The record-union., 1898-01-17
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

1t is a clear and concise statement
that might we'll be printed in large let
tiers and hung in every schoolroom IN
the land. The law might we'll require
it to be printed in capital letters on the
most conspicuous page of every school
textbook, for it is very important
truth well stated and is as follows:
The great fault of the schools to-day
is too much teacher and too little de-
votion on the part of the pupil to the
textbook One truth extracted from
a textbook by application is worth d
dozen temporarily learned from the
teachers instruction. The true province
of the teacher now, as at all times, Is
to guide the pupil in the art of study
ing and gaining knowledge for himself.
The textbook is an essential part OF
this work.
And after telling so important truth
in few words we hope the editor or
the Record" will not insist on book
ring text book and the corrupt prac-
tees that attend the introduction and
use of such books almost everywhere.
WILL LEAD.
San Diego Union: California will
continue to lead every State in the I'm
ion in the production of beet sugar, and
there is every reason to believe that
the next year or two will see this in
dustry established on a gigantic scale.
CAN SHE?
Fresno Expositor: A jamestown
woman took 1925 from her husband
probably did this only after she had
eli y,
and had been told that he had none,
with the usual counter question OF,
What did you do with the dollar |
gave you three months ago last Thurs
day." Now the stingy old thing wants
to have his wife arrested and the
Stockton papers are asking: May "a
woman rob her husband?" Whether
she may or may not is not clear, but
it is pretty certain that she can, and il
she manages to spend it before her
hubby finds her, as most any woman
could do, it will be an established fact
that she can do it quite successfully,
too 1t is not plain what good it will
do her husband to arrest her then,
merely to settle a point in domestic
ethics
A FREE TRADE FALLACY.
San Jose Mercury: Some weeks ago
the Mercury republished an editorial
from an Eastern newspaper which
quoted retail prices of California or
anges, showing that they were about
the same as they We're under the Will
son tariff. The other day President
Frost of the Riverside Fruit Exchange
in an article in the San Francisco
Chronicle. said that the present duty
on oranges has almost entirely freed
the American market from Mediterran-
can fruit, yet the price of oranges has
actually ranged lower than it did be-
fore the Dingley bill became a law.
But the orange grower, he says, has
no more reason to complain of this ar
ranSement than the orange buyer for,
instead of having a portion of his crop
left on his hands, he sells the Whole
output for moderate profit, his ag-
gregate receipts exceeding those OF
years when the market was higher.
Tn same phenomenon, also, remarks
the Chronicle" applies to the price OF
iron. When we got our iron from
England the figures were high; but
now that We are producing that COM
modify for ourselves under a protective
tariff the rates of sale and purchase arr
far below the old ones But enough
more iron is sold to compensate the
trade for the price difference just as
enough more oranges are being worked
off to make up for the narrower ma
gin OF pofit Meantime the iron and
orange revenues stay in the country
to stimulate general trade and add to
the capacity of the people to buy more
and more of those products"
HOW WE PROGRESS.
Oakland Enquirer: An American ma
chinery-making firm is to put in an
electric plant to light the catacombs of
Rome. How we do progress-a teie-
graph line to Mecca, a snapshot pho
tographer in the heart of Thibet, a rail-
road building to Pekin, another to Je-
rusalem, an ocean cable to Iceland and
electric lights shining up the bones
of the Christian martyrs in the cata-
combs of Rome. The nineteenth CEN
fury seems to be in hurry - finish
up its work of material development
before it is finally ushered out.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Riverside Press: The business men
of the United States and all those
tory business conditions find the open
ing of the new year a much more sat
isfactory one than that which they have
experienced for several years past. the
Improvement in business conditions
which was beginning TO make itself felt
a year ago now being such as to assure
a business year, and one of prosperity
in the one now being entered upon.
With the number of favorable features
which the years operations have
brought to light, and particularly the
generally satisfactory ending of the
year in most lines of manufacturing
and distributing trade, there are few
lines Of business in which other than
optimistic views are held. Perhaps the
most hopeful predictions come from
the grain, wool and fruit-growing sec
tons of the country, particularly the
Western, Northwestern and Pacific
Coast States, which have profited most
largely by the improved foreign and
domestic demand, while the least en-
couraging reports are those received
from the cotton manufacturing and
growing sections, respectively East and
South. The hopes that the country as
whole, barring untoward circum-
stances, will witness a trade better in
1898 than in 1897, and in fact equal to
If not exceeding the boom year Of 1872.
seems to be widely entertained.
PROSPEROUS SHIPPING.
Oakland Tribune: Instead of the bay
being filled with unchartered ships. Just
the opposite condition now prevails.
Nearly every craft that can be pressed
into service has been commissioned for
the Alaskan trade. and three months