The record-union., 1895-10-02
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Expressions From Newspapers of In
terror California.
IAiampda TeIaoram

expressions FROM Newspapers OF In
terror California.
alameda Telegram
That there should be any opposition to
General Nelson a. Miles being app ointed
to the command of the army does not
speak well for our so-called democratic
ideas, and is, to say the least, shameful.
Neither is it in accord with the traditions
of the army. General Miles is a brave
and gallant soldier and won his spurs on
the battlefield and not in Washington
drawing
SHALL WE RAISE TOBACCO?
lGilroy Gazette.
Not many years will pass before Cali
forniaus will discover that tobacco crop
IN his State will be as valuable as the
fruit crop, with quicker results and more
certainty.
ASSAILING CAPITAL.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Can any community prosper without
the investment of capital? Can the coast
railroad be constructed without the en-
ployment of capital? Are the citizens of
Santa Cruz opposed as a community, to
capitalists coming among them? Ii so,
encourage the attacks on capital and cap
ltalists.
SYMPATHY FOR CUBA.
Fresno Republican,
The Cuban insurgents are fighting a
royal battle for freedom, and they are en-
titled to the sympathy and moral sup
port OF the people OF country which
proudly claims to be 'the land Of the
free and the home of the brave.'
ASSESSMENT OF MORTGAGES.
IWatsonville Pajaronian.l
Attorney General Fitzgerald has given
an opinion that the assessment of mort
rraf hAFf 4 ka
all counties whose assessments were re-
duced by the State Board of Equalization.
There ls q constitutional provision which
prevents an increase of the assessment Of
money and mortgages when the assess
ment OF d county has been raised by the
State Board, and if a mortgage valuation
is to be stationary in one instance it does
seem that 1t should be in the other. In
the majority of counties in California
mortgages, for purposes of assessment.
are actually treated as an interest in the
property and not as money on hand. If
the valuation OF the property mortgaged
does not reach the amount of the mort
gage the latter is not assessed for more
than the valuation of the property This
is fair treatment and prevents discordaut
land valuations. If such rule had pre-
vailed in this county in years past the
kick OF Equalizer Morehouse against the
county would not have arisen.
LIBELOUS SIDE-SHows.
Stockton Mail.l
The people of California will not grieye
over the disasters that have wrecked the
"FOrty-Nine Mining Camp at Chicago.
nor would they view with any other feel
ing than that OF complacency the failure
of tie scheme at the Atlanta Exposition.
Should the diggin's peter out in Georgia
some hope may be iefI that its managers
4 III.
infiict the offensive side-show upon the
French people at the Paris Exposition in
1898, which they threaten TO do. Bret
Harps literary genius has enshrined in
an atmosphere OF romance the gamblers
and ruffians of the Argonaut era. The
spirit of chlvalry that animated some of
the worst types OF human character, male
and female, during that period, has been
caught by him and indelibly fixed in tho
literature of this century. He has had
the world for his readers. 1t is upon the
sentimental view of the California vaga-
bonds OF '49, so cleyerly delineated by
Harte, that the money making scheme of
reproducing Slippery Gulch, Deadman's
Canyon and Hangtown depends for its
success. The California of to-day, how
ever, is grossly libeled by these shows.
and for that reason their failure is GER
tainly to be desired.
Oakland Times.
Chicago has an anarchist for Mayor. and
the result is that the city is full of foreign
anarchists, who feel at full liberty to
preach treason, incite riots and reyolu-
ton. An English anarchist by the name
OF Mowbray was suffered TO preach his
communistic doctrines in that city on
Sunday last, until his harangue became
30 offensive, and his recommendations
so melting to the public disturbance of
the peace and welfare of the city, that he
was forced from the platform by the po-
lice. The agitator should have been ar
rested, and imprisoned, and exported by
the first steamer to the country from
whence he came. The scoundrel adyo-
Gated the destruction of the Government
and all law, setting up anarchy in their
stead. The next Congress should make
it the first duty to the people of this ma
ton to revise the immigration laws.
shutting out this class of communicate
agitators. This country has too long
been the dumping ground of the lawless
and villainous classes of Europe. and it