The record-union., 1896-12-10
Voice OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUD-
jects Of Living and News
Interest.

Mountain Democrat: The people
should protect themselves from slander
by turning a deaf ear to slanderous
tongues and ceasing to read papers
publishing sensations and trash.
PROPHETS OF EVIL NOT WANTED.
Riverside Enterprise: The pessimist
has no place In the life Of California.
The croaker who refuses to see the Ilght
through the rift in the cloud OF tenn
porary depression should move out. his
location Is staked for him In the East,
with it's congested cities and its serial
OF poverty, vice and crime. In R1ver-
side County, with its glorious future,
1t Is best for himself and the rest OF US
that he should fold his tent like the
Arabs and betake himself to other and
older pastures.
There Is no cause for despair In Cal
iforha- Her resources are greater,
more diversified and more valuable
than those of any other State In the
Undon- Her people In the mass are
more hopeful, more energetic and more
enterpristng than the people OF many
States. She is the gold producer of the
world. Her gold fields are more ex-
tensive and of q better quality than
any other. Her agricultural prospects
and realities prove the fertility Of her
soil, and the ease with which she can
supply the greatest markets. The
choicest and most luscious fruits kiss
the warm white sunlight and find ready
and eager purchasers in the big centerS
OF population. In short, anything pos
sible of production can be raised with
in her limits. This Is the main reason
why we say we have no room for the
pessinlist, or the croaker, and why he
should emigrate-
A GOOD ROAD PLAN.
Santa Rosa Democrat: Our plan
would be: First, general road tax
for main roads in each county; sec
ond, local road tax to improve minor
thoroughfares feeding the main roads;
the main thoroughfares to be conduct
ed, If you choose, under the direction
Of a State engineer; each county to
have the money 1t collects from, its citi-
gens to be expended on its own town.
ship roads, under the direction Of the
Supervisors, with a possible exception
Of q general State tax of a fraction Of
q mill to help out the main thorough
fares In remote and sparSely populated
counties. If this Important matter Is
left to the Supervisors as It now Is,
with no general system. we Will never
have good roads. We have tried 1t now
for forty years. We have already
spent SIS, 100000 In this State on this
experiment. Amt that enough? And
to this great waste Sonoma County has
contributed nearly $4,000, 900. Is 1t not
time to try something better? Should
we t1s ourselves down to custom tradi
ton and habit, and refuse to take a
step In advance because II throws us
out OF the rut Of custom?
Would q man OF sense plant vtnifera
In q phylloxera-infested vineyard be-
cause his father had planted that kind
Of grape, or would he plant resistants?
1t would be just as sensible to do this
es 1t would be to continue the present
disastrous, tax-eaung road system.
OF CORPORATIONS.
Talare Register; Most corporations
are benefcent. They are helpful to
humanity. They are like a dozen or a
hundred men taking hold Of the same
rope and pulling in the same direction
for q purpose that Is common to them
all. It Is the beginning Of a co-opera-
ton that mankind will one day learn
and that will uplift all men, solving the
wages problem and the problem of dis
tr1buion of wealth. Meantime the best
thought Of which we are capable should
be given to control Of public corpora
tons to the end that their aggressions
may be restrained within proper bonds,
but blatant reformers whose only stock
In trade Is denunciation Of corporations
by wholesale and retail should be lis
tened to only when the listener has no
other way Of spending his tdme.
WE'RE THEY LADIES7
Bakersfield Californian: There were
several hundred ladies'" including a
number of the most prominent society
leaders" Of San Francisco, at the con-
test between a couple OF three-quarter
naked human bY7utes last night This
fact was telegraphed East as a choice
norsei Of news, And still we affect to
wonder at such things as the recent at
tack Of the "Oregonian" upon tho peo-
pie OF this State
ALL TOGETHER.
Santa Rosa Republican,: 1t Is nota-
BILE that the convention of fruit growers
at Sacramento declared In favor Of
higher tariff on imported articles that
can be grown In California The Re-
publicans, Democrats and Populists
voted together on this proposition.
Now let these people understand that
protection cannot be secured for the
products OF this part of the country un-
less 1t Is conceded to other sections.
Equitable protection sids all parts of
our common country and this In what
should be tnaisted on.
PASTE THIS THERE, TOO.
Stockton Maili Paste this on the
bare walls Of your Uranium: The next
activity In land transactions Is to be
In Northern California-Marysvills Ap-
peal.
II will not come until the towns of
Northern California put down better