The record-union., 1896-04-30
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALL
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, TheOret-
ical and Current.

Placerville Nugget: Ell Dorado's hills
have more and more men in them every
week hunting for prospects. The county
is growing perceptibly all the time,
and its future is as golden as the dawn
Of Ultra prosperity could well be.
PROTECTION.
San Diego Union: Probably no por
ton of the country can show so many
new industries in which enormous
sums of money are invested, and which
require only the benefits of judicious
tariff Act to become among the great
est sources of wealth in the entire
land. Southern California is usually
likened to countries along the Mediter-
ranean. But the comparison does not
stop with climate. The products of
this favored region are largely those
of Southern EurOpe-the portion OF the
old world where labor is cheapest-and
here are some of the commodities that
were exported from Southern Europe
to the United States during the last
fiscal year: Lemons to the value Of 3d.
100000; oranges, 81 ,9S5, 900; beside, in
round numbers, 5000 tons of figs, $500
tons of prunes, 1000 tons of raisins and
1000 tons of almonds. These are only
few of the items, but the total value
Of fruits and nuts of the same variety
as are grown in California that were
imported from Southern Europe dur
ing the period mentioned, will approx
innate S2OOOO,OOO 1t may be added
that these commodities were produced
with the aid of that very class of cheap
labor from whose ranks thousands Of
penniless unfortunates are now emf
grating to this country. And it is not
too much to say that under existing
conditions, the competition of Southern
Europe is a standing menace to almost
every important industry of this part
of the State.
A REPLY.
Stockton Mail: The Antioch Ledger"
replies thus to w. H. Mills contention
that it is the mint stamp that gives gold
it's value: This is the old threadbare
creed of the wolf in sleeps clothing,
whose CALLING ukase enthroneS fiat
money" There, Mr.. Mills; how do you
feel now?
DISEASED COWS.
San Jose Mercury: When the public
becomes satisfied that the milk served
in this city is free from the contagion
of consumption and is uncontaminated
by water from horse troughs and the
various foreign substances that are
habitually used by many Of the deal
ers to give substance to it, there will
be a much larger demand for the prod
uct Of their dairies. Clean, wholesome
milk is a luxury as well as a necessity,
but there are thousands Of people in San
jose who seldom use milk, because they
have good reason to believe that it is
unfit for human consumption. The
milk question has reached a stage at
which plain language is required, and
the palmer the better, both for the pub
lie and for the owners of dairy cattle.
The disclosures made during the past
month have aroused the people to a
sense of their danger, and the senti-
ment of Indignation which exists has
not been lessened by the insolent and
contumacious behavior of the dealers,
a majority Of whom have resorted to
evasion, If not to open resistance, in Or
der that they might continue their ne
various practices at the expense Of the
public
The worst feature of this whole busi-
ness is that the Veterinary Inspector
does not appear to be clothed with legal
authority to perform the work that he
was expected to perform. That is
matter which the people will see is
remedied by the next Legislature.s But
the people are entitled to know who it
is, if any there still be, who refuses to
have his cows examined, and, if dis
eased, destroyed, and were they so in
formed they would soon settle the ques-
ton, SO far as it applies to those par
ticular dairymen.
FAIR PLAY
Stockton Independent: California
asks no particular favors of
the General Government, but it does
ask for fair treatment. During it's ex-
istence as a State it has paid into the
Federal treasury in direct revenue
nearly $500, ,0000, 900, and the Govern
ment has expended within the State
about S11 100000 for improvements. 1t
is not seeking favors, therefore, to
claim that ten times as much should be
expended before accounts are balanced.
ABOUT HARMLESS LUNATICS.
Oakland Tribune: There is a class of
through their own vices. The moral
sense is not wholly gone. They know
that murder is a crime, and yet are
pretty sure to escape any other penalty
than a nice boarding house in an III
sane asylum. These men are criminals,
who deserve the extreme penalty Of the
law. No partially insane man is harm
less. The man who went down the aisle
of the Unitarian Church flourishing a
loaded pistol in the face of the congre-
cation and threatening vengeance was
not a harmless lunatic. He committed
a crime which fortunately did not end
in murder. He represented a class of
degenerates who have criminal in
stincts, with moral sense enough to dis
tinguish between right and wrong. The
aSyluIns are filled with degenerates
who are criminals, and who escape
every penalty which the law provides
for sane men. There is some degree Of
insanity which is associated with the
commission of every crime Burglars
who blow up bank safes and kill CASH
iers may not be wholly sane. The ex-
press robbers who stop railway trains
and murder express messengers may
lack an element of sanity. But seeing
that they are quite able to distinguish
between right and wrong, charge of
buckshot or a hempen rope is thought
to be a suitable penalty. 1t might not
have been amiss for such a fellow as
Raten.
POPULIST PRETENSIONS.
Woodland Democrat: The Populists
of Yolo County want platform rad
ical enough to be effective and conserv-
ative enough to Win" There is a great
deal more significance in that declara-
ton than appears upon the surface 1t