The record-union., 1897-08-14
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

Stockton Independent: The difference
between silver Republicans and Bry IN
Democrats is growing less day by day.
1t raises a suspicion that some OF the
silver Republican papers are seeking TO
fill the long-felt want of Democratic
papers where the "ssuare OUT article
has not been able to maintain itself
and find the silver cause a convenient
gang plank into the Democratic camp.
DOLLAR WHEAT.
San Bernardino Sun: IN heavens
name, has anybody heard anything OF
William Jennings Bryan and his re-
marks about dollar wheat of late. He
is rapidly becoming the great IN
known"
TIME TO INTERFERE.
Oakland Telegram: 1t is about time
the Federal Government took a hand in
preventing under-equipped vessels from
clearing for Alaskan ports. Men in
their mad desire to reach the chosen
land are not great sticklers about the
methods of reaching there. AS a con-
sequence everything that gives evidence
of remaining on top of the water mas
been put into commission and iadened
down to the gunwales, these poorly
equipped vessels are sent out, with hun
dreds of passengers, TO try their luck
on the yeasty deep. 1t may be that
accompanied by good fortune they Will
safely reach their destination, but the
odds against them are too many to
permit of them being granted clear
ances.
AN AFFIDAVIT READY.
Los Angeles Times: When one reads
the stories about the roughness of the
trip into the northern gold fields, and the
lack of placer gold in Peru, he must con-
clude that even small bird in the hand
in California is worth whole mountains
full of bears, mosquitoes and hostile IN
dians in the lands that lie afar. The
stories that glitter in the newspapers
are alluring, no end but Davy Crock
ett's advice is a good thing to bear in
mind just at this juncture. 1t will be
found much more enjoyable to read of
fat diggings than to go to them and
find all the good claims taken up, the
mercury at 10 degrees below zero and a
fit of homesickness on for sight of
the billowing fields and fruted orchards
of good and glorious old California. If
an affidavit to this is required it viii be
furnished
FAKE CORRESPONDENTS
Alameda Argus: The big newspapers
are making people laugh by their ridicu-
lous pretensions regarding their cores
pondents dispatched to the Klondike
They get ahold of man who has made
arrangements to go, buy him a 81
camera or two bits worth of bazar note
paper, take his picture in Arctic cos
tune, and herald him forth as a brave
spirit who leaves all the comforts of
good warm home to brave the regions of
the Arctic zone for the express purpose
of recording his opinions for its columns
Special correspondents to the Klondike
are 50 plentiful that if the natives can
understand it they must be astonished
at the immense number of people ii re-
quires to describe their country.
RAISE MORE CORN.
Tacoma Ledger: Kansas is again to
the front with a tale of woe, this time
the alleged interference in State affairs
by a Federal Court. If Kansas would
take the old-time advice to raise more
corn and less hell, she would do as we'll
as could be expected, considering eli
matte drawbacks. Kansas people would
not be entirely happy, however, without
some kind of a scrap" on their hands.