Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-09
CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSIONS.

THE enormous intellectual activity and pro
gress of our day are chiefly due to the fact that
education has spread from the few to the many.
1t is no longer a mere part Of the frecmaSonry of
caste. but it is an instrument in the hands Of
wisdom, and power for thc~protecton Of the
weak The schools can stand any amount Of
criticisms, with benefit to them, if it Is directed
at special defects.-TS. F. Post
IT is the general opinion in California, that
the United States ought to be represented at
Peking by no one but an advanced thinker on
the subject of the new form Of slavery struggling
to gain foothold in this country.-IS. T. Bullc-
tin
AMONG the most encouraging signs OF the age
is the greater frequency with which rich men be
queath their wealth to public objects of perlna-
nent worth, such as to colleges and to institu-
tons for higher education - Philadelphia Bull
letin.
NOTHING has so tended to demoralize the mil
itary service as the failure to rigidly disregard
merely personal considerations in the discharge
of public duty Army and Navy Journal.
WHAT a relief it would be to editors if there
was one invariabIc authority TO which they
could look with conference.-the Academy
News on Spelling.
For ali the good accomplished the United
States might as well have q Minister Resident at
the court of Timbuctoo as at Tehcran 1t might
better have an Ambassador Extraordinary and
a Minister Plcnipotentiary in the palace at Sat
hanus than near the Gar of Russia.5Chicago
Herald
THE press in ali parts of the Union now dis
cuss the precautions to be taken against cholera,
*, ia rgjg cd
or authority cited in opposition to the prime
necessity of cleanliness of cities and towns, as
one of the best preventive decentralization
Mail
HAvING been made citizen and clothed with
all the powers and privileges which any man
possesses. it is now the duty of the negro to take
care of himself. Ifhe has grievances he has the
law also No white man has more.-lChicsgo
Herald
THERE is Il great deal of vague talk about the
widespread Indignation which is alleged to pre-
vail among the Democrats of the country at the
moderate and sensible course of the Admins
tration, but it is extremely hard to find definite
evidence that such is the fact On the contrary,
whenever we get any reports from men who
have moved about among the people at large
and heard their comments upon affairs, they
agree that the great mass, Democrats and Re
pubicans alike, are exceedingly well satisfied
with the situation and outlook Evening Post,
New York
EVEN in dealing out patronage to the South
ern Democrats the President finds himself be-
set by factions In Louisiana he has make the
! mistake of taking sides with the Gibson rather
than the Eustis-B Burke faction Hartford Post
THE industrial school idea is gaining ground
in various directions In Boston the system of
normal education has been engraftcd upon the
public schools, and the Superintendent says
that "the experiment has already gone far
enough TO prove that work of this kind can be
joined to the ordinary grammar school work
with good effect" and he advocates industrial
training for girls as well as boys.-[Ne York
Tribune.
THE sentiments expressed by MIR. Pendleton
in New York viii he approved and applauded
by all citizens whom it is the practice of the
hungry ana the thirsty little creatures that seek
to live by the spoils system to decry as imprac
ticable Missionaries. amiable sentinentalists,
harmless theorists, political cranks, etc. etc.
That is to say, the declarations of Mr., Pendleton
will be approved and applauded by all citizens,
without respect to party names or banners that
are not. politically speaking, either Ounces or
kpaves.-[Chicago Times.