The record-union., 1897-07-08
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUD-
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Riverside Echo: We need to return 10
Aristotle's conception of real progress
The old Grecian philosopher uttered
truth which all history confirms III
spite of a common notion 10 the coH-
trary, when he said, THAT is the pest
condition of things which produces, not
the largest amount of wealth or KNOW
edge, but the men of noblest nature
IN SIXTY YEARS.
Santa Cruz Surf: When Queen VIC
toria went on the throne she ruled 10
OOOO people. now her sway extends
over 402. .514.OO0. Sixty years ago the
United states had but Ii, 100000 people,
now the population is over lO,OOoUOO-
When she was a girl the city OF Mel
bourne in Australia consisted OF
church, an inn, three shops. twenty
huts and a kangaroo meat market. 1t
is now Australia's largest city, Win
500 900 inhabitants. She has seen one
third of Africa rescued from the natives
and brought under the influence or
civilization and great cities built Where
once savage forests stood. When she
was crowned Chicago was village OF
600 like many a small town now DOT
ting our Western prairies. In fact, at
that time Ohio was considered by
Pennsylvanians the West, and the Pa
cific Slope was an uninhabited Wilder
ness. Santa Cruz being but a mission.
1t is not without interest to think OF
the progress of invention within half
century even, simply because we get
so used to new things in a day, say the
trolley car, the electric light or an
X-ray, that we believe they always eX-
listed. In the young days of the Queen
there We're no dreams of a telephone
even. Immigrants came to America IN
sailing vessels and had to provide their
own food; there was not foot OF sub
marine cable in existence; the spectre
scope has been invented during her
reign and it has enabled scientists 10
discover twenty-four of the seventy
eight known elements. In those early
days there We're no telegraphs; no run
ming water in houses; no street-Hght-
ing; music was practically ignored, and
nine out of every ten workingmen We're
professed infdels. There was no gas,
no photography. Thirteen crimes We're
punishable by death when Victoria as
cended the throne To-day there are
you may ponder for hours, and it Will
be determined that though time SEEM
ingly goes slow and progress lags, yet
every tomorrow finds the human race
nearer the ideal than yesterday. 1t is
so seldom men reflect upon the bless
ings they enjoy and the advantages
they have over the past, that such oc-
casions as the jubilee serve a good
purpose in calling before US the tact
that we are far better off than croak-
ers and grumblers would have US be-
lieve.
HIGHWAY APPROPRIATION.
San Diego Union: To vote money
each year for improved State highways
is the regular custom with the Massa-
chusetts Legisl fure. This year the
sum to be so expended will be $780,
600 This appears a large amount
even for so wealthy a State. But it
is not all outlay. The enhanced value
of property makes the tax burden light.
1t is a notable fact that the States that
are actually making progress in build
ing good roads, are the ones that ap-
propriate money for that purpose. No
other plan has yet been devised, and it
may be doubted that any other will
prove effective.
ANOTHER ALIAS FOR JAILBIRDS.
Placerville Democrat: For the Three
TailOrs of Tooley street" to say of them
selves, We, the People," was not a
more shabby misfit, than for Five Jail
Birds to resolve themselves into the
Social Democracy of America" But
as the fools are not all dead, stand
pat" Debs and his four Woodstock
felons have voted themselves salaries
out of a treasury full of emptiness, and
to be replenished by an emergency
fund a year in advance of the co-Opera-
tive colony. The appointed charter
members of a Fools Paradise, still in
the clouds, have determined to make
good beginning of a bad job, by pro-
viding against both work and want.
Not to have too many divisors for their
income it is to be retained and dis
tributed by the Jail birds to whom it
is paid. Having no further Sc for their
crazy dupes of 1894 strikes and strik
ers are foresworn and repudiated. Their
unavailing sympathy for the aristo
cratic town of Pullman, was exhausted
two years ago and they have no further
use for nabobS who have no respect for
them. They are done with their black
listed confederates on this coast and
even Worden has been abandoned to
the tender mercies of Warden Aull and
Captain Murphy.
Thus the Cooperative Common
wealth has been postponed for nickels
in the slot, to pay the salaries of five
Jail birds, with headquarters at Chi
cago. To exploit the Social Democracy
on paper, pass the hat, grind their
axes, file their saws and blow their
own horns, the prosecuted patriots have
given themselves an off year in the
Windy City. To work the long dis
tanee jolly for all it is worth will keep
them busy as the devil in cyclone.
AS Rockefeller and his pampered re-
tainers at Pullman have declined to
contribute or to emigrate to the pros
pective colony, the Debs buffers should