The record-union., 1897-01-19
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on Sub
iects of Living and News
Interest.

IeiNeiSlue fTeSS. Ine Dank 1allureS
in the Northwest and the consequent
going to pieces of various business en-
terprises dependent on them are not al
together an evil. If the banks and the
business firms were so shaky that they
could not stand, it was better that they
should tumble all at once and the ground
be cleared of the ruins. 1t is healthier
for financial conditions that there
should be fewer banks and business
firms and those entirely sound and
strong than that there should be great
number of unsubstantial ones.
THAT HOLIDAY.
Alameda Argus: The Governor in
declaring Saturday to be a legal holiday
so that people may celebrate the defeat
of the funding bill, has performed an
absurd act. II the defeat is as signal as
the discontinue of the Persians at Their
mopylae and a perfectly good thing all
around, there is still no justification for
stopping the wheels of industry and the
movement of business to listen to
chronic orators tell us what we already
know about it, or to glorify newspaper
that would cruelty every other interest
as it does the railroad interest, if its
spite or cupidity so dictated.
1T SHOULD BE SCRUTINIZED.
Los Angeles Express: 1t will do we'll
for the United States Senate to go slow
on the arbitration treaty concocted by
Secretary Olney and Lord Salisbury.
If nothing else demanded painstak-
ing analysis of every section of it, the
undue haste and feverish desire of the
Administration alone should prompt
the investigation and discussion. 1t
has been heralded by the friends of the
Administration as a noble measure, on
the side of humanity and enlighten
ment, and a harbinger of brooding
peace that would revolutionize the
world and bring about a general good
feeling everywhere.
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AS far as the Venezuelan dispute may
be concerned, the arbitration treaty
may subserve a good purpose but for a
general treaty it is full of dangers, as
has been pointed out by that we'll
known constitutional lawyer, Hon. Ben
jamin F. Tracy of New York He has
studied the matter carefully and de-
clares that the statement of Secretary
Olney that it is an extension of the
Monroe doctrine is far from being the
truth. In fact, he says that from the
construction of two or three sections
there is definite abrogation of the Mon
roe doctrine, and under them Great
Britain could seize and hold any terri
tory she chose. He lucidly points out
how, under Section XII. of the treaty,
Great Britain could gain possession of
Cuba and we would by our treaty be
precluded from saying or doing any
thing against it. General Tracy has
made no superficial study of the treaty
DISPENSE WITH THE SUPERNU-
MERARIES.
Los Angeles Times: The Assembly
caucus did we'll to set on foot an in
vestigation of the alleged stuffing of
the payroll of that body 1t is evident
that the subject imperatively demands
investigation. There is something
radically wrong in the system or the
practice which permits men to be placed
on the payroll of the State without
their knowledge, and to draw pay from
the public funds without having rem
dered any service therefor Not only is
the system or the practice which per-
mits this abuse radically wrong: 1t is
vicious, dishonest and disreputable. Men
who draw money from the State for
services not performed are in a moral
if not legal sense guilty of thevery.
The line Of demarcation between them
and common thieves is so fine as not
to be visible to the unaided vision.
And those who appoint or assist in ap-
pointing such supernumerary attaches
of the Legislature are no less culpable
than those who are directly benefited
by the steal.
GOOD TINE COMING.
Salinas Index: The time is coming
when the hired man" on a farm will
have to be an electrician and machinist
He will have to look after the dynamo
which lights the barns, yards and dwell
ings, and furnishes a current of low ten
sion to work pumps, run straw cutter,
lathe, grindstone, saws and thrasher.
When tillers of the soil must be electri-
clans and skilled mechanics, there will
be less difficulty in keeping the boys on
the farm.
BEETS WITH AN "IF."
sorted to for the purpose of enriching
such seems to be the
trend of opinion just now-then evident
ly a better protection should be given
to beet sugar, for there is nothing that
can in the near future give so much
wealth to the country. Regardless, how
ever, of what the General Government
may do the State of California should
lose no time in bringing about the en-
of that most important in
1ustry. There should not be a dissent
ing vote on the proposition to submit to
a vote of the people the matter of paying
| or = cents a pound for all the beet
sugar produced in the State, made from
beets for which S4 so a ton shall have
been paid for standard beets. If on the
top of this the General Government |
shall impose a protective duty so much |
the better. but that duty should be no
reason for the non-action of this State |
but, on the other hand. SO much more |
reason for action. If the State would do |
this it would make it the sugar-produc- |
ing State of the world. Then it would |
De that cities would grow and an era of
rue prosperity would dawn on the coun !
Try. If this plan should be inaugurated |
with the pledge of being kept up for ten |
years and given to factories until say |
81 100000 a year subsidy should be |
reached we would soon be supplying at |
east $50, 1000 900 of the 500, 100000 now |
paid for sugar by this country to for |
,ign nations. Is not such consumma-
ion devoutly to be prayed for?
rIr. Foster Failing Rapidly.
T. 6 Foster, foreman of the Record |
Unions" pressroom for nearly thirty |
vaars was quite low yesterday. A |