The record-union., 1897-10-03
VOICE or THE PRESS
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Fresno Republican: The Hanford
Democrat" says there is a scarcity of
labor with which to handle the fruit
crop. both in Tulare and Kings Coun-
ties Throughout the State the crop
is not much heavier than last year,
but there are not so many people out
! Of employment in other lines TO fill the
demand in vineyards and orchards. A
scarcity of labor causes inconvenience
/ but it is greatly preferable TO the
/ former conditions, when people by nun
dreds were begging for employment
which they could not get.
LOFTY TUMBLING.
! Placervine Nugget: The Examiner"
! is doing some more of its grand and
/ lofty tunbling 1t hoWled for foreclos-
! sure in the matter of the Union Pa
| cific Railroad debt 1t had its way, and
! the Government is in the position where
| ii must now either lose S20,O00,OO0 or
| take the road. That was just about
what a number OF papers said would
| happen, but of course, they were rail
road hireIings" Of course, Uncle Sam
! can't go into the railroad business on
a small scale, and as consequence or
/ the y0Wling of q lot of sand -lotters and
| demagogues and the brayng of such
| clabberslob organs as the Examiner,
the loss must be borne. 1t is too bad
such ilreliabies should get into posi-
! tions where they can attract the at
tention of power.
A CONUNDRUM.
| Stockton Mail: For thirty years be-
! fore Judge Wallace removed the late
board we had been ruled by dishonest
Supervisors Never by any chance did
we get q Board of Supervisors with an
! honest majority With this unbroken
record of bad boards behind us, we may
| take Il for a certainty that we shall
| not escape them in future.-The Exam
iner.
The Examiner" in season and out of
season, has clamored for more home
rule, which, being Interpreted, means
! that il wants boards which are now ap-
pointed abolished and in their places
put boards elected by the voters Of San
Francisco.
If in thirty years the voters TO San
Francisco have not been able to elect
one single honest Board of Supervisors,
what becomes of the Examiners" in
sistent cry for more elected boards?
To use the vernacular, Where does
home rule get off?
NAME THEM.
San Jose Mercury: Some of "the
best known citizens" of the Arroyo
Grande Valley. in San Luis Obispo
County brutally beat two Chinese la
borars the other day, demolished their
camp. and, it is intimated stole their
| Of =, xtril1
probably die. Arroyo Grande, we pre-
sume contributes it's share toward the
support of American missionaries
among the heather in China.
IS IT POSSIBLE?
Red Bluff Sentinel: Can it be pos
sible that the gold powers" have even
controlled the producers and commerce
of Russia in order to affect the silver
question in the United States? Russia 5
expectation of grain during the eight
months of 1897 amounted to only 143,-
600, 900 bushels, against $4,000, 600 in
1896 and 202 100000 in 1895. This, of
course, means a large increase in the
demand for grain from the United
States, and with it a further disparity
in the prices of wheat and silver. 1t
is just as reasonable to assume that
the gold power is responsible for the
shortage in Russian expectation as it
was last fall to assume, from every
Popocratic stump that Mark Hanna
was responsible for the advance in
wheat.
HIGH LICENSE.
Tuiare Register: The papers are say
ing again that the California Protective
Association, a State organization of
liquor dealers, is about to move in the
direction of high license, especially in
San Francisco, putting the license at
$500 a year instead of $50 or So Well,
we have heard of this before, and grew
enthusiastic over it, but will wait this
time until something besides talk is
done before patting that particular pro-
tectiVe association on the back. We
prefer to compliment men and meas
ures for the good things accomplished,
rather than the goods things that are
only promised. To use a very slangy
expression, we cherish an idea that
the California Protective Association
is merely giving the people of Califor-
MIA periodical "fill." And yet high
license would undoubtedly make the
business of wholesaling liquor much
safer than it is now and less discredit-
able, and whatever is better than we
have now is good.
HILLSIDE OLIVE CULTURE.
Santa Rosa Democrat: The profitable
use of dry hillsides is a subject of great
interest to large number of Califor-
MIA fruit growers. Ranges of these
hills extend 100 miles through the
State from north to south, and at pres
ent they are almost barren of crops of
any kind Millions of acres of the
! most fertile soils in the most equable
climate are awaiting the intelligence Of
the cultivator to make them of perma-
nent value Can these hillsides be used
for olive culture? An examination of
the condition under which the olive is
grown in parts of the old world strong
ly indicate that they can.
THE COMMISSION NAN.
The Mail of woodlands: AS between
the rural producers and the dealers in
San Francisco who clamor for the trust
Of selling the farmers products, there
has grown a widespread and general
feeling of distrust among producers,
which in the end will have to be rem
edied or the middlemen so out of busi-
ness for the want of business. 1t is
an open secret, we'll known to all pro-
ducers of grain, fruits and the like
dearly bought knowledge from the sad