The record-union., 1899-09-21
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

interest.
HaywardS Journal: The session OF
the California Press Association held
at sacramento last week promises to
bring forth good results in the future.
The movements started to have the
newspapers stand together on foreign
advertising ought to be success.
The session was one of the most
profitable that the association ever
held. The editor of the Journal was
elected one Of the delegates to the Ma
Orleans in February.
A NEAT DEFINITION.
Oakland Enquirer: A very fair defin-
ition of prosperity was that offered by
Bourke Cochran in his speech in Chi
cago yesterday, viz: AN abundance OF
commodities fairly distributed among
those who produce them" Few econo-
mic definitions are exempt from criti-
cism, and this one is no exception to
the rule. Prosperity requires the dis
tribution of commodities among those
who did not produce them as well as
among those who did. In other words,
the exchange of commodities, both ma
tional and international, is requisite to
prosperity in the present age of the
world Still the definition offered by
the eloquent New Yorker is rather
neat.
NO TREATY
Tulare Register: It ought no to have
been necessary for Secretary Hay to
say as he has done with emphasis
| that no secret treaty exists between
this country and Great Britain. He
| has done so seemingly to put stop to
Lot of. clatter that will go on just the
same. The question for the clatter-
whacker is not: Is this thing true?
The question is: Will it make a noise?
If it is noisy it goes.
QUARANTINE OF CONSERVATIVES.
Alameda Argus: The proposition to
quarantine consumptives at the State
line has projected the most excited dis
cussion. 1t is a hard nut to crack.
Many considerations enter in There is
the sentimental one of interfering with
a sick person in search of relief. There
is the mercenary one that some parts
of the State may entertain, of checking
most profitable tourist travel and the
business which it begets. And there
is the bigoted view, of those who dis
believe in the medical conclusion that
consumption is a contagious disease,
and who disapprove all propositions to
regulate by law the movements Of
! those afflicted with it. Consumption is
a disease making havoc with the. people
of the East and Middle West, though
| it is not SO prevalent in California-or
was not before the invasion of the tub
| erculous hordes. If the medical view
of it's contagiousness is established be-
yond question it will be a plain duty
to take steps to ward it off and eradi-
cate it. Consideration for humanity
works two ways-for the protection of
those who are we'll as well as the allie
Walton Of those who are Ill. A COM
munity's first duty is to itself.
DEVELOP IRRIGATION
Stockton Independent: If the inhabi-
tants of the San Joaquin Valley ex-
pect to dispel the menace of rainless
seasons and redeem to productiveness
the lands that are semi-arid because
the rainfall is never sufficient to render
them fertile, they must take hold Of
| irrigation in earnest. It will not do
to organize a district or a company
and expect abundant water to flow as
a result Of incorporation. They must
devote themselves to the object and
not be frightened by obstacles. Irriga-
ton will pay because it renders the
land productive and more valuable
than the cost Of the watetr system. 1t
will pay both the farmers and the
company that develops and distributes
the water.
4 Thn TIT1s1n .t1@ So.
ample Of the application Of persistence
and energy. Judge Waymire, the con-
tractor, took hold Of the project in the
right spirit and has not been discour-
tagged by obstacles. The bondholders
have been inspired by his energy, con-
fidence and risks, and have guaranteed
| the money to complete the system.
Waymire is indefatigable and a con-
firmed optfmist. AS a result the Tur-
flock system is nearly completed and
will soon render vast area constantly
productive and give to the company
one Of the safest and best paying in
vestments in California.
In connection with the system Judge
Waymire has leased a tract of SOC
acres Of land and proposes to demon
strate to the people of California and
to Stanislaus people particularly, what
can be accomplished in the way of ir-
Irrigation. Tt Is to be a model irrigation
tract. That is. it will be a private ven
ture in which all it's affairs will be
made public in the interest of irriga-
tion.
THE PROPOSED BOYCOTT.
Stockton Mail: There is a great deal
of talk and there is also some action
here and there in spots, to boycott the
French Exposition on account of the
scandalous outrage Of the Dreyfus
case. Some people express the opin-
ion that the exposition will be generally
boycotted. That is not the Mails
opinion. The nations of the earth and
the manufacturers, inventors and ar
lists thereof did not decide to exhibit
in Paris because of the love they bore
France or the respect they had for it;
but because they expected to make
something by the exhibit; and the peo-
pies of the earth are not arranging for
a trip to Paris next year for the pleas
ure or instruction of the French, but
for their own. If every intending ex-
hibitor would agree to forego his in
tention, something might come Of the
boycott, but one is not going to absent
himself and leave the field to a rival
Germany will not stay out if America
is to be there, and Great Britain will
not stay out if America is to be there;