The record-union., 1895-02-04

purposes or the organization OF mon.
Our laws are lax in that regard; in times
Of great floods or like disasters the State
does not respond as it should, but the
burden is letI to the charitably disposed
in the community aud the burden is
great.
A WIDE TIRE PETITION.
Lakeport Avalanche.
The good roads petition TO be sent to
the State Road Convention, and which
appeared in the 4 Uaid1che last week, met
with phenomenal success. The people Of
Lake County certainly want good roads,
but they want some one to build them for
them. They would like wide tires, but
they want some one else to remove
the old ones and place the new ones
on their wagons. The petition printed
in this paper was calculated to increase
the sentiment which is rapidly growing
IN this State. 1t was designed to hurry
that which Is bound to come sooner or
later, wide tire law, and to show that
Lake County is progressive.
THE RESULT OF WAITE.
Los Angeles Times.l
Ex-Governor Waite, in his Chicago lee
ture, said, Il don't know that here in
Chicago you know what usury is. In
Denver the banks are loaning money at
Is per cent. In Aspen, where L live, it
runs as high as Il per cent" Mr.. Waite
neglected to mention the fact that the
principal reason why interest is so high
in Colorado is the fact that Populist
idiOcy-of which Waite is an example
has destroyed confidence, ruined credits,
and paralyZed business. But it was not
necessary for him TO plain this fact, for
it is already well known.
THE DUTY OF CHEERFULNESS.
Red Bluff Cause.l
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that they leave no duty uufultilled, few
can boast that they include the duty of
cheerfulness. Many people never heard
OF such duty. They need time to think
before admitting that cheerfulness is a
duty, and that he who is recreant to it is
an offender against the moral code And
yet, so much of human happiness de-
pends on the observation of cheertulness
that it may be set in the front rank of
duties.
JUNKETING TRIPS.
Los Ange. .es Express.
There is a very wide difference between
a junk citing trip aud the visiting of State
institution for the purpose of investiga-
ton and inspection by legislative COM
mittee. Junketlng trips are trips made
only for nominal reason, for the amuse-
ment of those VINO take them. Inyestiga-
tionS and examinations are a matter OF
business. The Legislature of this State,
or any other State, for that matter, is a
sort of grand jury, whose duty it is to
thoroughly Investigate the reasons for the
expenditure OF every dollar of the State 8
money. 1t is not possible for the institu-
tiOns Of the State to be brought to the
Legislature: nor, on the other hand, for
the Legislature as a body To visit the
various institutions. II the legislators
Go not learn something of the places
where they are placing the States money,
they would be criminally neglectful OF
their duty: therefore it Is proper that
committees to Investigate the various
schools, asylums, prisons, etc., should be
appointed and should perform that duty.
FINE SHOWING.
TSan Jose Mercury.l
The Good Roads Convention will please
note the fact that although this is the
middle of winter and we have had two
months Of almost continuous rains the
Mercury is delivered every morning at
Gilroy, thirty miles distant, by means OF
a bicycle. What other county in Califor-
MIA can boast OF such excellent roads as
that fact indicates?
NOT CONSISTENT.
Pasadena Star.7
The backbone of the PEOPLES party
creed is that the people are the Govern
terest of the masses, even to issuing all
the money that Is used, operating the
railroads and doing many other things
that would invade what are now private
functions. \ ct when proposition comes
before Congress that authorizes the Gov
ernment To take hold OF the Nicaragua
canal and practically own it and operate
it, we find the Populist Senators voting
against it. There is no consistency in
such an attitude.
DRAINAGE.
IColusa SUM-
Drainage for the Sacramento Valley is
one of the most important measures that
will or can be brought up before the
present Legislature. AS usual the mat
ter has been allowed to sleep along until
the Legislature is in session, and hur-
ried meeting of people Interested is eX-
pected to fix things just right. The re-
port of the Commissioner of Public
Works was waited for. but failed to ma
terialiZe until the Legislature was in ses-
sion, and then if il had been perfect re-
port, whicn it is not, il would have been
too late for "A guide. A good bill may be
presented; if so the SHm will support it,
but it will be criticised honestly and can
dolly, and here, too, comes in the short
ness Of time. 1t is absolutely absurd to
try 20 crowd great measures into 80 short
after few more years of failure.
OH! WHY?
bakersfield Californan.l
Why should the taxpayers of the State
be cali cd upon to detray the expenses oi
washing San Francisco's dirty linen? II
she prefers TO wallOw In corruption, what
concern is it of the rest of the State?
These questions are being asked in vari-
Gus quarters concerning the proposal 10
have Legislative committee investigate
the corruption Of the metropolis. OF
course those who ask them are met with
a great show OF virtuous Indignation by
the holieF- thau-thou pharisees of the
press, but none the less are the queries
pertinent.
HANDS OFF.
santa Cruz Sentinel
Section 1 OF A rticle MI. of the Consti-
tTltion reads as follows: ANY county.
city, town or township may make and
enforce within its limits all such local,
police, sanitary and other regulations
as are not III conflict with the general
laws
This provision was embodied in the
Constitution in obedience 10 the general
demand Tor what has come to be called
"tLe American right OF local self-govern-
ment." This doctrine was earnestly dis
cussed in the convention that formed the
Constitution and in the press OF the State
and, when the Constitution was before
the people for adoption, great stress was
laid upon the right 20 local self-govern-
ment which was conferred upon eacl
municipal community by the above sec
lion. The spirit o.
the constitutional provision above
quoted will bo llagrantly violated
by the passage Of a law taking away from
the people most interested i'll the matte
the power 10 regulate the dangerous
traffic i'll into Xicatiu. beverages.
ANOTHER CLASS.
Dixon Tribune.l
People have become accustomed to at
lihuta the frenuan miscarrianas of inS