The record-union., 1899-01-21
VOICE Of The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions ON Subj
jects Of Living News
Interest.

trate condition of the prune industry OF
the State a prune combine, similar to
the raisin growers combine, is on the
the tapis. If it pans out like the raisin
organization has started to do all will
be well with it, To get rid of the in
competent and irresponsible middlemen
is the salvation Of the fruit and grape
industries Of California.
NO DEMOCRATS.
Ukiah Republican Press: Not one
straight Democrat from the Northern
States will be a member of the next
Senate whose term begins March 4th.
Thirty Senators end their period of
service on that day, and in filing the
seats the Democrats of the North will
be entirely unrepresented. 1t is an ex-
traordinary fact in American politics.
The Senators from Utah and Montana
will be elected by fusion Legislatures
and are as much Populist as Demo-
cratic A close estimate of the next
Senate is fifty-four Republicans, twen-
ty-six Democrats and ten Populists and
Silverites, Republican majority over
all of eighteen. The twenty-six Demo-
cratic Senators are from the South, but
that section is no longer solid. TT sends
ten Republicans to the next Senate. In
five years the Republicans have gained
eighteen seats in the Senate.
EAGAN AND MILES.
Oakland Tribune: There may be two
sides to the subject matter Of the la
mentable controversy in which two high
officers of the American army are en-
gagged. The sympathies of the Ameri-
can people, like those of General Miles,
are on the side of the soldiers, fwho
certainly were great and needless suf-
ferers from poor rations and insufficient
distribution during the late war. Their
condemnation Is ready to be bestowed
upon the system and the individuals re-
sponsibile for the outrageous scandals.
At the same time, it must be conceded
that this responsibility has not yet
been brought home to Commissary Gen.
eral Eagan. General Miles had said
some pretty hard things about him. and
he was entitled to suspension Of judg-
ment pending their proof.
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
Watsonville Transcript: Secretary
Wilson is a firm believer in practical
education for men engaged in practical
pursuits. He was a member of the
Presidential party to the South, and as
the head of the AgriculturaE Depart
ment he felt called upon to give our
Southern neighbors some advice that
will hold its own in any climate. He
said the young farmer should study
soils rather than dead languages; he
should learn Of the plants rather than
of the classics. and how to feed animals
rather than how to compete in bellies
lettres. The study of moisture of the
soil, he said, will pay better than the
study of oratory; barnyard poultry offers
greater reward than the country office,
the mutton sheep pay better than State
heroes, while the promise OF a dairy
COW brings more happiness than a Con-
gressional career.
MR.. BRYAN'S POSITION.
Ukiah Republican-Press Bryan
comedies that the treaty will be rati-
fed, but he essays he will attempt to
get the country to give up all the ISL
ands afterward, even Porto Rico. This
is a fine example of that leaders short
sightedness. The hauling down the flag
policy will get fewer votes than oppo-
sition to the treaty could command,
and even the most blind and bigoted Of
the anti-expansionists acknowledge
that the treaty could not be defeated:
Rryan's overthrow in the particular
un- American scheme will be more
crushing than that which met him
when, in 1896, he attempted to debase
the country's currency.
CONCERNING DAMS.
Colusa Sun: The Anti-debris Asso-
citation, representing the valley inter-
ests in the matter Of the dumping of
the debris from the hydraulic mines,
has been trying hard to get along un-
der the operation of the Caminetti law,
but find that the Government Commits
sion, acting under that law, got more
and more careless in the matter of
giving permits for the construction of
dams until the conclusion has been
reached to fall back on the law as an
nounced in the Sawyer decision, and
which has never been called, in Qpes-
tion by any lawyer. The law pro-
vides that no dam shall be built with
out the permission of the commission,
but no law of Congress or of any other
body can grant a permit to one person
to injure the person or the property of
another person. To have great piles of
debris impounded behind log and brush
dams in the mountains, to come rush
ing down upon us some wet winter, is
more than the valley people ought to