The record-union., 1897-03-08
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on Sub
jects of Living and News
Interest.

the European Powers toward Greece IN
the Cretan troubles is not destined 10
win for them general admiration. Pop
ular sentiment and the opinion of the
humanitarian statesmen of the world is
on the side of the Cretan Christians IN
their efforts to rid themselves of Turk
ish rule
THE REIGN OF SLANDER.
Stockton Independent: The "Exami-
ner's'' SANDER of legislators in connec-
tion with the passage of the bill known
as the disqualification of Judges meas
ure has no foundation in any fact that
has been brought out so far in the in
Vestigation and there is certainly no
warrant for the outrageous attacks on
the regulations of men who are in no
way connected with the affair. Senator
VOORHEES, was held up to scorn, ana the
Examiner tried to blacken him be-
cause he was not on hand to testify,
but he was there yesterday and testl-
fed that the kilograms that came to
him from Alvinza Hayward had no
reference to the bill under discussion.
Nj. Hayward was brought to the Cap
ital after much outrageous misrepre-
sentation and contemplate ISLANDERS
had been heaped on him, and testified
that his telegram to Senator VOORHEES,
related wholly to the bill concerning
corporations sole, which was passed to
enable Archbishop Riordan TO transact
the business of his trust. The Exam
iner" forgetting the long friendship be-
tween Senator Hearst and Alvinza
Hayward caricatured the latter yes
terday in a most contemplate way,
hnI i'm 70 G1-11 Wit decent
respect for the aged gentleman who has
done SO much for California and for
the mining people of the State. The
Examiners" pursuit Of Alvinza Hay
ward is most disgracefuI and should be
resented by every fair man in the State.
Mr.. Hayward is an elderly man, long
Iast the age at which most men are
actively engaged in business. yet he
keeps all his capital employed in de
veloping Pacific Coast resources, in
giving employment to hundreds, and it
may be even thousands of laborers,
skilled and unskilled. His age and the
vast amount of good he has done and
is doing. would, With decent people,
spare him from such accusations with
cut the strongest presumption, at
least. but he is maligned on a vague
sumo the authority. His private affairs
have been pried into in the hope Of
finding some evidence against him,
only to result in complete corrobora-
ton of his denials. after his kilograms
that were supposed to show corruption,
prove the contrary. Even these proofs
Of innocence viii probably be held up
TO the public as evidence of guilt by the
exercise Of the same form of diabolical
ingenuity that has distorted other evil
Gence in the same direction, and the
nalevolent genius will be further per
united To run riot unless imprisonment
or some other penalty is visited upon
the malefactors The total failure to
implicate any person. legislator or pri-
Nate individual in scandal in connec-
tion with the bill, shows how empty is
the charge. yet up TO yesterday the au-
thors of the scandal reiterated it and
asserted their ability TO prove it. In
view of this persistence in slander it is
surprising that some spirited victim of
venom does not wreak summary ven
geance on the wretches who pursue
them.
a SYSTEM NEEDED.
The talk Of good roads in California
comes better late than nJfer. Millions
Of dollars are annually wasted because
If bad highways throughout the State.
What good roads can accomplish may
be learned from the experience Of East
crn States, where whole districts that
We're deserted and valueless have been
made productive and prosperous
through the building Of permanent
highways. \ concerted, comprehensive
system carefully planned and intell-
gently worked out, would be Of meas
ureIess value TO both city and country.
Good roads are little less than the
foundation of general prosperity
TIE CREEKS
Modesto News: The splendid pluck
and fighting qualities the Greeks have
displayed ia going single handed TO the
rescue of their Christian brethren in
Crete fiji at least every American heart
with enthusiasm. The most ilUstrious
quality Of human nature is pluck. whe
Their displayed on the moral or physical
plane The Greeks, in sending their lit
Ale naval squadron to Crete under the
very guns of the combined navies Of
Europe. have shown their dauntless
courage on both planes, and all the
world must admire them for it.
Crete belongs to Greece by all the ties
of religion and of race and the law of
common sense. If you look upon the
map you VIII see too, that it is geo
graphically as much a natural part of
Greece as Cuba IS Of the United states.
When this is said. the argument for
Greece is summed up. Nothing stronger
can be said.
THE PRESS AND PUGILTSM.
Sausaiito News: Does the public
press correctly reflect public opinion?
is the statement. so frequently made,
that newspapers publish just what the
1ubIic require ard demand. true? Those
who answer these questions aflirma
lively declare that In too many cases
The public demand filth and malod0rous
details instead of clean and wholesome
sentiment We have a higher opinion
of the public than this, and affirm
that the general reader prefers that
which appeals TO his better nature. The
position taken by the sensational press
that the province Of a newspaper is to
publish the news irrespective Of its
character or its ultimate influence upon
its readers is not tenabie. one Of the
loudest boasts of the press IS that 1t IS
an educator. and this we admit is true,
hut if an educator ii must stand with
others Of its class and be an influence
for good.
THE INAUGURAL.
Los Angeles Herald: That President
AfcKinley's first public utterance is dis
appointing in tone. i'm sentiment and in