The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-07
VOICE OF The PRESS.


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stats and Coast Opinions on Sab
jects Of Living News
i Interest.
Humboldt Standard Probably few
people are aware that just about a
year ago President Mckinley signed a
bill creating an Industrial Commission,
composed of nineteen members, whose
duty it is to investigate the conditions
of labor in every Industrial pursuit in
this country. In the words of the law,
they are told ''to inquire into the Ques-
tons affecting the relations between
employer and employed and to report
whether legislation can with advantage
be directed to the remedy Of any evils
which may be disclosed. and if so, in
what manner"
This commission is composed of five
Senators appointed by the Vice Presl-
dent, five Representatives in Congress,
appointed by the Speaker, and nine
members appointed by the President.
| Right here it may be we'll to remem-
Der to McKinley's credit, that Presi-
dent Cleveland. while he occupied the
executive chair. opposed the formation
Of such a commission and vetoed bill
creating one. Keeping in view his con-
Germ for the rights of the laboring man,
we had right to expect his appointees
on the commission to be drawn from
the most intelligent, as we'll as the
most conservative leaders in the differ,
ent labor organizations and employers
of labor. In this he has not disappoint-
ed the people and we may expect from
| this commission some most important
work along the right lines.
KEEP THE BOYS AT WORK.
Willows Journal: The most import
ant crop being raised in this country is
the crop of boys and girls, and unless
there is better cultivation much of the
crop will go to ruin.
There is no practice in the world SO
productive of evil as street loafing IAN
| idle brain is the devils workshop is
a proverb whose truth is universally
| recognized, but it becomes doubly true
when applied to the habitual loafer on
| the street.
The street loafer is an object of con-
tempt everywhere. He has no social
standing anywhere. His influence, if he
has any, is never for good but always
| for evil. Nobody ever attaches i'm,
portance to his existence, except as one
! the nuisances for which modern civili,
cation has as yet found no remedy
| Applied to boys. 1t may be safely said.
! that no business man would employ q.
| boy whom he has witnessed standina
| idly about the streets for any length
| of time. The boy who can find nothina
| better to do than that can be Of no use
to any employer; and the same boy
can never be of any use to himself.
EDUCATING EDITORS.
Napa Register: Almost every State
| in the Union has it's Press Association
and 1T has come to be an honored GUS
tom for the editors of such organiza-
| lions to annually meet, confer togethes
| on matters of business, cultivate the
! social relation and spend a short sea,
| son in studying their own State as well
| as the territory contiguous to it. All
this is good fort the commonwealth, as
| 1t must of necessity broaden the view,
| enlarge the mind and so better qualify
| the pen that writes for a discriminat-
ing constituency. The editorial excur.
sion is something more than junket,
4 ing trip. 1t is made with notebook in
hand and home in mind
and the columns of the excursionist are
the richer for his travel. Then, too,
measure the advertising an enterpris-
ing community gets in lieu of the en-
tertainment extended to newspapermen
How much, for instance, would it cost
Portland, Or, and the cities on Puget
Sound to get notices they will receive
in the papers of the United States and
| Canada on the heels of this months
visit of one hundred members of the
| Western Canada Press Association and
the visit of the National Editorial AS
ISOLATION to the same cities next
month? 1t would take half the gold in
| the klondike to secure the same
amount of space-space that would not
be editorial matter, and hence of little
value comparatively speaking. AS re.
1 suit of the excursion of the California
Press Association to Yosemite ! last
month that wonderful valley has wit
messed rush of visitors it has never
seen before and the editors have added
to their fund of knowledge and enjoy
satisfaction money could not pur-
chase from them. The benefits are mu-
tual, don't you see? In this connec-
ton we are pleased to announce that
the California Press Association will
hold its fall meeting this year at Lake
Tahoe. ss--.s.o
| SUPERSTITION.
| San Diego Union: Some farmers in
Wisconsin declare that the letter "B''
has appeared on the oats grown this
year, and. superstitious grangers with
leanings toward free silver think that
the phenomenon forecasts the election
of Bryan in 1900. They apparently
| forget that there will be another crop
of oats before the Presidential election
comes around. In the meanwhile the
| farmers would do we'll to let agricul-
tural prophecy alone and turn to some.
thing more practical; for example, the
Treasury Departments revised records.
These show that the exports for the
eleven months of the fiscal year of
1899 were -$1,130,629,572, as against
81, 1876 500. 607 for 1898. In no other
year but these two was the billion
dollar mark reached during a like
period. The imports during the eleven
months were valued at $685., 352, 519
rOn the face of the figures there was
an apparent trade balance of $500
267,O03 in favor of this country. The
apparent trade balance in favor of the
United States in 1897 was $3.50, 263, LA
and in 1885, $645,432, 676. For the two
years and eleven months the aggregate
therefore reaches the tremendous sum
of $l,396, 962, 1873. Perhaps the "B' on
he &c, $40 L. So ~ ALL ho1