The record-union., 1896-05-31

ndQ better SuccufnD TO the lneNlldpie
brother quill propellers of the opposite
faith as you are only butting your
heads against stone wall
IASSAILING THE SUPREME COURT.
Oakland Enquirer: The Examiner,
which never misses an opportu
nifty to say depreciatory word
concerning the California Supreme
Court or, for that matter, any other
Supreme Court, takes for the basis of
its latest attack the decision that the
purity of elections law does not apply
to primary elections. The implication
of the article is that the court, if 1t had
not been biased, might just as we'll have
decided the other way, and that 1t dis
plays a perverse inclination to abro-
gate the safeguards which the people
are trying to throw around elections.
Without pretending to go very deep into
the merits of the case, it is apparent
that the assumption on which the
Examiner" article is based is incor-
rect. Primary elections are so new
subject for legislative regulation, and
differ so much in their nature from all
Others that common sense interpreta-
tiOn of the statutes would be that pri-
mary elections are not included in the
scope of election laws unless it is spe-
cifically so stated, which it is not in
this instance But all of the provisions
of the purity of elections law which can
be made applicable to primaries ought
to be so applied, and the way to do 1t
is by Act Of the Legislature. 1t is ex-
ceedingly childish to cry because the
Supreme Court cannot bridge over the
chasms of omission left by the ignor-
ance or stupidity of legislators. There
is a loud howl because we have too
much judicial legislation" and yet
there is a louder howl because the
courts do not legislate.
OUR EXPORTS AND ADULTERA-
TION.
Tulare Register: 1t is gratifying to
know that not all of the exports from
this country are adulterated. Expor-
tations Of filled cheese to foreign mar
kets have nearly ruined the cheese
business. but expectations Of butter
are pure. A careful examination of
samples picked up in the English mar
kets has been made by the British
Agricultural Society with the result
that samples of importations from this
country were found to be pure, while
samples sent from Germany, Holland
and Denmark, as we'll as other conti-
mental countries, were nearly all more
or less adulterated. This ought to
stimulate a foreign demand for Ameri-
can butter
MINING IN AMADOR.
Lone Echo: The mining situation
along the mother lode in Amador Coun-
ty is very gratifying. All the mines
which are down to any great depth are
paying handsomely, and the various
shafts are being sunk as fast as posi-
bic. If the people Of Alnador will just
have the good sense to froWn down all
attempts at wildcat stock mining they
viii avert much unpleasant notoriety
and actual calamity. Callboard mining
but injuries a district.
BRUTALITY AT SEA.
Stockton Independent: Those who
mourn that the American merchant
marine is manned by foreigners, many
Of whom are aliens, should carefully
read the story of the suicide of Will
lam Mau of the ship Benjamin Sewell,
as told in the evidence of the sailors at
Port Townsend. The brutal mate,
Smith, who in that evidence appears
as Mau's murderer, is a sample of a
class that is too large and should be
reduced by a liberal use of the rope.
The evil is not new one by any means.
1t has existed so long that very few
Americans who are not driven by the
direst need or by vicious habits and i'm
providence care to take sea service.
Richard H. Dana, in his Two Years
Before the Mast" shows that brutality
on whalers was common half century
ago, when the flag of the United States
could be seen in all ports of the world.
That 1t is not so seen now is a cause of
mourning to mock sentimentalists who
ignore the cost at which the senti.
ment must be gratified. The master of
a ship is an autOcrat at sea, and the
only appeal from his brutality, if he
chooses to be a tyrant, is mutiny, and
though mutiny is severely punished, the
brutality of the master rarely is. What
the master is, so also is the mate dur
ing his watch.
AN EXAMPLE.
San Diego Union: AS an instance of
the growth of the good roads cause, it
may be mentioned that last year thirty
seven towns in Connecticut were en-
gagged in improving their roads, and
now eighty towns are reported to have
joined in the movement. The improve
ment made is thorough and scientific.
The cost is borne equally by the State,
the county and the municipality. The
incident shows the strength of the
good roads movement in the East. In
time one may hope for like progress in
the West. But so far as California. is
concerned, it cannot be denied that a
very thorough campaign of education
must be made before substantial re-
suits will be attained.
REASON WHY.
Los Angeles Times: While the
Times is unalterably opposed to the
enfranchisement of the SEX chiefly be-
cause the sex does not want it, would
not use the right and could not bet
ter matters if it did, and while we be-
lieve that women agitators are harm
ful to the cause of women and have
done more to disturb their status than
men have ever done, we are not indif-
ferent to the fact that Miss Couzins is
a woman and in trouble, and we join
in hoping that some tactful manner
may be reached of meeting her neces-
stiles.
a LIVE QUESTION.
Oakland Enquirer: That the money
question is very live one in this coun-
try has, of course, been apparent since
the preliminaries of this campaign
opened but it gives one an increa sed