The record-union., 1897-12-27
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest,".

a wheat field so large that il would re-
quire an express train thirty minutes
TO cross it. And this was not Cali
foTnia lie.
To-day this field and others of like
area are fenced, cross fenced and criss-
cross fenced. Small holdings have
taken the place of baronial tenements.
Where one man reaped the crops, a
hundred now gather the fatness of the
| land into their barns.
Then there were no school houses and
few churches for there We're no children
and few men of religious tendencies.
With the subdivision Of these great
! holdings came womankind into the ag-
ricultural life of the State and with it
religious, educate and social amen
tiles. California moved from the cook
house into the home.
ON-PARTISANSHIP.
San Jose Mercury: partisanship
in municipal elections must mean one
of two things: Either a number of
citizens sufficiently large to make their
selection of candidates from the tick
cts of political parties in the field, max
ing as even a division as possible; or,
body of citizens forms a distinct local
organization, regardless of the old par
ties, and nominates separate ticket.
In the first instance the elected candi-
dates, as officials, are no more nom
partisan than If they had been elected
straight out by their respective parties;
and besides, considering the mode Of
their election, they are responsible TO
no party and to no organization. In
the second instance, the local organiZa-
ton which placed the Independent tick
ct in the field and elected 1t is in fact a
party, as much so as any of the old
parties, firmly organized, duly equipped
and operating through it's own party
machinery, just as the other local par
| ties do.
A SAVING CLAUSE.
! Los Angeles Herald The Govern
ment will spare no pains or expense to
! get provisions into the famished min
fng camp on the Yukon but will ex
! pect those who are able to pay for
what they get This saving clause Of
the bill passed yesterday will be univer-
sally commended.
ENGLAND AND CHINA.
Stockton Mail: England has long
fought for India in Turkey She may
now be reused to fight for India in Chi
| iAeA' anu oEPoi OutitulilDtISd
she would be, those who have at heart
the lessons of history will not marvel
to see the people Of our blood and
speech victoriously hold their own The
riches of the British Empire are meal
culable, the spirit of all her peoples is
high. When she is driven to put forth
to the uttermost her might and power
we believe that there is but one nation
~, J, hi {11
mendous impact Of her onset by land
and sea- and that is the nation above
which floats our own flag. China may
be divided, but the division will not
! take place until the voice of England
has spoken. And the chances are
great that ere that word has been said
war-loud war by land and sea, with
topping Of hundred thrones-will
shake the world.
1T LEAKS OUT.
Tulare Register: 1t leaks out that
when the Los Angeles Chamber Of Com
nlerce passed it's anti-Hawaii annexa-
ton resolution that was telegraphed all
over the country, as speaking the SEN
/ timent of the City of Angels, there was
| barely quorum of Stephen NJ Whites
| personal friends present and the resolu-
| ton was in no sense an expression of the
| sentiment of majority of the members
of the chamber or representative of pub
lie sentiment in Los Angeles. Stephens
personal friends simply stole a march
| on the other side.
WHAT MAN?
Humboldt Standard: What man is
there among the readers of the Stand
ard who would not willingly pay an
/ extra dollar for good suit of clothes,
when he sees the wool industry revive
along with a general revival of business
/ and return to prosperous times? What
] matters it to a laboring man how cheap
clothing is If the industries of the coun-
| try are paralyZed and he can find no
work by which to earn the money ne
| cessary to buy it? When prices of farm
products are good all along the line, bus
| mess is good and labor earns wages with
! which to buy clothing and food. No
man, fit to live outside an asylum for
| the feeble minded, will find fault If he
must pay trifle more for clothing and
/ feed If he Is able at the same time to
| find profitable employment. Wool alone
has brought thousands of dollars into
| Humboldt within the past few months
that would not have come under the free
trade tariff on the Wilson bill. Our
/ sheep growers have received a so per
cent. advance in the price of their WOOL
and every good citizen of Humboldt is
glad of it. He is a very mean man who
would begrudge them a little increase
after the four fatal years which had
nearly bankrupted all the sheep men Of
! the county.
SACRAMENTO COMMENDED
Sausalito News: The people of Sac
ramento County have won for them
selves the distinction Of being the pio-
neers in the inauguration of a modern
road system by voting almost unani-
mously for the issuance of bonds to pro-
cure funds with which to construct a
| highway between Sacramento and Fol-
som.
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.
Oakland Tribune: A Christian edu-
cation in the public schools as urged by
Rev. Marshal Law is certainly most de-
sirable but how to conduct it untinged
by sectarianism is the problem that no
one has been able to solve. No matter
what restrictions are placed as to creed
the prevailing idea of the teacher or gov
erning board is bound to crop out and
then havoc is played among the children
/ of those of other faith. AS result it
has been tacitly understood of late years
| that the religious training shall be left
| to the home influence, though that it is
woefully neglected is but too apparent
in the rising generation.
| DELAYS OF THE LAW.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Every
law-abidng citizen of California should