Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-02
EXPRESSIONS OF THE PRESS.

The tendency OF protection is to deprive
every country of foreign market. With
none but home market, how is any coun-
try to be prosperous or progressive Louis
vitte Cotrier-JoounGI (Dem.).
Six months ago Governor Hill was not
only possible but the probable candidate
for the Presidency at the hands of the DEM
ocratic party. To-day it seems likely that
he will need all the saloons in New York
to enable him to be renominated even fo1
Governor of that State.-bater- Ocean.
The position of Democratic Senators in
voting against an open discussion of the
fisheries treaty is altogether cowardly
and indefensible. There is nothing in the
treaty not known to the public, and there
is nothing to be said about it that needs
the shield of secrecy.-[ Philadelphia Record
(DeDl.)
That threadbare old falsehood that the
Democrats refused TO admit Dakota as a
State, is again on its rounds. The Demo
Gratis did not refuse to admit Dakota as q
State. The Republicans insisted on split
ting the Territory in two, like DIR. Mary
Walkers skirt, and having it admitted as
two States.-!S. r. Ala
The Republican Senators have decided to
reject the Chamberlain fishery treaty.
Nothing else remained for them to do.
The treaty gave up everything for which
the United States had contended during
the past fifty years. and offered as sacri-
fee to British selfishness our American
fisheries.-Albany (N. ~ Journal.
When, oh, when, shall there be Demo
cratic Congress and Democratic admins
tration that will abolish needless function
aries and not create any new ones? We
have now had three years of Democratic
executive, yet we cannot recall single I'M
necessary officer removed from the joys OF
the public pay roll.-NelC York San.
There is no reason why almost all execu-
tive sessions should not be open. Once in
long time we may have to consider a
foreign alliance so delicate that it will have
to be kept secret until it is concluded.
Such a contingency is not likely to occur
except in time of war, and when it does il
can easily be provided for.-iS. +. Examiner.
The Democratic delegate to St. Louis from
Sacramento is e. G. Blessing. When the
train carrying the delegation passed through
Sacramento, on Sunday, Bill English got
out on the platform and addressed the as
sembled crowd: We have come to take
your Blessing with US" Nobody saw the
joke until Monday morning -Oakland
Tribune.
A brilliant instance of the manner in
which the present Administration mis-.
manages things is furnished by the case Of
a New Hampshire mail carrier who, dur.
ing the blizzard, at the risk of his life
crawled through the drifts four miles to de.
liver his mail, and has been fined 81 40 by
the Washington authorities for delay
Los A1igeleS Times.
G. 60 to ~, &c
serious crime before a jury, as now consti.
tuted, that many look upon the whole sys-
tenn as an obstruction to Justice, and de.
mand its abolition. This is not unreason.
able, but it goes too far. The system may
be shorn of its abuses and made to serve
this generation as efficiently as it served
our forefathers.-Sdn Jose Herald.
There were large number of votes
given to Mr.. Cleveland four years ago that
he has done much to ALLEVIATE. If the cleo
ton were to be decided upon his civil serv-
ice record, much of the enthusiasm that
was in the independent support before &C.
corded him would be missing, and there
are not few men who were q part of this
who would decline to repeat their action
Boston Herald (lfug.).
Sometimes when Appellate Courts apply
the judicial microscope to legal cobwebs
they pronounce them cables and the result
inures to the benefit of the criminals. In
the case of Goldenson the microscope
served to show the fiimsy character of the
cobwebs, and Justice Paterson's exposure
of them showed them to be just strong
enough to make rope on which 10 hang q
monster instead of granting new trial
Stockton Independent.
T. The tariff debate has not added much tc
popular knowledge on the question at is.
sue. Mr.. Reed, of Maine, summed up fol
the protection side by showing that the
Mills bill is a mere pretense in the way oil
free trade, and the burden of the Demo.
cratic speeches was that the bill is protec.
ton measure on the scale of 40 per cent
duties instead of AZ per cent. as at present
so that practically both sides agree that il
is not free trade at all-RenO Gazette.
When great crime is committed Ger.
tain number of persons, who are skilled in
the art of running down criminals gener.
ally, sit still until reward is offered. II
no reward is offered, they seldom volunteer
to assist the ministers of justice. Even
Sheriffs and others, whose proper business
it is to hunt felons and catch them, are
quite often lukewsrm in the pursuit until
the State or the city or the family spur
dollars.-S. Z. Call.
A standing obstacle in the way of the
success of co-education is the tendency OF
young people, when thrown together in the
close relations which college life involves
to indulge in tlirtations. We know how il
is at Berkeley. There can be no question
that when young man or young woman
gets involved in love affair their attention
20 tn h a.
studies, and their standing in their classes
suffers. Various remedies for the evil have
been suggested, with more or less success
generally with less.-S. r. Call.
There is distinct tendency among the
managers of some of our modern churches
to apply social methods to the conduct OF
their organizations; to attempt TO attract
and hold the young people especially by ap-
peals TO the social rather than the religious
side of their natures; to regulate the sol
emn side of religion TO the old folks corner
and to substitute for the grand chants OF
the host the popular melodies of the pres
ent Against these tendencies and prac-
tees it is proper that the general assem- blies
of the churches should set themselves
San Jose Mercury.
Deep-thinking men in sanctum and on
the bench are working over the question OF
how to justly deal with the drunken MUIR
derer. and they have arrived at the conclu-
sion that to protect society from the fatal
results of drink, the drunkard must face
the outcome of his deadly carousal and
even his mental condition must rarely. il
at all, be taken into consideration. This
must be done principally as u warning TO
men who indulge to excess in liquors, that
the plea of drunkenness will not weigh
against lswlessness. 1t must be known that
stern justice is not respecter of the bottle.
-Sd',td Rosa Democrat.
The constitutionality of the Wright irrig-
alton law having been affirmed by the
Supreme Court. a new era dawns upon a
large section of California. Especially will
the San Joaquin valley feel the impulse OF
a new life. The glorious possibilities
which nature gave as an heritage can now
reach full fruition. 1t has been evident for
some years that a large portion of our State
must remain in condition of arrested de-
velopment until some law providing for a
comprehensive system of irrigation was in
torporated in the statutes of the common
wealth.-S. f. Alta.
The e Judges of the License Court, as
the Commissioners Of Excise in Philadel-
phia are styled, have completed their labors