The record-union., 1898-03-11
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Colusa Sun: We hear all the time
about Wall street keeping the peaee, and
that the moneyed men of the country
are financially interested in keeping off
war. AS matter of fact Wall street
would make millions of money out of
a war. We would come out of it with a
| big debt payable to Wall street, and we
Of the common people would have that
debt to pay. Wall street would not pay
any of it! Neither would Wall street
go into the army to get killed ana
| wounded; the common people would
] have To- furnish the flood for powder."
No, turn the matter in any way you
may please, the man who has made
money by the million is not going to get
| left. Whenever schemes, either in times
| CT war or times of peace are Matched for
/ the purpose of cinching the money power
somebody is going to get left, and it VIII
not be the man with the millions. The
very most we may hope for is to make
these men pay their just share of the
support of the Government, and quit
legislating for their especial benefit.
WHAT'S THE NATTER?
The Mail of Woodland: The first OBJ
/ ject sought by the opponents of the Re-
publican party is its defeat. The first
thing one reads in an opposition paper is
/ advice to Republicans how to conduct
themselves that they may not be de-
feated. The first conclusion to be drawn
is: What's the matter with you?"
CORPORATIONS IN POLITICS.
Pasadena Star: The engaging in poll
tics of a corporation is always sure to
provoke criticism. The more especially
/ so II that corporation be a railroad is
| ii resented by the public as an unWar-
| ranted and improper exercise of corpo-
rative power. Yet upon reflection it is
difficult to see why a railroad should not
engage in politics if it choose. Politics
| is nothing more nor less than the bust
| ness of municipality, and a railroad
company, as a member of that munich
/ pality, is very much Interested in the
! conduct of that business, and is doing
nothing more than legitimately protect
| ing its own interests in moulding, SO far
as possible, the character of Government
SO that it may be friendly, or at least not
! hostile. a person owning share in d
corporation would feel perfectly justified
| in attending its annual meetings and
using all honorable efforts to make its
| management wise one, and If possible
friendly, for upon that wisdom of man
agement would depend in great meas
ure the value of his holdings. Unwise
and unfriendly legislation may almost
destroy the value Of property, and ii
| there is any valid reason why the owner
of that property should not protect his
own interests, under any and all circum-
stances, we should be glad to know it.
A proper interest in public affairs is
deemed patriotic and commendable in a
natural person, why not in an artificial
one?
A FREE MARKET.
| The Calistogan: The farmers fruit
growers and producers have clearly
shown that they favor the proposition 10
establish free market on the San Fran
cisco water front. The project is OPP
posed by the San Francisco middlemen
What now will the Harbor Commission
do-work with the farmers and growers
| for the good of the State, or stand III
with the commission men? The duty Of
the commission is plain; have its mem
| bers the courage to do it?
A BIG JOB.
| Stockton independent: Those Gov
ernments whose citizens or subjects
were killed or suffered otherwise by the
explosion of the Maine may not accept
the doctrine that service in the Amer
| lean navy deprived them of the right to
their own Governments protection.
| Spain may find bigger job on its hands
than it contracted for when blowing up
'gringoes."
GETTING MAD.
Willows Journal: Nearly all the
Spanish people are anxious to whip the
United States; three-fourths of the ma
tive Americans want to lick Spain,
and at present writing we are unable
to see anything to postpone the show
much longer. War is horrible at it's
best, but preferable to loss of national
honor. We have been pulled and picked
at so long without resenting it that
other nationalities think we won't fight.
An ignorant foreigner said on the
streets of Willows Saturday that the
Americans are too cowardly to fight
anybody, and We are panied to say
there was not an American there with
sand enough to promptly knock his
down.
STOCK-RAISING COMPETITION.
Mountain Democrat: The vigorous
competition which the great stock
raising areas of Australia and South
America have been able to establish
against the United States in European
markets is illustrated b. recent state
ments regarding the refrigerating APP
paratus in sea-going vessels The
White Star line now has fourteen ships
fitted with refrigerating apparatus; the
Ham burg American line twenty many
of which sail through the tropical re-
gions; the Havre Meat Importing Com
bination, fourteen; the English Trop-
ical Fruit Importing Line, twenty
four; the Royal Mail Steam Packing
| Company Central and South America),
twenty, and the Copenhagen Butter
Importing Company twelve While re-
frigerator warehouses capable of hold
ing 10000 tons each, into which vessels
unload their cargoes of fresh meats,
are common in Europe
CONCURRENCE WITH A RESER-
WALTON.
San Jose Herald The Oakland
Tribune reminds California fruit grow
ers of the wisdom of being well repre-
scented at the Paris Exposition 1t
cites the market opened for our fruits
by our display at the Hamburg EXPOSE
sition, which was only a drop in the
bucket to what the Paris event will be-
Our local Republican contemporary
echoes the utterances of the Tribune"
and the Herald" hereby indorses both
of them, on condition that they will
own up that they have been humbug-
ging our fruit growers all along with