The record-union., 1897-01-09
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Ol
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jectS of Living and News
Interest.

Grass Valley Tfdings: The Tulare
Register does we'll when it calls for
| the enactment of "a rational and prac-
tica1 stray law" Neither the man who
takes UP stock, nor the publisher who
does the advertising, nor the attorney
appealed to for information ON the sub
| ject, seems to know just what's to be
done under present laws.
OFFICERS VS.. PEOPLE.
| The Mail of Woodland: 1t is announc-
ed that the State Republican Central
Committee will keep headquarters at
Sacramento during the coming session
of the Legislature, and by its advice
and good offices will try to keep the
| lawmakers in here. They are acting
upon the old adage that in multi
plicity of counsel there is safety III
the committee will but bear in mind
| that retrenchment in public expendi-
lures and the promotion of the best In
terests of the people, instead of the
e-holding pits alone, is of all public
matters of first Importance, and Will
| lend their good offices to cut down tax
alton, then the more work they do the
| better.
| BANKS.
Santa Rosa Republican: In every
community a, lot of people think the
| banks should back every local enter
prise that is started. Such people con-
| denim bankers who insist on doing
| banking and not a promoting or spec
ulating BUSINESS. They are wrong and
the bankers condemned by them are
right. The financial Institutions that
are of most value to the communities
III which they are located are the ones
that confine their work strictly to oper-
ations in finance based on ample secur-
| ity.
RETRENCHMENT.
| Stockton Independent: The Senate has
relieved itself of the odium of extrav-
agance in the matter of employees by
cutting down the number one-haf and
reducing it's expenses on that account
| $50 a day. This is praiseworthy and
makes greater the regret that the AS
sembly did not do likewise. The credit
due the Senate should be given the
more unstintingly ON that account pro-
| vided it does not relax it's resolution
before the session closes.
WRITE AS THEY FEEL"
Stockton Mail: In commenting upon
| the fact that a few of the deluded
newspaper writer's i'm the valley favor
Government ownership of railroads,
the Tulare Register says:
These papers are very sincere, but
their editors make the mistake Of writ
ing as they feel and not in accordance
with the dictates of best judgment af
ter mature deliberattion."
Well, how else should they write? AS
they do not feel, because some polit-
ical organization has set up a theory
opposed to theirs? Are they to sink
their Individual Judgment, arrived at
after mature deliberation," surely, at
the behest of some scheming politi-
clan?
RIVER DREDGING.
Chico Chronicle Record: The agita-
tfon which has been started by the re-
port of Commissioner Leake regarding
the dredging Of the Sacramento River
as method of drainage, or to prevent
overflow, brings UP the broader Ques-
ton of dredging all waterways for
drainage and reclamation, as well as to
better their navigation. 1t is said that
in the Sacramento Valley a million
acres can be reclaimed by dredging the
lower reaches of the river. The saving
OF property from overflow in places
where the land is really already re-
claimed, is another important feature
that may be considered In urging the
plan
THAT STATE LIQUOR LICENSE
Marysville Appeal: The idea of Gov
ernor Budd to create a State liquor Ii
Of InY1 CO00
looms seems to meet with some favor.
The fierce hostility Of the small saloon
conductors, the most potent political
force in the State, Is to be expected to
come to the front at once and Smash
to smithereens' all the Governors cal
culations. 1t is extremely doubtful
whether such a measure will be con-
sidered at all during the session. The
Alameda Argus says that strange as
it may seem some OF the larger dealers
favor such license In reasoning as
to why this should be the Argus says:
The big and prosperous liquor seller
does not fear $500 license tax, because
he can afford to pay 1T, and he knows
that the little fellow cannot, and that
there will be in consequence fewer bars
and more business for those which re-
main."
This is not good logic and does the |
more prosperous dealers an Injustice |
Anything in the way of law calculated
to restrict the trade will naturally have
as an ultimate result heavier demands
for all kinds Of licenses by municipali-
ties and county government. The |
ARGUS" must certainly be mistaken in |
statement that there are saloonmen |
anxious to pay further license tax of |
$500 per year The adoption of such a |
license would, If the present number of |
saloons could meet 1t, about pay one |
half of the expenses of the State Govern |
ment. That looks rather like asking too |
much.
OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS.
Colusa Sun: Acting on fits universal |
rule of giving all sides of all important |
questions, the Sun" has printed the |
statement of William II. Mills on the |
funding of the Pacific Railroad debts |
That portion of it relating to the pur- |
chase and operation of the roads by |
some Eastern combination is partdcu- |
larly strong. There is no doubt In the |
world OF the fact that California would |
be greatly worsted by having the Pa |
cific roads owned and operated by an |
Eastern combination On lids part of |
the subject there has been no answer |
that any such combination making the