The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-10-24
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects of Living News
Interest.

Stockton Independent: Every voter
Should remember that in case the single
tax scheme for the revision of the Con-
stitution is carried that one-seventh Of
the counties of this State will elect
forty-one of the eighty delegates that
frames the Constitution. These counties
contain less than one-eighth of an area
of the State and a little more than one
half of the population. But the signifi-
cant feature of it is that they are as
sessed for $30S, 100000 on improve
ments and personal property that the
single tax would exempt from taxa
ton.
FOREST FIRES.
Marysville Appeal: The destruction
of forests in the United States this
year has been much greater than usual.
But every summer and autumn wit
ness an enormous loss of timber by
fire. The total destruction from this
cause during the past 80 years has re-
Gently been estimated by Commissioner
Herman of the General Land Office at
no less than IL 100000 900 feet of lum-
Der. This relates only to public domain.
The losses of timber on lands under
private ownership have likewise been
very heavy. So great has the evil be-
come that the chief subject of atten-
ton in the Land Office is now the best
means Of prevention of forest fires and
the preservation of Government timber
from destruction by flame.
In this country public opinion has
scarcely been sufficiently aroused to
the Importance of forest preservation.
In the Old World the subject has re-
ceived vastly greater attention. Ehere
the grave evils resulting from the strip
ping of mountains by fire and the ak Of
the woodman have led to legislation of
the most stringent sort for the protec-
ton of the remaining forest growth.
There have been millions of acres re-
planted at great expense to European
Governments. A system of policing the
forests is maintained, and infractions
of the forest laws are punished with
severe penalties.
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
Fresno Republican,: In one of his
recent speeches Colonel Roosevelt sad
that the election of a Democratic Con-
gress in November would strengthen
the hands of every hostile Power which
views with jealousy our victories in the
Antilles and the Philippines. This is
absolutely true. A Democratic Congress
would make it a point to oppose the
wise policy of the Administration, with
consequent loss of the prestige and
some of the benefits it has brought US.
If any one doubt this it is only neces-
sary to refer him to the action of the
Democrats five years ago in pulling
down the flag that the preceding Re
publican Administration had raised over
II
disgraceful pages in our history, and If
the Democrats get into power again
they Will add another still more infa-
nous. Until the new policy on which
the country has embarked has been
thoroughly established it will be dan
gerous to put the Democrats in charge
of the ship of State. We are entering
upon a grander national life, but are
not so far on our journey that a weak
or unwise hand may not turn us back.
SINGLE TAXER MAGUIRE.
Yreka Journal: James G.. Mcguire is
distributing under franking privilege,
thousands Of copies of single tax
speech made by Henry George, all
mailed from San Francisco Mr. Ma
guire indorses the statements in these
pamphlets, his creed being absolute
to this remarkable document a farmer
who owns his farm is just about on a
par with g. Shareholder. Following is
one paragraph that appears.
Property in land is as indefensible
as property in man. 1t is so absurdly
impolitic, so outrageously unjust, so
flagrantly subversive of the true right
of property, shat it can only be insti-
tuted by force and maintained by con-
founding in the popular mind the dis
tinction between property in land and
property in things that are the result
of labor Once that distinction is made
clear-andl thorough discussion of the
tariff question must now make it clear
and private property in land is
doomed"
APOSTLES OF Discomfort RE-
BUKED.
Portland Oregonian: Bishop Nc
Cabe delivered a telling blow to social
ism, communism and demagogy in a
sermon which he preached at the Cen
trail Methodist Church, Tacoma last
Sunday night. He could have selected
no more appropriate place to spread the
Lords doctrine that labor and capital
are inter-dependent and not antagonis-
tic; that when one is impoverished the
other is impoverished, and that it is
the bounden duty of the rich to allevi-
ate that class, as numerous in Jesus
time as II is now, whom misfortune,