The record-union., 1898-10-18
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Fresno Republican: Mcguire is utiliZ-
ing his Congressional privilege to print
the works Of Henry George as public
documents and distribute them free.
1t is his right and it is only consistent
that he should exercise it. But it would
e1so be only natural for him to do as
Governor what he has been doing as
Congressman, and the vantage ground
of the former position would be much
more favorable. The ten years cru
sade, which is being continued at this
moment as vigorously and as publicly
as his political campaign, would not
and ought not to stop with Inaugural
tion day 1t is not for Mcguire to deny
or suppress his principles, but for the
people, if they do not believe in them,
to see to it that he advocates them as
private CITIZEN and not as public rep
resentative
ITALY AND ANARCHISTS.
Humboldt Standard: AS Italy is the
principal breeding ground of anarchists
it is proper for that country to take
the lead in devising means to suppress
them. But the task is a difficult one
and will never completely succeed. No
laws more severel than the present ones
against murder and treason can be put
into any civilized code, yet murderers
and traitors flourish in spite of them
1t will be the same way with the an
archists, though something may be
done, undoubtedly, to hamper their
movements.
KANSAS SCANDAL.
Tulare Register: Under Populist
rule in Kansas has come up one Of
those sickening scandals which marked
the pestiferous administration of Lew
elling from beginning to end. Dis
patches say that the physician "a Pop
ulist, too) has resigned his place IN the
Asylum for the Insane at Topeka and
gives his reasons therefor, which show
the sort of cattle his fellow appointees
are. He charges drunkenness, cruelty,
incompetency and gross immortality
among the attaches of the asylum and
helpless patients. The physician says
he stands ready to prove his charges.
During the former Populist admins
tration charges were made-by Popu-
lists in some cases-of similar deprav-
ityIcoupled with rank dishonesty in diff
ferent State institutions from asylums
to the administration of the State Pen
itentiary Reform, reform, what sins
are committed in thy name!
A SIGNED CONFESSION.
Stockton Independent: In a signed
confession in the Examiner yester-
DAY the editorial writer of the Mali
admitted that he was the author of
the forged circular" published some
time ago, which purported to come
from the Republican State Central
Committee The only object of the for
gerry was to deceive voters. 1t did de-
ceive the Malls" Democratic contem-
poraries in Woodland and other places,
and was criticised severely by the San
Francisco papers. It is presumed that
the Mali has several hundred readers
whose intelligence and discrimination
are of no higher order than those of the
Democratic editors in Woodland and
elsewhere Such readers no doubt ac-
cepted the article as truthful and gath
cred an additional store Of prejudice
because of it. The most surprising part
of it is that any considerable number
of readers are so dull as to continue to
peruse the MALI without detecting
that it constantly uses the same kind
of falsehood, deceit and forgery. With
in the last week it had a fake article
about the candidates for United States
Senator that was manufactured in the
same way. though put in the same
shape as a telegram from San Fran
cisco, so as to deceive the undiscern-
ing reader.
POSSESSION OF LAND.
Fresno Republican: However much
economists may argue that the right
to possession of land, with the owner
ship of Improvements on it, is as good
as the ownership of the land, the So
Geological effect is not the same. Land
may be a different thing from capital
economically, but ii is the same thing
to the individual land owner. The in
ducements to thrift and to a settled
interest in the country which are the
stimulus of the merchant and manu-
facturer will be denied the farmer and
laborer If he can never own his farm
or home as his own absolute property
The single tax would remove this in
centive and establish a caste system in
which one class of the community could
acquire property and the other class
only rent 1t. The system is un-Ameri-
can, if it were nothing worse.
WHAT IS HE?
Los Angeles Express: What is Ma
guire? He has at various times re-
pudiated Democracy and scoffed at
Populism. He has not been a Repub-
lican for over twenty years, and he