The record-union., 1898-01-26
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.

State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.
| Los Angeles Times: When Russia and
Germany go to interfering with Eng
/ lands Chinese trade, then is just when
the trouble will begin. The nation OF
| shopkeepers has it's eye on the dollar,
! and when loss of trade is likely to oc-
cur then is when England is ready to
| fight. The Pail Mall Gazette" has
already practically declared war. and
! the next thing to expect is the move
ment of squadrons and the boom of
guns along the coast of China Per-
! hapsI
JAY COMMUNITIES.
| Stockton Independent: Newspaper
controversies in San Francisco are ap-
parently conducted by the participants
on the supposition that the readers of
one paper do not read the others. Each
of the ''combatants" represents its an
| tagonist as having said what it did
not stay, and proceeds upon that false
basis to criticise it. People in Jay"
communities are accustomed to that
style of newspaper warfare, but expect
better of papers with metropolitan pre-
| tensions because it is so easy for read
ers to see through the misrepresenta-
tions that editors of great pretensions
should also perceive the truth. Moth
ing can better mark the jay in news
paper work than this virtual confession
that he addresses himself to those who
| loo, OF ba a
time or acting on the assumption that
all his readers take his word rather
than the evidence of their own senses
| for matters of fact.
| CALIFORNIA WINES AND GER
MANY.
Los Angeles Herald: The agitation in
| Germany for a higher duty on American
wines shows the temper of the German
| people over the restrictive duties i'm
posed by the Dingley tariff law. The
organ of the wine-makers of the En-
pire, however, sagely suggests that Cali
| fornia wines come more into conlpet-
ton with the Spanish, Italian and
south Of France vintages than with
the domestic product. That will go a
| long way toward reconciling all who
| remember 1870.
WHAT THEY LOOK FOR.
| Los Angeles Times: Some surprise ap
| pears to have been created in San
| Francisco because the President of Ha-
waii appeared, upon landing, clothed
in dignity and his right mind. They
| doubtless expected to see the distin-
| guished gentleman come ashore clad
| in a "g'' string and a plug hat and
| drumming a taropatch. San Fran
cisco is forever looking for circus.
WHAT WE ARE DOING.
| Marysville Appeal: Says the New
York Sun: 1t is not more than thir-
ty-six years when Laird, the builder of
| the Confederate cruiser which never
| saw a Confederate port, the Alabama,
told the English supporters of the Con
| federacy that he had refused to ac-
| cept from the United States Govern
nent a cash offer of 80 per cent. more
| than the value of the Alabama as she
stood on the stocks, for the reason that
| he hoped that with the blessing OF
| God, the Alabama would sweep the
Yankee wooden ships from the seas
and leave to Ergland's iron ships the
commerce of the world" for, said Laird,
| in closing his address, "the Yankees
cannot to-day, and will not in 100 years,
build iron ships within AZ per cent. or
| the low cost, which will keep the Union
| Jack flying over the largest feet of the
world for centuries to come" Only last
week the largest shipment of pig-iron
| that ever left America was shipped
| from Port Chalmette, La, for the ac-
count of the present owners of Laird
shipbuilding works at Birkenhead. We
are making iron and steel at prices that
Great Britain cannot touch, and we are
| laying down coal at tidewater at so low
| a price that the British colliers at last
see that they are face to face with the
keenest competition they have ever en-
countered.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
San Jose Herald: President Ripley Of
the Santa Fe Railroad gives some rea-
sons why the Government ownership
and management of railroads would not
be expedient, and among other argu-
ments cites the familiar one of political
| employees. He wants to know what
| would be the effect of making eacn
one of the $4,000 railroad employees OF
the United States political appointtee.
1t may be easier to answer that
question after the Republican majority
in Congress has made up its mind what
to do about civil service. So many
railroad Jobs would be a wonderful in
centive to the readoption of the spoils
system On the other hand imagine
our railroads manned by such a crowd
of insolent and accommodating en-
ployes as we have in our PoStoffice un-
der civil service rules.
GRATIFYING RECOGNITION.
Los Angeles Express: The Supreme
Court of California has declared invalid
the issue of 100000 of municipal i'm
provement bonds by the City of San
Luis Obispo, simply because the vote
on the question of issuing the bondL
was not taken in the proper manner.
1t was also contended that the bonds
were illegal because they were made
payable in gold coin alone, but the
court found that the statute places no
limitation upon the mode of payment OF
the bonds, and declares that the recog-
nized standard of value in this State is
gold coin. The decision upon this point
will not be received with favor by those
who believe that a gold coin is crime,
but 1t affords a gratifying recognition
of sound money principles.
EARNEST WOMEN.
Oakland Tribune: The ladies associ-
ated with the various woman suffrage
movements are certainly earning the
admiration that is due to those who
fight unflinchingly for what is appar-
fyxy DaCnjfp -