Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-17
PRESS EXPRESSIONS.

Protection has one destructive tendency
Sooner or later it will smash the political
chain that binds the solid South.-N. Y
Tribune.
The country will accept as final the de.
cision announced by Mr.. Blaine in his let.
| ter, not to be a candidate for the Presi-
dency in the campaign now pending.-Sdrl
Diego Union.
If the Democratic Committee ever gets
another opportunity to wresLle with tariff
bill, it should go into mental training for
six or seven months beforehand. Then il
ought to confine itself to diet of bread
and water, for a strict diet of such whole
some ingredients is said to be an excellent
generator of good horse Sense.-Cy ereEand
Leddcr.
Two months have passed since President
Cleveland predicted that unless revenues
were reduced at once the country. finan-
cially speaking, would go TO everlasting
smash. The people will observe, however,
that although the revenue reduction bill is
still apparently as far from presentation as
ever, the country's business affairs are in n
highly prosperous condition. - 81. L0liS
Globe Democrat.
The decision just rendered by the Su-
preme Court of the United States empha-
oiISo iiiC ItCCcSltN Vi u new treaty OF Slch
legislation as shall totally exclude Chinese
immigrants, as it is evident to the people
of the Pacific, who are familiar with the
ways of these people, that the decision will
have the effect of almost neutralizing the
restrictions upon Chinese Immigration -
Grass Valley Union.
At this period in our industrial develop
ment the leading idea should be to foster
home Industries. Every case of boots and
shoes we make in this State saves import
ing case. The wheat that would feed the
boot and Shoemakers in Europe is con-
sumed by the boot and shoemakers who
work in this State. We are saved thereby
from the loss consequent upon paying for
our importation in low-priced wheat. At
the rate manufactures are now increasing
in the United States, it will not be long
before the Eastern States will need all the
surplus of the Vests. f. Call
Some of the Southern California papers
are again specializing about State division.
The gentlemen who gravely discuss the
proposition may delude themselves into
the belief that they really desire the State
cut in two, and may in time arrive at the
conclusion that the thing can be accom-
pllshed, but they can never succeed in
getting the great mass of people to take
their talk seriously, let alone lending it
| favor. If the question was submitted to
popular vote, We doubt ii a single county
| in Southern California would vote in favor
of division, to say nothing of the solid
opposition of the more populous northern
and central counties. Every reason urged
for division is chimerical, and appears to
be put forward in vanity and piuue. The
talk over the question is purely idle, and
though harmless. is mere waste of breath.
S f. 4ALtd.
Already are the Republican hosts prepar-
ing themselves for the supreme effort next
| fall. Their defeat in 1884 was an accident.
The signs of the times are that no such &C.
cident will be allowed to turn aside victory
in November. Organize" is the watch
word. Never were the active forces of Re-
pubiicanism so aggressive and determined
as now. The political atmosphere is pull
sating with the movement toward local
clubs and State leagues, and as the most
significant and promising development of
organization stands the Republican League
Of the United States. In this particular
sphere, as in other matters political, Ohio
shows the way. On the 18th instant the
Ohio Republican League will hold BAN
| quet at Columbus in honor of the first Re-
publican President and the greatest and
noblest character of his day and generation
Abraham Lincoln. 1t can be expected
that that event will mark the opening of
the great Presidential campaign of 1885,
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette