The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-27
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
iects of Living and News
Interest.

Marysville Appeal: We venture TO say
that the headline in the newspapers
most pleasing to the eyes of the ma
jority of the people of the country is
that which says Tariff Bill Rushed
Along" The only thing which the peo-
pie of the country want, and want
bad is the passage, as soon as posi-
ble of a tariff law which will protect
American labor and promote American
interests.
GIVE HIM A CHANCE.
Chico Record: What is the matter
with getting up some sort of side show
for the Prince of Wales? He is GER
tainly entitled to a share out of all this
glory How about celebrating his silver
and golden jubilee as Prince of Wales?
Then. again, history certainly must
show that he has been Prince of Wales
longer than any one ever was before,
SO why not celebrate that? Give him
a chance. anyhow:
THAT ODE.
Placerville Nugget: The jubilee ode
is a fine, shining example of the fact
that the Queen may make a laureate
and do other curious things, but she
can't, after ALL make a poet. We
have read as many as seven poems
in our life, anyway, and we think we
know poem when we see it. But that
jubilee ode,
BRUTALITY
Stockton Record: The brutality of the
students of the Chicago University, ex-
hibited yesterday, is another evidence
Of the degeneration wrought by suffer-
ing prize-fghts to become one of the
chief forms of amusement. There seems
to be an unchecked tendency toward
indifference of physical pain. That
means that the brute in man is as
sorting dominion over all other traits.
And yet it was not so very long ago
that our chief fiction was based on the
fortunes that the Indians inflicted on
their captives and the Indifference and
stoicism which the natives exhibited
to physical pain. The Indian is dsap-
pearing and the white man is becoming
the stoical brute. The accepted stand
ard of courage is based on the capa-
bility of the person to endure punish
ment-this is the same quality that has
maintained Lucifer as Prince of He'll.
The Devil always reigns in the prize
ring, and too often at the university.
HORTICULTURAL COMMISSION
ERS.
San Jose Mercury: A circular has
been recently issued by the head of
the Agricultural Experiment Station of
the University of California in which
they set forth the necessity of the
Boards of Supervisors of the various
counties maintaining a higher standard
of efficiency for Horticultural Commits
sioners. They state that in certain
counties the Supervisors have decided
to require higher qualifications than
heretofore for these positions, and that
they have naturally looked to the State
University for counsel There is no
question that in number of counties
sufficient attention has not been paid
to the qualifications of the candidates
before the respective boards for that
important position Every Horticult-
ural Commissioner should be a man
who possesses technical knowledge of
fruit trees soils, diseases of trees, in
sect pests, remedies and all essential
details connected with the growing of
fruit
Men possessing these qualifications
who can afford to give their time to the
county for the salary paid are not nu-
merous, yet the salary is sufficient to
pay for the services of first-class men.
As the Professors connected with the
University Agricultural Experiment
Station say, Good judgment and com
mon sense, together with firmness and
integrity, insuring just, conscientious
and impartial enforcement of the laws.
are essential in a good officer, but, in
addition to these, and equally import
ant, are a practical acquaintance with
the various classes of insects and fungi
injuring fruit crops, or liable to injure
them, the ability to understand and use
scientific monographs treating the
same, and sufficient skill in microscope
cal and microtomical technique to
make careful and scientifically accurate
observations in these subjects.