The record-union., 1898-01-27
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

States The wholesale admission of
all the Northwest Territories has not
proved entirely satisfactory, at least
TO the Republican party. which made
it possible for them to come in Ari-
zona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and
Alaska will have to wait awhile.
SHOULD HAVE STRETCHED HIS
NECK
Fresno Republican: James Foy, the
hypnotist, gave a remarkable eXhibi>
tdon of his powers at Anderson, Ind,
yesterday He hypnotized his wife,
and while she was under the spell he
disjointed her arms and legs. That
done he took hold of her head and
twisted it. There was a cracking, and
Mrs. Foy's head fell upon her breast,
the backbone being disjointed. Her
husband then placed the disjointed
bones in their proper position and
brought her out of the trance. This
ended the performance. but many peo-
pie will believe that 1t ended too soon.
They Will be of the opinion that it
should have ended with the stretching
of Mr.. Foy's neck, not by the aid of
hypnotism, but with a rope.
DEMOCRATIC VIEW.
San Jose Herald: France is talking
about increasing the duties on sundry
American products, and a member of
the Chamber of Deputies yesterday re-
minded his hearers that the United
States could not object on account of
the duties put on French products by
our new tariff. The point was we'll
taken and illustrates in a nutshell the
! .,.:4 on ic inn
ply a policy of mutual annoyance be-
tween nations whose real interest Is
in free intercourse.
GETTING IN IT'S WORK.
Los Angeles Express; The Dingley
tariff law is getting in its work on the
foreign orange and lemon trade so
far this year there have ben received
at New York but j 800 boxes of new
crop Sicilian oranges, against 4,2oo
boxes in 1886. while the quantity now
on the way is very small Among the
citrus fruit growers of California free
traders are scarcer than ever
REPUBLICAN CLUBS.
Stockton Record: Some interest is
now being taken in the approaching
campaign, and we believe it a duty
that Republicans owe 10 themselves
and to the community to form one CT
more permanent league clubs. Party
| spirit is not dead by any means. 1t is
only waiting for an excuse TO make 1t
active.
OUR INTERESTS WITH ENGLAND.
Tacoma Ledger: The sudden dispatch
of a portion of the English fleet from
Victoria to China has given rise to all
sorts Of conjectures concerning new de-
veIopments in the East. The natural
sympathy of the country for Russia,
the result of an old-time friendship of
| that nation for the United States in its
time of peril, has been strong, but not
strong enough to overbalance the vital
| considerations and reasons of a conf
merclal nature, which are all on the
side of English occupancy OF Chlnese
ports. English interests coincide with
our own, and however much England
may grab" every one is free to trade
in her territory. Russian interests are
| not our interests, for that country Is
a large producer and seller of the very
articles that largely make up the ex-
ports of the United States The an
nouncement of the British Government
that it is unauerably opposed TO any
| interference by Russia or Germans
with the freedom of trade in Chinese
ports viii be welcomed by the people of
this country and the statement of Sir
Michael Hicks Beach that England is
prepared to fight for the preservation
Of this idea means much for the well
fare of the United States.
THE POLL TAX.
Fresno Expositor: The newspapers OF
the State are almost unit against the
! further imposition of the poll tax. The
| Visalia Times says: THE Palo Alto
Live Cak' is of the opinion that every
candidate for the Legislature in the
State this fail should be pledged 10
abolish the iniquitous and unjust poll
tax. The Live Oak is right. The poll
tax is one of those devices by which
the men who own property are enabled
| to escape the payment of a portion
of the debt they alone owe. Any sort
| of a head tax is an outrage and should
not be permitted in this day and age"
AN ABSURD THREAT.
Los Angeles Herald: In the House on
Thursday Mr. Dingley declared that if
the hours of labor in the several States
are not equalized, the labor organiza
Constitution to permit Congress to
equalize them. This sentiment is out
an echo of the recent declaration of the
| Boston Globe to the same effect.
Unable longer to cope successfully with
! the industries of the South, even with
| the help of tariff duties fixed by the
mill men themselves, they propose now
to invoke the help of all the people Of
= Tor.
! by statute. But Mr.. Dingley's implied
| threat will frighten no one. Organized
| labor in this country is not lying awake
O. nights devising means for succoring
New England mill men. Mr.. Dingley
in the course of his remarks, gave an
excellent reason why organized labor
should not at this moment be in SYM
pathy with them, for he admitted that
the mills started up last summer with
eight months supply of the finished
product on hand, preferring to force a
| strike in midwinter TO remaining closed
when there was no demand for re-
sumption. But his utterances are use
full as indicating the drift of sentiment
in New England touching the aggres-
siveness of Southern competitors. in
its narrowness and intolerance it has a
decidedly colonial favor.
A WORD FOR THE OLD MAN.
Fresno Republican: Always looking
for the mother lode and never saying
a word about the father lode. This
is the same old thing; papa never did
get half a show in this world.-Los An
geles Times.
And still the old man is called upon
to produce" with a freedom and reg