The record-union., 1897-12-20
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Tacoma Ledger: AS in the nation, so
in the State and municipality. What is
good in the abstract is good in the con-
crete. 1t protection to home industry
will build UP great manufacturing indus
tries throughout the land, so may its
good results be manifested in every city,
if carried into effect. The laws of land
are the will Of tbs people, made effective
through it's representatives. The will
of the people, in any community may
be put in force without the machinery
of laws and the slow process of legisla-
ton. In view of these conditions there
is nothing to prevent Tacoma becoming
enc of the most prosperous cities Of the
Pacific Coast, and it is selfg- evident that
with the rapidly increasing trade with
the Orient coming to our shores, that
the Pacific Coast will grow more rapidly
on commercial lines than will it's neigh
bors on the Atlantic. Tacoma already
has made vast inroads upon this trade
which formerly was held by San Fran
cisco, besides securing a goodly proper
ton of the new business that has devel-
oped, until as a seaport it stands up
among the great entrepots Of the world,
with exports we'll up to the front. In
this direction our interests are being well
cared for, and thanks to location and
lines of communication we bid fair to
keep to the front
A NEEDED LAW.
| Stockton Mail: The next Legislature
can do the State an immense service If
| it will embody the features of the oleo-
margarine law in a statute to prohibit
the sale of spurious olive oil. The i'm
| portance of olive oil Is, unfortunately,
| not we'll understood by the American
people. But the work of education is
under way and will bear fruit. People
will learn the virtues of this admirable
product. They will learn of it's value
as food; they will learn Of it's value as
disease-preventing agent. A great
part of the peculiarly distressing kid
ney and bladder ailments would disap-
| pear if the use of olive Oil was general.
1t is fact that the most painful of these
troubles is unknown in those countries
where oil is a part of every meal. When
the virtues of olive oil are thoroughly
appreciated, the immense demand will
make olive growing one Of the greatest
industries of California.
1t is very difficult to get olive oil.
| Nineteen out of twenty of the gayly
| labeled brands sold by the grocers are
| spurious compounds. The brands re-
puted to be imported are about all
| adulterated. And the best of the i'm
ported Italian oils are inferior to the
native product.
MORE GOLD DISCOVERY.
San Jose Herald: Now they have dis
| covered placers within six miles Of Dyea
and rush has been made to them. 1t
| is not to be supposed that all the gold
in Alaska is on the Klondike, or in the
Yukon Valley. Alaska is a big country
and most of it is in the gold bearing
belt. There is just as good chance of
discovering gold near the coast at Dye.
as on the islands along the coast wher>
valuable mines have been worked for
years.
BAD POLICY.
| San Diego Union: Southern California
| has again tried the regular annual ex-
pertinent of rushing green oranges to the
East at the beginning of the season, and
with the usual results. 1T has been
estimated" says the Riverside Press,
that fully half the green oranges sent
| to the Eastern market have been re-
| jected This may be a trifie too strong,
| but it is certainly true that a great mis-
take has been made in shipping oranges
in which the golden hue is not visible to
| the East. No matter how phenomenal
the demand, such fruit cannot be dis
| posed Of, and there Is bound TO De
| money lost in the end. If the dealer Is
| loser he will try to make even on the
| transaction later in the season, and the
grower finally has to foot the bill"
SOME GOOD ADVICE.
! Red Bluff Peoples Cause: President
| Jordan heaves a line to the drowning
young men of Stanford, and it is to be
hoped that he is the predestined means
! Of pulling many a youth out OF such
| dangers as he here predicts. In speak
| ing Of the drinking habit, he said:
1.-The only melancholy that wine can
! drive away is that which wine itself
| has caused" He referred mot to the
use of liquor as medicine or table condi-
| ments but to perpendicular drink
| ing" as he termed it, ''and the use OF
| LIQUORS as a source of joy and good
fellowship"
| II detest that happiness which wine
or beer can promote" said he. THAT
freedom which shows itself in laxity
/ Of life is to me the most detestable form
! of slavery"
! He spoke Of profanity as a symptom
| of dull, unrefined or degraded nature
| a lack Of richness of spirit, and said the
| bravest men were soft of tongue and
| quiet of action.
| M'KINLEY ON MONEY.
| Nevada City Transcript: President
| McKinley's utterances on the currency
| question, in his message which has just
been presented to Congress, are clear
concise and simple-so plain that every
citizen may understand them; yet sc
! complete in their scope that they meet
all present requirements of what is
| looked upon as an extremely compli-
| Gated situation.
NOT CLOSED.
| Mail of Woodland: The report got out
! that the Napa Woolen Mill had closed
down, and the calamity press immedi-
ately set up a howl that could be heard
from one end of the State to the other;
| but now comes the Register" Of that
city and pricks the bubble by anDounc-
ing that the mill has not closed down,
but is undergoing enlargement and the
large force employed Is working extra
time. The calamityites are desperate
straits these days. They are more to
be pitied than condemned, however.
BAD ON BACHELORS.