The record-union., 1897-05-09
VOICB OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jects of Living and News
Interest.

stopped COMING Si1NCi- NOAOA-A"
trying to accumulate gold enough 10
change its standard. San Salvador Is
moving in the same direction. Uruguay
has forbidden the circulation o1 Iorelsh
silver. and Chile now measures values
in gold. The silver standard mas De
come too costly a luxury to be endured
by these countries.
SUGAR DUTY.
Fresno Expositor: The proposition TO
place a differential duty on imported
sugar equal to the bounty paid on lis
export bv the nation where 1t is pro-
duced is a just kind of protection. IL
Germany can afford to pay her sugar
makers a bounty on every pound OF
sugar sent to this country, we owe II 10
our sugar-makers to fix sugar duty
equal at least to the foreign bounty
Germany is threatening various dis
examinations against American exports
if we doctor their sugar-coated bounty.
They cannot injure US in that way, be
cause whatever they buy from US they
would buy elsewhere if they could get
it on better terms.
RIPE OLIVES.
Los Angeles Times: In 1890 a gen
tleman of Los Angeles was on board
a French steamer bound from sydney
to Adelaide, and at the breakfast table
noticed some very black-look1ng ber-
ries in front of him. On inquiring what
they were he was told they were ripe
olives, and the waiter added, "Eef mon
sieur once tries Ze ripe oleef he VIII
neVair want to eat Ze green one again.
The passenger ate three or four or
them and has never cared for green
ones since The olive-groWers of South
ern California are just now engaged
in educating the far East up to a
knowledge of the many excellent quail
tiles of the olive in its ripe state, and
while the task may be dilatOry in its
action. it must become ultimately sue
cessful. There is no good rea-
son why Americans should eat indi-
gestible green olives just because Eng
lishmen have been doing SO Tor three
centuries.
THE KILLING OF SEALS.
Los Angeles Herald: DR.. Jordan OF
the Stanford University is to go to
Alaska again this summer to meet the
British Governments representatives,
who make reports year by year about
the seal herds of the Northern Pacific.
Charles S. Hamlin, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury. is not informed under
what instructions DR.. Jordan is to act
but says he lis to observe the habits
of the seal and study the methods en-
ployed by the seal hunters.
In the interests of science it is hoped
that DR.. Jordan will set out for the
north early in the season. Unless dis-
patch is made it may be too late to OBJ
serve much of the habits of the SEALS
As to the methods employed by the
hunters, that is not SO important, as it
is a matter of record covering period
of 800 years.
When the new world first became
known TO Europeans seals abounded in
hundreds of spots all the way from
Alaska to near the South Pole There
were few scientific people of the college
professor type in those days on the
high seas to study closely the habits OF
the seals but there were hundreds OF
bold British adventurers full OF the
same instincts of thrift which to-day
animate the Canadian pelagtc seal
hunter Theirs are the same instincts
as those of other classes OF pirates
They employed the same methods 3oU
years ago that they employ to-day. IL
is very simple. The main point Is TO
kin our seal An Irish head al Donny-
brook fair would have as even a chance
to escape whacking as the seal has TO
escape death. 1t was not a question OF
sex. age or condition of pregnancy with
your bushwhacker of the sea.
BE REASONABLE.
Marysville Appeal Nothing so un-
settles the manufacturing industries of
the country as a pending change in the
tariff. The manufacturer does not
know what he will have to pay for the
raw material which he is to import for
use in his manufacturing nor is he able
to fix rates until he knows what the
tariff on his class of articles is to be.
1t is this fact which delays activity in
manufacturing and must delay it until
the new tariff law can get into effect
and the enormous accumulation of for
eign goods which are now being
brought in are absorbed. People who
are complaining that business activity
and consequently prosperity did not
begin with the 9th of March ought to
understand this and cease complaining.
AFTER SEVEN YEARS.
Oakland Tribune: After seven
years fight Harvard University has
given way 10 a woman, and has just
decided to admit her to the divinity
school In olden times according to the
history of Jacob. the man had to wait
seven years before the woman gave
way.
FINE FEATHERS AND BIRDS.
San Diego Union: When the woman's
congress, which has just closed its ses-
sion at san Francisco. meets again, the
members will probably be a little more
careful as to whom they may invite to
take part in their proceedings. The
mere fact that a man has a tawny
skin, wears Oriental clothing and can
talk about various 'isms," does not
necessarily made him a suitable guest
of a congress of decent women. He
NAV be a disreputable, foul-mouthed
blackguard in spite of his brilliant plu-
mage and supposed mental gifts The
mem bers of the womans congress will
not forget, another time, that humanity
abroad has its scum, and that the same
precautions that are used TO keep out
a common American vagabond might
as well be employed in the case of for
egnu disreputables.
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH COG
Giles?
Los Angeles Express: There is a
plague of gnats about this season of
the year that is very trying on the
eyes The same annoyance has been
experienced for some months in San
Francisco, and so effective has become
the influence of the wheelmen of that
city that bugologists there have set to
work to see if some gnaticide cannot be