The record-union., 1894-08-18
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
What Some of the interior Papers
of the State
Have to Say on the Topics of Vital
interest to the Reading
Public.
[San Jose Herald.l


| This is is one lesson that was empha-
sized by the late riots. As the Chicago
inter- Ocean says, there is too much loose
talk among those who pretend to be
friends OF order. If man has a case IN
court and it goes against him. he cries
Z out against the injustice; if a man is as
saulted on the street and no policeman is
near, he decialms against the law; II
mans house is entered by burglars and
property OF value is carried OH, he RACES
about the inadequaey OF law and the fault
OF our system; II a man is swlndled III u
horse trade and fails to bring heswindler
TO terms, he Dlames the law; II man
wants to build frame house in a certain
locality and is not permitted to do 1t, his
heart is full! of bitterness against the law.
In short, whenever man is not permit
ted to do what he wants to do, or is placed
at disadvantage by intrigue or circum-
stance, he turns in his wrath to indulge
an extrayagant condemnation.
All this has its effect. Boys hearing
the law spoken Of contemptuously un-
consciously imbibe the notion that oppo-
sltion TO the law is'no great otfense. OF
course no wrong is intended, but all the
same great injury is done. President
Lincoln saw the danger of this indis-
criminate talk belittling the law and ad-
vised that reverence for the law be taught
TO children IN the family, IN the school
and in the church. 1t is time that we go
back to the Lincoln principle.
THE HUMANE METHOD.
Woodland Democrat.l
The man who argues that the underly-
! ing opposition to all strikes is the idea
that the wOrkingmen have no right 10
combine effectively to better their condi-
ton, assumes a false basis. There is no
serious opposition in this country to the
! "a N a n la H.
ization, but there is objection to such
organization as requires an army of men
who have no grievance to 60 out at the
! behest of one man, in order to redress an
alleged grievance between parties with
whom neither employer nor employees
| have any business connection. There is
| a more humane method of settling such
differences than by obstructing the mails
and destroying lives and property. Shall
we adopt that method now, or wait until
some future higher state of mans ad-
vancementp
A VANISHING PARTY.
San Jose Mercury.l
Almost every day brings some new evil
dence that the POpulist party is a rapidly
vanishing factor in American politics. 1t
| has been crushed in Oregon and smashed
ia Alabama State elections, and from
other States where no elections have been
held there come unmistakeahle proofs
that equal disasters await the party in
every section of the Union as soon as the
people have a chance to express their
opinions at the polls.
One Of the latest evidences of the turn
in the tide comes from Kansas, where
even the founders Of the party are leav-
ing its ranks, and are urging their former
colleagues to follow their example
Among these mon is Congressman
! Clover, who as an active promoter of the
Populist movement in Kansas was
elected to Congress in 1890 by a majority
of over 5000, and who has also ved as
President OF the Kansas Farmers Alli-
ance and Viee-President of the National
Alliance.
DASTARDLY AND CONTEMPTTBLE.
Los Angeles Times.
There is not the slightest doubt that
some of the men who lost their positions
by their mad acts in July are doing every
thing possible to make trouble between