The record-union., 1896-02-18
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions From the Newspapers of
Interior California.

Expressions From the Newspapers OF
Interior California.
Modesto Herald: We are not enamored
ported, however. Railroad employees
in the East are not as well paid as are
the employees of the Southern Pacific
Company, and with Eastern manage
,ment would come the Eastern scale of
wages. And note this fact: The re-
duction of wages in an important in
dustry or business is invariably fol-
lowed by reduction of wages generally.
GOOD ADVICE.
Santa Rosa Democrat: If the San
Francisco papers had devoted half the
space they have given in illustration
of their horrid criminals to improving
and extending their export trade, not
only that city but the whole State of
California would have had doubled it's
present population. If city could be
built up by illustrating its crime and
criminal classes in the newspapers San
Francisco would be the greatest city on
earth.
BUSINESS SENSE.
Pomona Times: The Central Pacific
Company asks the Government for an
extension of time for the payment of its
debt, offers to give additional security
and obligate itself to pay at stated times
the interest and installments Of prin-
cipal, or subject all the security to for
feiture by summary proceedings. Under
the circumstances, were safs, successful
business men in the position of the Gov
ernment in this case, they would not
hesitate a minute to extend the time
and take the additional security offered.
Government should do what business
men would do in this case. If
Congress extends the time for payment
and takes the additional security Of
fered, the Government will eventually
get S52, 100000 and interest; if it takes
the road and pays the S2S,000,0 600 due
on the first mortgage, it will be COM
PEELED to make an outlay of many mill
ions more to build feeders under the
wasteful system of Government con-
Quoted by the politicians in power and
put the railroad into politics for all
time.
THE ROADS.
Marysville Appeal: The question of
the improvement of our country roads
has been very extensively discussed in
recent years. The use of bicycles has
contributed greatly to this, but thou
sands who care nothing for wheels are
glad of any pretext for awakening pub
lie interest in a matter that they regard
as SO important.
CONGRESSMAN JOHNSON.
Newcastle News: We received last
week copies of several bills which have
been introduced into Congress by Grove
L. Johnson, the member from this dis
trict. Mr.. Johnson is coming to the
front very rapidly for new member.
and the position he has taken on all
questions SO far has been perfectly sat
to US. We are watching his
Congressional record very closely.
Knowing that we have no use for Sena-
tor Perkins, we see in Mr.. Johnson a
man whom we could probably support
to fill that place. We are not yet ready
to announce him as our candidate, but
he has our confidence.
CALIFORNIA'S DANGER.
Los Angeles Express: The statement
of Judge Mcguire would indicate that
the fight over the funding bill has re-
duced itself down to a struggle between
two great railroad interests-the Van
derbilt-Gould interest and the Hunting
on-Crocker interest. In such a struggle
between railroad magnates it is difficult
to see how the permanent interests of
California would be subserved by TAX
ing sides against the interests that are
more local and in favor of those that
are centered in the East Men who
buy and operate railroads do so for the
purpose of making money out of them,
whether they live in California or New
York, and he probability is that the
best interests of the coast would be
served by that party whose homes and
the principal part of whose property are
located on the coast
THE RIGHT WAY.
Oroville Register: A prominent Chi
cago gentleman who spent four months
lately in Los Angeles says he never
heard single word of disparage
of the country from single individual.
from the street car driver to the highest
officials. That's the way to boom
country, always say a good word. but
never bad word about it.
CAN THE PUBLIC AFFORD IT?
Stockton Independent: The Exam
iner" can afford its present course as
Well as it can afford many other lux
uries, but can the public afford to be
led or driven to do it's work and that of
the party to whose interests it wants
TO railroad agitation serve? The oses
tion involved is a business question
pure and simple. 1t is, when strinned
OF side issues that are false: How
shall the Government recover what If
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business man make a calculation and
see if the method prescribed by the
Examiner" will accomplish it. That
paper does not even hint that it will.
1t directs its energies only to foreclos-
ure and Government ownership and
trusts to vague hope that this will re-
inburse the Government. without at
tempting to show any connection be-
tween its course of treatment. and the
cure it processes to desire
WIDE TIRES.
Bakersfield Californian: In connec-
tion with the question of good roads.
that of wide tires is of prime impor-
tance. 1t is well known that an inch
and a half tire will cut up and ruin
road, working it into ruts and chuck
holes twice as fast as three-inch one
will. It will pulverize a straw coating
in a few weeks that would last under
broad tires more months. In France
and some other countries the taxes are
on wagons as the tires are wi
dened. Keeping roads in good order
under narrow tires is the story repeated
of filling the sieve with water, we must
keep at it all the while. The roads of
France are equal to the best in the
world, and maintained at a minimum
cost by the use of broad tires The ex-
cessive burden we labor under to keep
our roads out of repair under narrow