The record-union., 1897-09-02
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects of Living News
Interest.

Antioch Ledger: What has the Nc
Kinley administration got to do with
the present prices of breadstuffs? Had
Bryan been chosen President the same
state of affairs would have existed.
Given to any administration, famine
and war in India, a shortage of the
wheat crop all over the world, klon-
dixie gold discovery and ask yourself
the question if the administration in
power would be responsible for it.
OHIO IN 1T:
Santa Cruz Sentinel: AS a result of
a departmental competitive examina-
ton for the position of chief law clerk
in the office of the Comptroller of the
Treasury, in which twenty-five law
yers participated, w w. Warwick of
Cincinnati O.. has received the ap-
pointment, having received the high
est rating Eight of the whole num-
Der examined attained over so per cent,
and all will be promoted. Mr.. Warwick.
is a Democrat, but against this fact
no very serious objection can be given,
as we believe law has no politics. What
makes US wonder is the luck of what
Roscoe Conkling called the Ohio
crowd" The Buckeye State bobs up
serenely when offices are in order, and
the particular party of an applicant is
no bar to his obtaining place.
CANNOT UNDERSTAND IT.
Antioch Ledger: We do not know
what to think of the methods employed
by the metropolitan papers to exag-
gerate mining news. All the San Fran
cisco papers publish page after page
of fiction and illustrations of fabulous
gold discoveries in Trinity County. The
exaggerations are so broad and bare
faced that it would seem that the pa
pers are perfectly Indifferent whether
the alleged news is faxed or not. The
strife seems to be to concoct the big
gest fake with the f1imsiest of facts
for a basis.
MAKING FOOLS OF THEM
Willows Review: Glowing headlines
over printed accounts of the fabulous
quantities of gold in Trinity, which
needs only takers, has made fools OF
great numbers of people living at
great distance-even coming as far as
from States east of the Rockies. When
these people see with their own eyes
the millions upon millions of tons of
dirt and rock in which an uncertain
amount of gold is mixed, they will re-
alize how slim are the chances of men
without capital becoming rich digging
gold Just out of Redding, last Wednes-
day, three young men were seen, one
pulling and two pushing, q hand-cart
| loaded with their outfit for Coffee
Creek, sixty-five miles distant through
deep dust. and over steep and rocky
grades. Redding people are amused
every day by questions that are asked
by strangers about Coffee Creek and
the gold fields of Trinity County.
OF INTEREST TO ORANGE GROW
ERS
San Leandro Reporter: A. c. Fuller
writes to the San Jose Mercury as
follows: ''It is a matter Of interest to
| the orange growers and growers of
many other fruits to know that there
has been a remedy found which will
completely annihilate the black smut
or scale-still better, that the remedy
is of no expense whatever. A small
brown ant is fast solving the matter
At Warm Springs, Mr.. Gallegos says
his orange and lemon trees have been
cleaned In Santa Clara County the
! work is now going on and oleander
trees are being cleaned
RELUCTANT ADMISSION.
Mendocino Dispatch-Democrat The
present prosperous outloko may be and
perhaps is due to natural causes but
it is 4 singular coincidence that such
things have invariably happened when
ever the people returned from free
trade to a protective pOhcy.-Press.
The above rather reluctant admission
of a great and patent truth is a very
hopeful sign. Our neighbOr is now on
the right track and, if he can only hold
his course. may come out all right yet
His remark about a singular cOinci-
dence" is unfortunate for his pet the
ory of protection. ''The present pros
porous outlook is coincident with the
prosperous outlook in 1891, and is
brought about by exactly the same
conditions, and it is a significant fact
that as early as 1892 the people had
| become so dissatisfied with protection
that they elected Democratic Presi-
dent whose slogan was "a tariff for
revenue only" There may be other
condolences.
OBSTRUCTING STATE COURTS.
Woodland Democrat: The lawyers of
California who make the defense of
criminals a speciality have discovered
an easy method of delaying the exc
cution of a condemned criminal almost
indefinitely The discovery was made
by the indefatigable attorneys employ
ed TO defend Durrant But subsequent
events indicate that the method will
be employed in every instance, no mat
ter how fragrant the crime or conclu-
sive the guilt until there is some leg
islation uDOn the subject.
A REPETITION.
Salinas Index: The assumptions of
work and the advances of wages which
are reported from various parts of the
country recall the flush times which
began with 1879. In that year the
country entered on a period of the
greatest industrial activity which it
had ever known. but there is proba-
bilffy that a repetition of those condi-
tions is coming to hand.
SHUT EN- OUT.
Petaluma Argus: The determination
of the Government to vigorously shut
out all anarchists from the country
will receive the hearty cOmmendation
of the people. Anarchism is a product
of tyranny and criminality. and is for
eign to American traditions and spirit.
The anarchists who are already here,
and who are found in small numbers
: in most of the large cities, can readily
be curbed, but Spain. France. Italy,
Germany and the other European
countries must not be permitted to
unload any more of that class upon
use We have enough.
MUCH MINING NEWS.