The record-union., 1899-09-28
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

| ments OF copper deposits in Western
washington, the high prices of that
metal, caused by the increasing de-
mand, is of unusual interest to this
state. For the past three years the
consumption of copper has gone ahead
/ OF the. increase of supplies, with every
| probability of continuation of these
conditions, Notwithstanding the in
creased production. The uses of copper
are multiplying, without probability of
its being supplanted, and with the null
| tlpl1cation is also increased demand in
the Held Of electrical machinery. Cop
per is in increasing use in the ship
building industries, which were never
SO buoyant or active as at the present
time. The same may be said of its
| use IN war material, which, in spite OF
peace propositions and internal confer
ences, is being piled up in the arsenals
OF the world. From this standpoint.
demand is not likely to become less
urgent, let alone the remarkable in
crease in the development and use of
electrical energy. That these condi-
| tions should have stimulated produc-
| ton and increased prices is but natural,
and the exploitation and development
of new sources of supply is consequent.
IN THE MEANTIME
Stockton Mail: A contemporary says
that courage would be required to quar-
antine against consumption. We think
so, too-more moral courage than the
average politician possesses. That is,
it would require more courage to ap-
ply the quarantine now. But there is
reason to believe that in time, a pub
lie opinion in accord with the views
of the doctors will be formed, and the
necessity of quarantine will be recog-
niZed just as it is in the case of other
much less prevalent and fatal diseases
AS for the difficulty of recognizing con-
sumption in its incipient or even lit
| tie later stage, perhaps the time will
come when every person will have to
carry a certificate of freedom from in
| fectiouS disease, which certificate he
will have to have officially renewed just
as he now has to demonstrate his right
| to vote; and when we say every per-
son, we mean women as we'll as men,
/ of course. People who arrive from
abroad must be certified to as free
from certain diseases before they are
those who are ashore and moving
around among their fellow citizens
should not be required to be free from
infectious disease of all kinds, con-
sumption included, and be able to show
a certificate to that effect. However,
this is all in future. Meanwhile-while
public opinion is being formed as to
the proposed quarantine of consump-
tion-we ought to be able to put a stop
to expectoration in public places; sure
ly on the sidewalks. Perhaps, after the
great strain of the County Fair has
been taken off the minds of our police
force it will be able to direct it's en-
ergieS to the ''Strict enforcement" of
at least one of the city ordinances. 1t
is hoped that this is not asking too
much.
MUST TELL THEIR AGE.
.Ukiah Republican-Press: The women
will do some vigorous thinking when
the census taker interviews them, for
the fair sex will be obliged to give their
correct age. The new law says: "Wo-
men who refuse to tell their age or in
dulge in inaccurate statements thereof,
as we'll as all other persons refusing to
reply to questions or making false
statements, shall, on conviction, be
fined $780,
NO SECRET TREATY.
Red Bluff News: The Introduction OF
a resolution in the Ohio Democratic
platform condemning a secret alliance
between Great Britain and the United
States has borne good fruit. Here
tofore there has been a general belief
which the Administration treated with
Indifference and took no pains to cor
rect, that there was a treaty between
the two countries. The Ohio resolu-
ton and the necessities of the cam
paign compelled the Administration to
pretend at least, to show it's hand
Mr.. Hay, Secretary of State, is report
ed as saying that there is no alliance
with England, nor with any other Pow
er except what is known to the world
in the treaties of ordinary international
friendship, for the purpose of business
and commerce. He goes further than
this, and says no treaty other than
these are in contemplation. He does
not deny, however, that efforts have
been made to strengthen the ties o.
friendship with England, and in this
there may be a little joker. Mr.. Hay
draws a line between formal treaty
and strengthening the ties of friendship
with, England by a verbal understand
ing which, while serving the purpose
of a treaty, cannot technically be
classed as one He does not deny the
existence of such a verbal understand
ing with England, but is positive that
Al, sc, f1-oa " hot
two countries.
LAND OF SUNSHINE.
Riverside Enterprise: There may be
those who love California as well, but
there is no one who can give such forci-
BILE expression to his feelings as the
editor Of the Land of Sunshine" The
following is republished from the Sep
tember issue of that magazine:
The harvest is past COR as much Of it
as can pass in a land where there is
harvest every day in the year, and the
/ summer ended and our souls are still
saved - in California. We have had no
sunstrokes, no floods, no epidemics--
and it is our perennial expectation,
based on history not to have in place
of death and disaster We have had a
terrible earthquake which ratified sew
eral thousand glasses. il was not sc
| terrible as the usual California earth
Iquake, because it came in the daytime,
and no Eastern visitor had to sally in
his or her nightie. But it was enough
to remind US that we are human-and
that California is the best place to be
human in.
Meantime we go on harvesting our
fifteen millions in gold our twelve mill