The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-19
Voice OF HHE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
VI the State and the Coast on Sub
iects of Living and News
Interest.


Riverside Press: The various orange
Producing sections of Southern Cali
fornia are gradually getting in line IN
good shape in raising funds for the
tariff fight The Monrovia Duarte
Fruit Exchange will raise about a dol
lar per car on the fruit shipped from
that section and has already turned in
S1OO. On this basis Riverside should
contribute at least $1,000. Redlands
has undertaken to raise about 5000, and
]. S. Edwards, A. R. Ruggles and c. R.
Paine, the Soliciting Committee, are
meeting with good success. We believe
that Riverside will have no reason to
complain of its neighbors. If We do our
full duty in the premises, the COM
mittee at Washington will have ample
funds for necessary expenses.
STOCKTON POLITICS.
Stockton Record: Clean, direct, hon
orable politics means good, clean gov
eminent A stream cannot rise higher
than it's source. When jobs are
Matched at uncanny hours in back Of
fees and barrooms the fruit will prove
rotten at the core. Clean politics means
clean administration. Corporation pol
tiles means administration by corpora
tions. Politics by lawyers means gov
eminent by lawyers for the usual fee
Politics by the ward heelers and the
push means government by these ele-
ments for the ordinary spoils But in
every case the resulting government
cannot be above the level of the origin
ators of the movement If it is engi-
neered by unreliable and irresponsible
men, the resulting administration will
be of the same cast
SAME HERE.
Santa Rosa Press: 1t may be an old
topic, but it is one that cannot be too
often referred to-that our citizens
should do everything they can, con-
sistently, to build up our home indus
tries. New industries are springing up
here. They cannot succeed if our own
citizens do not take the proper interest
IN them. If our citizens exert them
selves in their proper way in favor of
our home industries they are sure to
become prosperous. Just now when the
wooden mill is getting ready to start
up, when a shoe factory and other in
dustries are under contemplation, our
friends that all must pull together if
the new industries are to succeed
ABOVE PARTY POLITICS.
Pasadena Star: Senator White had
himself interviewed while in San Fran
cisco the other day and talked through
his hat on a variety of subjects, saying
among other ridiculous things:
The present administration will GER
tainly be guilty Of ingratitude if it
does not give to the moneyed interests
of this country every thing that they
demand. Mckinley was elected by
those interests and they certainly have
claim upon him. Their influence may
be observed at Washington, where they
are very powerful. In my opinion these
interests can get almost anything they
want from the administration
By a singular coincidence the same
issue of the paper contained the dis
patch from Washington telling of the
appointment of the three Commission
ers, under the Act of the last Congress
to promote bimetallism. The Commits
4 sioners named are ex-Vice- President
stevenson, Senators Wolcott and Payne.
Senator Wolcott. who has been abroad
in the interests of bimetallism, believes
that the selection of the commission,
especially in naming Mr.. Stevenson, a
silver man, and who spported Mr. Bry-
an, President Mckinley has convinced
every body that he Is a bimetallist.
President Mckinley desired that the
subject Of international bimetallism
should be lifted above party politics
and his action is praised everywhere
by broad gauge statesmen
DUTY ON CITRUS FRUITS
Los Angeles Herald: Whatever opin-
ions may be entertained in regard to
the desira bility or otherwise of tariff
there are probably few citizens of
Southern California who will not read
lily admit that if we are to have a pro-
tective tariff at all, the citrus fruit in
dustry in this section should be one OF
the first to benefit by it. Even Senator
White. who viii fight the Dingley bill
as a whole, has promised to use his
best efforts to get the duty on oranges
and lemons raised from three fourth
of a cent pound, as fixed by the Ways
and Means Committee of the House, to
one cent.
The oranges growers of Southern Cali
foria have invested very large amount
of money. together with much hard
work and patience, in what was admit
ted TO be the leading industry of this
section The results of this work and
money so far are represented by ship
ments of about $500 carloads of or
anges and lemons during the past sea
son. worth on board of cars between
$1,000 1000 and $1,000 900. The amount
Will probably be doubled next season
What the orange growers of Southern
California ask is a tariff rate of one
cent per pound upon imported citrus
fruits, which is equal to about 81 cents
per cubic foot. and would average less
than four cents per dozen oranges. This
certainly cannot be regarded as an out
rage upon the poor consumer in the
East, of whom foreign fruit importers
are so fond of talking. as it represents
only one cent on three oranges, which
would be divided between the whole
W.T.