Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-28
EXPRESSIONS OF THE PRESS.

The changing of opinions in politics. re-
ligion, education, and in almost every other
subject mark the progress of our race No
change, no progress.-Sierd Leader.
A burglar who walked out of the county
Jail one day last summer when nobody was
looking, was found in n suburban town
selling pianos. 1t really seems that when
a mar has entered upon career of crime
there is little hope of reformation.-Chic
Times.
1t does not help the reputation of the
father of his country for temperance to
find in Edward Everett Hale's new life of
Washington Mrs. Washington's recipe for
cherry bounce. Martha may have used it
only in cases of illness. but it will not be
easy to persuade posteriiy that such was
the fact.-DetroH Free Press.
Democratic members of Congress of lin
tied experience in national politics do not
find it easy to ride two hotses at the same
time, especially when they are going in
opposite directions, but this art must be
rider in the Democratic party .-Humboldt
Times.
The Bohemian oats sharks who bled
many Ohio farmers for various sums rang
ing all the way from $40 to 81 900. have
moved their field of operations to Missouri
and are meeting with considerable success
in their swindling schemes. The farmers
of that State. if wise, will Chain the bull
dog in the front door with q bear trap
Clereldnd Leader.
Ohio's craziest free-t trader SAYS: "Presi-
den; Cleveland has advanced the principles
hich / anticipated six years ago. Even
with an explanatory message it will be
hard for the President to deny Mr.. Hurd's
assertion. Call it by any other lass often
sive rame, but in its results it will turn
up free trade, and just as England wants it,
every time Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tons is reported to have asked the Pacific
coast delegation in Congress to draft bill
which will meet the views of their constit-
uents in relation to the Chinese question.
The task should not be hard one since the
defects of the present law have been fully
developed and the necessary amendments
are those which will remedy these def
ciencies.-.Sdn Diego Union.
The more we learn about Nina VansZandt
the more are we inclined to charter me-
dunn and send our distinguished congratu-
lations and wishes for happy New Year
to Colonel August Spies. On the Ilth of
last November he escaped fate worse than
death. A girl who calls her mother a
"j4bbering idiot" would probably make
the atmosphere in the vicinity of her hus-
band decidedly sultry.-Hinneapoli Tri5-
tl5le.
The experience of the Society for the
Suppression of Vice on this coast is that the
meretric;ous pictures circulated with cigar
cites is San Francisco and Oakland are
mere depraved and demoralizing than the
worst which have been discovered in New
York. This is not a pleasant state OF
affairs. Dealers cannot he convicted, be-
cause it would be impossible TO prove that
they knew the villsinous character of the
contents of the packages. But it Is thought
that measures may be concocted to raid the
manufactures. and thus deliver blow az
the source of the evil by the capture OF the
Photographic plates and pictures-.Sdn Jose
Times.
All experiments 90 to prove that almost
every part of California is adapted 10 the
rearing of the silk worm, excepting per-