The record-union., 1897-04-02
VOICg OF TEE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jects of Living and News
Interest.

interest,"
Reno Gazette: The offer of closer re-
by the representatives Of that country,
to President Mckinley. There are
some difficulties about annexation
which require careful consideration,
such as the large population of Chinese
and Japanese, as we'll as natives, on the
islands. There would also be the con-
sideration that Hawaiian sugar would
pay no duty and come in competition
with our own sugar, made from beets
and sugar cane. But we may be sure
that the various questions will be care
fully considered by President McKin-
ley, Secretary Sherman and the COM
mittees of Congress responsible for our
foreign relations, and that wise conclu-
SionS will be reached.
NO RULER HERE.
Placerville Nugget: Frances Willard
has started "a petition to the President
with the ''Honored Ruler" For per-
son who has been so long in the fight
for equal rights" and the privileges
of becoming a part coordinate OF the
elective power it looks, to a man up a
tree, as though Miss Willard had weak
ened the cause for which she fights.
There is no ruler in this land but the
vote of the people, The President is
not ruler. He is a servant of the
sovereign people and until Miss Willard
appreciates that she is laboring under
a delusion that units her for the cleo
tive franchise.
Redding Free Press: A very notice
able feature in the acts of the new Ad-
ministration is the deliberate manner
in which the great and important ma
tional questions are canvassed by the
President and his Cabinet, the Minis
ters and the Leading Republican mem
bers of both houses of Congress. What
they say and do is directly to the point,
and the conclusions reached are accom-
plished in such a dignified and conser-
vative yet positive manner, that there
is no room left for doubt or qMbble
as to their settled purpose.
IGNORING THE HOME PAPER.
Carson Appeal: Journalism in San
Francisco is ON the country constant
ly seeking write-ups. The journals OF
San Francisco seldom say anything ia
vOrable to the advantages of any por-
ton of the State without being paid as
a wrte-up. We are in possession of
vast range of facts on this subject,
which juStifeS us in the statement that
San Francisco journalism does nothing
in the interior without pay.-Record
Union.
The above is true, and if the Record
Union" will follow this lead it will
make some startling discoveries. Yet
the people of small country towns wall
throw money at a big city paper the
year round which if spent at home
would make the home paper, which
always advertises its own section, a
money making, influential and much
sought for journal.
The better the home paper, the better
for the town it is published in.
THE PAYMENT LAW.
Alameda Argus: OF course no harm
was done by passing a law compelling
corporations to pay their employees at
least once month, but what good was
it? Somebody has played to the grand
stand-catered to the spirit that is
abroad, that every evil may be cured by
law. There was no evil here to be
cured at all, by the way. There is more
need of a law compelling people to pay
their grocery bills once month than for
corporations to pay their employees.
AN EASTERN VIEW.
Red Bluff Peoples Cause: AS rule,
California receives little attention at the
hands of the Eastern press, although of
late years our fruits and wines have
= hIr hot
abundance. excellence and cheapness.
In a recent number of the Cincinnati
"Times-Star' there is truthful and
appreciative review of the Industrial
situation here in which the editor re-
marks that the artificial boom in the
price OF realty in the cities and towns of
California which brought this region
into prominence a few years ago con-
tributed largely toward intensifying in
this State the business depression from
which the entire country has suffered
since 1893. But, he adds, the pressure
seems to be lifting from the Golden
State and the clouds are being blown
away Men who came here few years
ago with many thousand dollars to in
vest, and who invested them, and whose
wives have been keeping boarding
houses ever since, can begin to see day
light
over the entire Pacific Coast, says
the .'Times-Star feeling of hope
and confidence is now manifest that has
not been manifested for years. There
is a steady advance in the price of all
farm products, and the demand for
them shows no sign of weakening. The
spirit of the farmer is buoyant. 1t is
clear to anyone so situated as to OBJ
serve the increased activity on the
farms that large tracts which have lain
idle for years are broken and now in
grain. hay and fruits. The most con-
servative estimate shows that there is
at least - per cent. more land in gram
this season than there was last. The
season thus far has been more favorable
than any yet known. 1t Is believed in
the State that all danger from drought,
frost. floods, etc. has passed. Over the
entire State the live stock was never i'll
a more prosperous condition than it is
to-day. There is a Drofusion of fruit
tree blossoms everywhere. Last year
was a dark year for California. one of
the darkest in her history. The present
outlook goes to show that it is generally
darkest before day"
Whatever the source of its informa-