The record-union., 1898-02-10
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

San Diego Sun: President Dole of
the Hawaiian Islands has proved to be
the kind of a man it was hoped he
WOULD be by sober minded Americans
and by friends of annexation. All the
comment about him since he landed in
this country has been in his favor.
While his boat was held in quarantine
at san Francisco he stood at the rail
and talked to reporters just as a steady
going American citizen might do when
he wanted to be decently accommodate
ing When he got to Washington he
requested that there be no military pa
rade ana no ponp. but when Vice-Pres-
ident Hobart invited him to a reception
he declined to go until he had been
given reception by the President. He
is neither pompous prude nor a
chump. He would make a good Gov
ernor of the State of Hawaii, u. S. A.
BEET SUGAR.
San Diego Union: The people of New
York State evidently appreciate the i'm
portance of building up the beet sugar
industry. The Legislature a year ago
appropriated So, 900 for this purpose.
OF that sum S643S has been paid as
bounty, at the rate of / cent per pound
to the factory at Rome; the sum of
81, $50 has been expended in expert
menung and furnishing seed to the
farmers, and there is q balance of near
ly $1,000 carried over to the present
year to continue the work. 1t appears
too. that the small appropriation orig
nally made has had the effect of per-
manentiy establishing the industry in
the State. 1t was money we'll expended.
RICHER OR POORER
San Diego Tribune: AS to the ques
tions, Are the rich growing richer
and the poor poorer?" Carroll u.
Wright, one of the best posted men on
this subject in this country, has shown
that both questions should be answer
ed in the negative He has shown that
While the great gulf between the rich
and poor is gradually being closed, the
divisions of the worlds annual dividend
is not fair. The rich are not getting as
much and the poor are getting more
in comparison with former times; but
the laborer is not yet getting his just
proportion. Rents of lands are sinking
throughout the world, and this has
raised a vital political question in Ger
many and England. On the other hand,
the wages of the laborer buy more to-
day than they have ever done. And
yet it is said the ground rents in the
cities have risen. They have risen III
the great cities because so many people
want to live there. 1t is demand-want
that makes value.
A GOOD WORD.
Stockton Mail: A small rural ex-
change remarks:
The Stockton Mail" heads an item:
''Saloonist Gaffrey Pistoled by Joseph
Byrnes." Stocktonese for English prob
ably.
What objection the small rural ex-
change has to the phrase in question
we are unable to say, but we guess that
the critic is not aware that "pistoled"
is a transitive verb, an excellent, ex-
pressive English word, in common use
and 20 be found in any dstionary. The
small rural exchange is advised to take
a short and much needed course in
good preparatory school.
CHARGES 1T WAS A FAKE.
Fresno Exposition: THE jubilee is
fake. Returning visitors say there is
nothing to see, the decorations are no
good, the parade was nothing to speak
of and insult was added to injury by
postponing the opening of the Mining
Exposition until Saturday night Not
content with getting the country people
into the city on false pretenses in or
der to fleece them for week, they hope
that by postponing the one event that
many went especially to see. to hold
them longer. And this is the sort of
fraud that the country papers were to
help along by giving it free advertis-
ing" The Fresno people who made a
report that caused such a TRADE must
indeed be hard to please Ten to one
they were drunk all the time they were
in town, and had no idea what was
going on. Then having spent all their
money they went home mad.
TOO MUCH LAW MAKING
San Jose Mercury: The necessity of
diminishing the flood of law which
| threatens to overwhelm every State
and the country at large is apparent
Our own State is young, it has a small
population comparatively, and it's Leg
islature meets only every other year.
yet at each session a bewildering mass
Of legislation is added to that already
existing. What, then, must be the sit
uation in the old and densely populated
States, with their nlyriads of public
and private interests, and their annual
sessions of the Legislature? In New
York 1O1, 600 pages of statutes have
been passed by the Legislature since
1T71, and the production is yearly I'M
creasing. In Massachusetts the Acts
and resolutions of the Legislature pub
| lished each year has increased during
the last fifty years from a pamphlet
of 100 pages to a volume of / 200 pages
Biennial sessions and short ones''
would greatly help the matter, although
it would not tend TO improve the char
acter of the measures enacted; but
few laws and better laws will become
a certainty only when the people them
selves become sufficiently wise and
honest to refrain from demanding all
sorts of legislation, irrespective of its
merit. or from electing legislators who
entertain the conviction that their rep
the quality but upon the quantity of
the bills which they introduce.
GETTING A MOVE ON.
Los Angeles Herald: With the Maine
at Havana and the Mohican under
sailing orders for Apia, our foreign pol
icy begins to take on a semblance of
virility. A single American citizen in
Samoa has a grievance, and this is the
occasion for the prompt dispatch of the
Mohican. The provocation may be
entirely sufficient but the contrast af-
forded by the dilatoriness of the ad-
ministration in making a demonstra-
tion at Havana is quite striking.
TEACHER VS.. MOTHER