The record-union., 1896-11-23
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jeCtS of Living and News
Interest.

Oakland Tribune: This is not alto
gether favorable view of woman SUI
trage which a Denver correspondent
gives to the New York World" 1T IS
n report of a conversation with SUI
1rage woman on election day: 4 turned
10 the woman who had not spoken OF
course said, the great advantage of
suffrage is that it purifies politics.
Ihere was silence for the space OF
lew seconds, then the woman VINO had
not spoken said: The great advantage
or suffrage is that 1T teaches women
that they are not one bit better than
men, We've sat UP for years ana tolo
men how corrupt their pollt1cS Were'
and men have smiled up at US ana tolo
us how superior We are, and now we
should have suffrage. We've had a large
and enthusiastic surprise party we
women have found out that our poll
tics are just as corrupt as mems poll
tics, and they're just little tr1ckler.
We've been ait it for two years, and
We're sche1ning and making oombina-
tons and doing all the very things
we've been finding fault with the men
for doing all these years. The women of
the better classes are getting disguised
and drawing out of politics just as our
men have done, and the women of the
other classes have become enthusiastic
and gone into politics just as their man
kind have Suffrage has certainly one
great advantage: 1t has taken the con-
oeit out of women
MAKING A REPUTATION.
Marysville Democrat: During recent
years the people of San Francisco have
been held up to the gaze of the reading
people of the world as thoroughly bad,
the Examine" being the chief organ
in the line of defamation. When the
site for Postoffice building was being
selected, the officers and others con-
rected with the transaction were de-
lrounced as corrupt and thoroughly bad.
Every member of the Board of Super
visors elected in that city was accused
Of being a bribe-taker and thief, while
men elected to office or were chosen as
delegates to conventions were accused
Of every crime, including being owned
body and soul by Huntington A public
meeting was called to denounce the Po-
Ice Commissioners and others who
came under the ban Of the Examiner"
In fact, every class of citizens have
been accused of wrong-doing at one
time or another. except the men who
openly defrauded NJ. NJ. Estee Of votes
cast for him for the office of Governor
in San Francisco, which thieves were
defended by the Examiner" And now,
after educating readers who reside at
distance from this wicked city, the
Portland "Oregonian" has repeated
some Of these stories TO prove that the
people of San Francisco are thoroughly
bad, and this has caused the Exam
iner' TO howl and accuse it OF lying.
ECONOMY OF GOOD ROADS.
Stockton Independent: Stockton af-
fords an excellent object lesson to farm
ers in the matter of good roads. After
all the expensive experimenting with
basalt blocks. bitumen and macadam,
the people have found the last, when
properly laid, the best for all purpose.
FL Dorado and Hunter streets, where
the macadam has been Laid properly
and we'll rolled, are now the best streets
IN the city. The surface of the crushed
rock has become as smooth as the btu
men and much more solid, and If it we'll
endures the rains of winter it will prove
TO be the cheapest pavement ever laid,
because Of its durability 1t Will be very
expensive in the first instance for coun-
try roads, but, as it is now laid, muddy
wagon wheels will not pick up the small
stones and make ruts to be repaired
The dust, having been well washed into
sy-=- rs..-a-
on which two horses can now draw with
ease such loads as would have overbur-
oened them on the earliest macadam-
fZed streets and such as still REQUIRE all
teams strength on a bituminized
street Folsom rock such as Is furnished
by the States crusher, has proved a
bonanza TO those ambitious cities that
desire good streets, and after the rush
ing demand for it Is supplied, II 1t ever
IS, il may become cheap enough for
farmers to feel that they can afford 1t
on country roads. When the saving on
horses, harness, wagons, time and pa.
tience IS considered, good roads, even
at great expense are the best invest
ment into which a farmer can put
money, and the better they are the bet
ter the investment therein
a NEW IDEA
San Jose Mercury: For some time
past the Mercury has advocated a
plan for the abatement of the tramp
nuisance by making them work on the
roads. This idea is now to be aban-
doned for a better one a ship should
be chartered and the tramps sent TO
Hermit Island, where, Ii Is said, there
are thousands of women. but no men.
The women there are so anxious for
a husband that they are willing to do
all the work for the sake of having
one. With plenty of cocoanuts, plenty
Of wives and no work the average
tramp would find Hermit Island a
paradise.
COMPRESSED AIR FOR STREET
CARS.
Los Angeles Times: Recent trials Of
compressed air as a motive power for
street-car propulsion are said to have
demonstrated the superiority of that
agent over electricity for the purpose
named. An international street railroad
syndicate has been formed in London.
which proposes to operate in the United
States as we'll as in Europe, and after
exhaustive investigation the compressed