The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Sacramento Sunday News: The
'Record- Union is whooping a national
road to Yosemite The idea is all right.
The Yosemite, the grandest picture
that nature has framed on the CONT
nent, is a sealed book to the people be-
cause of the difficulty of getting there
FOOLED BY PAPERS.
Corning Observer: 1t is proven at
last, after much excitement has been
raised, that the Graves Bros find of
gold nuggets in Trinity County was
fake, simple but deliberately planned.
Some Of the city newspapers lent their
aid very quickly to fake the people
who have been gullible enough to go to
Coffee Creek. They now find that
there is no gold to speak of, at least
worth panning, near there, and writ
er who is on the spot says there is no
likelihood Of a strike being made, and
advises no one to come in. Soon those
who have chased the glfttering rumor
to its source viii return or press on
still further in their search for the will
o the wisp" gold. There are now
from l 900 to 400 men at Coffee Creek
who have been fooled by the Graves
Bros. and the metropolitan newspa-
pers.
THE DANGERS.
Colusa Sun: The dangers to our
form of Government are many, not the
least of which is the character of the
men we send to our Legislatures. Mr..
Godkin, in the Atlantic" for July, says
that there is no Legislature to-day
which is controlled by scientific meth
DDS or by the opinion of experts in jur-
isprudence or political economy. Meas
ures devised by such men are apt to be
passed with exceeding difficulty, while
the law is rendered more and more I'M
certain by the enormous number Of
Acts passed on all sorts of subjects.
Mr. GodEin says that there is uneasi-
ness in all business and industrial cir
cIes whenever there is a meeting of a
State Legislature. If we have a right
TO judge by California, we all know this
to be true. and the worst of it is the
evil is growing. We do not send as
competent men to the Legislature as
we did years ago. Legislators now
seem to be controlled by demagogy or
by coin; and if perchance we send some
good man" he is apt to be of the sort
save his life, and who, even if posted on
one or two measures of local interest, is
lost in the maze of bills upon which he
is called to act. We send men to make
our laws whom no man would think for
a moment of sending anywhere to at
tend to the most trivial business mat
ter. It should not be so and every vot-
er should try to remedy it.
WORK AND WANTING IT.
Riverside Press: The Fresno Eek
positor" has been bowling about the
low wages now obtaining for labor in
that country and charging it all up to
the Dingley bill. A man who runs a
mill in the mountains back Of Fresno
tells a very different story, however.
He says:
There are several hundred men lying
in the Courthouse Park now who say
they want work. Yet I have been rae
ing around over the whole town trying
to find a dozen men for the mill and
have been unable to get them. Many of
those fellows in the park don't want to
work. When I offered them jobs they
said they wouldn't work for less than
$50 or $50 a month with board"
work in sawmin at fair wages is GER
tainly not so great a sufferer from the
Dingley bin that any subscription need
be started in his behalf
BENEFITS OF ROADS.
Fresno Expositor: No man in the
community profits so much by good
roads as the farmer. You cannot scare
him by road taxes if he is assured that
the sum will be honestly and practi-
cally applied to the roads. But the
people at large in a country should
bear the burdens Of road-making uni
formly. There is not a property hold
er in Fresno City that is not in a de-
gree benefited by the construction of
good roads in the county. and the cost
Of such work should be more uniformly
distributed.
WHERE THE DINGLEY SHOE
PTNCHES.
Fresno Republican: 1t is strange that
the class that demands the most pro-
lection from the Government is the
very one whose members object most
strenuOusly to being taxed for its sup
port. Thus the society women of New
York are filed with spite and a desire
for revenge because the Merchants
and Manufacturers Board of Trade
advocated the adoption of a clause in
the Dingley tariff bill which exacts
a tax on all baggage from abroad in
excess of 500 in value. In order to
make sure that the law was enforced
the board hired men to keep an eye
on the inspectors at the piers of trans
Atlantic steamship lines. This has
angered the aforesaid society ladies
exceedingly, and a movement has been
started by them to boycott the members
of the board.
The leaders in this precious move
ment are said to be Mrs. John Jacob
Aston, Mrs. ogden Mills, Mrs. Corne-
Illus Vanderbilt, Mrs. Q. H. P. Belmont,
Mrs. w. S. Webb, etc. These women
are not protesting against an imposi-
ton, but against a wise and just tax
that should have been levied long ago.
Up to the present wealthy American
tourists have been permitted to bring
back to this country foreign goods
whose value mounts into the millions,
N