The record-union., 1899-07-12
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
1nterest.

State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
1nterest.
Portland Oregonian: When a man
has blue glasses on tits useless to ask
him If he sees that red flag over yon-
der. And when you are talking to an
Aguinaldist it is useless to ask him II
he thinks the assassination of Luna
is an action built precisely on the
George Washington or Thomas Jeffer-
son plan. Probably there is not an
''anti-imperialist'' in the country who
will be persuaded by that performance
1 that Aguinaldo falls in the slightest
degree short Of being the wisest and
| greatest hero of his time. When a
man makes up his mind to do thing
| without evidence, then evidence is of
/ all things in the world that which con-
Germs him least.
| NEWSPAPERS AND TRUSTS.
/ San Jose Mercury: A country con-
| temporary complains that everything
connected with the printing business,
except country newspapers, is now
| governed by trusts, and that the big
dailies that howl against them are in
| the biggest trust the world has ever
known, the Associated Press. 1t is
singular that a person who has the
intelligence to publish a paper of any
kind should form so gross miscon-
i ception of the true character of the
Associated Press, which is simply an
association of newspapers organized
for the purpose Of gathering and dis
tributing the news of the day. 1t is
no more trust than is the Farmers
Union of this city or the Santa Clara
County Fruit Exchange. 1t is a CO.
operative organization, and it has no
monopoly, nor in the nature of things
can it have, of any kind of news-for-
eign, domestic or local.
The Associated Press, with a mem
bership of about eseven hundred, has
system Of news collection through
central organization and through each
other, and for distribution to each
other. But, as the Portland "Oregonian'
says, they cannot monopolize news
gathering, nor do they pretend to.
News is the report of current events,
knowledge of which is open to all. The
Associated Press can neither monop
olize events, knowledge of events, nor
| reports of events. It makes no pre-
tensions to do anything SO absurd.
| What it does is to write up reports of
| events, which thus become it's prop
erty, and distribute them among its
members.
AGAINST EVERYTHING.
Tulare Register: Awhile ago the
anti-administration papers were weep
| ing copiously because Otis and his
men were ruthlessly slaughtering the
poor F'ilipinos.. Just now those same
papers are rending the air with de-
nunciations of Otis because he has not
| slaughtered them all. The man who is
naturally and continuously against
/ everything and everybody is an anus
ing animal and. might, like his afflicted
prototype with long ears, be utilized
for packing in the mountains if he
were not so sort of no count.
OF PROPOSALS.
Mother Lode Magnet: Some of the
new women" at the East, protesting
a desire to uplift their sex, assert that
women should have the privilege of
proposing marriage Mrs. Lille Dew
ereux Blake in her zeal for the uplift-
ing of her sisters says that when
thinks she would make a good wife
she should have the privilege of pro-
posing marriage to him. Under her
scheme there would be no escape for
man who declined to accept such
proposal save in flight. 1t won't do.
| Lillian.
A RUINOUS POLICY.
Santa Ana Blade: The BLADE" has
| MANY tiy.1aS noinfo6 ont tho 1rY>aat in
jury that has already been done Cali
fornia by the wasteful and unnecessary
destruction of timber. Until very re-
Gently nothing has been done to put
a stop to the destruction of our forests
here in Southern California and the re-
suit of this policy has already been
| very detrimental The situation is no
better in the northern portion of the
State. William H Mills of San Fran
cisco, who recently made an examina-
tion of the timber country of Northern
California and Southern Oregon, says:
| THE lumbernlen leave absolutely
nothing on the land, although there is
a great deal of timber the lumbermen
cannot use. There should be no timber
cut without the supervision of the for
est wardens. They should mark the
trees to be felled and no others should
be taken. AS it is now, all the best
trees are selected by the millmen and
in getting these out they destroy not
not only all the other old trees, but
the young ones as we'll The clearing
of the timber is also affecting the wat
er supply, and if they go on as they
have been going it will not be long
before the Sacramento River will be
nothing but small stream. In these
vast extents of cleared lands, where
when the trees stood you could not go
any distance without crossing stream,
there is now not even spring; the
hills are drying up. When the rain
falls it runs off the slopes as 1t does
off the roof of a house, the streams
rise and run like torrents and then dry
up again as soon as the rain is over
Snow melts as quickly as it falls, al.
most. and the land dries befors spring
is past"
FAKE MINING.
Oakland Enquirer: The Governor of
Arizona has done an unusual but
highly commendable thing in publish
ing an exposure of a lot of fake min
ing schemes by which spectators have
been drawing money out of innocent
people in the East He did not con-
fine himself to generalities, but gave
details and. names, and of course the
exposure has been followed by "a
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