Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-03
PRESS EXPRESSIONS.

The outcry against the insufficient ap-
preparations made by the Democratic Con-
gress to carry on nearly every branch of
the public service, is heard in every direc-
ton Virginia Enterprise.
The Republican policy is the best one
abolish the entire iRternal revenue tax on
tobacco, and devote part of the remaining
surplus to establishing one-cent postage
What remains of the surplus after that will
not be dangerous lerelaad Leader.
The Eastern horticulturists appear to be
having good time in Northern California.
II they don't see the country and what it
can produce it will not be the fault of the
various towns which have shown them
generous hospitality.-S. +. Chronicle.
One pretty good way to start the re-
duction of the surplus would be to pay the
Federal Judges so much that they wouldn' t
have TO black boots and carry in wood to
exc out their living. 1t is pretty good
plan to give Judge at least as much as he
could make practicing before some other
judge Chicago Times
Whatever may be the merits of the
Sharon-Hill decision as matter of law, its
moral effect can hardly be considered good.
Secret marriages, by contract, may be valid
in law, but society is bound 10 frown upon
them as disreputable. A secret marriage
contract may sometimes be made to serve
| the purposes of a scheming adventures or
rich hbertine, but no self-respecting girl
or woman should allow herself 10 be made
party TO such thing-NdrySuiHe Appeal.
The irrigation system inaugurated by the
letting OF the waters into the great reser-
voir near the town of MERGED, is the same
sort of vote of confidence in the resources
of country that capital passes when it
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can see in unbroken soil its future crops
with as clear a vision as any of our
pioneers, put into this great canal the same
energy that he puts behind railroad build
ing, and SO has created a water supply
which gives the town of MERGED superior
advantages, and to the tributary country
irrigation that brings into certain produc-
ton hundreds of thousands of acres of fat
lands. T. Alta
1t is within bounds to state that most of
the immigration of late years has been Re-
publican. That fact has been verv dis
tinctly brought out in the Sixth Congress
sional District, consisting of the southern
counties, which used to be a stronghold of
the Democracy. The district is not as large
as it was under the old apportionment.
But it was gerrymandered to be more spe-
cifically Democratic than ever by the Legis-
lature of 1888. 1t has nevertheless. been
electing Republicans to Congress ever since
The full force of the immigration vote will
| not be felt until the election in November,
tor under the Constitution a years resi-
dence is one of the qualifications of the
voters. +. Bulletin.
The decision of the Supreme Court in
the case of Sharon vs.. Sharon will in no
way effect the public's opinion of the merits
OF that great, but nauseous controversy. 1t
will not change the judgment of single
individual as to the merits or dement's of
the plaintiffs position. What the "Bunnie"
verdict did for breach of promise suits, the
Sharon decision will do for secret mar
riages. The former caused a popular re-
vlval OF an old industry; the latter will
create new one. and secret marriage con-
tests may soor be as common as the women
who Will institute them. To the credit of
the Supreme Court it should be said that
not one voice is heard expressing ANYTHING
but respect for the bench and belief in the
legal soundness and integrity of the deci-
sion.-O Oakland Times.
The suggestion made to the State Board
of Trade by w. II. Mills that there shall be
prepared concurrent exhibit of the winter
temperature at leading points in this State
and at similar number of points in all
the other States and Territories, has been
acted upon We think that, in the same
line, the National Signal Service should re-
ceive from some source instructions to in
clude representative California points in its
daily report of temperatures. Consulting
the Eastern press in which this report is
published, we notice that ii includes no
points further west than the Rocky Mount
ain region Such report is no fair exhibit
OF the variety of winter climate in the
United States, and by doing injustice to this
section is less than justice 10 the whole
country. Many of the points reported are
on the same isothermal lines and within
the same climatic conditions, and therefore
they show nothing.-.S. I. AHa.