The record-union., 1897-07-31
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jeets OF Living News
Interest.

! gers of metropolitan life is the scorch-
| er In city like Chicago, with her
miles of fine bicycle roads, the casual
| ties amount II at least one a day,
and very often with fatal results. Al
ways it is some scorcher wheeling like
fury With head down and needless of
consequences who runs over some child,
knocks some old man or woman to the
/ pavement or runs into a horse and
buggy, causing runaway accident and
the killing or manning of human be-
ing. Generally the scorcher gets off
with a few scratches, mounts his wheel
and is away like a flash, losing his
identity in the crowd, and so escaping
punishment. If a few of these fell
| loves were winged with pistol shots
! the example might be salutary, but
the danger to pedestrians is real and
while such accidents look funny in the
cartoons they are anything but funny
in reality.
DIFFIDENT BACHELORS.
Fresno Expositor: The young man,
strong and in vigorous health, who ex-
cuses himself from marrying because
he lis unable to support a wife" is
about the poorest specimen of the race.
I-Hanford Sentinel.
Well, yes, sometimes. And then
again ii looks as if the one who mar
ries on large stock of self confidence
and nothing else, and essays to so to
housekeeping with a canary bird and
gas stove" for household equipments,
only to find, too late, that it isn't
enough, and then lets his wife take in
| hi IL,
| pretty closely for second place 1t isn't
a bad thing in these times, when a
young man considers that it will take
just about twice as much to support
two as it does to support one. But
then he needn't stay unmarried for
that reason. He needs only to have
some sort of business or work to guar
antee that he can take care of a wife,
at least faily well, before rushing into
matrimony. And come to think about
it, are there very many young men
worth the name who are expecting to
remain bachelors for the reason given
by the Sentinel? Guess not.
OF COURSE.
l. Oakland Telegram: The friends of o.
NJ. Welburn, the defaulting ex-Col-
lectOr of Internal Revenue, now de-
clares that he is mentally unsound. He
should be set free at once and the Gov
ernment ought to recompense the gen
tleman for being so inconsfderate as
not to have made inquiries regarding
| his mental condition before he was
taken into custody.
MAKING OF THE TARIFF BILL.
San Diego Union: When one consid-
ers the vast amount of labor entailed
in the preparation of the new tariff
bill, the fact that the task was divided
and that it was performed within a
comparatively short time, it is not
strange that some Inconsistencies in
the Act should be discovered by the
keen, practical treasury officials, whose
vocation has made them thoroughly IA
miliar with all matters relating to the
| levying of duties. 1t appears how
ever, that such mistakes as were made
| in framing the new law are not very
serious. That regarding the duty on
hides is probably the one that will give
tthe most trouble, unless it can be recti-
fed, which is not Impossible. So far
as California is concerned, it appears
that no defects in the law have been
discovered that will seriously impair
the liberal measure of protection af-
| forded to the industries of this State.
It was at first reported that there were
two conflicting clauses in the bill in
regard to Zante currants, but this ap-
pears to have been a mistake. Alto
gether, the new Tariff Act seems to
be in pretty good shape to carry out
the purpose of it's framers-ample rev.
enue for the Government and adequate
protection for American industries.
YUKON PLACERS.
Scientific Press: The value of the
Yukon gravel is not so very remarkable
compared with much that was found in
California in early days. In the Darda-
nelles mine in Placer County a single
pan yielded 1880. Many others taken
out of crevices produced nearly as much
in the Forest Hill divide. But in the
shallow placers of earlier days it was
no uncommon thing to find from 500
to $500 in a pan. A present resident of
Nevada City, Gala. Isoard-got $912
from one painful on September Is, 1850.
He and his partners that fall took S164,-
GOO from a piece of ground thirty feet
square in their claim. There are
others.
HOW THEY PROFIT.
Santa Ana Blade: The people of the
United States have evidently profited by
the lessons of the hard times during the
past four years. The New York Sun
Democratic published, a few days
isince, large number of kilograms from
various parts of the country, especially
the farming communities of the West,
indicating that the farmers in every To-
lcality are taking advantage of the good
prices which they are getting for their
crops to pay off their mortgages. In
every part of the country farm mort
cages and other obligations of that char
acter are rapidly being reduced in num-
Der and size, and, with the splendid
prospect and prices in sight, the coming
year win doubtless see a large reduction
in the indebtedness about which the ca
lamity shriekers have indicated such
distress.
JAPAN'S STANDARD.
Oakland Tribune: The speech Of the
japanese Premier in which he explains
the reasons why Japan ought to adopt
the gold standard has just been published
in the reports of the State Depa1 ,ment.
It shows that the same reasons which
led the voters of the United States to re-
ject free coinage last year operated to
lead the statesmen of the Yankee ma
ton of the Orient to discard the falling
silver standard and adopt gold as their
standard of currency. This action is a
source of the keenest distress to the sill
yer mine owners of the United States
and their allies. since they have con-
stantly pointed to Japan as the most