The record-union., 1899-03-17
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects OF Living News
Interest.

| Sutter Farmer: That new issue, op-
position to trusts, which some OF the
Democrats are looking as furnishing
| successor to free silver as a popular
| campaign cry, is already getting TO pc
somewhat involved, says the Oakland
Enquirer The California Iroquols
Clubs do not venture to denounce all
trusts, but only criminal trusts, ana
the reason is that trusts are coming to
be very numerous and of very dlfferent
characters. When our Legislature
proposed the other day to pass an anti
trust Act, the persons who appeared
and protested were the farmers owning
raisin vineyards, who claimed they
could not get living prices unless they
were permitted to combine.
GOVERNORS RESIDENCE.
| Redding Free Press: The bill ap-
propriating $4,000 to build a Govern
or's mansion in Capitol Park has be-
come a law without the Governors sig
nature. The Free Press" opposed this
measure, not because it was deemed
| inappropriate or not necessity that
the chief executive should have an 9TH
cial residence at the State capital, but
on the grounds of temporary economy,
and because it was believed that the
promoters of the project were not sim
| cere in asking for $4,000, but calcu-
lated that if bill for such an amount
could be passed the architects and the
contractors might we'll be depended
upon to roll up a deficiency that would
cause the people to remember the man
sion with feeling akin to something be-
sides pride. There will be little grum-
bling if the Governors residence be
constructed and equipped within the
| appropriation.
NORMAL SCHOOL MONOPOLY.
Oroville Register: There is a con-
stitutional amendment before the Leg
isiature that needs killing SO dead that
it will never rise again. We refer to
the one making only normal school
graduates eligible to teach school The
poor mans daughter or son cannot at
tend the normal school unless he lives
near that institution, yet it is the poor
mans son who often rises from the po-
sition of teacher and becomes noted
man. 1t is often that the poor mans
daughter becomes the very best teach
er. Kill the measure and kill it quick.
THE NORMAL SCHOOLS.
| Woodland Democrat: For several
years it has been apparent that there
are educators in the State who are bent
upon giving the normal teachers a mo-
nopo]y of the profession in California.
This tendency has aroused the antago-
nisn1 of another class to that extent
that they feel that the normal school
is an encroachment upon the spirit and
intent of public education and should
be abolished and the money applied to
| the betterment and extension of COM
mon schools. They argue that teach
| ing is profession, and that there is no
more reason why the State should edu-
cate men and women for that calling
than that the municipality or State
should educate other public servants
who are appointed or elected to lucra-
tive positions. There is much plausi-
biity in this argument
DRUNKENNESS.
| Napa Register: According to the San
Francisco Bulletin drunkenness is
not on the increase in this country If
that papers premises are correct it rea-
sons well when it says: While there
may be no increase I'M the proportion of
those who may be classed as moderate
drinkers hold their appetities in strict
CONT oil. A man in these days is pretty
far gone in the downward path when
he appears in a public place under the
influence Of liquor. The question for
the advocates of prohibition to consider
! is If this is not true temperance pro-
gress. The man who is a law unto
l., -e.1f
leans on the law for support The for
mer may be trusted to do about right,
law or no law, while the latter is safe
only while the laws holds him up"
COURAGE.
| Marysville Appeal: 1t is not every
one who is possessed of the courage of
DIR. Andrews, formerly President of
Browns University, and now Superin-
tendent of Chicago's schools, who calm
ly remarked that he was guilty of every
crime on the calendar and expected to
be guilty of every new one as fast as
they We're invented, and that he would
henceforth pay no more attention to
| his enemies. but would continue to
pursue the even criminal tenor of his
way. regardless of criticism. Fortu-
nately guilty conscience would never
SPEAK that way.
| FROM THE POOR ONLY?
| OToville Mercury: In the late cam
paign the Democratic standard bearer
was bitterly attacked by the Republi-
cans on account of his theories on the
subject of taxation. Mr. Mcguire be-
| lieyes in taxing land alone, and so bit
terly did the Republicans (and some
! Democrats) array, themselves on the
opposing side that they have gotten to
the other extreme, and so it comes that,
a proposition has passed the Assembly
of the State of California exempting all
land from taxation for State purposes
The theory Of those who support this
idea is that the personal property of
the rich now escapes taxation. while
the land of the poor man cannot escape
They forget that the land of the rich
man cannot escape now, and admit
that personal property can and does
escape. If the personal property of
the rich can and does escape taxation
and land Of the rich is exempted from
taxation, where, in the name of COM
mon sense, are the taxes coming from?
There is but one answer-from the
poor. 1t will come from the farmer,
the laborer and the artisan, whose per-
sonal property does not escape taxation
now, cannot be hidden and will not
escape taxation in the future.
INDUSTRIAL TRUSTS.
Los Angeles Times: Reports from
the East seem to indicate that the wild