The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-18
Voice OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jects of Living and News
Interest.

Stockton independent: San Fran
cisco is opposed to the bill to construct
highways at State expense. The ground
of opposition is that that city has ex-
pended vast sums on the Improvement
of its streets and has no unimproved
highways. Every other city could make
similar opposition but the people OF
every city are not so narroW-mlnded
Good highways throughout the State
will improve trade in that city as we'll
as others They will tend to do away
with the dull seasons which are caused
by mud blockades in the interior. When
traders in interior towns and farmers
can reach the railroad stations without
great trouble, danger of breakage of We
hicles and death to horses, freight rates
to remote points will be reduced and
trade will be benefited. During mud
blockades people of remote regions have
to do much as the people of South Da-
kota are now doing during the snow
blockade-live on short rations and
short allowance generally while when
roads are open they buy freely and 1--we
generously The road from Oakdale to
Sonora is a fair example of what occurs
nearly every winter in many parts of
IHe STATE DuIlIS Tie NiiipeAA .
fifty or more teams We're stalled in the
mud or broken down in the effort TO
reach either end of that highway. They
had attempted to make the trip with
half loads at double rates for freight
and the owners had lost heavily on the
ventures If the road had been rea-
sonably good traffic would have been
lively and San Francisco would have
shared the benefit thereof. Take the
losses on that road and multiply them
100 times which would he moderate
estimate for the whole State and null
tiply the product by a dozen seasons
and the result would be sufficient to
put in good, passable condition every
road entering into the calculation. In
this saving San Francisco would share
When the development that would
follow the Improvement is added TO
the calculation, the whole State would
be the gamer to a far greater amount
than the tax would amount to while
the only losers would be the wagon
makers, blacksmiths and harness MAX
ers. who would lost much of the profit
On the repairing made unnecessary by
the reduced wear and tear on the
freighting outfits. Even this loss would
be compensated by the increased ability
of owners of teams to buy new and bet
ter vehicles and harness and the in
crease of traffic which good roads would
naturally bring Then. too. the exam
pie of good highways would cause i'm
provement Of the byways at local ex-
pense and further increase and equal
ize business throughout the year. Moth
ing could more forcibly show the mar
row provincialism of San Francisco
than its factious opposition to bill
that is calculated to do SO much good
to California and consequently to the
commercial metropolis.
SHUTTING OFF LURID PAPERS.
Portland Oregonian: The San Fran
cisco Examiner" has been shut out of
the Portland library because it is unfit
for decent people to read. That is all
there is about it, 1t is excluded also from
gentlemen's clubs in Portland and in
telligent and self-respecting persons do
not admit it to their houses. Some take
it and read it who do not perceive its
Objectionable character. tendency and
influence. and think it bright and
.newsy," but these are learning from the
example of their more discriminating
neighbors to keep ii out OF their families
and read It by stealth in saloons and
worse places. The example of public
Reputation of such journals is OF value
to persons who wish to observe the OBJ
legations of decency. If some one will
only show them what these obligations
are. The circulation of the Examiner
is being restricted more and more to
places where it is seen by no one capable