The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-24
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

! Clondyke gold fields are any exception.
Exceptionally rich diggings have been
struck there, beyond question, but the
i first persons on the ground will get the
cream of it, and of those who go later
not ore in a hundred will be successful.
POWDERLY'S APPOINTMENT.
Stockton Independent: The appoint
ment of T. v Powderly as Commission
| er General of immigration displeases
the Bryanites, who indulge in comments
that attribute bad motives to President
Mckinley. They do not question Pow
derly's fitness, but say he has received
his reward, and indulge in similar catch
phrases. Powderly represents class
who have suffered from the laxness of
the immigration laws and the greater
| laxness of their pretended enforcement.
He is just the man who may be ex-
pected to see that the laws are properly
enforced, and there will be great dis
appointment if he does not. He was a
manual laborer until within a rev
years, when, after utilizing all his spare
! time in the study of law, he was admit
/ ted to the bar AS a practical mechan-
/ ic he has seen the evils of excessive I'D
| crafty in admitting immigrants OF
| doubtful fitness for citizenship, and
may be expected to give the American
| laborer the benefit of doubts that hth-
erto have been given to the immigrant
| If Powderly's antecedents are good
gauge by which to judge of the APP
pointment, it could not be bettered.
NOT SPOILED BY WEALTH.
Santa Rosa Republican: Colonel
| Charles Frederick Crocker was born
to wealth and all the luxuries that mon
ey could buy. He was not spoiled by
his surroundings, regardless of the rich
ness by which he was surrounded, and
| in his mature years there was no idle
ness. His 43 years of life We're crowd
ed with labor and responsibility. He
never shirked a task nor evaded a duty
Few have had the hold on the younger
men of our State that was possessed
by him. He was Native Son, for
whom all the members of that powerful
California order had very high regard
and ranked among the few Thirty
third degree Masons of the State. Cen
ial and companionable, he drew people
to him: a man of liberal education, he
was a patron of the arts and sciences;
public-spirited, generous, progressive
Colonel Croker was a true Californian,
and in his death the State loses a faith
full and powerful friend.
THE FOOL COUNTRY"
Los Angeles Times: The Springfield
Republican" observes that they tried
so hard in California to be courteous
to Mr.. Bryan that one of the papers
suggested that all signs of prosperity
should be temporarily defaced.' But
the fool country wouldn't stand it; the
big fruit crop kept right ON ripening
and yelling for hands to come and pick
it, the harvesters made so much racket
as to nearly drown the boy yawpers
voice, and the Pactolian stream kept
on running out of our mines twenty
four hours a day all the time the apos-
tie of discomfort was believing his
distress and exhibiting his sores at so
much a sore, and his agility at so much
jump.
A DISTINCT LOSS.
Grass Valley Tidings: Charles F.
Crocker is dead. and in the words of
Milton, died ere his prime. In the pass
| ing away of this kindly gentleman Cal
| ifornia will suffer a distinct loss Only
AZ years of age, he had his life's work
yet before him, and it will be hard to
| fill his place, Notwithstanding the tr1te
saying that no matter how able man
might be- there are others equally able
TO take his place Identified from his
youth with the great railroad whose
| affairs he so ably managed in the State
which gave him birth, Colonel Crocker
at all times did his best to further the
| interests of the people, and when any
friction arose lit was his tact and MS
unvarying courtesy which smoothed
away the difficulties. He is gone, and
although the world will jog on as
smoothly as before, it will be long be-
| fore his name or the kindly deeds he
| delighted to do are forgotten.
THE LIMOGES.
Los Angeles Express: What fun the
Jingoes are having! They pulled the
lions tail in Venezuela last year, and
then threatened to take away little AL
fonsos sugar plums, and now are bit
ing their thumbs at the Mikado. 1t
pleases the Jingoes, and apparently
does not annoy the objects of their
bowling, but their shrieks are none the
less tiresome and more or less disturb
| ing to the placidity of the people at
| large.
DISILLUSIONIZED.
| Stockton Record: The accounts from
Alaska indicate that two or three mill
| lion dollars worth of gold have been
taken out there during the last year In
excess of expectations, and 1t is conf1-
IDENTIFY predicted that the output for
the next twelve months will equal S1o,-
! 900 600 This is seized upon by some
free silver advocates to hedge little
in their convictions. They affect to
believe that the rich mines of the Clon-
| dyke will make gold cheaper and per-
haps remove the necessity for free sill
yer coinage. Any convenient
port in a storm. The gold output of
Alaska may amount to one-twentieth
part of the worlds supply. If next
years product is fully up to expecta-
tions it would take ten such years to
produce the amount of the present gold
reserve in the United States Treasury.
Therefore it is not likely that gold
slugs will be as cheap as a accent sill
yer dollar for few years to come.
But the stimulating effect of the gold
excitement in Alaska, coupled with re-
viving activities brought about by the
new tariff bill and the rise IN wheat,
will serve to disillusioniZe a few mill
lion of Bryan's followers and convince
them that prosperity is not dependent
on arbitrary valuations fixed by the
vote of Congress.
WHAT ARE GOOD TIMES?"
San Diego Union: People appear to
be divided into two great classes on
the prosperity question. The one