The record-union., 1897-04-21
VOICE OF qHE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression OF
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
iectS of Living and News
Interest.

Interest.
Fresno Expositor: A San Francisco
contemporary remarks that the private
detective business is assuming alarming
proportions in that city. This is but
way in which to inform the world that
an increased number of blackmalle~'
have come out into the open and are
doing Legitimate business upon appar-
emily legitimate lines.
WAR AND WHEAT.
Los Angeles Times: All present in
dications point to a wholesale war in
Europe, and that before many more
days have elapsed 1t cannot by1 any
possibility be averted, nor can 1t be
much longer deferred. OF course, there
is no probability of the United states
becoming involved in it, except through
a chain of events the very nearest OF
which is not now perceptible.
The United States, therefore, will
have to be the commisary of subsist-
ence for all this hurry scurry and tur-
MOL Of battle. In her peaceable atti-
tude of neutrality she will hear the
! click of the reaper and the ceaselesS
burr of the threshing machine. from
| Maine to Oregon. America Will have
to furnish not only all the wheat and
corn for all the armies outside OF
| Russia, but the salt beef and pork also.
The present decline in those articles,
therefore, must be regarded as merely
a temporary lull in the market, to be
followed by a liberal advance in prices
all over the world.
| The three States of Oregon, Wash
ington and California will therefore
| find ample marketage for their grain,
and they are the three heaviest pro-
ducers of cereals in America, when
| their population is considered. Cali
/ fornia is growing to be less of a wheat
producer every day, for the reason that
she finds fruits more profitable. But in
| Oregon and Washington there are mil
| lions of acres that produce wheat that
make twenty pounds more bread to
the barrel of flour than any grown in
| this State: and those lands are liable
to be titled for wheat for many years
/ TO come, unless sugar beets should
| prove as profitable there as they have
done here
But that is the size of the PROPOSE
ton. Men who fight on the battle
| field cannot work in the harvest. And
while Europe frets under the sulphur
! peaceably engaged with her work at
the plow, the loom, and the anvil.
| Thus may it ever be.
| CALIFORNIA FRUIT GROWERS
AND PROTECTION.
| San Diego Union: II must be con-
fessed that it is rather humiliating to
note that the hopes of California fruit
growers for the adequate protection of
| their industry, are now based largely
| on the efforts which certain Demo-
cratic Senators are expected to make
| in that behalf. 1t cannot be denied
that in the preliminary stages of the
| Dingley bill before the Senate, the out
| look is not at all bright, aud the re-
ported attitude Of some Of the Republi-
can Senators toward CALIFORNIA; inter
ests is very, very far from being what
was expected The Italian importers
union of New York appears to be ex-
erting-a very considerable influence at
Washington just now, and singularly
enough the members of that body seem
|
on the Republican side of the Senate
chamber. OF course Senator Perkins
will leave nothing undone to obtain for
the fruits of this State proper recogni-
ton in the new tariff bill.
| SHOULD ACT AT ONCE
| Sonoma Farmer: The San Francisco
Board Of Health has been searching for
adulterated articles among the dealers
/ in the city and has been unable to find
any Some dealers say that they have
sent the goods back to the manufac-
| turers and others admit having shipped
| them to interior towns to be disposed
of at slaughter prices. If the result
of this investigation ultimately results
| in the adultera ted articles being palmed
off on the very people who raise and
market the genuine product, it is not
only shifting the investigation on to
other parties but it is a great injustice
1t looks as if all towns that are not Sc
provided should at once appoint boards
of health and prosecute this investiga-
ton until it will be impossible for the
vendors of such goods to find a market
in the State
A CASE OF UNDERBIDDING.
jacksonville Pajaronian: It is nc
wonder that white men are idle in this
city when they are treated as they
were by one of our beet growers a few
days since. A number of Portuguese
| went to the farmer in question and
| asked him if he had signed any con-
tract for the care OF his beets. He
| replied that he had not, whereupor
the Portuguese proposed to do the work
for 81 per ton and told the farmer tc
let him know if any one offered to do il
cheaper and they would consider the
matter before he signed the contract
This the farmer promised to do. II
was but short time until a japanese
contractor came along and the farmer
told him what the Portuguese had of
fered to do the work for, whereupor
| the Jap said that he would do it foi
971a cents. The farmer, instead OF
living up TO his word and informing the
Portuguese of the Jap's proposition
Immediately signed the contract Such
a man as this should be obliged to work
by the day at Jap's wages and live with
them. He belongs to that race if he
isn't of the same color
PROOF OF THE PUDDING.
Oakland Enquirer: In California, as
in most other States, the first opposi-
ton to systematic plans for building
good roads has come from the farmers
but we attribute this to lack OF knowl-
edge Of what is intended. The farmer
knows he is heavily taxed and belev.
ing that good roads cost money, he is
alarmed by the proposal to make them
often forgetting how much a bad sys-