The record-union., 1899-02-28
VOICE OF The PRESS.
State and Coast Opinions ON Subj
ljects Of Living News
Interest.


ljects Of Living News
Interest.
Chico Enterprises: Press, pulpit and
the people too abhor prize. fighting, but
1t is mere child's play compared with
the cruel and brutalizing six-day bicy-
Gle races, which invariably result in
either mental or physical wrecking of
the participants. If prize fighting is
so bad that it must be regulated by
law, what have the lawmakers to SO y
about long distance bicycle contests?
WHAT WILL THEY DO?
Napa Register: The Central Pacific
RaAroad Company has settled it's debt
with the Government, by notes which
are to be taken up two each year, unit
at the end of ten years the whole twen-
ty have been redeemed and Govern
ment gets its own What will the anti
railroad do now. poor soul?
IT'S TO BE FELONY.
Les Angeles Express: The Assembly
yesterday passed by unanimous vote
the Dibble BILL making it felony for
any candidate for the United States
Senate to pay money to candidate tor
the Legislature, and a felony also for
the legislator to receive such money.
The bill will undoubtedly pass the Sen
ate and will become a law
1t is eminently just and proper that
practice unanimously condemned by
public opinion and punished by law in
many States in the Union should re-
ceive a place among the category OF
crimes for which the penitentiary
exacts retribution.
A SHAMEFUL LIBEL.
Stockton Independent: An intelligent
reader can not comprehend how any
one in charge of a newspaper that al
fects to be a great educator OF the
people could permit the publication OF
James Creelman's dispatch from the
Orient, charging Senator Hoar with en-
couragement of the Filipinos by secret
communications. Have we arrived d
that stage in our nationaf existence
that q long life of probity and patrlot-
ism and unselfish effort in behalr OF the
public welfare in a prominent puplic
position is no shield against the az
lacks of SUCH Irresponsible sensational
lists as Creelman? Senator Hears HE
has been an open book to the people
of the United States ana 10 pupiSii
seriously an accusation of that KIND
coming from half savage Fiilplnos Is
an attack on the whole country. sen
atar Hoar should not have even delgned
to reply to the presumptuous CORE poii.-
dents who hurried to ask him about the
+,u+b of Creelman's libel. 1t IS JUS II
s,,cb publications as this that has eN-
oi+ad luminosity toward the press anu
rousad sentiment at Sacramento ana
o1sawhere in favor of restraining theiii
in the abuse of privileges granted III
behalf of liberty.
THE RAISIN TRUST.
ru1are Times: The Fresno papers con-
tot, the almost Incredible news thar
+bere is danger that the raisin trust
will not be formed for this season Inc
growers are slow to sign the agree
,,ants and if a sufficient number do TOT
sien nv the 1st of March the Directors
of the association will resign anu ho
further attempt will be made to perfecI
the trust. There is no agrlcui'u.ai
business in the United States so easiy
controlled as the growing and market
ing of raisins, and if those VINO nave
their money tied up in vineyards don't
get together and stay together perna-
nently so far as to control the price at
which raisins are to be sold, then they
deserve no sympathy when they have
to sell for cent per pound.
MALIGNANT.
Mana Register: What won't the "yel-
low journalist of present times do for
a sensation? Senator Hoar, one of the
wisest patriots in our land, and coming
from firm, loyal stanch and true old
Massachusetts is charged with bang a
traitor What grounds could there pos
sibly be for such preposterous charge?
And yet metropolitan newspaper pub
fishing such malignant and sentimental
rot thrives and seemingly fourishes in
our midst.
THE RAILROAD DEBT.
The Pajaronian: The indebtedness of
the Central Pacific Railroad to the
United States has been settled by de-
posting in the United States Treasury
rotes for over SOS, 100000. secured by
bonds. These notes are
to be taken up at stated times. The
final retirement of the Central Pacific
Railroad debt question removes one of
the most popular themes of the sensa-
tional big dailies. Whatever the Gov
eminent gets back from the Union and
Central Pacific Railroads will be just
that much more than people on this
coast have been told by offiee-seeking
politicians would be realized.
TOO MANY NOW.
Red Bluff Peoples Cause: The au-
thors of the bills establishing three
more Normal Schools in this State
know, as well as every intelligent man
and woman in California knows, that
there is not the slightest demand or use
for another Normal School. but that on
the contrary, there is at least one TOO
many now AS shown by this paper a
few days ago, the schools we have are
turning out teachers at the rate OF
from 400 to 500 a year, and there are
in the State fully 1,Ic0 teachers who
are without employment. What nom
sense, then, to pretend that these four
schools do not suffice, and that others
should be built.
AGAINST TREATING.
Hanford Sentinel: A bill has been
intl oduced in the Legislature making
It misdemeanor for one PARTY to treat
another at a public bar. Although the
hill was introduced. we understand. not
in real earnest, it ought to be enacted.
If there is an honest disposition to
legislate against intemperance. The
treating custom Is responsible for more
drunkenness than any other feature OF