The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-19

would not be felt by the consumer at
all.
A COMPARISON.
Stockton Independent: Even Greece.
surrounded by the sea and in a latitude
about the same as that Of California,
has not so fine a climate. Athens is
almost exactly on the thirty eighth
parallel of latitude and so is San Fran
cisco, but spring has not come to
Greece, while all California except the
higher elevations is abloom. Military
operations on the northern frontier of
Greece are INSTRUCTED by snow and cold
weather, while in Northern California
the fields and trees are green and the
weather warm. CALIFORNIA; climate is
favorite theme of Californians, and
though Eastern people call it a weak
ness to boast of it, the fact remains
that it is solid ground for boasting and
source of almost uninterrupted de-
light to those who are so fortunate as
to live here.
A CHANGE NEEDED.
Dixon Tribune: A change in agri-
cultural methods is inevitable The
conservative element oppose this
change and profess to disbelieve in it's
necessity. 1t must and will be made,
however, and the sooner that the I'M
progressive ones see that they are
standing in their own light the better it
Will be for them. Grain growing must
give way to sugar beet culture or some
other crop that will give the overbur-
dened soil chance to recuperate and
afford paying substitute for an indus
try which the best judges declare is
no longer practicable on land as valu-
able as ours and so we'll adapted to a
variety of crops which will more amply
repay the farmer for his labor
BEWARE OF EN-.
Los Angeles Times: Queen Lis efforts
to get the President to interfere in her
behalf and upset the Dole Government
SO she can run for President of the
Hawaiian Islands, won't avail much.
The President has been a great reader
in his time, and is great admirer of
Dickens works, especially of that por-
ton of the "Pickwick Payers where
the elder Weller tells his son to beware
of the vidders"
RATHER MIXED.
Kern Echo: 1t is now generally con-
coded that the road laws recently en-
acted are in a mess. One law says the
roads shall be managed by district
! trustees, and another law-the County
! Government Act-says the Supervisors
shall have the management Both of
these were signed on the same day, the
! latter at a later hour than the former
! But that is not all. The District Act
! says that trustees shall be elected on
the last Saturday in May, but the Act
| does not go into effect till the 1st of
June, 50 that seems to shut out the
trustees for at least a year yet. Nor
does the confusion end there. The dis
trict law says that the election of trus-
teees shall be held at such place as the
trustees shall designate, Which makes
it hard to say where the first elections
shall be held, or who shall designate
the places for opening the polls.
A QUESTION.
Dixon Tribune: Would it not be bet
ter for our solons to give less attention
to the problem of devising tariff
measure which will extract a hundred
million a year more out of the pockets
of the people, and give a little more
thought to the question of cutting down
superfiuous expenditures and putting
the various departments of the public
service upon more frugal footing?
TWO OF A KIND.
Alameda Encinal: The Redlands
| "Citrograph" is in accord with the
"Encinal in its position with regard
to the proposed new Constitutional
Convention. After twenty years of trial
and amendment we have succeeded in
getting the present Constitution into
something like fair shape, and it is not
worth While going back and starting
in afresh, with twenty more years OF
dispute to follow. Better far keep on
amending the present one