The record-union., 1896-04-19
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALI
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, Theoret-
zeal and Current.

Modesto News: The movement for
the election of Senators by popular vote
has reached a point of being favorably
considered in the Committee on Privil-
eyes and Elections in the Senate itself.
Undoubtedly the sentiment of those OF
the American people who have thought
on this subject at all is in favor OF
constitutional amendment which shall
permit the people to vote for Senator as
they do for Governor. In that case the
two Senators from each State would be
balloted for by all the voters. So far
as it went this would be cumulative
voting, from which SO much good is
expected by its advocates. At the be-
ginning of this Government, when it
was arranged to choose Presidents.
Electoral Boards and Senators by Legis-
latures, it was not thought safe to trust
the people too far. Experience has
shown that the people are the only ones
who can be trusted and the nearer cleo
tions are in touch with them the better.
Kentucky has just given the country
an object lesson on the subject of elect
ing Senators.
EXPERTS AT FAULT.
Stockton independent Expert elec-
tricians derided the efforts of Sacra-
mento to transmit electricity from Fol-
som and get enough to do any work,
but Sacramento accomplished the feat,
nevertheless. The electricians said it
could. not be transmitted more than
seven or eight miles, but Sacramento is
twenty miles from Folsom Now comes
Fresno
was pretended to be a scientific fact by
bringing plenty of electric power thirty
five miles. These two facts, which
show that experts are not always ex-
pert, should be ample ground for plain,
practical men to accept the ipse d!xit
of an alleged scientist with much more
than grain of salt
CONTROLLING THE CONVENTION.
Stockton Independent: Fears that the
San Francisco delegation in the State
convention will control that body are
being indulged in by many good Re-
publicanS, who view with repugnance
the prospect of having the corrupt mi
nority in that delegation controlling
the whole and through them the con-
vention. The fear is groundless unless
the three-fourths of the delegates sent
from other parts of the State are either
wofully weak or as hopelessly corrupt
as the San Francisco strikers. The up
right delegates from that city have
shown that they cannot be bullied or
worked to suit the strikers. 1t will
be easy enough for the delegates from
the rest of the State to control that con-
vention if they will, and if they do not
they should not complain Of San Fran
cisco. To make such a complaint would
be to confess the incompetency Of the
great majority
A MATTER OF WHINE.
Tulare Register: There is no especial
justification for whining in this coun-
try. We know that the upper San Joa-
quin Valley was droughty before we set
tied here. If we did not, we knew it
long years ago, and SO, if we chance
crops on the dry plains and miss, what
right have we to whine? Have we any
right to expect Providence to change
the nature of the country to suit our
necessities? If we raised crops every
year we would do well enough, would
we not? And there is only one way of
growing crops every year, and that is
| by irrigation. True, we have not water
| never yet used all the water that was
available or made the best use of the
land that we did water. Stop whining
and get into harmony with the natural
conditions which surround you. There
is no other road to success. Tulare
County should become one of the great
est stock countries on the earth. If we
will but use all the water that can be
~ ho ho1 -irc Or
alfalfa, cut the alfalfa and feed 1t as
| hay; SOW a little patch of Australian
| salt bush and from that scatter the seed
all over the waste places; this will give
plenty of feed and stock will give pros
perity With a living thus made secure
people can afford to grow wheat as an
outside venture, but it is time to quit
making that ones only source of in
| come.
| At all events, do not whine Whining
will not help matters and people will
think you have Joined the Populists.
THE REVOLVER.
Chico Chronicle-Record: A revolver
is thing that has scarcely good use.
1t was designed to kill men, and we can
think Of no other reason for its manu-
| facture It's presence has been the
cause of many foul deed. 1t is gener-
ally conceded that a man who makes a
practice of carrying a revolver Is either
a coward or a criminal.
A GREAT NEED.
Los Angeles Times: The greatest
need of every free country is the de-
velopment of the civic conscience, that
which leads to active loyalty in the de-
fense of right principles and the embod-
| iment of them in our daily actions. We
need a patriotism that will express it
self in honest government, incorruptible
! public servants, the enforcement OF
just and righteous laws, and that Will
seek the greatest good of the many.
KISSING.
| Los Angeles Herald: The medical pro-
fession is certainly advancing. little
while back a physician demonstrated
| in a most pleasing manner that early
rising is productive of insanity, and now
a distinguished London doctor Of med
icine has found out that kissing most
materially aids digestion. The mass of
people have for ages held these iden-
tical views. and the medicos have been
long time coming around to common
sense and popular conclusions.
TWIN MONSTRoSITIES.
| San Diego Tribune: Hearst's greater
Examiner the New York Journal, ;"
| has already earned the proud distinc-
ton of being the foulest paper in the
United States. Possessing those twin
monstrostities, the World and the
journal" the less New York has to
say in the future about the lack of