The record-union., 1895-07-06

lOlSting OF HagS. Win the T6aulns VI .Aio
Declaration of Independence and win
other demonstrations Of gratitude and OF
joy. For that ill mean Indifference, anu
Indifference means decay. But Ioyalty
to our traditions and to the principles OF
the Republic should not be permitted To
lure US into q false feeling OF security nor
to blind us to the dangers that menace
nation.
COLLECTIVISM.
Portland Oregonian.
State socialism, or 'collectivism," as
the new cant has it, not only would de-
stroy all property iii putting an end 10
private property, but it would destroy
very soon society and government as
well. Both of these are founded upon
private property. Neither existed before
it or could exist for long without it.
Human energy, stimulated by the re-
wards of private property, created the
source whence Governments draw reve-
nue. and the means by which all the re-
flnements OF civilization are maintained.
1t constitutes the constant, necessary and
fundamental distinction between cIviliza-
ton and barbarisn. State socialism
| would bring quick relapse from the
former to the latter.
OUR NAVAL STRENGTH.
Stockton Mail
If it is the intention of the administra-
ton, as reported, to adopt a more vigOr-
GUS foreign policy it will be necessary for
the United States to make substantial
increase in lis naval strength. That there
| has occurred q change during the past two
years III the opinion Of the people of this
country as to the attitude this Govern
| ment should observe toward those pow
ers suspected OF having designs upon the
weaker republics OF the American cOnti-
nent cannot be disputed. The European
powers have always shown a disposition
to collect by force debts owing 10 their
subjects by the defenseless republics of
South and Central America. This prlncl-
pie has ever been severely condemned by
The people of the United States, and lat
terly We have taken the stand that naval
demonstrations even for the purpose of
compelling the payment of indemnity for
Injuries inflicted upon subjects OF the
offended powers should not be cOunte-
nanced by this Government.
JUST THE OTHER WAY.
[Sutter independently
a great number OF our exchanges in
speaking Of the suit recently filed in the
United States Circuit Court against the
North Bloomfield mine make the follow
ing statement: Every allegation in the
Governments action filed is based on the
suppOsitiOn that The Caminetti A ct is un-
constitutional" This is entirely mis-
leading. as the very opposite is the fact.
The action is brought 10 compel the
North Bloomfield to place itself under
the provisions OF the Catninetti Act and
for no other purpose. The Government
relies on the constitutiOnslity of tho
Caminetti Act, and cannot maintain this
action unless that Act is held constitu-
tsonal. The law will probably be tested,
but its constitutionality will be brought
in question by the North Bloomfield peo-
,Nla hu ha
Caminetti Act was passed at the instance
of the miners, to escape the lnjunctions
of the courts, and now 1t seems a hy-
draulio mining company will be the first
to call it in question.
EMPLOY HOME TALENT.
Colusa Sum-.
Governo or Budd is right. If after all
these years OF universities and State Nor
NAL Schools in California, we have to go
to the Eastern States for professors and
teachers, the sooner we change our sys-
tenn of education the better. But this is
not at all necessary. The schools and
colleges OF this State have turned out men
and women In no sense inferior III learn
ing and ability to those turned out in
other States. That we have heretofore
been rather given to prefer Eastern
teachers and professors is due to that
stupid and almost incomprehensibl irn-
us that California products of all kinds
are inferior to those Of the Eastern States
and Europe.
SUSAN AND THE FRUIT.
San Diego Union
Miss Susan B. Anthony, in one of her
San Francisco talks. made the somewhat
remarkable statement that if California
voters would intrust the ballot to women
tho latter would solve the problem of
marketing California fruits protitably.
One might suppose from this declaration
that Miss Anthony has extraordinary
confidence in the ability OF her sisters in
this State to work wonders when given
the franchise. The trouble with Miss
Anthony's offer, however. is that she
puts the cart before the horse. If the
women of this State have really solved
the problem of marketing fruit at profit,
they can secure the ballot or almost any
thing else they wish. Before conceding
their request, however, the average op-
ponent of female suffrage will probably
ask for more tangible proof that women
can accomplish this end than is afforded
in Miss Anthony's platform prophecies.
NEWSPAPER LIBELs.
Los Angeles Express.
The decision of the United States Dis
trict Court in the case OF Charles a. Dana,
charged by T. b. Noyes OF Washington
with criminal libel, in which the court
held Mr.. Dana cannot be taken to Wash
ington for trial, but must be tried where
his paper is published is in accordance
with sound common sense.
II the principle was once admitted that
an editor is liable to arrest for libel
wherever his paper circulates, every edi-
tor would be at the mercy of every de-
signing man in the community. The
number of times when an editor or writer
on newspaper is guilty of libel are very
few, and in the majority of cases the libel,
where one occurs, is unintentional, and
the newspaper is perfectly willing to
make a correction.
PUBLIC MORALS.
[Los Angeles Times.l
The high-toned English morality
which sets its seal of scorn upon Oscar
Wilde when the full infamy of his char
acter was exposed, does not seem to be of
that deep-seated and enduring type that
is calculated to work reform and make
immortality odious to the public sense.
lie is not, to be sure, writing books any
| longer, nor is he permitted leisure for the
cultivation of his esthetic teachings He
| is kept picking oakum, and it is under
stood he will soon be put to making
matches. This is good as far as it goes,
but English arisIocracy is recovering
from its state of moral disgust and horror
sufficiently to again patronize his plays,
which it is asserted Will soon make their
reappearance in the English theaters in
London.
A RATTLING DEMAGOGUE.
bakersfield Californian.1
A San Francisco minister addressed an
audience the other evening and in the
course of his remarks said: