The record-union., 1897-03-26
VOICE OF TIE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jects of Living and News
Interest.

Reno Gazette: The British press, of
course, can see no good in McKinley's
tariff and financial policies. The COM
ments of the leading English journals
are severe and will impress every Amer
ican more than ever that the President
is on the right track.
NEVADA.
Oakland Tribune: The man who can
devise plan to put the State of Nevada
on wheels and drag it around through
the great centcrs of population would
earn the gratitude of thousands who
deplore the fact that prize fighting is
permitted and that Carson is SO far
away.
GIFTS TO CHARITABLE INSTITU-
TIONS.
Oakland Enquirer: One good thing
which the Legislature did before it ad-
journed was to pass a law amending
the law by which the proportion of his
estate which a person may bequeath by
will for charitable or benevolent pur-
poses is limited to third. The new
Act provides that If a person has no
direct heirs he may leave the entire es-
tate to a non-sectarian institution. 1t
would have been still better if the law
had provided that where the estate is
worth over 100000, the excess may be
given for education or charity without
regard to the number of direct heirs.
Sooner or later the law will get around
to this, now that it has begun to pro-
gress in the direction of enlightenment.
INCOME TAX.
Colusa Sun: Shanahan's income tax
bill was defeated. 1t did not suit our
legislators and their friends, but we GER
tainly ought to have an income tax bill.
Those who have incomes ought GER
tainly to pay tax for the protection or
the goose that lays the golden egg. and
those without the income need no such
protection. 1t was a bill that all should
have supported, even if it did have an
Objectionable feature or two. 1t is not
right for the man who has land without
an income to pay to protect interest
bearing bonds notes and securities
which fattens his proud neighbor and
that neighbor not paying a tithe toward
the Government.
OUR FUTURE.
Red Bluff Peoples Cause: In Cali
fornia, we believe the people have better
reason to face the future hopefully than
those of any other part of the country.
Her mines are producing large quant1-
tes of gold and other precious metals,
and the fruit crop gives promise OF an
unprecedented year. There has been no
freeze to injure the citrus fruit crop and
if conditions continue favorable we shall
surely have a good year. In these facts
are found the reason why California
has reason to be hopeful of the future
more hopeful than the people of other
States She has resources which are
her own almost exclusively, and which
are not largely affected by circum-
stances which may PROSTATE business in
other States.
PURE FOOD.
San Diego Union: The people OF the
entire State have a very keen interest
in the outcome of this pure-food move
ment. Aside from its bearing on the
public health-which is certainly
most important considerations is be-
coming generally recognized that the
legitimate Industries of the state are
entitled to protection against adulterat-
ed articles, whether brought here from
the East or made in California. The
recently conducted at
San Francisco have shown that the
quantities of adulterated food products
sold in California are enormous, ana
the loss to the honest producer is cor
respondingly great. 1t appears, too,
that San Francisco is the center of the
evil. If it can be eradicated in that
city, there is no question that it can be
in every part of the State.
WHAT 1T WILL DO.
Stockton Mail: IF this habit of ex-
pectoratioE in public should be stopped.
l am sure that in time tuberculosis
would die out altogether" This is the
opinion CT DIR. Paul Gibier, an eminent
authority The statement may seem
sweeping, but it is endorsed by boards
of health generally. These March
winds are spreading disease far and
wide and the germs of consumption
travel upon it's wings. It is this fact
that makes public expectoration a
crime Health and decency are beg
ging the City Council to give to Stock
ton the benefit of the anti-spitting or
dinance.
CRITICISM OF THE PRESS.
Santa barbara Press: Just now it
appears to be quite the thing in certain
circles 10 indulge in sweeping criti-
cism of the press. The term new
journalism" is applied in opprobriuln
whenever carping critics wish TO find
fault with the enterprise of the press.
OF wish to bring the profession of jour
nalism into disesteem among citizens.
Just why the press should be made the
target Of the shafts Of the critics whilst
the other professions are allowed to es
cape, IS difficult to discover. The mis-
sion of the newspaper is to print the
news; to faithfully reflect the every
day life of the people of the country;
to be mirror by which the people can
see all the events and happenings of
the ever active. moving throng that
the world
ONE THING PROVEN
Kern Echo: There is one thing that