The record-union., 1896-05-17
NOTE AND COMMENT.

l
The Placerville Nugget" asks: Nov
what will the San Francisco wrapping
papers do? Judge Slack is to hear the
| case of Lillian Ashley VS.. Lucky Bald
win behind closed doors. And all the
| salacious qualities of a breach of prom
| ise suit is to be denied the big dailies
| for publication unless they can borrow
a keyhole.'"
! Do? Do what they are adopts in
| doing-manufacture full reports of the
| trial; the question of verify cuts no
| figure in such cases.
| If fighting Bob Evans of the bat
| tleship Indiana did say to Secretary
Olney, as reported, that if the Govern
ment would let him turn his Ship
guns loose on Havana Spanish only
would be spoken in hell for five years
| thereafter, he was brutal and coarse
The American naval officer should be a
gentleman above reproach as to man
ners and morals. The true soldier on
| land or sea regrets war. He takes no
pleasure in that which Grant described
with Shudder, as 'the killing of human
| beings" Lee, it is said, never went
into battle without praying for the
souls of the poor Wretches who were
| to die. Even the cold-blooded Napo-
| leon offered prayers for those who fell
| before his arms, and signing said, as
he looked over the battlefield, poor
| fellows." Commander Evans ought to
manifest no glee over the possibility
cf being called upon to shoot down
men, wreck homes, make widows and
orphans, and bring death or woe to the
| MT tn ha
lieve that Fighting Bob did not say
what is attributed to him, and that if
he did write to the Secretary of War, as
he is said to have done, to that effect,
we want to believe that the Secretary
complained to the Navy Department
and had Bob rebuked.
| The effort to suppress the Republican
vote in Louisiana is SO far a difficult
| task now, that in view of recent vic
tories there, the Republicans are proph-
esying that in November Louisiana
will go for a Republican electoral
ticket. Stranger things than that have
happened in American politics.
| Hon. Joseph Oker in the american
Magazine of Civics" asks Are we a ma
ton of rascals?' BY no means, sir. We
are a nation of free, liberal, tolerant
people, who charge each other with all
sorts of raScality, but will not for a
| single instant permit any other fellow
to do the same. Which is proof posi-
tive that we do not believe what we say
of each other.
1t is respectfully and timorously sug-
gested to the Hon. Joseph Chamberlain
| that before he commits himself to open
ing his mouth in public again he should
make sure that the South African Re-
public archives have been cleared of
secret records of the Rhodes-Jameson
escapade. This opening ones's mouth
only to have Dutch fists crammed down
ones throat is unpleasant and humiliat-
ing.
| How much better part rifles with Boer
/ fingers on the triggers played in South
Africa than a permanent arbitration
committee would have done. Had the
| sentimentalists' plans been in vogue,
and permanent committee Of arbitra-
| ton been organized, to which to have
| appealed, Jameson would have gobbled
up johannesburg, Hammond would be
| drawing a fat salary as Attorney Cen
eral of a stolen State, and Dom Paul
would be washing dishes in Cecil
Rhodes kitchen.