The record-union., 1897-12-02
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Humboldt Standard: The Spanish
bull-fght is an innocent and amusing
pastime compared to football, as is
proven by the statistics. Human nIe
is held very cheap and the human boay
of less value than that of brutes. when
young men will rush into such brutai
contests and call it sport. The record
of eight deaths and 2S6 serious accl-
dents in four months en- the gridiron
ought to be sufficient to cause every
Legislature in the United States to en-
act laws prohibiting the game. In
football no record is kept of slight ac-
cidents not even in the memories OF
the players. The World" says that
the list is interesting TO medical men
or to students Of anatomy. 1t is a
CORY calendar of human anguish, an
encyclopedia of crushed bones, torn
ligaments, fractured skulls, twisted
necks, shredded muscles, broken ribs.
gashed bodies, dislocated joints. backs
and chests crushed in, scalps ripped of
and jaws mashed; in fact, towering
monument, in crimson, TO the everlast-
ing glory of football
HARBOR DEFENSES.
| Contra Costa Gazette: Congress
Will fail to perform an important duty
if large sums of money are not appro-
priated for harbor defense. War may
not come at any time in the near fu-
ture, but If the country is prepared for
it when it does come it will save a hun
dred times the amount it costs in times
| of peace to prepare for defense. The
! wisest sort of economy which the
United States could practice at the
present time would be to put in a thor
ough state of defense on it's seaboard.
If we are we'll prepared for war for
eign nations will be slow to precipitate te
| a conflict.
ADVANCE IN MEDICAL SCIENCE.
Redlands Facts: The prompt stamp
ing out of yellow fever in the South is
another tribute to the wonderful ad-
| vaneement in medical science within
the last few years. 1t is renewed as
surance that the days of sweeping pes
thence are passed, so far as the en-
lightened nations are concerned. And
furthermore, it is cheering to know that
medical science is now graphing with
human ailments that not long ago We're
thought to be beyond the domain OF
successful treatment. So hopeful are
these researches that some of the most
Threaded diseases may be robbed of their
terrors before the century ends
INCREASE OF PRICES.
Red Bluff Sentinel: 1t must be dis
appointment to those low-tariff advo-
Gates who were expecting to disturb the
political atmosphere with groans about
increased prices TO find that the net
average Increase in prices of articles
affected by importation is under the
Dingley law less than one per cent
while the increased earnings of those
employed in the manufacturing indus
tries and in agriculture, which depenl
largely upon industrial activity, have
been far greater than that.
POPULISTS AND PRIMARY LAWS
San Jose Mercury: The Populists
who loudly proclaim themselves as pur-
ifiers. began the attack on the primary
election law, which was framed for the
purpose of reforming corrupt primary
mtehods, and if the Supreme Court fails
to declare it unconstitutional they vii
be greatly disappointed. Since Popu
hsm formed its alliance with Democ
racv it has become as hopelessly bad a!
the latter.
| n IItADE AMI k'<AA
} FRANCISCO.
Stockton Mail: 1t is as certain a.
, the coming Of spring that with tha
coming will set in an enormous rusl
of men to the gold fields of Alaska
Naturally these men should pas
through California to outfit at Sai
: Francisco. 1t is odds, heavy odds. tina
, they will do no such thing. The trutl
. might as we'll be told. The State il
| to be deprived of this increment o
wealth because San Francisco is to-
slow and sleepy to reach out for it
share of business. The curse Of tn
old native population seems to hav'
entered into the blood of the conquer
ors. "Manana," said the Don. ITO
morrow murmurs the Don's success
sor and snores again.
1t is very evident that San Francisco
| means to keep on snoring while Seattl
? and Tacoma and Vancouver attract TIL
, tide Of Arctic migration. They hav
passed a resolution in San Francisco
They will probably pass another Sc
. in a month or so. The same tiresomf
> orators will feed the multitude tn
same old ehestnuts. The miracle of th
Ioaves and fishes is not a patching t
the miracle of these chestnuts. The.
have been fed to thousands for HEAVIER
: knows how many years. and there ar
l more baskets full of them than ther
We're in the far-off bee inning Of thing,
before the mold grew on them.
THEY SPLIT.
Los Angeles Herald: The royalist
in Hawaii have split over the question
[ of choosing a queen They take a dea
: of useless trouble. All the royalist
) from Hawaii TO kingdom come canno
. make a queen for the islands Ldluoka
, lani viii lose her pension if she is no
careful while Kaiulani would bette
get married and settle down to keep
ing house in a plain republican way.
RURAL POSTAL DELIVERY.
Los Angeles Times: Free postal de
. livery for the rural districts will G
far toward relieving the isolation whicl
is one of the Objectionable features o
country life. 1t will tend to place rura
: regions in closer touch with the worl,
and the worlds progress. 1t will ali
4 in the dissemination of news and o
; general intelligence, end thus Will ten
distinctly to advance the standard O
civilization. For these and other rea
sons Ii is sincerely to be hoped tha
: the continued experiments of th
r Postoffice Department in the direction
of Free postal delivery in the rural sec
, tions will be crowned with ever in
creasing success.
LEGISLATION FOR OUR SHIPS.
Los Angeles Express. 1t is the hop
of all American citizens who take al