The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-17
VOICE OF TIE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on Sub
iects of Living and News
Interest.

Oakland Times: The craze for pub
liCity has thoroughly infected large
classes of society. To be interviewed,
even to be the central figure of a no
toriOus quarrel or a crime, seems to be
the sole ambition of many persons.
Pauperism itself becomes sweet if the
pauper can get himself thoroughly adj
vertised. Many clubs, societies and
even churches seemed TO have failed in
their mission if they do not get numer-
Gus and flattering newspaper notices.
Ministers of the gospel, in some cases,
cultivate notoriety with a diligence
that would assure them a rich harvest
CT spiritual results if their energy took
that direction. Dramatic artists and
sporting heroes pose and struggle I'M
ceasingly to catch the public eye and
! live in the seventh heaven so long as
they can keep people talking and writ
ing about them.
IN THE MATTER OF BRIBERY
CHARGES.
| Placerville Nugget: 1t is question
able whether IN view of the character
CT the Examiner" and the well known
! prOclivities Of its managing news edl-
tor any vindication of any OF the men
whom it has tried to besmirch in its
attacks relative to the passage Of Cam
| inetti's bill number 2l3, is at all nee
| essary. The people who know the
| Senator from Ell Dorado, who is one of
the victims of that lying approximation
of an apology for bad newspaper,
know full well that Hon, and the title
is used in this particular case advis-
edly, Hon. E. w. Chapman has been
lied about and abused without the
slightest shadow of cause beyond the
fact that he voted for an Act that is
! III force in twenty-five States in this
| Union. The Nugget" prides itself on
its love of fair play. 1t is perhaps
strong partisan paper but every man
! is entitled to a square deal regardless
CT his political affiliations. The people
OF the whole State can scratch the
world over with a fine tooth comb and
they will never find q man more hon
est, more upright, they will never find
man whose honor as legislator and
representative of the people is further
beyond the pale of impeachment.
NAPA OPINION.
Napa Register: What do the grave
and reverend seniors of the State Sen
ate want? They have proved out of
the Examiners own mouth that the
charges so fiippantly flied by the Mon
arch" against Legislators were based
upon nothing more substantial than ru-
NOR. 1t is a bad hole to put a sensa-
tional paper into. Why not leave it
there? Nothing is to be gained by
the Senate as a body by pursuing and
Furnishing the hired men Of Mr.. Hearst.
| DOMESTIC VS.. FOREIGN TRADE.
Los Angeles Times: Some Of the op-
ponents of suitable protection for
citrus fruits dwell with more Or less
dolefulness upon the loss which they
say the United States, and more espe-
cially the East, will suffer should Italy
| boycott this country as a consequence
of an advance in our tariff rates. There
is no force whatever in their conten-
ton. Italy buys American products,
50 far as she buys them at all, because
she needs them and prefers them to
the products of other countries. Italy
does not buy our products simply be-
cause we buy her oranges and lemons
| She would not stop buying our prod
ucts if we stopped buying her citrus
| fruits.
PRICE OF WHEAT
|
is being INDUCED in as to what the price
of wheat will be when harvest time
comes. The papers say that there is
| enough wheat to supply the worlds
needs, but not too much and only a
very large crop in America this year
will reduce the price materially. If the
| crop should be at all short there will
be a sharp advance. Topics is not go
| ;,,xr l,;-
on this subject. He hasn't any, fur
Their than that if wheat is scarce it
will be high, and if abundant it will be
| low. The only merit this sort of an
| opinion possesses is that it is likely to
be correct. If it We're more astounding,
but less correct. it would take better
and might pass for wisdom.
STOCKTON'S MORALS.
Stockton Mail: 1t has been suggested
| that the press of Stockton should lift
| the cover from every cesspool of sin
in this city" Not we, thank you. The
smell is bad enough without raising the
| cover. Do you suppose We want to
| create an epidemic of moral fever that
| no science nor art could allay? Do you
think we want to break up homes by
the wholesale, crowd the divorce cal
| endars Of our courts and render ten
| antless the front pews in the syna-
gogue? Not we, "Sophronian," not the
| Mail" Try some one else, some one
that likes a good, redhot time, but,
| pardon us. Every "cesspool of SIM
has its danger signals out, and neither
man nor woman need fall into it unless
so minded.
GRAND JURIES.
| Stockton Independent: A constitu-
| tional amendment to do away with
| Grand Juries is before the Legislature.