The record-union., 1897-01-26
Voice OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jects of Living and News
Interest.

Gilroy Advocate: The San Jose
Herald expresses the opinion OF many
taxpayers in the following words:
There should be no repeal OF the law
providing for the semi annual payment
of real estate taxes. 1t is optional with
the property owner who may consult
his pecuniary convenience. 1t is a relief
to the money market which is more or
less cinched by the payment Of taxes
in a single nstallment. About the only
persons who have any interest in the
repeal are the Tax Collectors, but the
law is not made for their case and con-
venience, but for the relief of the public.
A CHANCE FOR A RECORD.
Biggs Argus: The present Legisla-
ture has it within it's power to
redeem, in part at least, its
present record for extrava gance. Let it
pass a law restricting the number of
both temporary and permanent attaches
and the salaries to be paid the same.
There are hundreds of deserving men
and women of known ability, who are
not in the push" but have more ability
and would gladly perform the duties
now assigned to two or three for the
pay of one.
SENSIBLE TALK.
Kern Echo: Good roads are an incen-
tive to new comers. They make it pos
sible for the ranchmen, the horticult-
urist and the fruit grower to haul their
products long distances and do it pro-
fitably. The natural roadways in Kan
sas and Nebraska did more for that
State than man ever did. In the San
Joaquin Valley it is possible to have the
very best roads. We need them, and
we need them now. Next to competing
railway lines are good roads. 1t does
not require twenty per cent. of the work
in localities where the soil is sandy,
free from rocks and stumps, to build
roads as it does in districts where all
these obstacles have to be overcome.
Let the people of Kern be alive to their
own interests We have much to hope
for here in this early part of the year
1897, and to hope for improvements
without working for them is absurd.
AND THERE ARE OTHERS.
Oakland Times: Some Of these days
down in Los Angeles the worm will turn,
the bent bow will snap, the golden
pitcher will be broken at the fountain,
and an aroused, long suffering populace
will arise and smite hip and thigh the
artist" who, by means Of an adze and
broad-ax, hews out cartoons for the Los
Angeles Record"
PRIZE FIGHTING.
Riverside Enterprise: New York
newspapers are raising considerable of
a rumpus because a prize fighter was
killed in prize ring. Why do they not
agitate the total abolition of this brutal
practice by legislative enactment Then
no more prize fighters will be butchered
to make a New York holiday.
HERE'S AN IDEA!
Los Angeles Times: The question of
impounding ''Slickens" is one that 'bobs
up serenely' at every Legislature with
the same regularity Of temperance
that characterized the late Monsieur
Tonson. The State collected at one time
and another from the mining counties
about 81, 600, 900 in the shape of foreign
miners licenses, from which the coun
ties themselves received no benefit till
after 1868, and then only for a short
time. Now, here's new idea, and not
an air-ship, either. How would it do to
construst fumes by which tailings could
be run down and deposited upon the tule
lands for the purposes of reclamation.
All the swamp lands not now reclaimed
belong to the State, and, If once re-
claimed by depositing the detritus of
mineral lands upon them, would make
very productive farms. The rich black
mud of the tuIes would be subsoil that
could always be relied upon for a strong
fertilizer. There are seven miles of re-
claimed swamp land of this sort in New
Jersey between Newark and Jersey
City, that could not be bought for $500
per acre. If one-half the money col
lected for foreign miners licenses could
be spent this way, hydraulic mining
could be carried on without endangering
navigation.
THE EXAMINER" WRONG.
Yreka Union: The San Francisco
Examiner frequently gets
wrong. 1t did so In our
opinion, in saying editorially a few
days ago that "the vast major
ity of Californians want the Gov
ernment to own and operate the over
land railroads. With all due defer
ence to the Examiner we must say
that we don't believe any such thing.