The record-union., 1897-10-05
VOICE OF The PRESS
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

! the labor troubles in the coal regions,
it is we'll to know that within 300 or
400 miles Of Cincinnati there is coal
enough in the earth to last this country
| for generations, vet every man VINO
owns coal field wants to dig it out and
sell it during his own lifetime. Now
all this coal can't be used at once.
/ While this country can consume go
000,0O0 tons of coal a year, we have
$500 miners who are able and anX-
ious to mine. at full time 600,000,000
tons year. Students of the labor ques-
ton should bear these facts in mind.
They make the question easier to un-
derstand, if harder to solve.
| SELLING OUR SURPLUS.
Oroville Register: If California
would manufacture more of her boots
and shoes, her hats, clothing. house
hold and farming utensils, her car
riages, and hardware our people would
rapidly grow rich Other States buy
from us every season vast supplies, but
we send our money away for things we
ought to make. This year the East
will buy from US fifteen to twenty mil
| lions in fruit and cur wheat crop will
| bring US something near 30,0OO,U1U.
To this we must add something for
sugar, for CATTLE and sheep, for wool,
| for lumber, etc. so that other States
and Europe will buy fully $50,000000
of our productions. What a rich State
California would soon become if we
manufactured more and bought less.
GOLD AND GOLDEN.
Alameda Argus: During the month
that is now within a day of its end
there have been nearly five millions of
dollars worth of grain dispatched from
the Pacific Coast for foreign markets.
This was carried in thirty-five ships, of
which seventeen were loaded with
wheat, five with barley, twelve with
mixed cargoes and one with flour. The
crop is nowhere near marketed as yet,
and when it shall all have been dis
patched there VIII be a return of gold
that is sure to accelerate prosperity in
| this golden land.
CITRUS FRUIT EXCHANGE.
Riverside Globe: 1t is safe to say
that had not the producers of oranges
and lemons in Riverside four and five
years ago associated themselves to-
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there would be hardly an orchard in
the valley without a mortgage upon it.
| if indeed they had not entirely passed
| into the hands of the money lender.
| There is not a grower in the valley of
ordinary Judgment who will not readily
admit this fact, and yet there are
found a few who hang out from sup
! porting the exchange system-forget-
| ting the hand that feeds them. 1t is
simply the greedy who do this, and
solely because they may possibly be
able to take advantage of the market
and drive a sharp bargain, and make a
few dollars more out of their crop.
REMOVAL OF SUPERVISORS.
| Oakland Enquirer: AS we antici-
pated, the success attained in San
Francisco in the removal of the Board
Of Supervisors upon technical grounds
has been followed by an outbreak of
demands all over the State for the
ousting of other Boards of Supervisors.
Proceedings have been initiated in
Mendocino, Tulare and other counties,
and now some unknown persons are
| talking about removing the Alameda
| Supervisors, because they appropriat-
| ed $500 to assist in the observance of
the centennial of the old Mission, which
they did, it is alleged without author
ity of law.
If the officers whom the people have
elected are to be removed summarily
from office, we prefer to see it done for
some offense in which there was a
guilty intent. Whether or not they
violated the law in making this small
| appropriation for the Mission centen-
NAL, there could have been no wrong
intent, and we do not believe in a Law
which passes by willful extravaganza,
or political j6bDery, or scandals of 9TH
er kinds, and then singles out a mere
technicality, involving no turpitude
whatever, as an occasion for ousting an
official body
LAWYERS AND WITNESSES.
Stockton Record: The lack of pro-
lection to witness in court and out
of court is one of the loopholes for
criminals. Were witnesses given the
same protection as the attorney. or
We're the attorney put under oath
along with the witness when asking
the questions and making his state
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ability for perjury and misstatements,
1t might better matters somewhat. The
protection of a disinterested witness
should be the first concern in any trial.
| The practice is to protect the lawyer
first, then the criminal; the witness is
punished with all manner of tortures
while on the stand, and carries away
an inheritance of bitterness and un-
1attering publicity that influences him
to keep dark secrets hidden and sup
press truth rather than again be
placed at the mercy of brutal attor-
ney, and the precedents of the court
and the fellowship and commonality of
interest of the Judge. to act the tyr
ant and the prosecutor. Respect for law
can hardly withstand the assaults
made upon its dignity and justice by
those who have been licensed to prac-
tice and interpret law.
THE UNION PACIFIC CASE.
Portland Oregonian: 1t is best for the
! Government in such a case TO do what
| private persons would do-take the
I largest sum it can get, accept the loss
I and wind up the business. Nobody
thinks it wise to pay off prior mort
/ cages. in the hope of saving a debt.
I when their sum exceeds the whole pres
ent value Of the property; and especial
I ly it would be bad policy for the Gov
ernment of the United States TO pay out
I SI0,9D-0G0 more for the sake Of get
i ting into the railroad business. with a
| property on its hands that could be
duplicated at once fer less money. BY
the other and wiser course it viii get
/ $50 100000 in cash out of the roads,
and viii be clear. moreover. of the per-
/ lis Of Government ownership.