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

Public office is public trust ito be
sWapped tor second term votes.-PttS61lrg
Press.
The princely gourmands of European
politics are longing to sit down to dish
of minced Turkey while Turkey wants
garnish OF Greece.-LoS angeles Express.
High license laws go far to decrease the
evils OF the rum traffic, and if ministers
would advocate and uphold them and then
try to create public sentiment against
intoxication, the time might come when
prohibition law could be passed and en-
foreed.-Philadelphia Ne0s.
If free trade was the rule the world over,
the nation which had the lowest-priced
labor would get the bulk of the work.
Free trade is good for men with large in
comes, but it places the labor in one coun-
try on level with the lowest-priced labor
in the world.-Truckee Republican.
Newspapers ought to be better than the
pubic If the public has no higher tastes
than such as are gratified by the unfolding
OF the salacious proceedings of the divorce
Courts. The truth is bad enough without
the addition of the imaginery inventions
of reporters MarysviUe Democrat
1t is notable thing in the present tariff
discussion that the people have not found
out of their own accord that they are be-
ing taxed beyond all endurance" that they
are carrying the last straw" that will
soon break their backs, and that they are
trembling with blanched faces on the
ragged edge of financial ruin. They have
to be told these things.-Sdn Diego Union.
President Cleveland has at the last mo-
ment approved the bill for opening por-
tons of the great Sioux Indian reservation.
This will in part atone for the injuries he
inflicted on large number of settlers three
years ago when he annulled President
Arthur's order throwing open the Winnie
bago and Crow Creek reservations and de-
claring them part of the great Siouy.-
Stockton Independent.
The word that is said in the Republican
State platform concerning the suppression
of the negro vote in the South is especially
timely, in view of the scandalous proceed
ings of therecent Louisiana election, where
the Democratic managers thought it neces-
sary to count up a majority of anywhere
from $1,000 to 100000 in a State where, if
the vote were not suppressed, the Republi-
cans would have majority Oakland
Tribune.
1t is plain enough now, in view of the
long and vexatious litigation, that it was an
error to undertake to tax the railroads in
manner different from that employed for
other descriptions of property. The rail-
road companies are in duty bound to pay
their just taxes as private citizens are, but
the companies naturally demand that their
property shall be taxed upon the same
basis as that employed in the case of the
property of Individuals MdrysviHe Appeal
Mills tells the country that one great
reason for putting wool on the free list is to
enable our manufacturers, by getting their
raw materials free, to compete with Euro
pean countries in the markets of the world
But how can they compete unless they re.
duce wages to the level of the countries
with which they are to compete? Factory
hands in the United States are paid fully
twice as much as factory hands in Europe.
Suppose, then, we admit wool free, and so
get it as cheap as England dOes-can we
compete with that country in the markets
of the world unless we reduce wages by
one half or nearly that amount Oregon
ian.
There are about 100000 wool-growers in
the United States; in the absence of exact
statistics it is fair to assume that they en-
ploy 800 900 men-an able writer has esti-
mated the number at 100000. Besides
these, there are about 10000 farmers who
keep small flocks, but whose main depend
ence is on grain-growing, and who, there
fore, cannot be properly spoken of as wool
growers Here are more than 100000 of
men, representing at least 5000 600 of men,
women and children, or one-tenth of the
total population of the nation. Any meas
ure which would greatly abridge the pur-
chasing power of a tenth of the nation
would infict unimaginable disaster upon its
trade and commerce.-SdntaB Barbara Press.
The Republican boast of the past is justi-
fable, but it is its promise for the future
that makes the party strong. Were there
nothing but the past by which to dstin-
guish between the two parties there would
be every reason to expect that the South
would remain solid, but the future is of
more importance to the people who have
grown up under new order of things, and
references to the consequences of measures
that are proposed are much more interest
ing to young voters than are illusions to
the animosities of days gone by. The Re
publican promise of protection to the grow
ing manufacturing interests of Alabama
and Georgia will do more to break the solid
South than will the most eloquent tribute
to the heroes of the Union cause or the
bitterest denunciaton of the leaders of Sc
cession.- Virginia City E1teTprise