The record-union., 1896-03-13

pleases? That would carry out the
principle of local self-government a
good deal better than the Governors
plan. His excellency's plan is designed
to catch local option mapping, but we
don't think it is likely to succeed.
Furthermore, if the liquor license fund
should be used to support insane asy-
lums because liquor helps to furnish
inmates to those institutions, the fund
ought to be used to support poorhouses
and drunkards families and Jail Off
GERS and hospitals, and a great many
other things which are made necessary
by liquor selling and liquor drinking"
Each community should enjoy the great
American right to see to the support of
its own poor-homes, hospitals, jails and
drunkards families, and say how much
of that support shall come from those
whose business fills such institutions
We object to Governor Budd's catchy
little plan to take from municipalities
the inestimable and constitutional priv
ilege of regulating such vital concerns
to suit themselves.
DECENCY AND FAIR PLAY
Hayward's Journal A Democratic
paper of San Francisco, in it's coarse
and brutal attacks on public men in
California and the East, particularly c.
r. Huntington, Speaker Reed and many
others, regarding the settlement of the
funding bill, has caused intelligent peo-
pie to enter a strong protest, for it leads
the Eastern people to think we are the
toughest lot of people in the United
States. Personal abuse will not help a
cause or settle the question, and the re-
Election cast on our State is far-reach-
ing, and it has already been the means
of causing a great change in public SEN
timent on the issues involved. The sem
sational press has already given Cali
fornia very large black eye; capitalists
are afraid to invest their money, and
the present hard times are made even
harder for the laboring classes. All
kinds of business is stagnant, and in
stead Of trying to make times better,
the sensational press is doing it's utmost
to make times ten times harder. 1t has
also leaked out that the milk in the
cocoanut in this fun ding bill fight is a
most powerful combination between the
Gould and Vanderbilt interests to COB
BILE up the Central Pacific and clean up
something like $90000,000. This ap-
parently accounts for the violence of the
attack on Mr.. Huntington. These per-
sonal attacks on public men naturally
affect the Pacific Coast measures before
Congress, and it is d wonder we get any
recognition on account of such sand-Iot
tactics.
The press is looked to by the people to
guard their rights, and in this issue be-
tween the people and the railroad. Pub
lie men who are trying ito do what is
right are branded as traitors and Will
fed by sensational papers who simply
do it to crafty a personal spite and
play to the gallery.
We are not an apologist for the rail-
road, but we believe in decency and fair
play.
THE REAL GUILTY.
Santa Cruz Penny Press: Dunlop
made the Chicago Dispatch" unclean
and pander because the people of
and pimping newspaper. That is GER
tain, because the circulation of the
Dispatch" increased to an enormous
figure, and increased in proportion to
the increased amount of sensational
ism and dirt the paper printed. Prima-
rily, then, the Chicago public and not
the paper it was, and the whip of the
law, while it fell righteously upon Dun
lops shoulders, did not scarify the
backs of all the guilty by long shot.
When people refuse to buy sensational
papers publishers will very soon quit
publishing them.
RESULT OF COURAGE
Truckee Republican: The attitude
| that the United States has assumed in
regard to questions relating to foreign
affairs has been a surprise to the peo-
| pie of this country themselves and the
whole world. The noble stand taken
IN regard to the Venezuelan question
showed a determination to stand by
established principles that would Sc
cure the respect and admiration of
every nation in the world, and the ac-
| tion of Congress in recognizing the
| Cuban insurgents as belligerents under
| the conditions existing in Cuba entities
! this country to the distinction of being
| the foremost nation of the globe in it's
| justice and mercy toward mankind.
| The United States is not seeking war
at present, but no one believes for a
| moment that she would take one back
ward step to prevent it. Foreign coun-
| tries are beginning to realize this and
a greater Difference is being shown
| this country now by other nations than
| ever before. 1t has been thirty years
since this country has had a war and
| the people have reached point where
they are ready to take up the gauntlet
whenever it is thrown down to them.
The vast resources of this country, too,
will make it invincible against any ma
| ton in the world, and the people feel
| this and they have no misgivings as to
what the outcome of a war might be.
SOLEMN TRUTHS.
| Fresno Expositor: If newspapers are
| only placed before the public to feed
| the vicious appetite and flourish off the
results of shame and degradation, bet
| ter they were made to feed the flames
| of righteous Indignation. If their in
| f1uence is not to the betterment of man
kind in molding public opinion in lines
of truth, honesty and virtue they are
| brigandage, and engaged in the work
of opposing the onward march of eivili-
zation. The fawning sycophant, who
bends the pregnant hinges of the knee
that thrift may follow fawning," is a
| wart on society and his influence is only
recognized in fear that he may uncover
some rascality or breed one that will
blast a fair and honorable name. No
matter how base the human character
in any man, he admires the hero who
holds in his hand the lash of Justice
and dares to use it in condemnation. In
not pay to advocate crime and licen-
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