The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-01


to come in. yet none of the civilized
nations appear to be willing to inter
fere Humanity should demand that
something be done to check the torture
and murder, for hundreds are said to
have been killed during the last mas
Sacre.
POLITICAL CORRUPTION.
Stockton Mall The time has about
come for our foreign critics 10 cease
commenting upon the cOrTuptneSs Of
American politicians and statesmen
The Itching palm is not a character
istic of our public men alone. 1t is fully
as well developed, to say the Leaf, IN
European statesmen and politicians
No investigation into the acts Of mem
bers of the United States Congress has
resulted in uncOVering 1.-THE of the
corruption with which members of the
French Chamber of Deputies stand
charged The extent and degree of the
crookedness thathas been proved to ex-
list among French legislators are, IN
fact, astonishing, and parallel can be
found only in the history of the times
of the Roman Empire, when the honsst
Senator was the exception.
GOOD WORK ON ROADS
Kern County Echo: After a years
wear on the roads made with the bond
money, it is gradually becoming ap-
money than was at first conceded.
With more knowledge on road materi-
ais and road making we would have
secured better results to be sure, but
we have better roads than before the
work was done. One thing seems to
be settled. The narrow, high grade,
getting the sub soil on top, is the best.
IMPURE MILK.
San Diego Union: Crusades against
dealers in impure milk have been be-
gun in quite a number of cities during
the past few weeks. The result is
some startling disclosures as to the ex-
tent of the iniquitous traffic. In San
Francisco an active inspector has
made over forty arrests and poured in
TO the sewers hundreds of gallons OF
milk, which had been adulterated in
one way or another Now that the
movement has begun. it is to be hoped
it will be prosecuted vigorously. II
! there be one form of food adulteration
| that is more injurious than another, it
| is impure milk The evil is one that
affects primarily thousands of helpless
| infants whose health and future well
fare depends to very great extent up
on the purity Of the cows milk with
which it is sought to nourish them.
| The authorizations employed are little
| better than slow poison to these little
| ones. Thus far. it appears the penal
! ties inflicted upon dealers in impure
milk have been lght. 1t would seem
/ that their Ofense is one for which there
are no mitigating circumstances. They
| should have the most severe punish
ment which the law permits.
SMALL FARMS.
Colusa Sun: Organized society is
benefited by the small farm, and it has
a right 10 even up the large and the
| small. The system urged by the Sun, of
! having lands graded and all land of like
grade similarly situated to be taxed
! alike taking no account Of any per
sonal property, of any improvements or
/ anything growing on the land. would
do much toward giving the small farm
er an even show. The very large owner
cannot have so much Of these per acre.
Bus with the home idea prevailing, the
man on the small farm. out of debt. pro-
dUcing everything the family con-
| sumes, will be hard to freeze out When
! family has all the oranges, all the
lemons, all the olives, all the apples. all
the peaches, all the prunes, all the
grapes. and all the varied products of
these; all the pork, a.. the mutton, all
the beef. and all the varied products Of
these; all the vegetables. all the poultry
and its products, all the milk and lis
products, 1t can consume. with plenty
II sell of these and other products, is
there any danger OF suffering?
SUBSOILING
Tulare Register: We would like TO
/ sec some genuine subsoiling done in
this country. At Geneva. Neb., some in
teresting tests were recently made A
boring was made under the prairie sod
and the ground was so dry that it was
difficult to bore at all and the ma
II
anger like sand \ few hundred feet
from there in an oatfield, where the
soil had been thoroughly SUBSIDIZED two
years before, but had not been cult
/ waited for a year the soil was quite
moist, but in an adjacent nursery,
where the soil had not only been sub
soiied the previous year, but we'll Guilt
waited this year, the soil was wet
| enough TO mold in the hand These
tests were made within a few hundred
feet of each other, in the same kind of
soil and where the rainfall had been the
same.
RIVER WATER
Corning Observer: The people of the
cities below grumble at the sewage OF
Red Bluff being allowed to eater the
river Now il is discovered thatthe cat
fish eat up every atom of matter that
leaves the pipes. and that it is the eaters
Of catfish that ought to kick up a fuss
about il. and not the drinkers of the
water below. But any city government
that would use river water nowadays
/ ought 50 he prosecuted by tho STAFF