The record-union., 1898-10-27
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

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Yreka Journal: The single tax is an
issue. Mcguire said two years ago
that it would be, a constitutional
amendment was put through the As
sembly providing for it, and the DEM
ocratic platform declares for it by local
option. Look out for it. The single
tax means unsettling property rights,
agitation and experiment which means
| paralysis to industry and starvation
| for labor. Beware of it.
PATERNALISM AND PROTECTION.
San Diego Union: AS in former cam
| paigns, the old claim that protection
is paternalism, and therefore un-Amer-
lean, is occasionally heard. The dis
tinction between the two is admirably
shown by writer in the current num-
Der of "Gunton's Magazine" There is
a marked difference" he says, be
tween a paternal Government and a
protective Government. Paternalism
means doing for a people; protection
means guarding the opportunity for the
people to do for themselves. These
two forms Of government are frequent
ly COMPOUNDED, and those who are OPP
|
cause they do not understand it, make
a special effort to create the impression
in the public mind that the two are
identical; that protection is only an
other name for paternalism, and that
paternalism is necessarily bad. Both
of these statements are wrong. Pro-
lection is as different from paternal-
ism as democracy is from despotism.
| int &c tr.rra pofprna1iSn1
is always bad Whether protection or
paternalism is the better policy for a
nation depends entirely upon the state
| Of civilization
SECOND CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT.
| Redding Free Press: Amendment
number two is fraught with the most
| far-reaching consequences, if adopted,
of any amendment to the Constitution
yet proposed. It provides that each
| county may institute its own form
| of government, enact a code Of laws
which the Legislature may reject, but
may not amend, and regulate elections,
segregate or consolidate county offices,
specify the tenure Of office, and fix the
salaries paid. If adopted this amend
ment will confer on the people of a
| county the law making powers now
vested in the Legislature, so far as
they appertain to county government.
| The Free Press" is against the
amendment. Adoption means an open
door for the adoption Of every
| chimerical idea of reform" known to
present day sociology. When gov
ernmental change becomes a necessity,
enough Of the whole people of State
will realize the need in ample time to
| demand and secure all essential re-
forms 1t is a perilous undertaking to
put in the hands of the children of un-
rest and discomfort a weapon capable
of inf1icting untold damage to the ma
terial interests of a commonwealth
which the ''reformers" may happen for
the moment to dominate. Vote against
amendment number two.
THE CREED.
The Mail of Woodland. The single
tax doctrine is that a tax imposed by
/ the nation or State upon all the nat
| ural resources of wealth embraced in
the term land) should take the place of
all other taxes-taXes on stocks bonds,
mortgages, personal property, railroads,
| franchises, incomes, licenses, etc, tar
ifs, whether for protection or revenue
and that such single tax should alb
sorb the entire rental value of all nat
ura1 resources of wealth, land Vol
umes of entangling sophistries have
been written defining the single-tax
theory, but the foregoing is a COM
mon sense and comprehensive explana-
| ton of it's purport.
| THEORETICALLY STILL AT WAR.
Fresno Republican: We ought not to
forget that in theory and possibility
the United States and Spain are still
at war. In time of war any adver-
tisement of the weak points Of our
national defense is treason. The sensa-
tional exaggeration of these weak
| points would be almost treason now if
| it should serve to strengthen Spain to
the point of involving us in interna-
tional difficulties. Let US profit by the
experience of the war to be better pre-
| pared in the future, but let us not
| weaken our position for the present by
| indiscriminate criticism in advance of
| investigation.
MAGUIRES HONESTY.
| Humboldt Standard: The Eureka
| Journal" publishes a short editorial
which appeared over five years ago in
| the Standard" commencing Mr.. Ma
/
/ guire as an honest man. This article
| represented the honest views Of the
writer then. SO far as Maguire's per-
sonal honesty is concerned we have
never accused him Of any want of 1t.
| He is honest, we believe, in advocat-
ing the single tax on land, for he be-
lieves the land should not be owned by
| the farmers, but become the common
property of the whole people. We do
not think Mcguire is right in advocat-
| ing such laws as would practically con-
| fiscate every mans land, and, when
that article was written, did not know
| that Mcguire believed and taught that
the single tax is the very essence of
| true democracy. At the time that ar
| ticle was written Mcguire had not
not made his record in Congress, and
had not favored the single tax and alb
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