The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-01
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
iects Of Living News
Interest.

seSSSe
San Diego Uniop:. "A valuable lesson
might be learned from Europe. There
the Government exercises very strict
supervision over forests, preventing
their spoliation and providing for their
renovation. But even there these steps
were not taken until people had learned
by costly experience that such meas
ures were absolutely necessary. In Eu-
rope pasturage on the forest landS
held in common had been extremely IN
furious, and has resulted in the ami
hilation of the forests This was 1ol-
lowed by an extinction of the mount
tain pastures and the destruction or
the valley lands by the failure OF the
water supply and the damages done by
torrents In most European countries
to-day, however, every acre of timber
land is protected by the strictest reg
ulations. Canada, too, has forestry
systems that are well worthy of study
by Americans. w. G. Jolly de Lotbl-
mere, head Of the department of crown
lands in Canada, in communication
dated Ottawa July 9th, says: Il now
inclose the last regulations for the ad-
ministration of forests in the province
of Quebec. Apart from these reguia-
lions there are others providing against
destruction of forests by fire. The Gov
eminent pays one-haf OF the cost OF
these protective measures and the lun-
bermen, who work the forests on IL
censes; pay the other half. The public
forests are not sold, but are worked
under a system of licenses. This is
the great difference between your sys-
tenn and ours. Your Government sells
the public forests, while we, retaining
the ownership of them, merely allow
them to be worked under certain rules,
and however deficient our system may
be, we have at all events chance to
improve it." s-,
THE ,vROOMAN ACT.
Oakland Enquirer: Judge Shaw of Los
Angeles, who is generally doing some
thing to distinguish himself, has de-
cided in favor of the constitutionality
of the Vroonian Act in a case in which
an assessment had been levied for
some street work done on the district
plan. The Vrooman street law allows
improvements to be made either on the
district, plan or by assessment OF the
frontage on single street, and since
the United States Supreme Court de-
cided the Norwood case it has been
recognized that district assessment was
more likely to be upheld than frontage
assessment We must wait for other
decisions and other courts before we
can assert that the plan of street i'm
provement in use for the last twenty
g. he
AN OBJECT LESSON.
Fresno Republican: San Francisco Is
having an object lesson in the working
of rash political pledges. Both parties
were pledged to the dollar limit" OF
taxation, and are now enforcing it by
cutting off public advantages which the
city needs even more than 1T does low
taxes. A dollar limit is possibly high
enough, if it We're economically eX-
pended, but if the tax spenders were
capable of being economical there
would be no need of the limit, and so
long as they are not so capable it must
be expected that they will save. if they
must save at ALL at the expense OF the
people and not at the loss of their own
pickings. Until honest government is
achieved, there is no patent remedy for
municipal evils, not even compulsory
low taxes.
CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED.
Oregonian: AS to consent of the gov
erned, Carlyle has a fine word that
may apply here. IF all men," he says,
were such that a mere spoken word
or contract would bind them, all men
were true men and government SUI
perfiuity Not what they and l have
promised each other, but what the bal
ance of our forces can make us per-
form to each other, in so sinful a world
as ours, is the thing to be counted
on" No consent of the governed here.
1t is all compulsion. No man, in his
| own opinion, needs government for
himself. But other men, he firmly be-
lieves, do require it. 1t is necessary,
as he thinks, to restrain them. But
where in this scheme is liberty, equal
ity or consent of the governed? We
delude ourselves with phrases, and pro-
fess to like it. Yet, as we know that
consent of the governed is no more
applicable elsewhere than in our own
country. we propose to do what we
think best to be done in Cuba, Hawaii,
Clear the subject of all can't and have
we not here just about the net result?
A M'KINLEY ADMINISTRATION
San Jose Mercury: 1t is the fashion
with lot of cheap and dishonest Dem,
ocratic newspapers to sheer at the Adj
ministration by the implication that
the President is subject to the dicta-
ton of Hanna and a few other Re
publicans who serve as a target for
Democratic abuse. AS the Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle" says, there
I is no business position in the United
States that carries anywhere near the
tremendous load of routine duty or
calls for anything like the amount of
business tact, judgment and speed Of
decision that are demanded by the
Presidency Some of President Nc
Kinley's predecessors have been men
it is probable that there has never
been man in the White House SO
we'll equipped in that respect as the
incumbent His hand has never been
taken from the helm of the Govern
ment since he was inaugurated. All
the great questions which have come
up during his administration, and no
other excepting Lincoln's has equaled
it for the momentous and difficult
problems to be solved. have been set
tied by the President himself This
is emphatically a Mckinley Admins
tration, and as such will fill a large
place in the history of the great
American Republic.
THE HORSE IN CALIFORNIA.
Los Angeles Times. An mporfa MT