The record-union., 1897-12-17
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
1utcresE.

| Redlands Citrograph: From present
appearances there will be six State tick
cts in the field next year The ticket
casting the most votes will be the Re-
publican. The Democratic viii come
next. Then comes the Populist. the
Socialist. the Silver Republican and the
Prohibitionist in the order named II
| there is fusion of the Democrats, Free
Silver Republicans, Populists and So
cialists, the fusion stands TO win, but
there will be nothing left after the cleo
ton but Democrats.
HOW 1T WORKS.
Contra Costa News Those people
who were disappointed at the destruc-
ton Of the reciprocity arrangements
under the Wilson Act will be gratified
to know that the Dingley law is likely
I to operate in this line in a wider and
more complete way than did the Nc
! Kinley law and reciprocity under the
new Tariff Act will, it is said, be of even
greater satisfaction than was the case
under the old law which was so popular.
WANT A NEW COUNTY.
| Dunsmuir News: The only show we
see for Dunsmuir and this end of the
county to get justice is to secede from
Slsklyou County. Let them have
Yreka and their hills laying to the west
on klamath River, and we Will cut
her in two somewhere up around
| Edgewood. We will have a big
county then. We will have all the
timber belt, extending one hundred
miles to the east on McCloud River; all
the fine fruit and berry land; and an
unexcelled region for manufacturing
and mining. We will confscate the
northern end of Shasta County and
have all the territory we need. Back Of
Castle Rocks is rich gold belt which
! is about to be opened up and we will
have one of the richest counties in the
State. What do the people around
Sisson say? Let US cut loose!
SPEAKING OUT.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Men who boast
that they speak right out are not only
straightforward but usually insulting
Whenever a man feels like speaking
right out we want him to go to our en-
emy's print shop.
FOR AN EXHIBITION.
San Jose Mercury: The fruit grow
ers of Santa Cruz County are endeav-
oring to procure an appropriation by
the Board of Supervisors for making
exhibits Of the fruits of that county in
several countries of Europe. Several
thousand dollars expended for that pur-
pose would be good investment
doubtless, but something better for
that and for all the fruit counties would
be general organization and a deter
mined campaign along practical lines
for extending the market for California
fruits in the United States.
EDUCATION.
Fresno Expositor: We are begin
ming to wonder if a return to the SIM
pie rudiments of an education, which
was what the public schools were orig
nally intended to give, would not be a
return to what is fair and TO the best
interests of all concerned. All children
would then have a chance to learn
little, and there is no fear but that
the ones who hunger and thirst for the
higher education would find a way to
get it, just as they did in the days when
Abraham Lincoln rose from a rail-
splitter to President of the United
States. And the ones who hunger for
an education are the only ones who
will profit by the higher branches.
STATE DIVISION.
Ventura Free Press: The question
Of State division keeps bobbing up quite
frequently In Southern California in
most unexpected ways and places. Like
Banquos ghost, it will not stay down.
The fact is, the sentiment favoring
separate statehood is gaining ground.
and the time is surely coming when
it will be practically unanimous. Those
who oppose it now are almost invari
ably old time Californians, and their op-
position is based chiefly on sentiment.
The pioneers have a pride and feel
ing of ownership in the whole of the
grand old State from Siskiyou to San
Diego, which cannot be shared by later
comers. The feelings of those who laid
the foundation of the State. though
based on a matter of sentiment are en-
titled to respect. The Free Press" be-
lieves in State division, but the time
is not ripe for it yet.
GIVE HIM HIS DUE.
Los Angeles Herald: The suggestion
that George Gould's recent action in
increasing the wages of Is 900 employees
of the Missouri Pacific Railway, was a
stock -jobbing movement, is scarcely
creditable to the journal that gives
place TO it. The act was rare as it
was unexpected, but it is in the high
est sense commendable whatever the
motive, nor is it within the province
of the press to analyze motives where
the act itself is so praiseworthy and
beneHcent. Such carping is in ex-
ceedihg bad taste, and no good can
come Of its indulgence. Nothing but
praise should be bestowed upon Mr..
Gould: first. because he is entitled to
grateful recognition for his unsolicited
concession, and again because a shower
of praise may not be without its in
fluence upon other wealthy men SINH
larly situated.
CIVIL SERVICE.
San Diego Union: AS was expected.
Republican members of Congress who
do not stand upon the civil service
plank Of the party's platform are al
ready at work to bring about return
to ,he old spoils system that has so
effectually debauched American poll
tics in former years. The plan is to
attain this end through the aid of DEM
ocrats. Without the assistance of the
latter, the scheme can hardly be con-
summated, for the majority Of Repub-
lican Congressman are loyal to their
party $ principles. One would suppose
that Democrats would be averse to as
sisting spoilsmen in the Republican
ranks. The average Democrat, to be
sure. clings to the Jacksonian theory on
the office question. Still members of
the minority realize the chagrin of
Republicans who find in the present