The record-union., 1897-03-10
Voice OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jects of Living and News
Interest.

Los Angeles Herald: When one reads
the testimony of the sugar trust mana
gers and sees how very forgetful they
are and how very little they know OF
the sugar business, the wonder is how
such stupid men could have engineered
such a monumental steal.
A BIG THING.
San Jose Mercury: If it be true that
volcano has burst forth in the mid
die of Salt Lake, it will be big thing
for Utah Heretofore that Territory,
and subsequently State, has relied ex-
clusively upon it's family eruptions for
notoriety. Utah is to be congratulated
upon having developed a new industry.
THAT BILL.
Stockton Independent: The bin to
allow parties to a civil suit to have a
change of Judges in presentation of II
sufficient affidavit of prejudice, will
only make the law in California like
those of many and perhaps most other
States. In some the filing of such an
affidavit Gusts the jurisdiction of a
Judge whose only remaining power in
the case is to name the Judge who shall
preside at the trial. No Judge should,
in justice to himself, insist on trying a
case in which his impartiality is in
doubt
ABUSE AND VILIFICATION.
Woodland Democrat: There are men
In public life to-day who are subjects of
vilificatiOn and abuse, but have been
brave enough not to yield to public
clamor, and who have had the courage
and manhood to stand by their honest
convictions without any regard to the
manner in which their political future
has been affected Through a storm of
misrepresentation they have been ASST
duOuS in the discharge of what they
conceived to be duty and fearless in ad-
vocacy of the principles in which they
believe, and after their return to pri-
vate life, when passions and prejudices
have subsidized they will have the COM
forting assurance that they will be
more firmly established in the esteem
OF their fellow citizens than ever before
during their eventful life.
SUFFICIENT TIME.
Fresno EXpositor: 1t has now been
over two years since patriotic Cubans
questioned Spain's authority, yet Presi-
dent Cleveland does not know that an
uprising has occurred or that American
citizens have been murdered in cold
blood by Spanish officers while incar
cerated in Cuban dungeons.
GLASS GALORE.
Stockton Independent: The telegraph
announces that one San Francisco
house has placed an order with Mum
Gle, Ind. firm for sixty cars of glass,
with twenty-four more carloads to fol-
low Every foot of this glass should be
made in California. No section offers
greater facilities for this industry and
it is folly to import the product.
MURDER AND TREATY.
Los Angeles Times: VIII the Govern
ment, for the sake of a treaty adopted
at a time when Spain was as friendly
to America as she is to any nation,
stand by tamely and allow an Ameri-
can citizen TO be murdered in a jail
by Spanish soldiers? There is an old
maxim to the effect that fraud vitiates
every contract" and there should be
another that murder annuls every
treaty.
GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT.
Marysville Appeal: There are good
roads bills before the Legislatures in
twelve different States, and in all the
bills the creation of q State Highway
Commission is provided for This shows
that the continued discussion of bet
ter roads is leading to an era of action
Some Of the States have made consid-
cradle progress in applying definite
legislation to the permanent betterInent
of roads and their experience will be of
value to the communities that have not
yet decided on the form of law desired
New Jersey is as far advanced as any
State in the actual work of road CON
structiOn. The law there places one
third of the cost or the State, one
tenth on the abutting landowners, and
the remainder on the county. Under
these provisions no less than 800 miles
OF improved road have been built or
contracted for in New Jersey. and the
State has paid for its third the sum of
S4G6.J95. The total expenditure in six
years has been II 400 600.
The addition. in so short a period of
300 miles to the frst-class roads of q
single State is an evidence that the
work can be made to move rapidly and
economically when once intelligently
begun. Behind the movement in New
Jersey has been a league of good roads
associations who adopted this for
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