The record-union., 1897-12-08
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

| sell If provided it is not under false
pretenses? If any one prefers oleomar-
garipe to butter quality and price con-
/ sidered, he should have the Tlgnt 10
| buy il unhindered by law. Any dealer
who sells oleomargarine for butter
should be punished for selling goods un-
der false preteuses, just as in the case
of any other one guilty of that offense.
| But to make it more particularly NE
gal TO sell oleomargarine than anything
! else is an unjust discrimination against
an article of merchandise that should
/ have just the same rights as others.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
| San Diego Union: Punishment of Of
! tenders against the election laws is
rare So it is encouraging to note the
| recent sentencing of an election officer
in Philadelphia for making a false re-
turn, to fine of $500, to suffer an i'm
prisonment of nine months. to be dis
! qualified from office-holding for seven
years, and to be deprived of the right
! to vote for four years. This is an OBJ
| ject lesson which ought to play its part
as "a warning to all PERSONS who may
be called upon to act as election officers.
In this instance the punishment was
| imposed for an offense committed at
| the recent election, and, therefore, all
| the exemplary influence of a trial and
conviction speedily following the COM
mission of the crime seems to have been
attained 1t now remains to be seen
whether the good effects of this object
lesson will be speedily counteracted by
| pardon.
THE PHYLLOXERA AGAIN.
~ Ito of
twenty million gallons of wine this
year would seem to indicate that the
phylloxera, concerning the ravages of
which so much has been said from
time to time, is doing no particular
harm among the vineyards Of Callfor-
MIA, it is a generally recognized fact
that this enemy of the vine is steadily
spreading, and that if left alone it will
in time destroy every vineyard in the
State. Happily the grape growers have
the remedy in their own hands, and by
planting resistant vines as the occasion
demands they can gradually re
new their vineyards without materially
decreasing in the meanwhile the aver
age annual output of wine. That GER
tain varieties of vines are immune from
this disease is fact which has been
thoroughly established, but there is a
difference of opinion among leading
| vineyardists concerning the most eco
| nomical method of substituting resist
ant vines for those now in bearing.
A CAKE STORY.
Fresno Expositor: A cake loaded with
| bottles of muriatic acid and watch
spring saws was recently intercepted
on its way to the Los Angeles County
Jail II is said that a woman made it.
| Dispatch.
On, of courseI There never was a
streaky, heavy, soggy, indigestible cake
made but it was charged to some wo-
man-generally a bride. One would
think the writer's had never seen any
bakers cakes. However, as the heav-
mess got into this cake by design and
was intended to help prisoners to es-
cape, il. is good Of the dispatches to
give the credit for the clever scheme
to a woman. OF course, it was man
that discovered the heaviness of the
cake. 1t always is.
A HOWLING FARCE
Stockton Mail: The Examiner" and
CAL" are engaged in an extremely
lengthy and undressing controversy as
to which is responsible for sending the
Bear to the relief of the imprisoned
whalers
We shrewdly suspect that when the
course Ct human events has demon
strated that this whole relief affair is
bowling farce the esteemed contem-
poraries will make haste each to prove
that the other got it up.
1t is a good bet that the relief par
ty" viii never get within a hundred
miles of the imprisoned whalers." 1t
is a sure bet that If the "relief party
ever does reach the Imprisoned whal-
ers" it will find those astonished wor-
thies very comfortably enjoying them
selves and amiably anxious to take care
of their forlorn rescuers.
SUBDIVISION OF WEALTH
Portland Oregonian: The fact that
vast aggregation of wealth in this
country are. as a rule, subdivided, and
even scattered widely, upon the death
of the men who have heaped them up,
averts the danger to our republic pre-
dicted by alarmists from the accumu-
lation of great fortunes. These great
fortunes are divided and subdivided
constantly, split asunder, as it were,
by the impact of the arrow of DEATH
a few years ago William H Vanderbilt
held in his hand about $500 100000, but
that in a moment that hand became
powerless, and the process of subdivis-
ion which Is still going on, began.
There being no law of entail in our
country, fortunes are constantly shift
ing hands, and the rich family Of one
generation is likely to be impoverished
in the next.
AN ERROR ABOUT CLIMATE.
Stockton Independent: Clergymen Of
ten censure newspapers for rash state
ments and equally rash conclusions. AT
a recent meeting of Unitarian ministers
in San Francisco, one Of them gave
voice to conclusion that was exceed
ingly rash, and does not appear to
have dvanced a single reason why he
arrived at it, That conclusion is that
the climate of California is calculated
to drive people to suicide. That is not
lust the way he expressed it. but it
means the same thing. Unitarian min
listers are generally men of thorough
education, good reasoners and good
generalizers but this man seems to be
a glaring exception. What is Califor-
MIA climate? He talked as if he thought
it was all alike. whereas 1t varies more
than the climate of any other State
in the Union. and perhaps more than
any other country in the world Stretch
ing over nearly ten degrees, from near
ly 30 TO A. north, the climate varies as
much as that of the Atlantic States
from Savannah, Ca, TO Albany. y. 7.
FATHER DUCEYtS PLAN.