The record-union., 1897-05-16
Voice OF qHB PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on Sub
iects of Living and News
Interest.


Interest.
Oakland Telegram: A paragrapher
declares that the X-ray has been used
by the Queen of Portugal to prove to the
ladies of her court how tiSht-lacing Is
distortng their bones and vital organs.
1t is Just as well to locate such an event
some distance away.
THE HAWAIIAN TREATY.
VacavilIe Reporter: We do not believe
that California will be benefited by the
repeal of the reciprocity treaty with
Hawaii. 1t is claimed that it viii be
means of developing the beet-sugar in
dustry. All the beet-sugar factories IN
California were constructed under con-
ditions of reciprocity with HaWan, ana
the industry, if it pays any of the divl-
! dends accredited to it, can get along IN
the future as in the past. Perhaps
| good way to settle the whole matter
would be to annex Hawaii. We feel sure
that it would secure the entire trade OF
the islands, of which we at present only
secure a portion. The Republican par
ty in the closing days of Harrlsons ad-
ministration seemed to favor anneXa-
| ton 1t is in power again and seems to
be taking it's order from the sugar trust.
BLACK EYE COMING.
Santa Rosa Press: AS will be seen by
our news column the Attorney General
of California has rendered an opinion on
the new road law over which there has
been so much uncertainty and discus
off finds that the
new law. in his opinion, is not in conflict
with the County Government Act, and
that it goes into effect May 31st of this
year. According to his Interpretation
there is only one thing for the SuperVls-
Ors to do in the matter, which is to ap-
point the trustees for the various road
districts, who, according to the new reg
| ime, are to have charge of the road bust
ness Of the county. If the new arrange
ment does not give California road
building a black eye it will be a wonder
but there may be some hope in the pos
sibility that the courts may knock 1t
| out.
THAT'S WHAT 1T IS.
-! Sausalito News: The Oakland En-
quirer'' does not regard the new road
law as a good one. in the sense that 1t
will lead to the making of superior high
ways. That paper says it is politi-
cal reform but a reform in no other re-
spects 1t travels in the wrong direc-
ton, viz: toward the chOpping up OF
roads into small divisions, each indie
pendent in itself, and abolishing general
supervision. It is a measure the opposi-
ton Of what the road reformers have
been working for; if the State highway
system had been introduced as to the
more important roads, then this district
system, applied only to the less impor-
liant roads, might have worked well, but
as matters have turned out we are fur
Their away than ever from system OF
roads with general supervision, classifi-
cation of roads and the application of
special engineering skill. An important
highway may run through dozen dis
tricts, and thereis likelihood that each
one VIII improve the road by a method
of it's own, and that there will be no
unity Of ideas and insufficient co-opera-
ton.
THE EXAMINER" AND ITS UN-
HUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
/ Mountain Democrat, Placerville: The
favorite correspondents of the Exam
iner'' who8shaye not been hung are in
prison. Until Chris. Evans was sup
pressed by Warden Aull, its patrons
were delighted and instructed by essays
on criminal law and penal servitude
| written in the Fresno Jail and adorned
by pictures of the imprisoned author
Since the compulsory disappearance OF
the numbering highwayman, his daily
organ has had no space filler like Dur
rant, whose pictures and cOmmunica-
lions lend a familiar charm to other
wise blank and barren pages. 1t is to
be hoped that Governor Budd may be
induced to prolong a life so necessary
to the success of the great and exclu-
sive scooper of filth, folly and false
hood
A MILLIONAIRE HOG.
Stockton Mall There is a millionaire
hog down in San Francisco, tagged
Bradbury, who insists that he has right
to spit whenever and wherever he
pleases, and in the exercise of this as
sumed right has been arrested second
time for violating the anti-expectorat-
ing ordinance He was fined So for the
first offense and for the second offense
was sentenced to the County Jail for
twenty-four hours without the alterna-
tive of fine He was released on a
writ of habeas corpus and will test the
ordinance before the Superior and SUI
preme Courts. The San Francisco po-
lice are to be congratulated for enforc-
ing this wholesome law with an even
hand.
THEIR OWN MEDICINE.
Placer Herald: Those very goodly
people from intellectual Boston who
used to call all Californians hoodlums
because they objected to Chinese immi-
grafton are now getting a dose of their
own medicine, and a very bitter dose
1t is. These persons from the Hub
and they were mostly so-called Chris
tians. thought we ought to take the
little brown men" to our hearts and
sing lullabys to them. Now in Boston
they are petitioning the authorities to
relieve them of the Mongolians, claim
ing they smoke opium, bride policemen
and gamble. oh, no, they don't! They
are sweet. dear little creatures: as pure
as violets kissed by morning dew, and
their only Joy in life is to learn verses
and sing psalms. Gamble? smoke OPT
UNI? bride? Preposterous-more than
preposterous.
RIGHT THING TO DO.
Antelope Valley Gazette: If President
Mckinley will appoint NJ. II. DeYoung
of the San Francisco Chronicle" Di-
rector General of the American exhibit
at the Paris Exposition, he will be pay
ing deserved compliment to man
best qualified to fill the position. AS
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