The record-union., 1895-05-24
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Rev. Miss Shaw at the Woman's Congress
in San Francisco said: "Women who accept
injustice for themselves are incapable of
doing justice to Others" Why may not that
be said of either sex? However 1t fits our con-
tention that women who hold they can I'LL
the places of men should be ashamed to accept
a less wage than men. But they do uniformly
and therein they are unjust, just as they are
wrong in displacing true bread-winners and
making homes less possible. Miss Shaw, who
Is witty and epigramatic, also said that the
day will come when S5.00O-woman will
not marry 10-cent man. But, really, Anna,
is not such q match better than that 10.
cent women should marry 1O-cent men and
raise Scent children? Or would you shut the
10 cent men and women out of the garden of
matrimony? II so we are agreeing with you.
But right here let is make bold to ask Miss
Shaw-who is travelling about lecturing on
homes-how it comes that she does not ex-
emplify by her teaching and show the world
by personal example what a home should be.
Or does she in her exalted new woman at
mosphere hold herself to be the $4,000
woman and all males to be 10-cent men?
But If Rev. Miss Shaw has a home, one that is
of simple loneliness, she does exemplify
strongly one of her pithiest epigrams,
namely "One of the greatest defects in the
American home is, that there is too much of
a provider and not enough of father
The San Francisco Bulletin we'll says:
"There seems to be some trouble about hold
ing miners to the conditions of the Caminetti
Act. White owners lease their mines to
Cinnamon VINO shift the responsibility from
one to another. The waterways of the State
are likely to get the worst of the controversy
n iah ic tr1n in, hic only fha tar
ways of the State have already got the worst
of it. But certainly as that the earth turns.
so surely will the assault upon these water
ways by the hydraulickers cease, and 1t will
be soon, and at The command of the sovereign
| in America-the people.
There is no gull at all to be compared with the
newspaper gull. The average theatrical man
ager knows it and never loses an opportunity
| to play on the gull. He gets more free adver-
tising out Of the susceptibility Of one class
OF newspapers to "news" than his entire re-
| turns could pay for advertising legitimately.
! All he has to do is 10 arrange for some guy to
| declare that he is in love with one of his
actresses; then ailege the usual objection OF
the cruel parents to the desire of the lover to
marry his Phillis, and the thing is done. One
| half the fool newspapers in the land will take
the bait and publish the facts and as much
more of fiction, and invariably will serve the
managers turn by speaking of the woman as
of Smiths welI-known dramatic company"
and so on. This is but one of the tricks OF the
shrewd manager. He plays lost diamonds,
divorce, scandal, and what-not in the same
manner, and the newspaper falls an easy vic
tim-that is, about half do while the remain
ing portion prefer to be classed with those
who can see no more reason for publishing
! tales of the hirtations of transforming
actresses than for printing daily accounts OF
| thecourting.and marrying of other people who
are never mentioned, though hundred-fold
of more Importance in this world.
President Harrison once told the people TO
beware OF too cheap supplies OF manufact-
ured goods, because there may be cheap
man i'll cheap coat. The recent inquiries
into the sweathouse system in New York
gives point to his warning. Low prices have
| rendered it impossible for manufactures to
pay decent wages. So we find that workers
on necktles make but so cents for seventeen
hours of labor, and shrtmakers for sixteen
| hours work have to be content with 80
cents. One employer proved that though he
| furnished twelve women with work in max
ing articles of wearing apparel, he can clear
but 81 week for himself. How will it be
with the promised future of still lower rates
! .
Thugs are becoming too thick again. Last
! winter it was urged that the wet weather, the
cold and the lack of employment drove men
to crime. How. then, is 1t now? OF course,
man gets hungry in warm as well cool
weather, but the truth is that the honest man
never is in this land, driven to the ranks of
| crime through necessity. If he Is an honest
man he will beg openly, manfully, before he
will stand up q citizen and rob him. No, the
fellows who are doing the highway act are
criminals by choice and thugs by TASTE
Really, if these chaps do not cease operations
it may be necessary to call into use the ak
handle brigade again. For despite its over
enthusiasm and not a few mistakes, it cleared
the city effectually OF undesirable characters
Joseph Cook, the preacher, is on two
years trip through Europe and Asia, which
! leads an Eastern paper to say that if he does
not give the Eastern Hemisphere many an
example of the kicker, then IL is some other
/ fellow travelling on Rev. Cooks name. That is
the shortest and best criticism on Mr.. Cook
yet put Into print. Joseph Cook is the typi-
cal American growler.
The San Francisco Bulletin suggests to the
| Womens Congress a subject Tor discussion
the topic of marriages that lawful but
that should not be. For heavens sake,
neighbor, withdraw the proposition. The
| very last place and the very last people to dis
cuss that question is the Women's Congress,
and the misses and mistakes in that body.
RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT.
A Japanese Laborer Dies at the County
| Hospital.