The record-union., 1897-04-03
VOICE OF TEE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on Sub
iects of Living and News
Interest.

! IN the announcement that the Presi-
| dent will appoint a commission to in
Quire into the death of Ruiz Ruiz
was naturalized citizen of the United
States and was imprisoned in a Cuba
dungeon by the Weylerites on the
charge of being in sympathy with the
insurgents. He lay there fourteen
months and suddenly died. The death
savored suspiciously of murder. The
| appointment of a commission to in
vestigate the treatment of one of the
citizens of this nation is indicative of
foreign policy that the country will
hail with acclamations of extreme sat
| isfaction.
LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER AND
STOP ABUSE.
San Diego World: Every person own
ing property in California is interested
in its welfare. They should not be
lighting and abusing each others in
terests. They should pull together and
stand lighting with a solid front the
attacks of outsiders who are Jealous of
CALIFORNIA; great natural wealth and
resources. c. P. Huntington is one of
| the largest property owners in Cali
| fornla, and yet he has been most
shamefullv abused by Californians.
whose interests he has done more to
advance than any other one man, by
outside money which he has caused to
| be invested in California Enterprises
| We say that the time has arrived for
| all true Cal1fornianS to stand together
and stop abusing its own citizens. Let's S
push California's welfare upward and
onward, and fight the onslaughts of
the outsider with a solid front
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION
San Diego Union: The report that the
Hawaiian Government is about to make
a formal application for the annexa-
| ton of the islands it not unwelcome
news. 1t is reasonably plain from re-
cent events that sooner or later the
question of this country's policy toward
Hawaii must come up and be definite
ly settled. and it might as we'll be dis
| posed of now, when there is a good
sound Rer publican administration at
! Washington. Let the application be
/ made by all means, and then let the
! United States Senate discuss it. and
/ by the time that body has got through
with it the American people will know
more about Hawaii than about Massa-
chusetts and Plymouth Rock In the
/ first place, the popular notion that
those islands, far out in the middle of
! the Pacific, are an American colony,
will be very effectually dispelled. and
the fact viii become apparent that the
/ Hawaiians are diStinctively foreign
people, or rather several foreign peo-
! pies. The islands have a population
of less than 10000, and of that num-
! ber only about 1900 are Americans
There are. however, 24,000 japanese
to say nothing of Portuguese and Chin
ese and the cream of humanity gener-
ally, in addition TO the islanders them
selves. On what conceivable grounds
consistent with the policy and prece-
dents of the Uuited States, the an
nexation of this foreign territory. thus
populated by foreigners, is to be asked
remains to be seen; but it is plain that
the annexationists propose to test the
matter, and it is probably just as well
for them to do SO now There is no
+ likelihood that the Mckinley admins
! tration Will make any blunders about
/ Hawaii.
! TO BE THANKFUL FOR
Santa Rosa Democrat: No other
]
employment, or such a variety of indus
/ trial products, as California. Ma other
State. therefore, has so many chances
of prosperity. In seven or eight States
a failure in the cotton crop involves all
/ their people in the greatest distress. In
other States untimely frosts nip the
hopes Of whole communities of tobacco
growers, or droughts or floods or in
sects blight and blast tens of thous-
ands of square miles of wheat fields to-
gether, or some other adverse visitation
/ smites and destroys; and all is lost
when part is lost for all is staked on
single results. There is no other State
who're any one great product is as Sc
cure as again seasonable mischance as
all the great products are here. Cali
fornians have the advantage in the
variety of the fruits of their industry
| and in the safety of each variety
against the accidents of growth and
harvesting. The people of California
are not as prosperous as they ought to
be; but their condition is greatly bet
ter than that Of any other people in the
United States, and in the very nature
of things their prospects must continue
more promising.
A JUST MEASURE.
Alameda Encinal Governor Budd
has signed one bill which will be well
coined as a law by all right thinking
and right-acting men. This law pro-
vides that IF any Grand Jury shall in
it's report comment upon any person or
official who has not been indicted by
the said Grand Jury, said comments
shall not be deemed to be privileged"
A measure of this kind has been
greatly needed for many years. The
fact is, the Grand Jury as it exists in
California to-day is too often made the
vehicle for personal and political spite,
and Grand Juries have degenerated into
common scolds. Hiding behind the
immunity of report, the most vile at
tacks are made upon citizens that can
be imagined Periodically some Grand
Jury 'roastS' county officials and 9TH
ers, accusing them of all sorts of
wrong doing, yet carefully refrains
from indicting them, knowing full we'll
that their charges will not hold water
Grand Juries have no more right to
slander man than has a private citi-
zen, and when they do it they should
be held strictly accountable. They
should be made to confine their remarks
strictly to the cases in which they find
indictments. and not be permitted to
retail every old wives tales they hear
simply for the purpose of gratifying
spite or making the people think they
have been doing vast amount of work
and have unearthed a terrible state of
affairs, when as a matter of fact they
have done nothing of the kind
/ C,IN ID