The record-union., 1897-09-29
VOICE OF The PRESS
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

by practical experience that fresh Bor
deauX mixture is far superior to old
in its results. The older the mixture.
the more it deteriorates, by mechanical
action principally. The minute particles
of the blue compound settle and be-
come granulated, thereby lessening the
strength and virtue Of the wash and in
creasing the difficulty in applying, by
clOgging up the nozzle 1t is clearly
evident that it is more satisfactory to
prepare it when needed than TO make
up quantity for future use.
HE DOES NOT CROAK.
Fresno Republican: There is one
mighty good thing about Mckinley.
which even his political enemies will
admit. He is not forever keeping the
country in a state of perturbation and
alarm by eternally cr0aking about ter
rible disaster impending. such as char
acterized CIeveland's entire administra-
ton. Mckinley is cheerful and hopeful
himself and this spirit is to a certain
extent infectious. Good cheer inspires
cheerfulness. Cleveland's pessimism
and the blue ruin with which he threat
ened everybody and everything if his
fool plans were not carried out was al
most enough in themselves to give the
country a bad case of industrial jaun-
dice
THE WIDE TIRE LAW.
Los Angeles Express: Reference has
several times been made in these col
umns to the new widetire law;
but it may be well to suggest once
more that all who drive horses, or
horseless vehicles for that matter,
widen their tires against the time when
the law goes into effect, to-Wit: the
first day of 1900.
The steam rollers are now in line with
mod arn policy and it won't hurt any
farmer to join the procession whenever
it becomes necessary to make any re-
pairs on his vehicles, even if he antici-
pats the enforcement of the Act; he
won't be arrested for it.
Whoever has not yet tried broad tires
has a pleasant surprise in store; he will
witness a great saving of horset1esh and
decided Improvement in the roads
wherever the enlightened mind has ap-
piled this broad policy. Wide tires are
like snow shoes; they get over the crust
of the earth without crushing through
to the inner nothingness; in so doing
the work saved for each horse is i'm
mense.
LEAN WITH FAT.
Oakland Enquirer: The lean goes
with the fat. After years of talk, the
leading bicycle manufacturers have re-
duced their prices but now they have
agreed to cut down the period of their
guarantees from q year to two months.
On two months guarantee almost
any kind Of wheel can be sold without
much danger that it will come back
to the maker and we should say the
new rule will be decidedly in favor of
the builders of inferior machines and
against the interests of those who pro-
pose to turn out durable work.
YOUTH OF THE WORLD.
Tulare Register: The youth of this
world is hardly better exemplified than
by the fact that we are only one gen
GRAFTON of men from the old flint and
tinder box, the time when fires had to
be covered up with great care to be
made to last from day to day, and
when people borrowed burning brands
from their neighbors to kindle fire With
We can remember an old tinder box
we had to play with when little and
when paper lighters were made with
great care and kept standing on the
mantel in order to save matches, which
were expensive But the man who in
vented the lucifer match, Sir Isaac
Holden, is only just now dead. What
favor that man conferred upon man
kind! And what though he did make
lot of money and died rich? If there
are to be rich men in the world Why
not he? No, the world is in its callow
youth. We call it old, but it is only
a little while since the manner of liv-
ing was crude, indeed, and the luxur-
les of life were few. This is the golden
est age the world has seen.
ELECTING EQUALIZERS.
Riverside Press: San Francisco is
very much disgruntled over the action
of the State Board of Equalization in
reducing the assessment of most of the
interior counties and leaving San Fran
cisco's assessment unchanged. The
latest scheme evolved there to prevent
a recurrence of such an outrage" is
the election Of the members of the
Board of Equalization by the State at
large instead of by districts. A num-
ber of people have been interviewed on
the subject by the San Francisco pa
pers. and they favor it, But it is an
interesting fact that the gentlemen in
terviewed are all residents of San
Francisco, and Of course they would
favor anything which they thought was
for the interest of that city. The rest
of the State has not been interviewed,
but the interior counties will be heard
from. all the same At the next cleo
ton San Francisco will poll about 80
600 votes of probable 800, 600 in the
State. or one-fourth. If the State
Board Of Equalization was elected on
the general State ticket it is pretty
safe to presume that those 10000
votes would be very largely pooled, re-
gardless of politics, for candidates that
were pledged to be favorable to San
Francisco. And lots of politicians with
cartilaginous spines would promise
most anything to catch the San Fran
cisco vote. The result would be a Board
of Equalization that would be mere
| putty in the hands of the city and
county of San Francisco. 1t is no
torious fact that for years the assess
ment of San Francisco has not been
equitable TO the rest of the State The
great newspaper plants Of the 'Chroni-
Gle" Examiner and Call for instance,
have been assessed only a little more
than that of the Press The latest
| scheme to escape taxation is certainly
not likely to be received with any very
general enthusiasm by the State at
large. The other counties pay their
fair proportion of taxes and make no
kick about it, Why cannot San Fran
/ cisco do the same?
MONEY IS PLENTIFUL.
| Stockton Independent: Silver men said