The record-union., 1896-02-11
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions of Interior California
Newspapers.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmenta1, Practical, Theoret-
ical and Current.

CISCO" It was, indeed, for the people
who left the old corporation to ride
with the new. and went home with
fractured limbs and broken heads.
NOT HOPEFUL.
Fresno Republican: 1t is evident that
the country has little to hope from the
House Committee on immigration and
Naturalization. In considering Repre-
sentative Grove l.. Johnson's bill to pro-
hibit the immigration of common labor
ers Ford of Ohio expressed the idea
that such immigrants are needed to
take the place of strikers, and the ma
jority of the committee appeared to
lean in the same direction. So we may
expect that the great unwashed host
will continue to come, and American
laborers will continue to be superseded
by Huns and Poles and Heaven knows
what not We may expect that men
who have worked for 81 a day will
continue to be supplanted by those who
work for 81 day, as these finally will
be succeeded by the rs cent or 90 cent
variety. It makes a cheerful outlook
for a republic which must live in the
intelligence of the people or not at all.
Perhaps the best thing that can be done
under the circumstances is to hope that
the nation will awake from its folly be-
fore it is too late.
RESTRICTING IMMIGRATION.
bakersfield Californian: 1t is pass
ing strange that Congressman should
so far mistake the desire of the people
as to oppose Congressman Johnson's
anti-in1migration bill. According to the
dispatches, the prevailing sentiment is
that body is opposed to any further re-
preston or restriction of immigration.
If there is any one sentiment that has
grown more rapidly of late years, is
upheld by more people, or is more
strongly founded on the commonest IN
stinct of self-preservation than that
which demands the enactment OF laws
restricting immigration, then we do not
know what it is. 1t has found expression
in divers and unmistakable ways, ana IL
the question could be submitted TO
poular vote, the preponderance in favor
of restriction would be almost as great
as was the preponderance against Chi
nese immigration in California. Con-
gressmen who oppose the measure are
very much mistaken in the temper and
desires of their constituents.
LOGICAL APPLICATION.
Folsom Telegraph: During the stormy
weather two or three accidents, in
which persons were badly injured, oc-
Cured on the Southern Pacific Rail-
road. Adolph Sutro vehemently de-
clared that c. P. Huntington should be
Jailed. saying he was to blame for it all
On Sunday last in San Francisco car
Of the Sutro line was thrown from the
track and twenty persons injured, most
of them seriously. The accident was the
result Of carelesSneSs. Would 1t not De
the proper thing to Jail San Francisco
blatherskite Mayor for this? In the
meantime every person injured should
sue him for the injury done them ON his
road.
AGAINST A STONE.
Riverside Enterprise: England has
practically had her own way about
everything ever since the American
war of 1872 She has bullied Turkey,
China and the native tribes of Africa.
She has step by step secured colonies
and naval stations in every part of the
world, and nobody has dared to say
her nay. 1t is now certain that the
time has come to check her insolent as
pleases on this earth. 1t is time for one
nation to set its foot down that when
her course is unjust she must be
stopped in her career of aggression, on
this continent at least. A nation that
grows bold and unjust through success
in long bullying of weaker peoples must
at length come dead against stone
wall and receive a lesson. The United
States is that stone wall so far as the
western hemisphere is concerned.
THAT BLACK LIST.
Chico Chronicle Record: The "Ex-
arniner'' has a ''black list" This is a
curiosity On this list go the names
OF all the enemies of the ruler of the
Pacific" It is said that when new
name is to be added to the list horri-
BILE ceremony is gone through In a dis
gusting dark cavern III the cellar under
the Examiner press the terrible act
is committed. There, in the presence
of relics of the Inquisition, before the
bloody corpse and broken coffin the
name is affixed to the ill-omened paper.
The photographer is horrible to look
upon. His visage, smeared with blood,
is ungainly and vicious
lie CASE OI lA1S O1OnA AAOA6N NNN N-~~
hill will be remembered. The Tex
aminer," then, is adopting another ex-
pedient. Well, we suppose that very
few are afraid of the "black list"
STRANGE If TRUE.
riverside Press There is q growing
feeling that the injury done to the
fruit this season in this valley is not all
due to frost but to influences not here
tofore taken into account. Much of the
fruit that is dropping is found full of
Juice. and bearing none of the indica-
tions of frost This is now accounted
for by the electrical storm that pre-
ceded the cold wave, and which seems
after all to have done as much harm
here as at Ontario, where it is claimed
the damage sustained from wind was
greater than that from cold. One or
two of the outside buyers have been
contracting for such windfall fruit,
which is to be regretted, since while it
may be so hand sorted as TO eliminate
most of that which is unfit for use, it
cannot bring much above cost for mar
keting and will continue to injure the
sale of that which Is perfect
THE MINING DAMS.
Colusa Sun: The miners should think
of some better way to restrict the slick
ems than the dams they have heretofore
built 1t will do no good to rebuild
they have been tested and found want
ing. The very best of the dams became
wrecks and we are the sufferers. Now
if the miners can do anything with the
slickens it will be good thing for Cali
fornia, but if we must have our navi-
gable streams ruined and our lands de-
stroyed forever, is there anyone, Is there
even millionaire miner, who can con-