The record-union., 1899-07-22
VOICE !!! Of TIE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jeots Of Living News
s. Interest.

jeots of Living News
s. Inferest.
| Alameda Argus: Boston obtained a
reputation in days gone by as cradle
| of liberty, but in the modern days it
Is deserving of notice as an incubator
| of cranks. In no other city Of the
land would placards be posted de-
nouncing the Administration for its
course in the Philippines and decIar-
ing the samA to be reasonable. in
deed, in no other city is there an
'anti-imperiaP' league, studously
ernment anA giving comfort TO the
enemy. We have isolated Valentines,
but not organized Atkinsons, who
speak in the name of an organized
| body of Americans. Boston threw the
tea overheard. but she is not entitled
to act erratically forever on the
strength of that one historic proceed
! ing. reputation has to be main
tanned as well as made.
A BURIED JOKE.
| Visalia Delta: The tin plate job is
| buried so deep that no free trade pa
| per will ever attempt to resurrect it..
! When all the newspapers record the
| fact that a 10 per cent. rise in the
! wages of 10000 tin plate workers has
just been made, land that the same in
crease will probably affect 10000 more,
it is seen that -:Anler:can- made tin
plate" is no longer A joke. but q very
substantial and important reality. And
the Mckinley bill atone spoiled the
joke that was cracked at its expense.
LIQUOR AT STATIONS.
1 Oakland Enquirer: When: the San
Francisco papers make up their minds
to be anti-railroad they can sin as
much by going to extI emeS in that Gi-
| rection as they can sin ii other times
| in suppressing facts which would be
detrimental to the big corporation. An
Illustration of this has been given IN
the way the attempt of Manager
hruttschnitt to proni5it the sale of
| liquor in Southern Pacific eating
houses has been treated by the press
His intention was to increase the safe
! ty of travellers by rendering more re-
mote the possibility of train men be-
coming intoxicated while in the dis
charge of their duty, and also to pre-
vent annoyance of passengers by fel-
| lloW-travelers who are prone to become
! intoxicated. The vineyard interests
| have protested against this order, and
some of the newspapers have treated
| Manager Kruttschnitt. as if he had no
/ better purpose for his act than a mere
disposition to injure some worthy per-
sons: In reality, though something
| NAV he said in favor of Collino wines
and other light drinks in eating
| houses, the motive which actuated the
recent order was of the best, and Man,
| ager Kruttschnitt ought to be COM
| mended for it.
HOBSON.
/ Tulare Register: Say, has the point
not been reached where these little
funny remarks about Lieutenant Hob
| sons kissing ability are unjust? Is it
reasonable to hold him responsible for
| all foolishness that has developed
| whenever he appeared in view in this
| country? He surely was not .responsi
| bic for the action of callow girls and
! half-baked old women. Women of this
sort fell upon the necks of private SOL
diers who yet had the soil Of ranches
! and livery stables under their finger
| nails They had done nothing but en-
| list, yet a certain breed of women
thought this deserving of sniveling and
| kissing. If they treated in this way
| the unknown with two weeks beard,
| what could be expected when a LIEU
| tenant appeared on dress within reach
| of their clutch? Give Hobson a fair
deal even in funnygraphs. He is en-
| titled to that.
| SEWAGE OF CITIES.
| Fresno Democrat: The experiment
which Paris is making in disposing of
her sewage will be watched with in
terest by many cities in the United
States where. the sewage question and
pollution of streams has become a Sc
| rious problem. In Paris, the river
Seine has heretofore received the waste
matter from the city, but now it will
all pour into one great central drain
and be carried off to two large subur-
ban sewage farms. One of these So
called farms is a high sandy plain,
known as the Sahara of Paris. 1t is
predicted that the sewage of the city
will soon change these wastes into fer
| tile lands, whose products will find a
ready market in the great city. Sew
| erage farms have already been tried
on small scale in France, and with
| such phenomenal success, as far as
| enriching the land is concerned, that
| the experiment. will now be made with
the metropolis. Millions of dollars
worth of sewage and manures are
wasted annually in. the great cities, and
it seems as though some plan of this
| character should be made practicable
to take care of the thousands of tons
| of valuable but dangerous matter
which accumulates as result of peo-
pie living in great communities.
| ANOTHER HOME PRODUCT.
Los Angeles Times: The ingenuity
| and enterprise of Americans are con-
stantly bringing to the front new sub
stitutes for imported articles, and the
time Is evidently not far distant when
the volume of imports to the United
States will be greatly curtailed. 1t was
recently announced that a sample of
| sacks, made from a product grown in
| the northern part of California, had
been sent to San Francisco for inspec-
tion. Now it is announced that twine
of which such large quantities are used
in the harvesting of the immense
American grain crop, has been made
from home grown product About
ten years ago., when, twine was very
dear and subject to the control of
lSpeculatOrS the attention of those in