The record-union., 1896-03-19
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions of Interior California
Newspapers.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, Theoret-
zeal and Current.

Santa Barbara News: Poor San Fran
ciscoi Not only has she been sorely
afflicted and grievously injured by the
doings of her daily press but in an un-
guarded moment she elected as Mayor
person named Sutro, who supple
ments and goes the press one better.
This Mayor has not only made his
city the by-word of all the land, but he
has directly and fagrantly violated the
postal laws in his attempts to injure
his enemies. Now the question very
properly confronts the Postoffice De-
partment, "Why is this man not ar
rested and made an example of" He
is an offender, and though he is rich,
let him feel the heavy hands of the
lawI" Does anyone suppose a poor
man, an artisan or mechanic would
escape the penalty of his law-break-
ing proclivities? Why should Sutro?
Let the rich offender take the same pun
ishment that would undoubtedly be
meted out to the poor man.
WILL LOSE.
Mountain Democrat: By his failure
to play the Government for a sucker, or
to substitute the CONFERENCE.-The
wreckers for the Octupus, poor old Su-
tro is about to lose his reputation for
successful lying. AS a reformer he
seems to have lost the faculty for un-
dermining for which he was once SO
noted in Nevada.
NO STRADDLE.
San Diego Tribune: The platform of
the Ohio Republican convention de-
cIares in favor of bimetallism, and de-
mands the use of both gold and silver
as standard currency. Republican con-
ventions in other States will, If well ad-
vised, follow the example of Ohio and
take a decided stand on the financial
question. The party that attempts to
straddle the fence on the relative posi-
ton of gold and silver as standard
money, will be defeated this fall. 1t will
not do to lay all the ills that the body
polite is suffering from to the tariff
THE UNDERCURRENT.
Vacaville Reporter: Now that the
Supreme Court of the United States has
affiermed the decision of the Cirucit
Court in the celebrated case of the
United States VS.. the Estate of Leland
Stanford, there is an undercurrent of
feeling among those who have hoped
that the Government would win, that
the decision is a just one. OF course,
the fact that by the munifcence of the
purposes of the founders of Stanford
University much of the money will be
devoted to education, does a great deal
to temper the anger of those who had
hoped for a different decision. But
there can be no question but that the
court correctly interpreted the pur-
pose of those who passed the various
statutes which have come under review
in this particular case. The same spirit
was manifested in the surrender of the
rights of the Government under the
first mortgage and it's permission to
place ahead of it's claim the present
first mortgage. The result of the de-
cision cannot but be regarded favor
ably by the people of California. The
dew otion of the princely revenues of
the Stanford estate to purposes of
higher education cannot but have a
beneficial effect upon the entire State.
THE ALASKA CRAZE.
Stockton Independent: Two men who
have arrived in San Francisco from the
Yukon gold fields in Alaska describe the
journey and its great difficulties in a
temperature that ranged from 26 de-
grees to 90 degrees below zero. They
say no man should go there unless he
takes at least 5000 with him, as it is the
worst place on earth for man who
goes broke" credit being unknown and
employment scarce and limited to those
who are well acquainted with working
mines in that region. 1t is great folly
for a man to take the long and perilous
io1r1 4r
the California hills afford rich fields for
the poor prospector. A man who can
get enough food to last him a month
can go into Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mari
posa, and, in fact, into almost any other
mountain region in California and get
enough gold by hard labor to support
him until he finds something worth de-
veloping. If he gets out of provisions
he can always find supplies for sale near
at hand, and a populat ton that will en-
courage him to continue prospecting
The gold of California is by NO means
exhausted. 1t is, on the contrary less
than half developed and wealth awaits
the intelligent and persistent searcher
who is willing to undergo a quarter of
the labor and privation required to
make a living on the Yukon.
SNOW IT UNDER.
Grass Valley Union: Congressman
Lcud of this State has introduced a
bin, which has been approved by the
Committee on Postofices, that deals
hard blow to newspapers and read
ers of the same The bill should be de-
feated at any cost. as it precludes the
sending through the mails as second
class matter and papers but those actu-
ally any voluntarily subscribed for
There are other obnoxious provisions.
and it is to be hoped that the bill will
be promptly showed under"
RAPPING SACRAMENTO.
Red Bluff News: The State Board of
Health. and DR.. Laine particularly,
would be better employed if they were
engaged in a laudable endeavor to
cause the people of Sacramento to pro-
their use. We have no idea that there
is another city of equal size in the
United States that uses as vile stuff
and calls it good as Sacramento does
DR.. Laine may start the fight off, but.
If he does, he will have to include Sac
ramento.
SENSATIONAL NEWSPAPERS.
Los Angeles Express: The San Fran
cisco press has carried sensationalism
in some instances so far that it is more
dangerous to the morals of young per-
sons than Police Gazette or Days
Doings." Tt is only the other day that
one of the San Francisco papers ex-
cited two boys to steal by describing
the tools and the methods of thieves.