The record-union., 1896-05-15
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS OF INTERIOR CALL
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov.
ernmental, Practical, TheOret-
icaI and Current.

Los Angeles Express: A man up in
Oakland starved who had $100 in his
pockets. Down this way men who don't
believe there is SO much money in the
world get along finely and look sleek.
FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Women are ac-
tually overtaking and bid fair to soon
surpass men in almost all departments
of human effort. In almost any Ameri-
can community the girls outstrip the
boys in artistic literary and most in
tellectual pursuits, and the women are
the main workers in religious, moral
and benevolent movements.
SAID IN FUN.
Tulare Register: The Stockton "MaiP'
has discovered that what makes women
so unhappy and discontented and nerv
Gus and Wrinkled is not that they have
not the franchise but that they have no
pockets in which to stow away their
wealth and other trinkets. This is the
strongest argument adduced against
extending the franchise to women-that
they would constitute a pocketlesS con-
tingent.
OUR RESOURCES.
Marysville Appeal: Californians are
to easily satisfied with things as they
find them. Perhaps it is the climate
that has that queer effect upon people.
We are not sufficiently alert to an ap-
probation of the possibilities of the
soil The world at large is commenting
upon what we have done and we are
not moving with the rapidity that our
area and conditions warrant. Read the
following from a recent issue of the St
Louis "Globe-Democrat":
Of tic of
irrigation California expects to supply
the American demand for oranges,
lemons, olives, lines, apricots, prunes
and raisin grapes. Last year Northern
California shipped 203,614 tons of green
and dried fruit, and Southern Califor-
MIA 156, ,S45 tons, total of 300, 4o9 tons.
These exports, together with the ship
ments of vegetables, wines and brandy,
made ASH carloads. So many new
orchards have been set out in California
that it's fruit production will soon be
doubled. Already the State, horticult-
urally, is one of the most important
regions in the world
Therei Just see what is expected of
us. We can do it, too, if we go about
1t properly.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Kern Echo: A woman writing to the
Oakland Enquirer against equal suf-
frage makes the strongest argument for
that side that we have heard. She takes
the ground that the proposed amend
nrent to the Constitution would not
bring merely a privilege, but solemn
imperative duty and that women have
all the duties they can well attend to.
The writer says:
THE right not to vote-a very great
right it is to lose-a right men have
not America expects each man TO do
his duty in that particular, but up to
this present date women have been left
free. We have, most of US, all the du-
ties we can undertake, and resent the
fact that a few women make new ones
and then come to US and say, Now, We
have a new duty for you; go and vote.
1t matters not that you did not want to
vote; we do; come and vote, and thereby
the rough places shall be made
smooth
COOL JUDGMENT.
Stockton Mail: The newspapers seem
to have worked UP a good deal Of use
less excitement over the Competitor af-
fair. If the Americans who were cap
tured on the filibustering schooner, and
who were undoubtedly on their way to
join the Cuban insurgents, were not
tried in accordance with the treaties
between this Government and Spain, as
is now claimed, then it will not be diff
ficult for the authorities at Washington
to induce the Spanish Government to
give the American prisoners a new
trial. Should the men be again found
guilty and sentenced to death after a
legal trial, this Government will have
no right to interfere any further unless
for oil 71nI
which Spain will be at liberty to grant
or deny, as she sees fit. American Cit
izens when they take up arms against
a country with which we are at peace
have no claims to special consideration
when they fall into the hands of the
Government against which they plot
ted They must take the consequences
of their rash act and it is a wrong
sentiment that demands that this Gov
ernment go any further in their behalf
than is consistent with the amicable
relations existing between 1t and the
Government assailed.
THE SUPERVISORS CONVENTION.
San Jose Herald: There is now in
session in this city a convention of
Supervisors representing nineteen of
the fifty-seven counties of California.
The members are presumed to be bus
iness men assembled for exchange of
opinion regarding the best way of dis
charging their official duties. 1t is un-
derstood that County Almshouses and
Infirmaries and county roads are the
principal subjects proposed for the de-
liberations.
Yet the first proceeding after organ
fzation and the appointment of COM
rnittees was the introduction by San
Francisco delegate of a resolution
against the Pacific Railroads funding
bill.
Now, what on earth has this con-
yention to do with that bill either one
way or the other? In the first place the
resolution had no business there. Next,
It is evident from its wording that those
who drew it have not single idea on
the subject except to repeat the parrot
cry of mo funding," They have no
definite knowledge or notion of the
problems involved in their resolution.
Next came a resolution also offered
by a San Francisco delegate in favor of
the construction, ownership and oper-
alton by the United States Government
of the Nicaragua Canal This is just