The record-union., 1895-04-20

variety Ol Iue lOdlS ana OLner features OF
the pageant, there was series of floats
that represented the growth and histori-
cal changes of this locality, around which
the interest centered. This is why the
parade was called the pageant of thesPa-
cifc.
THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
Riverside Press.
Some of the newspapers treat Durrant,
who is accused of the two murders in
Emmanuel Church, San Francisco, as al
ready convicted. He may be fiend, and
II he is guilty richly deserves to hang.
But the evidence against him is slight
and largely circumstantiaI. 1t seems fair
TO give him the benefit of whatever dou bt
there may be.
CRY DOWN ENTERPRISES.
LOroville Mercury
There are some men in every COM
munity ready and willing to cry down
every enterprise, TO throw cold water on
every scheme, to make the promoters of
every plan for improvement believe it
Will fail. Why men Will do this no one
can tell. a meeting is held, people are
enthusiastic and a committee is selected
to interview taxpayers and solicit sub
scrlptlons. Now it makes no difference
what the purpose is, these calamity howl
ers make committeeman damn them
selves most heartily for having UNDER
taken such thankless task. Are new
uniforms wanted by the fremen, does
the cemetery need a new fence, or the
school need a coat of paint, do we want to
build bridge, get up a celebration. build
fruit cannery, or do anything else OF a
public nature, these bewailers and croak-
ers always contrive to get IN their mean,
malicious, upcalled for, irritating talk
that slckens and disgusts those who de-
sire to benefit the public 1t will be a
blessing to California when these siIuri-
ans, moss backs and calamity howlers all
die. AS. the last one in each town is car
ried to the grave the energetic, go-ahead
people OF that community ought to say,
''Thank God' with all their heart and
soul, for one such man can offset the ef-
forts OF ten live citizens just as one balky
horse can stop team Of O dozen good
animals.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Oakland Times
The American people hold their public
school system sacred as the apple of their
eye. They are jealous of any influence
that tends to make the public schools sec
tartan in any particular whatever. There
may be disagreements upon political mat
ters in all other things, but upon this
question there is a unanimity OF senti-
ment that rises above politics, and upon
which there Is sensitiyeness that is not
to be found in the discussion of any other
question.
In this matter, which lies so near the
hearts OF the people, no distinction Is
made between any denomination or
church. They simply ask that sectarian
doctrines should be confined to the
church, and should not be promulgated
or taught in the public schools-to do so
would De to break up our admirable pub
lie school system, the pride and glory of
the republic.
There Is no ground for exceptions in
this rule. All denominations and churches
are placed upon the same basis-and this
IS right The principle should be clear
and apparent to every we'll balanced
mind. No church or denomination ought
to fear the result of thorough education,
dlsrobed OF sectarian doctrines.
Ihe Sunday-schOoI is the proper place
to lnculcate church doctrinal points
That Is the place to mold the tenets,o
religious belief on sectar1an lines, for to
allow sectarian or religious doctrinaI
tenets to be taught or treated in the pub
lie schools would serve to introduce an
element of discord that would eventuate
In breaking up the public school system
We are convinced that it is so we'll un-
derstood by all denominations, churches
and sects that the mere statement of the
proposition is all sufficient.
BACILLUS OF CowARDICE.
Portland OregOnian.l
1t Is perhaps not wonderful that the
mania for suicide has not been greatly
augmented by the hard times. Suicide Is
the coward's resource at all times, and it
takes good deal of common. everyday
courage to engage, undismayed, day after
day, IN the boOtIess struggle to make an
empty bag stand upright" The remark
able thing about the breaking out Of an
epidemic Of suicide, such as is recorded
in Omaha at the present time, is in the
fact that cd ,s-1+h
! parent comfort, the depressing influences
OF hard winter, to succumb to despond-
ENJOY In the spring. Some statisticians
claim that November, March and July
are the months most prolific in suicides
giving climatic conditions as the probable
cause. The record of the past two years,
however, show that the bacillus of cow
ardlce are about equally active at all
seasons, when circumstances make un-
usually heavy drafts upon human forti-
| tude.
CHANCE FOR POOR MEN.
LOroyille Mercuryl
John Watkins, who owns foothill farm
! east of Oroville, was recently written to
! by a friend in the East who desired to
know what opportunities there were for
poor men in this State. Mr.. Watkins
reply may be OF interest to others. He
| said: There are hundreds, nav thou
sands of men in this State who are with
out work. There IS hardly a daY that
men do not pass my door asking for food,
| but would not be afraid to come to
| California without dollar. I am satis-
fed that the man who really wants work
can always find plenty to do here, The
poor man can make more money here
than be can in the East and there are
openings for him. There are too MANY
men in this State who spend their money
for what does them no good. TOO many
! who earn money and then give 1t for
J drIuk. If you come here and are willing
/ TO work hard you can succeed, but YOU
must make up your mind that it requires
work to get ahead even in California"
PICKLE PUBLIC SENTIMENT.
Stockton independently
Nothing could more forcibly illustrate
the danger of mob law than the change
| in public sentiment concerning the guilt
| or innocence of Theodore Durrant,
! When he was arrested he would have
/ been lynched had not the police made
ample provision to protect him. Every
| newspaper in San Francisco believed him
| guilty, and, in the haste to get the great
! est possible amount of evidence against
| him, published alleged facts that proved
to be falsehoods when examined before
! the Coroner and the Police Court Now
a desire to prove him innocent is quite as
apparent in some of the same papers,
which make the most of the missing
links in the chain of evidence against
bim. Upon these and upon his phenom-
| email GOODNESS and calmness theories are
| being built to persuade the public that he
is innocent. Whether these later theories
! or the first evidences of his guilt shall