The record-union., 1897-03-05
VOICE OF TIE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUBJ
ieCts Of Living and News
Interest.

largest tonnage of beets crushed and
the highest tonnage of sugar ever pro-
duced on this continent, and record
that is among the best in the worlds S
history of this business. The following
is the beet factory report up to b p.
m, January 18th: Hours run, 2SOS;
beets cut, 142, 169 tons; sugar produced,
1S,024 tons. AS high as 1,4OO tons Of
beets have been crushed by the factory
in a days run.
FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Contra Costa News: Northern Cali
fornia has done little or nothing to at
tract the swarm of people who are con-
coming to the State from the
have located there. This portion of the
State has been working as a unit for
years, making known its attractions,
and in consequence people of means
have located tree. This portion of the
State offers more and better induce
ments to settlers, but we have not
taken the trouble to advertise the fact,
of our advantages.
THE PRUNE.
Fresno Republican,: The Eastern de-
mand is said to be for a smaller prune
than the usual California size. The av-
erage busy mortal does not care to
take two bites at a prune, and people
whose mouths balk at lower case ''r''
naturally weaken when confronted with
the big prune of California. The prune
product of this State is all right, though
as far west as Chicago, where people
c IN
them.
POLITICAL.
Yreka Journal: If the Democrats
are fondly looking ahead for some more
fusion in 1900, they might as we'll
prepare right now for disappointment.
The editors of the Populist papers, in
convention duly assembled, solemnly
vow that they will never make another
campaign with free silver as the vital
issue, as their thunder would be stolen
by the Democrats, and Populists would
be stranded by the roadside with the
broken down, spawned
wreck of the Democratic party.
GOOD ROADS.
Alameda Argus: The movement to
secure good roads has made some pro-
gress in the present Legislature, though
not as much as it should have made. 1t
would seem that such a movement, SO
palpably for the best interest of every
body, would be carried through to the
greatest realization of success at once,
brushing away all obstacles as so
many cobwebs. But it is hindered and
delayed at every turn. 1t encounters
cupidity and greed on every
hand. The country folk, who would be
blessed by good roads above all others,
are very much set against the new
tangled idea. They think it would cost
too much, forgetting that every ten
years enough money is laid out on the
highways to build them thoroughly,
and for all time, and about all that is
is to unscientifically
throw up earth in the middle of the
wagon track. County Boards of Su-
pervisors are a great obstacle. They
realize that scientific road building
would not be political road building,
and that would make a great difference
to many of them. 1t is to be hoped that
this reform will make better headway
at future sessions.
THE SANGUILLY CASE.
Los Angeles Express: Sanguilly
should never have withdrawn his ap-
peal. Secretary Olney had no right to
ADVISE him to withdraw it. The mere
fact of pardon implies guilt and
clemency with the obligation all on the
prisoner If the contentious of San
gully and his friends were true and
they We're proven to be true, there was
no call for pardon There was an obli-
cation on his country to see to it that
his release was immediate. His ar
rest and imprisonment We're high
handed and his trials mere farces. To
permit a. pardon in this case is like
turning the other cheek to be smitten.
a SHAME.
lone Valley Echo: 1t remained for the
close Of the nineteenth century to wit
ness the Christian 90 nations of the
earth turning their battleships loose on
the Christians of Crete, who are fight
ing against the despotism of the Porte.
But the 'unspeakable Turk is in
Gebted to the bondholders of these
Christian ~ nations, and Christian
lives don't count against Moslem gold
THAT BUREAU OF SOLICITATION.
Stockton Mail: When that cut-and-
dried meeting to discuss plans for ad-
vertising Central California was called
at the rooms of the San Francisco
Board of Trade we expressed the belief
that it involved some sort of "a job, -
and that no good could come of it. our
judgment has been confirmed and our
predictions have been verified. We
IF ha 70
Board of Trade could do that would not
arouse the fears and the active opposi-
tion of the business communities of the
interior. THE Robbers Roost' is the
title by which that greedy and graSping
commercial body is known, and its
chief purpose of existence is believed to
be the systematic wrecking of country
merchants, to the end that a certain
coterie or ring in control of the asso-
citation may gobble UP the stock in trade
TO their personal enrichment. The sto-
ries they tell Of the operations of this
so-called Board of Trade are almost too
despicably dishonest to be believed, and
would not be believed if they We're not
so we'll vouched for.
1t seems that it was not this body
tHde Saiieo tiie meeting, however, Dut
another of equally doubtful reputation,
which has been attempting to foist it
self on the public for the alleged pur-
pose of doing public advertising for pri-
Vate gain. The Record Union" gives
the inside history of the meeting in COM
menting upon a Mail" editorial The
main purpose seems to have been TO give
an unsuccessful colony schemer a soft
berth and to financially assist the badly
singed advertising outfit and its rather
lame organ, the San Francisco Re
port
REASONS WHY.