The record-union., 1897-06-25
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
0f the State and the Coast on Sub
iects of Living and News
Interest.

Chino Champion: State Labor COM
missioner Fitzgerald seems TO nave d
rather limited vision, or is not Wen
roe+ed on the condition of labor IN CAL
ifornia- if he is correctly reported. Ihe
Associated Press says that on ms re-
turn from an inspection of the cono1-
tion of labor in the beet fields ABOUT
Jacksonville. Pleasanton, Alvarado ana
Salinas he declared: II find that be-
tween % and 9S per cent. of all the Ia
bor used in the beet fields of Califor-
MIA is Japanese and Chinese, with the
Chinese fast going to the wall as
against the competition of japanese.
That condition is probably true OF the
places visited, but should not be assert
ed of the whole of California. on the
beet fields of Chino, Anaheln, Alanl-
tos and Hueneme no Chinese or Jap
anese are employed, and the acreage
at these places probably equals thal
of the northern points. The percen-
tage of Chinese and Japanese labor IN
California beet fields must therefore
fall below 80 per cent. instead of 30
to 9S per cent. No California COM
munity. or the State at large, will ever
reap the full benefit from the beet su-
gar industry so long as cooie labor is
employed.
PEACEFUL.
Santa Barbara News: If the lead
ing countries of Europe were not SO
large and if it was not as difficult a
thing in these modern times to go to
war, they would be fighting at home
and abroad as persistently as the lit
tie half-breed republics of Central
America continually do. Only the
United States is a great, big, power
full country, peaceful at heart and
through and through.
A CLEAR ROAD.
Santa Rosa Democrat: The Demo-
cratic Senators are standing out of the
way of the Republican party's great
relief measure. There is just enough
opposition to the progress of the tariff
through the Senate to make record.
This is we'll. Republican assurances
of returned prosperity through higher
taxes and less money have been so
widely credited that no measure of bet
ter times could be accepted as sutf1-
cient while this combination scheme is
untried. 1t is likely these "wretched
times" are to become worse before
they grow better. The higher. tax
and less money statesmen have con-
trolled the Government for more than
q third of a century, all the time on
the idea that the people are not taxed
enough and have too much money.
During all of this long period the ef-
fects Of legislation always to the same
end have been visible in the accumula
ton of the wealth of the country in a
few hands and the growing impover-
ishment of the people. The people,
again and again deceived, betrayed
and disheartened," are to submit to
one more experiment with their credu-
lity. The Republican party, in power
in all parts of the country, must lift
the country out of the dire wretched-
ness into which it has been plunged by
Republican measures, or confess to
utter failure and perish from among
parties.
CORRECTED STATEMENT.
Santa Ana Blade: Some days ago
Labor Commissioner E. L. Fitzgerald
telegraphed to Washington to the eff
feet that in the large sugar beet fields
in California % per cent. of the labor
employed is Japanese, and that as mat
ters stand the new industry is hardly
of any benefit to white laborers. This
statement was challenged, and Mr..
Fitzgerald started out to investigate.
He found out his mistake after visiting
Watsonville, Pleasanton and other
towns, and Straightaway called back
his rash remarks. The truth in the
case is comparatively few foreigners
are employed in the fields. And as a
matter of fact, the sugar beet business
encourages the best of all forms of
labor, viz: that in which the farmer
eXpends his own labor on his own land.
A MISFIT GLOBE.
Tu1are Register: Tt was a little hu-
initiating that only day or two after
California papers had INDUCED them
selves in the same old felicitation be-
cause We do not have cyclones to have
an earthquake come along and topple
half the chimneys off half a dozen Cal
jfornia towns, wreck brick walls and
unplaster houses, but somehow it hap
pens that pride comes before fall.
To be sure the disasters from earth
quakes are not so serious as from cy-
clones, that is, not in California, but
poor Tehuantepec, in Mexico, a town
of $4,000 people, was totally wrecked