The record-union., 1897-04-23
VOICE OF TIE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on Sub
jects of Living and News
Interest.

| to have full sway, upon the theory
that the Republican party will more
| speedily sc to it's doom, but Democrats
| owe it to themselves and to the coun-
| try, while avoiding filibustering, to en-
ter a protest against the infamous class
| legislation proposed in the Dingley bill.
BRYAN AND JEFFERSON.
| Fresno Republican,: The hatred of
William Jennings Bryan and all that
pertains to his political theories by
Eastern Democrats is something that
fairly passeth understanding. Repub-
lican hostility to that gentleman
! creed amounts almost to friendliness
when compared to the bitterness OF the
sentiment with which he is regarded by
| that element of his party which re-
nounced the Chicago convention and all
| it's works The late celebration of
| Thomas Jefferson's birthday by sort
of BryaLite banquet has served to
arouse all latent fury in Democratic
| hearts which profess to beat in unison
with Jeffe~sonian principles, and cam
| paign denunciatiOn of the young lead
er of the New Democracy seems cold
and tame while the eastern horizon is
| lurid with the blazing fury of Demo-
cratic wrath.
THE PURE-FOOD CONGRESS.
San Diego Union The pure-food
congress, which is to be held at San
Francisco on the Both inst, should
have as in portant results for the well
fare of California as those of any gath
ering in this State.
| For several months past, with the as
az 1ic nd .f
Health, a remarkably vigorous move
ment has been in progress to drive adul-
| terated food products from the mark
cts of that city. The prime object of
course is to prevent the sale of cOmmo-
dites containing deleterious substances,
| but scarcely secondary to this is the
purpose to put an end to the traffic in
articles for the table that are adulter-
| ated in any manner, whether the for
eign ingredients be noXiouS or harm
| less. In other words, the movement is
directed against all shams in articles
of food The people who have taken
up the matter have instituted numer-
| Gus prosecutions against both classes of
| offenders-the manufacturers and the
retailers, arrests of the latter, however.
| being the most numerous.
1t is to be hoped that the congress
will result in spreading throughout the
State the movement for pure food. The
agitation is directly in the interest of
| the honest manufacturers of the State.
| Their business has suffered greatly by
! the methods employed by their less
! scrupulous competitors. Leaving aside
entirely the very important question Of
public health, the people cannot afford
| to allow the traffic in adulterated food
articles to continue. 1t does not mat
| ter whether they are imported or made
| here. Their sale is a positive detri-
ment to the industries of the State. The
| law is all right, but it's enforcement will
| depend very largely upon the people
themselves. They can suppress this
| injurious traffic if they will.
DOES FARMING PAY?
| Los Angeles Herald: Every one rec
ognizes the fact that there are now too
many people in the cities, yet when you
speak of their going into the country
| the answer is: But there is no money
in farming" And in what business is
there any money, money certain and
continuous? Is there any business that
does not run in waves, with the seventh
wave a long way off, and a painful
amount of low tide and bare nud-fiats
to greet the ever-hopeful vision?
All business is but an exchange of Ia
Dor, and all money is but reservoired
labor, the same as if we were still in
the old state of barter. The substitution
of money for convenience in making the
| exchanges in no way affects the princi-
pie that when one deals with his grocer
| he is simply exchanging labor for Ia
| Dor The grocer keeps goods handy for
his customer and also compensates for
the labor of the man who produced the
goods. For every one therefore to make
money and make it continuously would
be for every one to have a constant sur
plus of other peoples labor. 1t would
puzzle a pretty intelligent Populist to
| figure out how this can be brought
about with any mere amount of money
no matter what it's quality.
The great world discovered these
principles many ages ago, and all wise
men in all times have taken advantage
of the big waves to lay up something
for the days Of low tide. In our pro-
gressive country, however this has, in
more recent days, come to be consider
ed an old fogy proceeding, very suitable
for the peasants of Europe and folks
| generally who do not know how to
| live. The modern American style es-
pecially in some parts of the Far West,
is when you get any money to proceed
to blow it,
Even with the greatest care in saw
ing the proceeds of the good old days
it has in all times and places been an
uphill task for the majority in every
line of business to lay up anything for
a rainy day. The most that the average
merchant, doctor, lawyer or other man
ever does in life is to make a fair living
and have a few dollars to smooth the
| path down the last hill.
Personal LETTER FROM MR..
HUNTINGTON
Santa Barbara Independent: A few
days ago the independent" addressed
a letter to President c. p Huntington
of the Southern Pacific Company re-
calling his attention to the newspaper
reports to the effect that he had said
that the coast line would be completed
this calendar year, and asking him if
he had been correctly reported or if the
reports were unauthorized To-day a
reply was received over Mr.. Hunting
tons signature and in it he clearly out
| lines his position in relation to this
important topic. The letter is append
| ed:
/ San Francisco, April ). 1897.
| G. l.. Donohoe, Esq, Editor and
Proprietor Santa Barbara "Indepen-
dent" Santa Barbara, Cal: Dear Sir
Yours of the Sd received, and 1 note