The record-union., 1898-02-22
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
|. EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
iects Of Living News
Interest.

Los Angeles Express: The Woman
Rescue League of New Jersey demands
that bachelors be taxed $40 a year Ior
the support of dependent maiden ladies
who have arrived at the age of % or
more. Will the league agree to COM
promise the matter if the bachelors VIII
marry the aforesaid dependent maiden
ladies? 1t should be mentioned 'na'
the only Colonel Charlotte Smith is
President Of the league.
PERSISTENT FELLOWS.
Woodland Democrat: The Democrat
ic minority in Congress is not very
large but it is SO alert and active tnal
it keeps the majority on cordufcy
road all the time The persistence with
which it keeps the Cuban question TO
the front is a source of great worry
to the administration and serves TO
keep the fact fresh in the minds of the
people that the Republican party is
violating its solemn pledges and break
ing faith with the people.
CRIME AND EDUCATION.
Willows Journal: The trial Of sa-
loonkeeper in this town for permitting
minors to loaf and gamble in his place
has developed the fact that nearly one
third of the boys trained in the ma
chine line of education in vogue at
present under the laws of California
have no higher ambition than to get
money and that they gamble for II Is
evident that the training has been
wrong AS we stated yesterday, wnen
the higher order of thought was neg
lected and all the training is along the
line Of money, you are producing more
unprincipled politicians, professional
boodlers. hobos. blackmailers and lib
ertines than honest men and women.
How many boys in the public schools
in this town are thinking of being hon
est farmers learning trades, or expect
to do manual labor? Not one! All
hope to be lawyers. doctors, merchants,
bookkeepers, teachers, typewriters or
picture peddlers. AS soon as they are
machined through school they start out
in the various lines. About one in ten
succeeds; the remaining nine are put
to their wits ends to gain a livelihood;
all want money, and want it quick. Re
sult-gamblers. robbers or hobos.
THE FRENCH FARCE.
San DieSo Tribune: To the average
American the trial of Emile Zola is the
most remarkable farce ever enacted
under the forms of judicial procedure.
Zola is prosecuted by the French Gov
ernment for the defamation of certain
high officials in the ministry because of
their conduct during the trial of Captain
Dreyfus, the young officer who is
thought to have been railroaded to the
galleys as a scapegoat. in order that
men of higher standing might be
screened.
No case ever tried could more forci-
bly, illustrate the difference between
French and Anglo-Saxon justice. In
England or America, if Zola could show
that the charges which he made
against the Government were true, he
would be acquitted. He would. more
over. have the fullest opportunity thus
TO vindicate himself. But in republi
can France it is quite different.
DO THEY LIKE 1T?
Stockton Independent: Some Ameri-
cans seem to like to be snubbed by for
eigners of distinction. If they did not
like ii they would have ceased to put
themselves in the way Of it, as they have
done for so many years. When the poet,
Thomas Moore, visited America early in
the century he ridiculed the people of
the country as soon as he was well out
of it. Anthony Trollope and his wife a
little later did likewise, and Dickens was
more boorish still, even during his visits
TO the United States. In these days Ex-
plorer Nansen and Anthony Hope, the
rovelist. follow the example of their pre-
decessors in ill-manners, yet the next
eminent snob that comes will find plen-
" of victims upon whom to operate.
SPRAY THE TREES.
Fresno Expositor: Tulare is losing no
time in trying to abate the nuisance Of
fruit pests. Her Horticultural Commits
sinners have called on all persons own
ing or having orchards in charge to take
steps at once to eradicate the Goblin
msth, with a notice that unless such
steps be taken all wormy fruit found in
any packing house, cannery, orchard or
other place will be quarantined accord
ing 10 law. Only by the most stringent
Eagulations can any good be accomp-
nsts llorg these lines and a rigid en-
forseisssnt f the laws will work to the
ultinA @7vs9tage of every fruit grow
er. lry- time to spray trees.
- ~A>N@ARNING.
Los Angeles Herald: Everything is
fair in love. war nnd politics, we pre-
sumo, and the INSTRUMENTATION, %
while 'sSually partaking OF the quality
of the boomerang sts ultimate effects,
may be sale to have become legitima-
tized in the American system of politi-
cal campaigning. But we beg our
friends the enemy. with the utmost Of
good nature. that If it is to be adopted
IN this part Of the State as a governing
rule of action they will be kept exceed
ingly busy throughout the coming cam
paign.
SPANS HOPELESS CAUSE.
Los Angeles Times: The manner in
which the De LONE letter reached the
public throws a strong side-hght on
the Cuban situation, and indicates in
some degree the extent to which the
Spanish cause is honeycombed with
treachery. The letter. according to the
press dispatches was written by Senior
De LONE at his private residence. in
part, and taken to the Spanish Lega-
ton, there TO be finished 1t was left
on the Minister'S desk in his private
office while he stepped out for a half
hour. During that time it was read
by an attache of the Legation. who. it
seems. was in reality Cuban spy.
Notes of its contents We're made, which
We're promptly forwarded TO the heads
of the Cuban Junta in New York.
The fact that the Spanish Legation
al Washington has or has had among
fits trusted attaches, a Cuban spy, is
significant. The further fact that the
Cuban Junta at New York could com