The record-union., 1896-03-31

OF more than passing notice He said
that the bicycle is condemned by many
because, it is alleged, it has been the
means of depreciating the value of
horses. Such he had found is not the
case. San Jose is the best wheeling
town in the State, and it is also the best
livery town in the State, and good roads
had made it such. This would indicate
that good roads benefit all classes who
employ the horse as we'll as those who
use the bicycle. 1t is only another illus
tration of the fact that the popular no.
ton that good roaas are for wheelmen
only is an absurd fallacy.
LEGITIMATE MINING
Gridley Herald Legitimate mining
in Butte County is in more favorable
condition than it has been for years
past. The decadence of hydraulic min
ing, to which the valley as a whole OBJ
jected, has tended to turn the direction
of capitalists interested in such enter
priseS to the more stable one of drift and
quartz exploration. AS a result the
population of the mineral belt has been
greatly augmented during the past few
years, and, as above remarked, mining
is in more satisfactory condition than
II has been for series of years past
Such a condition is, and should be,
warmly welcomed by the people who re-
side in the purely agricultural and hor-
ticultural districts of the county Were
there ten times the population in the
mountains, the effect in the valley
would be corresponding one. Such a
condition produces d home market, and
the thrifty farmer knows the value of a
market at his own doors.
THE JAG PROTECTED.
Los Angeles Herald: Many hard
things have deservedly been said
against the present House of Represen-
tatives, but that body is deserving of
credit for at least one thing Tt is
patriotically and fearlessly opposed to
the scheme of foisting spurious liquor
on the credulous American public under
the pretense that it is the real goods"
A Kentucky member has secured the
adoption of a law fixing stringent PEN
altieS for the sale of sham snake med
icine except under brands that tell the
truth. Thus is the sanctity of the jag
protected.
THE PEOPLE ARE TIRED.
Visalia Delta: Visalia is not pleased
"
bing fraternity, and is less pleased to
know that residents of this city are sus-
pected of being connected with this
last attempt; although, happily the law
less effort was futile. There is not in
this State a little inland town more
pleasantly situated than ours, and not
one that has a more promising future
before it. Furthermore, there is not an
other community of the same numbers
possessing more whole-rouled hospita-
bic, intelligent, progressive and law
abiding people. And that the large ma
jority should be made to suffer in repu-
tation and business by a handful of des-
peradoes who have been too leniently
dealt with has brought matters to that
stage which falls little short of eXasper-
alton. Our people have stood much, and
their good sense will enable them to
weigh the last offense calmly and act
wisely.
The class who have so often dis
graced our usually quiet little city have
not learned to have proper respect for
the law. Whether this is due to our
courts, our attorneys, to the ordinary
jury of peers CD or to the dishonest use
of money in influencing witnesses, the
Delta" is not prepared to say. But the
fact stands out boldly that we are con-
fronted by condition which must
cease to exist, unless we desire the
world to know us as a Iawless com
munity, with an ambition to harbor
robbers and murderers and the weaker
brothers and sisters of crime.