Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-20
PRESS EXPRESSIONS.

/ The movement in Buffalo against ap-
| pointing teachers because they have infiu-
ence is good thing. A teacher should re-
ceive position because of merit, and no
other consideration ought to prevail-The
| Epoch.
There is no overcoming the fact that our
| farmers, under the present tariff, sell their
goods in the cheapest market and are COM
PEELED to buy in the dearest They are
perpetually Disseminated against, and are
not prosperous in consequence. Moreover,
they are becoming increasingly intelligent
on the subject.-N. Y. World.
1t must be apparent to all that any law
under the existing treaty, which Congress
may enact, judging the future by the past,
will prove abortive in staying the hordes
OF this alien and degraded race from over
| running u.s. WdtSOHUille Transcript.
Those men in the Republican or the
Democratic party who trifle with the ques-
ton OF Chinese immigration are making
for themselves political record which will
at some future time come up to appall
them. The cynical and sarcastic Mr. Hoar,
of Massachusetts, and the self-assured
Perry Belmont, of New York represent
political sentiment that will come TO speedy
grief.-S. Z. Argonam.
Now that ii is definitely ascertained that
William T. Coleman has been rendered the
appointment of United States Commissioner
to the Melbourne Exposition, it would he
gratifying thing to the public for him to
accept. His eminent fitness for the place is
unquestioned, and his acceptance would
arouse an interest here in the EXPOSITION
that could not fail to be fruitful of good
results to the commerce of San Francisco
S. +. Alta.
Northern California has suffered from the
diversion of boom advertising by outside
journals. But the people are beginning to
see that the home paper is the best agency
to circulate abroad as means of inducing
immigration. So well is this understood in
Southern California that extra editions of
various papers are printed every week for
Eastern circulation, their cost being de-
frayed by subscriptions among property
owners and business interchangeable 4p-
peal.
There is a surplus in the Treasury. That
surplus is synchronous with great prosper
ity in the country at large. In fact, it is
one OF the results of that prosperity
When the reaction comes it will run down
fast enough. A review of the finances of
the country for only ten years past will eS-
tablish that fact. There is, however, a ne
cessity that some careful work should be
done in connection with it. A surplus is
better than a deficit but it is not always
calculated to bring out the best points of
our statesmen.-S. f. Bulletin.
The arrest of the lessor of the premises
occupied as house of prostitution by a
notorious member of the demi- monde
is step in the right direction. The action
was taken under Section ZIG of the Criminal
Code, which provides that every person
who lets any apartment or tenement,
knowing that it is to be used for the pur-
pose of designation or prostitution, is guilty.
of a misdemeanor." The section is capable
of being made very efficient club, in the
hands of the authorities, by means OF which
the dives of this description may be entirely
suppressed.-San Diego Union.
The ceiling of the New York Assembly
Chamber is certainly avery remarkable and
impressive piece of architecture, but it be-
comes rather unpleasantly so when it as
sumes the character of suspended ava
lanche, threatening to bury the entire
Chamber and its occupants in the fall. Our
State Capitol is in one way monument of
architectural genius, but it is in many
points monument of constructive inca
pacity. More politics than conscientious
ness has entered into the building of it,
with the results which we see The moral
is, that there is nothing so pernicious as
politics when it invades sphere of action
where it has no place.-The Epoch, Ne,O
York.