The record-union., 1897-08-17
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

! JOuTIldlS are very H0l6IpIISlIlS III SCA1-
/ ing correspondents and expeditions to
the KIondike. The public, however,
would find it a relief if energetic pa
pers would transfer their boast about
| what has been done to their advertis-
! ing columns. 1t is hard enough to get
at the facts when they are given amid
food of the disordered rhetoric that
+ makes newspaper English but when
news is interspersed with endless as
sertions that it is the only news, and
all other is false, an interesting story
| is spoiled. 1t is noticed that several
/ San Francisco newspapers each day
publish simultaneously a different only
| report frcm some section of the new
gold country.
TIMELY WARNING.
! Santa Cruz Sentinel: The Trinity
Journal calls attention to law that
should be pasted in every campers hat.
Read: 1t is a misdemeanor for any one
! camping on the lands to leave a fire
burning. The punishment for parties
so detected and convicted is a fine not
! exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment not
! exceeding one year, or both The fine
| is paid into the school fund of the coua-
| ty where the act occurred. It is q
/ good law, and, if enforced, will prevent
annual forest fires, caused by the neg
ligence of prospactors and campers.
AN ENCOURAGING SIGN.
| Alameda Argus: You do not see or
4 read about great armies of idle men
| as you did a year or two ago There
was no free soup ladling last win
/ ter, and no move carried on by
the city newspapers with a great
flourish to ameliorate distress. Whence
| it is fair to infer there was not very
| much distress. AS a matter of fact,
! there are few idle men in San Francis
/ co. the great center of labor. There 60
not seem to be many idle men any
where-that is, idle men who are really
| anxious TO work, and know how TO
work There never was a time when
| there We're not men complaining of
their inability to get a job and prob
ably never will be. That is a normal
condition, and is very different from
that where thousands of able-bodied
men. some of whom had been we'll
circumst anced, line the streets or
march out to the park and work for a
/ dollar a day. The weakling and the
man who for one reason or another
cannot hold his job we have always
| with Us, but it is one of the most en-
couraging signs that men actually
wanting work and with the capacity to
perform it after they get it are now
finding their opportunity.
PUNCHING WORK.
Escondido Times: The bunglng
blundering work of the last Legislature
! of California is we'll illustrated in the
! Clark road law, which has been de-
clared null and void If the people
would send sensible business men and
honest farmers to make laws for them
instead of, as has been the custom In
the past, sending third-rate lawyers
political ward strikers and bummers
we would not only have less political
corruption at Sacramento, but less OF
bungling legislation.
SUCCESS AND FAILURE
Clear Lake Press: Among the Klon-
dixie items which have craZed men is
this and others like unto it, Men who
had nothing last fall are now worth
! a fortune" Such glittering specialtias
excite the imagination and overpower
| reason, or men would see that the
converse Of this proposition was equal
ly true, that many men who had
something last fall We're left penniless,
stranded on that inhospitable shore.
Success speaks with loud voice, fail
ure IS silent.
A HARD FATE
Ukiah Dispatch Democrat: Few legis-
lative enactments ever met with as
hard fate as did the Clark road law
which was passed by the California
Legislature last winter. From the mo-
ment of it's birth it received nothing
but unstinted abuse until last week
when the Supreme Court kicked it neck
and crop out of the statute book. Our
District Attorney and Board of Super
visors rendered no decisions, but they
quietly ignored the law, and it now ap-
pears they acted wisely.
A FOOLHARDY TRIP
Grass Valley Union: 1t is now five
weeks since Professor Andree left Spitz-
bergen on his balloon voyage to the
North Pole. Nothing has been heard
from him. Nothing likely ever will
be- He will be another victim sacri-
feed upon the altar of science, and to
what purpose? In what way the dis
covery of the North Pole viii benefit
mankind. it is hard for an unsophisti-
| caIEU nllllu To lauuCESDdtItl I1O1CSSOl
Andree was a brave man, but fool
hardy one and the money spent on his
outfit might have been used to better
advantage in the land whence he start
ed.
DAIRY PRODUCTS.
I SausaHto News: American dairymer
are already beginning to feel the ef-
fects of Secretary Wilson's efforts in
their behalf London firm has just
placed an order for the entire butter
product of the Iowa State Agricultural
| College. which amounts TO about 500
pounds Per day, and there is reason tC
believe that this win be followed by q
general foreign demand for the dairy
products of this country.
NO DUTY TO PAY.
SAN Jose Mercury: The prospectol
who stays in California and searches fol
| gold has to pay no duty, requires nC
big and costly outfit, does not have tC
dig through the ice TO find the metal
is in no danger of freezing or starry
ing, and his chances are as good, if MOI
better. than those of the men who have
gone TO the Klondike.
THE FACT EXISTS.
Vacaville Reporter: The prosperity
Of the farmer is worth more to the
country than all of the talk Of tht
theorists. No sooner does the farmer
find that through the enhanced price
of wheat he is making a little money
| than he becomes a buyer and sets il
motion the wheels of every factory
With a living price for wheat the pres
sn+ wear is bound to be more prosper
Gus than 1896. We do not care who
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