Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-31
CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSION

* THE law now stands it gives positive en-
couragement to the grossest wrong doing It
would actually be better to repeal the law alto
gether and have no enactments on the sub
ject, than to allow the statutes to remain as at
present. The spectacle presented by the Hill
woman and Sharon is enough to show how
urgent the need is for an amendment to the
Iaw.-[Inyo Independent on the need of reform
ing the marriage law.
THE infamous attempt to blow up the public
buildings in London has elected so general, so
emphatic response throughout, not only the
civilized world, but especially this country,
that it is certain the National legislation, so long
called for, will be speedily forthcoming.-lSa Il
Jose Times Mercury.
THERE is no characteristic of the people OF
this city more marked and recognizable by all
visitors than the kindly courtesies and warm re-
ception which they extend TO all strangers who
come to our city in respectable 'guise The testi-
mOnials on this point are so emphatic and nu-
merous that we cannot cite them in the compass
of an editorial article. All representations to
the contrary are from persons who have been
foiled in some scheme to avail themselves of this
ciyility and kindness, or to impose upon the
credulity of our perhaps too impulsiye and con-
filling people and promote some scheme of pri-
vate gain.-INew Orleans States.
IF recent reports in regard to the State of Iowa
are well founded, the people OF that State who
have at heart the temperance reform need to be-
stir themselves. The question whether the ac-
knowedged evils of intemperance can best be
met by prohibitory enactments, or by restrictive
legislation, or by the local option policy, or by
moral influences exclusively, is practical ques-
ton which is to-day subjected to practical test
before the whole world New York Tribune.
The practice of viviSection is a form of cru
city which should not be prohibited. 1t is neces-
sary in the pursuit of knowledge, not otherwise
attainable, intended to conserve the life and
health not only of human beings who inhict it,
but of the brute creation who suffer. We kill
myriads of brute creatures to eat them and
thus prolong our own existence This assertion
Of paramount authority over the lives of inferior
beings carries with ii no right to torture them
for the love of torture, but it relieves the re.
searches of the yivisectionist, pursuing import
ant. proper and adequate inquiries for the good
of mankind, from any imputation of wanton
ness and inhumanity. Philadelphia Record.
THE men who join the loudest in the pooh
pooling of any knowledge that does not i'm
medately and palpably advance them in mate
rial ambitions are commonly the men who have
no other they merely seek to palliate or CON
ceal their own ignorance through envy of those
better equipped or through their eomplacent
self-sufiiciency other things being equal that
man is most likely to push his way most surely
TO the front, and to hold his ground there most
firmly, whose mind is best developed in every
direction.-[St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
PARENTS make it an especial point to take
their children to the Tower, where. when the
little ones recover from the fear caused by the
grim and solemn beefeaters," they learn
much about the great historic past of their
country. The dynamiters knew all this too.
Yet they hesitated not in their diabolical folly
to make holocaust of women and children.
No honest man in the world will hesitate TO
condemn this atrocious attempt at vandalism,
nor will he cease to hope that the miscrean:s
may be discovered and adequately punished
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