The record-union., 1896-03-13
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions of Interior California
Newspapers.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, Theoret-
ical and Current.

Eureka Times: Inc CROWN VI seisa-
tionalism in the American press has
reached such magnitude that deeency
required that some decisive steps be
taken to at least keep it within certain
bounds. 1t was carried to such ex-
tremes that the Postal Department felt
obliged to interfere and a Chicago edi-
tor has been sentenced to a long term
cf imprisonment for sending obscene
literature through the mails. This ac-
ton will probably have very salutary
effect upon that class of journals whose
reporters invade the privacy of homes
seeking rich and racy paragraphs for
their prurient- minded readers.
A MISTAKE
Redding Free Press: One mistake
which the radical silver men make is to
ascribe dishonest motives to those who
90 not agree with them. Now, no one
has a right to claim that the silver men
are dishonest, or that those who do not
believe in the free coinage of silver are
thieves, etc. There are a great many
men who have made the financial ques-
ton a study with an honest desire to ar
rive at an honest conclusion, and it is
wrong to assert that they are actuated
by dishonest motives.
ABSURD IDEA.
San Jose Herald: The attorney of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive F'iremen
has prepared a bill for presentation to
Congress for the compulsory settlement
of wages disputes on interstate rail-
roads He holds that if Congress has
the right to regulate freights it may
also regulate wages.
1t ought to be superfuous to point out
the radical difference between the two
propositions The right of Congress to
regulate freight rates on interstate
roads grows out of its constitutional
control of intestate commerce. Con-
gress does not fix rates but declares
that they must be governed by certain
general principles to secure the welfare
of the public and justice to individuals.
1t controls the relations of the railroads
to the people.
The rates of wages is a question be-
tween the railroads and their employees
If Congress should assume to regulate
them and the people acquiesced, how
long before we should have the regula-
tion of all wages by the State? That
would be a return to medieval princi-
pies of doing business. time when the
laboring classes were made serfs. Yet
even then Government regulation ot
wages was largely failure in practice
simply because it outraged the natural
laws of business.
THE POPE AND THE SOCIETIES.
Mail of Woodland: The Pope has
somewhat modified his decree against
the secret societies, so that those who
joined previous to the ban being placed
on them can remain members and con-
tinue to pay dues, but they must in the
meantime abstain from all association
or commingling with these sects. In
other words, they can be beneficiary
members only. These societies should
amend their constitutions so as to ex-
clude all such members.
ALTOGETHER TOO CATCHY.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: A contempo-
rary says: Governor Budd has made
| a proposition which is likely to be
| catchy 1t is that inasmuch as liquor
selling and liquor drinking have caused
much of the insanity and imbecility OF
the State, therefore there ought to be a
uniform liquor license throughout the
| State, and a portion of such license
ought to go to the support of the States
asylum
The proposition of the Governor is
altogether too catchy. In the first place
it catches logic on the hip and tumbles
it over Where is the connection be-
| tween a uniform liquor license al
over the State" and the support of in
sane and imbeciIe dipsomaniacs? Why
should not each community have the
right to support it's own drunken imbe-
Giles out of its own liquor license funl
] fixing the license as high or as low as il