The record-union., 1897-08-03
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

ReQ Blum Peoples cause: Aiileii-
cans who object to the expenditure OF
money for a larger navy and for coast
defenses on the ground that the Unit
ed States will never be in danger or
| coming in conflict with foreign pow
ers should take q glance at the pres
ent situation. We have a serious quar-
rel with Spain, another with Japan, our
relations with Great Britain are any
thing but pleasant, and the German
Government does not love us. With
the single exception of England there
! is no nation on earth whose safety is
so dependent upon its navy.
THE HIGHEST DUTY.
Salem orr Journal: What is the
highest duty of a man or woman? civ
ilization? Gentleness, kindness, good
fellowship. To develop ones talents
to, the utmost, to make the most of
ones self, is most sacred duty. Oh
servations and study of successful men
and women around US will lead to pro-
gress in our development. The world
has progressed to the point where it
is not necessary to argue the advan-
tages of sobriety and chastity. The
| sanitary benefits of an even temper
are, however, not yet fully appreciated.
| Self-control, or tanning our temperS out
of existence, is the highest duty we
| can think of next to virtue in general.
| We would rather live with an I'M
truthful person than an ill-tempered
one. We should rank next to a per-
| fectly controlled temper, the daily
bath. There is probably no higher ev-
| idence of civilization on the part of an
individual than personal cleanliness.
HAPPY FRUIT GROWERS.
| Placer Herald: After four consecu-
| tive years of low prices the fruit men
of this State, from present indications.
will be enabled to recuperate in
measure from losses and reverses of the
past California fruit is now command
ing a good price in the East, and it is
probable that the figures now quoted
| will increase rather than diminish. AS
Placer County is one of the leading fruit
producing counties OF California, the
impetus and encouragement that this
important industry will receive, as
result of the advanced prices, can hard
/ ly be estimated. That there has been
something radically wrong in the
marketing and disposition of California
fruit shipped to Eastern points, there
is no question, and whether the pre-
vafling good prices can be attributed to
a change in the system of selling the
fruit, or the short crops are problems
which the fruit growers will take no
particular interest in solving so long
as the prices they receive will enable
| them to recover from the losses sus-
| tanned during the past few years.
THE JAPS HEADS.
! Cloverdale Reveille: The Japs have
an attack of the big head" and think
| they are cunning in opposing the an
nexation of Hawaii. Talk counts for
nothing and when the time is ripe for
annexing the islands, Uncle Sam will
proceed to business regardless of the
Japs, and if they don't like that, we
Will endeavor to make other arrange
ments that possibly in the end will not
suit them so well.
NO! NEVER:
Salinas Index: The calamity press
doesn't deal in prosperity items-never
mentions the advancing prices of
wheat, wool and other products: af-
fects not to hear the increasing hum
of busy industry; never chronicles the
reopening of a mill or a factory nor
makes note of Improvement in trade.
| But, let a strike occur a bank fail or
factory shut down. and it is given
with all the junction. of sweet morsel.
with big black headlines and double
loaded plea type.
THE ELLIOTT CASE.
Alameda Argus: The dismissal of
| President Elliott from Brown Universi-
ty has served to bring him into a sort
of notoriety that it would be supposed
! a scientific man would hardly relish
He is made to appear martyr to his
convictions. At first such martyrdOm
was thought to especially qualify him
for a Senatorship. Now he is said by
the dispatches to have accepted the
Presidency of new university whose
plan is to meet and solve problems
| that come constantly before the peo-
pie" That probably means such prob
lens as the silver question. A college
on such lines will be an experiment to
watch with interest, sure enough. It
Will at least afford Professor Andrews
a scope.
IT READS THE BILL BACKWARDS.
Sonoma Democrat: The tariff bill has
been passed, and in keeping with the
Republican party's idea of equity ever
| since its inception, is a mass of meas
ureS to enrich the rich and rob the
poor. Luxuries are treated with leni-
ency or entirely overlooked, while the
stern necessaries of life are almost
buried out of sight under curse that
is, through political courtesy, called a
tariff. Truly, it can be said that the
g. o. p. is living up to it's reputation
of creating free slaves and uncrowned
Cars.
1T READS IT FORWARDS.
Middletown Independent: No feature
of the new tariff bill is more Satisfac-
tory to the masses than the fact that
| It eliminates absolutely the advantages
| which the trusts enjoyed under the
| Wilson law. 1t is now apparent that
the new law viii be more satisfactory
to the people than any tariff measure
which has gone upon the statute books
within the memory Of the present gem
Grafton.
JUST SO.
The Mail of Woodland: While the
Republicans were in power every time
a cyclone occurred or pair of twins or
triplets We're born, the Democrats
blamed the Republicans for it, but now
that prosperity is again with us they
dare not take the credit for it them
selves, and they are fighting mad be-
| cause the Republicans are willing to
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