The record-union., 1899-03-25
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retard the progress of California, and
particularly of San Francisco. BY this
term we mean the vicious habit of do
ing and saying that which injuries the
reputation of competitor, whether in
business, letters or politics.
The inhabitants of certain cities, not
broad enough in their views to recog-
nize the principle that the prosperity of
one community could not but help us
all, have resorted to unworthy means
to detract from the reputation Of what
they are pleased to call rival cities.
Leading newspaper proprietors have
thrown cold water on good propositions
because they did not themselves first
suggest them.
Business men who would resent the
epithet mean have worked early and
late with such effect that business
which should have come to this coast
has been diverted, all because the
''knocker" was afraid he would not get
the plum.
And in politics-How many times
some prominent Californian would have
been chosen to take part in the coun-
ellis Of the nation, and how many times
mean jealousies have caused the honor
to be conferred elsewhere. And Cali
fornians have been dubbed a lot of
Knockers
TELL THEM.
Colusa Sun: Some of our conserva-
tive statesmen are trying to get our
Government to get a conference with
the Filipino leaders. 1t is certainly
right that we should tell those people
just what this country proposes to do
with their country and with them. We
have been making war ON them with
out once having said to them what is
expected of them except to lay down
their arms and trust to our notions of
right. We should give them some idea
of what those notions are
MRS STANFORD'S BROAD VIEW.
Oakland Tribune: Those persons who
have noticed with surprise President
Jordan's siding with the Bourbon and
the antediluvian school of American
statesmen on the issue of the day and
with concern his occasional lapses into
captious and unfair attacks upon Pres
ident Mckinley, will find relief in the
announcement of Mrs Jane L. Stan
ford's views. That comes at an OPP
Fortune time. 1t is fraught with a
benefcent significance. 1t means that
one of California's honored and infiu-
entail and heretofore progressive edu-
catiOnal institutions is in no danger of
being made bar and a drag to the
moral and the commercial progress of
this State and of the nation. The rad
ical divergence between the points of
view of Stanford's greatest living ben
efactor and of it's unaeniably great
President indicates, fer one thing, that
Stanford is and is to remain univer-
sity in fact, and is not to degenerate
into the compass of a parochial school.
UN-AMERICAN AMERICANS.
Tacoma Ledger: The people Of the
Hawaiian Islands continue to glory
in their un-Americanism and to defy
the Constitution and laws of the coun-
try whose flag floats over their heads.
They are as much in need Of discipline
as Aguinaldo The only difference be-
tween the sugar kings of the island and
the Filipinos is that the latter have
more intelligence and know better.
UNIFORMITY CRAZE OF THE SAND
LoTTERs.
Mountain Democrat (Plaeerville): Pro-
fessiona1 friends of the people are al
ways conspiring against them. By noisy
world, they keep and multiply their
jobs. Their favorite fads and pet
schemes, are always dead against pop
ular self government, adapted to di-
verse local or personal conditions Cal
ifor1ia has had more of these inflated
idiots than any other State in the
Union Twenty years ago they began
to pose as statesmen and having howled
ia l,aJ
| tendency, their first achievement was to
feas of the sand lot.
To distribute uniformly was the in
spring fad of the convention that draft
ed the present Constitution. Indiscrim-
mate uniformity of county governments
was the impossible and undesirable
remedy for local self government, which
was stigmatized by every fool in the
State as special legislation. Thus popu-
| larized the senseless craze was embod-
led in the organic law of State that
had and has, more varied resources and
diversified conditions than any State
on the continent. 1t was adopted
against the vote and protest of Ell Do
RADIO, which has nevertheless suffered
its full share of the damaging stupidity,
against WHICH II caSC q level lSaQeQ
majority of full vote.
BY classification and other methods of
evasion Legislatures and courts have
| made necessity the mother of inven-
ton. But the mischief done by a
bowling rabble of reformers, lives after
them. Like the poisoned shirt of Mes
sus it clings to every county and mu-
nicipality in the State. Ragged, patch
| ed and nasty as it is, any old thing
having in it bit of common sense were
| better for all concerned. But mud
ding over statutory remedies for con-
| genital idiocy will never effect cure.
| Nothing but special legislation, sane
| toned by Constitutional amendment,
will meet the local requirements and
emergencies of fifty-seven counties,
each subject to conditions peculiar to
itself and all its own. The experience
Of all has been dear at any price-too
costly for repetition.
A GOOD SHOWING.
| Red Bluff News: The ninth annual
report of General Chapman to the State
Board of Trade showed a good state
of export trade. The year 1898 was a
season of drought in portions of the
State and of much injury from frost
It has been generally supposed that the
! fruit industry, as well as the cereals,
suffered severely and that there would
| be a large falling off in shipmens. In
/ 1897 California sent away of fruits,
wine, brandy and vegetables by rail
and by sea 4S,O72 carloads of ten tons
each; in 1898, 80, 721 carloads. The best
previous year for citrus fruit was 1895.
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