The record-union., 1897-07-08

aiAO ~ the ildll CdI anu
pouch in which the Cooperative Com
monwealth shall be carried TO its desti-
nation. For financial reasons that SER
vice is reserved for year and Cover
nor Rodgers is badly ratified. There
is commotion at the Chicago headquar-
ters, but an ominous silence
I'm the continuous woods
Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no
sound
Save his own dashings."
A MINORITY REPORT.
Nevada City Herald: On Wednesday
Hon. f. NJ. Preston's term expired as
member of the Board of Directors of
the Preston School of Industry at lone,
and the founder of that school has no
further control of the splendid institu-
ton which bears his name The dissen-
sions that arose in the last year of
the boards existence, the summary re-
moval of Superintendent Bank, and the
attitude of Governor Budd toward the
man who, most of all, desired an hon
est administration of the school,
prompted Senator Preston, at the close
of his term, to make a minority report
in which he reiterated some of the
statements he had made in board meet
ings, and said a few things that must
have made the Governors ears tingle
Governor Budd has said that he would
reappoint Senator Preston. We shall
see whether he does or not.
The people of lone know, perhaps,
better than anyone else what misman-
agement there mas been at the Preston
School of Industry, and they do not
like it. The lone correspondent of the
Amador Ledger" published at Jack
son, AmadOr County, wrote under date
of June 10Th that the school lis pre-
sided over by an individual so lost to
honor as to admit that he could not
administer to the best advantage OF
this institution and to the State of Cal
ifornia, but was bound hand and foot.
soul and body to a political CD ring
which stops at nothing and whose die
tates he is under obligation to eXecute!"
That is nice, isn't it?
The correspondent further declares
that Senator E. NJ. Preston is in no
way responsible for this condition of
affairs, but has always labored for the
best interests of the school," etc. The
same writer, in the Ledger of June
10Th, goes further in his charges of mis-
management of the school, and declares
that it is "a place of reformation no
longer. The work is now in the hands
of a man who commits a sacrilege
every minute he is engaged in de-form-
ing the poor boys compelled to remain
under his control"
1t is time for an investigation, and
we have no doubt that there will be
one, as Secretary of State Brown and
hn Sfot IT,
had certain matters called to their at
tention.
A DANGEROUS MONOPOLY.
Dunsmuir News: The interior press
of California is in the habit of helping
the big sheets of San Francisco blow
their horns every time those sheets make
a fake display in their slovenly col
umns, while the bg sheets only sneer at
the country Jakes if they ask for any
recognizance in return. If q representa-
tive of one of the San Francisco dailies
comes out into the country he is par
ticularly "nice'-and Oh, so clever!-
He wants to be written up, and the best
in the land is not good enough for him
But if the owner of a weekly in one of
the COW counties goes to the city and
big dailies, he is met at the outer door
by boy who presents him with about
the following blank to fill out and sign.
What is your name?-where are you
from ?-How old are you?-What sex?-
ever married, or divorced Who do you
wish to see?-What do you want to see
him about?-What do you want any
way?-
After you wait a half hour, or so,
the boy Will come back and say mot
in"
If the scribe from the interior could
have stood within hearing of the great
man of the big sheet, who wasn't in
when he examined his credentials, he
might have heard remarks somewhat
like this: Only an ignorant jake from
the country. 1 don't want to see i'm
I m not in
Besides this, these big city sheets are
becoming one of the hugest monopolies
in this monopoly-cu land. They are
powerful for all kinds of evil. The read
ing matter they give is the worst kind
of trash They do not need any good
writers, because their news is Just a
dished-up account of a rape or murder
anu 10 SCAACA e1Aly SQlleu ny tIG Telegraph
operator They are fast encroaching on
the field of the country newspaper and
will finally drive the latter out of busi-
ness. They get their dispatches from
every town, and throw their big sheets
out into the country before the rural
editor is up. With improved methods of
transportation in the future they will be
able to run the country newspaper out
entirely. And then they and the trans
portation monopolies can go into ca
boots and hound the producing citizen
to death. They can control the prices
of the farm products in their columns,
and put prices up and down at will, and
boycott or blackmail any citizen who at
tempts to oppose them.
Some of the San Francisco papers now
keep blacklist and put people under
it just the same as being under the ban
OF Rome. 1t will be the duty of news
papers and newspapermen in the future
to fight these monopolies. in place of
slavering over them every time they
make a big fake.
Some travellers are always trying to
get ahead of the locomotiye.-NewY York