The record-union., 1894-11-26
ROYAL BAKING POWDER.
behind, and is obliged to borrow money
TO paw expenses.
THE RIORDAN CASE.
Stockton MaiLl

TO pay expenses.
THE RIORDAN CASE.
stockton MALL
1t VIII prove q fortunate accident If
the death of Con Riordan shall result in
the decadence and finally the total sup
preston of pugilism. This brutal sport"
Is OF no benefit TO any one but the muscu-
lar animals who savagely maui one an
other In the prize ring, their trainers and
hangers on and the vulgar rabble that bet
on the contests. Severe penalties should
be prescribed by every State in the
Union for those who take part in these
neutrality-suspicious. seconds and spec
tators-and the laws should oe strictly
enforced. There is nothing at ali that eau
De urged IN the defense of pugilisn. and
Inc sooner 1t is done away with the better
1t will be for all concerned
THE DUTY OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP.
San Berrardino sun
1T is not the name, location, commerce
or wealth OF q city or town that wins it
the esteem of men, but the public spirit
OF its citizens, their readiness to do I'M
Official civic duty, their pride in their
surroundings, out of which grow better
ments for their environments, and thus
augment the pleasures of lie while salts
tying the demand of their conviction that
every man, every day, owes good will
ana good works 10 the town of his home"
III
true as gospel.
Ii it is desired that a town shall be
talked about and command respect and
De admired, nothing will so much con-
duce TO these results as to make it re-
noWned Tor the public spirit. the local
enterprise, the mutual good will and
helpiulness OF its citizens. This is far
better than the great and growing, the
all too general habit of looking to ''the
Government and showing disposition
TO depend upon it and to lean upon it for
results which were much better attained
by individual home effort
Let us suppose town IN which large
proportion OF the people are idle and in
which the leading citizens are sitting
around with folded hands, boarding their
means IN misery manner, waiting
sIeepIly for something to turn up in the
way OF Government aid or change of
governmental politics: in the meantime
exercising their wits to beguiIe foreign
capital into q development of their re-
sources; apparently eager to sell out and
get away TO some other location which
they may curse and blast with their
lethargic seltlShness.
Then suppose town in which the peo-
pie arc wlte awake to the ADVANTAGES by
which they are surrounded and the op-
portunltIes for Improvement which lie
open to them. They have confidence in
their surroundings and an earnest will to
make the most OF those opportunities. not
only on their own behalf but more
broadly in behalf of the community.
I They show their confidence by being
willing TO invest at least a portion of
their own means, or their own labor, or
tnelr own credit IN such enterprises as
they would iain induce foreign capital
and labor and credit 10 invest in.
THE POLICY FOR THE REPUBLICANS
&
republicans everywhere will indorse
most heartily the position taken by their
leaders that with the great victory of No
Vember 9th has come great RESPONSE
Dlllty. rover always brings RESPONSE
DIIltleS. OF course the maorities of cleo
ton day viii not be permanently main
tanned. Indeed it is better that thew
should not be. A good working majority
with an active opposition is always the
safest and best condition of affairs in
| politics. Better men will always be NOM
mated for office when there is a contest
than when the nomination is equivalent
to an election. But there is no reason
why the party should not remain in con-
troll tor another quarter of a century. I'M
til 1T has accomplished the task of break
ing up al sectional lines and an honest
ballot and fair count is as certain in
Mississippi and Alabama as it is in any
other part of the United States But to
secure and maintain power the party
must be conservative, for it will take
much hard work, sacrifice and patriotism
1or the Nation to recover from the blow
the Democracy has struck at its pros
perity.
EXPECTED CONTESTS.
Oakland Tribunel
The Democratic press is anticipating
! with something like horror the prospect
OF numD Der OF contests for seats in the