The record-union., 1896-03-27

promote the building or the road and
said nothing until the Fresno case
arose. It was then hurried to the Su-
preme Court and settled.
THE WRONGS OF CUBA.
Marysville Appeal The wrongs of
Ireland are small in comparison with
those of Cuba. Spain has practiced
every conceivable method of extortion
and oppression, where she should have
acted a friendly and beneficial part,
and the Cubans have the best of reasons
for breaking away from her.
WAKE UP.
Nevada City Herald: The power of
example is strong, remarks the Placer
vile Nugget" If you make an i'm
provement, if you shows some signs of
life, your sleepy neighbor will gather
himself together and "get in the pro-
cession.''
A HOT PARTISAN.
Oroyille Mercury: Senator Cullom of
Illinois, himself candidate for the Re-
publican nomination to the Presidency
says he hears it stated that much
money is being spent to secure delega
tions to the st. Louis convention" OF
course, the Republican nomination is
being sold. That party never had a
principle that was not proffered to the
highest bidder. 1t even sold it's coun-
try, and reduced American citizens to
poverty and serfdom for British gold.
SINISTER EDITORS AND LAW
YERS.
Mountain Placerville) Democrat: !:
The suggestion of Secretary Olney for
the Presidency has stirred the bile of
the San Francisco Bulletin" and "Ex-
aminer''
The Bulletin" led off and the Eek
aminer" chimed in with the ferocious
charge that he is corpora ton law
yer" Lack a-day! This is most true
and entirely sad
What is corporation lawyer?" A
lawyer to be sure He is a man who
takes cases for corporations, just as
lawyers of an inferior class take cases
for murderars and thieves. According
to the vocabulary of these metropoli-
tan mountebanks, the attorney who
takes fee from murderer, is "mur-
der lawyer" and one who defends rape
is rape lawyer" The editorial pro-
fession seems to TEEN with asses now
adays, and these political twins fur
nish considerable asylum for this
pestiferous and anonymous class. Be
cause an attorney in the ordinary prac-
tice of his profession, takes fees from a
corporation, he does not thereby sur
render his manhood or his political con-
victions, but in the cant phrase of the
anarchistic press of the day the hight
of infamy seems to be summed up in
the term corporation lawyer
Large corporations having heavy cap
ital and diverse interests must neces-
sarily employ legal talent, and as the
interests are large and far-reaching,
it is necessary that only the best talent
be employed. 1t follows, therefore, that
the most able and eminent men in the
profession are employed as attorneys
| by corporations. They are not neces-
sarily employed in the pursuit of active
| litigation their labors are really more
to prevent litigation and the jeopardiz-
| ing of large and legitimate interests.
CHECKING THINGS.
Santa Barbara Press: The bicyclist
the earth, and is making good begin
ing by fencing in Maryland, says an
exchange. The Legislature of that
quires railroads to check bicycles as
personal baggage, and failing to do this,
to pay the passenger SO and to collect
no fare from him. The bill seems to
stand a good chance of passage and will
be a new victory for the ubiquitous
| cyclist if he does succeed The next
thing we shall have a bin compelling
railroads to check horses as baggage
| and paying the owner for carrying
! them.
THE LOUD BILL.
Haywards Mail: Congressman Loud of
! California has introduced a bill in the
House regulating the charges on pos
tai matter. The law as it now stands
| favorS the publishers of newspapers.
The bill expressly prohibits the sending
of a newspaper by the publisher at
second-class rates at the request of a
purchaser If people desire to forward
California papers to friends in the East
they must buy them, wrap and stamp
them, and mail them as Independent
deposits and at the highest newspaper
rates.
| The following is parallel case to one
dealt with by the "Record-Union": The
Grand Council of the Y. M. l. meets in
this city at an early date. The proceed
| ings will be OF. interest to thousands of
people who cannot attend. Under the
Loud bill neither members of that con-
vention, nor the convention itself, can
direct the papers containing reports of
| the proceedings to be mailed from the
newspaper offices to the convention
membership. throughout the United
States. as may now be done. Why this
| inhibition is provided it is not possible
| to account for, except upon the theory
| that the purpose is to estop, so far as
may be, the passage of newspapers
| through the mails.
The benefits to be derived from good