The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-10-10
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXPRESSIONS FROM VARIOUS
RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPERS,
The Religious Thought OF the Day
as Expressed in the Sec
tartan Press.

Yreka Journal: The people who as
would close the mines Of Colorado were
misinformed. This year Colorado will
produce eleven million dollars in gold.
The product for the past nine months
has been over eight millions and for the
corresponding time last year was a lit
tie over three millions. This looks Like
the gold standard had brought prosper
ity even to Colorado.
AN ERRONEOUS IDEA.
Virginia City Report: With regard
to a clipping which has been going the
rounds of the State press and which
says that since silver is a tender to
the amount of five dollars. why not
benefit silver by retiring all national
bank currency in one and two dollar
bills and replace the amount so retired
with silver, we have received COM
munication from DR.. Guinan of Carson
calling our attention TO the fact that
there is not an outstanding bond
against this Government that is not
lawfully payable in silver, and there is
no debt, however large, contracted in
specified that is not payable in silver"
The doctor suggests that it would
be we'll to call the attention of the
papers making such suggestions to this
matter, which we cheerfully do.
SLOPPY REPORTING.
Riverside Enterprise: 1t is unfortu-
nately true that there is to-day entire
ly too much reckless reporting. The
newspapers cannot afford to have this
go on. Readers must have some conf
dence that the newspaper comes as
close to the truth as observation and in
vestigation can bring it.
The real observer knows the value of
facts, and it is only the right sort that
should be employed, even if it does cost
more to have good men. Circulation
schemes and ad-getting are more or
less necessary to enterprising publica-
ton, but business offices must make
their minds up to the fact that a pa
per's reputation for truthfulness is in
valuable.
THE WAY OF IT.
Tulare Register: This is the way of
it: San Francisco wants the State
Board of Equalization elected at large,
which will give that city control of it
so that the property of the city can be
assessed low and the State be made to
bear the burden of the State Govern
ment But this would not give the city
money enough for its own boodlers, so
the dollar limit for taxation for city
purposes is to be eliminated when a
high rate for local taxation and a low
assessment for State taxation will give
the city all the money it wants and en-
able it to dodge a great part of it's duty
to the State, They are real cute in
San Francisco, those schemers are.
FREE LIBRARIES.
Riverside Press One of the most
gratifying developments in the growth
of Southern California during the past
ten years has been the interest in the
building up of public Libraries. A
good library is second only to a good
school as power for intellectual slim
illus and direction; and the libraries
that are being collected in Southern
California are a good sign of the per
manent character of the civilization we
are working cut and it's trend toward a
recognition of culture and intellectual
development. During the boom we
were too busy making money and blow
ing it in to think much about libraries,
but since then the pride that has been
shown in the establishment and i'm
provenent of city~libraries is very graf
flying. Then or twelve years ago there
were only two or thre public libraries
outside of Los Angeles, and they were
not much to boast of. Now Riverside,
San Diego Pasadena, Santa Barbara,
Pomona, San Bernardino, Santa Ana
and other towns have creditable libra
ries. which are being improved every
year.
HOW TO CHANGE THEM.
Marysville Democrat: If the laws are
wrong, it is always possible for the
people to change them. It must be
presumed always that the laws as they
exist have the consent of a majority
of those subject to them. To deny the
validity, the binding force of a law, in
virtue of higher law existing only in
the mans own mind and conscience,
is to revolt against the majority of the
people and against the public con-
science and judgment as voiced by
that majority. Such a revolt means
necessarily that force must come into
play-that the majority must exert its
superior power-or else that society
must fall into disorder and it's safe
guards must disappear.
SNAKE BITE REMEDIES.
Salinas Index: A new remedy is an
nounced for rattlesnake bite, and it
doesn't come from Kentucky, either A
Philadelphia scientist claims the credit
for discovering that nitro-glycerine and
permanganate of potash not only effect
a cure, but give immediate relief. But
the man of science does not stop here.
He says the idea that whisky is a cure
for snake bite has been completely ex-
ploded. Perhaps such is the case in
the professional world, but in the pop
ular mind the old remedy is the first
one suggested The dose is liberal and