The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-02
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Alameda Argus: For great many
years people who questioned the good
sense and necessity of hazing at col
lege have been laughed down as too
Anticipated for consideration, but 1t Is
really getting on toward the polnt
where dissent is justifiable. Within
three weeks as many deaths or mann
ings have been reported from Eastern
colleges through the rather strained
fun that upper class men have with
freshmen. Really, this practice is SO
wide of what in other walks of lie
would be considered good sense that II
is difficult to see how it has survived
so long. The several college govern
ments we shouldn't wonder, will take
this matter IN hand
TEA RAISING.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat: The De-
partment of Agriculture at Washington
has just issued a. report upon the ex-
pertinent of raising tea in South Car
DINA by DR.. Charles U. Shepard, spe-
cial agent in charge of tea culture IN
vestigation. 1t is more promising than
| any that has yet been made. The tea
gardens, which have been under the
direction of Dr. Shepard since their in
ception, are located at PinehurSt, near
Somerville, S. c. He began his eX-
periments ten years ago on small
scale, and now has fifty acres devoted
to tea growing. His crop of 1898.
about $500 pounds, was sold at a
profit of % per cent. above the cost
of production. Dr. Shepard is of the
| fhof made
a profitable industry not only in the
| section where the experimental tea
gardens are located, but in other sec
lions Of the South. If the industry
can be made profitable anywhere in the
United States it is probably in the
South. It is there that the problem
of cheap labor should be easiest solved,
and the question Of labor will always
have to be considered in tea raising.
THE DOOR OPENING.
Stockton Independent: The term
| open door," as applied to the trade
of the Orient and particularly China,
is given the widest diversity of mean
ing, according to the individual notion
or partisan utilization or the nation
atty of the writer who uses it. The
term, of course. was originally useG III
reference to the privileges of trading
| at the ports Of Oriental nations. The
open door was the open port. There
was no open door to Japan until Perry
was sent to batter down the barriers.
But now Japan is open to the trade OIL
the world on equal terms, and While 1t
is free to arrange treaties and levy
tariffs no one will claim that the door
is closed to trade. The open door
certainly does not mean free trade III
the ordinary American sense with re-
spect to that empire, though it does
men freedom of trade in the larger
sense In China the open or free port
means the open door, to the city or
district commanded by such ports. In
that great empire the development has
been much slower than in Japan. Ger
tain Chinese ports have been open to
| the worlds commerce for a number of
years. These are designated as treaty
ports" where the commercial Powers
of the world have certain designated
privileges of trade. Other ports have
been opened by China at intervals to
the extent of coast environments and a
zone along the Yangtse River; these
may be considered "open DOORS" But
trade privileges have not been granted
! at all Chinese ports, and consequently
the open door" does not apply to the
exposed portion of China as whole.
1t had been far better for the inte3-
rity Of the Chinese empire had the i'm
perial authorities made free ports OF
all that could be reached by Seagoing
ships, for in that case all the CONNER
cial nations would have rights to pro-
tect there and would have resisted the
encroachmentS of Russia. France. Ger
many and Great Britain.
QUEER STATE OF AFFAIRS
Stockton Mail: A telegram from San
| Francisco states that a memorial to
| Congress is being prepared by the Cit
lizen's Executive Committee, asking that
| San Francisco be relieved Of the care
of the regular troops returning from the
Philippines. Now that the volunteers
of the several States, it says, have been
| received, cared for, assisted in procur-
ing employment and aided in depart
| Ing" the work of the committee is
practically ended" Organization will,
however, be maintained until every
possible effort has been made to induce
| the Federal Government to provide for
| the care and transportation Of all reg
ular troops to the point OF enlistment,
which may require an Act of Congress.
This Citizens Executive Committee
is an organization which practically
consists of the managers of the three
San Francisco morning papers, and
holds $4,000 which might be used for
procuring employment for and aiding
the destitute and sick ex-volunteers
| who are now on the hands of the Red
Cross Society. But the triumvirate re-
Gently announced through the "Chron-
icle" that it thought of erecting some
kind of a memorial with $4,000 Of the
$4,000 1t has not yet given an &C
count of it's expenditure Of $2O,0OO on
a celebration that experts in such mat
tiers say ought not to have cost So 900;
nor has it said what it will do with the
$4,000 left after the erection Of \
monument to itself, or whatever the
memorial" is to be.
SKY SIGNS.
Tulare Register: Throughout the
East, in England and in civilized coun-
tries generally, war is being waSed
! against sky signs and the plastering OF
all the walls and fences with advertis-
ing. The reason is that it wears the
eyes and patience of the people out and
makes repulsive the face Of nature. The
newspaper fraternity ought to come
to the aid of this movement. The only
suitable place for a monstrosity in the
| way of an advertisement is in news
paper, the fashion now being to cut the
papers all to pieces and make them as
obnoxious as possible to readers with