The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-28
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Expressions From Newspapers of m
terror California.

Df0SS1OnS FROM newspapers VI III
terror California.
Santa Barbara News: The time has
come when the United States are big
enough and rich enough and strong
enough to settle our own affairs; to pay
our own debts; to regulate our own cur
rency; to say who shall not land on our
shores; to refuse any longer, in word,
to be dictated to by any foreign power
under the sun.
DELUDED CONSPIRATORS.
Los Angeles Times: 1t is claimed by
the labor agitatorS that Judge Ross
sentence of Clune, Ross and Stanwood
to eighteen months imprisonment, and
the action of the Supreme Court sus-
tanning that sentence, struck a blow
at organized labor" If the noisy con-
spirators and their noisy apologists
had intelligence enough, and were free
enough from prejudice to comprehend
the truth of this matter, they would
understand that labor organizations
have injured their cause far more by
their anarchistic denunciations OF the
Supreme Court, and of the courts gen
orally, than any judicial decision coulo
possibly injure it.
One of the most serious OF the many
serious mistakes under which these &C.
luded and cratic bloViators are labor
ing is the belief that they are the peo-
pie They are not the people, nor yet
are they the custodians Of the liberties
of the people, nor the Interpreters
thereof. Men who are organized Tor
the purpose of denying and suppress
ing the liberties of others are not safe
custodans of public liberty.
POPULARIZING VICE.
Fresno EXpositor: The hysterical up
rising that has been caused in San
Francisco over the discovery of the I'M
speakable crimes of a gang of depraVed
old men does not seem to be sufficient to
stir up news from vile places to famll-
iarize the innocent and the sensitlVely
modest with shocking and appalling
immortality and now comes from Der
lin an account of startling revelations
relating to the criminal acts Of "scions
of wealth" over the arrest Of young
woman of Tiggelitz, who had acted as
procuress for them.
It would seem as though each country
could find enough of that sort OF crime
to furnish all the suggestive and de-
moralizing news that ought to be pub
lished. The San Francisco papers are
becoming so bad that they are hardly
fit to get into families, and these mass
meetings of women and of other people
to talk about these unspeakable crimes
are not doing very much to improve the
moral atmosphere Of that town.
THE FREE MARKET IDEA.
Red Bluff News: The idea advanced
| by w. H. Mills, who, by the way, is one
of the brainiest men in the State, that
| free market should be established in
! San Francisco where producers could
without expense offer their produce for
| sale is well received, and we hope TO see
| it carried out. At a recent meeting of
| the San Francisco Merchants Associa-
ton the attention of the board was
called to the matter, and it was re-
ferred to the Committee on Trade and
Finance, with instructions to investi-
gate the subject and submit facts and
suggestions relating thereto at the next
regular meeting of the board.
THE MARBLE HEART.
Los Angeles Record: The United States
Government is cutting q rather sorry
| figure these days. It is a great Chris
tian Power, yet it has made no move to
prevent the Armenian atrocities. With
country chuck full of plenty, it has
enormously increased the public tax
burden. 1t proclaims the Monroe doc
trine, but it suffers Great Britain to
fiaunt disregard in the face of the Amer
can eagle in Alaska, in Mexico, in Vene-
zuela. 1t turns the marble heart upon
persisting but patriotic Cubans and
seeks to set up barbaric monarchs in
Pacific Islands.
REFORMING PARENTS.
Los Angeles Express: Some recent
events in various parts of this State
lead to the question: Do not the parents
of this commonwealth need reforming?
The terrible scandals in which a num-
Der of old men and nearly half hun
dred young girls are implicated, in San
Francisco, the ShiptOn case here. the
debauching Of young girls by their faith
ers in various parts of the State, the
putting of boy under II years of age
TO work on a rockpile as tramp in San
BernardnO, the daily cases of Juvenile
burglars and thieves that occur to-day
here, tomorrow in some other part of
the State, all point to an epidemic of
crime by juvenile offenders that leaves
no doubt that there is something rot
ten in Denmark" The decentralization
of the boys and girls of to-day means
the decentralization of the men and
women of tomorrow, and the commu-
nifty, aside from the moral aspect of the
case. cannot afford to ignore the dan
ger to the State which such a state of
affairs portends.
In the cases of the girls, it is clearly
q case of parental neglect. Even If the
children were not carried to their ruin,
as is alleged to have occurred in some
cases, the parents are morally and
SHOIli We leS5o1ily ItSJOiiSIDic 1OI the QG-
bauching of their offspring.
FRUIT CROP DISPOSAL.
Tulare Register: In spite Of the nu-
merous successes scored by the South
ern California Exchange method of dis
posing of the orange crop, and, despite
the numerous failures of all other
methods of securing anything like de-
cent prices for their product, is is diff
cult TO keep the people screwed up to
the sticking point of staying with the
exchange Agents from the fruit COM
panies, and commission houses are
securing the country trying to make
contracts and are meeting with some
success. It is just possible that compe-
tition with an honest exchange may
make commission men honest, but
heretofore honesty has not been the
best paying policy with them. 1t has
paid them better to steal There are
three principal objects TO be attained,
and all three must be attained in order
10 prevent disaster to the grower: The
elimination of middlemen, efficient dis
tribution of products and the proven
tion of the Cutting of markets. An ex-
change that Will handle practically all
the fruit can accomplish these results,
but unless the people stay with the ex-
change the exchange cannot stay with