The record-union., 1897-03-27
VOICE OF TIE PRESS.
Extracts from Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on Sub
iects Of Living and News
Interest.


on the tariff has started out with great
initial momentum. If the promise of
the first two days of the discussion is
realized it will be weeks before material
advancement with the work in hand is
accomplished. 1t would seem that
enough time and thought has been ex-
pended on this subject already. What
the country wants is protection, not
words.
EXACTLY SO.
Colusa Sun: To encourage railroad
building Arizona has exempted from
taxation ali roads for fifteen years, pro-
| Vlded such roads are begun within six
months after the passage of the bill.
THAT sounds funny to an anti-rairoad
Californian, but it is true and if we live
long enough we will hear q howl as soon
as the roads are safely located in Ari-
zona and the capitalists cannot with
draw their capital.
STOCKTON'S COMPLAINT.
Stockton Independent: 1t is a bitter
disappointment to Stockton people that
the Valley Railroad is already prepar-
ing to extend its line to a terminus on
San Francisco Bay, but more bitter still
is the indicated disposition to run a cut
off line to Modesto and leave this city
on a side-tra The first decision was
always regarded as somewhat remote
probability, but the other, though not
yet decision, assumes nearly that
shape, was not dreamed Of Should it be
carried out it will but illustrate the pro-
verbal soullessness Of corporations
Stockton was more liberal to the Val
ley road than was any other place in
California.
A WARNING.
Marysvile Appeal: The movement
for pure food" has in it the elements
of advertising successfully used by
quack doctors. We all desire good food
and VIII protest against aduteratiOns,
but the persistency of falkirs in the lead
of pure food movements is it's greatest
condemnation. Special frauds of this
or that should not be pushed into such
work if sincerity is to attach to the work
of reforming the food supply
COMPLIMENT TO MISS WILLARD.
Bakersfield Californian: A recent
communication addressed to the Pres
ident of the United States begins with
the salutation 'Honored Ruler" from
which it would seem that while we boast
of our American independence of
| thought and manner, yet we are never
theless not entirely freed from the GUS
toms of our European ancestors.
MISS WILLARD'S MISTAKE.
Santa Rosa Press: Miss Frances Will
lard is an excellent woman and has done
much for suffering humanity. 1t is
strange, however, that with her knOwl-
edge of the world and of newspapers,
especially, she should think it possible
for the women of the country to COM
bine for the purpose of boycotting all
newspapers that publish extended ac-
counts of prize fights. Miss Willard
has had much to do with newspapers
After the death of Charles, Wilson of
the Chicago Journal Miss Willard and
her sister, Mrs. Wilson, widow Of Editor
Wilson, managed that paper for some
time and she must know that women
are more persistent newspaper readers
than men and that they are determined
to read the most enterprising journals
1t is nothing against them. Time may
have been when the male head of the
family monopoliZed the family paper
and was considered the oracle of the
home. Women were supposed to be too
busy in knitting, spinning, weaving and
sewing to devote much time to keeping
posted on the current events of the day.
But there are few families that do not
have more than one paper in these days
and women will be satisfied with no
paper that does not publish the news.
Miss Willard should know this and will
probably realize it if she should attempt
to carry out her theory.
A BLOW AT NEW JOURNALISM"
Oakland Times: The progress
through the New York Legislature of
the bill which prohibits the publica-
ton of pictures of people in newspapers
and magazines without their consent
is being watched with keen interest by
the public generally and it's passage
will be followed by the enactment of a
similar law in all of the States where
vicious journalism has developed it's
power for bringing distress and suffer-
ing to mankind. At a recent session of
the committee which has the bill under
consideration. William A. Sutherland
one of the most prominent lawyers Of
Rochester, urged it's adoption in very
forcible speech, in the course Of which
he said that he appeared voluntarily
for that purpose though he had, few
days previously, received the follow
ing telegram from a representative of
the New York Journal" which is op-
posing the bill: Can you make it con-
venient to appear in your profession
al capacity before the Senate Codes
Committee on Wednesday afternoon
against Ellsworth anti-cartoon bill,
chiefly to show how it will injure la
Dor? If so, please wire me terms to-
night"
Referring to the attempt to make IL
appear that labor" was interested in
the defeat of the measure, Mr.. Suther-
land said: My experiences with organ
izeo labor is quite different from that
which would lead to such a request
| have often represented organized
labor in the courts of our State, from
the lowest to the highest, and / have
often been called into consultation
with their leaders at Rochester, and
I have never yet met one who did not
desire to earn an honest living by hon
est labor. l have yet to meet one who
would not shut the doors of his house