The record-union., 1897-07-20
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

| Oakland Tribune: When a conserva-
| tive Democratic newspaper like the
New York journal of Commerce"
SAYS business is improving, nobody can
doubt it, 1t has been saying so stead
| lily during the past month, ana, IN an
issue of a few days remarked: Ihe
business conditions of the last week
were, on the whole quite favorable.
There is no backward movement, and
there are many signs of progress, espe-
cially in the growing spirit of cheerful
ness"
MEN FOR HOUSEWORK, WHY?
Santa Rosa Press: For some time
men have been complaining that wom-
en- are gradually taking the places of
men, and doing industrial pursuits
great injury by working for much less
than men have received. Now, how
ever, it doth appear the complaint is
coming from the other side. Armenian
! boys and men are being imported in
some of the Eastern States to do the
| houseWork hitherto done by domestics
and some of the women who have been
/ employing them are going into rap
lures over them. 1t is a strange phase
of nineteenth century civilization, this
alacrity of some Americans to employ
anyone in preference to their own fell
/ lows. And they are not wholly to blame
either. In many places in the East it
is almost impossible to secure young
women to do houseWork, and so great
has been the annoyance in this regard
that women who are intensely Ameri-
can in every fiber of their nature have
wished it possible to secure foreign
| help. 1t is possible that it is not one
of the ambitions of the American
young woman to become housekeep-
er; it is also possible that she aspires
| to supplant man in the various occu-
pations and professions. 1t is, how
ever, plainly apparent in many sections
that her place in the household is be-
| ing taken by others
DISMALITES.
| Riverside Globe: Some mems relig
| iOuS experiences as they tell them have
such a lugubrious dismal sound as to
indicate that they feed in pretty thin
pastures. Some mems political Wailings
are so constant that whether true or
not, they always impress others as liv-
ing on poverty fiat. Such people never
inspire their fellows with any love for
earth or heaven
LABORERS HAVE SOULS.
Los Angeles Express: A great Eng
lish millionaire and employer of labor,
when asked yesterday why he had
never yet had a strike among his
10000 employees, answered: II keep in
touch with the workers." In other
words, he took account of the human
element
| AT the very moment he uttered those
words splendid Endorsement of his
policy was afforded in the great coal
istrike, in which the West Virginia min
ers refused to join, owing to gratitude
to their employers for an unsolicited
| division of extra profits made some
time since.
| Capital and labor can never work in
harmony when their relations are
placed solely on a cold business basis.
PROVOKINGLY CHANGED.
Kern Echo: A year ago we heard
much of the great prosperity of Japan,
due to her allegiance to the silver or
double standard. But now that she
has provokingly changed to the single
gold standard, free coinage apostles are
telling the country that she did it in
order to hold her own with other gold
standard countries. And these are the
/ people who want this country TO disre-
gard the financial policies of all the
foremost nations of the earth and take
pattern from Mexico and Venezuela.
THE BIBLE.
Tulare Register: The Standard" of
h hif1nc tot
the last twenty years have been char
acterized by a general shifting of opin-
ion in regard to the Bible, and that
while there has been awakening in
faith that the whole Bible, as it has
come down to us, was inspired from
cover to cover, yet as a compensating
advantage, newer stronger and more
enduring conception of the Bible has
grown up, and one more nearly corre
spending to the facts I'VE have not
a new Bible" says the Standard" 4"
but an old Bible seen at a new angle"
! 1t was a great day for the religious
world when men took courage to study
! the Bible as they would study another
monument of human history to see
what there is in it; study it bravely
and not trembling as in fear of the
wrath of God or the atrocities of men,
and when the organ of so conservat tive
| a body as the BaptistS admits that
good has come of this study; that it is
right to look at the old book from a
new angle, we may be sure that pro-
gress has been made and that the time
is not far distant when the Bible will
| be valued for what it is rather than
/ for what the traditions of men have de-
clared it to be. There is no fear that
| Gods word is not in the Bible, but it
viii bring God nearer to men if men
come to know that not every word in
the Bible is the word of God, that men
have put words in there also.
PROPOSED MONETARY COMMIS-
SION.
| Stockton Independent: To the reform
of the currency the Republican party
| is committed. With the passage of the
tariff bill the first step will have been
/ taken toward the establishment of
confidence in business circles. 1t re-
quires one more step to complete the
! operation The tariff bill will provide
! sufficient revenue to keep the Govern
ment out of the hands of the shylocks
! of Europe It will start American in
dustries and give new life and hope to
the people The next duty is to put
! the finances beyond the possibility Of
evil results from excitement and sense