The record-union., 1896-03-10
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions of interior California
Newspapers.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, Theoret-
icaI and Current.

| California do not realize the amount
of injury being done by the daily press
of San Francisco Prospective investors
| in the Eastern cities take up a copy of
| one of these rabid sheets and are in
/ formed that the State of California is
! held in the "remorseleSs clutch of the
great Southern Pacific octopus that
this great monster is crushing every
/ industry in the State; that every public
official is ruled by @. P. Huntington;
that every steamship line is subsidized;
in fact, one would imagine the State to
be on the verge of ruin. Not very
encouraging outlook for investors.
AN ADMIRABLE DELEGATE.
| Grass Valley Tidings: Grove l.. John
son would be an admirable delegate to
the Republican National Convention.
| He would have something to say and he
would say it in such a way that the rest
of the country would understand there
is a State named California.
CRAZY.
| San Bernardino Sun: Los Angeles is
not as crazy as is San Francisco. Los
| Angeles is progressing, and San Fran
cisco is retrograding under the influence
| of Sutro Examiner" marplotism.
A COMPLIMENT.
Oroville Register: We hope to see
Grove l.. Johnson elected a delegate to
the Republican National Convention.
| Johnson is a man of such high ability
that he is making his mark in Con-
gress, and at the National Convention
| he will have much influence.
MISREPRESENTATI
| Marysville Appeal: misrepresentation
| of the character that has come to light
during the past few days won't do
Congressman Johnson any harm. The
personal animus of the parties making
it is too patent.
LABOR THE REMEDY.
San Diego Union: An anti-tramp
convention has recently been held in
Wisconsin at which the entire subject of
vagabondage was very fully discussed
and a variety of views were advanced
to account for the great numbers of
vagrants who are scattered over the
country. The convention did not put
much faith in the opinions advanced
by a certain class of so-called humani-
tarians, who see in the tramp a legiti-
mate outcome of hard times, the cen
tralization of capital, the results of
monopoly and the oppression of the
pet arguments of demagogues and other
apologists of vagabondage were treated
with much respect by the convention.
The general conclusion reached was
that tramps start out ON their travels
chiefly from the larger towns; that the
army of idlers is constantly recruited
from the slums of cities, to which natu-
rally gravitate the unemployed who
| h oil
to work through over-indulgence in
drink Compulsory labor was recon-
mended as the one remedy for the evil
The ground taken was that this policy,
| if generally applied, would drive the
tramp from unremunerative labor to
work that would bring in something
more than his mere board, and thus
start him in the direction of becoming
self-supporting.
That compulsory toll is the best means
of abating the tramp nuisance has
been amply shown in California during
the past few months. Last autumn, it
will be remembered, there was an un-.
usual influx of vagabonds into the
State, especially into the southern
part They came singly and in gangs,
and before winter there were hundreds
of them in every county. San Diego
had its share, and for a short time the
situation was actually serious. But
Californians adopted new plan in
dealing with vagrants. There was no
more coddling. Rockpiles began to
loom up wherever tramps became nu-
merous Bread and water became the
diet for prisoners who would not work.
The result of this policy was that South
ern California has had little trouble
with the vagabond classes during the
past winter, and if a like course is fol-
lowed in future this part of the State
will never again be the tramps' para
disc that it formerly was.
HE IS FURIOUS.
San Bernardino Sun: Mayor Sutro
of San Francisco is said to be furious
again. Having sent sensational let
ters to Congressman, bearing upon the
outside the glaring inscription, Hunt
ington would not steal red-hot stove,
and Congressman having protested to
the department that they did not wish
such blackguard missives sent to them,
and the department having ordered
them stopped, and Postmaster McCop-
pin having obeyed the order, therefore
the erratic old humbug is hopping mad,
but declares that if the department will
specially and respectfully request him