The record-union., 1897-06-10
VOICE OF gHB PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
vi the State and the Coast on Sud-
iects of Living and News
Interest.

Redding Free Press: The popular de-
mand for action on the Cuban question:
while indicating intense interest IN anu
sympathy for the struggling CupaIs' Is
less extreme in it's pressure Tor instant
action. The people are evidently De
ginning to realize that the Presloeht
has definite plans which will result ia
prompt and vigorous action, but winch
cannot be completed and put into e11ecI
until he receives full information from
his own representatives sent TO Cupa'
Judge Calhoun, who has been IN Cuoa
during the past few weeks obtaining
information for the use of the president
and State Department, arrived IN Ne"
York Monday and with the information
which he is said to possess, there Is
reason 70 believe that before many
weeks the President will announce a
definite policy-one which will not only
be advantageous to the Cubans ana
pronotive of peace, but will bring cred
it to the United States and TO the Ad-
ministration of President Mckinley.
A LITTLE PATIENCE.
Fresno Republican: The individual
Republicans who, last fall, asserted
that a vote for Mckinley for President
would be a vote for the immediate re
turn of prosperity, We're not wise. The
prosperity which had been frittered
away, or which had been kicked out of
the back door, through four years Of
CleVelandism could not, in the very ma
ture of things, return in a moment. A
general treasury which has been de-
pleted cannot be replenished by the
of =, fol of
It is a. condition of widespread business
depression which confronts us, a con-
dition which steadily for four years had
been growing more deplorable, and il
viii not be waved away in a few days,
weeks or months. The men who in
sisted that it might be were very un-
wise
But they We're no more unwise than
are the Democrats who assert that the
fact that prosperity returns slowly is a
reproach to the Republican party 1t
was folly to insist that good times could
and would return in a moment: it is
equal folly to reproach the Republi-
can party because it has not in three
months overcome the effect of four
years Of national mismanagement.
And this reproach comes with partic-
ularly bad grace from representatives
of the Democracy. It is too much as
if an individual who had spilled the
milk should chide another person be
cause the pail was empty The pail
can be refilled when the COW is milked
but the milking operation is only posi-
bic, or advisable, at certain times OF
day and it requires an expenditure of
some time and effort
A REFORM.
San Bernardino Times-Index: Ac-
cording to the present custom, each con-
vict is given one large plug of tobacco
as he enters the jute mill every Mon
day morning. The annual cost of this
luxury to the State is $1,000. It is pro-
posed TO use this money in the future
in the employment of eleven extra
guards. The prisoners consume at
least twenty barrels of sugar and many
gallons Of syrup each month. The cost
is considerable and it is now proposed
TO do away with all these luXuries for
at least one year. This step will insure
a saving TO the State of at least 500
600 The restrictions as to tobacco
and sugar will also be made at Fol-
som.
FARMERS CLUBS.
Fresno Republican: For many years
the farmer has suffered financially and
otherwise because those who dealt in
products of the farm so often combined
and formed plans, while the farmers
worked individually, and had no plans
1t is, therefore, particularly gratifying
to note that our Fresno farmers have
formed a club and hold frequent meet
ings with a view of discussing problems
of mutual interest. 1t is a hopeful sigr
and can but result in benefit, socially
and financially.
OH ASINITY!
Red Bluff Peoples Cause: The Il
linois Legislature is considering a bill
to restrain by adequate penalties news
papers from ''unduly eulogizing any
person or persons thereby building VI
for such person or persons a reputation
for which there is no corresponding
merit. A newspaper found guilty OF
thus deceiving the public will be giver
an opportunity to make a retraction OF
correction of such eulogy, and to give
the correction as conspicuous place il
it's columns as the original offense was
given 1t is provided, however, thai
this Act shall not apply to remarks
made about deceased persons. Funera
orations will be allowed the customary
license Obituary notices are exempt
from supervision. The editor who has
been denied the privilege of saying &
good word concerning his friends dur
ing life is thus kindly permitted Il
make up for lost time when his friends
die.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
Humboldt Standard: The abominablt
middle into which road matters have
been thrown through the passage o
what is known as the Clark law. anC
the unwisdom of Governor Budd il
promoting the muddle by signing it
is likely to create chaos in connection
with guardianship of our county roads
Just how d commencement is to be-
made, or whether it can be made a
all, are queries which rack the brair
of Supervisors from one end of TIL
State to the other. Attorney-Ge
eral Fitzgerald has been guessing as [,
the meaning of the law, and Distric
Attorneys from Sisldyou to San deg,
are at a loss to know how to inter
Pret or advise in regard to it. The At
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