The record-union., 1896-04-14
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Interior California
Newspapers.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, Theoret-
icaf and Current.

Pasadena Star: The Herald heads
| its report San Pedro only was in
dorsed!' and the Times" says "All for
| San Pedro!" as though that was prac-
tically all there was to report. Of the
San Pedro or Bust meeting the
| Times says there were 1000 people.
| A Pasadenian who attended, and who
is accustomed to managing and sizing
up meetings says there were about
LOO. In view of these facts it will be
seen that whatever credibility attaches
to newspaper reports depends largely
upon the bias of the paper. A stranger
taking his impressions from the papers
mentioned would conclude that Los
Angeles was almost unit on the single
harbor idea, while if he went and looked
at the meetings he would think that a
large majority favored the idea of TAX
ing all they could get-whether for one
or both.
IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION
Ukiah Republican Press: The press"
believes in the complete restriction of
foreign laborers, skilled and unskilled
and it stands firmly upon the platform
OF 1894. We believe that the time has
come when the nation must take a firm
sion of the underpaid and ignorant
| laborers of the old world that are flock
ing here now in such numbers to drive
the American laborer from his work.
| reducing the price of labor and break
ing up happy homes and prosperous
business. We demand the enactment
and strict enforcement Of such laws as
will absolutely and effectually prohibit
hA inn, r,.ofi @f
both skilled and unskilled, into this
country. A bill constructed on these
lines has been introduced in Congress
by the Representative from the Second
District, and with its enactment into
law and a proper protective system the
country will again be placed in a posi-
ton to recuperate from the degenerat-
ing affect of Democratic misrule Speak
| ing IN support of the bill introduced by
Mr.. Johnson that gentleman said: 1--WE
all understand that this immigration
has been stimulated by the efforts of
railroad and steamship companies, who
| have published alluring tales to the
poor Of the old world concerning the
land OF America, and we should pro-
claim the truth in regard to the land of
America to these immigrants. We
should say to them that there is none
or but very little land in America for a
poor man. That although we have
| millions of acres unsettled, it is
| mostly land that cannot be cultivated
without irrigation and that these circu-
lars are false"
WHAT MAY HAPPEN.
Modesto News: The countries of the
earth are busy piling up navies and ma
tional debts in like proportion, but no
sooner do they get one set Of ships built
than these at once become antiauated
and useless because of some discovery
or Improvement in naval warfare that
| makes them of no avail. One of these
| days some new principle will be discov-
cred that will sweep the whole batch of
them out of the count altogether and rem
der them of no more value than so much
old iron and steel.
DO WOMEN WANT IT?
| Riverside Press: The Massachusetts,
| Legislature defeated the annual woman
suffrage bill without debate and with
out even roll-call, and the reason
given by the legislators is that the fail
IRE of the women to take sufficient In
| terest in the suffrage question to vote
| last fall doesn't entitle the advocates of
the measure to further serious consider
alton. If, they say, a majority of women
want suffrage a majority of men will
vote to let them have it. But the men
must first be convinced that the women
want it.
| PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH -
| Escondido Times: A San Francisco
shoehouse sends out a circular letter
about fostering home industries by buy
| ing our shoes and urging others to buy
from the aforesaid house. We would
suggest to the San Francisco shoe man.
ufacturers that If they will let the peo-
pie of the State know of their existence
| by a judicious use of printers ink
through the State papers, as Eastern
concerns are continually doing, they
would soon find many people every
where falling into the practice of en-
couraging home manufactures and
home industries. If California manu-
facturers generally wish to create a
home market for their goods they must
let the people know that their goods are
on the market, and the best medium for
spreading such information is the Safe
/ newspapers Let the manufacturers
also practice what they preach" by
| natronizing the local State papers,
| ~ business man is
RSi,S==@not the most patient