The record-union., 1897-04-14
VOICE OF qHE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on Sub
jects of Living and News
Interest.

Interest.
| Chico Chronicle Record: The new
administration has already been forced
seriously to consider the necessity of q
bond issue before it has well warmed
itself in office. 1t is threatened with
al aggregate shortage in revenues at
the end of it's first fiscal year of over
S15S, 10000 900 if the Dingley bill becomes
a law, and all suspended appropria-
! tons, past and present, are made avail
able.
A VERY POOR ROAD LAW.
| Marysville Appeal: The so-called
Clark road law, a product of haste and
heedlessness during the closing hours
of the Legislature, will doubtless re-
quire judicial action to determine it's
right to exist. There is SO much about
it that requires more than it's wording
to execute its provisions that there is
very little prospect of but few Boards
of Supervisors taking cognizance of it.
1t first provides that an election for
road trustees shall be held in each road
district on the last Saturday in May of
| each year. There shall be three trus-
| tees for each district. Two of them
shall receive $50 per annum and the
other, who acts as Secretary, $50 per
| annum. Such elections cost money
and the provisions for them in the Act
are extremely ambiguous. For the
| operation of such law in Yuba Coun-
| ty, as an instance, the total revenues
| of majority of the districts would be
| consumed by the salaries of the trus-
| tees and a little more too if forty cents
| on the hundred remains the tax for
| road purposes. The Clark law, if it
| should by some misadVenture be de-
clared constitutional, would become a
positive menace to the poorer districts.
| The fact Of the matter is that most of
| the poorer districts need and should
| have assistance from the richer ones.
| The bonding feature of the Clark law,
| which permits Of indiscriminate and
| bunglesome work by the trustees is
the clause which clearly establishes it
as a piece of buncombe beyond intelli-
gent comprehension. It is to be hoped
| that there will be an early determine
ton of the legal points involved SO that
Yuba County can get to work along
| the lines indicated by the merchants
Of this city in their talk before the Su-
pervisors last Monday.
NO DANGER.
San Jose Herald: There is no dam
ger of giving California food products
a bad reputation by legal insistency
upon their purity. In the long run it
will improve their standing in the mar
kets of the Union and the world Any
one will have more confidence in the
output of an establishment that is
known to be under strict supervision.
Besides the character of our products
under such supervision will make and
retain a reputation for them. Those
who deprecate the agitation of the pure
food matter lest it hurt trade are taking
a very narrow view of the subject.
A COMPARISON.
Modesto Herald: 1t is the fashion,
don't you know, to portray the farmer
man as the most abused of all men,
hence it is worthy of note that while
manufactured products remain at the
Ilowest tariff reform" ebb cereals have
for months commanded and continue to
command very profitable prices. This
is true, too, of beef and mutton. so that
the Zimmerman is much better off,
comparatively, than the great manufac-
turing element of our population.
AN OBSERVATION.
Colusa Sun: There is something in
the idea that women are held response
BILE for their children going astray when
the fathers and male relatives are ex-
cused for being really at the bottom of
the whole business A man who can
truthfully say he is better than his
mother tried to make him, who feels
his mothers efforts and motives were
useless and deserved censure, who can
turn in derision from the memory of
all her heart-aches for his welfare is
the right fellow to stand on the corners
and jeer and poke fun at the mother.
wife and daughter who tries to have
better influence thrown around the boys
of our land no matter if that trial
prove futile.
AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY.
Marysville Democrat: At the next
general election in this State the peo-
pie will say whether they desire a
Constitutional Convention to be called
by the next Legislature or not The
present organic law of the State has
| many defects, but it remains to be
seen whether a Constitutional Conven-
ton will remedy them without intro
ducing others equally or more vicious.
Willows Promoter.
A Constitutional convention is an
expensive luxury and one that should
be avoided unless the demand is imper-
alive. The last one held in this State
cost the taxpayers about S1S0000, the
members and employees being in ses-
sion five months. If a convention could
| be arranged in the form of a commits
sion, the membership not to exceed
eighteen persons good probably would
result. To elect two delegates in each
| Congressional District and four at
large would make a convention that
would accomplish beneficial work in a
| reasonable time. Experience has
proven that large bodies are unwieldy
and expensive, especially the class of
men who rule conventions and legisla-
tive sessions in California.
BEET SUGAR.
Los Angeles Herald: Reports from
all parts of the State show an increased
interest in beet sugar, and a largely in
creased acreage. Every dollar that can
be realized from home made sugar
| without the high tariff is equivalent to
two dollars If given in exhange for a
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