The record-union., 1899-03-22
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

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Interest.
Colusa Sun: The Yuba River is the
most dangerous stream and into it runs
or will run, the bulk Of the debris from
the mines. There is a heavy fall from
it to the Feather River and like fall
from the Feather to the Sacramento
If there is unrestricted mining the
levees on the Yuba above Marysville
must very soon give way; the water
will then run sQuarely across to the
Feather; that stream has now more to
carry than nature provided for ana II
would soon fill up SO that the water
would again break the west levees and
the whole would run across to the sac
ramento, covering all the country, as
it would come this way, with DEBRIS.
Then after filling a portion OF the sui
ter tules the debris would come into
the Sacramento where the fall is only
about four inches to the mile, and mar
row, very narrow. 1t would not last
long and there would be devastated
country and ruined rivers.
COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
Red Bluff Peoples Cause: There could
be no greater nuisance than biennial
new county government bill. Each
Legislature tinkers over the old meas
ure or works up a new one, and the
life of no system of county government
is long enough to test it's adaptablllty
What is wanted are few uniform laws
and then regulate the whole matter OF
county government to the several coun-
ties to be governed. AS the State will
not consent to lengthen the term of the
Legislatures, there certainly ought to
be a diminution of the load which the
legislation has to carry, and no burden
can be dispensed with so we'll by that
body as that of providing fifty-seven
different sorts of government to misf1t
fifty-sevenl different sorts of counties.
WAGE FARMERS FAVORED.
San Diego Tribune: 1t is intimated
that hundreds of thousands of wage
earners are favorably affected by the
recent advance inl wages. With this in
crease and with the increased purchas-
ing power of the wages an economist
points out that no one can measure the
influence Of this change in the cir
cumstances of the great majority of
the voters of this country are in the
main waget earners-not members OF or
ganized bodies which embrace less than
a thirtieth of the workers for wages,
but men whose daily earnings, with the
subsistence and the comforts of their
families, depend upon the relation be-
tween the prices Of commodities and
the wages received. When wages are
high but commodities relatively high,
the millions are apt to be dissatisfied.
When willing hands are out of work,
as in the years between 1892 and 1897.
general and profound resentment is sure
to show itself in elections and a change
of national policy is demanded. But
when better wages and lower prices of
commodities with increased employ
ment of labor, go to help every family
of the "a, 600 GOO depending upon ma
tional welfare, the people are apt to
express their approval as they did in
November. It may be fairly inferred
that the later events go to strengthen
the Republican national policy, because
it steadily and materially improves the
condition of millions of workers. To
judge otherwise is to suppose that the
millions have not enough intelligence
to realize when events are actually
working in their favor. American his
tory furnishes many proofs that such
changes in the condition of the work
ers, for better or for worse, are swiftly
and almost invariably answered by the
ballots cast at subsequent elections.
Better wages under Republican laws
naturally produce larger majorities for
-, nh 1nt
be creditable to the people to expect
anything else. Whatever the theorists
and the demagogues may say will al
ways count for less than the balance
of accounts at the end of the month.
LOTTERY SwINDLING.
Stockton Independent: When the au-
thorities of San Francisco have sue
ceeded in suppressing the race track
evils and checked the decentralization
which has grown out of it, we hope
they may find some means of putting a
stop to another form of gambling and
corruption which has rioted in the coun-
try continuously. The lottery swindles
are bold in their violations of law and
decency. The lottery companies of
Mexico, Honduras and of San Francisco
advertise in the San Francisco papers,
sell their tickets by the connivance of
the police, and distribute the few prizes
with the utmost publicity. In other
words the most notorious gambling
swindle of the age defles national, State
and municipal laws and is unchecked
even by an effort. The present Re-
publican Board of Supervisors of San
Francisco have made an excellent and
commendable start in reforming some
of the worst evils of the metropolis, and
it is to be hoped that they will turn
their attention to the lottery swindle.
Whether anything can be done in this
direction without the employment of a
secret service to catch the police is a
question.
HE IMPROVES ON ACQUAINTANCE
Red Bluff News: We have a better
opinion of Governor Gage as we become
better acquainted with him. Our idea
of him has been that he was hot
headed, impetuous, narrow minded man
with boundless conceit and little wit.
The impression, too, had gone abroad
that he owed his nomination and cleo
ton to railroad influences and that the
same influences would control him
while in Office.
These impressions have not proven
to be altogether correct. In fact, the
Governor is displaying a backbone and
an independence quite unlocked for,
and which promise good results to the
State. He has exercised a vigilance