The record-union., 1898-02-06
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.


of approaching frost, seems to be a long
step in the right direction. Since. sew
eral successful devices have. been dis
covered to protect growing frult from
the whitening effects of premature
frosts, the multiplication of warnings
cannot but prove helpful And good
way to insure the passage of the Loud
bill is for individuals to write personal
appeals To members of Congress, not
combining them to the California delega-
ton
STILL IMPROVING.
San Diego Union: The commercial
agencies continue to report steady i'm
movement in the business situation, and
they fortify their statements by figures.
Unless these agencies are deliberately
falsifying, the country is making fair
progress toward better times. 1t will be
remembered that during the period of
depression following the panic of 1898,
these same agencies had no hesitation
about describing very frankly the seri-
Gus situation in which the country found
itself. There is not the slightest ground
for supposing that they are not equally
truthful now 1t is their business TO
give facts and thus far they have stuck
to them.
REWARD OF MINING.
San Jose Mercury: Success appears to
be attending the efforts of a large num-
Der of residents Of his county who
are interested in numerous mining Ven
lures in various parts of the State.
Every little While the announcement IS
made that some of our citizens have
struck it rich or have sold a mine or
bought one, while scores are meeting
With encouraging prospects. The revival
of interest in mining is not combining it
self to any particular locality and the
profits of the industry are as likely to be
reaped by those residing in the agricult-
ufal districts as Well as by those who are
nearer the mines.
POLITICS IN SHASTA.
Redding Free Press. There can only
he two parties, after all, and Populists
will be comoelled to abandon their Or
ganization for the one or the other. In
the meantime, however, While the DEM
ocratic hawk is making advances to-
ward the Populist drove, let Republi-
cans stand by their party and principles
ard fSht the fused enemy. The good
times in Shasta County have strength
ened the Republican party. All that is
necessary for success at the next gen
erl election is harmony and good local
ticket Surely a harmonious party with
we'll settled principles ought to win
against the political odds and ends of a
fusion :or office only.
THE MAINE AT HAVANA.
Alameda Argus: A dispa tch announces
that the visit of the battleship Maine TO
Havana has had a good effect; that a
aac cd
may be because the Spaniards see that
this country means business. AS long
as they co Id bluff US off they were high
and mighty; but when Uncle Sam began
to get in earnest they came down to
more amiable condition. This country
has been dilly- dallying over the Cuban
question all TOO long. The brutalities
that have gone on in that unhappy isle
during three years are disgrace to civ
litigation, and any country has the right
and is almost in duty bound to stop
them.
HAWAII AND CHINESE.
Marysville Democrats: One of the ar
guments used by certain newspapers in
opposition to annexation of the Sand
wich Islands as part of the United
States is the presence of few thousands
of japanese and Chinese. 1t is claimed
that laborers on the plantations are paid
very small wages and that white men
can not compete with them. A Los An
geles journal published the statement
that the wages of laborers in Hawaii
are SO a month, whereas ii is a matter
Of common knowledge and Government
statistics that the cheapest field labor in
Hawaii is paid So 30 a month and
found while average wages are from SD
TO SIT month.
The absolute fallacy of the claim
that sugar produced by Hawaii can in
any manner interfere with the beet SUI
gar production of the United States is
shown by an examination of the
United States statistics upon the sub
ject.
HANNA IN THE SENATE.
San Diego Tribune: In commenting
on Senator Hanna's victory the New
York Tribune thinks his candidacy
has been converted into the means of
splitting his party in Ohio. Of giving
some present aid and comfort to the
enemy. and of supplying them with am
munition which they hope to use with
deadly effect the coming fall and in the
national battle two years hence. Though
Senator Hanna may acquit himself OF
all blame for this particular condition
of affairs he doubtless appreciates the
fact that he will be held largely re-
sponsibe for the events of the future
He is expected to justify to public
opinion the long tenure of a Senate seat
in which he has been secured, and IT
must he his most earnest desire TO do
so The difficult task Of reuniting Ohio
Republicans in an impregnable majority
viii test to the utternaost his wisdom
patriotism and magnanimity. And yet
the advantage of position which was
his in the struggle so hardly Won is
still his in even a greater deg~ 90 in
the hour of victory. 1t = believed
that he will be equal to ne emergency
and the opportunity.
MINING IN SHASTA.
Shasta Courier: A friend of ours, who
has lived IN this county for forty years
and is of an investigating and observ-
ing mind aives il as his concentrated
opinion that there Is enough gold, sill
Yer and copper ore in sight or In pro-
cess of DEVELOPMENT within radius
of fifteen miles Of Shasta TO keep a
dozen roasting and smelling plants like
those at Keswick at work for at least
century.
THE BORN HowLER.
Tulare Register: The great rank and
file of popoeracy are as good people as
other people only they are mistaken,
but the born bowler and the ill-got-
Ten garbage CARRIER is human excres-
cence. wart. a carbuncle. syphilitic
bubo. a flstula, a sloughina mass of
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