The record-union., 1898-05-23
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

SSSbS Va 2~ANAAS MOVIE
Interest.
California Fruit Grower: Now is the
time for Americans to renounce the I'M
ripe, green, hard, lavorless Spanish
olive and make the acquaintance of
the ripe, dark colored, mellow, rich-fia-
vored California olive. Experiments in
this direction are assured of a very
happy surprise.
| DECIDEDLY NEW
Kern Echo: All kinds of plans for
the army appear to be on tap, but out
of the mass of speculation and conjec-
ture it seems pretty certain that three
invading armies are to move simulta-
neously at an early date Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippines are each and
all to feel the tread of the American
army without delay. What changes
the whirligig of time makes? Except
during the war with Mexico the foot
of our soldiery has never trod foreign
soil, and in that case it did not go
abroad for conquest or occupation. To
invade a foreign nations territory is a
new thing for this country, and to be
found doing so in the remotest parts
Of the earth is decidedly strange.
STICK TO THE LAND.
Marysville Appeal: One can hardly
pick up a daily paper without reading
of some case of misery or crime result
ing from our established system of
weaving the people from the country
and the land as a source Of livelihood.
The Luckhardt case in Oakland is one
Of the most recent. But the sad les
son which it teaches seems to have oc-
CURED to no one. Had Luckhardt
known how to get his living from a
piece of land, and been trained in his
youth to do it, and stuck to it, he would
never have lost his health, or been
driven by the hunger of his family to
steal to feed them. And even if he had
abandoned the country for the city, and
broken down there under the unhealthy
strain of city life, he would have known
how to get back to the country, and
his mind would naturally have turned
in that direction in the time of need.
AS it is, broken down in health, dying
Of consumption, he became a thief to
stop the cries of his starving children.
THE COST.
The Calistogan: Secretary Gage says
that the war is going to increase our
expenses $50.000000 in the next two
months The Philippines are worth
many times that sum, and we will hold
on to them until Spain evens up our
cash account.
THE SENATORIAL FIGHT
Vacaville Reporter: The great fight
Southern California is going to put up
will be to win the United States SEN
ator. The Republicans of that Sec
ton of California are practically a
unit upon the proposition Ambitious
gentlemen will appear for a brief space
among the mentioned, but in the con-
vention showdown we expect to see
the delegates from below Tehachipi
| join in securing the nomination of some
man from the northern or central part
of the State for Governor, reserving for
themselves the possibility of securing
Senatorial honors. This will be true,
we think, of both the Democratic and
Republican conventions.
ADVANCING PRICES.
Riverside Enterprise: While the price
of wheat is advancing so rapidly there
is also going on general stiffening Of
the prices Of nearly all the other COM
modities For these there seems to be
no substantial reason in any actual
disturbances of supply and demand.
In war time people somehow expect
prices to rise, and dealers are prompt
to foster the expectation. Speculation
on the prospect of currency expansion
is systematically discouraged in all
quarters, and therefore it cannot be a
serious cause in the present rise.
LESSON OF THE WAR.
nEI,o RI
ical corps has made the anomalous dis
covery that cigarette smoking is pre-
ventive Of yellow fever, scurvy and
other dread maladies to which soldiers
in the tropics are subject, and also
saves men from death in battle. 1t
accomplishes all this by keeping 80 per
cent. of the habitual cigarette smokers
from entering the army, from leaving
their comfortable homes and hazarding
health and life in the miasmatic atmos-
phere of Cuba and the Philippines A
| celebrated surgeon Of Philadelphia, who
examined recruits during the Civil War
and who is engaged in that service
now, declares that the cigarette fiends
have weak hearts and lack the vitality
necessary to the good soldier, and only
10 per cent. of this class who have
| volunteered succeed in passing the
physical examination required. large
number Of apparently sound men who
enlisted in Captain Steere's Artillery
Company here were rejected on phys
zeal grounds. and our dispatches from
San Francisco announce that Of the
Southern California contingent in the
Seventh Regiment 155 have been re-
jected for the same reason, and are on
their way home. The specific cause is
not stated, and it doubtless varies, but
the probabilities are, in the light of the
testimony Of the Philadelphia authori-
ty. that the deadly cigarette has been
abundantly in evidence. The reflections
of confirmed cigarette smokers in the
Civil War were only 10 per cent The
increase to 90 per cent. in this war is
attributed to the increase in the use
of the paper cigarette. The facts con-
stitute a forcefuI sermon, a useful OBJ
ject lesson.
PRUDENT ENGLAND.
Stockton Independent: The states
men of Great Britain even are called
upon to give some explanation of their
contemplated action to secure an ade-
quate supply of wheat for consumption.
Prudent England knows that bread is
getting scarce and consequently is Will
ing to debate with even temper any
| proposition to prevent wholesale hun
ger It is too near Italy and Spain
not to know the danger of bread riots.
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM.
Fresno Expositor: Upon the two
great legislative reforms, the initiative
and the referendum, the people should
be brought together just as they are