The record-union., 1895-11-23
NOTE AND COMMENT.

The Los Angeles Times puts it about
right when it says that the loud outhed,
leather-lunged agitators who are de-
nouncing the Supreme Court of the
United States for the decision in the
Clune- Ross Stsnwood case have the
temeri1y to pirate of 'the liberties of the
people," and that popular liberty is
endangered" by the conviction Of
conspirators. These prating demagogues,
declares the Times, have no true concep-
ton of the meaning of liberty. "Their
highest idea of liberty is that it is license
permitting them and their associates to
abridge the rights and liberties of other
men,"
The Oakland press now announces the
entire success of the Oakland local expo
sition. so far as promise Is concerned.
Every inch OF space in the building Sc
lected has already been taken, and there
is already clamor for for larger building
in which to hold the fair. If our Sacra-
mento manufacturers, merchants and
producers do not follow this example
they are shortsighted. The cost is trifling;
the benefits have been demonstrated in
other cities TO be great. Here Is some
thing practical and entertaining that the
Chamber of Commerce could take hold of,
with the hearty support OF all the people
guaranteed.
The Sultan has been quickened to such
activity in the matter of reforms in Asia
Minor that the Powers have determined
to give him a chance 10 effect them. The
presence OF the war fleets of the Powers
in eastern waters has had a salutary in
fiuence upon the Turk. We have no
confidence. however, in his ability to do
what he has undertaken. 1t will not be
a fortnight before Salisbury's words will
be again proved true, that the Sultan has
not the men in his empire who are capa-
BILE OF carrying out a policy of reform,
and single-handed he cannot do it.
The San Francisco Chronicle says that
one of the best investments q county can
make is in road-sprinkling outfit. That
is true. 1t has been SO often demonstrated
that the man who now doubts it must be
classed as an ignoramus. The sprinkling
of the roads preserves them. The failure
to sprinkle results in their rapid wear
and early destruction. That is ali there
is in it, and any one with q thin bletul of
brains can see from that truth to the eco
nomic result of its application. There is
one thing more that counties must learn.
and for the matter Of that cities. too. and
TO come more nearly home. the city Of
Sacramento; namely, that the cheapest of
all ways to repair street il to repair is
so soon as the defect appears. The man
ner of repair, while important, is really
less so than the time. 1t is O matter in
which promptness means coin saved.
Take the new macadam roadway on
Eleventh street; it is going into decay al
ready, or was a few days ago, because a
few weak spots that developed had not
been at once repaired. For it must be
kept in view that the best of macadam
construction may develop defects, and
that all macadam roadways must be
looked after and repaired. But If attended
to promptly and repaired properly, the
cost is scarcely more than nominal; if
neglect and delay rule, however, the re-
suit is a serious draft upon the purses of
taxpayers.
The Alameda County people are thor
oughly aroused on the pure milk and
wholesome meat question, and regula-
tons 10 meet the public demand are to be
made and enforced. Several arrests made
for selling diseased meat resulted in the
discovery of the fact that meat from the
csrcasses of diseased animals has been
sold in the town markets. We do not be-
lieve that anything of that order has hap
pened here, but the Record Union insists
that it would be wise for the authorities
to order milk inspection; to have all
dairy herds inspected to ascertain that
tuberculosis does not affect any cows i'll
this section; to set up the office of market
inspector at once. No possible harm can
result from such activity, while much
good may come of it.
w. f. Prisk, proprietor of the Grass
| Valley Union, has issued remarkably