The record-union., 1899-05-27
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.


San Jose Mercury: If the fish and
game laws of this State had been
thoroughly enforced for some years
back fish and game would now be
abundant in this valley and elsewhere.
But the laws have been violated,
hence the scarcity of trout, quail,
doves, ducks and deer. The local asso-
citation have started right and it should
have the moral backing of all worthy
children
BEWARE OF RUSSIA.
Stockton Independent: Russia is the
glacier among nations Her people are
not rent by the dissensions that the
outside world dangerously believes.
They are controlled by a sentiment, a
confidence in their own superiority, a
worship of their racial future. They
are compact in the intellectual and
moral force of their movement. They
are remorseless in their consideration
of consequence to others They have
but to call on the Slavs of the Balkan
States and Austria, and Europe would
be Russianized from the Ural Mount
aims to the Adriatic. Russia does
,
diplomacy is in laying the foundations
for future conquests. She sustains tenn
temporary setbacks with equanimity,
because somewhere in the il1imitable
future she has a trap already laid for
each of her neighbors, and her people
under the pressure of their race fetish
are acting as unit in herding other
races and peoples and crumbling ma
fAtay tr,tO
Frank and the Latin will each in time
feel the discomforts of the inevitable
conflict, and it will require every en-
ergy of the Briton to escape the fate
OF his continental neighbors With a
federation of the nations of the world
suggested by the Car in the name of
humanity, dominated by Russian infiu-
ence, and acquiesced in by Anglo
Saxon guilelessness, the Slavs would
have the game in their own hands, and
there would be nothing to hope for in
stemming the revolution of the world
except the taciturn and unassimilable
millions of China, and the unconquer-
able solidarity of the Jews.
UP TO THE AVERAGE.
Stockton Mail: The Mazet Commit
tee, which is sitting in New York, is
making number of discoveries but
so far as can be ascertained by the
accounts that are sent over the wires
is not discovering anything that was
not pretty well known before, or any
thing upon which successful criminal
proceedings could be based. 1t IS
morally certain that Tammany is sim
ply an immense blackmail concern,
and that it's politics are of the most
practical kind; and the work of the
Mazet Committee may assist in form
ing the public opinion that must be
formed in any American city before
substantial and permanent reform can
be hoped for. At present however, the
result is likely to be only another con-
firmation Of the well-established fact
that a city's administration is a fair
criterion of the morals, intelligence and
civic spirit of it's population The ex-
istence and the strength of Tammany
simply mean that the majority of New
Workers, If given the opportunity.
would do just the same as the Tam
manyites have done and are doing.
THE WASTES OF LIFE.
Fresno Republican: All the processes
OF nature are enormously wasteful.
Millions of seeds are scattered where
one germinates; millions gerninate and
one natures. Millions of mistakes are
made, with fatal results, before the
one right way is found and perpetuated.
Millions of years were wasted in or
ganic evolution and thousands of years
in human history to acquire the things
the modern man can learn in a few
weeks or years.
All the processes of mechanism and
mechanical organization are econom-
ical. The machine does perfectly in
little time and with little waste, what
hand workers do painfully and slowly.
with imperfect results. The great fac
tory makes it's profits on what the
small industries waste. The trust
makes its profits not SO much by saving
the losses as by saving the wastes of
competition. The army of the mill
tary government accomplishes quickly
and without waste what the unguided
| groupings Of free communities accom-
plish only imperfectly.
| The whole tendency of the modern
changes in social life is to eliminate
the wastes of life, and the ideal of the
mechanical socialists is to do away
with them utterly. But it is precisely
by the change from living, growing
social organization to a highly compli-
Gated machine that this saving of
waste is proposed to be accomplished,
and 1t Is question whether it is worth
While. The old-fashioned mechanic.
who made a completed product out of
| the raw materials. was a whole man.
a maker as truly as was the poet
The modern factory hand is a cog in
a great machine The modern factory
hand has better wages and shorter
hours than his predecessor, and may
make himself a full and rounded man
outside of his work, but his work itself
does not make him so
But If all of society and all of life
is to be reduced to the elaborate or
ganization of the factory there will be
no outside" for rounded development
Life will become a machine, as work
now is. 1t will save waste, but it will
spoil humanity
THE HORSE GOING.
Tulare Register: The horse has al
ways been an overrated animal and the
great cities of the world are chuckling
in their hearts in the hope of getting
rid of him in the near future With
the horse disappears two-thirds of the
noise of cities and an equal share of the
dirt. With the dirt goes q great many
diseases and with the disap ppearance of
the trucks the chances of those who are
sick to get well are greatly improved.
The automobile will, in ten years from
now, have full possession of the streets
of the cities to the exclusion of the
horse. The horseless carriage can go