The record-union., 1898-02-23
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Subs
jects Of Living News
Interest.

session of the Legislature on the Uni
versity appropriations. 1t is rather a
late hour to raise the question that the
money is not needed there for the
ground was gone over very thoroughly
last year when the allowance was made
and it was conclusively shown then that
the extra percentage would result in a
vast amount of good. The people of
the State do not want to be niggardly
with such a splendid institution as their
University at Berkeley.
THE STATE PRINTING OFFICE.
Grass Valley Tdings: Governor
Budd says no great calamity was in
fiicted on the State by the closing of
the State Printing Office, and that a
lesson in economy has been taught the
various offices where reports were nee
essary, as these reports have been is
sued on a mimeograph- Governor
Budd knows we'll that he is talking TO
bolster up an indefensible action. He
closed the printing office because he had
a spite against the State Printer His
conduct has brought ridicule on the
State, and much work that should
have been done at different State offices
has been left undone. And the embar-
rassing situation has not yet passed,
and win not be until the next Legisla
ture meets and remedies the act.
SAN FRANCISCO YELLOW JOUR-
NAILS
San Jose Mercury: The treatment of
the recent murders in this State by
these panderers to the lowest and most
vicious tastes has been "a scandal to
journalism. Each has endeavored to
outvie the other in vulgar description
and suggestive phrases and illusions,
and in one instance at least a woman
was detailed TO perform the dirty task.
What may be expected of these papers
IN the future may be predicted from all
that they have done and are doing to
debauch public sentiment and individ
ual morality, but their pernicious in
fuence may be counteracted to con-
siderable extent if the country papers
faithfully perform their duty to the
communities in which they are publish
ed by protesting against yellow jour
nalism in every phase and form. Lit
is not only in such reports as those of
the Clark case that these papers are
sources Of contamination and defile-
ment AS the Sacramento 'Record-Un-
ion observes, their dangerous character
lies not in single offenses like the Clark
filth, but in the whole line of conduct
OF the pages of these corrupting i'm
huences which pose as great leading
newspapers. 1t cannot be, it will not
remain that this offending will go on
forever. In time, and not a long time,
the effect of cramming the minds of
the reading youth of the land with yell
| s.n vic
ly prominent that in simple self-de-
fense society will be driven to COM
mand a halt Youth of both sexes will
grow so hardened, insensibe, familiar
with crime, debauchery, and amours
through the medium of information re-
ferred to, that adult age will reflect a
condition that will be wholly incom-
patible with an atmosphere of social
cleanliness, trust, virtue and sensibil-
ity"
Every respectable newspaper owes it
to the profession of journalism and to
the cause of decency to denounce and
excoriate yellow journalism on every
possible occasion. And if fathers and
mothers will see to it that these putre-
dinous purveyors Of gutter garbage are
excluded from their homes, it will be a
matter of only a short time before yell
low journalism in California Will be
forced by lack of patronage to assume
virtue, even If ii have it not, and to
confine itself to the publication of le-
gftimate news in a legitimate way.
CONSISTENCY?
Oakland Enquirer: Those members of
Congress, both Republicans and Demo-
crate, whose sentiments on the subject
of Cuba are so fervid that they want
immediate intervention, at the risk of
war, generally vote against appropria-
tions which would put the country into
a condition which would enable it to
make either an offensive or a defensive
fight This has been notably the case
this year and these jingoes are now be-
ing properly scored by the Eastern
press for their inconsistency. Most of
these members of Congress voted to
cut down the estimates of the War De-
partment from $685. 81 to $4 144,
912 The Notifications bill, as passed by
the House, carries the aforementioned
sum and no more, all proposals to in
crease the appropriation being ruthless
" voted down. Yet these members
viii be as eager.as ever to engage the
country in entanglements with other
Governments, which may bring on Sc
rious results.
DEMOCRATIC VIEW.
San Jose Herald: Both the House
and the Senate are asking the admin
istration some awkward questions
: regarding Cuban matters. They
ought not to be awkward to an
administration in sympathy with
American public opinion on this sub
ject, but they will be annoying to the
President and his official family He
! does not like to be questioned about
his Cuban policy. The fact is that he
has none that Is visible to the naked
eye. De LONE was unmannerly but
not far from the truth in some respects.
But then the truth should not be spok
en- at all times.
A MATTER OF EPRESENTATION.
Los Angeles Record: The San Ber-
: nardino Times Index" produces sta
tistics to show that OF the twenty
eight newspapers published in South
ern California all but four are in favor
of Hawaiian annexation.
1t is a reasonable presumption to as
sumo that these twenty four papers
represent the views of the people in the
localities where they are published
This being the condition Of the public
. mind upon so important measure the
question arises. Who does Senator
White represent, anyway, in his bitter
antagoQism to increasing the power
growth and commerce of the United
states