The record-union., 1898-02-20
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

cism to which it is subjected The
Government is now carrying tons and
tons of advertising matter at enormous
loss to the people, and this should be
stopped. So far as legitimate newspa-
pers are concerned, some of the de-
mands made by them are just, and 9th
ers are not so. There is no reason why
the copies of such papers unsold by
news agents should DE returned to the
publication office at an expense to the
Government. Then, too there is not
much merit in the sample copy nuisance
for which they contend. The business
of the newspaperman is not helped by
giving public journals a lot of privileges
not enjoyed by other businesses.
A GREAT EVIL.
Tulare Register: The Record Union
reads a splendid lecture on the Ameri-
can habit of raisig the cry of fraud and
corruption, blackmail and peculation
without provocation. 1t is the greatest
evil in public life to-day 1t deters
more good men from taking office than
any other consideration and tends to
leave positions that ought to be of
honor to men who care little for honor
and take office only for what they can
cipal sinners in this regard, and some
way ought to be found to curb this
tendency without interfering with need
ed freedom of the press.
ORANGE TROUBLES.
Fresno Expositor: Whats the mat
ter with oranges?'' asks the "Jobber
and Produce Reporter and it adds:
They are the poorest this season we
remember to have seen. They have
about as much pulp as a lemon and
what there is is tough and dry. 1t
is said that less than tenth as many
oranges have been imported as usual;
there are very few Floridas in the mar
ket and few Mexicans, and yet the
market is glutted with poor trash that
nobody wants to try more than once,
though they are very cheap" And it
Is no better on this coast than on the
Atlantic. A fairly steady buyer of the
higher grade of oranges, the writer has
not had above half dozen of sweet,
meaty, luscious ones, and half OF these
We're raised in this county. If Southern
California doesn't ship East better fruit
than it has sent up through this valley
it may receive some strong reports.
MUD PUMPS.
San Diego Tribune: The Los Angeles
papers are roasting" the railroads be-
cause the latter declined to subsidize
the fiesta Some of these papers ap-
pear to be always unhappy unless they
are getting subsidies from somebody.
And when the subsidy is not forthcom-
ing the mud-slinging pumps are started.
LINCOLN'S FAME.
Alameda Argus: The wide observ-
ance of Lincoln's birthday anniversary
illustrates how his fame is growing. AS
the stirring incidents of phich he was
the central figures recedes. his great
ness comes into fuller view and he is
recognized as the colossal figure of the
century. 1t is happy idea to observe
Lincoln Day" SO largely in the public
schools. Only care should be taken to
bring out the human side of the great
character. His career is the complet-
est object lesson of the self-made man
of how one may rise from the sheer
force of personal worth and steadfast-
ness. The pupil should have it in
stilled in his mind that Lincoln was a
man, as other men, though of a super
Tor fiber and of abilities equal to the
mightiest demands that ever tested hui
man capabilities. The tendency is to
defy the great-to invest them with
superhuman attributes Washington,
until the recent magazine wave of his
toric research. was little more in the
popular mind than a ste<1 engraving
1t is hoped that the great Lincoln's
fame one hundred years from his epoch
will not be so perfunctory. He is I'M
doubtedly the greatest American char
acter, and his fame should be just and
formed upon not the slightest miscon-
ception.
SPARE THE ROD, SPOIL THE
CHILD.
Los Angeles Times: The acquittal
of the young school teachers who were
recently tried for thrashing an unruly
boy, is something to give satisfaction
to the normal man or woman who APP
preciates how often boys actually spoil
for a good whipping. If teachers are
to be punished every time they under
take to make pupils behave themselves,
we shall soon have our schools in de-
plorably demoralized condition, and the
scholars will be running the whole
works. Those of us who recall the old
days when no low, descending sun made
messed we youngsters getting a good
tanning, being stood on the floor OF
made to sit with the girls, appreciate
the real good it does to the mischievous
youngster to be made to toe the mark.
No boy was ever injured very much
by the licking he got at school or at
home, but many one has been ire
trievably ruined by not getting trounced
often enough at either place.
A TOWNS INTEREST.
Colusa Sun. The business men and
property owners of the town OF Colusa
must make up their minds to stand
as unit on the matter of the preserva-
ton of the Sacramento River. 1t is
not so much that they are interested
more than others in the county, but
they must form a nucleus around
which all interested may rally. They
are, however, really more interested be-
cause the river farmer can haul out
to the railroad, and the farmer on the
road car pay more freight and live, for
only what the traffic will bear Will
be charged, but without the river Co.
lusa will be no town.
YELLOW JOURNALS.
San Jose Mercury: The treatment OF
the recent murders in this State by
these panderers to the lowest and most
Journalism. Each has endeavored to
outvie the other in vulgar description
and suggestive phrases and illusions,