The record-union., 1897-03-09
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SuD-
jects of Living and News
Interest.


San Francisco woman the support OF
three children, the care and support
OF her husband until his death, and
now that things are looking some
brighter, the support and care of her
aged and sick father-in-law. This get
ting married seems to be an hours sun
shine in many cases followed by a life
time of black clouds and storms.
QUALIFIED.
Marysville Appeal: Gen. Alger says
that what the country needs above all
things is rest, confidence and peace
1t is a good sentiment, and shows that
the General is qualified to be Secretary
of War.
THE MATTER OF BETTER ROADS.
Gridley Herald: The matter of good
roads is one that is becoming more and
more each year the demand of the
people Everywhere. The taxpayers
in all portions of the State are awak-
ening to the fact that in proportion
to the amount of money expended,
they get very little in return. They see
each year and under each succeeding
administration the costly patchwork
system followed without any lasting
results for the better. The funds of
the respective districts are depleted
each year by an Intellectual method,
which may be likened to mailing new
shingles on barn with rotten rafters
the first wind rips off the shingles
and the work has to be done all over
again. While Butte County has bet
fer roads in the main than many of her
sister counties, she eXpends just as
much Wastefully.
NEW JOURNALISM.
Stockton independents: Corbett and
Fitzsimmons have bright prospects for
the future. Corbett has announced his
intention of making New York his flu
ture residence, but has not said what
occupation he should follow. He is
too shrewd to forestall himself by so
doing, but the course of events in the
East have betrayed him. 1t is evident
that he and F'itz viii open schools of
new journalism. Both have shown so
much business sagacity that it is not
to be imagined that they can have
overlooked the opening for them. New
journalism does not require literary
training. What it wants is pugilistic
culture. The two great exponents of
new journalism have been retaining all
the tough talent attainabIe in and
around the great metropolis and the
demand seems to increase with the
supply. As the career of the tough is
notoriously short the supply is not
likely to hold out and to the great glad
iators the enterprising publishers must
look for its continuance 1t will soon
become a sine qua non" that a re-
porter shall be a rowdy; a stenographer
a shoulder hitter; city editor an ath-
lete; a telegraph editor a tough and a
proof reader a pugiIist in order to fill
positions on papers of the new school.
rhetoric must give place to rhOdo-
mOntade and grammar to groveling
and the paper that does not surrender
TO the coming influence in the greater
cities must so down under the new
rule of the survival of the filthiest. The
free public library of Newark, n J., is
doomed to death for, in defiance of the
tbackward) progress of the age, it has
ruled that the New York World and
journal" the most shining and
shameless of the new school of journal
ism, shall not pollute its premises.
New Jersey was always the butt of
New York wit. and now viii be the
especial target of the mephtic emiss-
ions of the new school, which depends
upon the tough. the degraded and the
prudent for its support.
ORDER AND METHOD.
Antelope Valley Gazette: Order and
method are the conjurers by whose aid
a man of very average abilities may, If
he chooses, secure TO himself the bless
ing of never being hurried Only ar
range properly the quantum of work
which is to be got through in a day or 4
week, or any fixed period, and a small
margin over and above the bare space
absolutely needed for each part of 1t.
and that margin win be available for the
chance distractions for which people
complain that they have no time.
THE CHARACTER OF MCKINLEY.
Los Angeles Times: Every true Amer
lean is honored in the elevation of Will
lam Mckinley To the position of Chief
Executive of this great republic. In
the broaGest and most catholic sense ne
i a man of the people. lie knows TIL
needs, the aspirations, and the hopes II
The people. for he is of them His Off
cial life, as President. win be devoted
TO the service of no class or clique OF
faction. He has been elected by the
American people. and to the American
people his best services vii be given.
The worlds history is crowded with
instances of men who have achieved
seminence by a fortuitous combination ol
circumstances. william Mckinley is
not of this class of great men. He has
attained to the highest eminence 10y rca
son of his own inherent greatness OF
character which has justly and prop
erly found recognition at the hands oi
his appreciative cOuntrymen.
William Mckinley typihes in his per-
sonal character all that is best and most
worthy in manhood. American citizen
ship has furnished no nobler type thar
he Viewed from whatever standpoint
his character is admirable. In domestic
life devoted and faithful husband; il
public life a conscientious. able and up.
right statesman; in social life a stead
fast friend and counselor his career is
without a stain. his life without re-
proach.
BEET SUGAR IN CALIFORNIA.
Oroville Register: California. the
greatest sugar beet country in the world
contents herself with raising wheat
which she ships to Europe and then buys
back sugar, thus making herself poorei
in growing grain and enriching the for.
eigner who raises sugar beets.
THE TARIFF.
Yreka Journal: our Democrat.
friends in their opposition To the Me
Kinley tariff bill requiring a protectiv.
duty on foreign goods, professed a grear
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