The record-union., 1897-08-24
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

trade, free-silver, calamity -hOWling yell
low journal Examiner is finally COM
PEELED to admit that times are i'm
proving. Hear it, THE gold fields are
not the only parts of California that
are giving hope and courage TO the
people. The fruit and grain crops are
turning out abundant and of good quail
ity, and prices are going up. Millions
Of dollars are coming into the State
for our products, and the producers are
going to have prosperous season.
There is evidently a pretty fair Install
ment Of good times on the way. AS
the Fresno Republican" says, that is
quite a pleasant paen to come from a
cons spicuous member of the chair of
Dismal Dirge Singers
OLIVE CULTURE.
Alameda Argus: One industry that
is rapidly coming TO the front in Cali
fornia and which seems certain to prove
source of great wealth is olive cul-
ture The Mckinley tariff imposed a
duty Of 25 per cent. on olives imported
in jars and barrels. That is quite
enough to stimulate the industry in
California. which had been steadily
growing as it was. The increase in
consumption is furnishing a ready mar
ket. Not so many years ago olives
were not popular relish except in the
families of the very well-to-do and in
high class restaurants. Now they are
on almost every table. Their health
fulness is coming to be understood, and
they are regarded more as regular
toll Of tot hor Itch yafxy
large area of California will produce
olives. They were first raised in guam
tity about the old missions and down
Santa Barbara way, which created for
time the idea that Southern Califor-
MIA was best adapted for them but
they grow equally we'll in Central Cali
fornia.
CALIFORNIA OR KLONDIKE.
Placer Herald: To go to the Alas
kan El Dorado and stay for the min
ing season costs ST 900 and ten months
wait. For less money than that you
can prospect the blue hills of the Gold
en- State and be sure of good wages.
For that amount a small farm could
be bought and ere the months rolled
around there would be a golden har-
vest brought from the ground by the
sunlight's pick and the rainfall's
shovel. The energy, pluck and ambi-
tfon necessary to survive on the Yu-
kon would bring a good income in any
county in California Here is society,
school and contentment and less vaiu-
able than these. moderate wealth for
those with the talent of the money
maker. Here no man starves, and no
man need make utter shipwreck of his
fortune. In the Klondike country there
are none Of these, but for all priva-
ton, and for few. some gold
a BULL MARKET.
Vacaville Reporter: When the farm
er is making money the market is a
bull market. The farmer. who is never
benefited by special legislation, is en-
ioying an inning and spreading sun
shine in every direction by reason Of
being able to buy according to his ne
cessities, a pasttime denied him for
several years
STRIKERS PERMANENTLY EN-
JOINED
Los Angeles Times: Judges Stowe and
Collier yesterday handed down an opin-
ion in the injunction case against the
coal miners in the Pittsburg district,
affirmatory of the preliminary injunc-
ton, and making it permanent. The eff
feet of this judicial decision, so far as ap-
pears from the dispatches, is to restrain
the strikers % from trespassing upon
the property of the mine-owners, and
(2) from marching in bodies for the pur-
pose of intimidating the men who are
at work or who desire to work in the
mines.
The abstract justice of this restrain
ing order from the court is obvious to
any unprejudiced mind 1t should re-
quire no court decision to teach men
that they have neither legal nor moral
other men for any purpose. The rights
of private property are absolute and
sacred, whether they are vested in a
or an individual. The striking
miners have no more right to invade
the premises of the mine-owners than
the latter have to trespass upon the
homestead premises of their humblest
employees. The well-established prin-
ciple that a mans house is his castle
applies alike to rich and poor. 1t must
be maintained inviolate at any cost. 1t
is matter for wonder and for concern
that any person claiming intelligence
and uprightness can dispute so well-es-
tablished a principle.
The proposition that every man has
an inalienable right to labor for his daily
bread, and to be protected by the law
in the exercise of that right, is also so
obvious that it should need no defense.
Unless this right to earn a subsistence
by honest toll be guaranteed to all citi-
zens. civil law fails in one of it's most
vital functions. and republican gov
ernment is a failure. The order of the
court restraining the strikers from in
those who desire to work is
therefore in accordance with abstract
Justice and the fundamental rights of
man.
The striking miners in the Pennsyl-
vania coal regions unquestionably have
grievances of a more or less serious
nature. Severe competition has forced
the price of coal to a low figure, and
wages have been forced down in con-
sequence TO a point which entails
hardship and suffering upon the miner
The conditions of existence in the min
ing regions are hard enough at the
best. There should be some way of
ameliorating these conditions, and no
doubt some way will eventually be
found The strikers have thus far con-
Quoted themselves with more than
usual moderation. So long as they
continue to do so, they will retain a
large share of public sympathy. in 50
far as their cause is manifestly just
But in order to retain this share of
public sympathy they must observe
the limitations of law. Their right to
work or not to work is unquestioned
But they must concede to others and