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CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSION


FOR instance, what would the lands in Suffer
county be worth if the waters of the Sacra-
mento and Feather rivers were diverted TO some
arid and desert lands? The legitimate business
of legislation is not to enact laws which will
take property values from one agricultural dis
trict and give them to another Marysville APP
peal, on Irrigation.
OF one thing the politicians may rest assured.
The people of the state almost unanimously ex-
pressed at the polls their desire for good, cheap
books, and if they do not get them somebody
will be called upon to explain the reason why.
[Oroville Register
SoNE of our Democratic exchanges are max
ing great fuss over the election of Governor
Stanford to the United States Senate. We think,
in all fairness, they should give the Governor
chance before making so much noise about it.
[Petaluma Courier.
If the Chamber of Commerce and the Board
of Trade of San Francisco have a true apprecia-
ton of the situation they will use all their iu-
fuence in favor of irrigation and will instruct
their representatives in the Legislature not to
let the present session pass without some sort of
irrigation legislation Modesto Republican.
The majority OF bank owners are as anxious
to have the matter fairly and amicably settled
as any irrigator for, in fact, the riparian men
who desire to irrigate may not have the oppor-
tunity to do so any more than the farmer miles
away rom the stream, though an abundance of
water flow by or through his land. 1t is nothing
less than criminal to prevent the development
of a vast section of agricultural country by mac
ton Visalia Delta on Irrigation.
FROM the Kearney racket down to the more
polished iniQuity at San Jose, when Stoneman
and his associates on the Democratic ticket
were rugged out in domino and went forth mas
querading as anti-monopolists to fool the people,
the ingenuity Of the politicians has been tested,
and the election of Stanford to the United States
Senate has been inevitable. We are not sorry
for it. We hail it as the dawn OF better day
1t has been free from the ordinary mode Of being
made result of official merchandising. 8 Mo
desto Herald
THERE is much apprehension Of the real OBJ
ject to be accomplished by general bankruptcy
law, and deep-rooted impression in some por
tions of the country that it would be mainly for
the purpose of absolving delinquents from their
liabilities In fact, the great object to be ac-
complished is fair distribution OF assets among
creditors.-tNew York Post
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A BILL to authorize the construction Of
restraining dams for hydraulic mines has
been introduced in the Senate At this
writing it has had but brief examination.
It is scarcely probable that any such bill
can pass 1t is measure TOO fraught with
weighty interests and involving too greatly
the interests of the valley to be rushed
through in the last few days of the session.
The bill should have very careful examin-
alton. AT first glance we do not see how
it can give miners any privileges they do
not now enjoy, while it may imperil valley
interests, and occasion damages to which
the proprietors of the dams cannot respond
by moneyed compensation.
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question squarely presented, is becoming
tiresome. The journals that make the as
sertion know it to be untrue. The matter
was debated in 1880 and 1881; it was con-
sidered in two successive Legislatures; the
State Teachers Convention resolved upon
it to the extent of column and a half of
closest type; the interior press discussed
it thoroughly. 1t was living topic in
every school district. The Sacramento
press was especially earnest in the debate
for months. The people perfectly well I'M
derstood what they were voting upon. 1t
is bit of impudence that requires brazen
forefront to declare at this late day, in the
face of practically unanimous vote for
the amendment, that the people were
stupid and did not know what they were
about. The book-ring agents do not even
venture upon such audacity. They can
vassed the State on the question; they
'felt - of every Board of Education in the
State; they sounded the teachers and got
the Educators Convention by the nape
of the neck. They spared neither
money nor energy to compass the
defeat of the amendment, and after all
this, and the opposition of certain Of the
press, the people adopted the amendment.
Yet in the face of that fact men are found
with sufficient hardihood to suggest VIC
lati0n of the law of the Constitution by
fight against the needed legislation is in
the interest of the book rings, and whether
opposing Legislators are amenable to the
charge or not, the effect of their Opposi-
ton is to enhance the interests of the book
ring, the infamous combinations and plots
of which this journal fully exposed on the
both of October last At that time it was
shown beyond possibility of denial and by
the confessions of parties interested, that
the great publishing houses have formed
syndicate, according to the rules of which
there can be no open competition in sup
plying eClloOl-DOOhS ~ lIlo Ctdtt. 1udt
the houses are pledged not to Gust the
books anyone of them publish when once
introduced, nor to bid against each other
in any case. But behind the question Of
the cost Of textbooks, there were others
as grave, and with which all the people
were familiar-the corruption of local
boards by the book ring; the bribery and
trickery to which the book agents resorted
their intermeddling with school elections;
their swarming periodically about Boards
of Education, teachers conventions and
Teachers Institutes; the large sums they
"placed " as corruption funds; their in
siduous appearance in the Legislature, the
cropping out of their corrupt schemes in
bills and amendments to the codes, and
!. " little jokers' inserted in the chinks of
general legislation. Is there any man so
ignorant or lost to a sense OF shame rs 10
venture the assertion that the people did
not know all about these things, and which
have formed the topics of press debate for
ten years past in this State? BY the adop-
ton of the constitutional amendment the
people at one stroke swept from the field of
action these influences, and that they did
so deliberately, and with a full knowledge
of what they were about, there can be no
tr,,+ bfuI dap;.I
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maintain force upon which it is known
perfect reliance can be placed.
WITHDRAW IT.

