The record-union., 1898-02-18
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Woodland Democrat: The excuse
that New England cotton manufacture
ers are Offering for the reduction of
wages is very fiimsy In our opinion,
Southern competition has nothing to
do with it. Fall River, with its 2,000,-
OUU spindles, has only about 10U,0JJ
spindles in the South competing for the
class of goods it turns out. New Bed
ford has no competition in the South for
the products of its mills. 1t will be
many years before the So@.;h can offer
competition strong enough to make any
appreciable inroads upon the markets
which are controlled by the New Eng
land mills. The alleged competition Of
Southern mills is not the real reason for
the reduction in wages and labor trou-
bles in New England. There can be
no permanent relief from the stagna-
ton, reduced wages, strikes and other
troubles incident to overp production
until this country reaches out and en-
larges it's trade with other nations.
PROSPERITY OF THE FARMER.
Riverside Press: a favorite excuse
for the improved condition of the farm
ers which the free silver advocates Of
fer, now that they are compelled to
admit an improved condition, is the
statement that the improvement comes
from the extraordinary demand for
wheat, due entirely to the shortage Of
crops abroad. How do they account,
however, for the fact that practically
everything else produced by the farmer
has advanced in the face of their as
sertion that nothing but an increase
of the currency Of the country, through
the free coinage Of silver, could bring
an advance? Recent publications, COM
piled by the highest authorities, show
that practically all Of the articles pro-
duced by the farmers have advanced
materially since the declaration made
by the Chicago convention, and by Mr..
Bryan and his followers in the cam
paign which followed, to the effect that
only an increase of currency through
free coinage could advance prices.
THAT SALVATION
Redlands Facts: My Lords and Gen
tlemen'' is the familiar salutation with
which Victoria, the Queen of England,
greets the upper house. of Parliament.
The lower house receives only Gentle
men of the House of Commons.
Nevertheless the true lords of her do
minion are in the lower house, with few
exceptions. Tt is through the common
ers that the pepole express their will
and the day is not far distant when
they will be the ''lords.'' and it will be
Mr. President subject to the will OF
the people. The change is sure 70
come, for not always will the true lords
bow and scrape to heredity, a heredity
gradually weakening and becoming i'm
beetle by intermarriage and their moth
ing to-do sort Of life.
OF lola
Willows Journal: Emile lola is reap
ing the usual reward Of a cool-headed,
honest man, trying to stem the flood OF
hatred and brutality very often exhib-
tied by an excited mob. He honestly
believes Dreyfus guiltless Of treachery
and manfully comes out in his defense.
To-day il is not safe for lola, at one
time almost idolized by the French
pepole, to appear in public: tomorrow
the tide of opinion may change in his
favor
HERE, TOO.
San Jose Mercury: Los Angeles is
making an earnest attempt to break up
the scorching habit, to which every
city since the Introduction of the bi-
cycles has. been subjected. Let this
arrestlrg and punishment of scorch-
ers," says the Times" mot turn out
to be mere spasm, but let the prac-
tice be kept up, that the pedestrian
and the man who rides the wheel in A
sensible way, may not take his life in
his hand every time he ventures upon
the street. In San Jose, since the
adoption of an anti-scorching ordi-
nance, fast riding, once the rule, has
become the exception.
A MATTER OF "SASSIETY."
Stockton Independent: One stratum
of San Francisco society is agitated
over the attempted boycotting of a
young woman by social club because
she depends on the labor of her hands
for a livelihood. The Directing woman
is said to be independent of the labor
OF her hands because she possesses a
lively tongue and persuasive manners
which are employed in spell binding
people while canvassing for advertise
ments for fashionable publication,
while the only other talent exercised
by the one objected to is artistic taste
in guiding her hands in dressing ladies'
hair. The question seems as delicate
as that sprung recently in social cir
cleS of an Eastern town wherein a
young woman bookkeeper tried to draw
the line against a young woman book
binder. Society in the Eastern case d.
vided into two factions, known as the
keepers and the binders. The San
Francisco people might follow the ex-
ample and instead of the Fleur de Lis
Club they might have two, entitled the
Hair Dressers and the Spell Binders
IRELAND.
Oakland Tribune. The Irish mem
bers Of Parliament are very wary about
that promise in the address from the
throne to introduce measures for a
system of self government in Ireland
substantially similar to Great Britain's.
They have heard that sort of thing be-
fore, but the conditions attached have
invariably been Of nature they
couldn't swallow. AS long as Salisbury
is in power, the benefits the English
Government will accord to Ireland are
not worth talking about.
NEWSPAPER CRITICISM.
Pasadena News. There are lots OF
men who take everything pleasant a
newspaper says about them as only a
proper tribute to their greatness with
no thought of credit to the newspaper.
On the contrary, If the newspaper feels
1t its duty to call attention TO any
shortening on account of such person
or gives any adverse criticism then that
man is up in arms at once against the
unjust press.
THE DINGLEY ACT AND BUSINESS