The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-31
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions From Newspapers Of In
terror California.

| Expressions From Newspapers OF In
terror California.
Oroville Mercury: Nothing the Ad-
ministration can do pleases the carping
press. They now claim that the Admin
| istration in announcing its intention to
enforce the Monroe doctrine in the
! Venezuelan case has placed itself in a
position where it must fight or back
| down. Let it be the Monroe doctrine
| or fight.
DOES NOT FOLLOW.
| Oroville Register: A writer in the
| Arena, an examiner of banks that have
| failed in the United States, asserts that
| those who bet on races, drink liquor,
I indulge in any form of gambling or dis
| sipation, are not safe persons to han
die other peoples money. He shows
! that each year about S10, O00, 0O0 are
stolen by bank officials.
! 1t seems to us that many of the noted
! bank defalcations were committed by
men who did not drink, gamble or bet
on horse races. We venture the asser-
! ton that two-thirds of the dishonest
| bank officials were neither drunkards
nor gamblers. Our observation is that
a man can bet on a horse or get drunk
! six times week and yet be as honest as
any man that ever lived.
! THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
! Redding Free Press: The California
Press Association held a very interest
ing meeting in San Francisco Saturday
afternoon, and much enthusiasm was
manifested on the subject of securing
the meeting in San Francisco of the
next Republican National Convention.
1t is realized that the undertaking to
pull convention across the continent
to San Francisco is difficult one, yet all
the newspaper men are hopeful and
will work in harmony in the matter.
San Francisco has every facility to en-
terrain her guests, and ample funds will
be contributed to that object.
| THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
! Stockton Independent: 1t seems to
| have occurred to the trainers of the
State Constitution that the Lieutenant
! Governor might die before the Gov
ernor. They made provision for the
succession in case the Lieutenant-Gov-
eInor should die while a vacancy should
exist in the Governors office, but did
not especially provide for the filling of
a vacancy in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS S
office while the Governor survived and
! was not disqualified. Now that an eX-
| ception has occurred by the Lieuten-
ant-GovernOr dying when the Gov
errors office is not vacant there will
! probably be another amendment of the
Constitution to supply the omission,
which would not exist had the trainers
| of that instrument exercised little
! forethought on the subject.
HYDRAULIC MINING.
Stockton Mail: The hydraulic miners
are preparing to make some heavy de-
mands upon the next Congress for the
promotion of their industry. 1t is said
that they will ask the Government for
an appropriation of million or SO, the
sum to be employed in the construction
of restraining dams. 1t is difficult for
an outsider to understand why the
Government should spend such an enor-
nous amount for a private purpose,
and it would be interesting to know on
what grounds the hydraulickers ask the
! Government to reverse its established
policy in this regard. 1t may be seri-
OUsly questioned, too, whether these
| restraining DAMS would restrain
! There are a number, we know, which
! failed to fulfill the purpose for which
they were built-that is, they lasted for
/ q time, but finally gave way, precipi-
tating the impounded debris into the
valleys below There does not, there
! fore, seem to be any positive assurance
! that, even were the Government to
| build the required dams, they would be
permanent.
| In addition to the mentioned demand
upon the Government the men engaged
/ III hydraulic mining will probably ask
! that all restrictions upon their branch
/ Of the mining industry be removed, so
that it may be put in full operation.
Any legislation looking toward the car
rying out of this plan WILL it may be
confidently predicted meet with the
strong opposition of the agriculturists
III the district where hydraulicking is
practiced. They are of the opinion
that the miners have already been al
| lowed too free rein and fear that any
/ further concession to them would re-
suit in the destruction of the agricult-
ural industry. 1t would not be sur
pTising, therefore, if, instead of being
given more latitude, the hydraulickers
were deprived of some of the privileges
they already enjoy. The sentiment
seems to be growing among the non
mining bobulation that hydraulic min
ing cannot be prosecuted at the ex-
pense of agricultural interests, even
! when subject to the most careful re-
strictiOns, and if this feeling contin-
ues, the hydraulic miners may find
themselves out in the cold altogether.
AN IAIPERTINENCE.
! STOCKTON Mail. Tt &c n a rd1v naoaccor ~