The record-union., 1897-10-04
VOICE OF THE PRESS
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

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| Alameda Argus: If a craving dock
is built at Goat Island by the Govern
ment that will be a great thing for
all the region round about, not except
ing Alameda and Oakland. The dock
viii cost millions, will be the center of
immense activity in ship repairing, and
will make the contiguous shores the.
favorite abiding place for great army
Of workmen. The Government needs
dock, and there is no other place so fit
for its location. Goat Island is now
useless and there has for years been
an opinion that 1t was a mistake not
| to turn it over to the railroads as a
| terminus; but if it is now needed for a
dock, the omission to give it away was
very fortunate
CAN'T BE CONSISTENT.
! Redding Free Press: No one expects
the esteemed Examiner to be con-
sistent on any proposition. In the first
place it is not the policy Of that paper,
and secondly, with the great wealth
of Mr.. Hearst. no such jewel rare is de-
sired. Yet it is hardly just, leaving
consistency TO one side, to assail the
Administration for its decision to. sell
the Union Pacific Railroad on foreclos
ure of mortgage. The Examiner"
| fought the funding bill bitterly and was
an advocate of foreclosure. Our Con-
gressmen, except one, and he was de-
feated for reelection voted against the
funding bill in response TO popular de-
mand. Congress defeated the measure,
and it now becomes the duty of the At
| torney- General, with the consent of the
| President, to make the best terms he
cam and if report be true, he has de-
cided to follow the instructions of Con-
gress and foreelose the mortgage, the
| Government losing by that act about
| S25, 100000. But why should the HEx-
aminer'' blame the Administration for
carrying out a measure approved by
that paper?
AT HOGANSVILLE.
Riverside Globe: That Hogansville
affair. in which respectable citizen
was brutally shot down from ambush
in the darkness because he was Re
publican and office holder, is giving the
Ohio Democrats good deal of anxiety
just now. They had expected to pull
into the Democratic camp in that State
a number of colored votes through GER
tain Misrepresentation regarding the
| lynching of colored man in Ohio, but
now that the colored men see that the
/ Democratic party of the South still con-
siderss Republicanism and office holding
a sufficient warrant fort assassina-
tion of scolored men, they are in no
hurry to get into the ranks of that
party.
KEEP HER OUT.
Alameda Encinal: If there is no law
by which such pestilential anarchists
as Louise Michel and her ilk can be
kept out of the country, then there
should be one. While there is room in
this country for all self-supporting
friends of liberty there Is no room for
the Host and Michel classes. They do
net know the difference between lib
| erty and license and will never learn
it except at the mouth Of a musket or
the end of a rope.
HAPHAZARD WORK.
Mother Lode Magnet: At the East,
in New York and New Jersey where
they have been building good roads for
a number of years, it is claimed that
! % per cent. has been added to the
value of rural property by this con-
struc5ion. Certain it is that good roads
are worth paying for and equally GER
tain it is that they cannot be had with
not paying for them. The system of
haphazard road work" laxly applied
without any definite purpose, will not
provide the kind Of roads needed In
connection with the building of a new
courthouse, most of the objections in
this section allege that the old build
ing will do for couple of years or
more, or until the countys main thor
oughfares are put in passable condition.
If the Supervisors really desire good
roads, why not again submit the propo-
sition of bonding the county, to the peo-
I pie and order a new registration? Then
all who have lived in the county a
/ sufficient length of time can vote, and
we feel confident that the bonding
proposition will be carried by large
majority.
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII.
Marysville Democrat: There seems
to be very little doubt that the pro-
posed annexation of Hawaii during the
coming session of Congress will be rati-
fed by the Senate. There may be
some opposition to early action but
there evidently is majority in favor
1t can be reached in the regular order.
There quite likely will be some con-
tention as to the form of Government
to provide for the islands while III
territorial form. OF course the Gov
ernor will be appointed by the Presi-
dent, as also will the members of the
Senate, or Upper House, while mem
bers of the Lower House will be elected
by the people. of the Territory. This
will continue only until an election can
be held in due form, when q State
Government viii be formed, a Con-
gresham and Senators elected and the
State duly admitted The reader will
remember that it was President Harri-
son who first proposed annexation Of
Hawaii and that it was Grover Cleve-
land who delayed the proposed work
four years or more. 1t has been the
policy of the Republican party for
many years past to reach out for new
territory. 1t was under a Republican
administration that Alaska was Sc
cured. Secretary of State Seward con-
ducting the negotiations. That Terri
tory was a grand purchase, as time
has proven. therefore. let US hope that
the fertile Sandwich Islands will prove
equally valuable.
JORDAN ON DEMOCRACY.
Oakland Enquirer: If newspapers
wish to get up a symposium for the
discussion of propositions advanced by
President Jordan. they would do well
to drop the subject of hanging insane
criminals and pay attention to what
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