The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-31
VOICE OF The PRESS.


State and Coast Opinions ON SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.
Fresno Republican,: The prosperity
OF California depends as much as on
any one thing, on a pure food law.
Adulteration is menacing the most i'm
portant industries of the State and TAX
ing money out of each of our pockets,
besides putting poison into our fsom-
achs. But we are afraid to pass a pure
food law that can be enforced, because
1T would be necessary to put too much
power into the hands of men we cannot
trust
| SEND 'EM TO SCHOOL.
| Alameda Encinal: Some of the San
francisco telegraph editors have a very
hazy idea of geography, not only of this
State. but of other localities. The other
day one of them headed a dispatch from
Buffalo, N Y, in big black type ''On
the Brink of the Cataract" We looked
instantly with bated breath to read the
thrilling story of some one almost going
over Niagara Falls, but instead read
how a steamer was caught in the ice
just outside of Buffalo harbor and was
carried down stream to the interna-
ton bridge. Now the writer has been
caught in the current in the same
place, but never till now did he know
that he had been ION the brink of the
cataract" 1t is just about twenty-five
miles from the locality mentioned to
mo h,St,,
earthly danger there or at any place
al great deal nearer the falls than Buff
falo. A large map of the United States
ought to be presented to the brilliant
telegraph editor noted
GOVERNORS STAFF.
| Red Bluff Peoples Cause: The pro-
posal to cut down the Governors staff
is sensible and timely. AS things are,
the Governor of California has a staff
several times larger than that of the
Major General commanding the army
and of the President, and about double
the size of that of the Emperor of
Germany. All in all, there are twenty
six braided and sworded functionaries
| IN his trains who succeed in making
themselves and the Governor ridiculous.
To reduce the number to four, with pro-
vision for a few extra ones from the
National Guard when occasion war;
! rants, would be in good taste and could
not possibly do any harm, except to the
military tailors.
ORANGES AND SNOW.
Oroville Mercury: For the Eastern
reader: Butte County is one of the
Northern California orange growing
sections. A mail carrier there recently
started on his regular trip in a bewil-
dering snowstorm, wearing snowshoes.
He lost his way and after being out all
day and night returned to the place Of
starting. He reported snow six to
eight feet deep. 1t is a fact that this
condition exerts an influence in insur-
ing a crop OF oranges next season.
California Fruit Grower.
For the benefit of the Eastern reader
and in justice to the orange belt Of
Butte the Fruit Grower" should have
explained that the snowstorm mention
ed was in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
at an altitude of 1000 feet, while or
ange trees are grown on the low foot
hills, which line the broad Sacramento
Valley, and far below the snow line It
is fact that heavy fall of snow in
the mountains contributes to the sue
cess of the orange crop by producing
ample water for the ensuing season.
and it is also fact that this water
supply is always abundant in Butte
County the banner county of the
Golden State. The fact that such
diversity of climate is found in the
county of Butte should go far toward
giving the Fastener a conception of
the great extent of this county. There
are nations that cover less territory
than the county of Butte
THE ARMY.
Oakland Tribune: Our nation is now
grown up An army of 100000 to-day
Is relatively nc larger than an army of
10000 was when it was established on
that basis, and up to recent events.
Recent events have opened our eyes.
The day of the penny wise has gone
by in the American national policy. II
cannot be restored, either for the ac-
ccmmodation of ex-Colonel William
Jennings Bryan and his party, or to
soothe the sensibilities of the constitu-
tional obstructionists and the duddy-
fuddles in the Republican party
THE SAMOAN ISLANDS.
! San Diego Union: However import
| ant the Samoan Islands may be from a
| purely strategic point of view, they are
rot valuable enough from the stand
point of trade to fight over. The an
! nual report of Consul General Osborn
| for 1S97-9S, which has just been issued
at Washington, gives the following
| statement of imports and exports at
Apia in 1897: The total value of the
| imports was 1929, $50, of which nearly
half (S157 500 came from Australian
colonies The United States sent goods
to the value of $50, Ais; Great Britain,
ST., 1922; Germany, $S3, 562: Fiji. So. 757:
Tonga, S12,642; other South Sea ISL
an6s, $4,51S; New Britain, $3.50; and
Hawaii, $751; The exports amounted to
$3.50, 1913, of which $125, $50 went to
Europe, $54, 1906 to the United States,
| Sol, 437 to Australasia. $14,223 to Ha-
waii ETC. OF copra (native product).
10, SOL $50 pounds were imported from
Samoa. The Consul General adds that
large percentage of the goods from
Australia are of American origin. 1t
! is stated that ALL goods originating east
of California are sent to the Atlantic
seaboard thence to Sydney, and from
| Sydney to Apa, and are delivered there
cheaper than they can be obtained d.
rectly from San Francisco.
NOT NEEDED.
Visalia Delta: There is q bill before
the Legislature to establish polytech-
ric school at San Luis Obispo The