The record-union., 1897-05-24
Voice OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression OF
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUD-
jects of Living and News
Interest.

Oakland Tribune: The value OF the
recent Pure Food Congress is problem
atical. If it created the impression
abroad that California will counten-
ance nothing but the simon-pure article
as represented. it is all right; if, how
ever, it has caused an impression that
California hackers are not honest, it Is
all wrong. From the tone of the EAST
ern papers the wrong impression seeiils
to have gone forth
ANTI-CUBAN.
Santa Rosa Democrat: II II De True
of the many hundreds of reports Oh IN
surgent valor and achievements III
burning Cuban plantations ana lootlhs
Cuban towns that have been puollsheo
in the United States on insurgent au-
sthority. there must indeed be much SUI
fering and destftution in Cuba.
PROVINCIALISM.
Alameda Argus: Nothing so sure
ly indicates the provinclallsm OF
this community of San Francisco
and vicinity as the inordinate at
tention we pay to small and lncom-
siderable scandals-"the ignoble dolngs
of ignoble people" as Colonel irish puts
It. A rich South American and cigar
store chippie have a lark, and not less
than a hundred columns of valuable
space in the newspapers are devoted 10
it. and every inconsiderable feature IS
exploited to its fartheSt attenuation.
Blackmail has been attempted IN con-
nection with the case, and instead OF It's
being so that the blackmailers could be
promptly shown up and Jailed, they
unblushingly accept the resulting noto-
riety as something desirable, or at least
not confusing, and are permitted, some
of them. to continue unchallenged as
members of an honorable profession.
the bar Perhaps we are provincial
Perhaps we have not enough things OF
real Importance to engage our attention
and so permit tawdry trifles to engross
us to an unusual degree.
A POOR COMPLAINT.
Alameda Encinal: The establishment
of rural delivery of mail in the Santa
Clara Valley evokes the complaint from
certain storekeepers that it is detrlmen-
tai to their business, in that 1t prevents
the farmers from coming to town so
frequently as they have been in the
habit of doing, getting the malF pc
ing the preteXt. The farmers VIII prohl
by the innovation. They will not BUY
a. single dollars worth less of provisions
and necessaries, but they will be saved
many a dollar which they have been ac-
customed to spend unnecessarily, as
well as many a days time lost in going
to town simply on the pretext of get
ting the mail. The pedro" farmers
will have to invent some other excuse,
and much valuable time now lost VIII
be saved.
BEET SUGAR PRODUCTION.
Oakland Enquirer: Some time since
the Enquirer printed an article say
ing that the sugar factory in Alvarado
had made contracts with 42O farmers
to grow beets this year. and since then
that paragraph has been travelling
around in the press and has appeared
in a considerable portion Of all the
papers of the State The statement
was all right except that it was not
quite big enough, for the correct num-
Der was AGO, not 420.
NOW FOR THE SPANIARD.
Fresno Republican: Now that SYM
pathy for Greece can take respite,
American citizens may turn their at
tention from the barbarous Turk to the
no less inhuman Spaniard, who is doing
under the shadow of our flag what the
great Powers are denounced for per-
mitting in the far East.
IF ONLY.
Pasadena Star: If we could only get
that protection tariff at work before