The record-union., 1897-08-05
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest,

accomplished in the few months OF its
life To us the only real disappointing
thing is the slowness in dealing with
Cuba 1t does truly seem as though
the struggling patriots of Cuba fight
ing for their lives, their homes and
their children against the butchering
heartless Spanish ought to be recog-
niZed as belligerents at least Then
American sympathiZers could treat
with them freely and helpfully. The
slowness of doing justice to those Gu
bans struggling for freedom is the one
weak spot which we would like TO have
seen changed A firm stand by the
United States would never lead TO more
than buster by Spain.
YES, INDEED.
We are under good, old-fashioned
Republican administration again
Thank the Lord-Woodland Mail.
Napa Register: Yes, indeed; and
wheat is still going up, and there's
profit in growing wool, and the prices
of all kinds of fruit are advancing, and
there's good market for every home
raised olive and an end to eating for
eign oil and pickles. It's a condition
of things the people never knew while
the Democratic party were in power.
ZE-FIGHTING IN SAN FRAN
CISCO.
Fresno Expostor: The State at
large is disgraced by the prize fights
which take place from time to time
in San Francisco in violation of law
and decency. An Associated Press dis
toh oh he cd OLGA
where in to-days ''Expositor," indi-
Gates that prize fighting trust is now
in course of formation in that city.
Heretofore there have been three clubs
in that city bidding against each other
for the best talent in the market. In
this way the pluguglies got most of the
money and the club managers didn't
do very well. San Francisco became
the finest prize fighting market in the
world and the pugs have been crowding
the Hobbies of the leading hotels wait
ing to be called upon by the fighting
club managers. The pugs were getting
fat and naughty. They We're putting
on airs and We're saucy and impertinent.
A change is likely to come over their
dreams. The three clubs intend to COM
bine, with the Supervisors and the po-
lice authorities as silent partners. 1t
is an easy thing for the clubs to ar
range the contests, but not so easy to
shut out other ambitious men. It's
no trick for two or three men to form
club and pull off fights, but it's not
so easy to get permit from the Board
of Supervisors and protection from the
Police Board. Hence the scheme to
take the latter into partnership.
Such is the plain meaning of the plan
outlined in the dispatch. 1t is the most
audacious proposition recently laid be-
fore the people, and contemplates a
wholesale bribery not heretofore at
tempted.
WILL BE PROTECTED.
Dunsmuir News: There has been
some apprehension expressed by the
| newspapers and would-be gold-seekers
to the Klondyke that robbers might
waylay the traveller at Chilcoot Pass
and along the overland route to the
gold fields, being as it is through a
country Of desolation, inhabited only by
few wild animals. But all those
wishing to take the trip can make their
minds easy on that account They
will remember that most of the route
| is through British territory, and that
| their protection will come under the
head of the British War Department
| In all the British possessions that army
| is the greatest ,preserver of peace In the
world. 1t Is in every cline, and. what
| ever We may have against the English
Government in other respects, we must
admire the discipline of an army and
navy that has played such a wonderful
part in the civilization of the world in
the last four or five hundred years. The
navy has driven the pirates from the
high seas, and the army has tanned the
freebooter on land, even to the wild
man of Borneo. If this gold field Law
over in Mexico, then there would be
some good reasons for alarm. but there
Will be no robbery in the northwest.
FROTHING.
| The Mail of Woodland: The Demo
Gratis are fairly frothing at the mouth in
| denouncing the new tariff bill. Mean
while the country moves along rapidly
on the road to prosperity just as though
there We're no calamity bowling Demo-
Gratis in existence We really feel sorry
/ for our theoretical friends.
| A SUGGESTION.
! Ventura Independent: Those who
| think the Senate does not furnish the
| country its share of entertainment
ought to join in wishing the report that
| Grover Cleveland has Senatorial as
pirations to be true, and that he will get
| there, where he has enemies on every
| side to be stirred up.
NOT SO HEAVY.
| Sonoma County Farmer: The heavy
yield that was claimed for Sonoma
County vineyards will not be realized
Vigorous vines have made a heavy
i growth of wood and foliage but the last
rain developed the second crop at the
| expense of the first.
| A GOOD BILL.
| Solano Courier: The tariff bill. as it
| new stands, is not perfect but it is a
good bill, and will be Endorsed by all
who believe in a protective tariff in pro-
| lection. 1t will enable many thousand
| Americans to get the profitable employ
ment they have been without for four
years, and will, at the same time, pro-
duce all the revenue needed to run the
| Government.
OF RAISINS.
| Fresno Republican: With a tariff of
212 cents pound on raisins, they do not
promise to command as high a price to
| the producer as they did when they car
ried duty of only ~ cents a pound
| The Expositor.
! The probabilities are that raisins will
bring somewhat better prices than last
year; if they do not it will be due to a
| heavier output this season. which at
| this time does not seem probable.
Other things being equal, as matter of
| course the Strengthening of the barrier
| AGAINST foreign competition will make il