The record-union., 1897-11-16
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects of Living News
Interest.

| Los Angeles Times: The suggestion
| that the State University should found
school of forestry is a good one, and
ought to be carried out. Good foresters
are badly needed and are not to be
| found. The university has absorbed
the duties Of the old Board of Forestry,
and it is therefore proper that this
work should be undertaken by the
Berkeley people. In Europe forestry is
| a most important and dignified profess
| sion, opening a field of industry TO
| thousands of young men. We are only
beginning to recognize the great i'm
| portance of forest preservation in the
arid regions, but within few years
there will doubtless be a strong demand
Tor foresters, and now is the time to
begin to educate them.
TOO EXPENSIVE.
Colusa Sun: j. A. Filcher, now the
efficient mana ger of the State Board
of Trade, but for many years a resi-
dent of Placer County, suggests to the
San Francisco Chronicle a line of
pipes from the hydraulic mines to the
tule basins, which he proposes shall be
| used as a dump for the mines. The
only impractical part of the plan is
| the cost. The hight above the tule OF
the lowest down mine would be the
greatest fall that could be utilized. The
size of the pipes would depend upon the
preSSure-the elevation. OF course II
the miners should purchase the Ameri-
can basin, for example, and lay line
OF pipes down to it the residents of the
valley would not care if they built a
mountain there. There is no engin-
eering difficulty about it. If there is
gold enough there to pay the cost the
| plan is practicable. We think it would
be too expensive. There would not Ee
the objection to it that is urged by the
valley against the dams. If they will
dump into the American basin it will
stay there. We commend the plan to
the miners and if they have plenty of
gold and want to get it out without a
| fight they had better inquire into it.
The dams will never satisfy the valley
and ought never to have been proposed.
| They form an everlasting menace to
| the property of the valley. Mr. Fitch
er proposes one great big pipe from the
tules up into the mountains somewhere
into this big one
THE PRESENT SITUATION.
Humboldt Standard: The attitude
of the opponents of the gold standard
| is undergoing a gratifying change.
Many of them are deserting the silver
/ banner and renouncfng Bryanism in
every form. Increasing prosperity and
high prices are doing good work The
Republican party is almost a unit for
the gold standard. Except in the So
called silver States the silver Republl-
cans have practically disbanded. Chair
| man Towne of Minnesota may know
where they are but no one else does
| The National Democrats to their credit.
still protest boldly and firmly against
the Populist alliance and the perver-
sion of the time-honored policy of the
Democratic party They have nomi-
mated State tickets in Ohio Kentucky.
Iowa, and Nebraska Many of them
will vote the Republican ticket; others
will vote their own ticket to emphasize
their protest.
| All is well except in that combination
Of Populists and Democrats calling it
self the regular Democratic party The
control which the Populists acquired at
the Chicago convention they still hold
They nominate the candidates and die
tate the policy of the party. They in
dorse defiantly at their State conven-
tlons the Chicago platform with all its
public dishonesty, corrupt socialism and
downright anarchy. They hold, in an
iron grasp, the party organization and
compel strong, honest men In that party
to play the ignoble part of doughfaces.
A BAD EXAMPLE.
Alameda Argus: The small Carson
boy who killed the married man with
whom his sister was infatuated is made
a good deal of hero by his school
mates and neighbors. He had pluck
and a good aim, and there may have
been cause; but it is bad to turn the
| incident into heroics. There are lots
or boys with guns, and most of them
have grievances. 1t will not conduce
to the public safety to get it into their
heads that they are justified in at
| tempting to right wrongs, real or i'm
aginary, by taking a shot at whoever
they conceive to be responsible for
them.
SILLY PREJUDICE.
Stockton Mail If there were no other
justification for the swift execution Of
theodore Durrant We feel quite sure
that the outburst of Alice Rix in yes
terday's Examiner would excuse the
Indecent haste" which gives so much
pam TO the soul of Mr. Deuprey. Rath-
er tnan to endure another inf1iction Of
TINS cheap bathos we would cheerfully
see the necks of all the murderers in
San quentin broken between suns.
one paragraph of Mrs Rix's ulula-
ton is so exquisitely absurd that If is
worth comment. She is relating her
talk with Mrs. Durrant:
She broke into wild weeping. THAT
is all | ask for-the time. the time to
prove his innocence, Oh, they are
mistaken! Why will they not believe
| that? Why not give his Innocence
the benefit of the doubt? It was all
circumstantial evidence, wasn't it? Do
you think 1t right to-oh I cannon
say it; you know what I mean-to-fo
take his life on circumstantial eyi-
dence
No. | said. not his life or any
lite | think tat is murder in the first
degree.
And so / door / would not have
said it"
Truly, here is another DanieIess come
TO judgment. This profound expositor
OF the law in petticoatS viii have ~