The record-union., 1895-12-12
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions From the Newspapers of
Interior California.

Interior California.
Riverside Enterprise. There is moth
ing small about the tariff demands of
the National Wool Growers Associa-
ton. They want high tariff, and in the
matter of the rate they are willing to
meet the recent lofty McKinleSbill and
go it several better. They will move
upon congress.
CLEAN JOURNALISM.
Santa Cruz Press: A newspaper
should keep it's skirts clean of any faint
of questionable practices. 1t should be
above suspicion. 1t should be able TO
speak out of an honest mouth. If the
press allows itself to be muzzled with
sops thrown to it by unclean hands
what voice is left to be raised for the
people? The man who thus conducts
newspaper is an enemy to the commu-
nifty. He stabs the commonweal with
fatal blows. He betrays his self-im-
posed duty of guarding the public's
rights. And he betrays shamelessly
the traditions of a noble and useful
calling.
WIDE TIRES.
Santa Rosa Republican: There is
encouragement in the fact that the
County Supervisors are discussing the
wide tire proposition. A strong ordl-
nance should be adopted providing a
premium or exemption from taxation
for wagons having tires of proper
width. Every time such wagon is
pulled over a road it improves the same
and the owner should be compensated
as a road-builder. We shall have no
permanent good roads until the people
quit using narrow tire freight wagons,
and by adopting a plan that Will lead
to the introduction of those OF VIDE
tires the Supervisors will take good
step in advance.
PUBLIC HIGHWAYS.
Riverside Enterprise: The Good Road
Parliament at Atlanta developed the
fact that the old plan of working out
read taxes is being abolished and the
system of cash assessments for hlgh-
way Improvement substituted in It's
place. In the States that are the most
enlightened and most prosperous the
plan of having road taxes paid IN
money is the prevalent one. So true is
this that the system of road improve
ment of q State can be taken as an
infallible index of the degree OF civ
ilization it has attained.
Georgia is fortunate in being able to
show two of the most desirable factors
in the making of good roads. One OF
these is that highway taxes are paid
i'll cash. the other is that convict labor
is employed for working the roads.
Georgia is far in advance of some of the
Northern States in both these respects
California is suffering severely from
too much road law. In one county, how
ever-Santa Clara-the citizens have
taken highway Improvement and care
into their own hands. They go so far
as to require not only perfect roads,
but that they shall also be sprinkled
daily during dry weather.
THE INVASION OF A BIGOT.
Los Angeles Herald: Herr Most, the
anarchist, is a respectable gentleman
and a public benefactor beside that
personification of early century bigotry
and despicable prejudice, Herr Ahl-
wardt, the German anti-semitic agi-
tator, who assumes the liberty of aff1ict-
ing his odious personality on the free
and intelligent people of this country
The visitations of Most are at least
mitigated by the fact that he processes
to desire to better the condition of the
masses, and his impassioned, often alb
surd harangues, have been after all
more for the purpose Of calling atten-
ton to certain admitted social wrongs,
than to arouse class antagonismS. But
this bull-headed demagogue, Ahlwardt
invades a republic dedicated to the
equality of the races, and the freedom
of religions belief, as the emissary of
barbaric race hatred and the minister
of religious intolerance. He comes for
the avowed purpose of creating social
discord and developing creed antago
nism by vilifying and ridiculing con-
siderable, important and law abid
ing portion Of the people of the
United States. He is Jew
batter, and the lectures with which
he hopes to extract gold from the pock-
cts of the American public will be plat
form excavations of the Hebrew and
the Hebrews religion.
WAR AND IT'S MEANING.
Colusa Sun: Wonder if James Monroe
ever dreamed of the tomfoolery that
would be INDUCED in over the ideas he
advanced on the matter of the acqui-
sition of territory by European nations
on this continent? The little Spanish
republics are always quarreling, either
with themselves or with some other
country, and it seems to be the idea of
a whole lot of people that the Monroe
doctrine compels us to take UP the
quarrel of each one of these and go to
war In fact, a majority of the nom
combatants and non-taxpayers seem to
be laundering for war on almost any
terms with almost any country War
dooms thousands of the best men to an
untimely grave; it makes widows and
orphans; it piles up a debt, under which
the productive energies of the country
must labor for generations. War is the
golden opportunity for men to become
rich and through such riches enSlave
the poor. And yet the brainless men
howl for war on any terms. Does it
come from a want of thought or a want