The record-union., 1896-12-04
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on Sub
jects of Living and News
Interest.

Tulare Register: This office is in re-
ceipt of a letter. That letter is from
rural subscriber and that subscriber
wants his copy of this paper discon-
tinued, and also serves notice that he
will not pay what he owes. And why:
Because in trying to elect Mckinley the
Register" was in league with the
powers of darkness in diabolical at
tempt to fasten the chains OF slavery
upon a free people. We were brought
up in the wilds of the West upon SOIL
consecrated to liberty and by parents
who endured privations beyond what
is known nowadays that the West
might be free and all it's citizens, White
and black be equal before the law, and
now this letter pictures us, the product
Of such surroundings, as a verltapia
slave hunter. Funny, isn't 1t? And
the fellow who wrote that letter ac-
tually believes what he says; believes
that there are minions from the evil one
striving In darkness and light, above
board and beneath, to enslaVe the
masses; to wreck their common coun-
try and ruin the world. God help such
man as the author Of this letter.
are filled with verdigris in lieu Of mar
row, and gangrene is at work in all his
joints. To him this great, wide, Won
derful and beautiful world Is shriv-
eled gall nut, and men are pfgmies,
all except Bryan (whom this fellow
never saw and never heard of until last
july, and Bryan is an angel of light,
the recently crucifxed redeemer Of the
Industrial world.
SELF REPRESENTATION.
Oroville Mercury: AS "self-preserva-
ton is the first law Of nature" the
fruit growers and canneries Of Butte
County can afford to help-fnancially,
if need be-f1ght the frauds imposed
upon them at Baltimore.
EGG OPPORTUNITY.
Placerville Nugget: What glorious
opportunity there Is here for some
young man with a small capital to go
into the egg and poultry raising bust
ness. The local market itself would
furnish him with sufficient support for
quite a ranch. At present did you
know that 1t was just impossible to get
California eggs, and that we are con-
suming Eastern eggs for which we pay
thirty cents a dozen. The lowest retail
price for eggs here during the past
summer was fifteen cents, and the
profits Of the grocer on hen fruit Is not
very large.
TO THE FRUIT-GROWERS
Stockton Independent: The fruit
growers now in convention in Sacra-
frento would do well to appoint a COM
mittee to confer with like committees
from other bodies interested in a pro-
tective tariff. Such committees should
be appointed by representatives Of
every industry that seeks protection.
They should then appoint State commit
tees from other States and thus secure
cooperation for protection. AS tariff
schedules are now made up 1t is very
difficult to have them evenly protective
because each interest struggles for the
greatest advantage. If these struggles
were fought out before reaching Con-
gress tariff legislation could be more
speedily and easily accomplished and
would give greater and more general
satisfaction.
THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
San Diego Union: The California Leg
islature. which begins it's biennial ses-
sion on the 4th of January. should have
no difficulty in transacting it's business
within the sixty-day limit. That there
will be the usual great number Of bills
laid before It may be taken for granted,
but, with the exception of perhaps half
a dozen, there will probably be none
which should occupy much time, and
unless the coming session Is quite diff
ferent from most previous ones, the
great majority of the measures pro-
posed should be disposed of very sum-
marily.
INEQUALITY OF OUR TAXATION.
Stockton Mail: The leaven Is work