The record-union., 1897-06-23
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on Sub
iects of Living and News
Interest.

Redding Free Press: After all. it
seems that Labor Commissioner Fitz-
geralds statement that 95 per cent. of
the labor employed in the California su-
gar-beet fields are Chinese and Japan
ese, lis no such thing" The Oakland
Enquirer" has ascertained that out
of $50 farmers growing beets for the
Alvarado factory, only one is known to
employ Japanese. The Enquirer
says: The sugar beet business encour-
ages the best of all forms of labor, viz,
that in which the farmer expends his
own labor on his own land"
OH. NO!
Dunsmuir News: The Christian En-
deavorors are part of the earth earthly,
and it would be no good for the people
of San Francisco to try to deceive them
and make them believe they We're en-
tering a paradise, when they were ap-
preaching the very hetrogenstic San
Francisco. Keep right on. you clumsy
sheets of San Francisco, and show your
town to strangers just as it is.
FRAUDS IN PACKING.
Marysville Appeal: 1t has been the
boast of the local packers and Gamers
of green and dried and cooked fruits
that their consignments to all markets
represented nothing within the case
that the labels did not set forth or
the invoices charge. 1t is therefore not
to be considered egotisticad in them TO
register as strong and emphatic OBJ
lection as possible TO the methods or
some Californians who are out for only
one seasons trade and care not for the
effects of their nefarious operations up
on stable concerns and the fair repute
Of the entire State. One New York
paper says that several of the dealers
in that city who have bought Caiifor-
mia cherries this season are complaining
of the fact that the boxes are topped
off, and that the top layers only are
eatable. IF this is true" adds the
paper. q" it is great mistake for ship
pers of early fruit to injure later re-
ceipts by prejudicing that part of the
public which gets the under layers of
California products. 1t is possible that
this is one of the explanations as to
why the New York market has been IN
such a demoralized condition this week,
particularly as compared with other
markets.
The Appeal wondered at the great
slump in the quotations and now has
partial solution. Some time ago the
San Jose Mercury" in considering this
subject, said that the great majority
Of the packers are honest, and besides
they are aware that to commit Such
frauds is to kill the goose that lays the
golden egg. They can no better afford
to ruin the reputation of California
fruit than can the growers themselves.
Yet it is a fact that there are few
irresponsible packers who look to i'm
mediate profits and care nothing for
the future status of the industry, who
are engaged in swindling Eastern and
foreign dealers and consumers, and who
are thereby working serious INJURY TO
the market.
PAYING OFF.
Riverside Globe: It seems somewhat
contradictory on the face of it, but
what we call hard times are always
debt-paying eras. The county records
in any one of the Western States will
show that during the last five years
the farmers have been paying off mil
lions of dollars of indebtedness. The
next move forward will be a healthy
and progressive one.
CAN BEAT IT.
Pasadena News: There are a dozen
alleged poets in Pasadena who can beat
that English Poet Laureate Austin all
to smithereens. we have a desk full
of effusionS now that will compare ia
vorably with that jubilee rhyme of
Victoria the Great or else we are no
judge of alfalfa
DON'T BE IMPATIENT.
Corning Observer: President Lin
Lincolns first Congress did not meet
until July 4, 1861, four months after
his inauguration, and many months
after the secession of States had begun
and after Fort Sumpter had been fired
upon. Yet people are impatient now
because the Congress under President
McKinley's Administration has not
met, framed a tariff BILL passed it in
the House, digested it in the Senate,
and passed it through that body. before
the date at which President Lincoln
thought it wise to even assemble his
Congress.
TOO BAD! TOO BADi
Castroville Enterprise: The "inter-
national agreement" farce is turning
out just as every sensible and patriotic
citizen expected it would. The foreign
powers and especially England, can
we'll afford to answer our feeble de-
mands for their consent to coin our
own money in a way that would do us
the greatest amount of good with a
laugh The cringing policy of the pres
ent administration has lost us the re-
spect of the rest of the civilized world.
E. A. Bridgford, lawyer, Stoll build
ing, Sacramento Telephone red, 723
Coronado water. Stockton sarsaparil-
la and iron, champagne cider, ginger
ale, orange cider. j. McMorry, agent
Save money by buying your tea and
coffee of j. McMorry, 531 NJ