The record-union., 1899-08-11
VOICE Of The PRESS.


Ellis VI the uOmlnant- party are Qeter-
mined to find nothing in the Mckinley
Administration to commend. Upon dis
coyery that the President had placed
at the head of the War Department an
intellectual phenOm, they announced
the additional disclosure that General
Root was and for years had been a cor
poratlon lawyer and presumably prOsti-
tuted his great talents in subservience
10 the predatory rich-habitually crook
ed the pregnant hinges of the knee that
thrift might follow fawning The rev.
citation filled the virtuous of the land
with dismay-at their own lack of fore
sight in failing to study law With
much appearance of plausibility they
explain that if they had taken up law
they might now be corporation attor-
neys themselves instead of mere as
persers of the characters of those who
are.
WONDERS OF ARIZONA.
stockton Record: Arizona is a con-
t1nual surprise. For years the State
was looked upon as the most desolate
and arid stretch of territory within the
bounds of the United States. The early
We're fighting the Indians there were
but encouraging. 1t was a
waste, growing grease plant
and cacti. Its rivers all dried up in
It's torrid sun smote men as
with club, and, save for a few
rancheros in the mountains, it was a
God forsaken desert. And all this time
1t was a sort of garden of Eden in
disguise, flowing with milk and honey
just few feet below the alkali and
cactus roots. The land turns, out to
be tractable, and redeems itself with
wonderful sprightliness the moment a
driven we'll is put in. The consequence
has been that Arizona now threatens to
become an important rival of California
In the production of fruit Grapes,
peaches, oranges and even figs do we'll
with proper care, and already some
arid stretches are astonishing visitors
with vineyards and orchards, which are
several weeks nearer the Eastern mar
ket than is California. To crown it all,
is now found to be specially
rich in valuable minerals The new
town OF Chloride, in the northern part
of the State, owes ID sudden rise to the
discovery of rich veins of silver very
near the surface. Within six months
there has been a great thrush of adven-
turers and settlers from the north and
east, and Chloride is repeating the
early scenes Of Pixies Peak and Cali
fornia- Even in a sanitary aspect Ari-
iona is inviting attention. 1t is said to
have the driest atmosphere. of any State
in the West, and rheumatism, that
bane of the temperate zone, is compar-
atively unknown there.
DEBRIS DAMS.
Colusa Sun: It will be observed that
the Call" says that cover 800 mines
have been licensed to operate under the
Caminetti law behind such dams!"
Now look at that picture of a dam built
of Digger pine logs that must get wet
and dry alternately, and as a natural
consequence must rot in very few
years, and then imagine a flood like
1867 coming upon US ten years hence!
Where would the dams be? Where the
impounded material? It is much better
never to have dam. Then the ma
terial will come down as it is turned
loose and might possibly be controlled,
but If it is kept up there to be brought
down there can be no possible control.
The contention of the miners now is
that they have right to build these
dams at will, to be subject only to the
of some Government engineers
who breathe the air Of prejudice against
the valley in San Francisco. 1t is
that it is absurd for the valley
OBJ fhn
courts against injury clearly to be
proved. 1t is not enough that the Can't
netti law throws the onus of proof en-
tirely on the valley side-there is to be
no mode of relief, however plain the
proof of injury. Count the use of the
river to this and the coming generation
only and the damage to Colusa County
would run up into the tens of millions
If not into the hundreds.
CRITICISM NOT A PERSONALITY
Pasadena News: Because a news
paper or a person criticises the actions
Or the words of another, the one criti-
clsed is apt to take up the matter as
a personal thing and begin to fight back
with the venom of an enemy But that
is a wrong policy to pursue Use a
little philosophy. Suppose you are a
public official. Any one is foolish to
think himself infallible. You take a
course or do something. Suppose a
newspaper, looking at your action from
another standpoint, vigorously protests
and criticises. It is the part of phil
osophy not to fly into rage and try
to get even with the critic as with an
enemy, but to examine the objection
and see if it is good. Having examined
all objections philosophically and calm
ly and still finding your course right,
then be just as vigorous in pushing
ahead as possible and don't be swayed
If thousand newspapers roast and a
whole town protests. But don't get
mad at the critic.
A BOSS IN THE BUSINESS.
Mountain Democrat: By simultaneous
lying from. Manila, Pretoria in Africa
and Trieste in Europe, the ubiquitous
Jim Creelman has made his single
handed lies told in detail, white as
snow.
THE DINGLEY LAW.
San Jose Mercury: The Democratic
papers feel called upon to remind the
people, every week or so, that the Ding
ley law is failure" 1t is not fail
ure as a revenue producer, and in other
more important respects it has been a
success. What the law has
done is pointed out by an Eastern ex-
change: Factories that were idle be-
fore the Dingley law went into effect
are now in operation. Capital that
found no employment while the Wilson
law was in effect is now active. New
manufactures are building and the ca
pacity of old manufacturing plants is
being increased. Millions of wage-earn-
ers who were without occupation, or
whose labor found only a cheap market