The record-union., 1897-09-19
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest

Fresno Republican: If ever this coun-
try is plunged into war with any Tor
eign country it viii be through the mis-
chief-making, yellow-hearted neWspa-
perS. Instead of approaching interna-
tional questions with moderation and
candor, they habitually distort every
difference of opinion into a casus belll, /
and strive with ali their power to goad
public men into extreme acts, and some
day such conduct may result in Ia
mentable contest with some great Pow
er. Topics" wishes from the bottom OF
his heart that these yellow papers really
had souls so that they could be eternal
~ damned for their natural-born GUS
sedness.-Tulare Register.
The yellow-jack newspapers are not
alone a menace to public taste and pub
lie morals, but their reckless and per-
sistent perversion of facts tends TO en-
danger both domestic and international
peace. A free press is an essential feat
ture Of a free government, but when
that freedom degenerates into irrespon-
sible license it is time that public SEN
timent be aroused to resist a growing
and dangerous evil.
4h6 Of w HEAL
Santa Cruz Sentinel: We have daily
furries with bulls and bears. who toss
wheat up and down as they do stocks
and bonds But what the farmer is
interested in is the foreign demand.
This will fix the ultimate price and
every indication shows that dollar
wheat will prevail, and that before the
holidays it will likely advance to
higher point.
THE CASE HERE.
Riverside Globe: How many people
are there who have ever stopped to con-
slider what would be the result if all
American hens should go on a strike
and refuse to lay eggs? It seems like
an enormous sum, and certainly is and
should such ever be the case the coun-
try would lose $165, 100000 a year, and
this is as much as all the wheat in
North and South Dakota and Mime
sofa would be worth at a dollar
bushel. In addition to these figures,
the chicken meat alone is worth an
nually $125, 900, or a grand total
for the chicken industry of $290,000,-
600. It is estimated that there are
five times as many hens in this coun-
try as there are people, and more
often hear power expressed in units
but what of hen power? One single,
solitary old biddy, laying only 80 eggs
per year, would thereby have 215 days
of vacation and then be able to pay
for hauling ten tons of freight 10000
miles. Think of it! Truly, the hen
may well cackle when one stops to
consider the enormity of these fig
I fa n q
A PAIR OF SHRIEKS.
Fresno Republican: A Congress Of
Women recently assembled in Brussels,
and many women of more or less note
in the feminine world were present.
Various suggestions for the ameliora-
ton of the condition of women were
discussed, but probably the most strik-
ing was a proposition that the State
should assume the obligation of car
ing for children, now imposed upon
fathers. The proposition provoked
much discussion and found many pro-
ponents At about the time when these
women were in session, another lot of
women assembled in Boston, under the
name of the ''Woman's Rescue
League" and solemnly resolved to res
cue women by opposing the election
sells plan would terminate in under
mining the sanctity of marriage, and
that the Boston plan would end, where
it began, in bosh, does not appear to
have occurred to these unwise cham
pions of their sex.
Whether these things shall be con-
sidered ludicrous or serious depends
very much on ones point of view. 1t
is ridiculous to think that such blatant
fools (of any sex) should consider
themselves capable of forwarding any
cause in which they may thrust them
selves to the front, but on the contrary,
it is a serious matter that any grieV-
ances of womankind should be preju-
diced by this shrill gable Of feminine
simpletons. Woman's position in the
world has nightly improved within the
dast fifty years, but it has been not
withstanding the shrieks of the loud
mouthed sisters.
The Republican has held, and still
holds, that while women are taxed they
should be permitted to vote. 1t con-
ceives that no-taxation-w ithout-repre-
sentation is a proposition Of justice
which does not apply to the trousered
sex only. But, while it believes this, it
also believes that not many such as
semblages as those of Brussels and
Boston will be needed to seriously i'm
pede any movement looking TO the bet
terment of the sex. Not many such
shrieks and shrills would be needed to
disgust mankind very thoroughly, and
this is a time when women need the
influence and votes of their brothers.
If the women could suppress these in
insistent, chattering simpletons of their
sex who are so often to the fore it
would be a blessed thing for them.
AN OUTRAGE.
Alameda Encinal: A Seventh-Day
Adventist minister has been sent to jail
in Pennsylvania for carrying a box of
books through the streets on the first
day of the week Under a law passed
in that State before the United States
was organized, away back in 100, such
an act was made a misdemeanor, and
under that antfquated statute the min
lister referred to was prosecuted, fond
guilty and sentenced to jail and actu-
ally locked up There is a provision of
the Constitution which says that no
laws shall be passed interfering in any
way with religion. There IS an honest
difference of opinion upon purely re-
ligious grounds as to which day is the
Sabbath the last of the first day of the
week. the old Jewish Sabbath or the
Sunday Of the Christian dispensation.
It is an outrage and a shame that
man should be reated as is this Sew
enth-Day minister. 1t is Of a piece
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