The record-union., 1898-04-04
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
iects OF Living News
Interest.

Interest.
| Humboldt Standard: The silver ques-
ton has placed the Democratic party in
| control of an entirely new set OF men,
who have yet to prove themselves equal
| in ability to those they succeeded. Sena-,
tor Mills of Texas, who was one OF the
original silver men, but who was con-
verified to sound money about the same
time that Mr.. Carlisle was, has been
compelled to withdraw his name as a
candidate for reelection, to escape de-
/ feat.
! DON'T WORRY.
! Tulare Register: In the East they
are forming Don't Worry societies in
which the members are pledged to do
THE best they can. take what comes and
thank God that matters are not worse
than they are About a thousand whop-
/ ping big societies of this sort would be
appropriate to California just now and
we therefore move that the whole State
resolve itself into one without further
delay. Worry kills the person who does
the worrying but is otherwise power
/ less.
PROVES NOBILITY.
San Jose Mercury: The Duke of
Veragua calls President Mckinley an
Ignorant suffer-" Anybody can tell at
a glance by the Dukes peculiar style of
manners that he has noble blood in his
veins.
NO COWARD.
| Marysville Appeal: With the prospect
of foreign war gold is flowing into the
country at the rate of million a day.
| The alleged cowardliness of gold was a
fiction, like unto the theory that the
gold standard kept down the price of
wheat.
MUST ACT INSTANTLY.
/ San Bernardino Sun: If the reopen
ing of the forest reservation is to be
prevented, not a moment is to be lost.
All sorts of plans are forming. looking
to the entering of stock, and step
very much to be feared has been taken
within the last few days.. by which an
effort is being made to have special
privileges granted, so that the favored
ones will have permits to pasture stock
in the reserve, while the general pub
lie may not be admitted. One would
be just as bad as the other, so far as
the effect is concerned, except the
move indicates.
| 1t is learned from inside sources that
Los Angeles parties are petitioning for
a special permit, the granting of which
! would enable them to bring their herds
of sheep into the reservation, to the
exclusion of other sheep owners. From
What can be discovered, there is some
reason to believe that Senator White
will aid that request. AS the situation
now stands, the word of the Board of
Supervisors has gone out as in favor
of opening the reserve. Ought that
not to be Withdrawn at once? 1t may
I be too late to wait until next Monday.
In the meantime Senator White will
have arrived from Washington, the pc
titions will be urgent, and the Secretary
of the Interior may have made his
recommendation. If anything is to be
done, it ought to be done instantly-to-
morrow. Not a day later. Cannot
some organized effort be made to pre-
vent this retrograde step?
SMUDGING.
Marysville Democrat: Smudging as
a remedy by which to counteract the
injurious effects of frost on growing
fruit and vegetation has been resorted
to in various parts of the United States
for more than 100 years. In recent
years there has been many devices
tried, some of them patented and sold
in great. quantities. To say that these
will not pnove successful where there
is no wind in ordinary occasions, such
as was experienced last week, is plac-
ing a low. estimate on the judgment of
men who have annually expended hum
dreds of dollars to ward off the dam
aging influence. When the thermome-
ter reaches freezing point and the wind
is sufficiently swift to carry smoke or
vapor away from the trees, smudging
will not avail but this is not fire.
quent occurrence One of the best in
formed fruit-groWers in Suffer County
said on Saturday last that the smudge
had saved hundreds of dollars worth of
early fruit in their orchard during the
past ten days, and that it did the same
service in other parts of the country
GERMAN FINANCIERING
Oakland Tribune: 1t would take a
past master of finance to comprehend
the currency system that prevails in
Germany where, according to the de-
velopment of a recent scandal, 10 per
printed when an issue is run off, and
this surplus generally finds its way into
the Kaiser's private purse. These notes
of course get into general circulation
later on and the question is, what
values do they represent.
A POSSIBLE EXPLOSION.
Los Angeles Times: The Spanish
4 newspaper, Impartial" shows a better
knowledge of the situation than is
usual with it when dealing with Am
erican subjects, when it says that ito
send the Maine report to Congress is
+ equivalent to throwing a torch into a
barrel of gunpowder." But, as the
situation stands, it is Spain that light
Z ed the torch: hence we are not to be
held responsible for any explosion that
may possibly result, however disastrous
it may be to the country which is max
/. ing a living hell of Cuba. There mas
been little doubt in the. minds of the
people of this country from the outset
that the Maine was deliberately de-
stroyed by some enemy of the United
States. Such being the case, it is not
surprising if the Congress and the c1tl-
zens of this country are In a gum
powdery frame of mind. Fancy. if you
please. how Spain would feel We're the
conditions reversed. 1t remains, then,
that the torch is afame and that the
eunnovrder barrel is standing with the