Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-10
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The office seekers who have been lying
around Washington to await the Presi-
dents return from his wedding Trip have
hopes that he will be less g engaged here
after, and graciously attend to their wants,
The American Forestry Congress viii
hold its fifth annual meeting in Denver in
September, under invitation and auspices
of the Colorado State Forestry Association.
The notice of the meeting is sent out from
the Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. c., by Bernard E. Fernow, Secre-
tary Of the General Organization.
Now that the Health Officer middle is at
last over, and meantime summer has ar
rived. nothing can be more appropriate
and desirable than the most rigid enforce
ment of all health ordinances pertaining
to Chinatown. While other localities less
densely occupied should not be neglected,
this particular region where all the race
habits and tendencies are to economical
filth, and occupants sleep like packed sar-
| dimes, should be closely watched, and
needed sanitary regulations strictly en-
forced.
The New York Ledger says: I'VE don t
see why woman who is q church member
and owns a pew should not have as good a
| right to vote in church meetings as a man
| similarly qualified. If a woman owns
stock in bank or railroad she has the
| right to vote on it. Are women more inn
| portant TO railroads than to churches ~
The Ledger needs to be a little careful how
| it exercises thought and puts conundrums
in the direction indicated, for such pointed
inquiries are broadsides into the theological
crockery of church government. If any
| sensible reason ever existed why women,
who are largely in the majority in church
| membership and good works, should not
| have an equal voice in conducting church
affairs, it has never been made manifest to
| the ordinary citizen whose theological
| choker does not extend above his bump of
intelligence.
The following item from the Chicago
| Tribune shows conclusively that notwith-
standing the sparsely- settled condition of
the Pacific coast, the freight rate for grain
transportation in California is very low
compared with the charges upon the roads
| in the Western States. The Tribune says
A receiver in this city yesterday forwarded to
a shipper in Nebraska just cents per bushel
as his share on a consignment OF corn. The
property had been sold in store here at q cents
per bushel, % cents of which went to pay rail
road cost of transportation, the storage and
commission. In another case this week, the
-hSOidShd supper IScelNeu the SuIH
of 500 50. being the whole amount coming to
him from the sale of a carload of some $50
bushels of corn, the railroad freight on which
to this city was Sl47 so. The average of charges
on these two parcels was five times, and the
warehouse charges alone one-quarter, the sum
RENTED TO the country shipper of the corn.
The dispatches from New York show
that the labor excitement in that city has
almost entirely stopped every kind of
building improvement for the year 1886.
Contracts extending into millions of dol
lars in wages to those who would have had
employment have been indefinitely post
poned and the building classes will have a
hard struggle to keep absolute want and
suffering from their doors, even during the
season of the year when they ordinarily
are most busy, and accumulate stores Tor
the winter months. Labor may be 1.-The
source of all wealth" but it is not and can
not be Independent of capital. Capital can
exist without labor, but laborers cannot
sustain themselves and their families with
out the activity of capital. When under
strong menace, capital withdraws itself
and quietly waits behind bolted doors I'M
til it may safely come from its hiding
Labor and capital are equally essential and
interdependent. There is a golden mean
to be found rs to measure of wage aud
profit, lying somewhere in the contested
field between the two, and it should be
sought and maintained by both of these
important factors of all production