The record-union., 1896-11-22
VOICE on THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on Sub.
jects of Living and News
Interest.


tracted little attention until quite re-
Gently is her redwood timber. That
known to the trade as curly or birdseye
is of wonderful beauty and some day
will be of immense value as specimens
of this wood on exhibition in Sacra-
mento represents bear and dog, and
the figures are as clearly delineated as
could be done by the hand Of an artist.
THEY FORGET.
Stockton Independent: That the
people soon forget is evinced by edi-
torials in several California newspa-
pers about the wonderful transmission
of electric power beyond the distance
limit fixed by scientists from Niagara
Falls. 1t would truly be wonderful had
not California anticipated the wonder
by more than a year by transmitting
electric power from Folsom dam to a
distance far beyond what scientific
electricians fixed as the possible limit.
Once any great feat is demonstrated as
possible even those who pronounced it
impossible rush in to claim originality
in the discovery and they always find
needless supporters. 1t was thus that
this continent was named America, be-
| been discovered before Americus Ves-
pucius published his discoveries.
AN IDEA.
Riverside Enterprise: While a for
eign war would give thousands of
bloodthirsty men in this country an op-
portunity to prove their sincerity by
enlisting, war with Spain would be
too short to give them chance to shed
| blood, even should all prove brave
enough to LINE the army"
MUCH ADO.
| Stockton Independent: Much ado is
being made about an attack of the
Portland "Oregonian" on California
morals. which in it's condensed form is
that California is the tenderloin Of
America" 1t must be admitted that
| there is a vast amount of vice in Cali
| fornia, but the fact that most of the
criminals and disreputables are COM
para lively recent arrivals in the State
shows that vice and crime are not in
| digenous. Even<C. 0. Brown and Mat
| tie Overrhan came from the north coun-
! try, Roe, the murderer of Mrs. Green
| wood, tarried in Portland and the gold
brick swindlers sojourned there. The
difficulty seems to be that California
detects and exposes vice and crime.
Perhaps the author of the "Oregonian"
article has felt the California lash.
COMING PROSPERITY.
Santa Barbara Press: Take the tone
OF the press of all sections of the coun-
try where commerce and manufacture
is in the ascendency, and an unpreJu-
diced mind will at once see the dawn of
an era of hard work, prudent invest
ment and general prosperity. We use
the word tone" advisedly as distin-
guished from the actual news reported,
which is apt, in immediate pOst-election
times, to be over -sanguine. The open
ing of mills, for instance, needs prep
ara ton and time. A huge, shutdown
| factory or blast furnaces cannot get in
| to active operations without orders
from the middle man and consumer,
without the contracting for large sup
plies for it's own needs and without
capital to provide for the necessary ex-
penses of labor and material until the
product can be marketed. SO the an
nouncements so frequent of late of old
enterprises with new lease Of life,
do not mean that large amount Of
money has been put into active cir
culation, but that in three or possibly
six months it will be.
POPULISM.
Redding Free Press: The State Execu-
| tive Committee of the Peoples party
has resolved to keep up the fight, and
has issued an address 20 that effect
After reciting the fact that the cam
paign just closed had apparently
crushed hope in the hearts of the peo-
pie" and "a policy inaugurated that is
a menace to human liberty" and some
| more rot of this kind, the address goes
on TO say: 1T therefore becomes our
| duty to close ranks, align ourselves
| anew and be prepared not alone to
check future onslaught, designed to
| further fntrench class privileges. but to
| take the aggressive in the struggle that
| has for its final object a broader recog-
| milton of the brotherhood of man" The
address is signed by such men as Gator
| Barlow Castle ard Dittmar-all
| traitors to the Peoples party; all agi-
tators for personal aggrandizement
After selling out to the Democratic
| party. they must align themselves
anew which means. in plain English
| that they must study up some new
| scheme to fool the people and obtain
| Lower. The campaign just closed in
| stead of crushing hope in the hearts
| Of the people" has had the opposite eff
| fect-we mean on the people-not on
| these anarchistic agitators. No doubt
| their hopes have been crushed I'm
| age these men in the role of champions
| of the oppressed and advocates of the
| principle OF the brotherhood Of man.
| Such language is libel on intelligence
| TIE tree is known by its fruits and the
+, fruits oe Populism, as exemplified by
| Gator & Co. can only be bitter, and poi
son to those who partake of 1t. Men do
/ not gather figs from thistles. or get
/ mutton from wolves.
| TIE DINGLEY BILL.
| Riverside Press: The Dingley tariff
| bill, about which there is SO much dis
| cussion just now. passed the House of
| Representatives December 26, 1895 In
| the Senate the free silver men attached
| a free silver amendment. The leading
provision of the bill was that for hor-
| izontal increase in import duties of 15
per cent. over those mentioned IN GER
| tain schedules of the Wilson Tariff Act.
which went into force August 81 1894
| The schedules to be affected by the
| Dingley bill are those in reference TO
chemicals. earthenware and glassware,
metals. manufactures of wood tobacco,
agricultural products, spirits and wines,
cotton manufactures. hemp, jute. silks,
papers, books and sundries. The bill
expressly provides that In no case shall
the duties be Increased beyond those