The record-union., 1897-12-06

'osnce or such danger constantly before
U.S. Dut the press and people of San
FRANCISCO, through willful ignorance or
otherwise, choose to consider the mat
ter trivial one There is enough de-
br1s In the rivers of the Sacramento
Valley to destroy in time all the bays
adjacent to Golden Gate, and the jetty
system will get it there. if the natural
current of the rivers don't. The hope
OF the valley is in dredging the streams
ana 10 that end beginning was made
When the last Legislature appropriated
s5oooOO to buy and equip a dredger or
dredsers. Through jingo politics and
the engrafting into the matter the will
ful ignorance that has ever character
lZeo the opposition to the valleys ef-
forts, this appropriation is in a fair
way TO be frittered away by side is
sues Ike the ''jetty system
GOOD SAVINGS BANKS.
santa Rosa Republican: Just at
present there is great newspaper de-
mand for postal savings banks Post
iEaSter-General Gary is declared to be
IN 1avor of the project and it is likely
10 De recommended to the next Con-
sress The scheme may be all right
we are not disposed to antagonize it,
but there should be no hasty action in a
matter of so much Importance. TO in
augurate and manage such a system of
banking will call for an additional army
of public officials and a very different
scheme of Postoffice management
There would be an immediate demand
for many expensive Government build
ings With burglar proof vaults and SAT S.
Is it not we'll to ask if the people are
likely to get satisfactory returns from
such investments of public funds?
Also. the wisdom of the Government
engaging in the banking business is
questioned by many people. There is
great sentiment, Democratic sentiment,
If you please. using the term IN a broad
and not partisan sense. which holds to
the theory that our nation should give
to its citizens little more than opportu-
nifty to do for themselves. Their faith
is founded on the teaching of the fathers
and they may not be mistaken.
OUR FRUIT IN EUROPE.
Placer Herald One thing was plain
ly demonstrated by the California ex-
hibit at Hamburg, and that was that
our canned and preserved fruits could
easily capture the markets of both IN
sular and continental Europe. Our
grade of fruit is so vastly superior to
theirs, that it can readily be made to
command prices that would justify
transportation to Europe. Our export
trade in this line has increased within
the last two years from mere fraction
to a thousand carloads. This brings US
back to one inevitable conclusion, that
we should devote less of our energies
to marketing green fruits and more of
our energies to dried and preserved
fruits. This again brings us to the ne
cessity of erecting canneries at nearly
all our shipping points. Watch the
markets and when there is every pros
eect that fruit men will have TO pay
charges instead of receiving dividends
on green fruit, have your canneries
ready to receive the surplus mot the re-
fuse). There seems to us no other way
of restoring confidence to fruit pro-
ducers. Let other portions of the State
go into the beet industry, and by all
means we hope the sugar production viii!
prosper but for fruit men, with all their
dollars invested in orchards, try and
hold the markets both for green and
CdDnSU anu UTeoGENeQ II Gel
tainly is time that eur fruit men should
stop paying, enormous freight bills TO
Eastern markets just for the fun of
doing so.
SENSATIONAL JOURNALISM AND
PUBLIC APPROVAL.
Stockton Mail: If circulation is the
barometer of public approval, it seems
that sensational journalism is approved
by the public And yet we believe that
sensationalism has been pushed so far
that a reaction is inevitable. When
leading journal gravely announces that
an interview with a penitentiaried thief
is "a story embracing so much more of
interest pertinent to the public OF this
coast than an Eastern article would"
and that it has decided to substitute
the opinions and reflections Of this pris-
on inmate for the valuable autobiog-
raphy of the King of Dudes" it does
seem as if the zenith and nadir OF dis
reputable journalism had been both
touched The thing is so grotesque, s9
absurd, such an insult to taste and
even decency, that decency and taste
must violently revolt.