The record-union., 1897-07-17
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions OIL Sub
ieets of Living News
Interest.

terence between the E1SsStCAAi Ni'ANS ~
the internal regions during the past
two weeks has been not so much the
range of the thermometer as the char-
acter of the heat. The advantages ap-
pear to be in favor of the latter as
a summer resort.
THE BACK TRACK.
Tulare Register: Portugal seems TO
have taken the back track in the mat
ter of reforms as reform is understood
in this land of the professional re-
former. She is going to lease all or
her State railways, and re-establish the
Bank of Portugal, but she is going TO
take unto herself the business OF max
ing and refining beet sugar, probably
to give the business a start About the
only sort of monopoly that Government
can handle properly is that of taxation
TRUST TO KILL.
Alameda Argus: Mr.. Bryan and the
newspapers that abet him are stll
hoarsely disappearing the trusts NO
body defends trusts that we have seen.
and there are not many in the lana.
But the worst one of all is the silver
trust, or concert of action between
owners of silver mines and States ana
communities where silver mining is the
chief industry, to ram silver down the
nations throat. If any trust is to be
wiped out" we hope this will not es-
cape. But as a matter of fact, the
trusts that have succeeded are very
few. Not one has proven successful
where ten have failed disastrously.
SACRAMENTO WOULD LIKE 1T.
Oakland Enquirer: The city of Chi
cago has decided to levy a tax of
dollar a year on bicycles, and if the
wheelmen there are reasonable they
will not object, because the govern
ment of Chicago does a great deal for
them. 1t gives them miles upon miles
of the smoothest macadamized and as
phalted boulevards, and vast extent
of pleasant parkways. One can start
from Lincoln Park on the north, pass
through Garfield and Douglass Parks
on the west and on into Washington
Park to the south, thence following the
boulevards ten miles or more back to
the heart of the city. 1t is possible to
ride thirty or forty miles and scarcely
leave the parks and boulevards. Where
these boulevards are made of macadam
they are resurfaced every year with
crushed granite and rolled till they are
as smooth as a floor Wheelmen can
afford to pay for such privileges as
these. If the City Council of Oakland
would levy a tax on bicycles and de-
vote the proceeds entirely to putting
a single street into first-class condition
for wheels, all bicyclists would applaud
the legislation.
VISITING AND PATRIOTISM.
Colusa Sun: A Fourth of July grafton
ought to have for its theme the state of
the nation. 1t ought not to be a mere
partisan affair, but a courageous and
patriotic summarizing of the lessons of
history, and this the people do not care
for, bt would rather visit. 1t We're per-
haps well to let them visit. They would
visit right along all the time the orator
was speaking, and it were perhaps as
well to let the people visit without in
terruption from a meaningless oration.
Instead of the day we celebrate the
Fourth Of July has come to be the day
we visit, and visiting one or more times
a year with everyone everyone knows is
gCod.-Tulare Register.
This visiting is a good thing, and the
Fourth is a good time for it. Visiting
inspires a love of country, for patriotism
is not a selfish growth. A holiday in
memory of the nations birth, spent in
a grand visiting, Will do more to keep
alive the memory of the day and the
love of the country than the so-called
literary exercises of the past. We can
all picture in the mind the faces we met,
the cheering, kindly words spoken the
renewal of acquaintances, and all these
things makes one appreciate the country
that gives all this to us. Every county
seat ought to have a visiting celebration
on every Fourth.
OF MORTGAGES.
Pasadena News: A mortgage now goes
before business, or rather is evidence
that work is coming. Mortgages are
often spoken of as only curse and in
dicating how poor country is. Not SO.
A mortgage may be an evidence of pros
perity. Now the other day a mortgage
Of 100000 was recorded in San Ber-
nardino on the Randsburg Railway
That railway to-day is nothing but a
streak of sand dotted with sagebrush
and travelled by jack rabbits. Yet out of
that mortgage will come a branch road
that will open UP rich mining belt
which will add millions to the wealth of
the country. Thus the mortgage is an
evidence of confidence leading to greater
prosperity. The mortgage that is put
on a property for Improvement is all
right, but of course one that is put on
for living is not a sign of thrift The
census of 1890 shows that about so per
cent of the total mortgages of this
country were put on for improvement.
MEANS OF DEATH.
Riverside Press: Some time ago a
prominent physician of Pittsburg in
augurated a movement in favor of as
phyxiation as a means of inf1icting the
death penalty. Recently the Pennsyl-
vania Medical Society has discussed the
subject at considerable length and the
National Medical Society is to give it
further consideration The doctors as
sert that death by asphyxiation is abb
solutely painless. Allowing it to be So,
some logical minds viii question wheth-
er any special attempt should be made
to inflict a painless lawful execution.
Murderers make no such attempt in
treating their victims.
RIGHT YOU ARE.
Pasadena Star: The Southern Illinois
Press Association has decided to omit
the title DIR" in speaking of physi-
clans. This is in retaliation of the
Southern Illinois Medical Association,
that expelled two members because
they advertised. The action seems q
Just one. The prefxing to a mans
name the character of his business IS
advertising him that much, and if his
ethics forbid advertising it should not
be done.
ANNEXATION.
Yreka Journal: The argument that