The record-union., 1897-05-08
Voice OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUBJ
ieCts of Living and News
Interest.

Los Angeles Express: It Will be a
great pity if the retroactive feature of
the Dingley bill cannot be made to
go, whereby the importers that are
now flooding the country with foreign
goods, fearing the increase in the tariff,
can be made to pay the Government
its just dues. Mr.. Dingley estimates
that there will be nearly a years sup
ply of goods in the country by the time
the bill becomes a law.
SQUARE JAWS.
Oakland Times: And now it's Julian
Ralph who is sending capital Is by
cable from the seat of war at a cost of
30 cents each. Some of these days, if
the rumpus over in Turkey and Greece
continues long enough, the big news
papers will send to the scene of the
difficulty a few men with square jaws,
who never wore a. dress suit or kid
gloves, who realizes that what this
country wants is news, news, news
right from the center of things, and
that newspaper readers don't care a
pinch of snuff for pictures of the cor
respondents and that they want no
capital Is at all.
AVOID FREAKS.
OdhldnQ inquirer fOr the success
of a womans congress it is not neces-
sary to have men orators, and especial
1y it is not necessary to have men ora
tors who are freaks. Ever since the
annual congresses began in San Fran
cisco the peaceful progress of discus
sion has been vexed by masculine
freaks who insist upon talking when
they are not wanted, and the ladies
have been Over-polite in tolerating
them. But the climax came Saturday
night when the Hindu priest made the
1aughable but outrageous attack upon
his hostesses and then flung out of the
hall in his passion. It was dreadful
give-away for a religion which is sup
posed to be philosophic, calm, and
therefore not without it's benefits-for
it is always a good thing to expose a
humbug-but it was also very annoy
ing, and in order to prevent a repeti-
ton, the ladies next year should do
all their own talking and particularly
they should avoid freaks.
CHEAP SUGAR
Redding Free Press: Cheap sugar is
a very nice thing. The people are fond
of sugar because it is sweet, and they
use a lot of it. But just the same We
believe that the people Of the State of
California would be better off if
tariff is placed on the sugar of the
Sandwich Islands. We believe in pro-
lection, and we want to protect the
farmer whenever we can, and we
should protect the Californian growers
of sugar beets and increase the produc-
tion of beet sugar. If we do this, in
little while home competition will re-
duce the price, and at the same time
a great industry will be established.
This is the true theory of protection.
have built up the sugar interests Of the
islands long enough.
A MATTER OF CURSING.
Fresno Republican,: Mrs Mary Ellen
Lease says that the curse of Almighty
God rests upon Oklahoma because its
land was taken from the Indians May
be Mary Ellen is right, but if the curse
of the Almighty rests upon everything
in this world which has been taken
by force or craft from its rightful pos
SCISSOR, there is not enough uncursed
material left on earth to make a plat
form for the equal suffrage party to
stand on. SO far as nations are con-
cerned. unjustified possession has been
the rule since the dawn of time.
TAKE NOTICE.
Los Angeles Times: Packers of Jams,
1elies and other fruit preserves should
take lesson from the recent arrests and
convictions of wholesale grocers in San
Francisco for selling adulterated goods
of this sort In every instance the spu-