The record-union., 1897-07-07
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
isst Interest.

Riverside Globe: When we contem-
plate the fact that without approaching
the crowded condition of Europe that
there is ample room within the pres
ent limits of the United States Tor
oOO,OOO,O00 people We gain some idea OF
what ultimate America means, in the
way of population and makes our pop
ulation Of to-day dwarf into insignlfl-
canoe. Surely, America in the words OF
Emerson stands for opportunity
THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Salinas. Index: The Hawaiian Islands
are twelve in number and lie ,, 100 miles
southwest of San Francisco. They have
an aggregate area of about g, 400 square
miles, not quite double the size Of Mon
terey County. There are ,, 600, coo acres
Of good grazing lands on these islands
and about 300,0 acres susceptible to
cultivation. They are in the track of
American and Asiatic commerce and
are the key to the sea power of the
Pacific With the Hawaiian islands as
a safe refuge, base of supplies and coal
ing station, the United States viii be
paramount in the affairs Of the Pacific
course, but Congress will form it into a
Territorial Government, or add it to
California as a new county. Under the
proposed treaty of annexation the
United States will assume the debt of
the present Hawaiian Government, but
win come into possession of all the
crown lands" and other property that
are worth much more than the amount
of the debt.
MAKING FACES.
Stockton Mail: The San Francisco
newspapers quarrel daily with one an
other in anything but interesting fash
ion. The conception of journalism which
impels editors to make personal attacks
upon rival newspapers is distinctly of
backwoods origin. 1t is very childish,
very uninteresting, and wholly ridicu-
lous. Making faces and calling names
is not newspaper work of high grade.
1t is not newspaper work at all, for
that matter.
LESSONS FOR FOOLS.
Stockton Independent: Moral lessons
win be written over the Bradbury Ward
elopement, of course but the instruct
i've point has not been reached and
the lessons will be incomplete. When
Ward tires of the beauty. as he tired
of his wife and abandons her for an
other woman, viii be the time to SER
mOnize Women who do not learn from
such stories and plays as East Lynne"
Kotzebues Stranger" or Howard
Payne's "Clari," or the old-time favorite
story Of Charlotte Temple, are not like
ly to be admonished by Mrs. Bradbury's
Z iSl
men eloping is as vain as to try to per-
suade people not to trif1e with firearms,
bet on a fakir's game, cash checks for
strangers or attempt to beat reporters
out of news. None but fools viii lin
dulge in any of these forms Of folly,
and there is but one preventive and that
is death. AS long as foolish people live
they will indulge in some form of folly.
As soon as they abandon one kind they
take up another.
TO TEST IT.
Stockton Independent: The suit
against Arthur Keagle to compel him
to issue a warrant for the amount of
a Supervisors expenses in attending
the Supervisors State Convention is
timely. The Legislature evidently did
not expect Supervisors to attend those
conventions at their own expense, but
it neglected to especially provide for
their payment of the public funds Aud
itOr Keagle is simply acting with pru-
dent caution in refusing to issue the
warrant after the question of its legal
ity has been been raised and need not
care what the decision is. On the prin-
ciple that when the law requires a thing
to be done it grants all the powers nee
essary to do it, the warrant should
be issued, but as Auditor Keagle's bond
makes him responsible for money i'm
properly paid out he does right to
await the mandate of the courts.
SHOULD BE DEPORTED.
Ukiah Register: According to a report
of a legislative committee which re-
Gently visited every almshouse in Penn
sylvania and made a thorough exam
ination there are in that State more
than 10000 paupers who are not citi-
zens of this country, and whose sup
port costs the taxpayers more than a
million and half dollars every year.
A similar condition of things exists all
over our country, assuming it's worst
phases of course in States like New
York. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,
and others containing large cities, in
which most e1nigrants are landed. The
census of 1890 showed that of every
ten paupers in the public alnshouses,
six were aliens, and the proportion
must be greater now. These facts show
that our immigration laws, which are
intended to turn back from our shores
the criminal and pauper classes, are not
very effective, for while many foreign
ers who come here in good health, and
with purpose and ability to earn liv-