Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-14
PRESS EXPRESSIONS.

Mayor Hewitt was right about the dis
play of foreign flags on American public
buildings. There should be no such dis
plays. f. Report.
Uncle Sam should either withdraw his
representatives at foreign ports, or else be
prepared to back up their reasonable de-
mands at all times with shot and SHE'LL
MdrysriHe appeal
Taken as whole, the Republicans have
every reason to be satisfied with the gen.
eral outcome of the April elections. They
have more than held their ground and
scored no small number of gratifying vic
tories.-SGn Diego Union.
The State should have local Bureau of
Meteorology. No part of the earth is so
much the despair of climatologists. No
State in the Union has so great a variety of
climate, and none is so liable to misrepre-
sent itself to stranger who visits but
small portion Of its areas. r. Ahd.
The fact of the case is very simple and
very plain. The result was nom partisan
victory of the most decisive nature over
well-organized and arrogant, and-what
makes the victory doubly gratifying-a
confident ring OF bosses welding pethoric
sack.-iSan Jose Times on the San Jose cleo
ton.
Baseball playing upon the Sabbath we
deprecate, because we know that it shocks
the moral sense of hundreds of good peo-
pie in our community. A pool or car
cass which would offend the physical SEN
sibilities of one person would be imme-
diately declared a nuisance and abated,
but the obnoxious Sabbath dissertation is
permitted by law, though distasteful to
thousands Vallejo Chronicle.
If by-gones must be by-gones, the DEM
ocrats ought to let the poor old Federal
party rest in the grave to which it was con-
signed three quarters of a century ago, and
not taunt its silent dust with being re-
sponsible for the alien and sedition laws
and numbering in its ranks a man like
Hamilton, whose greatest crime seems to
have been that he differed with Jefferson
on some points.-Nevada City Herald
Do we not act everywhere on the pre-
sumption that no special ability is needed
to fill the office of legislator? That what
is called good common sense" is better
than knowledge or experience; that a man
totally ignorant of the law can make wise
laws for Courts to enforce; that men who
have no business themselves can legislate
well for the largest financial interests p
this is the frequent argument and practice
OF all communities Enquirer.
AS Ooii ldllOTS
Exchange has forwarded petition to our
Representatives in Congress asking relief
from the unjust determinations in the ex-
listing tariff in favor of foreign-made cloth
ing. The petition states that while the
average duty on the importation of wooden
cloths is over 68 per cent. and the average
duty on trimmings about 80 per cent, the
duty on imported clothing is only As! per
cent. The cloth and the trimmings in the
form of garments sewed for wear pay
much lower rate of duty than the cloth and
trimmings imported to be made into gar
ments. By reason of this lower rate of
duty the ready-made clothing merchant is
enabled to sell his goods at lower rates than
the local trader who buys cloths and trim
ming in foreign markets. The tailors say
also that the labor they employ in the con-
version of cloth into garments is 200 per
cent. higher than in the countries " here
ready-made clothing mostly comes from.
The prayer of the tailors, therefore, is that
the protection of labor in converting cloth
into garments shall be the same as that af-
forded the manufacturer of cloths and
trimmings.-S. f. Call.