The State compels the school districts to
contribute to the support OF very indif-
ferently conducted monthly journal, known
as the CALIFORNIA Teacher, ostensibly pub
lished by Thomas E. Flynn Il Co., but in
reality Flynn has no connection with it.
Several thousand dollars per annum are
drawn from the library funds of the 1896
districts to maintain the magazine. 1t is
a very easy way to secure subscribers
there are a good many newspapers that
would like to secure aid in a similar man
ner though conscientious journalism alb
hors it. This enforced patronage should
be Withdrawn. The recent Convention of
County Superintendent advised its with
drawal, and the present Legislature should
see to it that it is done, and that the bill
to effect it Is not drowned in the sea of
measures now before the houses. Thus
much upon general principles. But there
are specific reasons for stopping this leak.
One of these is that it is declared the
official organ of the Department of Public
instruction. Yet in this same official
organ Henry Mecca, the bust ness manager
of the concern, as late as in the January
number gives the public evidence of his
incompetency by printing a political
speech he made in the recent campaign
against one Presidential candidate and in
favor OF another. Aside from the fact
that the alleged political criticism is bit
of bathos and unauthorized hogwash it
has no place in an official educational
Journal. The Superintendent of Pub
lie instruction Is altogether too
shrewd man to have given
countenance to such vanity and bad
taste. The article does not appear in his
department. The execrable taste mani
fest might be excused if the article were
timely and not political. But what on
earth have the educational interests of
California to do with Mr. McCea's views
of Mr.. Blaine's policy? What place has a
political speech in an official organ Of the
Department OF Public instruction? 1t
may be admitted for arguments sake that
Mr.. McCea's criticism Is wise and sound
and very brilliant and all that. but the
objection remains that it is for one parti-
san and against another. In other words,
the official organ Of the Department of
Public Instruction of the State Of Califor-
MIA, receiving $3.50 80 per annum from
State funds for its support, is made the
vehicle for publishing decayed and I'M
timely assaults upon a candidate, and for
spreading abroad the campaign speeches of
Mr.. Henry Mecca. If the assault had
been upon Mr.. Cleveland aud laudatory ot
Mr.. Blaine we should advance precisely
the same objections. The politics Of the
article, in short, has nothing to do with it.
What we object to is party politics in such
a Journal at all, or of any shade. The
State needs no official organ for any of its
departments, least of all does it need to
run a magazine N the interest Of politi-
cal party.
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CALIFORNIA SUMMED UP.-To sum up

CALIFORNIA SUMMED UP.-To sum up
California, says Professor II. B. Copey in
American Field, it has the scenery Of Swift
erland and Colorado, the tropical fertility
of Italy, and diversity of climate
throughout its 800 miles of length pos
sessed by no other State. 1t has over 100
peaks of hight exceeding 10000 feet, of
which Mount Whitney, 1906 feet, is the
greatest ten groves of big trees, scores of
spouting geysers, hundreds of minerals,
soda, sulphur and congress, vichy, alum,
alkali, hot and boiling springs, petriied
forest, and a dozen fine watering places
Among its hundreds Of lakes it numbers
ice-cold Tahoe, 10 by % miles in size, its
surface 6,246 feet above the sea-higher
than Mount Washington-with its clear
depth of 100 feet and its submerged
forest. 1t has the record of yielding $780,
100000 of gold in one year. 1t cuitivates
millions of acres of vineyards and orange
groves and orchards and grain fields; it
possesses Yosemite, fit monarch of all its
endless natural wonders, and, above all, it
is inhabited by the biggest-hearted people
on the face of the globe.
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THE Nihilists of Russia strike at the seat
of power They have not, that we recall
adopted methods as infamous as those of
the London dynamiters. The political
terrorism of the Anarchists in Russia has
a different Object in each case. But in
London the assault was made in the recess
Of Parliament. when it, galleries were Wis
tied by tourists and women and children
The assault upon the tower OF London put
in peril strangers visiting from abroad, and
not solitary distinguished English Of
fetal What have the London dynamiters
accomplished? Wrecked few benches,
mashed an Illuminated window, scooped
hole in the floor of historic building and
blown the walls oil the graves Of two Princes,
hundreds of years dead. What grand
results to be sure, from 80 much OF threat
and such gravity appropriation, The true
friends of Irish independence hewail the
idocy and atrocity of the dynamite meth
DDS, and are far-seeing enough to discern in
the policy pursued, the downfall OF the
hopes Of true patriots. 1t IS giving the
dynamiters credit for too much foresight
and wisdom to say that their work has
been intended to arouse England to fur
Their acts Of repression and rigor, and thus
hasten possible revolution in Ireland.
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GAMBLING ORDINANCES.

