The record-union., 1897-07-21
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

San Jose Mercury: The returning
Alaskan miners are giving good advice
to those contemplating a trip to the
new gold diggings. Don't go there
unless you are prepared TO endure Sc
we're hardships," they say. man
who does not know what hardship is
had better stay at home.
BRAZIL AND THE TARIFF.
Tulare Register: The buster that
some countries make about retaliating
against the United States on account
of the new tariff is really very comical.
For instance Brazil says that if the
tariff bill passes and becomes a law as
it now stands that country will at once
impose a retaliatory tariff that will
shut American products out altogether,
and yet we buy of Brazil goods to the
value of S17,000000 a year, and she
buys of US goods to the value of 81
O00,000 a year. If either party can
afford to stop trading the United States
is that party 1t would be different
with England which buys three -fourths
of all we have t. sell, and sells US less
than half as much as we sell her. Bra
zil seems to have gone daft.
A POLITICAL BODY.
Los Angeles Times: Had the public
known in advance that the Trans
Mississippi Congress was to be po-
litical convention to boom the cause
of popocracy and Organism, there
would have been another set of dele
gates sent there than the ones who
have gone SO far out of their way to
misrepresent their constituency. 1t is
fortunate that this latest example of
snap judgment will be likely to do the
cause of free silver and anarchy more
harm than good. While they We're
about it, however. it appears a bit sin
gular that the congress did not in
dorse the Chicago platform in toto, ap-
plaud the social democracy scheme of
Mr. Debs, pass a testimonial of conf
dence in Altgeld and Ben Tillman, and
recommend the nomination of Bryan
to the Presidency in 1900. The con-
gress did not more than half complete
its bad job.
WE MIGHT COPY.
Grass Valley Tidings: Within six
weeks after the commencement of his
trial, Butler paid the penalty of his
crime on the scaffold. There are, after
all, som things which we might well
copy from our cousins across the water.
ADVERTISING.
| Santa Ana Blade: OF course there
is money in printers ink, but the man
that makes the most intelligent use of
1t gets the most money out of it, 1t
does not pay to advertise something
you have not got, or anything you
cannot do and do well. The man who
ladvertises fraud must have good
fraud, and he who advertises bargains
in goods must be prepared to satisfy
his customers. Any advertiser should
undertake to present some sort of a
claim for patronage
HELD IN ESTEEM.
Alameda Telegram: The death Of
Colonel Charles Frederick Crocker re-
moves from the scene of activity a
character who held the esteem and
affections of the people of this State.
His career was an open
book, and it's brightness was not shad-
owed by single cloud of scandal. A
man of millions, a corporationist Col
onel Charles Fred Crocker was essen
TALLY man Of the people, and his
death is indeed a loss to the people of
California, of which he was so proud,
and in whose advance and welfare he
was so deeply interested.
THE DEATH OF CROCKER.
Oakland Enquirer: The death of
Charles F. Crocker will be sincerely re-
gretted. He began his career
as freight clerk at the Oakland Mole
and followed it up in a similar capac-
ity in the main offices in San Francisco.
He rose rapidly, but not so rapidly but
that he mastered the practical details
as he Went and, apparently. he was
destined to hold great responsibilities.
Mr.. Crocker was liberal man.
interested in science and in education,
and had he lived a score of years longer
he would probably have done much to
lay the public under obligation to him
THE INTERIORS; OPINION.
San Francisco Report: The Sacra-
mento Record Union" of yesterday has
a long and severe editorial article upon
the failure of the Anti-Vice Society of
this city to prosecute Mrs. Bradbury,
and the Record Unions" opinion on
the subject is that of the interior press,
as a rule. The Record Union's' con-
clusion is as follows:
THE Vice Society by this action be-
comes an association for the promotion
of vice, since it says in so many words
that guilty and shameless wives may
weep and go free if they have plenty of
friends to intercede for them The
criminal law officers of San Francisco
by this action disgrace their positions
and violate their oaths of office by per-
nlitting a confessed offender to escape
punishment, who is rich and influential,
while a poor wretch would probably
plead before them in vain for the
merest of mercy
A DISTINCT LOSS
Alameda E,ncinal: In the death of c..
F. Crocker this State suffers a distinct
loss. His life was an example worth
following by every son of a rich father,
though it must be confessed that few
such have followed it in California He
was transformations to a degree, char
liable, plain spoken, clean in all his re-
lations, attentive to business, yet taking
time for sensible amusement and devel-
opment of mind. If the loss were in
nothing but the example that he has
set, the refreshing contrast his life has
| presented to that of so many other
wealthy young men, his early going out
would be a cause for regret
EXIT THE AIR SHIP.
Sutter County Farmer: The cele-
brated air ship which has been attract
ing much attention at the Schillig farm
in West Sutter was boxed up and load
ed on the steamer last week for ship