The record-union., 1896-01-24

able position of devil into the worship
full company of conpositors and thence
into the reportorial and editorial chair
So arose a number of men who made
heavy their impress upon the times
and did work that does not die. There
was Greeley, who shaped for twenty
years the thought of a mighty people,
and ruled with his pen as few have
ruled with the scepter or conquering
sword There was Sam Bowles and
Thurlow Weed and Prentice-giants in
a heroic time. There is Dana to-day,
greatest of them all, master of our no.
Bile tongue. encyclopedia in knowledge.
intrepid, fearless, a good lover. a good
hater, a born fighter-the beau ideal of
an editor These men learned to write
in printing offices.
IT IS TAKEN.
Santa Rosa Democrat: Open sub
scriptions, voluntarily mace, have COW
cred the entire issue. AS originally
predicted, double the amount of gold
required by the Government, in fact,
four times the amount deemed prudent
as a gold reserve, has been placed at
the service of the Government. A more
magnificent illustrationsof the sound
ness of our credit, more convincing as
surance of the stability of the American
Government, the fealty of its people.
and the splendid courage and patriot
ism of Grover Cleveland could not be
desired.
SCHOOL OF MINES.
San Jose Herald: The Senate has
passed a bill to allow California and
"a the
proceeds of sales of mineral lands for
the support of Schools of Mines. The
bin should become a law. 1t is an alb
surdity to send our students of mining
engineering and cognate branches OF
education to Freiburg or other Euro
pean mining schools when we have at
our doors the greatest possible facll-
ties for studying the subject in all its
aspects of quartz and gravel deep leads,
and the various forms of surface min
ing. The development of our mining
Industry is still young. The day of
..poorman's diggings" is gone. but that
Of the capitalist and the scientific miner
is only beginning. In California We
shoul have a school of mines that will
attract students from home and abroad
1t should be located where students can
study the various mining processes
practically. The passage of this bill by
Congress should be the initiative step
ill the establishment of such a school.
TALKING SENSE.
Los Angeles Express: People in the
East regard the Pacific Railway debt
as a matter of their own concern as well
as it is of ours The debt is due the
United States and not California. Many,
and probably a majority, would not
care to have the Government run a
railroad on its own account. The Gov
ernment should get its dues. But the
question of collecting from an impecu-
NOUS creditor is a business question,
and should be settled upon business
principles 1t may be wise to sell the
creditor out and collect the money from
the proceeds, or it may be good judg-
ment, as many business men do in the
ordinary affairs of life to extend the
debt for a time upon a low rate of in
terest, in the expectation that it will
be paid ultimately and that there
would be less trouble and loss than
would be involved in a peremptory
foreclosure. The Government holds a
second mortgage only on the road, and
in the event of foreclosure it would be
compelled to take up the first mortgage
debts, amounting to very large sum.
Should the Central Pacific Railroad be
sold, it would probably go into the
hands of some other railway corpora
ton just as intent upon making money
as the one that owns it now. That is
what railroads are run for. And that
the general public would receive any
benefit from the change is very doubt
full