The record-union., 1896-05-20
VOICE OF TIE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALI
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov.
ernmental, Practical, TheOret-
ical and Current.

Stockton Independent: It begins to
look as if the only business the ST.
Louis Convention will have is to adopt
a platform and appoint National Ex-
ecutive Committee. All that is neces-
sary to nominate Mckinley is to send
one delegate from each State with the
instructions, as is done in the Elec-
toral College when President is
formally elected.
MAKING CRIMINALS.
Bakersfield Echo: So long as present
economic conditions prevail, so long
will these crimes prevail. BOundlesS
poverty and boundless riches are fruit
full parents of criminal degenerates.
They produce in one year a Holmes, a
Durrant, a Jackson, and Wilde
Santa Cruz Penny Press.
Such is the monstrous doctrine that
is being promulgated by portion of the
press and people nowadays. What the
tariff or silver questions, land owner
ship or transportation has to do with
the restraint of mems passions it is not
easy to see. But one may easily under
stand how such excuses or palliations
as the above will lead to repetitions Of
crimes of the most revolving nature.
sympathies Of the people that inequal-
ity in life is an excuse or a justifica-
tion for crime and who can conceive the
results? The doctrine proclaimed by
the Press is becoming more or less
common among those with socialistic
tendencies, but it is the most damnable
that was ever taught. There was abso-
lutely nothing in the conditions in life
r1f oil n of r11n Cfa ma
affords the slightest excuse for their
unspeakable criminality. Economic
conditions had not laid upon them
either the heavy hand of adversely or
the flattering smiles of unearned en-
p1oyment; they were neither very poor
nor very rich, but all belonging to the
great middle class of fairly prosperous.
Likewise their victims. Hence why
this inhuman course of reasoning? The
Press and its kind, unintentionally
we fully believe, are doing society &, far
greater injury than any or all of the
economic conditions" of the present
day.
NO WINE AT CONVENTIONS.
Los Angeles Capital: 1t is said that
the Republican delegation to st. Louis
will not carry with it large quantities
free distribution It is to be hoped that
the Democrats will follow this wise ex
ample The scenes enacted at the
headquarters Of the California delega
tion to Chicago four years ago were
positively dsgraceful. A carload of
wines were begged from the wine
makers of the State and taken to Chi
cago. On arrival at the Windy City
the reading-room Of the Auditorium
Hotel was secured at a cost of $50
day. The furniture was cleared out, a
bar thrown across the room at one end,
the wine stacked behind it and four
barkeepers put to work. The loafers
of Chicago scented the liquor from afar
and visited us by the hundreds. It soon
became necessary to call upon the po-
lice of Chicago to clear the rooms; and,
thereafter, blue coated policemen
guarded the doors and self-respecting
delegates from other States took one
peep at our barroom and fled in disgust
Four days Of hilarity made us think
that we were profusely hospitable,
and made everybody else think we were
set of loose uncultured Westerners, in
all that the term "Westerner" implies
in the East.
The delegation was composed Of gen.
tlemen, but the barroom overshadowed
that fact to such a degree that few
found it out.
1t is time that Californians stopped
such nonsense. 1t only brings upon us
the contempt of the East and serves to
introduce our wines to a lot of fellows
who drink beer and whisky when they
have the money and take wine when it
is free.
THE HOME.
Santa Barbara Press: The family Is
the unit OF society and home stands