The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-28
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.

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State and Coast OpinionsSon Sub.
jects Of Living News
Interest.
| Napa Register: VinehOpperS and cur
worns are playing the mischief WITT
the vineyards of Fresno. 1t is said tht
Eoppers come in swarms and, lighting
on the under side of the leaves anc
tender shoots, soon cause them to dry
up, thereby exposing the grape to tbs
sun: that up to the present time no sat
| isfactory remedy has been found to eX-
| terminate these insects, although some
vineyardists have tried the scheme q
trapping them with more or less sue
cess.
SAMOANS.
| Marysville Appeal 1t is claimed by
some newspapers and former resident:
of the islands that the Samoans are moi
a bad sort of people, yet in view OF theil
recent reprehensible conduct Very
strong affidavits will. be required 10 re-
move the impression that there is some
thing wrong about them.
A FIELD FOR SENSATION.
| Stockton independents We would sug-
gest tc our esteemed contemporaries ir
San Francisco, who are prancing VI
and down the railroads and around
Chinatown seeking something to expose
that will create a sensation, that if they
can summon nerve to examine theii
own columns, they will find the trail OF
one of the most vicious and demoraliz-
| ing conditions that exist in California
If they will peer into the advertise
ments of the unlawful and disgraceful
lottery swindles, which they carry in
their columns they will find topics fol
dozens of good moral essays.
| What a sensa tion a San Francisco
| paper could make out of those 'gigan-
tic swindles that go untouched by
either police or the press? Yet the
| papers never utter a word against
them. The insignificant Chinese lot
teries and tan games occupy columns
| so do the Honduras and other lot
teries, but the latter are computed by
the line and bear revenue. They are
| treated in a different tone. We have
often wondered why the Chinese lot
space in the paper and dictate what is
said in that space instead of leaving
| it all to the managers.
THE TRUSTS.
IL Dorado Republican,: The trusts
are only the natural and inevitable re-
suits Ct business competition. For in
stance, during the last two or three
years. the companies engaged in manu-
featuring wood pulp for the cheaper
kinds of printing competed so vigor-
Dusty that the price of paper fell from
its old price of AZ cents per pound down
| to 3 cents or less. In the pushing and
croWding for markets these companies
ruined the profits of their business, and
the production being greater than the
demand, the future of the business was
merely a question of consolidation and
regulation of the supply and prices, or,
on the other hand, a continuation Of
the fight until the weaker companies
were exterminated at great loss to the
stronger firms. The natural and intel
ligent result was the consolidation of
the companies, and now printing paper
is sold at a higher price, but still much
lowe" than it was ten years ago. In
effecting a trust the business men en-
gaging in it merely do what all other
| people would try to do under similar
circumstances. They merely protect
| themselves from the disastrous results
of extreme competition when further
| rivalry threatens to destroy their bust
ness existence as separate firms. Their
warfare as individual firms means
either consolidation or death and, like
sensible men, they prefer consolidation
! In this normal development of the
trust, in which the purely speculative
| feature is absent, it is mistake to sup
pose that the organizers unite readily OF
eagerly in expectation of increased pro-
| fits to be extorted from their patrons
AS a general thing the trust is formed
with extreme difficulty and only after
considerable negotiation among the
rival firms. Many efforts were made
to establish trust among the warning
lumber firms of the Pacific Coast be-
fore any compromise could be effected
THE SIGNATURE LAW.
Woodland Democrat: Some of tn.
members of the last Legislature acted
as if their sole purpose was to ammo.
and Gfscredit the country newspapers
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thrive under persecution. They Ger
tainly will in a large majority when TIL
| time for the next election arrives, Will,
many of the pinhead politicians who
tried to cripple the press will be in OBJ
security so dense that the sound of Ga
briefs trumpet will hardly reach them
| OUR IMPERATIVE DUTY.
| Los Angeles Times: It is difficult t.
understand how any intelligent Ameri
| can, who uses his brains for thinkins
purposes. can fail to perceive that cur
first and paramount duty in the Phil
| ippines is to establish, American au
thority throughout the archipelago; t,
enforce respect for the flag; to exer
and enforce the power and authorft,
of the United States IT. territory fairl.
| conquered in honorable warfare from
| foreign foe; and to give to the con
quered land a simple, strong, effective
just government, which shall remain il
force for the time being, leaving to TIL
light and the wisdom of the future tn,
question of permanent government
whether it shall be civil or military, ma
| tive or American, or both.
| This is not a problem to be settled il
day, nor in a year, nor in a decade
1t requires, for its solution, the elemen
of time, and the knowledge which come:
| from experience and actual administra
! tive operations. But, while the prob
| lens which must be solved are in pro
| cess of solution, the conquered terri
| tory is entitled to the protection ant
| the benefits of a stable government, ant
| that government must be supplied ane
| j