The record-union., 1897-04-07
VOICE OF TIE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jects of Living and News
Interest.


Tulare Register: Come to think OF 1t,
the last few months since Mckinney
was elected have not been healthy Tor
trusts and monopolies. The great iron
and steel trusts went to pieces, ana so
did the Buffalo grain association and
the great railway traffic association
also. And now the great Bessemer
steel association has turned up its toes,
or is on the eve of it, and yet 1t Is
known that Carnegie, Rockefeller and
the Minnesota company were all in the
attempted combination. The trouble
is the world is too big even for these
big fellows, and there is too much iron
ore in it for any combination to con-
troll.
FOR PURE FOOD.
Stockton Mall The San Francisco
grocers who have been caught selling
deliberations of all sorts and are
threatened with punishment are now
working up sentiment in their favor.
The alleged arguments they advance
for stopping the pure food crusade
are puerile in the highest degree, and
their very admissions show the neces-
sity of continuing the work. Promi-
nent business men shameleSsly declare
that they are now selling apple juice
for raspberry, orange, pineapple and
other jellies and coolly declare that to
palm off apple for more expensive and
more desirable article is not a fraud.
The same merchants probably sell clay
beans for Mocha coffee and sagebrush
leaves for Japan tea. But they are
honorable men and rich and should not
be molested. OF course not. They are
also good advertisers. Let the poison
ing of human beings go on, that mer
cant princes may further enrich them
selves at the risk of the health and
lives of their patrons, and that the
columns of constituencies newspapers
may be filled with the paying adver
Using.
THE PURE FOOD CONGRESS.
San Jose Herald: The purpose of this
congress is to concert measures to
stamp out the production and use of
adulterated food in California. This
State is great producer of food prod
ucts that are easily susceptible of be-
ing adulterated. The prosperity of
trade depends upon building up rep
utation for the purity of such goods.
Both in and beyond the State this rep
utation must be made 1t is matter
of public welfare as we'll as of business
for food producers.
To-day adulterated food products
from the East are being thrown on the
California market in great quantities.
There is a double injury in this: one to
the consumer, another to the Califor-
mia producer of that line of goods. San
Francisco has begun a vigorous cru
sade against food adulteration. 1t is
having its effect and the consequence is
that the handlers of such goods are
growing afraid to push their sale in
that city and are sending to the inte-
rior to hunt markets.
THE CHRISTIAN POWERS.
Stockton Independent: Christianity
has suffered more from the barbarity
of the Christian" Powers of Europe
since the Turco-Crete war began than
it has from nearly all other causes dur
ing the century 1t is a gross libel on
Christianity for those Powers to pre-
tend to be Christian while they are
acting as the accessories of the bar
barous Turks. Real Christianity should
take measures to disclaim them and
denounce the libels they are perpetrat-
ing.
HAWAII.
Fresno Expositor: Several months
ago the "Expositor' predicted that one
Of the evil results of Cleveland's course
in the Hawaiian matter would be the
precipitation of serious trouble between
this country and Japan. Nerved by
outrageous apathy, Japan has been
training a selfish eye upon the little
Republic in the Pacific and gives strong
evidence Of determination to acquire
the island. Copies of Honolulu papers
just received give a strong coloring to
this view. 1t seems almost improbable
that matters could become so strained
as to bring about an armed conflict
between the United States and Japan
but we are forced to believe that the
fear of such a turn being dangerously
near is not altogether unjustified.
THE STATE PRINTING OFFICE.
Woodland Democrat: We sincerely
regret that the complication in the
State Printing Office should ever have
arisen. There has probably been ex-
travagance in its management, but the
Legislature is in a great measure re-
sponsible for that fact The State
Printer is bound to honor every requi-
sition made ON him by the Legislature
for printing, SO long as there is any
money in the fund. The waste and ex-
travagance from this source is enor-
nous. The State department reports
are entirely too voluminous and ought
to be edited by a competent person
before they are submitted for publica-
ton. There must be reform in this
direction before the state Printer can
be expected to be more rigid in his
economy. We have known MIR. John
ston for a great many years and be-
lieve him to be a man of high char
acter and strict personal integrity. We
do not believe he has ever profited one
cent as a result of any extravaganza
real or apparent, in the management of