The record-union., 1896-12-07
THE RED HOUSE CO.,
] STREET BETWEEN SEVENTH AND EIGHTH.

might be "a job in the business. The
machine is bound to come, but progress
will necessarily be made slowly.
A SUGGESTION.
Fresno Expositor: If the next Leg
islature will simplify the statutes Of
this State so as to make it possible to
convict and punish rich or influential
murderers within reasonable time, 1t
will be rendering good service. Our
criminal laws need thorough revision
and simplification. They are abomin-
able, expensive, indefinite and admit
of too much legal jugglery.-Santa
Rosa Republican.
The above Is in line with the argu-
ments frequently made by the "Ex-
positor" We have not only too many
intricate criminal laws in our statute
books, but many Of the civil enactments
are vicious In the extreme, conceived
by those who expect to derive special
benefits at the expense of others, and
passed by either corrupt or ignorant
legislators.
THE POPULAR VOTE.
Los Angeles Times: The popular vote
given for Presidential candidates Is
worth reading over. McKinley's over
Bryan is 1921, Ill. The next largest is
Grants over Greeley, which was 1872
991. Lincoln's plurality over Douglas
in 1860 was 491 ,295 and over Mcclellan
It was 406. .S12 in 1864. Cleveland led on
the popular vote every time, having g.
6S3 over Blaine, 9S,017 over Harrison
in 1888, and 3S3, ,956 over the same can
didate in 1892 The smallest popular
majority or plurality Of any candidate
was that of Garfield over Hancock In
1880 He had plurality OF 7,018 votes.
although he had SO more votes than
Hancock in the electoral college.
CRANKS IN THEIR VARIETY.
Fresno Republican: A correspondent
Of the Porterville Enterprise" who
wants bread "sooiauzed," makes the
following statement as text for his ar
gument:
Your attention is respectfully direct
ed to two -four quotations: July II,
1896, per barrel, SO 70 and So S5: No
vember 49, 1896, "a rs and $5. OF course
we all know that 1t Is the same crop;
that nothing was done to make it cost
more in November than it did in July.
from 81 to 81 10 more for the same
goods? II Is the work Of the millionaire
plungers using the millions the laboring
man has earned as machine to corner
the laboring mans bread and so wrench
other millions from him.
We will wager the cost of one barrel
of high-priced -four that the writer of
the above was not more than three
months ago filling the adjacent atmos-
phere with unearthly lamentation be-
cause the price of wheat and flour was
so low that the down. trodden farmer
was not getting enough out of 1t to pay
the cost of production and interest on
his crop mortgage. And there was then
some ground for his complaint. but now
when II transpires that there is a short
age OF wheat in India and some other
countries, and the price has gone up to
living figure, his agonized shrek is
again heard because the price of flour is
Keeping pace with wheat, and the cost
OF bread is following in their wake.
The Republican" thinks that It has
considerable patience with the vararies
of It's fellow creatures but this sort OF
human donkey, who only kicks the
harder and brays the louder when the
thing happens that he has been calling
for, raises Its Ire. A chronic. sense1ess
fault-finder is about the most useless
and contemplate thing that the good
Lord in his inscrutable wisdom has seen
At to create, and it does seem in some
cases as though the plan of the Creator
must have in some way miscarrisd.