The record-union., 1898-02-16
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Santa Barbara Press: Edward At
kinson, whose published studies in eco
nomics have been so widely discussed
in a recent speech in Boston has the
following to say of our national growth
This country is becoming a great CEN
ter OF capital The supremacy in the
iron and steel industry is being lost
by Great Britain, and is coming to this
| country. We are fast becoming the
only manufacturing nation which main
tains within itself all the forces to
create high wages and low cost Of pro-
duction. We are endangered in being
smothered in our own grease by the
rapid accumulation of capital faster
than We accumulate intelligence in It's
use and application. / think the more
we remove. distractions to capital the
more you will make this nation the
center of the commercial world
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FAVORS
HONEST MONEY.
Yreka Journal: 1t has always been
the policy of the Republican party to
make every dollar of our money as
good as any other dollar, and to pay all
Government obligations in the best
money. The party stood firmly by
| that policy when the greenback craze
was sweeping over the country. Pres
ident McKinley's last Republican pre-
decessor-Hon. Benjamin Harrison
reiterated that idea upon several oc-
casions during his term, and the st.
| Louis platform, upon which President
Mckinley was elected, spoke in no un-
certain language on the same subject.
Therefore no one was surprised al
though some of the silver men pretend
ed to be. when President Mckinley
said: Whatever may be the language
of the contract, the United States will
| discharge all its obligations in the
| currency recognized as the best
throughout the civilized world at the
times of payment" 1t would have been
surprising had he said anything else.
CONSIDER THE FACTS.
Marysville Appeal: People who are
| inclined to complain of the tact that the
| owners of the cotton mills in New Eng
land are proposing to reduce wages I'M
| der the operations of the Dingley law
probably have not observed that the
| mills of that section are only able to
earn 312 per cent. on their invested
capital, while those of South Carolina
are earning 1919 per cent A recent
report published in one of the Charles
ton newspapers shows that the mills
of South Carolina are earning 121l2 per
cent on their invested capital, while
those of New England make but 49,
per cent, the difference being due TO
lower wages longer hours, cheaper fuel
and proximity to the cotton fields in
| he 0f no mills An
other difficulty under which all the
cotton manufacturers of the United
States are now laboring is the rapid
growth of the cotton manufacturing in
dustry enterprise of the world. There
has been a great increase in the num-
Der of mills and spindles in China,
Japan and India, where native opera
tives are consigned to earn from 10 to
% cents per day.
| 1T HITS SACRAMENTO.
! Bakersfield Californian: 1t is said
that the Womans Club intends ask
ing the Trustees to enact an ordinance
making il a misdemeanor TO spit upon
any sidewalk in the city Of Bakers
| field Such a move is to be commended,
| and while the new government has
many things to do at present and is
! about swamped with work still it is
possible that a few minutes may be
| found in which to establish this much
needed law. The suggested structure
| is, Of course, directed at the men They
! viii in the great majority of cases be
| the violators of the law as they now
in the great majority of cases, outrage
| decency by their prodigality in deposit
| ing surplus saliva a foot or so in front
of the spot where they happen TO be
standing, which spot happens nearly
| always to be the sidewalk.
COYOTE PRESS.
| Tulare Register: If the coyote press
is not devoid of a sense of shame it
ought to feel mighty sneaking over its
spasm of yelping at the Administration
because of the alleged German exclu-
| sion Of American fruits. 1t has finally
developed that only infected green
fruits were excluded. and there has not
been the smallest of intent to exclude
dried fruits. But the coyote is a coyote
and nothing but a coyote can be made
of him, even though he be dressed IN
the latest fashions and be set to run
ming Popocratic newspaper.
MORE CONGRESSMAN.
San jose Mercury: 1t is certain that
under the next census, which will be
begun in 1900 California will be entitled
to one more Congressman. and, possib-
ly, two. Notwithstanding a four years
period of depression during the decade
the State has been steadily growing 1t
is interesting to run back and note how
| the figures have jumped during the
| decades since 1850 The population
that year was estimated to be 92.597
In 1860 it was $40, 994: in 1870. $780,
247; IN 1880, SD, 694; and in 1890, l.
POS, 100. The increase in population be-
tween 1860 and 1870 was 1S0 253: be-
tween 1870 and 1880. 304, AT; and be-
tween 1880 and 1890, 343. 436. 1t is
| doubtful if this ratio is being kept up
during the present decade. but it IS
reasonable to suppose that the natural
increase together with the immigration
will make a gain by 1900 OF at least
200. 600, and it would not be surprising
if the figures reached 800, 900
A MATTER OF BUGS.
| Los Angeles Times: San Jose OBJ
| jects seriously to having that bug
which is frightening Germany into fits,
named after the beautiful Garden City,
and its protest is entitled to hearing
If the bug is of European origin, as the
San Jose people claim, Europe should
| father the little fellow. without trying
| to leave it on an American doorstep
| We join San Jose in its plant and trust
that the Tasmanian bug may hereafter
be given it's correct name and place OF
nativity. San Jose has trouble enough
| without fathering scalawag bugs that
| have come over here along with other
undesirable elements of the population