Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-05
EXPRESSIONS OF THE PRESS.

What we want in the United States of
American, more than anything else, is
" Yankee-Doodle-is and we are going to
have it. and don't you forget it California
Spirit Of the Times.
Crooked butter " is what the imitation
article is called by the Fasteners, who get
it very straight from the slaughterhouses,
however, Chicago Herald.
The next time the foreign flag of murder
is raised in the streets of ST. Louis the
American citizens of every nationality, who
compose the immense majority OF its pop
ulation, will have something to say about
it.-St. Louis Republican.
1t is anticipated that before long there
will be quorum of the old New York
Board of Aldermen in Sing Sing. The
members will then have abundant time to
deliberate on Broadway franchises and
other like measures of municipal legisla-
| tion.-PhiladelphiG Record.
Democratic economy consists of cutting
down appropriations one year and passing
urgent deficiency" bills for$7 600 the
next. 1t was Democratic economist who
discovered that he could make his blanket
longer by cutting a piece off one end and
sewing it on the Philadelphia Press.
The introduction OF bill by Mr.. Bland
to revive the income tax and apply the
proceeds to the payment of pensions, is
another illustration of the disagreeable
fact that whenever there is a chance for
mistake to be made in Congress, some man
from Missouri is sure to think that his
name has been called.-S. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Mr.. Blaine's speech at Portland, Me-,
last evening. upon the Irish home rule
movement, was bright and vigorous, as
might have been expected. Whenever
Mr.. Blaine speaks he always has something
to say, and saws it well. Moreover, he
generally voices American sentiment on
large questions, and in this instance has
done so emphatically.- r. Post.
The verdict of guilty" rendered by the
jury in the Jaehne case, will be received
with satisfaction by the friends of honest
government all over the country 1t will
also make the men inside politics every
where feel a trife less confident and happy.
There is a sort of contagion about honesty.
The people of other States who are sitting
silent under the despotism and robberies of
rings may now take courage and seek to
throw off their leaden and filthy yokes.
There are cities and States besides New
York where vile and selfish ring sell
legislation and levy blackmail on corpor-
the object of which fund is to corrupt
politics and buy up the machinery of gov
ernment for their own selfish ends.-Bahi-
more -4meIicaJi.
The California Spirit Of the Times is de-
cidedly uncomplimentary in its reference
to the paid agents of the State Anti Chinese
Non-Partisan Association. Itsays: Who
makes money ont of boycotting, Messrs.
McGlashan and Ravhn? How much does
it cost to boycott a California industry,
in the interest of Eastern manufacturers
and business men? How much do you
expect to have in bank, Mr.. McGlashan--
not a faro bank-after you quit? viii
the bankrupt parson, Ravlin, be able to
build church out of what ne saves? Mr..
McGlashan, what is the name of the mes
senger who came out with letters to you
from the East, in order that you might
make the boycott more effective and de-
structive against California business inter-
ests? McGlashan and Ravlin, it would be
awful hard luck ON you if you were both
found some fine morning dangling at the
end of a rope from the branch of tree.
McGlashan and Ravlin, that is what you
deserve. McGlashan and Ravlin. in our
judgment, that is what you will get