The record-union., 1897-09-12
VOICE OF The PRESS
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

| Santa Cruz Sentinel: The most
/ creditable thing We Eave noticed for
some time in connection with San
| Francisco affairs is the fact that j
widely advertised prize fight between
two welI-known heavy weights could
not draw spectators enough to make
sufficient gate money to induce the
pugs to put up their hands.
HE IS MISTAKEN.
Santa Ana Blade: Agitator Debs i'll
his speech before the labor conference
at st. Louis, said:
1T is quite evident the delegates TO
this convention recognize the fact that
civil liberty is dead in America. I
! have said, and say again, that for the
! last time | nave appealed to the courts
| for justice and shall appeal TO them no
more"
! MIR. Debs may fatter himself that he
| is through with courts of justice, but
it is quite apparent that if he persists
| in his present line of conduct. codrts
of justice are by no means through
with him.
OLIVES.
! Colusa Sun: Some Importance is at
tached to a report of Professor Pierce
| of the Department of Agriculture, to
/ the effect that olives will grow on the
comparatively desert hill lands Of some
portions of the country, California IN
cluded. Until our good lands are
brought to a higher degree Of cu'tiva-
ton, however, this fact-which IS iroh-
ably a fact-does not amount to much
1t is not fact that olives, or anything
else will do as we'll on desert hill lands
as on rich hill or bottom land, and when
one starts in to go to the expense of
| growing an olive orchard. the trees
which are to keep on growing for a
thousand years or so, the difference of
a few dollars an acre in the price OF
land should cut no figure. Suppose a
man had choice of land al fifty dollars
an acre or nothing? 1t will cost at
least fifty dollars in each case to bring
the orchard up to bearing. On ,he
poor land he can grow nothing but the
olives: on the other he can make at the
very least his interest clear growing
something else between the rows. 81
at the end of say seven years he would
be even. Then what Of the after years
OI TIE dlleA 'JIOQuCl, ldklIS a ItIlOl VI
ten or twenty years, the difference
would be the entire cost of the rich
naked land! No practical man will
pretend that this statement is an eX-
aggeration in favor Of the rich tract.
Then what is the use in reporting any
such facts to this generation, ex-
cept it be accompanied with the rec
ommendation that the olive be planted
on such lands where one has 1t close
at hand and where it can be utilized. at
a minimum cost?
GOOD, ROADS AND CONVICT La
BOR
Santa Cruz Sentinel: To build good
roads with convict labor is a sensible
tenn is a farce and a humbug. Pro-
fessor Holmes, the Secretary of the
Road Association, in his last report
points with pride to the fact that mot
a convict has attempted to escape" and
embOdies in his report an ample expla-
nation. The men work like hired la
borers and are treated almost as such
They are allowed to go to their homes
Saturday night and return Monday
morning. So content are they that no
guards are needed. This is beautiful.
but it is not punishment. The North
Carolina convict enjoys a lot which is
superior to that of the average North
Carolina honest laborer. The convict
is now about the only laborer in North
Carolina who is sure of his job, and his
wages are sufficient for his needs The
convice should be made to wish to es-
cape He should be 50 treated that he
will want to get away and never come
| back; so treated that other men will
have a horror of his fate 1t may be
a very pleasing thing for the sentimen-
talist to see a penitentiary run like n
young ladies' boarding school, but
crime is too serious a thing for treat
ment on a sentimental basis. On the
other hand, separate and solitary con-
finement, with nothing to do, is a Sc
verify which leads to insanity. Then.
too, if prisons do much manufacturing
the outside workman objects. Upon
the whole. running prison is not an
easy matter
SINS WAGES.
Grass Valley Union: The wages OF
sin is death. AS Ward of unpleasant
notOriety is dead, let the mantle OF
charity be thrown over his past mis-
deeds. Whether it was the desertior
of Mrs. Bradbury or the shame he
must have felt to meet his wife and lit
tie ones, or the fruitless attempt tc
silence his reproaching conscience with
strong drink that led him to commit
suicide, is only known to the great
Creator of the universe. He is deac
and his little ones are fatherless anc
his loving wife a widow, all for the
passing fancy of a pretty face that
served as mask for hollow heart
Verify, the ways of the transgressor are
hard.
CRIMINAL APPEALS TO FEDERAL
COURTS
Humboldt Standard: This new lega
dodge is most mischievous thing. Il
ought not to be tolerated by the courts
If, after exhausting every legal right
even to an appeal to the Supreme
Court, and an effort for a rehearing
with no question which would give
Federal court any jurisdiction of the
| case. the attempt is made to thwar
the claims of justice by taking it to the
Supreme Court of the United States
it will be well for our courts to order
the murderers hanged while the ap.
peal is pending Something should be
done to expedite the execution of Jus
tice. In other countries a murderer i:
tried, condemned and executed xithir
a few days after his .-rest. Justic,
does not sleep and the law is swift
sure and effective in its execution