The record-union., 1897-09-24
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

/ be true, that they may be rash enough
/ to go to war with the United States.
/ We can only warn them that this ma
/ tfon has never been whipped.
A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT.
| Marysville Appeal: The statement is
made that Spring Valley stock and
/ other similar securities, such as street
railway, gas, etc, fell off several points
! Immediately upon the decision of Judge
/ Wallace ousting the San Francisco
/ Board of Supervisors, says the Ala
media Argus" and, continuing, says:
! 1T is very likely this is true. There
may be some who will say that such
/ depreciation was due to the demonstra-
ton that Boards of Supervisors will
hereafter be chary of faVorins corpo-
/ rations, but the fact undoubtedly is
/ that it is now seen by investors that
method has been set up by which any
enterprise dealing with the people, rs
the street railway, gas or water corpo-
rations do, may be assaulted under ju-
dicial cover and greatly injured without
redress or recourse. Nothing is so easy
as to get up hue and cry against a
corporation rich man. Give vi
able, ck-headed citizens whom it
can control and fatter into the idea
/ that the virtue of the community is en-
bodied in them, and either yenal, a
malignant or an ambitious Judge, and
any corporation having to do with
municipality through the laws may be
done to DEATH. A municipal board that
/ will not be suppliant to the newspaper
and its coadjutors, may be summarily
turned out of office and those appointed
who will be more amiable.
AS EXPECTED.
Oakland Times: AS might have been
expected, the greater Central Ameri-
can consolidation which was effected a
short time ago, and for a little while
seemed to smother the flames of civil
war, caused them to break out hotter
than ever a little later. Three of the
Republics of Central America-Guate-
mala, Honduras and Nicaragua-are
now struggling with revolutionists, and
a fourth, namely, Salvador appears to
be also on the brink of trouble. The
volcanic politics of these little republics
cannot be extinguished by covering
| them with any such easy device as a
general government.
FREE PUBLIC MARKET.
San Jose Mercury: The San Francisco
Farmers Club, which is taking the lead
| in the advocacy of a free public mar
ket on the San Francisco water fro1t,
has issued an exhaustive circular eX-
planning the merits of the proposed en-
terprise and showing the practicability
~
methods which have been in operation
for many years, whereby producers of
perishable goods are forced to place
thmselves at the mercy Of commission
merchants, many of whom are dishon-
| est, the promoters of the free public
| market narrate in detail what will be
| the working of the new distributing
agent between producer and purchaser.
The State law authorizing the Board
Of Harbor Commissioners to establish
and maintain a free public market and
providing for the expenses and regula-
| tions of the same, is quoted, after
which the pamphlet shows how the en-
terprise would benefit the honest COM
mission merchant as well as the pro-
ducer and genefal public
1t is proposed to set aside sufficient
space upon the water front, convenient
for the loading and unloading of both
steamships and cars, which shall be a
common terminal point for all the per-
ishable products consigned to any per-
son in San Francisco. The point Sc
lected must be convenient of access to
the public, so that those desiring to re-
move products for sale elsewhere could
obtain them more conveniently than
from the several stations now main
tained by the transportation companies.
Within the market space will be as
signed to producers, commission mer-
chants or others desiring to sell produce
for account of producers only.
GOING UP.
The Mail of Woodland: Everything
that is to eat is going up. but there is
no Improvement in the wages that are
necessary to buy it.-Democrat.
A very large percentage of those in
enforced idleness through the latter
part of Cleveland's administration now
find steady employment. In the State
of New York $40, 900 belonging TO the
trades unions alone are at work. That
ultra free trade. free silver organ, the
/ New 1OTk JOuIIdl Ol d TeC0ul Qdls
said: 1t is estimated, by labor statis-
ticians, men who keep track of the la
Dor demand as closely as Wall street
watches the market, that not over
per cent of the working class is now
in idleness Six months ago 40 pei
cent. of toilers were out of work
There were then nearly 100000 depend
ent on friends for charity, or drawing
their little savings to get bread fol
their families. To-day less than 1000t
in Greater New York are out of work
and some of these are of the shiftless
classes who would not work under any
circumstances. More capitalists con-
template the construction of compart-
ment houses, factories and suburban
homes for rental than at any time
within five years.
The return of prosperity has brought
to them confidence in real estate as ar
investment Buildings to the value o.
probably $4,000, 600 have recently beer
begun in this city.
WILL SPAIN FIGHT?
Stockton Mail: The newspaper cor
respondents have it that Spain is col
lecting her feeble strength to fight thi:
nation. The thing is not impossible
but it is highly improbable. This
Spaniard hates us, and we have little
love for him. Something of blustel
and warlike talk there is in the press
of either country. And IN the war OF
words the Spanish jingo is a good
match for the American ass of tbs
same stripe. Yet, when all is said anC
done, war does not seem likely.
The statesmen of Spain are not fools