The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-14

Eastern periodical serial story is run
ming wherein the reader is carried three
centuries into the future. In that
imaginary age the press and all publi-
cations, books and the art of reading
are done away with, and all informa
ton is communicated by what the au-
thor terms 'babbling machines. Mr..
Bryan seems to- have been pitched into
the world three hundred years before
his time.
NEWSPAPER EDUCATION.
Los Angeles Herald: AS a means of
popular education the daily newspaper
is on a level with the public school sys-
tenn. This position it has attained with
in a comparatively few years. Previous
to the revolution in the cost of news
paper production the usefulness of the
daily press was restricted by high
prices. Such literature was luxury
that a large proportion of the people
could not afford. Now, however, low
prices have so broadened the field of
the daily press that the newspaper has
ceased to be a luxury and has become
necessity. And just in proportion as
this expansion has progressed the USE
fulness of the newspaper as popular
educator has increased. The influence
OF the daily press in broadening educa-
tion within recent years is inconceiv-
able. Where one family INDUCED in
the luxury of a daily newspaper a. gen.
Grafton ago, a dozen families now must
have 1T as a. necessity.
An Illustration of the wonderful ex-
pansion of the, daily newspaper field in
late years is afforded by the change in
the city of New York. Prior to the
general reduction in newspaper prices
In that city the aggregate circulation
OF the daily papers. nearly a score of
them, did not exceed 100000 per day.
AT the present time there are two pa
pers in New York. each OF which issues
twice as many copies per day as the
combined calculations of the score Of
papers twenty years ago. In this amaz-
ing spread of daily literature we can
readily see what a potent factor the
press has become in New York and its
outlying newspaper field.
But we refer to the big city only he
cause it is a convenient Illustration The
American people throughout the United
States are as eager as those of New
York to read the current news, and
CLEAN all features of the reputable daily
paper. But, of course. there is only
small proportion of them to whom
money is no object The great mass
of our people have all they can do to
make ends meet" and every cent
counts.
A RETURN OF REASON.
Vacaville Reporter: The action by
the Habana portion of the Cuban army
in refusing to accept the money for
which they have been bowling SO loudly
is the first sign of a. return of reason to
lot of grandiose and discriminating
loafers. Just why there should be so
much bowling about small matter, is
Is hard to see; but the Cuban patriot
has howled and money has been secured
by reason Of his bowling, which now in
pique he refuses. 1t is Well. Since the
Cuban soldier 1olled in the shade and
| smoked cigarettes while the boys in blue
toiled to bring the gun to the front, we
| have had very little use for the Cuban
| as a citizen of an independent govern
| ment. If he would only go to work for
! a change, every one would be pleased.
THE BETTER THOUGHT.
| Tulare Register: Perhaps rather the
better thought on the trust problem is
| looking toward taxation and Govern
| mental control as the better remedy for
the evil effects Of com inations Of cap
| ital and, at the same time, permitting
! free scope to the evolutionary process of
cheapening and increasing production
through Capitalization. The taxation of
franchises in the State Of New York is
! looked upon as being the first step in
the right direction and perhaps it is
| Corporations are the creations Of the
| law, and should ever be subject to the
| law, and If the profits Of corporations
are in excess of a reasonable return for
| the capital and effort employed it is
right that the State should take for
the public use whatever is more than
| a just return. The market value Of the
shares will give a good idea of the
| proper amount to be taken.