. Is there any
one with thimbleful of brains who will dare
to defend such a strike? AS well might clerks
in dry goods and furnishing store strike be-
cause in addition to stated wages, the pro-
prietor refuses to throw in a necktie or pair
OF socks, or half-yard of cotton two or three
times day.
The cultivation Of the soil is the foundation
OF home-building and nation building. 1t is
the cornerstone OF commerce; the keystone
OF trade; the mudSili of all true prosperity;
the permanent civilizing industry of a people,
But gold-washing is temporary, ephemeraI
not stable, not ding in the sense OF
hind path is that of destruction, its wake
is that of desolation. When, therefore, the
latter industry threatens the former, which
should give way?
Japan threatens to become an industrial
menace to countries with such a civilization
as ours. With infinitely cheaper labor than
our civilization will permit. the little brown
men are promising to make about ali we man.
utacture and enter our market at greatly les
s=ped prices When he does SO, what then
will we do about it?
The navigable rivers of the State are the
free highways; free to all the people; the
property of all the people. What right then
has one portion of the people to destroy such
navigabilty, the property of another and in
finitely larger proportion of the people?
ANALYSIS by highest Government au-
thority shows DR.. Prices strongest ana
purest of all baking powders.
The Poison of Alcohol.
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