The record-union., 1895-05-18
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions of Newspapers of the Coast
on Many subjects.

be pick ed by whomsoever might want it.
1t would be rude awakening for such
persons to find out that they would have
to work just as hard for 50-cent dollar
as they now work for dollar worth LOO
cents.
SIBLEY'S CANDIDACY.
Stockton independent
Those Populists who oppose Sibley's
candidacy do.themselves credit. To call
them cranks and anarchists is not good
way TO show their resistance unwlse or
unjust. Sibley WAS Democrat just as
long as Democracy brought him success,
and is no less Democrat now. Populists
or Republicans who accept him as a can
dldate when they were not consulted
about his nomination simply surrender
that much of their rights as citizens.
THEY OUGHT TO KNOW.
[Riverside Press.l
The Bulletin says--and San Francisco
journalists ought to know how to give a
proper definition OF the term-that "a
sllurlan is man who has money, but
VINO not only is afraid to invest it in a
way to benefit the community and him
self, but who is SO fearful of being placed
IN class by himself that he tries to make
silurians of all with whom he comes in
contact
NOT AT HALF-MAST.
STOCKTON Mall.
The Memorial Day Committee of the
G. A. r. Posts of San Francisco has sent
letter to Mayor Sutro requesting that
the flags on the city buildings and in the
public parks be displayed at half-mast on
May Both. The mind that associates
grief and gloom with the ceremonies of
Memorial Day entirely misconceives the
object of this national holiday. Lowering
flags to half-mast. muffiing drums and
wearing Grape on the arm or upon the
badges are signs OF sorrow and lamenta-
ton for the dead. Rather should Ameri-
cans rejoice that in years of the country's
peril men were found who offered up
their lives in its defense. The flowers
strewn upon patriots graves are not SYM
bols OF grief, but OF JOY and gratitude.
Alter soldier is once buried the funeral
note is out of tune. When the farewell
yolley has been fired and the last tattoo
sounded, his comrades march back to
their quarters to lively music. Let the
hsgs hutter to the breeze on every Me-
mortal Day, but not in token of sorrow.
At the peak they will best symbolic the
sentiment that llonors the fallen brave.
IT PAYS TO CELEBRATE.
LOroville Register.I
Did you ever stop to- think that it pays
we'll TO celebrate any great day in town?
A few weeks ago Oroville observed in a
fitting and appropriate manner the Goth
of A pril and the dedication of the Odd
Fellows Home. Now the advertising that
this town received was worth ten times
the money 1t cost our people. The name
OF the town was telegraphed to thousand
papers in the East, and we could not have
secured the space these papers gave US for
ten times the sum that we raised to OBJ
serve the day. Have you read the ac-
counts of the Rose Carnival at Santa
Rosa? The descriptions of that event
covered thousands of columns in hum
dreds OF newspapers in the United States.
1t cost -. 900 or S6, 600 to get up that carni-
val, but 1000 could not have bought the
space in the papers that was devoted to
the day that was celebrated. A town is
like business, if you advertise it the
place grows, ii you don't it remains STA
tionary.
The name of Santa Barbara is known
in every town and village OF the United
States on account OF its flower festival.
That celebration will bring to Santa Bar
bara hundreds of visitors each year and
will in the end help build up and enrich
the city. 1t pays TO advertise town,
and no more effectual advertising can be
done than to get up big celebration that
will make every one read about the place.
MISTAKES TO BE AVOIDED.
San Diego Union.
AS the cultivation of olives promises to
become one of the most important indus
tries in san Diego County, the mistakes
which have been made elsewhere in Cali
ornia OF inefficient or improper curing
should be avoided here from the start. so
that the time and actual loss required to
overcome this unfortunate reputation
now attached to California olives may
not be the experience of those who are
engaged III growing olives in this county.
Eastern markets are gradually opening
for the olives of this section, and there is
no good reason why a much greater de-
mand should not be created if the crop
is properly handled, and so prepared for
consumers that they will not turn from it
as has been the case in the past. The
taste for olives is an acquired one, and
once gained grows rather than dlmin-
iShes, and it Is not ali easy undertaking
to create q desire for totally different
flavor in practically the same variety of
fruit. 1t is also true that the taste for
California olives is easily acquired, and
that when people once learn to like ripe
olives, they care but little for green ones.
still as the green picked fruit has been in
the market SO long, that should be all the
more reason Tor catering to this original
taste by the olive growers in San Diego
County, and by dividing their crops into
part ripe and part green, both classes of
consumers could be supplied.
TO A DEMOCRATIC EDITOR.
Fresno Republican.
If Editor Dana has been deceived into
believing that there is something wrong
with the aroma and taste of California
wines, let him turn the San over TO the
office cat for few weeks, come to Fresno
and sample the pure wines produced
here and substitute truth for error. Mr..
Dana doubtless thinks he is telling the
truth and that the decoctions submitted
to him are genuine California wine, but
it is sad thing that a man of his age and
experience should be led into downright
lying. If the venera bic editor of the Sun
does not come to California soon he may
never have the opportunity to square his
record by telling The truth. 1t is ap-
palling to think OF man going into the
future state in that condition when trip
to California would save him.
THE SUM OF 1T ALL.
LColusa SUM-.
The Half-million has returned home.
settled down to business, and may sum
up the profits of the trip with the tenth
character in Arabian igures-O. 1t is as
tonishing that any set OF business men
should ever dream of increasing the
population of city by having a few