Our evening contemporary Is much con-
cerned about the humiliating spectacle y
of " the good people of this journal
laboring for the enforcement of the laws.
1t has nothing new to advance against the
Jones bill, except to say that the gamblers
all favor it. We do not know that nor do
we care whether they do or not. What
we do know is that Sacramento, by her
City Trustees, openly violates a State law
What we do say j., rebuke the Trustees Or
repeal the law. In the name Of decency
let there be at least the semblance Of con
sistency. II licensed gambling is so good
thing, then repeal the inhibtion-a step,
we take it, i" the good people" of the State
are not ready to take. Let our contempo-
rary not mistake, we do not profess to be
better nor "holier than thou" but we do
profess to know that the open violation of
State criminal law By constituted mu-
nicipal authority is 50 demoralizing and
dangerous an experiment that it cannot be
tolerated by a State that purposes to in
spire respect for the sovereign authority of
the State among the people; and finally if
this same municipal authority can find the
gambling houses to license them, compel
them to keep open house, and force the
doors if need be, to.compeI obedience to the
ordinance; it can if il wishes to shut up
the gambling shops and enforce the State
1oyv
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Mr.. CABLE not long since was the
most gifted son OF the South :" hero of
the late war;" Il man " far-seeing and
wise; :" man of . analytical mind and Il
broad comprehension of men and things ~
" novelist of rare promise :" poet the
South delights TO honor" Such was the
t.ne of the Southern press for its ex-Con-
federate idol But Mr.. Cable has had the
courage to tell the South the truth; to
point out the lmwisdom of its course to
expose the blindness of its prejudice, and
show it that its idol is broken and It's gods
things of CLAW Now the tune changes,
and Mr. Cable is unjust; he is cruel
to his late friends y not he of all others
should have done this thing" he e desc
crates the temple;' he is not representa-
tive of {" the best Of the South P" he Is
narrow minded and preiudiced; ~ he has
been captured by " bloody shirtism F." and
last, but not least, comes the Atlanta Con-
stiution and daubs him with the pitch that
in Southern estimation is the meanest Of
disgraces and the fouleSt Of insults. 1t
says Cable is possessed by "a confirmed
negro mania" 1t is strange how differ
emily we look at thing, when our preju-
diceS are our spectacles.
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RHODE ISLAND

RHODE ISLAND proposes to cease opera
ton as a divorce mill. That is, it will
grant divorces only to those three years
resident in the State, and not then for cru
city, desertion or other causes occurring in
another State, unless the cause is in that
State recognized as a ground for divorce
This is small reform, but it is in the right
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SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY.

/. P. FISHER is Sole Agent for this paper IN
San Francisco and vicinity. He Is authorlzel
So receive advertisements and subscriptions, and
collect for the same. Rooms 81 and -, Mer-
chants Exchange.
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The REcoRD-UNIoN is the only paper on
tie coast, outside Of San francisco, that re-
.ceiyes the full Associated Press dispatches
from all parts Of The ,Oorld. Outside Of San
francisco 1t las no competition, in point q
ssss,abers, in its home and general circulation
fhrouohovt The coast
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Balance on hand Feb. l, 1ss5.,..,......,.s l2S,l
A Statement Corrected.
The following dispatch, received last
evening, is self-explanatory:

evening, is seIf-eXpIanatory
BAKERSFIELD Cal, February 6, 1885.
EDS. RECORD UNION: In an article APP
pearing in the Bee of the 4th instant the
impression is sought to be conveyed that
am opposed to the proposed irrigation legis-
lation, which is not the fact. l strongly
favor any and all legislation tending to es
tablish the rights of appropriations of water
As this is not the first time that have been
misrepreSented in this matter l wish to
emphatically refute such statement, and
beg place in your columns. Very respect
fully, S. JEwETT,
President Kern Valley Bank.
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COUNTY rkEAsUKEK's REPORT.

