The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-10

| the many products that have taken its
place. Then we need the ships. There
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
ly. 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 it would be
far better to do SO than to continue the
present system, which has proved 50
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. Johnson's radical
measure than such a condition as this.
And that the condition is not confined to
the mining districts of the East is
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 it 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
1sA1.e-
who buy through the commission
houses. Such a market-place would be
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 it's purpose in the face of the carping
press is highly commendabie. 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
| it's friends. Some impatience 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 PreSi-
dent a Moses who will lead the people
out of the wilderness, a Daniel come to
| judgment Those who believe in Gov
eminent by gabble' 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 wall 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
| int, a
the House. 1t is a measure to protect
| American laborers from unfair compe
tition, and to prevent foreignborn 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 prate 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. Inc more one TeIeclS
upon the failure Of President Cleveland
| 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 tariff for revenue only in
favor of some Cleyelandic scheme with
the details of which we are to be made
acquainted later on. Mr.. Cleveland has
furnished considerable proof that there
| is 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 a deficit has no more place in well
governed country than it has in we'll
managed household. The latter can
not prosper under an ver-increasing
burden of debt, and the same is true of
the former