The record-union., 1896-06-01
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people of this country Congressman
Carlisle was considered to be a firm be-
never in and an advocate of the double
monetary standard. 1t is very strange
that public man should have been so
misunderstood as the Secretary of State
claims to have been.
NINETEEN HUNDRED.
Modesto News: Some light-witted
folk have again sprung that silly ques-
ton as to whether the nineteenth CEN
tury ends with the year 1899 or with
the end Of 1900. Does 80 make 100 ever?
Well, no. Just the same, then, 1899 does
not make 1900. The nineteenth century
began with the year 1901. 1t ends the
olst day Of December, 1900
MISS SHAW'S SPEECH.
Santa Rosa Republicans: The address
of Rev. Anna Shaw at the Athenaeum
Tuesday evening was a disappoint-
n1ent to us. We went there expecting
tc hear a great orator and logician
marshal facts and arguments in favor
of human rights. We expected her to
offer convincing proofs in a dignified
and perfectly candid manner. The OBJ
1ect of a meeting to discuss a public
question is generally supposed to be to
enthuse the friends of a cause, win over
the WaVering and disarm the opposi-
tion.
The question under consideration
Tuesday evening is one of great i'm
portance to the women of our State, to
society as a whole, to government
both local and general The discussion
of such questions calls for no levity
and no misrepresentation. There will
be votes of patriotism as weIl as of
prejudice. both for and against giving
the ballot to women. There are thou
sands of men in California asking
themselves what is best for the women
and for the country in this matter. and
the measure will not be carried without
the votes of these men. 1t would seem
well to apply argument and persuasion
10 such voters rather than ridicule and
badinage.
GOVERNMENT OF COURTS.
Stockton Independent: Before this
generation passes away one of the vital
questions of politics viii be whether
government by Supreme Courts is the
best possible way Of maintaining re-
PUBLICAN institutions
Tt seems strange that IN this day and
age, in which general education is a
great American boast, that such a
newspaper as the San Francisco Cali
Should perpefrate such a paragraph.
We're it not for the courts, supreme and
inferior, Legislatures might become ty-
o'annical, corrupt and wasteful, execu-
tives usuTp power and become tyrants
and were IL not for the Supreme Courts
the inferior courts could be all that the
executive and legislative departments
might degenerate to. Supreme Courts
do not govern. They simply examine
into legislative and judicial acts that
are brought before them for review,
and see whether attempts at legislation
are in harmony with or in violation of
the Constitutions, State and Federal, or
the procedures in court are in strict
compliance with law What is wrong
with such government" the Call"
wholly neglects to say, but, in the effort
tc make a smart paragraph caters to
the ignorant and the anarchistic.
AN EXAMPLE.
Willows Journal: The writer knows
of a certain mother in the city of San
Jose. She was a church-worshiper
there was no good work in which she
was not engaged; she was a female suf-
fragist; everybody remarked her zeal
il. these lines of work. But her dishes
were unwashed, her beds unnade; meals
always behind time; her three hand
some boys grew up on the street as best
they could, while their mother was dis
cussing ways and means to Christianize
the Chinese. Result: One boy was
killed by pistol shot in saloon row,
another was drowned in the San Joa-
d
der the influence of strong drink; the
other, lad of seventeen, is a common
street tough; the mother could have
made a great deal of her boys if she had
not been too busy seeking other things.
THE hand that rocks the cradle rules
the world" A good mother makes her
son a good citizen.
A GREAT ELECTRICAL DEMON
STRATION.
Oakland Tribune: A large number of
bankers, capitalists and electricians
made up the excursion train of the Cen
eral Electric Company of New York
and the Sacramento Electric Light
Company, which went to Folsom on
"Wednesday to see the greatest develop
ment of electric power that has ever
been created in this country by utfliz-
a
lars Of this development have so fire.
uuently been given that it is not neces-
sary to repeat them here. The great
dam, the canals, the basin, the power
house and all the appointments for
distributing power to distant points
must have been of SURPRISING interest
to these capitalists and electricians.
A few days ago there was a marvellous
demonstration in New York of the cleo
tricaI power created by Niagara Falls,
$50 miles distant. But the power in
that distant city was only sufficient to
drive miniature machinery. A similar
illustration could have been furnished
by the Folsom power. 1t could have
driven miniature machinery at Los An
geles if 1t had been worth the while TO
have made the necessary arrangements.
This great enterprise had its inception
in the brain Of Horatio p. Livermore
who resides in the suburbs of this city.
He has drawn to mis- aid men of capital
and influence, who believed that some
day the plans that had been outlined
would culminate in success. He has led
in an enterprise which, so far as we
know, includes the greatest electrical
development that has ever been made
nv means of water power in the United
States. If there is any exception 1t may
be the great electrical plant at Niagara
Falls. The Folsom plant has been ar
object lesson of great value on this
side of the country. 1t has stimulated
many small enterprises. Nearly every
mountain stream flowing down from
the western flank of the Sierras has
ha +rlrped n account fOl