The record-union., 1897-03-04

| to meet at Washington in an attempt
to secure duty of fifty or sixty cents
per box is this impertinent and blum
dering action of the Sacramento con-
/ yention.
TIME TO COOL.
| Tulare Register: The Legislature
and the Governor have done their best
to give red hot love affairs time to cool
| between the divorce court and the
| altar. A law has been enacted forbid
| ding marriage until year after di-
vorce has been granted This will be a
hardship upon ardent people, but it
| will beneficently give their ardor time
| to cool before making a second matri-
monial mistake. A good thing for any
one who contemplates marriage is to
wait year and then see how he feels
about it.
ENTERPRISING DAILIES.
San Jose Mercury: 1T speaks we'll
for the enterprise of some of the big
dailies that notwithstanding the fact
that they feel under moral obligations
to devote ten pages out of twelve to the
doing of Corbett and Fitzsimmons,
| they manage by dint of eXertion to get
in a few lines now and then concerning
events outside of Carson.
BIG NEWSPAPERS.
Los Angeles Times: 1t is evident
that there must be a limit to this bat
tie of bigness. Already many COM
plants are heard as to the unwieldiness
of these great sheets. They are all
right for a backswoodsman, or a pros
pector, who perhaps gets a paper to
read once a week, or even less fire.
Quently, but for the busy man, who
takes a paper to get the news, they
have become a nuisance. To discover
an item of news one has to wade
through forty pages or more of flashy
stories, gaudy Illustrations, windy in
terviews with self-styled prominent
citizens" and elaborately illustrated ar
ticles describing the habits and man
ners of great men-how they eat, drink,
sleep, shave and pare their toe nails.
Should the papers continue little
longer in this effort to increase their
size, it will soon be necessary to take !.
wheelbarrow along when one goes to
bring home a Sunday issue.
THAT'S PRECISELY THE RECORD
UNION"
Los Angeles Times: There must be
a limit to this increase of size on part
of the daily papers. Before long some
journalistic genius will come to the
front with paper that is adapted to the
wants of the busy world. 1t will be a
paper in which all the superficial ver-
biage is eliminated and the news care
fully classified, SO that man may read
lily find such information as he seeks
without wasting half an hour in turn
ing over the pages.
LUDICROUS.
San Diego Union: There is certainly
an element of the ludicrous in the ac-
ton of the Senate in holding night
session to debate resolution, demand
ing the release of prisoner in Cuba
whose pardon had been signed by the
Queen Regent Of Spain. and was known
in every large newspaper office, long
before the Senators had got through
their bellicose speeches. Still it is
charitable to suppose that the Senate
really meant to pass that resolution
and would have done so. That the
pardon was the result of the Senate's
proposed action may be doubted. Sen
ator Lodge to the contrary notwith-
standing. Still it is quite likely that
the evident purpose of the Senate had
the effect to hasten the signing Of the
document that set Sanguilly free. The
incident has its comical side. but for all
that it is encouraging to know that the
Senate can rouse itself to action in
great emergency.
FREE MARKET KILLED.
committee should report against a free
market project for San Francisco is not
easily understood There is hardly a
city in the United States Of half the
size of the metropolis which is not pro-
vided with such an institution, which
is boon both to producer and con-
sumer in that it brings them closer
together than where there is none The
only objection that has been raised to
the proposition comes from the middle
men, who see in the movement a blow
to their interests. They are correct in
their apprehensions, but as their in
terests too often are directly antago-
nistic to the interests Of the producer
and consumer alike, 1t is not apparent
why their wishes should be needed.
With a free market, farmers could
deal directly with the housekeepers of
the city, to the advantage of both in
many ways. It would be interesting to
know just what reasons were advanced
by the committee for it's adverse re-
port.
LIBERTY LOVERS WITH GREECE.
Eureka Nev) Sentinel: Ever since
Greece secured her independence of
Turkey, after eight years of fighting
the nation has regarded Crete as natur-
ally belonging to the Kingdom of Hell
lenes, and wrongfuily withheld from
Greece. When the new nation was de-
clared a kingdom, in the year 1880, un-
der the protection of Great Britain,
France and Russia, the crown was Of
fered to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Co-
burg Leopold declined the offer be-
cause the boundaries of the country,
as described by the protocol of London,
excluded the island of Crete. In the
sixty-seven years which have since
elapsed, the Greeks have never ceased
to feel that they were defrauded of
territory to which they Were entitled,
and the Christians of Crete have just
cause for discomfort at being compelled
to remain unwilling subjects of the
Mosem Empire, victims of the noto-
rious misgovernment of the Sultans of
Turkey and of promises of reform made
only to be broken. Lovers of liberty
the world over are with the Cretans in
their struggle, and sincerely hope they
will be able to triumph over all their
enemies. both Moslem and Christian.