The record-union., 1897-12-29
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions ON SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

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Tulare REGISTER: The fiftieth ami
versary OF the discovery of gold in Cal
irornia will be celebrated IN San Fran
cisco next month, if San Francisco does
not weaken on the proposition ana
postpone the fete until needed money
can be raised. 1t is well to celebrate
this event. 1t was most important 10
the world, to our country and to Call
fornia. The quest for gold has per-
formed a bigger part IN the world
history than is popularity supposed.
Gold was the fleece for which Jason
went in quest and from Jason to the
! 1<londikers hunger for gold has been
the real star of empire which mas pro-
ceeded westward. 1t is we'll 10 marx
an epoch with each important dlseoV-
cry OF gold and so stimulate further
endeavor for the world is not likely TO
get too much gold, especially If 1t is TO
become the standard of values Tor all
the earth. Mining is an honorable and
useful industry and it's pursuit should
be fostered in the public mind and in
all reasonable ways.
DISCREDITING HOME PRODUCTS.
Stockton Independents: Another clev-
er trick of English makers of dellcacles
shows how vain it is to put faith in
the labels of celebrated firms and IN
vest money on the strength of tnat
faith. A Californian recently returned
from Europe says a London hrIn,
whose goods have an international rep
utation buys hundreds of tons of fruit
pulp from California canneries. The
pulp is shipped to London, where it is
packed in jars, after undergoing doc
toring, and reshipped, much Of 1t back
to California, where it brings 80 cents
a jar, while the purer home product can
be bought at from 20 to % cents. This
leads very naturally to the belief that
much of the pure Lucca oil' with the
labels of foreign firms is doctofed in
like manner and should be evidence
strong enough 10 cause Californians, If
not all Americans who know Of the de-
ception, to avoid the foreign products
and buy only those that are produced
at home The same principle should
be applied to catsups. pickles, and 9th
er delfcacies and appetizers. No coun-
try in the world produces the bases for
all these goods in such excellence and
profusion as California and no country
can make them up into preserves,
sauces, pickles, ETC., in such great pur-
ity or sell them so cheaply, yet people
Will pay double price for a sauce in for
eign bottles when a superior article of
the kind made even in San Joaquin
County, goes begging and those who
have tried to make business OF max
ing it have had to peddle it out and soon
give UP the effort because the people
want foreign fiavor--on the label.
LOW WORK.
Grass Valley Telegraph: A most
disgusting and revolving picture oc-
ours in the San Francisco Examiner"
Of Monday. 1t portrays the sorrows Of
poor Mr.. Clute and the sorrowing
friends as they stood around the bier
of the dead wife 1t is really con-
temptible piece of work in journalism
and all who have seen it here deplore
that such should be allowed. The in
vading Of a newspaper reporter into
the sanctity Of a mans house amid his
sorrows is bad enough and then when it
is to be carried into the church where
the dead are and then photographed
and printed on the pages of newspap-
er is simply something unknown to any
: other paper in the country excepting
the San Francisco Examiner" Even
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to such means
CIVIL SERVICE RULES
San Jose Herald Congress is get
ting a great deal Of testimony from Re-
publican officials in favor OF modifying
the civil service sT that Government
employees will be under the control Of
heads Of departments, bureaus, ETC.,
with fixed tenure of office instead of
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, publicans viii look back to the civil
service clause of the Democratic plat
form which they denounced so vigor-
ously the last campaign, they will see
that it lays down almost exactly the
same doctrine that is now being con-
tended for by the Republican Congress
men and office holders.
OUR FRUITS.
San Jose Mercury: The yield of Cal
, ifornia deciduous fruits is increasing
+ from year to year, and if prices are to
be maintained or bettered the market
must be correspondmgiy extended. 1t
t can be done, both at home and abroad
2 but it will not do so itself. The plan to
. raise $4,000 for the purpose of exhib-
, iting our fruits in Germany and other
!. European countries is so certain to pro-
that the lack of interest in it displayed
5 by many Of the growers is incompre-
I hensible.
WINDY MISCELLANY.
San Diego Tribune The next step
for the Sunday newspapers will be to
issue, in addition to their magazine sup
plements, pocket library, of ten or
twenty volumes, all for five cents. Let
a small boy be supplied with each copy
of the paper SO issued without addi-
+ tional expense to the purchaser. the boy
to act as reader and TO be returned to
the publisher on Monday. BY this
means a few pages Of the large sized
: Sunday journals may secure an audi
| ence AS it is, few intelligent readers
, care to waste their time and eyesight
on windy miscellany.
DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
Stockton Mail: The old journalism
is in the evening Of its decline. The
strong elements of society, perceiving
that government proceeds from popu-
> lar opinion, have concluded to take pos
session of the instrumentalities of form
0 ing that opinion and of controlling and
+ diverting 1t in accordance with their
own ulterior motives. No private en-