The record-union., 1898-01-23
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Cost Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

| Interest.
| Reno Gazette: The recent political
| fights in Ohio and the outspoken eA-
pressions from all parts of the coun-
try IN reference thereto show that the
| Republicans of the United States are
thoroughly loyal to their party and
party organizations.
Reports from Ohio show that the
attempt of a few dissatisfied Repub-
| licans to thwart the will of a great ma
| jority of the people in the Senatorial
election has created such intense indig-
nation and public excitement as has
not been known since war days, and
| that % per cent. of the Republicans of
that State protested vigorously against
disIoyalty to the party, While from out
side of the State the expression has
been equally vigorous.
THE TRUE REASON
Tacoma Ledger: The Seattle Times
| gives a sensational heading on the
cotton-s spinning industry, charging the
gold standard with being responsible
| for the change" that is, the condition
now existing in New England. How
ever, the article itself does not corrob-
crate the heading; it shows that the
| cheaper power and labor of the South
| and cChtiguity to the supply of raw
| material has brought the change-the
Southern mills fourishing while the
| New England concerns are forced to
reduce wages in order to continue in
competition
TOO MUCH LEGISLATION.
Il, .lo =:
municipal boards to enact ordinances
in restraint of trade, excusing them by
one specious plea or another, seems 10
be epidemic. The San Francisco
| Board of Supervisors has passed to
print new license ordinance that has
some novel features, indeed One is
the placing of a tax of $50 to 500 a
| quarter on sidewalk sub-cellars in GER
tain sections of the city; another is to
tax projecting steps, and still another
show windows that stick out beyond the
line. Other features of a somewhat
similar character abound in the pro-
| posed law. What is getting into the
boards cannot be guessed, unless they
are generally consumed with the idea
| that the business world is having too
| good time.
| BOUQUET THROWING
| Saata Rosa Press Democrat: The
| Record Union has a very sensible ed
itorial on the status of ex-Presideuts of
the United States. 1t ridicules the
shedding of crocodile tears at the
shelving" as it is called, of our ex-
Presidents, and very neatly scorns the
proposition to make them honorary
members of the Senate with a salary
but 40 vote The Record Union" ia
right. There is altogether too much
tomfoolery on the office question in this
| country A man who has been elected
President, fwhen his time is out should
go back to the people whence he came
and stay there unless the people want
him TO serve them again. This thing
of continually throwing bouquets at
men who have been successful in poll
tics, business or anything else far be-
yond their fellow-citizens is as foolish
as 1t is undemocratic.
ONE OF THE STRONGEST.
Los Angeles Times: One of the
| strongest best and bravest of Ameri-
| cans passed into the hereafter when
Ben ButterWOrth died The ranks Of
| the Old Guard are growing thinner. ana
a big gap is made in them when such
men AS this gallant son of Ohio falls
by the stroke of the reaper
AMOUNTS TO THE SAME THING.
Fresno Republican,: The Los Angeles
Herald" says that the capitalists OF
the country are refusing to invest in
industrial enterprises because of the
continued fall in the prices of every
thlng except gold. AS the prices of
| ia o1
ceptions, have advanced during the
past year and show no tendency toward
a decline, it would seem that the Los
Angeles paper has raked up an old
| editorial from the time of the Cleve
iand regime and neglected to make the
alterations necessary to fit present con-
ditlons. Either wheat and wool and
hVe STOCK and many manufactured
products have appreciated in price. or
gold has deprecated, which amounts
to the same thing. The Herald" must
have been in trance for the past
! twelve months.
DURRANTS ASHES
Los Angeles Express: Yellow journal
ism exploited the Durrant case until il
became a specter of morbidity. haunt
ing and influencing even the common
place utterances and deeds of the peo-
pie of San Francisco, and it will be a
long time before the injurious effect
and influence are eradicated. There
should be a revolt on the part Of the
people, for their own sakes, and for
the sake of the country generally
against such journalistic methods. The
managers of the Pasadena Crematory
are to be commended for their display
of common sense.
OUGHT TO BE BOYCOTTED.
Tulare Register: The crematories that
refused to incinerate the body of Dur
rant ought to be boycotted. Their man.
| agement is beneath contempt. The
| law had been vindicated. 1t was not
needful TO punish the parents of the
| abnormal being whose life had been
exacted by the State. There is no
law that requires that the sins of the
children shall be visited upon the par
| ents. Durrant was dead, and what
was done with his inanimate body was
of no consequence to any one except
parents and intimate friends of the
family. 1t was good news that Pasa-
dena had a crematory that had the
courage and decency to accept the re-
mains and incinerate them.
THE PLAINT OF THE PESSIMIST.
Riverside Enterprise There is no land
or cline wherein the pessinlist does not
flourish like a green bay tree upon the
grave of blasted hopes. In the Garden
of Eden he doubtless deplored the alb
sence of So pants establishment, and
in this section of California he holds