The record-union., 1897-12-25
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub.
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Tulare Register; DR.. O'Brien has
been vindicated. He has also resigned
from the position of Superintendent OF
the State School Of 1nfamy at lone.
mo vndtcation, no resignation" were
the conditions offered by DR.. O'Brjen
and so he got his vindication and Gov
ernor Budd got another chance to get
man into that place who will il possible
conduct the school as decently as 1t
was conducted when Markham was
Governor. Much good may his vindi-
cation do DIR. O'Brien! If the doctor
| will now vindicate the Board Of Trus-
tees, and they will all join in vindicat-
| ing the Governor, honors will be toler-
ably easy all around so far as the chief
conSpirators are concerned, but 1T Will
be a very long time before the people
of California vindicate DR.. OBrien or
the lone Trustees or Governor Budd.
| That school has been a humiliation to
all California.
A GREAT FIELD.
| Fresno Expositor: No country pre-
sents so great a field for postal savings
banks as the United States. Within a
year the deposits, even at per cent,
would equal the national debt and en-
able the Treasury Department to call
| in the bonds and keep future interest at
home. 1t would be a great blessing to
| have all our bonds owned by our own
| people, but it would not be pleasing TO
Banker Morgan and his syndicate.
l. THE PARTITION OF CHINA.
! Stockton Mail: 1t seems to be taken
| for granted that the almost simultan-
eous occupation by Russia and Ger
many of China's most important naval
stations means the dismemberment and
partition of that ancient Empire. Such
a tremendous event would indeed
worthily round out century which has
pushed the race forward farther than
| any five centuries together since his
| tory has been writ.
CAN WAIT.
| Los Angeles Herald: So long as
each weeks clearings show a comfort
| able increase over the corresponding
week of the previous year, Los Angeles
| can complacently await the coming
sunshine of truth. It's superlative nat
| ural advantages cannot long remain
| hidden.
POULTRY RAISING.
| Stockton Independent: Indiana farm
keys and Californians get from. IL to
Is, yet the Californian complains Of
low prices. Eggs brought only IA
cents in the principal market of Indi-
ana during Thanksgiving week, while
San Francisco quotations at the same
time were from q to 80 cents. Who
says poultry raising is not profitable in
California after comparing those fig
ures?
THE CHANCES.
Stockton Record: Some of the papers
are moralizing over the declaration of
Thomas Magee, the real estate man Of
San Francisco who went to the Klon-
dixie and returned, to the effect that
the chances for success are about one
in twenty. They are preaching from
this that it is not best to go to the
Klondike. But where is the place in
California that more than one in TWEEN
ty succeed in gaining fortune. True,
there are no such perils here as in
Alaska, but again there are no such
chances of gaining sudden wealth
Those who succeed here, less than one
in twenty, do so as the result Of long
and patient toll and application
THE PULSE OF PROSPERITY.
Humboldt Standard: Perhaps the best
index to the business activity Of the
country is the amount of railway triffic
or the earnings of the railroads for
given period. The railroad business is
the barometer of prosperity and their
earnings are the mercury which shows
by its rise and fall the condition of bus
mess. When farm products bring good
prices they are turned over to the rail-
roads for transportation to the markets
When factories and mills resume work
their products are shipped by rail or
steamship to the worlds markets. When
merchants sell their goods they must be
transported by railroads or steamships
TO their consumers Business activity
gets, then, a correct index from the
earnings of transportation companies
Large railroad earnings mean good
times. They prove that the productive
Industries of the country are active and
evince the faith of the business man in
the future as well as in the present.
JUST so.
Tulare Register: What a storm the
Populists raised about the ears of the
Register when it insisted that, de-
spite Mr.. Gators superb physique, his
excellent voice and unquestionable men
tai endowments, he was and is a po-
litical adventurer who would first make
himself master of his party and then
auction his influence to the highest bid
der. 1t is never safe to take up out of
the political scrap heap any discredited
and worn-out party hack and confide to
bis care the destiny of any organiza-
ton or cause. Once an adventurer al
ways an adventurer. Once a traitor al
ways traitor, and man who is q dem
agogue once will be a demagogue for
ever.
A SUGGESTION.
San Jose Merucry: AS there is no
money with which to operate the rock
crusher at Folsom, there is danger that
the model road from Sacramento to Fol-
som may not be constructed. How would
1t do for Sacramento to go ahead and
build the road itself, and then take care
Of it? That is what we have to do down
in this neck of the woods, and as an
investment it has paid the taxpayers
ten times over.
THE FUTURE OF CHINA.
Santa Rosa Republican,: The early