The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-01-13
VOICE or The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects OF Living News
Interest.

a long suffering public by dropping the
curtain on the Durrant tragedy?
PLEA OF BUSINESS INTERESTS
Los Angeles Herald: Inspired by the
somewhat frenzied prophecies of Sena-
tor Morgan, lately reinforced by the
sorroWful misgiyings of Senator Tel
Ter, the business interest" grows hys-
terical over the situation in the Far
East and the menace to our trade with
the countries of the North Pacific. The
conservation of markets for surplus
American products is admittedly one Of
the present highest duties Of states
manship, for the surplus products of
the land are yearly becoming augment
ed without very promising prospect
that a home market will be provided
for them by the multiplication of in
dustrial concerns. Indeed the introduc-
ton Of labor saving devices now quite
equalizes the advance made along these
lines. But our trade with the Orient
| is not so Yoluminous nor yet so promis-
| ing of material increase as to excite
serious apprehension regarding the
| trend of events on the Chinese coast.
1t was no greater in 1896 than it was
in 1886, and was much less in all the
intervening years.
LACK OF SCHOLARSHIP.
Los Angeles Herald: Forty students
are about to be dropped from the State
University, purely because Of lack of
scholarship. That's a good thing to
do. When the standard of scholarship
| is raised so that going through college
is longer q joke, but serious work, per-
haps we will see more good resulting
from tie higher education. 1t will drop
from The classes such pupils as are
not fitted for taking a college course
and VIII perhaps give them a just es-
| innate of their own abilities, so that
| they VIII turn their attention to work
for which they may be well fitted. This
will leave more room in the universities
for the really bright, earnest students
who ~ right of brain and genuine de-
sire for an education, are the ones who
will profit by their opportunities. When
| scholarship alone is made the test in
| our free institutions of learning it may
be that there will be fewer young men
of little ability trying to be lawyers
and doctors when they ought to be ac-
countants or business men or carpent-
ers and blacksniths As things have
| nothing for a young man except to
make him feel that he was too good to
| work.
WILL IT?
MERGED Sun: Why pass a new law
to destroy the endless greenback
chain,' when a law already exists that
viii accomplish the purpose, if enforc-
ed. The law makes all greenbacks re-
deenable in coin, silver or gold. at the
option Of the Government When they
are presented for redemption let the
Treasurer pay silver for them, and the
endless chain" will have lost its ter
rors within fifteen minutes.
THE SIBERIAN ROAD.
Modesto News: The United States
will in a few years begin to be SEN
sibly affected by the completion of the
| trans-Siberian railway across the Rus
sian dominions. 1t will open up to
| settlement millions Of acres of fertile
wheat fields and grazing grounds. This
will bring Russia into hot competition
with us for the worlds wheat and
meat trade. Our farmers must expect
this and diversity their products so they
will net have TO stand in the market
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peasant who is content to live like an
| animal Fine dairying and the raising
Of the best qualities of meats of vari-
Gus kinds will keep the American farm
er's hold on the worlds trade.
THE SCHOOL BOOK CONTEST.
Santa Rosa Republican: The battle
over the State series of school text
books * on again. 1t was started by
the members of the State Teachers AS
| sociation who remained until the last
day Of the recent session and adopted a
resolution favoring a change Possibly
the resolution would have been APP
proved if it had been offered earlier in
the session. when most of the mem
| bers We're present, but this might have
caused discussion that was not consid-
cred desirable. Hence, it was dragged
in during the last hours and went
through without much difficulty. Thus
the leading representative body of Cal
| ifornia sChoolmasters was placed on
record against the printing of these
books by the State. 1t was the Cali
| fornia system against the field and
the field Won with the handful Of teach
ers then in attendance. If it had been
contest between any other series of
| text books and the field the result
would have been the same. Every
school master has his preferences in
regard to text books and it is seldom
| that any particular series is able to Sc
cure majority of the votes in meet
ings OF teachers. At the same time.
the properly qualified teacher can ham
die any text book successfully and
| there would be few changes of books
if teachers were compelled to foot the
| bills when changes are made If ,be
agents of the book ring were seeking
| to pull dollars out of the pockets of The
teachers instead of the patrons of fbe
| schools. they would not have fo,,nd
great favor with even the few who re-
mained in the association at the time
| the resolution demanding a change was
| adopted.
| CHANGE OF EMBLEM.
| Oakland Tribune: According to the
code under which the Lassen County
Court IS conducted a lawyer has to be
skilled in the art of self-defense in addi-
ton TO possessing the necessary legal
lore. California is indeed furnishing a
novelty in the judicial line. when the
1 - SN'tto AttAe teNl dse RAVES iliS seat on
the bench to come down and punch the
| head OF an attorney who entertained
different views to himself. Instead of
being represented as holding the scales
justice up there should be signalized by
the possession of pair Of boxing
| gloves.
RIGHT CRITICISM
| Alameda Argus: We do not know
| why 1t is that the big metropolitan