The record-union., 1895-06-01
NOTE AND COMMENT.

They have started good citizenship move
ment in Oregon City. Every member pledges
himself to vote only for men for city Offices
VINO are in favor of law, order, decency and
sobrlety IN Office, and who are of good moral
character in the community. 1t is humiIiat-
Ing that Ia any town in the country such a
movement should be deemed necessary.
The loudest howlers just now against the
anti-nuisance movement are the masters OF
the wretched slaves of lower L street. These
fellows are asking, "Where are you going to
put us?" AS if It was the business of anybody
to put them any here except off OF the face
OF Gods footstool. that their slaves might at
least have and keep the wages of their degra-
dalton.
Populism went down in Kansas last year,
and this year, says the st. Louis Globe the
farmers are giving more attention to produc-
ton from the soil. and sless to politics of the
Populist Stripe and they are consequently q
deal better of, and know it.
Some people growl about bonding public
debts because it puts burden on posterIty.
Well, why not? What the present generation
has done in the way of preparing for the COM
Tort OF posterlty it cannot take with ii. 1t
Will leave value received for all that it asks
posterlty to pay, and good deal more. Why.
under the sun should men of to-day slave
and toll TO create that which at best they can
enjoy for but few years, and which must all
go to the benefit of our children and the lat
ter not bear part of the cost and burden?
The dispatches tell as of an ex-Presbyt erian
minister who somewhere out West has started
doctrine on its travels that provides for the
worship OF God with worshipers naked. The
devotees are to strip themselves at religious
services. The fellow pretends to find warrant
for his absurd doctrine in the Bible. This is
because he is unable to understand the Bible.
for which, by the way, the Bible Is not TO
blame. The worst OF 1t is the man has q fol-
lowing-a congregation that is practicing the
lewd belief. The thing to do with all such
is to jug them as insane.
The free silver men contend that the free
coinage of silver of foreign production in
American minis means an exchange of pro-
ducts. but we have yet to meet the man who
has been able to make the idea clear to ordi-
nary intelligence.
A Southern paper says that the most dig
heartened people in the United States are the
orange-growers OF Florida. After spending
years in bringing their orchards to the high
SItut vi pAOHldOle oedrlnS, Juey nave VIII
messed the destruction of all their property
and hopes in a single night, as if cyclone in
stead of a frost had swept over the land. All
human sympathy should go out to these peo-
ple-but in starting again they had better
come to California, where no such sweeping
misfortune ever comes, or can, because Of the
physical conditions of the country, Its broad
area, and the distribution of the isothermal
BELTS
Let it never again be intimated that patriot.
ism has declined, or chivalry died out of the
hearts OF Americans after the magnificent
demonstration at Chicago on Decoration
Day, where the Blue and the Gray We'd with
each other i'll doing honors to the soldier
dead, and each to the other. and all in honor
of and devotion to the one flag of the nation
The Marysville Daily Standard will be re-
vived on the first of July, with A. s. Smith as
editor and proprietor.