The record-union., 1899-03-28
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

h1c<Al
electing a United States Senator by
transforming the Legislature into an
electoral college is that it is not the
San Jose ''Mercury's' plan at ALL The
idea is by no means a new one to the
press of the State-though it may be
to the Mercury
WOULD TT WORK?
Pasadena Star: The San Jose 'A1er
curry has a theory of electing legisla-
tors pledged to certain Senatorial can
didates, as a remedy for deadlock. We
DO not see how it would mend the mat
ter to pledge them any further. They
disregard pledges and moral obligations
with equal facility. They went up there
pledged to elect a Republican Senator,
and didn't do it. Any further pledges
would probably be of equal value. Let
the people do the business direct, and
then they will know what to expect.
THE CUBAN ARMY.
Stockton Mail 1t turns out that the
Cuban army-mustered for pay at that
lis only 1900 strong. That would
give each man of it $3.50 should the
American $3,OO00 600 be divided share
and share alike. But it will not be.
First Gomez will have big slice for
turning against the Cuban Assembly,
and after he has had his reward, the
officers will come in. The rank and file
will probably get just about what the
negroes got when they came into the
Union camps during the war of 1861
TO to get their expected forty acres
and a. mule"
THE DAUGHTERS,
Stockton Record: The Daughters of
the American Revolution are looming
up everywhere. They number about
10000. and they recently took Wash
ington by storm. Everything gave way
to them-even the War Department.
These estimable women have been
turning over the records of many fani-
hes, restoring the most sacred tradi
tions of the republic freshening the
quaintest legends and verifying half
forgotten facts They have really un
dertaken to preserve what is best and
oldest in the history of the nation, and
they deserve a great deal of praise be-
cause they are not exploiting them
selves, but their mothers and fathers,
and that is so unlike the general atti
tude of the present generation, which
is thinking only of itself, that it ex
cites universal respect and admiration.
THE RAILROAD COMMISSION.
Alameda Argus: We do not know
what the Railroad Commission has done
to draw the fire of the malignant press,
but it was to be understood, of course,
that unless it fell into the ways and
followed the advice of the millionaire
proprietors who have been infected
with the Senatorial black plague, it
would be denounced and misrepresented
to the people. That understanding is
fully justified by the attitude of the
three Macbethian figures who dance
around the commission in their several
issues this morning and shrek curdling
curses. The claim has been made that
the present commission, which has but
fairly got to work, is one of the best
the State ever knew But no action
other than one that would always cinch
the railroad would gain the appreciation
of the malignant press.
FIRE DRILL.
Oakland Enquirer: There was an
other illustration given the other day
of what excited people will do when
they are in a burning building A fire
broke out in an Omaha block in which
many women were attending a lodge
meeting, but instead of going to the
end of the building where the fire es
cape was they rushed to the windows
and began to jump. Two were killed
and many injured, though most of them
might have escaped unharmed had they
retained their wits and made their ex-
its. School children are not the only
ones who need to be exercised in fire
drills
THE DIFFERENCE.
San Jose Herald: A week ago, an
orchardist friend informs us, he was
expecting to pay out money that he
could not afford to spare in picking the
young fruit off his trees so as to save
the trees during the expected dry sea-
son. To-day he expects to make a
handsome profit from that same or
chard. Others who have been prepar
ing to put in irrigating plants at heavy
expense will now get rid of that ex
pense and make big money to boot
That is the difference which seven days
and four or five inches of rain have
made in this valley. It is the difference
between prosperity and adversely.
GENERAL sHAFTER.
Alameda Encina1: A train recently
passed through Bakersfield on which
was a detachment of soldiers from the
First Regiment of United States Infan-
try. They had been mustered out and
were On their way to their homes in
San Francisco. These men were with
Shafter at Santiago, and in speaking
of the treatment the General is receiv
ing from certain sensational newspa-
pers they branded it vehemently as
false and scurrilous. Shafter, they said,
was loved by every man in his COM
mand for his bravery and good general
ship at Santiago. Certainly the men
who were with him ought to know how
much truth there is in the stories told
of him. So says the STANDARD" of
that city.
This was to have been expected. The
men who fought under Shafter have
only good to say of him. The evil
comes from the Smart Aleck corre-
spondents of yellow papers who were
emphatically turned down by the gall
liant old soldier
THE HOE.
Colusa Sun: 'sThe Hoe is now quite
the thing since the man with the hoe
has been done up in verse. The San
Francisco Examiner of Sunday de-
votes one of its many colored pages to
the woman with the hoe. Petaluma
has club of women who WELD the hoe
and they have employed spare time in
beautifying the public parks. They do
not allow man to do any work a
woman can do. The woman with the
hoe, however, is not a new creation.
This writer remembers back over half