The record-union., 1897-10-09
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS FROM VARIOUS
RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPERS.
The Religious Thought of the Day
as Expressed in the Sec
tartan Press.

| tartan Press.
| Chico Record: Better mountain roads
would add thousands to Chico's trade
annually. Much trade which would
come here now goes elsewhere because
of the fact that the poor roads make
the freight charges too excessive.
DEAD BIRDS.
Los Angeles Express: BuzZards, taxi
dermists and primitive women like
dead birds. Buzzards eat them, taxi
dermists stuff them, and primitive wo-
men wear them on their hats.
We notice that the milliners are push
ing the dead bird fashion with much
vlgor at present, at least We judge so
from the appearance of their window
displays. These look to the unframed
observer more like ornithological col
lections than like the show cases of hat
stores where our sisters, wives and
mothers get their headgear
Long, trembly, insulated wires, end
ing in pinky-purple muslin roses are
bad enough artistically, but dead bird
evidences something more than bad
taste; it is sign of barbarism.
We have always gallantly overlooked
the statements of these hard headed
devil-may-care scientists that woman is
an undeveloped human being. The
| scientists studied about this long
while and took volumes of notes before
! they ventured to say anything about it ;
but when, out of the fullness of their
notebooks, they announced that woman
was a sort of grown-up child, we pushed
| their life-Work aside and resumed our
admiration of the New Woman, who is
taking all the honors at all the universi-
| ties.
But, after all. we must admit the
cold -blooded scientist was right. and
we don't need his figures and statistics
to support our admission, either. The
dead birds are sufficient We had hoped
this thing wouldn't hapen again this
year, but undoubtedly it IS ingrained
and constitutional
Poor little bird. You are dead and
stuffed; you are sewed on to a primitive
Woman's hat, in position unknown to
you in life; the primitive woman PAGES
down the street as proudly as a drum
major and is not sorry at ALL But she
is not cruel; she thinks you are too cum
ming for anything.
SPAIN AND CUBA
Stockton Record: The crisis in Spain
is not likely to be a permanent benefit
to the struggling Cubans. The inde-
pendence for which the insurgents were
struggling could be quickest achieved
by continuance of that system of un-
compromising injustice and cruelty
Which marked the administration OF
Weyler A more humane policy will
win from the Cubans much sympathy
and active aid. Anything short of com
plete independence means that the wal
must all be fought over again at some
future time, for it is not in the destinies
of the Western Hemisphere for any
considerable province or island to re-
main subject to the misrule of Spain
She is incapable of ruling herself prop
erly. Whatever promises or privileges
are granted the Cubans now, they Will
be snatched away by the pressure OF
place hunters, who manufacture all the
public sentiment that exists in Spain.
NULLIFYING THE LAW.
San Jose Mercury: For some years
California has been congratulating it.
self that Chinese exclusion is an accom-
plished fact, and now it suddenly ap-
pears that the gates, which were sup
posed to be permanently closed, are
wide open. A recent decision of the
Treasury Department has stopped the
importation of Japanese laborers, and
defeated the selfish aims of the emf
grant associations in Japan, but upon
the heels of that decision comes the un-
pleasant disclosure that all kinds and
conditions of Chinese are entering the
United States on certificates issued un-
der an amendment to the Act of MAY
d. 1882, approved July 6, 1884, the sub
stance of which is comprised in the
treaty with the Chinese Government
completed by Secretary Gresham in
1891, where provisions practically nulli-
fy the Exclusion Act. Under the rul-
ings of the Secretary of the Treasury
the Collector at San Francisco becomes
mere figure-head and is powerless to
hit finger to prevent the landing OF
any Chinese who possesses one of these
certihcates, which are prima facie evi-
dence of the right of the holders to land
VERY SATISFACTORY.
Reno Gazette: Considering that the
Dingley law found the warehouses and
shelves Of the country crowded with
foreign goods when it went into oper-
alton, its second month is proving very
satisfactory and gratifying. The re-
ceipts of the month will, it is expected
surpass those of the corresponding
month in the history of the Wilson law
although that law had the advantages
of the revenues from large quantities
of foreign goods which We're held back
prior to its enactment and rushed into
the country as soon as it went upor
the statute books, while precisely the
reverse conditions prevailed when the
Dingley law went into operation. The
deficit in the second month of the
Dingley law will be little if any
There is every reason to believe
that the Dingley law will provide suffi-
cient revenue to meet all running eX-
penses when matters resume their nor
NAL condition.
SAME EVERYWHERE.
| Bakersfield Californian: 1t is state
ment in direct conformity with com
mon sense that if road money were
spent on one highway running soutl
from town tapping the farming regioI
of those parts, no better use could b'
made of the funds. In the last analy
sis roads are used to travel over ant
. one good road kept in repair bette
answers the purpose than two or thre'
avenues dusty and full of ruts in thu
summer and sloppy and full of ruts IL
the winter.
Give US a main travelled" road.