Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-04-05
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE TALKING
ABOUT.

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bolster up the Hawaiian treaty any longer.
Reno Gazette That nothing but the ele.
waited position and the social and financial
standing of our mechanics excite the
jealousy of the overworked and badly com.
pensated European artisan, and those facts
bring him and the better class Of emi-
grants over the Atlantic.
San Jose Mercury. Sunday, looked upon
simply as human institution-and in that
light we are disposed to regard its the
very embodiment of human wisdom. In.
deed, it is the grandett Of all inventions,
one fraught with the greatest consequence
to the race. Il is the sunburst through
the cloud-the light upon the tower-sae
gleam of hope and Joy to the soul.
San Jose Mercury, One of the most seri-
ousdrawbacks to Unsuccessful introduction
Of manufacturing enterprises In this State
is the lack of public encouragement. In
many of the older States special immuni.
ties are offered in the way OF exemption
from taxation for given number of years,
thereby enabling the projectors of any new
enterprise to place their works upon pay
ing basis before being called upon to bear
the burdens of government.
Vallejo Chronicle. That in view of the
very unjust attacks which have been made
of late on ex Senator Sargent the splendid
banquet given him at the Palace Hotel in
San Francisco was exceedingly appropriate.
The public manifestation of their regard
and esteem for him as citizen and mar,
who has been so long prominent in the pub.
lie affairs of the State and country, from
leading citizens, irrespective of party, is
crushing answer to all the charges.
Marin County Journal. That there is
nothing that will more imperatively de.
mand the grave attention of our next
Legislature than our criminal statute and
practice. As it now stands, and ia now ad.
ministered by our Courts, no one will pre-.
tend that it does its whole duty. There is
too much delay, too much ado about moth.
ing, and where the defendant has ample
means, glorious uncertainty that puts the
whole State to shame, and every good citi-
zen in peril.
Oakland Times That the policy of split.
ting lawsuit up into sections, as the
Courts do, and keeping litigants busy in
employing lawyers to argue questions of
practice which have nothing to do with the
merits OF their controversies, is the secret
of the failure of the Courts to properly ad-
minister justice. 1t would be glaring VIC.
lation Of the common law. but very great
reform, if the courts would decide cases so
that they would be ended, passing on all
questions necessary to determine the full
rights Of the parties in the matter IN con.
troyersy.
Oakland Tribune We fully approve of
Oscar W,ld's oicta as to the universality of
art, and the right and duty of each cult
ured individual to choose the dress or
adornment best suited to the particular
person. We have no sympathy with that
hippant folly that laughs at what it can
not understand, and ridicules the realm it
cannot enter. We believe that every
work OF art is sufficient of Itself, and its
own beauty is its warrant of existence
And that man has right to reproduce in
art every work of nature, striving toward
the highest ideal. We believe thoroughly
in the sisterhood of arts and their relation
to the artiZan.
Ukiah City Press, That the Commission
has become mighty in public affairs. 1t
has decided many minor and at least one
important question for the country. The
Electoral Commission is representative of
thS SHai aSsci VI Wills sySIeiH Oi arDltTallOn.
By majority OF one it brought a disturb
ing question to peaceable solution. The
result has been bitterly assailed by those
who represented the "seven," but who
were not fortunate enough to secure the
eighth vote. Yet everybody understood
the potency Of that vote, and the great
struggle was to secure the majority of the
Commission. As an arbiter the Commits.
sion served its purpose.
Nevada Transcript. That if the recon-.
mendations Of Col. Mendell regarding Cali.
fornia rivers are adopted and followed out,
the slickens problem will have been effectu-
ally and cheaply solved. His report goes
on to demonstrate that the building OF
stone dam seventy FIVE feet high near
Smartville at cost of S2O4, 779, and the
repair of the brush dam below there at an
outlay of IS, 900, will give adequate protec.
tion to the channel of Yuba river and the
lowlsnds thereon. On Bear river the dam
would be thirty -four feet high and cost
S24 GOO. On American river he recon-.
mends the building of north fork dam,
to cost S24. 600, and middle fork dam, to |
cost Ssl, 300.