Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-25
EXPRESSIONS OF THE PRESS.

Boss Buckley's convention stradded the
tariff bill with tolerable success.-San Dieqo
Jili0n
The past twelve months has witnessed
remarkable spectacle of railroad activity.
There is no better thermometer of the gen
eral state of business than that furnished
by the railroads.-LoS angeles Times
Lake county is correctly known as the
States sanitarium. No more healthful
place is known on the globe. If we had as
| much money as we have health we would
be just too rich for anything.-Cg Clear Lake
Press.
Carter Harrison writes from India that
the water in that country is unfit to
drink" If Carter thinks the water in any
country is fit to drink, he is not as good a
Democrat as be used to be when he was
Mayor of Chicago.-!I. Louis Globe DEM
Ocrdt.
The Democratic party to-day stands
ready, with the pressure of its southern
wing upon it, to wipe out the distinction
between treason and loyalty, and to honor
alike men fighting to destroy and the men
lighting 10 preserve the Union.-LOS Aaqe-
les Times.
The Democratic Convention at Los
Angeles appears to have Endorsed two or
three Numerically opposed propositions,
and TO have gotten itself inextricablv tan
gled in the meshes of its net set to catch
the unwary voter, which it calls platform.
Santa Barbara Press.
By separate partisan movement prohibi
ton Kills It's own efforts. Last November
over 10000 votes were casts in Oregon for
prohibition. That was when the effort was
wholly non-partisan. This year the effort
is partisan one, and it is doubtful whether
the vote Will be one-tenth as great as that
of last year.-Oreg0nidn
A Senator has introduced a bill doing
away with the two-thirds rule in passing a
bill over the Presidents veto, and provided
for doing this by ma ority. 1t has not vet
been seen that this is doing away with the
veto power entirely. For if a majority is
to be sufficient to pass bill over the veto.
why ask the Executive to sign bills at all?
Los angeles Herald.
If we were going to write the briefest
possible essay on political economy we
would say that the end of all government
is bread. By this, of course, we mean
bread for the millions. The less people
are governed the better. The more men
are taught to rely upon their own exer-
tons and manhood the better it is for the
Government and themselves. The Gov
eminent is neither wet nurse nor an
aimshouse.-Eitreka (Nev.) Sentinel.
Since 1880 over $1,000 suits have been
commenced in the Superior Courts of San
Francisco alone, and so long as the lower
Courts are in this condition of engorge-
ment it is not probable that the higher
ones will ever secure clean docket. These
statistics should carry joy to the hearts of
lawyers and law students everywhere. If
California is not the paradise of every sort
and condition of men, it certainly is OF the
lawyer.-OakIdnd Enquirer.
There is plenty of room for one class of
people in California, viz: Those with a
good, steady character, a trade or profession
at their fingers ends, and little capital.
SO far as the agriculturist is concerned, if
he have enough money to buy a little farm
or some orchard-land and to keep him 60
ing till the returns come in, and be sober,
industrious and intelligent, he will be
happy, healthy and prosperous il Califor-
mia, and he and his family will live to bless
the day when he crossed the sierras.-
S. r. Report.