The record-union., 1896-12-01
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on Sub
jects of Living and News
Interest.

San Jose Mercury: The Sacramento
Record Union" suggests that sec
tion be added to the election law re-
quring election boards at the close Of
the count to post the result at the door
of the polling place SO that all who
desire may read or copy the figures.
This is sensible suggestion, and
doubtless the Legislature would act
favorably upon a proposition of that
kind should it be brought before that
body.
THE HIGHWAY REPORT.
Stockton Mail: All this means new
legislation, which we believe the State
generally favors. Good roads will pro-
mote the prosperity of the people and
are necessary to the full development
of the State. No one will stand in the
way of the adoption Of a system of
road building that will give us good,
permanent highways, by gradual effort,
without taxing the people beyond the
present limit Of slipshod work
THE BUSINESS SITUATION.
Los Angeles Herald: Mr.. Hanna's
advance agent of prosperity does not
advance with that celerity of move
ment which was promised before the
election, nor does confidence" hasten
to fasten it's grip on the heart and
mind Of man. To be sure great many
industries have started up, and a good
many thousand additional workingmen
have found employment, but is there
any more confidence in the immediate
future than there was a month ago.
Undoubtedly business men are less
timid than they were during the cam
pafgn, and so is capital very much more
willing to seek employment in business
enterprises, but all that sort Of thing
has obtained Immediately before and
Immediately after every Presidential
election for more than sixty years.
1t Is true, as we have said, large
number of manufacturing concerns
have started their machinery to grind
ing out goods and wares in very much
larger quantities than during the few
months preceding the election, but let
us not be deceived as to the causeIlet
us not make the mistake of attributing
1t all to the election of Mr.. Mckinley
The plain truth of the matter is, for
three months prior to the election hun
dreds OF Industries were either shut
down altogether or the output greatly
restricted, and when November Sd came
the goods and wares markets were very
bare The great activity that is now
observed among the mills and factories
is to manufacture what should have
been manufactured in the last half of
August and in September and October
and 1t does not in any sense indicate
the revival of business that some would
have the country believe.
TnAn hAEJN-O
Folsom Telegraph: The biennial re-
port of the State Bureau of Highways
organized under the Act of the last
LEGISLATURE, contains information which
for the first time places the subject
of roads in this State upon an fntelli-
BILE footing. Out OF the chaos of bad
legislation and worse road systems the
Commissioners have evolved some sug-
gestions, which. IL adopted by the COM
tng LEGISLATURE, cannot fail to greatly
benefit the State. They have found
that S1.7OO.OOO is expended annually
on roads in California, which, IL prop
erIv disbursed, would provide in the
course of time a good road system
II does not need an engineer to ascer-
tain from the report that the Commits
sioners understand their business. The
details of their recommendations are
mostly clerical. The classification OF
thoroughfares into State, district and
county roads. the methods of building
and maintaining them after such class
ification. the adoption of wide tires fol-
wagons. the substitution OF stone for
wood in culvert and bridge building. al
give way to the one great and imporan,
point, namely a uniform system. Dur