The record-union., 1897-03-06
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on Sub
iects Of Living and News
Interest.

IfauulnS CalltOrnla Gamers OF tnelf
rights and swindling their own custom
ers by representing that they are buy
ing California goods, which in reality
were grown and put up in Maryland.
Every effort to stop this traffic-fraud-
ulent in a double sense-has always
failed. San Francisco fruit men have
just secured the conviction of four Of
the most flagrant violators at Balti-
more. This will have a very discour-
aging effect upon all the Eastern swim
ding gang who injure the reputation of
California goods by packing inferior
fruit under California labels.
HIGH HATS WITH A PROVISO.
Riverside Enterprise: A correspond
ent asks if it is actually true that the
Utah Legislature has passed a bill to
forbid the wearing of high hats at
places of entertainment, and if so what
We think of that sort of work. 1t is a
fact that such a bill has passed both
houses Of that State, and is awaiting
the Governors signature. Our opinion
is that the law is defective in one point:
it should have carried a proviso to the
effect that the penalty should not ap-
ply in any case where the show is not
worth seeing.
TO OUR RETIRING PRESIDENT.
Vallejo Chronicle: With all his faults,
President Cleveland is to be admired.
He was ouI President for the past four
years; he performed his duty as he be-
lieved it was right; he had his enemies
yet he has his friends May he live long
to enjoy health and happinl IS and the
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BOOMING MINES.
Mother Lode Magnet CTuolumne
County,: There is some truth in the
assertion Of an Eastern journal that
the mining districts of the West have
been rather injured than helped by in
discriminate booming in the local
press" And yet, with few exceptions,
mining camp newspapers confine them
selves to facts in writing up the re-
sources of their respective sections and
do vast amount of good. The mining
reporter is often hampered in his pur
suit Of news by one or the other of two
classes-the man whose aim is to mag
nifty every new discovery, or the other,
who through ultra conservatism or OBJ
stinacy refuses information which if
benefit the locality in which the prop
erty is located. 1t often happens that
the newsga ther has no means of veri-
flying reports given him, and so must
rely upon the character and reputation
of his informant and his own general
knowledge. The Magnet" realizes
that it is published in a district un-
usually rich in old bearing strata and
full Of promise for the future, and it
is its aim to publish honest news cal
culated to advance legitimate mining
regardless of any other consideration.
SAN FRANCISCO POSTOFFICE.
Tulare Times: The different CONNER
cial organizations of San Francisco are
very properly doing all in their power
to induce the Government to begin
work on the Postofiioe in that city The
site was bought several years ago and
the newspapers proved at that time
that it was nothing but mudhole un-
fit for large building. 1t will be neces-
sary for the same papers to show now
that any sort OF a house could be erect
ed on the Government lot. However.
there is no city in the country that
needs modern Postoffice than does
San Francisco, and we hope to see the
new building commence right away
SUNRISE AFTER GLOOM.
Stockton Independent: Hope, which
came on Americans when the returns
from last falls election told of the cleo
ton Of Mckinley, was brought one
great stride nearer to fruition yester-
day when the Prcsident-elect became
President in fact. The calling of a
special session of Congress added an
other stride toward the return of pros
perity and these events increased the
hope of millions who have suffered
from the results Of four years of folly
that wisdom iii the Government would
be speedily followed by prosperity to
the farm the factory, to commerce and
to development and the return of that
happiness to the home that comes from
revived industry and an era of plenty,
especially when it follows so long a
period of scarcity. The President can
do but little of himself but, with a
Congress in sympathy and with the
great majority OF the people clamor-
ing for a reversal of the policy that
brought want and misery, the dawn of
prosperity which came last fall now ap-
pears to have attained the stage of
sunrise and the full sunshine of re-
stOration appears TO be close at hand.
HYDRAULIC MINING DID IT.
Sutter Farmer: AS stated several
times in these columns, the bay and
the channels in the vicinity of Mare
Island and Vallejo are becoming filled
with slickens from the hydraulic mines.
and the recent United States engineers
report of the surveys there during the
last year lays the blame of the fill to
mining debris. The Government is
now to have the debris dredged out and
recently the appropriation for the navy
yard at that place was increased from
$4,000 to $4,000, $3.50, 900 of which
IS to be expended in deepening the
channel at Mare Island Strait, that will
enable all classes of vessels to reach
the yards.
THE CAUSE.
Los Angeles Times: Four fifths of
the labor troubles of the past decade
have been caused by the foreign labor
element. In most of the labor riots,
the names of the principal participants
are not American names Anarchistic
agitators almost invariably are men of
foreign birth. The turbid tide of Eu-
ropean immigration is tending strongly
toward the Eiiropeanization of the
United States. The patriotism-the true
Americanism-of the body polite has
been sadly diluted by this infusion of
incongruous elements. Our prisons and
almhouses bear convincing testimony
to the unwisd I'M of throwing wide our