The record-union., 1897-09-17
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

4AICItSIs
Santa Rosa Press: Last fall Re-
/ publican papers were pointing TO Pop
ulist Kansas as an. awful example Of
adversely, all because of its Populistic
tendencies. Now they are Dragging
about how the banks are all running
over and the mortgages are being paid
off.
GONE TO WORK.
San Jose Mercury: During the pres
ent year the number of persons apply
ing for civil service examinations in
this country has been not more than
fourth of the total number last year.
This looks as though the average
American office-seeker had not only
concluded to go to work, but had found
work to engage in.
A COMPARISON.
Fresno Waterman: We note a rank
/ disposition on the part of the Repubi-
can press to roast VIM. ]. Bryan be-
cause he. by virtue of being joint
owner of a newspaper, TOOK transporta-
/ ton from Sacramento to the north in
payment for an advertisement in his
4 pa pei HIS - COLSlQGItQ DN the IEG-
| publican press as rank treason to DEM
ocracy and according to sentiment VIM.
j. ought to be damned 1t seems TO
US that Mr.. Bryan was fully justified
in collecting a debt honestly due to his
firm. If not why was Mr.. William
Mckinley entitled to accept a free train
without any claim when he went to
| Washington City to be inaugurated, OF
President James A Garfield when, in
the throes Of death, he was taken to
Elberon. Before you criticise you had
better remember.
THE END OF THE STRIKE.
| Los Angeles Herald: The tragedy Of
Friday was followed by the settlement
of the miners strike, the men agreeing
| to accept the compromise rate of So
cents offered by the operators for the
remainder of the year This prompt
action was undoubtedly hastened by
/ the sad occurrence at Latimer and the
/ fear that a continuation of the strike
might lead to further disturbances. The
| settlement includes the greater part of
/ the district affected, and it is proba bic
that when the times comes for the min
ers to go to work those who are yet
holding out will have accepted the de-
cision of the majority.
The outcome must be regarded as
victory for the men, even though it was
gained at such a fearful cost The ad-
vance gained by the miners is small,
but it will help, even though they may
not live in what an American work
| ingman would call comfort.
I The verdict Of the eranaraI r1,bIio
which has had better opportunities for
getting at the facts regarding labor
| troubles in the mining districts than
| it has had before, will be in favor OF
| the men. 1t is to be greatly deprecat-
| ed that in a country like ours the condi-
tions have been such as to make the
| strike and the tragedy at Latimer pos
sible. 1t has furnished food for thought.
and should become the handspring of
future action. The policies, the sys-
TENS, the laws, or the lack of laws, that
/ produced Latimer should have investi-
| cation in the minds Of all intelligent
/ citizens, be they employees or employed,
who have the interests of the country
at heart.
| JUST SO ELSEWHERE.
San Diego Union The Sacramento
! Record Union, which is advocating
| the construction Of a sanitary sewer
! system in that city, finds itself called
/ upon 10 reply to a class of critics who
| always oppose a proposed municipal
! Improvement on the ground that to
| agitase for it may hurt the town."
The Record d-Union' in pointing out the
necessity for a new sewer system called
attention to seven thousand cesspools
and filth pits and urged that they
! should give way to a more sanitary
condition of affairs. People in San
| Diego will have no difficulty, judging
| by what has happened here in the past,
in imagining the clamor that this ac-
tion on the part of the Record Union"
caused in Sacramento and here in part
| is what that paper has to say in reply
| to Its critics:
The Record Union does not fear to
| speak the truth about the matter. Re-
! tained filth in a porous soil is bad. and
all the world knows it, for those who
live upon the surface of such soil. If
1 the cbjectorS to whom we refer have
any doubt of that, let them ask any
member of the several Boards of Health.
whose office it is to be we'll informed
/ NPOAA biACoG SuUJGClS. 1He SOO0 SQcn
statements do is to bring about reform.
and that is always and everywhere
beneficent Our horizon is not limited
by the desire of real estate agents to
/ make sales
! HIS DEATH KNELL.
Stockton Record: The Call" an
| nounces that Governor James H. Budd
/ has decided to recommend the election
/ of the State Board of EQUALIZATION by
the vote Of the State at large. If
/ Governor Budd has decided to stand
| in for this he might as we'll abandon
/ his political ambition at once. for he
could not get a majority in any county
OUTSIDE of San Francisco. The object
| in Board of Equalization chosen by
| the State at large is TO permit San
| Francisco, by massing it's vote. to
I decide the contest and protect her tariff
! evasion. This means Budd's death
/ knell, so far as the next Governorship
is concerned. We have no doubt
that the San Francisco push can con-
troll the next Democratic convention
and capture the nomination for Budd
but the interior will punish him for his
apostasy.
CHANGE? NOT MUCH.
/ Stockton Independent. San Francis
cans want the members of the State
Board of Equalization to be elected at
large hereafter. This is prompted by
hops that it can secure the election
/ of c,s-jority who will favor that citv.
i The interior is content to let well
/ enough alone and continue the district
| system of election San Francisco
usually secures an undue influence over