The record-union., 1897-03-07
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on Sub
jeCts Of Living and News
Interest.

Red Bluff Sentinel: So far as i'm
proved road laws have taken shape in
this country, the French idea is recog-
niZed, that the State should bear a
considerable share of the cost of con-
structing main roads. French rural
prosperity can be traced in no small
degree to its excellent roads. The
substitution Of a solidly built road for
q dirt road soon effects a transforma-
ton in the region through which it
passes, and even the old topography
seems to vanish. Improved acceSsl-
bility tells upon every farm and adds
to it's value. Time and money, which
are usually equivalent, are saved to the
farmer and co all whose business it is
to communicate with him. Economy
Is consulted as well as convenience.
Now that the rural inhabitant is eX-
pected to bear but portion of the eX-
Eense of good roads, his disposition
toward the movement is changing.
With a dozen States already engaged
In the reform, its extension promises
to be rapid.
WHAT IT WOULD DO.
Healdsburg Tribune: A war between
the United States and Spain at the
present time would free Cuba and the
Philippine Islands Immediately, COM
plete Spain's bankruptcy, overthrow
her present dynasty, and reduce her to
the rank of a fourth or fifth rate ma
ton. These are the reasons why war
Will not take place. The Spaniards
are obstinate and ignorant, but they
are not going to deliberately commit
political suicide. All reasonable de-
lnands which the United States makes
en- Spain-and the United States has
not made any other sort Of demands
will be complied with.
THE ROAD SYSTEM.
Merced Sun: a bill contemplating
the construction Of a system of good
reads that will connect every county
seat in the State has passed both
houses of the Legislature. 1t provides
that any county may go ahead and
have her State road laid out, and with
the consent of a State Commission pro-
ceed to it's completion. The county
shall be paid back the cost when the
State system connects with it. Now
Merced County should see that she
gets a road that will be model for the
others.
THE OUTLOOK.
Oakland Telegram: The political
skies are now clear and there is no pros
pect of any disturbance of the industrial
or commercial conditions Of the coun-
try. All surplus stock of goods of every
description have been about exhausted
and new supplies will be called for to
meet the demand of consumers. These
facts can hardly fail to put life into new
enterprises and start up the shops and
factories. OF course we cannot expect
to recover from the depression at a sim
gle bound, but we can look forward to
q steady progress in trade and industry
that will bring into use all the idle capi-
tai of the country, and set labor to work
again at steady employment.
NO MORE BOOM TIMES.
Marysville Appeal: During the eleven
years between 1879 and 1890 this coun-
try ran an almost breathless race of
eager and rapid development Certainly
those were not normal times. They
were based upon conditions that will
never be seen again upon the American
cantinent To long for their restoration
is to indulge in the fascinating but pro-
fitless occupation of chasing rainbows,
writes z. V. Smalley in the March
Forum" For what is there in our
poets to justify the hope that those
times will return? Our new West is
already fairly well peopled; and its
business conditions have conformed
themselves to those of the rest of the
country. Except in a few mining dis
tricts, it no longer offers field for ad-
venture or speculation. Our great trans
continental railway systems are already
constructed; and not one Of them can
earn interest on the money 1t cost Our
new towns and cities went rather be-
yond the capacity of the tributary
country to support them, under the
stimulous of inflated real estate values
and with the temporary opportunities
they offered for employment OF labor.
We shall not again have flood OF for
eign money pouring in to loan upon any
thing or everything having the semb-
lance of property. The foreigner has had
his experience; and he now wants to