The record-union., 1898-02-13
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Pasadena News" endeavoring to build
up a political machine, which shall
have for its object the control of the
State Board of Equalization. There is
a great danger lurking in this radical
move on the part of the value and
tax levy makers of the State. The only
possible check on bad or faulty assess
ment comes from the State Board of
Equalization, and to hand this board of
review over to the men who make the
county assessments is a political depar-
ture from established usage that should
receive more than ordinary considera-
tion from not only the press but the
taxpayers Of the State.
CHANGE OF BASE.
| Oakland Enquirer: A year or two
ago California was selected by the wo-
man suffrage advocates as their battle
ground and all the leading women Or
ators were concentrated here in the
hope of capturing the State for suffra ge.
| The effort failed, as we all know, al
though a very strong vote was cast
for the idea. Now the same people have
| selected the State of Iowa for their
next effort and will effect the same kind
Of concentration of forces there that
they made in California. 1t is claimed
by the ladies that Iowa is good State
| for them. as it is full OF schools, col
| leges and people who believe in tenn
| perance. As yet the Iowa Legislature
has not agreed to submit the suffrage
amendment, but it is thought that with
the pressure brought to bear, it will
certainly do so.
CUBA AND ADMINISTRATION
Woodland Democrat: One of the
| chief arraignments of the Cleveland
administration was it's failure to rec
| ognize Cuba. He and all his friends
were roundly denounced by Republi-
can organs and speakers for what they
were pleased to call the inhuman and
| un-American policy that permitted the
commission of Spanish atrocities on the
soil of the Queen of the Antilles. A
plank of recognition was even incorpor-
ated in the ST. Louis platform. Recog-
milton was proclaimed as a part of the
policy of the Republican party. Now
Mr.. Mckinley and a Republican Con-
gress are afraid to make any attempt
to redeem the promises made for the
evident purpose Of gaining votes.
CAPAY VALLEY.
Colusa Sun: Capay Valley is one
of the most beautiful spots in the State
and is favored beyond almost any by
it's cheap supply of water. Cache Creek
flows along one edge carrying all the
year enough water to irrigate a hun
dred times as much land as the valley
contains. There is great fall to the
creek, SO it can be easily available The
railroad company had most of the land
and sold to settlers in small tracts. 1t
has become famous orchard district,
but the trees begin to need water. The
San Francisco papers announce that
Mr. Mills, the Land Agent of the COM
pany, has contracted for a pumping
plant to cost $4,000. The pump is to
be run by gasoline engine, and the
whole to be placed on wheels. 1t is said
that this plant will water a twenty
acre tract in five hours, giving each tree
100 gallons of water. This is equal TO
covering the ground four inches deep.
which is not enough. Different soils
require different amounts of water but
if irrigation is resorted to at all there
should be at least double that amount
Of water put on, and this would be
equal to only about six inches of rain
because it cannot be so equally distrib-
uted.
DIRECT HIT.
| Fresno Republican: If our memory Is
not at fault, the Professor Won Hoist
who thinks the United States should
not annex the Hawaiian Islands is the
same gentleman who declared SO pos
| itively that the attitude of this Gov
ernment in the Anglo-Venezuelan case
was wrong, and that the Monroe doe
| trine did not apply to the matter. Per-
haps Mr.. Won Hoist had better drop
! international law and take up inter-
! planetary law. The latter will give
| him wider field for his stupendous tall
| ents.
| ROYALTY AND THE PEOPLE.
| Oakland Tribune: Emperor William
evidently realizes that his privilege of
| lese majestic is being carried a little
too far, for his pardoning of Herr Tro-
| jan shows that he appreciates the
storm of public opinion that is raging.
| When the ruler Of a country becomes
so much of a demigod that the news
papers are not allowed to allude to
| him except in veins of adulation, it is
time for the people to show him that
he is only made of ordinary flesh and
| blood, after all.
READING OUT.
| San Jose Herald: Congressman
| Clark of Wyoming does not want 20
be read out of the Republican party be-
cause he voted for the Teller resolution.
| Nor viii he be in any probability. The
Republicans will need all the votes they
can get without reading any one out of
| the party especially on such ques-
| ton as that of finance. The majority
| in the House with its leaders is on rec
ord as in favor of fixing the gold stand
ard on the country, but there is still
| room in the party for lot of bimetal-
| lists who have theory to work with
| out any conditions to help them out.
Probably a good many of them will
fetch UP with the silver men.
ANTS AND MEN.
Tulafe REGISTER: Sir John Lubbock
| is putting the cup to the lips of ants
and making them drunk also, but the
sober ants, just like men, come and
take the drunken ants home and put
them to bed if they happen to belong
to the same hill, but if they do not the
strange drunks are rolled into the near
est ditch. How like men ants are, and
how like ants some men are.
EIGHT HOURS.
San Diego Union: The conference OF
miners of the Middle West, which has
recently closed a session in Chicago.
| has secured important concessions be-
sides the advance in wages. 1t is now
settled that eight hours shall be a days
work in all the bituminous mines of Ilii-
nois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
| West Virginia after the 1st of June,
| 1S9S This decree embraces 400, ,300