The record-union., 1898-04-02
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.


the lying publishers and correspondents
of the yellow newspapers in jail and
keep them there.
THE POLL TAX.
Tulare Times: The Legislature of
! Iowa has had the good sense to abolish
the poll tax in that State. In this State
the people are gradually throwing off
some of the iniquities in our system of
taxation and the poll tax will probably
be the next to go. We do not tax grow
ing crops, and fruit trees and vines are
exempt until they are four years old.
In several counties the Supervisors have
abolished the road poll tax, all Of which
shows that the current is setting in the
right direction
| CATTLE AND QUARANTINE.
Oakland Enquirer: We notice that
some of the newspapers are still publish
ing articles based upon the assump-
tion that the Federal quarantine regua-
tions forbidding the movement of cattle
from Southern California to the north
ern portions of the State, across the sple-
netic fever line. are still in force, al
though it was published but a few days
back that the Department of Agricult-
ure had waived the regulations and
would permit the movement of cattle,
provided they are first inspected TO give
assurance that they are not diseased.
and that afterwards they are kept sep
arate from other stock. These require
rents do not seem burdensome, especi-
ally as the second of the two is likely TO
be more form than anything else.
HOW TO MANAGE BURGLARS.
Tulare Register: If you wake up in
the night and find burglar in the house
do not grapple with him. The chances
are ten to one that he has a knife or
pistol in his hand while you have moth
ing. If you are sure it is a burglar and
not member of your own family and
can get hold of a gun, shoot and shoot
to kill. Or. throw UP the window and
yell bloody murder, rouse the neighbor-
hood, and the burglar will generally ske-
daddle. If you can't do any of these
things just ask the burglar if there is
anything he would like, and if there is
let him take it and go. 1t is better to
be generous than to be dead.
A FROST STUDY.
Martinez County Paper: A de-
structive frost in State like California
is a very serious proposition, and it is
no wonder that there is general alarm
this season, owing to the continued cold
weather A conservative estimate places
the capital invested in oranges and
lemons at $43 100000. In Los Angeles
County alone it is estimated that ST.
600 900 are invested in citrus fruits. In
prunes, peaches. olives, pears, apricotS
and other small fruits, it is said that
about $4,000, 900 are invested. Thus
a frost in n1idwinter that is destructive
to citrus fruits followed in March or
April by a like low temperature de-
structive of deciduous fruits may ruin
the income on invested capital of about
S120000 900. Fruits are not dependent
upon rainfall owing to the rapid devel-
opment of irrigation facilities, and the
scientific ahf1ihilation of pests. Frost is
now the great destructive element to be
feared, so far as fruit is concerned. This
season frosts have been particularly Sc
we're both to citrus and deciduous fruits.
but as the reports are generally exag-
gerated it is too soon to make up an es-
innate of what the harvest will be. Frost
lis fatal in spots, and the fellows who are
ripped makena pretty loud noise, and
it is not safe to estimate this noise as
being universal.
BETTER PAID HERE.
San Diego Sun: The Railway Age"
says that 26.5 per cent. of the earn
ings of English railways is paid out for
labor, while in this country it amounts
to 401 per cent. Evidently railroad
employees fare better under a protec-
tive system than they do under free
trade conditions in the matter of wages.
HOW THEY WOULD PAY.
Los Angeles Times: In the event Of
war this country might have to Dor.
row money OF course it would be gold
money. every dollar of it worth a dol
lar. but we do not doubt that some fu-
ture William Jennings Bryan, or "Ole
Bill Stewart, would want to pay the
money back to the lenders with dollars
worth about 43 cents. And such is some
mems idea of common honesty as be-
tween man and man.
SUSPENDED JUDGMENT.
Los Angeles Herald: We are still
asked to suspend judgment upon the
Dingley tariff law and will reluctantly
consent to do so, pending the settle
ment of this Cuban business. But is
not a suspension of payment under it
inevitable? The day of settlement can
not always be deferred.
| WEED SEEDS AND RIVER WATER.
Colusa SUM- A question was asked at
the Farmers Institute as to the adyis-
ability of using the river water for the
| irrigation of wheat because of the
amount of weed seeds in the water.
Afterward we heard it asserted that
the constant watering from the river
caused weeds to spring up in the grass
pIats about town. There is not thing
in the world in it. There can be but
few seeds in the river water, and there
is always a great abundance of seeds
in the ground. Weed seeds keep for
years in the ground and are sprouted
by the exact conditions that surround
the season. We see some years the
wild sunflower taking field of grain
and then for years that same field will
be free from it The seeds are there,
however. by the bushel and by the ton,
and the same climatic condition viii
bring them up. Everyone at all ia
miliar with the valley knows that it
sometimes happens that an entire Sec
ton of country will all at once come
to wild oats. and that where no man
ever saw oats before. Clover will come
in places where it has been a stranger
for many years. Constant irrigation
will cause certain weeds to spring up,
the seeds of which have been lying
there for many years. The late May
berry Davis once told us about burn
ing q log pile on piece of ground, so
/ that the earth was burned down sew
eral inches. He plowed the land and
just where that log pile was burned
there was a thick growth of mustard