The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-08-10
VOICE OLE THE PRESS.
Expressions From Newspapers of the
Interior of California.

| Interior Oh SaiiIOFnlas
LMarysville Democrat
Only little more than one year ago. in
| the commencement of the fruit season,
all trains on the several lines were tied
up ana hundred or more cars of fruit,
| then in transit to an Eastern market
were sidetracked and allowed to rot.
Men who were willing to work were
| driven from their occupation by force
under orders issued by this man Knox,
while the wives and children were suf-
! ferlng for the necessaries of life. Through
his 1nstrumentality several new-made
graves are to be found in the cemeteries
OF Sacramento, Oakland and other places.
Widows and orphans walk the streets in
search of bread whose distress and lonely
condition can readily be traced to the
door of this man who complains of perse-
cutlon. Instead of suit at law as means
OF vindication he should be branded as
was Cain, that an example may be set to
deter other adventurous and anarchists.
A TRIUMPH OF LAND MONOPOLY.
Suffer independent.
The ablest editorial comment on Judge
Ross decision against the Wright Irriga-
ton Act appeared in the Sacramento
RECORD UNION few days ago.
CoNTEAIPTIBLE.
San Diego Worldl
That was a contemplate circular that
was sent to the old soldiers in Kansas.
urging them 10 demand that their pen
sioDs be paid in gold. 1t is to the credit
of the veterans that they gave little atten-
ton to it. OF all people pensioners are
the last who should seek to EN- barrass
nation that has dealt generously by them.
That the veterans took this view of the
matter is evident from their disregard of
the circular. The old soldier is not made
of the sort Of stuff which furnishes cats
paws tor demagogues in Kansas Or any
where else.
DESTROYING OUR SALMON FISHERIES.
[TuaTe Times
The State maintains at considerable
cost commission to foster and protect
the growth and propagation of fish in the
streams and tldewaterS of California, but
it is derelict in its most important func-
ton. Through its culpable neglect SAL
mon are being extermlnated and perna-
nently exiled from the streams of the
State. Commercially the salmon is worth
ten times over all the fish that visit our
fresh water courses; it is the great food
fish OF the coast. and no uncomfortable
amount of labor and capital is employed
in the industry of taking and preparing
IL for market. Close the gate
ways to the mountains against them and
they will disappear from the Bay of San
Francisco and the lower waters of the
Sacramento and San Joaquin. And the
gateways are being closed. The Tuol-
umne, Stanislaus, MERGED, Kings, Kern
and American Rivers are obstructed with
high dams, impossible to fish, in the
lower foothills. Soon San Joaquin and
the Yuba will be closed to the run of
spawning salmon. The inevitable result
will be the permanent and total disap
pearance of the noble and most valuable
of food fish from California waters. While
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there is no reason why they should be
constructed in a manner to wholly pre-
vent the running of salmon. Indeed the
law ex pressly provides that all dams shall
be SO constructed as to permit the unob-
structed run of fish.
EQUALITIEs.
Colusa Sum-
No sensible man will ever dream of
equalities; the Lord didn't build man
kind after that pattern. Organized So
ciety, however, can draw line at one
place and at one place only, and that Is
that it shall give every man born upon
the earth an OppOrtat3ltty No man came
here of his own volition. When he be-
comes conscious OF his existence he is
here, and he has a right to ask for an op-
portunity TO enter the race of life with
show OF success. No tribe of Diggers
ever thought of denying to one OF the
tribe the opportunity of picking up
acorns or of scalping woodpeckers. Do
we in civilized America give everyone
that equal opportunity? If we do not
we have not advanced in The science of
government above the Digger; if we do
not we are doing some people great
wrong; II we do give opportunity, how
ever, no man may complain of the gov
eminent. California can be made to
produce enough to furnish all the neces-
slties and present luxurles of the entire
North American continent. Are the |
men and women who are hungry, as the |
types combine to bring out these |
thoughts, hungry for the want of an OPP
portunity to help make it SO produce? |