Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-12

The Exposition of the three americas is
now open at New Orleans. Than. ks to the
torethought of the railway manA gers o
this State, California products are wel rep
resented in the exhibition.
1t is so infrequent that the New York
Herald gets out of the groove of our ca
bic, and the commonplace of New York
politics and foreign speculation. that the
following bit of thought about Juvenile bu-
mainly is an astonisher in its editorial COL
umns. 1t says: Boys are sometimes very
bad, and sometimes parents are no better
II boys have any inalienable right it is to
good home and decent example"
An exchange says: The foreign CORE
spondents who enjoy the privilege of using
the cable for the benefit of American news
paper readers cling to the idea that the lat
ter will believe and accept anything in the
way of gossip" True; but the news fell
lows at the other end of the wire in our
own sweet land set down the dear peonle
out West as the sickliest set of fools ont
side of asylums for idiots. They discount
the foreign chaps. The way they infiict
a suffering public with Sullivan's drunken
ness, the coachman's loves, and nurse-girl
romances is enough to make Geographic
editors go raying mad.
De Lesseps began with estimates Of
S2l0,000,000 for the Panama Canal. He
scared investors so badly that he cut down
the figures to Sill 100000. This "roped >
the mOneyed men in. Now, it turns out that
100000 have already been sunk. and
5000, 100000 more will not complete the
work. France refuses the engineer the use
of the lottery to raise the wind, investors
are fleeing from the big-ditch investment
and 1t now looks as if the bottom had
dropped out of the whole scheme No great
harm can come to the United States by its
failure. Captain Eads' ship railway is, bv
far, more feasible than De Lessons fever
ditch.
Referring to the conviction of Ward, the
Current says " The commentator on pub
lie events is apt to see in the motion of the
machinery of the law certain propulsion
by popular sentiment" Yes. so far as pop-
ular sentiment is crystallized into primer
pies which we term law. The will of pop
ular sentiment may and should stand back
of and in the attitude of support to the law
But it cannot rightly and safely be the
motive power of the machinery of the law.
except as manifested in the written enact
mentS of the will of the sovereign-the
people. All talk about Courts being influ-
enced by popular sentiment is bad for good
government, confessions where it is truth,
that the Courts are not equal to the indie
tendency the law requires Of them.
Emma Nevada-beg pardon, Mrs. Palm
err now-is patriotic, or at least under
stands the value of appeals to the vanity of
her own country people 1t is going the
rounds of the press regarding her appear
ance in concert in San Francisco and Sacra-
mento, that this year she was beseiged by
offers from European impressarios-Pa Paris,
Madrid, st. Petersburg and London all bid
ding high for the services in concert of the
" California Nightingale" To all these the
little lady replied My own country first.
If can please my countrymen, am more
than content. Let other triumphs come
later" After this, what wonder that seats
for her San Francisco concerts already sell
at s. and 50. There's nothing under the sun
like tickling the self-esteem of the Ameri-
can. But The little Nevada City girl, whose
intellectual eyes were trained i'll a Califor-
MIA seminary 10 discern the right way to
the California heart, is to have her reward
Come on, Emma, and rake in the dollars :;
it's hard times, but there is only one Cali
tornia Nightingale" in these days, and her
name is Nevada You have piped to
our vanity shall We not dance, and pay
the piper, too?