The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-02-15
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Los Angeles Times: An eloquent
writer in one of the reviews this month
says: Man, with his restless, active
| intellect in his search for knowledge,
has gone down into the bowels Of the
earth and with his herculean mind,
stands as a Colossus of Rhodes, with
lone foot upon terra firnla and the other
planted in the milky way" Yes, indeed.
he does it, but it stretches him like the
mischief.
RESTRAIN THE FOOLHARDY.
Stockton Independent: What effect
the gold discoveries in the frozen north
will have upon California is not vital
question to Californians, as some Of
| the writers on the subject seem 10
think. California will take care of it
self, just as it did after the gold dis
coveries in Australia and the States 10
the northward and eastward. The in
terest Of California in the subject is
principally humanitarian and the direct
object Should be to present people from
going thither without due preparation
and ample provision against starving or
freezing. Other people are just as
much interested as are Californlans,
and everybody who is in position to
do so should exert his influence to pre-
vent people going to that region with
out being well informed as to the coun-
try and what is necessary to enable one
to live there. Ignorance about the re-
gion, Notwithstanding the vast amount
that has been and is still being pub
lished about it is great.
CONNECTS AND IDLENESS.
Santa Rosa Republican: The New
York scheme of keeping convicts con-
fined in the penitentiaries in idleness,
has proved a very expensive luxury
Under this plan the three State pris-
ons there cost S561 900 more than their
receipts in the year 1897 Now an eff
fort is being made to have the con-
victs labor in making articles required
in the prisons and in other State insti-
tutions. This will require considerable
of their time and give returns for their
| labor There is neither patriotism,
economy nor good sense in keeping pris-
oners in idleness as the people Of the
Empire State have not been slow to
learn.
CUBA AND A FORECAST.
Stockton Record: There is no hope
interference at an early date by this
Government. Some morning the coun-
try will be startled by a candid mes
sage from President Mckinley to Con-
gress putting the solution of the ques
ton in their hands, and then the At
lantic squadron will form a Gordon
about Cuba. Spain will appeal spasmod-
ically to Europe and only get sympa-
-, CD. CT aif1 hay. h1n
as best she can or make up her mind
to go to war with an empty treasury
and divided people. There could only
be one ending to such war. Spain
will lose Cuba She may even lose
herself The Concert of Europe" is
looking constantly for declining States
to carve up, and the land of Ferdinand
and Isabella may go to France and
Italy in order to guarantee peace and
better government.
WHEN WELL PADDLET.
Fresno Expositor: A San Francisco
teacher is said to have slapped pu-
pills face the other day. and there's
big hullabaloo about it. We don't
know whether she slapped the child's
face or not, nor whether 1t was de-
served if she did, but it strikes US
that in the days when youngsters were
soundly and we'll padded there wasn't
so much bowling about punishment in
schools. This was either because the
children who We're We'll disciplined at
home didn't need so much of it in
school, or else they kept still about the
"lickings'' they got in school, knowing
there would be little sympathy for them
at home.
HERE! STOP IT!
San Diego Tribune: New York sent
$4,000 ounces of silver to Europe on
Saturday. Are the silver bugs of Lon
don, Paris and Berlin preparing to cor
ner the silver market? Is there plot
on foot to drain this country of the
white metal for the benefit of the for
egn money sharks? Will w. ]. B. of
Nebraska please answer by return mail
and tell US what right any foreigner
has to take silver out Of the United
States?
IN GOOD DOOR.
Fresno Republican: The Times" Of
Kansas City expresses the opinion that
st is doubtful If the present admins
tration at Washington would fight
cut of roast beef" The Times states
the case felicitously. A cut of roast
/
istration, so to speak. 1t is not only
that but it is in good odor and on terms
of personal acquaintance with a great
many people in this country to whom
it has been. as it were, a terra incognita
for two or three years past. The entente
cordiale has, in fact, been re-established
between the American people and roast
| beef.
ON TEN CENTS A DAY.
Alameda Argus: Every little while
we see such heading as How to Live
on Ten Cents Day" with an article
on the subject following We are never
Impressed by such information. 1t al
ways seems to US that it would be much
more sensible for the philosopher who
devotes his life to such study, instead
Of showing the way to exist in a miser-
| ly fashion, to hunt way for a fellow
to earn money enough to live decently.
Nobody wants TO live on 10 cents
day If it is possible fer him to live
properly and eat three square every
day.
| THE AVERAGE PAPER
Oakland Tribune Speaking Of the
libel law troubles in California, the Ia
coma News gives utterance to the
following comment which we cheerfully
| indorse: The average respectable
newspaper is very like the average re-
spectacle man. 1t does not want to
unjustly injure any mans reputation,
and it will promptly and cheerfully COR
rect errors when brought TO its notice,
just as any honest man will do
HE SHOULD READ AND LEARN.
TJ., a. II l. n