The record-union., 1898-02-24
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions OH Subs
jects OF Living News
Interest.

! tIn 1dlIOInld exchanges nave risen II
| righteous wrath at the carelessness OF
the young man who Invariably pastes
the wrapper OF the Santa Ana Blade
/ to the paper itself. While the gentle
editor of the Sacramento Record
| Union breaches a timely sermon on the
sin Of printing an eight-page paper
with the tops of the pages uncut. He
doubtless had the Santa Barbara
News" in mind. The News is a
good paper but it will so down to It's
grave s'unwept, unhonored and unsung'
! if II does not reform in this respect
| What will the next kick, be?
MEAN BUSINESS.
Los Angeles Times: The Nicaragua
Canal Commission is wading its wind
! ing way through the swamps of that
country, hunting for place to locate
! that canal we are SO much in need Of
and evidently earning their salaries
| Wnen men get right cut in the water
! for twenty mile wade it is a pretty
good sign that they mean business. and
| business is exactly what we want in
/ connection with that great enterprise.
There has already been talk enough
about it to dig a tunnel to China.
LET HIM co.
Calaveras Prospect Il is hoped that
/ the Omaha "World-Herald'' will hasten
/ to obtain editorial transportation
which viii enable Mr.. Bryan to visit
the Trans Mississippi Exposition at
| Omaha. He will be interested in that
/ room prepared with cancelled farm
mortgages from single county in his
! State
W.T. n C,E-I-cr-
/ Plumas National Bulletin: AS a result
of the law prohibiting market hunting
of ducks and geese, passed by the iast
Legislature. the birds are so numerous
/ in the Sacramento Valley that the
farmers are having considerable trouble
with them. They come up the sloughs
/ feeding on the grain at night, and NOV
/ ing farther UP each evening, completely
/ destroying the fields over which they
pass. They are being poisoned with
strychDine in some sections The law
viii probably be repealed at the next
session Of the Legislature It's passage
! was secured by the coterie Of San
Francisco club sportsmen who own i'm
/ mense preserves along the bay. and
has benefited no one but them.
IN CASE OF WAR.
| Trinity Journal: For over thirty years
/ this country has enjoyed peace, but
unless all indications fail war with
! Spain is imminent. The issue of this
conflict cannot be doubtful While not
thoroughly prepared, our resources. are
too vast and wealth to great to fear
| defeat With a fairly good fleet of
Warships a large merchant marine that
| could speedily be transformed into
! cruisers and over 100000 men sub
! Ject to military duty, we need fear no
1 foe. We might receive some punish
/ ment at the start, but the successful
I event Of the war could never be in
doubt.
GOLD STANDARD.
! Marysville Appeal: The gold stand
ard is making rapid headway among
| the Central and South American Re-
/ publics. As is well known. several of
these countries have within the past
two years discarded the silver standard
ard there are prospects of additions
TO this number in the near future This
change in the money standard has had
a marked effect in establishing gold
producing industries in tflas part Of the
world in the increase in the quantity
Of gold produced and in the number
OF gold mines developed during the
| past two years.
CORRECT.
| Oakland Enquirer: Those Kenthck-
lans who are getting up mass meetings
to burn the Spanish flag and to hang
De LONE in efiigy are acting like a
barcelona mob. IF there is a difference
! between American citizens and the rah-
Die OF a Spanish seaport, a good way to
snow 1t is TO refrain from doing such
things as the rabbIe does.
POLITICAL SCHEME.
| Woodland Mail: There is no con-
cealing the fact that Senator White and
a number of Bryanites are conspiring
to capture the Legislature this wear.
| and after re-electing him the scheme
IS to gerry1nander the Congressional
districts in the interest of the Demo-
Gratis Republicans should be on the
alert and block this scheme.
THEY DID DIE.
PetaIuma Argus: The editor of the
Colusa Sun rakes the managers NJ
the Golden Jubilee parade over the
Goals for placing young ladies on floats
on cold raw day, clad for the
Fourth of July at Colusa at is said y
continues the Sun" and we have it
confirmed by an eyewitness, that one
poor girl begged TO be allowed to get
| down from her death perch, but she
could not be permitted to spoil the
SHOW. These Were poor girls who un-
dertook to help out the show for the
little money there was in It, If it is
true that three are dead and others dy-
| ing, why did we hang Durrant?"
THE MAINE INCIDENT.
Alameda Argus: In the meantime
the forbearance of this nation. and the
deliberate, sure manner in which the
administration conducts itself. are
causes for deep satisfaction on the part
of every genuinely patriotic citizen The
froth and furne Of a few fantastic jour
mails, bursting with self-expressed pa
tTiotism but caring for the welfare of
this nation only in the ratio Of the
| number OF sensational stories" they
are able to fake out Of its troubles, are
taken for exactly what they are worth
PLAIN CRIMINALITY.
Willows Journal: AS has been pre-
dicted by nearly every one the loss OF
| lives and vessels has been great on the
Alaskan route. Why inspectors al
low every old condemned hulk that can
be made to appear safe by the appii-
cation Of paint to be used for trans
/ porting human lives is unaccountable;
there Is no question but that over one
half Of the vessels now in the Alaska
trade are unfit 10 go to sea. The loss of
the Clara Nevada with all on board is
only the beginning Of disaster that will
/ follow. From reports. the boilers of the