The record-union., 1895-12-31
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions From the Newspapers OF
Interior California.

Santa Barbara News: Stock gamb-
lers and preachers are supposed to have
about as much in common with each
other as the devil does with the saints
But curiously enough they are in ca
| boots just now Both cry for peace at
any price Leaving out the prechers-
for it is none of their business in any
sense-we are not at all surprised that
the rich rascals that have been in part
nership with England in her footing this
country should cry peace" Just now
it is in the interests of their pockets
to have peace. The national COW has
not yet been completely MIXED After
that is accomplished war with all its
horrors may come.
INTEREST RATES.
Vacaville Reporter: There can be
no question but that we shall soon see
a reduction of interest rates in Cali
fornia. Money lenders cannot secure
more than money will earn. In times
past it has been possible to loan money
at remunerative rates, because the bor-
rover was able to make the rate of in
terest and something additional The
times have changed and the rates of
| interest on all agriculture will have to
be made to correspond. Wheat is not a
paying crop. Lower taxes and lower
interest will aid the Tancher to make
both ends meet He can not pay the
high rates current in the past and will
either be obliged to surrender his lands
to the mortgagee, or have a reduction
of interest.
BUT HOW?
peal to their American brethren to save
the two countries from war. This is
good; but how is it to be done on our
side alone? BY submission and sur
render of national rights? The Brit
ish lion is a very peaceable lion when
he lies down with the lamb inside Of
him; but when the lamb wants his
rights he is a horrible bully. Perhaps
our British brethren had better labor
with their own Government.
ABUSE OF CAPITAL.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: The Colusa
"Sun" says that great combinations of
capital are absolutely necessary to the
rapid development of country. If the
Sun" talks this way much, it will get
itself Severely disliked' by those who
hold that the right thing to do is to hate
capital under all circumstances and
times, and discourage it's activity in
promoting industry Rec
Ord-UniOn.
We remember once on g. time how a
New York millionaire came to a Cali
fornia town and paid $4,000 for a
home, spending $4,000 in improve
ments thereon within a year; paid $50
600 for overlooked land and $4,000 in
redeeming it from high water and river
freshets; invested 100000 in a street
railroad located in the town in which
/ he lived, every dollar Of which coin was
paid out right where the work was
done; spent $4,000 of his own private
money in getting up and maintaining a
carnival advertisement of the town;
drew 100000 from first to last of East
ern capital through a local bank, never
making a dollar out of the community
in which he lived, only to be talked
about by many people around him, to
be ridiculed in print, said print being
sustained in its attacks by many people
who were nightly praying for the in
vestment of capital in their midst, but
who were daily driving capital away by
! shooting their mouths off at the goose
that lays the golden eggs.
Abuse may read rich and racy, but it
| is costly to those who sustain it, al
though it may be living to it's author,
who often has everything to gain and
nothing to lose.
| Men of ample means, sensible and in
dependent, have been known to change
their places of residence on account of
spoken and printed abuse.
Capital can never be drawn to a town
or to county by abusing capitalists.
! solely because they are possessed of
wealth, this abuse, resulting from NAL
| ice, hatred, envy, jealousy and admin
| istered by people who deal in tar.
sponges who never yield but always alb
| SOrh