The record-union., 1897-12-24
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub.
jects of Living News
Interest.

Fresno Expositor: San Francisco is
to have some sort of local show in
the next few weeks, alleged to be in
commemoration of the discovery of
gold by Marshall. AS a matter of fact,
jim Marshall was not the discoverer of
gold in California. That precious metal
was found in Mariposa County years
tail-race of the old mill at Coloma
This is to be San Francisco enter
prise, but the country papers are to
boom it-for nothing. With its usual
gall and audacity, it is now calling upon
the papers of this valley to publish it's
press notices-as a. gratuity.
AFTER THE LAWYERS.
Santa Rosa Republican: The killing
Of Mrs. Clute in broad daylight in San
Francisco the other day is taken as an
excuse by some of our exchanges to
pass severe criticism on the lawyers
who fight to save the lives of their cli-
ents. This occurs to us to be foolish
ness. 1t is more than foolishness-it is
really an outrage on the legal profess
sion
The trouble is not with the lawyers in
their practice but with the laws under
which they defeat the ends Of justice in
their efforts to save their clients. The
mistakes are made by the Legislature
primarily. Attorneys who care more
for the practice of their profession and
the results in d financial way to come
from such practice are public enemies
as members of the Legislature. The
people should keep them out of such
bodies, and insist on the laws being
made by men not having private axes
to be ground at public expense.
The quarrel should be with the laws
rather than the lawyers as such. This
matter the public have in their own
hands. If they use good sense in elect
ing lawmakers they will get statutes
under which the power of criminal law
yers will be reduced to the minimum.
The evils of this kind Of litigation are to
be corrected at the polls. They cannot
be corrected elsewhere, and the quicker
this is well understood the better will
it be for society.
THE DINGLEY BILL AND THE DE-
FICIT.
Los Angeles Herald: The principal
excuse for enacting the Dingley bill
was that the receipts from the Wilson
bill were not sufficient to meet the ex-
penses of the Government, and the Gus
tom duties of the former We're increased
over those of the latter on the theory
that the higher the rates the larger
would be the receipts.
1t took the Congress of the United
States all last summer TO enact this
supposed deficit-stopping BILL and upon
it's passage the leading statesmen Of the
Republican party confidently assured
the people that in the early part Of
1897 it would fill our national Treasury
and provide a surplus.
Time has again demonstrated the abb
surdity of this theory and destroyed the
chief idol of our friends, the enemy.
The deficit under the Dingley bill is
about S15, 100000 per month. Will some
of the high tariff advocates tell US why
it is that this bin provides no more
revenue than did the Wilson bill, and
this in the face of the fact that we are
now compelled to pay more for the nee
essaries Of life than under the Wilson
bill?
DEMONSTRATION.
San Jose Mercury: The Supervisors
Vi
strated the fact that first-class roads,
properly maintained, are not only the
best roads. but the cheapest. In this
county good roads are the rule; not an
exception; in every other county in the
State they are the exception. And yet
it costs us less for firm, smooth high
ways, which are sprinkled daily
throughout the summer months, than
it costs other counties for patching up
roads that are a continual source of
annoyance and discomfort.
HOW THE GIRLS WON.
Tacoma Ledger: There are two Wash
ington girls who We're not only ardent
believers in protection-in the shape of
the Dingley bill-but had the courage
of their convictions, by which they
profited Believing that Mckinley s
election meant protection and conse-
quently higher prices for wool, last
November they invested $3.50 in a
band of sheep. A protective tariff law
was enacted, and the girls profited by
their faith and good business judg-
ment, selling 50, ,26S worth of wool this
year, and receiving 1920 for their
sheep, a net profit of $500 on an in
is only a small illustration of the ben
efits of the tariff law TO the farmers
of this country, but it is plain and near
at home, therefore more effective.
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
Tulare Register: The philanthropic
world is torn at the breast because of
the prospective dismemberment of
China, q ruthless proceeding in entire
disregard of the rights of the Chinese
Government. When a government
ceases to subserve the high purposes
for which governments are ordained,
to keep pace with the march of civ
ilization, TO increase in liberty and ed
ucation, in science and induStrialism,
what right has it to territorial bound
aries which the world is bound to re-
spect? None at all. This great conti-
nent belonged to the Indians, and was
either forcefully or deceitfully taken
from them, and who shall say that our
forefather did wrong? There are high
er rights than technical rights. Rights
Of men are higher, and rights TO pro-
gressive life are higher. These rights
are all superior to the rights of the
Chinese Empire. and the sooner China
ID Pal titioilSQ tIis-
better for the Chinese people, into
whose dark lives the spirit of liberty
has not yet dawned.
VEGETABLE CULTURE.
Chino Champion: The growing Of
vegetables is going in the near future
to take a much higher place in Cali
fornia agriculture than it has in the
past. The day of exclusive Chinese
domination of vegetable growing is rap
idly passing, and there is a strong