The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-03-02
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.


shown that they favor the proposition
to establish a free market on the San
francisco water front. The project IS
opposed by the San Francisco middle
men. What now will the Harbor Com
mission do-work with the farmers and
growers for the good of the State, or
stand in with the commission men? The
duty of the commission is plain; have
its members the courage to do it?
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
Colusa Sun: Talking about office
holding reminds US of the general adj
vice we always have for young men
steer clear of it. The time is coming now
for the selection Of county officials
throughout the State, and it may be
Well for young men to look around
among the ex-officials of their re-
spective counties and see how many
men Office has really benefited. See
| if in the history of the county you
may not count such on your fingers!
To be D strict Attorney sometimes helps
the young lawyer to climb, but 1t does
not help him if he cannot afterWard
make as much as he got in the office.
1t is not good for anybody to give them
more for a short time than they can
earn all the time. There is created a
spirit of extravaganza, and when the
earning capacity is cut short there is
a Encouragement that leads to unhap-
pinesS. If it does not in the man HIM
self his family has perhaps imbibed it.
Then he looks for Office again and dis
appointment follows when a failure to
get it comes. Every man should try
to engage in some business where he
can be free and independent, and then
gather a habit of living well within the
| income be it great or small. This last
in fact is the secret of financial success.
Almost everybody can make some
money, but there are few who can
practice self-denial
DANGER IN THE DIRECT MAJOR
ITY
Stockton Record It is probable that
If the question of war with Spain were
submitted to a vote of the people of the
United States tomorrow the decision
would be Overwhelmingly for war. The
decision would be in accordance with
the feelings of resentment, the i'm
pulses, and because we have not pro-
greSsed so far from the savage state
| as to overcome the tiger in our blood,
the lust of bloodshed. 1t may be a
sad confession, but it is, nevertheless,
a true one, that in times of excitement
the great majority of mankind lose
their reason and abandon right, justice
and prudence merely because those
of their kind have been outraged. mall
| treated, murdered. 1t is the same spir-
| it that in frequent emergencies sub
| stitutes lynch law for lawful law But
! the fact that majority of the Amer
| lean people would favor a deciara ton
Of war is not conclusive Eat such war
ought to be declared nor evidence that
| it would not be regretted by the major
! ity when they We're called upon to test
their decision by the trial and sacri-
| fees of blood and treasure The vote
| of a majority cannot convert wrong
| into right, nor can it recall life back to
| the dead. The majority of the people
Of the United States We're once in ia
vor of an alliance with France to fight
! England merely as a matter of graft
| tude. The majority was wisely re-
| strained.
TOO LARGE PAPERS.
| Solano Republican: The rivalry that
exists in journalism in San Francisco
| is leading to the publication of larger
| CdAtiOAiS AAAdi tliE pOOlA( Actually lSSd
! II the news that is now given in a
| fourteen page paper were condensed to
| occupy a journal containing eight
pages, people of all classes would
| greatly appreciate the change We
| believe the news should be given in a
more concise form as a matter of cons
| venience to people whose everyday du-
] ties preclude them from wading through
a =, g
| important daily events. The present
prolix manner of giving news is evil
| IDENTIFY repugnant TO the majority of
readers and a change in this direction
and the exercise of brevity, would be a
! boon to the public.
AN UNPARALLELED ATROCITY.
| Los Angeles Times: The telegraphic
| report of the wholesale shooting of
| Postmaster Baker and his family at
| Lake City, s. c., seems unbelievable
! 1t is hard to understand how human
| beings could be guilty of so revolving
a crime. AS the account goes, the
mob set fire to the house occupied by
| Baker and his family, consisting of a
wife and several young children As
| the inmates emerged from their burn
/ ing home they were shot down indis-
criminately by the mob, which num-
| bered more than one hundred white
men, armed with pistols and shotguns, +"
| (the Postmaster and his family being
| neSroes) OF the seven occupants of
| the house, only two escaped without
| serious injury, two being killed out
right, and the three others dangerously
| If not fatally wounded: the bodies of
| Baker and his infant child being Gre
mated in the burning house.
| Words are inadequate to characterize
| in fitting terms the fiendishness of this
crime assuming the Geographic re-
| ports to be correct. or approximately
| SOD Bakers only offense Gas that he
was Postmaster of the place and that
he was a negro He had committed no
| crime, had wronged no one, and had
shown good quality of courage in re-
| fusing to be inundated by cowardly
threats that had been made previous to
| the tragedy.
WANTS A WHIPPING POST.
Fresno Exposition: The law provides
no adequate punishment for such brutes
as the one Groves, who, the other day
near Stockton. kicked and beat his wife
| until the blood poured from her
wounds. In addition this fiend in hu-
| man shape took her infant child from
her arms and threw ii against the wall
while she pleaded for mercy. Arrest.
with imprisonment or a fine, or both
| together do not reach this kind He
needs a little Klondike treatment: l. e.
to be tied TO post and have some good
| strong lashes laid on his bare back with
unsparing hand.
TAYLOR'S WAR WITH SPAIN.
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