The record-union., 1897-09-01
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects of Living News
Interest.

Tulare Register: w H Mills of
the southern Pacific Company, with
more goodness of heart than soundness
! of discretion, recently advised the
public that the special agents of that
company who had been sent to examine
| the Trinity County mining grounds,
had reported that the discoveries of
metal Were in pockets and that the
! great lush for that county was not
justified. This has caused the howlers
to raise the cry that the Southern Pa
| ciic has some uIterior motive for wish
ing 10 keep prospectors out of Trinity
County, and that Trinity has been
/ graImt0usly given black eye by Mr..
Mills and the company he serves 50
faithfully. A grosser piece of nonsense
could not be ventured by any one. as
the Southern Pacific Comapny stands
ready to practically vacate any piece
of its property upon which deposit
of gold is found. However, Mr.. Mills
was wrong in sending out the warning
he did 1t was marciful, perhaps, but
against sound public policy, for it is
only by such crazes that the earth can
be ransac cked and its hidden treasures
found. Some will find, many will
lose ell they have staked, but the
worlds gold product Will be substan-
TALLY increased, and that will be
boon to humanity. There is more
virtue in crazes than some people
dream of.
ANOTHER BLOW.
Alameda Encinal: Another hole has
been knocked in the County Govern
ment Aact This time it is the Superior
Judge of Riverside County who has
found a flaw in that mucn- DOasted
piece of venal legislative architecture.
If the whole thing were knocked out
it would be no great loss. 1t is nothing
but q piece of special legislation, under
the guise of a general law classifying
the counties, but making just as many
separate classes as there are separate
! Counties 1t is an Insult to common
sense to call it general legislation of
the character contemplated by the
Constitution.
A LITTLE OVERDONE.
Los Angeles Express: The cheerful
news comes from Pine Bluff, Ark, that
a negro was lynched in that neighbor-
hood the night before last. and that
six other negroes would probably meet
thte same fate within the next twenty
four hours.
1t seems that one T. L. Johnson. who
is described as "a prominent white
man. was "brutally cut at negro
dance last Saturday. Johnson died
from the effects of his wounds, and the
wholesale and retail lynchings outlined
in the foregoing were a part of the Sc
quential programme
1t should be understood that none of
the negroes We're charged with the
crime for which lynching is said to be
the only cure. No white woman's life
and honor were involved. Johnson had
simply attended a negro dance, got into
a row, and was given the worst of 1t.
At the risk of being charged with ig-
norance of the rules of etiquette and
the social customs that prevail in the
neighborhood of Pine Bluff, Ark, the
| Express would respectfully inquire
what "a prominent citizen" was doing
at a negro dance? Is it not fair to
presume that the aforesaid prominent
| citizen" intruded where he was not
wanted, and that he himself was to
! blame for the fatal termination of his
unsaemly visit? Just suppose, by way
of comparison, that "a prominent ne
gro had intruded upon a white mans
dance?
The Express" has no desire to die
tate the rules and customs governing
such matters in the South but it real
lly looks as if the scale is a trifie un-
fair The lynching of one negro and
the promised lynching of six others, be-
cause a white man got killed at a ne
gro dance, is an overdOne proposition
To be sure, the negroes might be pro-
hibited from having dances. This would
remove temptation from the way of the
prominent white men" and, perhaps
save a great many lives. But the sew
en-for-one business will never do, in
any event.
ADMITS THE FACT.
Fresno Republican,: The midnight
wall of the calamity shrieker is grad
ually but certainly being changed to
harvest hymns and paeans of rejoicing.
Read this:
"At last the seemingly endless night
mare is over. The people have resolved
to go to work and confine politics to
their leisure hours. Capital has decided
that timidity can be carried on to eX-
cess, and that it is time for little cour-
age. Merchants are flOcking into New
York to buy goods and lambs with rich
virgin fieeces are focking into Wall
street to get shorn. The wheels are
beginning to hum again and the sun is
shining. The world has been reviling
America long enough. Let US show
it that the electric nerves and the
mighty muscles that made this nation
the envy of the earth eight years ago
are still here"
The above is not from the columns of
some irresponsible Republican news
paper" but is the editorial utterance Of
the New York Journal" a paper that
predicted immediate and desperate ca
lamity in the event of a Republican vic
tory last fall.
The calamityites may qufbble as
much as they please about the causes
of prosperity, but those sufficiently in
telIigent to come in out of the wet
when it rains no longer pretend to deny
that the long-expected era of better
times has arrived And quibble as they
may. good times and Republican ad-
ministration are here together They
are travelling cheerfully along the same
highways and everybody is happy ex-
ceptfng the false prophets and even
they are busy making hay while the
sun shines.
A DEMOCRATIC ADMISSION.
Orovlle Mercury: Here, there and
everywhere are glad tidings of mort
cages being lifted by farmers. owing
TO the good prices received for wheat.
Business men, too, at the Bay have
prospered on account of the rush 10
the gold fields, to reach which meant