The record-union., 1899-12-09
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

Stockton Mail: As long as timber
thieves are dealt with as they usually
are by our tender-hearted and consid-
crate Federal officers, timber stealing
Will continue on large scale, to the ir-
retrievable loss of the people. Were
the theft of money and jeWelry regard
ed by the law officers in the same way
as the theft of public timber is, burg
larly would be one of the safest and
most lucrative of the professions,
though it might be overdone soon, in
consequence of the number of persons
who would enter upon it. If the burg
lars had no reason to fear prison and
were sure of being able if caught, to
secure immunity by surrenderlng
quarter or less of their spoil, many of
them would soon be as rich as Alger
is, not to speak of others who nave
prospered greatly in the lumber busl-
ness.
BERNARD AND CALIFORNIA.
Stockton Record: Mons Bernard, the
Partisan architect whose plans for Mrs.
Hearst's additions to the buildings OF
the State University have been accept
ed, is in California. After a view OF
the surroundings he dubbed over with
enthusiastic expressions of praise OF
the situation; the scenery, the atmos-
phere, the grounds, and, in fact, every
thing in and about the university. The
remarkable things about Berkeley and
the university are always more re-
markable to people from abroad than
to Californians. Beauty of scene and
salubrity of climate are the rule in
6ic nd VIII al g
striking While Berkeley deserves all
M. Bernard's praises, it is by no means
the only beautiful place around the
bay or in the State Mons. Bernard
should have an extensive tour of the
State while sojourning here.
WIDE TIRE LAW.
Nevada City Transcript: District
Attorney Power was interviewed to-day
relative to the story from Sacramento
that the wide-tire law, passed by the
Legislature two years ago to go into
effect on the LIST day of next Janu-
airy, is a failure because of defects 1t
contains.
He thinks that perhaps the defects
exist because of the jobbery of those
opposed to the law, and that they are
intended to defeat it. These defects
relate to the descriptions of the axles
in defining them for stated tire widths
For example, it speaks of steel CT
thimble-skein axle" when it means
steel or iron thin ble-skein axle, and
tubular or iron axle" when it means
tubular steel or iron axle.
In many counties of the State there
will be no attempt made to enforce the
law unless a test case is made and its
constitutionality is affirmed.
CAN WE DO IT?
Pasadena Star: Newspaper men are
just now the victims of a great big
trust which is booming the price OF
paper numerically and cinching US OF
millions of dollars yearly, without any
other apparent cause than simply De-
cause they can. Within few weeks
paper has gone up 60 cents hundred,
and there is no apparent limit as to
where it may go. What's the matter
with publishers back-firing against this
by combination of their own? They
are rich enough to organize and oper-
ate a gigantic paper business that
would leave all the present paper
makers out in the cold. Let it be done,
each taking stock in it according TO
his consumption Of paper. and our word
for it. the enemy can soon be smoked
out.
THE MORMON COMPACT"
San Jose Mercury: 1t is natural that
Senator Rawlins of Utah should appear
as an advocate in behalf of his State,
in connection with the allegations IN
the Roberts case, and, being lawyer
and having the floor to himself, 1t is
natural that he should make out a good
case. Utah, he declares, has kept tbs
compact by which she was admitted
into the Union; and by way of proof
he points out that both in her state
Constitution and in her statutes titan
has outlawed polygamy and provided
for its punishment. This calls to mind
the method of demonstration employed
by a famous reciter of adventures in the
hunting field do you question that
I killed the bear as 1 say? Then, sir, l
will give you proof. There, sir, there is
a picture of the very tree in which
shot him" OF course, if Utah has made
laws against polygamy, that ought to
settle the matter; and no hard heart
ought to ask more.
But, seriously, there is g. difference
them; and testimony brought out by
the Roberts agitation has already given
the country some interesting facts rel
alive to the way Utah is keeping the
compact. Perhaps the most important
witness is Eugene Young, who. if we
mistake not, is a son of Brigham
Young, grown to hatred and bitter con-
tempt of the system in which he was
born. In a recent number OF the
North American Review" in paper
entitled 1.-The Revival of the Mormon
Problem Mr.. Young asserts, and with
illustrations of a convincing kind, that
the pledges made in behalf of the Nor
mons at the time of Utah's admission
were not intended to be kept, and that
they have not been kept.
THEY WILL NOT.
Mail of Woodland: Now that Gen
eral Otis is cleaning up the wreckage
of the Filipino rebellion in such sat
isfactory manner the newspapers
which have assaiIed him so long should
do the handsome thing by retracting
their charges of Incompetence Pos
sibly some other General would have
pushed the war harder last summer,
but there has been no lack of push
during the last two months.-Oakland
Enquirer
No danger of the yellow sheets apollo
giving to General Otis or doing what
is fair by him. They attempted to
make him a scapegoat for political rea-
sons, but he fooled them. Three cheers
for the gritty General!
CANADA'S ALASKA.
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