The record-union., 1898-02-11
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions ON SUBJ
jects of Living News
| Interest.
| Reno Gazette: We are inclined to
think that what Nevada needs is more
| newspapers to make her desert bios
| som as the rose" Particularly is this
| true of Reno. We have not yet sue
| ceeded in bringing the balance of the
world to thinking in unison with ma
| jority Of the 10000 people and 10000
voters that compose our warp and woof,
and we think another newspaper, If
started in this town, would soon accom-
| plish what now seems to be big job.
| We have Democratic Silver paper, a
Popuhst Silver paper a Republican pa
per, a Womans Suffrage paper and an
| Independent paper, and think if we had
a straightout Democratic paper with
silver leanings we would be fixed Then,
| again, misery loves company, and the
more papers the more misery.
NICARAGUA CANAL
| Red Bluff Peoples Cause: San Fran
cisco warehouses are reported absolute
ly filled with cotton destined for Japan,
and that a special steamer will be dis
patched to Kobe loaded exclusively with
| cotton. 1t seems very strange, indeed,
to US that every Senator and Congress
man from the SOuth-the cotton grow
ing region-is not fighting tooth. and
| nail for the construction of the Mic
aragua Canal. With that built, direct
| communication by water would be
! within reach of every one of the Gulf
| States, and freight would be vastly
| less than now.
| COAL PARADOX.
! Alameda Encinal: We must confess
to being a trife puzzled with regard to
| this coal trust business The courts
have just decided that the trust is ills
gal, and straightway coal goes up a
couple of dollars a ton One of the
heaviest burdens of the housekeeper )n
this coast is the exorbitant rates de-
manded for fuel The poorest kinds of
soft coal command from two to three
| tAIilcS etS iIuCll ilit OtSl dulili oGllN
in the East, and much of the fuel used
here could hardly be sold at any price
| back here. 1t is manifest that some
| one makes an immense profit out of the
coal business on the Pacific Coast.
| There ought to be some way Of rem
edying this and of obtaining fuel for a
| fair price. When anthracite coal re-
tails in the East at So 80 to S4 80 a
ton, it is little short Of robbery to ask
two and three times as much for soft
coal here.
| OLD STORY.
| Oakland Enquirer: The Bankers AL
| lance, a Los Angeles life insurance
company, has failed, owing $4,000 in
accrued death claims 1t is the usual
story-a lot Of dignified business men
as directors who knew nothing about
life insurance, but thoughtlessly allowed
their names to be used in the buncoing
of a lot Of poor people When will the
average business man learn better?
| A GOOD SHOT.
| Fresno Republican: In a dispatch
| from Chicago it is stated that General
w. H. Gentry a well-known Kentucky
horseman, has traded five head Of
standard bred mares for thirty jack
rabbits, and that the General intends
to go into the business of breeding rab-
bits. The General will be going to
useless expense in starting such an es-
tablishment He can get all the jack
rabbits he wants from Fresno at the
rate of six for a standard bred horse
or mare. In fact, we believe that some
of our breeders would give seven rab-
| bits for a well-bred and fairly speedy
| horse.
| 1T DON'T SUFFER.
San Beranrdino Times Index: The
| American export trade does not seem
| to have suffered during the past year
| despite the fearful walls of Democrats
! that the enactment of protective
| tariff law would ruin our trade abroad.
| The official figures show that for the
| twelve months of 1897 American ex-
ports of merchandise reached the enor-
nous total Of $1,099, 129, ,515 being an
increase Of S93,200,O00 over 1896. The
| excess Of exports over imports was
1856, ,49S, ,664
| TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. (
| Stockton Mail: Down in Southern
| California a Justice of the Peace has
distinguished himself by advising two
4
promising to protect them The old
man was brutally slain before the eyes
of his aged wife and the rural Dogberry
| proceeded to carry out his part of the
| bargain by releasing the accused. The
| slayers have been rearrested, of course,
and much to his astonishment and
| fright the Justice of the Peace is in
| jail charged with being an accessory.
| RacpJtfly in, ~ry;
tering ass who had achieved the posi-
| tion of Constable arrested and hauled
| to Jail a Stanford professor who was
pursuing his researches in botany with
in the aforesaid glittering asss baili-
| wick. The possession by the victim of
| various weeds and a map of the
country roads convinced the glittering
| ass that the professor was a dangerous
| counterfeiter. And even the sapient
| Sheriff seems to have locked the jail
doors on the unfortunate member Of
Stanford's faculty in the firm belief
that he had valuable prisoner.
These things have provoked much
| comment in the State and the general
opinion seems to be that the powers of
Justices of the Peace and Constables
should be greatly curtailed and so
sharply defined that even Santa Cruz
| County Constable can understand
| them.
SILVER PRODUCTION.
San Diego Union: There was a time
not very far in the past when a great
deal was heard about the low price Of
| silver rendering it Improbable to op-
crate mines producing that metal Col
orado was especially clamorous for free