The record-union., 1896-05-14
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALI
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, TheOret-
icaI and Current.

Placerville Nugget: Help along the
man who helps along the town for he
helps you along. PatroniZe your home
merchant. Discriminate for him every
time. He can sell you decent goods for
less money than it costs you for shoddy
which you buy under misrepresentation
as to it's original purchase. No man
who pays freights and fares from place
to place, staying but a short time in a
town can sell you good goods at a fair
price. The discount must be some
where, and you can gamble it is very
likely in the goods.
CIVIL SERVICE.
Stockton Independent: Just as soon
as partisan gets his friends into good
paying Government positions he wants
the civil service rules extended over the
places they occupy. While he has the
appointing power and has not exer-
cised it to the full he is silent on the
subject.
JUST WHAT THEY WANT.
Oroville Register: 81 am out of poll
tics and have been for several years.
have been so disgusted with the way
that things have been run in this coun-
try that I don't want anything more to
do with politics." remarked an excel
lent gentleman the other day, in COM
menting on the action of the Congress
sional Committee. The men who "do"
politics, the experts who are in the
business for what there is in it for them
and their owners, hope that this worthy
citizen may stand nobly by his determi-
nation in this regard and that his fol-
lowing may increase.
ANTI-PROTECTIO
Oroville Mercury: The queerest thing
of the day is the inability of some peo-
pie to see the difference between popu-
lar enthusiasm and sentiment manu-
factured by liberal use of the fat
fried out of expectant manufacturers.
HIS INFLUENCE.
Stockton Mail: President Kruger
has evidently come within the sphere of
John Hayes Hammonds peculiar infiu-
ence, for the dispatches announce that
the old Boer has decided to further
commute Hammond's sentence. Arthur
McEwen's prediction has thus been full
| filled. It will be remembered that Nc
| Even stated that no one could meet a
member of the Hammond family with
out experiencing a violent desire to do
something for him. John Hayes may
yet be dismissed with an indemnity.
CLOSE THE GATE.
Tulare Register: Thirty-fiv per cent.
of the immigrants arriving at New
York from Italy since the beginning OF
the year, and there We're 10000 of them,
| could neither read nor write in the Ian
/ guage of their own country. The i'm
portation of such people ought to be
| stopped There can be no two opinions
about that Several hundred italian i'm
migrants were sent back because they
were paupers, but none of them because
| they were illiterate, and yet illiteracy
| and pauperism go hand in hand with
each other and hand in hand with
| crime. Put the gate on its hinges, and
| put it on quick. 1t is known that TO-
| 600 more Italians are waiting on the
| farther shore for an opportunity to en-
bark for this country, and it is likely
| that more than half of these are illit-
crate and paupers besides.
UNLAWFUL.
| Los Angeles Herald: The United
States and Spain have a treaty in force
| by the terms of which each Govern
ment binds itself to prevent the sending
from the territory within its jurisdiction
of any material assistance to people en-
gagged in rebellion in the other, unless it
shall have accorded to such rebels re-
| cognition as belligerents. A treaty with
foreign power is a part of the law of
( the land Therefore, for American citi-
zens to furnish financial or any other
material assistance to the Cuban insur-
! rectionists at present would be unlaw-
| full.
OLIVES.
| Stockton MALL Those who say the
| taste has to be educated to like Califor-
MIA ripe olives probably base that opin-
ion on spurious samples. Most of those
who once eat ripe picked olives in this
vicinity do not willingly return to the
green pickles, domestic or imported.
The Eastern dealer will continue to de-
cry the California product, however, to
prevent people trying them, if possible,
| because his profits on the imported indi-
gestbles are greater.
| EXACTLY SO.
Chico Chronicle Record: Rev. Miss
| Shaw asserts that a woman accused
/ of a crime should be tried by women
/ and not by men, says an exchange.
/ This does not accord with most peoples
/ ideas, for no men are so merciless to
| women as women are to their own sex.
/ We venture the assertion that II a
| thousand women were placed on trial
and had the privilege of selecting the
| jury nine hundred and ninety of
them would select men as jurors, while
| the other ten would ever afterwards
regret they had not followed the same
course.