The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-06
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Santa Rosa Republican,: One of the
best items OF recent date is that the
Slavs and Hungarians are crowding the
steerage Of departing ships-deserting
the coal mines of the United States to
return to their own country. Most
of these people came to our land as
contract laborers in defiance of the
statutes of this country. They have
been used to aid in beating down the
wages of miners to starvation rates and
their departure will be pleasing to all
except the mining barons who have
profted by their labor.
HOME INDUSTRY.
Oakland Tribune: Score one for home
industry. The San Francisco commits
sion men have been routed, horse, foot
and dragons, in their attempt to stop
the direct Importation of fruit and pro-
duce by Oakland merchants. Protec-
ton is just as good for us as a COM
munity as it is for the entire country
as a nation.
BOGUS OLIVE OIL.
San Diego Union: 1t has long been q
matter of common notoriety that a
very large proportion of the so-called
olive Old sold in the United States is
either greatly adulterated or actually
spurious. Cottonseed oil is the favor
lite adulterant. It is very much cheap
er than the product of the olive, and
when properly 'doctored'' is very likely
to deceive the average consumer. Very
much of the So-called foreign olive oil
really does not contain one drop of that
commodity, being composed entirely Of
cottonseed oil. The foregoing are facts
SO Well known that there is no occasion
to dwell upon them. 1t viii probably be
a matter of surprise, however, to many
people to learn that right here in Cali
fornia a State which has its olive
groves, and which produces consider
able quantities of old, not only the sale
of imitation olive Oil is very prevalent,
if not as general as it is in the East,
but much of the spurious product Is
put up here. The extent to which this
swindling business is carried on is in
Dictated by a report which Chemist
Wenzell has just submitted to the State
Board of Trade. He declared that OF
fifty-seven samples of so-called olive
oil purchased in the open market, only
thirty eight We're pure. Ten We're
nothing but cottonseed oil, and nine
We're cottonseed oil made still cheaper
by the addition of from ) to 10 per cent
of mustardseed Oil The chemist also
furnished a list of the nineteen brands
Of oil that he found to be spurious.
Most of them bear wellknown foreign
labels, but several of them are put up
in San Francisco and purport to be the
product of California olive groves.
OWNERS OF WATER.
Colusa Sun: There is a scheme on foot
to use Tulare Lake as a reservoir from
which to pump water on the west side
of the San Joaquin. Giant pumps are
to be run by electricity generated by
water power in the mountains. The
water need not be raised to any very
great height to be made available. 1t
is proposed to conduct the unused water
to Kern. Kaweah and Kings rivers on
down into the lake, and thus freshen up,
as it were. the waters of the lake which
are now in summer somewhat to alkal
to be used for irrigation. 1t is also pro-
posed to dTedge the river and the lake
in such places and in such manner as
to make navigation on both practicable.
This is a big scheme, and may be prac-
ticable and if carried out must add
many millions of wealth to the coun-
ties through which it viii pass. But 1t
must be monopoly, a trust, and the
people benefited will be in constant
war with the owners of the water.
Owners of water! How, after strug-
gle of an ordinary life time against the
idea that there may be an ownership
and consequently a monopoly of so
important an element as water, we do
hate to write a sentence admitting in
the least that it may come to be that
the waters of California, available for
irrigation, may ever become the subject
of monopoly. and have placed upon IL
"all the traffic viii bear!"
GOOD ROADS FOR ALL.
Pasadena News: There should be
State system of roads-a system in
which the burden of taxes should not
fall alone on the farmers, who are al
ready overtaxed The cities derive
equal benefit from good roads through
the country. 1t is a short-sighted poll
icy which would throw all the burden
on the country as is done by our pres
ent system.
The last Legislature tried to remedy
this by enacting a State system along
modern ideas 1t did formulate and
enact a system that would have been
Just and been Of great benefit to the
State had not Governor Budd pocketed
the hills at the inStig3 ton of San