The record-union., 1897-06-26
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUBJ
iects of Living and News
Interest.

Interest.
Pasadena News: The Populists Of the
different parts Of the country are claim
ing that fusion and confusion are syn
onymous and declare they are going 10
keep in the middle of the road mere
after" even if the mud is a foot deep
and they get stone bruises on bolh
heels.
WHEAT.
Reedley Exponent: There are twenty
two combined harvesters at work III
the wheat fields Of this section IL Is
estimated the average yield Will be IiVe
sacks per acre, or grand tola VI
231 ,000 sacks, nearly all of which VIII
be shipped from Reedley. That IS a
pretty good showing in a season Whlch
has generally been pronounced IAN
ure so far as the grain crop upon IT
rigated land is concerned. The out
come is much better than expected
few weeks ago.
DEBS' LATEST SCHEME.
Los Angeles Times: The "co-operative
commonwealth colony scheme launch
ed. or about to be launched, by E. v.
AEDS. Bl uiill ldS clAAb AAANAiACASt 49, A-0N~'
thus far. excited any widespread en-
thusiasm among those who are expected
to furnish the moral support and the
sinews of war, both of which are nee
essary TO its success. Mr.. Debs is
likely to find very hard shedding be-
fore his proposed colony Of 100000
men is ready to take possession of the
promised land; or, rather, before the
promised land is ready for the occu-
pancy of the 100000. But even if the
organization be successfully effected
and the land secured, the difficulties
will not be ended, but viii be only
Just begun The difficulty of main
tanning harmony and cooperative unity
in a community of 100000 men of the
character which Debs proposes to as
semble. can better be imagined than
described If the cooperative COM
nwealth"-provided it be estab-
lished-does not break up in a gen
eral row inside of a year from the
time it is launched, it will be an ex-
ception to nearly all undertakings of
similar character.
THE HAWAIIAN CABLE.
san Diego Union: While the Senate is
not likely to take any action on the
Hawaiian annexation treaty before next
winter. there is one matter that closely
affects the island situation, that should
receive attention at the present ses7
sion, and this is the proposed Hawaiian
cable Recent events have shown that
this enterprise should have been car
ried out long ago Whether or not the
islands are ever annexed, this country
AL u 1ia
munication with them, especially in
view of the menacing attitude that ia
pan has recently assumed toward them
During the past few years Congress
has made spasmodic efforts looking TO
the establishment of a submarine cable
between the United States and Hawaii.
The history of these efforts indicates
that Congress has hardly appreciated
the importance of the project either as
a national or a commercial undertak-
ing. In the Fifty-second Congress a
provision was incorporated by the Sen
ate. in the diplomatic and consular ap-
propriation biIl providing for an an
nual subsidy of S250000 for fifteen
wears to enable a private company to
Law and operate a cable to Hawaii. Mr..
Blaine. then Secretary of State, was
strongly in favor of this or some sim
liar plan. In letter to Senator Sher-
man. then Chairman of the Senate For
eign Relations Committee, he declared
that the proposed cable, besides sub
serving the close interests between this
country and the islands, would be
necessary factor in the great scheme
of direct communication with China and
japan and with Australasia by way of
the Samoan Islands. Mr.. Blaine closed
his letter by expressing the belief that
in the course Of events telegraphic conn.,
munication throughout the Pacific
Ocean and with the shores of America
Asia and Australasia is Indispensable
and certain to come. The Senate prop
osition, however, for carrying out this
great scheme at once was killed in the
House of Represent atives.
FRAUDS IN FRUIT.
Fresno Republican,: A New York
paper complains that cherries are
shipped from California to that market
in such condition that only the top layer
is eatable, the remainder in the boxes
being most inferior fruit Commenting
on the subject, the paper says:
1T is a great mistake for shippers of
early fruit to injure later receipts by
prejudicingt gthat part of the public which
gets the under layers of California pro-
ducts. 1t is possible that this is one of
the explanations as to why the New
York market has been in such a de-
moralized condition this week, particu
larIy as compared with other markets"
The New York papers complaint, if it
is based on truth, as it presumably is, is
just, and its suggestion is wise Doubt
ness nobody is so much injured by such
frauds as are the fruit-growers of this
State. And the men who would not
stoop to fraud are the ones who are
most injured, for they have no part even
in the temporary gain of this small
thievery The prices Of their goods
finally are fixed on the basis of fraud,
and they are losers throughout the
transactions. But what are they to do
about it? If A, who lives in Milpitas,
and who may be Caucasian, Mongoian