Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-04
RECoRp-uNIoNn MELANeE.

There is no doubt that all municipal and
commercial bodies in the interior will at
once lndorse the appeal to be forwarded to
the Secretary of War concerning the debris
evil, and it is to be earnestly hoped that
those at the Bay will do likewise.
The glorious and long-deferred rain COM
menced last night to gladden. the hearts of
the people i'll this part of theState, and now
II Old Probabilities will continue the
spell of weather a few days, until the
ground is in good condition for farmers
work, he will make himself immensely
popular.
The war against the telephone companies
and patentees in the East will be under
stood by business men when it is known
that a combination of the various COM
panies controlling the telephone patents in
New York has enabled them to charge
81 90 per month rent for each box, as
against 81 to So elsewhere.
The experience in San Francisco of the
striking Chinamen in order to drive out
white labor is not the only case of the
kind. A San Jose fruit grOwer, it is said,
hired Cinnamon to pack the fruit which
was picked by white labor They after
wards struck and demanded that China
men be employed to do the picking also,
but their employer promptly discharged
every Monaghan on his place, and now
has none but white help. These expert
ences may be frequently expected here
after, but in each case the Chinese are
only Fastening the final solution of the
problem concerning the competition or
conflict between home free labor and that
of unassimilating foreign barbarians.
The interest that will attach to the silver
question in the approaching Congress may
be inferred by the fact that the President
and Secretary of the Treasury are said TO
have their war paint on for a contest against
any further coinage, and TO be ready to
prove that the effort to make the people
accept a buzzard' dollar of eighty cents
worth of silver, as equivalent to gold dol
lar for circulation, has cost the Government
$45. 100000. Under this idea there is no
telling what the President may do to con-
vince Congress that eighty cents is not a
dollar. He may, in an illustrative way,
clip off part of the wings of the glorious
national bird represented on the dollars
of our daddies,' and then defy it to soar as
high as when it had full length of pinions,
A correspondent complains, and very
justly, that our streets are permitted to be
filled with Young boys late in the evening,
without the presence of their parents, and
that they are guilty of committing mischief
and depredations of all kinds. All of our
readers, who have been upon the streets
late at night know that for the past few
months especially this has been true. No
parents who have regard for the conduct
and welfare of their children viii permit
them to roam about the city at night.
They might as well send them directly to
schools of vice, where every class of in
iquity and crime is g taught complete in
twenty lessons" If parents have not the
necessary care for their children to keep
them in at night and prevent their becom-
ing hoodlums and criminals, the city
authorities, as a measure to future public
protection, should restore the full meaning
of the o'clock evening bell, and see that
the streets are cleared of youngsters after
that time. If necessary, a few arrests, fol-
lowed by business-like watchfulness on
the part of the police, with orders from the
Police Commissioners to see the ordinance
enforced, viii quickly solve the whole
matter. Shall we have it, or shall the city
have prolific young crop of hoodlums and
criminals in a few years, for which it is in
directly responsible?