Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-16
EXPRESSIONS OF THE PRESS,

The reputation of an editor depends as
| much on what he keeps out of his paper as
on what he puts in Wilitdm,tovn (Pa0
| Courier.
The falling off of the Spanish. export
| probably represents just SO many tons of
| California raisins sold, and the circulation
OF inst so much more money in the United
| States as that quantity of raisins represents
Stockton Independent.
II the Committee on Ways and Means in
| Cong eSs does not report a tax reduction
| bill in season to pass the House during this
month, the delay will be serious misfor-
tune 10 the Democratic party and to the
country.-N. 7. Star DEM
Sherman's speech is one of the ablest pre-.
sensations of the protective argument vet
! published. 1t is worth reading without
| reference to what the opinion of the reader
| may be of Mr.. Sherman as a man and cit
| izen.- Chattanooga (7enn.) Times DEM
The University, like every other great
corporation educational or otherwise, needs
at its helm, not a sCholerly man, but
man OF affairs; all executive head a man
who not only can see the needs OF the in
stitution, but knows how to go 10 work to
| supply those needs.-Red Bluff News.
If any patriot wants to do something Of
great value TO laboring men of the United
States he will organize society that will
prevent strikes. Not less than twelve mill
ion dollars are lost every year to labor
strikes. besides the great loss 10 the various
industries that it temporarily ipjures.-In-
ter Ocean.
Bloody shirt or clean shirt, the question
of the right Of each American citizen to
vote at every election, and TO have bis bal
lot counted, will be thoroughly discussed
tHrII.t- - q IF 1879 l,a
sion O. that question may be suppressed in
The cotton States, but cannot be elsewhere.
Ohio State Journal.
The cost to the consumer of apy manu-
featured article is governed by the amount
which the manufacturer pays for labor
Now, il the foreigner can sell his goods
cheaper than the American can, it is evil
dent that the former hires cheaper labor
In order to protect the American manufact-
urer, and. through him the American
laborer, our Government hes seen fit 10
place duty or tax upon all imported goods,
which policy has been the key to the ma
tons marvellous prosperity Sentinel
The sensational headlines in the San
Francisco papers do the State great damage.
Strangers naturally suppose that the press
will make the most of the climate and
other advantages of the State, and when
hey see these startling headlines about
zero and above gro they are apt to
imagine that these words indicate the gen.
eTal tempersture of the State instead of
few points on the tops of The high noun
rans. Our metropolitan friends should not
strain after effect SO much, but try to tell
the truth at least about such matter as
this.-Sdn Jose Herald
Even though it be assumed that the ex-
penditure of enough millions would supply
structures reasonably safe, there remains
the fatal objection that no dam could arrest
the flow of the light clay and sand such as
the water carries in suspension to the bays.
1t is this material that has done the princi-
pal damage to valley lands, has caused so
much injury to the navigation of the riv-
ers and is, responsible for the shosling of
the bays. Congress can make apprupria-
| tons for river improvement solely from the
standpoint of turthering the Interests of
navigation, aud therefore ii is bound moi to
make appropriations for such works as
would merely encourage The commission
u! iufther damage to yigati9n.-HGrys
Cit'c Appeal
In Sacramento county recently, train
OF cars ran over drunken man lying
asleep on the rack. At the Coroners in
quest the engineer and Truman testified
That they saw the object ahead OF the NOV
| Ing IN, but pisinok II for hog. 'TwOuld
beheartless TO indulge in any hnmor over
the Tainced remains Of any person who had
been so unlucky as to have the iron wheels
of seven or eight twenty-ton freight cars
roll through his physical economy, but
who can say that the trainmen's mistake
was not an excusable one? If mistake
there be, it is embodied in the intimation
| that hog would get mentally so far astray
as 10 permit a locomotive TO root him into
a pickle-barrel. If the hog family are TO
be identified with biped creation, establish
the identity between himself and some
thing sober.-Scnta Rosa Democrat