Report of George L. KucbIer, County Treas
urer to the Board of Supervisors, for the month
ending January 81, 1885
Cash on hand January {, 1ss5-.-.......SSS58, al II
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SAYS our evening contemporary But
We find our esteemed contemporary this
morning sitting calmly upon the fence,
now looking with a complacent smile upon
the new water scheme and again fondly
patting our present supply Which is to
say that the REcoRD-UNIoN has the ca
pacity to sit judicially upon a public ques-
ton. If our neighbor could assume that
forms its judgment, it would less often than
ii does make Itself ridiculous. The water
question has two sides, and while we do
not suppose that this people will adopt the
new scheme at this time, we do believe
they are Just enough to their own interests
to calmly examine respectful proposition
made Our water is not the best We can
get we do not get it free of cost, as our
neighbor asserts; it is not from pure
sources, and filtration is not desirable or
economic, nor corrective resort. Pure,
clear, cold water coming to us by gravita-
ton would greatly enhance the value of
Sacramento as desirable place Of resi-
dence. But as our present system is n
source Of revenue, and is ample for FIRE
purposes, and as Sacramento is up to its
ears and over in debt, and needs every cent
of honest revenue it can secure from the
people by taxes and water rates, per-
haps the clear water question will be
postponed to that blissful future when we
will not be driven to explain to every
stranger that while the water we offer him
is blonde-very, still, it is palatable and
will really form no sand barin the stomach.
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Streams and private ish-pools in Arizo
ma are being stocked with carp,
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Those who have been troubled about
the possible exhaustion of the fuel sup
ply of the world can lay their fears to
rest. In the past three or four years coal
discoveries in many parts of the globe
have been greater than for a decade pre-
ceding. The very latest of the coal dis
coveries are those made by the Olascoago
Expedition in the Andine region of the
Argentine Republic. These new coal
deposits stretch for hundreds of leagues
from the province of San Luis to the
Andes and the Neuquen triangle, The
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samples OF coal exhibited are pronounced
to be excellent. The Government is SO
impressed with the information that it has
appointed commission of practical
miners, headed by Senior Juan J. Ella, to
determine all necessary data in ref
erence to localities and conditions, and
to make full tests Of its value, as
also to report in regard to ali other
minerals which may be found. The fact
that coal is found and worked at Sandy
Point, in the Straits Of Magellan, says
Consul Baker, OF Buenos Ayres and as far
north. on the eastern side of the Andes
as Skyring Water, long since . led me to
express the opinion that it must certainly
underlie the entire region of the Andine
slopes, and that if proper shafts were sunk
it would be revealed. These discoveries
fully sustain what | then said and if the
quality is such that it can be used for
manufacturing purposes, there is no esti-
mate of the mining and other industries
which will ultimately be developed in the
interior provinces of the Argentine Re-
public"
New-York tribune., 1885-10-23

pretty music The majority Of the good things OF tho
evening went to the credit of Fraulein NoroerehaSeh
who is proving herself to be an eA
tremely valuable member Of Mr. Amperge company
Herr Wachtel found himself very much in his own way
In the action and sang uneveny @ ~ ans
ers AZ one moment by admirable exbipiuon oi sus 20
taued and pure singing and the next ny successor
untuneful utteranoes which made IL dlineut W ss
whether IL was In artistic training or In natura
that he was most deficient. Herr Franz WacK~iE mno
a sonorous Lionel and Herr Gerold clever I'"''
Mr. Rudolph Aronson has arranged with MI maurice
Gran for the only appearance NewYork OF Ma1sme
Judc at the Casino concert next Sunday evenhg i.o
RAYMOND and Messieurs Cooper and Dupuls VIII "i'o
sing. .,., ,,.
Madame Judic will essay the part OF Bet'na IN La
Mascotte" for the first time at Wallacks 1nea'0
this evening. A..
The Fisk university Jubilee singers gave 'ho
last of three concerts in Chckerng Hail. TINS clty aS
night On next Monday evening they will DO hearo a'
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn -
A complimentary concert for the benent OF Henry u
Timm, who was president of the Philharmonic society
from 1914 to 1861 has been projected, to be gwen a
Stairway Hall on November 81. Mr. Theodore Iholnas'
his orchestra many members Of the Philharinonc ~
ciety Mr. Richard Hoffman and Miss Emma Ju Gil VIII
cooperate
The 10, ers of chamber music, OF which We EaVe p'
scant allowance in She plans for the coming season. WI"
be glad to learn that the departure of Mr. Hermann
Brandt will not bring with 1t the dissolution oil the
Standard Quartet Club Mr.. Edward Hermann VIII VIII
take The paee at the first desk vacated BY Mr. brlut
ana four concerts will given In Steck lial on te
following dates Damely: November IS, January %
Epbruary % and March 20.