The record-union., 1896-05-01

ord Union," which says that in the last
| Legislature the members who were anx-
| ious to legislate for good roads were di-
vided into the following classes: Those
in favor of road Overseers; in favor OF
the old roadmaster system; in favor of
school districts being declared road dis
tricts; in favor of Independent road dis
tricts; in favor Of working out road
| taxes; opposed to the working out sys-
tenn; supporting the idea Of the aban-
| doned system of high-crowned roads;
opposed to stone roads; in favor Of stone
roads; opposed to giving the people the
privilege of bonding property for road
purposes; favoring bonding by districts;
favoring bonding by townships; opposed
to road poll taxes; favoring road poll
taxes; opposed to State aid; favoring
State aid; holding that he who knows
how to build a road in the valley is in
competent to build one in the noun
tains; favoring trees in the middle of the
roadway; favoring trees on both sides
of the roadway; favoring county trunk
lines at general cost; opposing such
lines; holding against permitting towns
and cities to contribute to road con-
struction, while equally as large num-
Der believe that towns and cities are as
much interested in good roads as are
rural sections; in favor of road engi-
! neer overseership and opposed to road
engineers; in favor Of gravel roads as
| opposed to macadam roads, and equally
as many opposed to graveled highways
ALONE AND FORLORN.
San Diego World: Sutro-alone
and forlorn, disgusted with mankind
and suspicious of California's best cit
izens-has, like the bloodthirsty Modoc,
folded his tent and would HE to Wash
1ngton to scalp man who has done
| more for California than any other
one man. But he will return, lamblike
and shorn Of his whiskers Of frenzy,
for they know of him at Washington,
and his prejudiced vituperings cannot
injure G. p. Huntington, who has
brought hundreds of millions of out
side money to California.
NO MORE FOOLS NIGHT.
Los Angeles Express: AS we said Sat-
urday, the Fiesta was a success, but
there was one feature of it that should
be discontinued in the future, and that
is the so-called Fools Night" with
which the affair winds up.
To say that the performances of that
night are demoralizing is to put 1t mild
ly. They are in many respects outrage
Gus. The parading of the street by
women and girls dressed as men and by
men dressed as women cannot be per-
mitted in any decent community. 1t
lowers the standard of morality of the
whole town. 1t encourages familiarities
between the sexes and cannot but prove
most demoralizing, especially to young
people. Young girls are enticed into
saloons and places where they would
never think Of going if they were not
masked, and as they pass along the
streets they are subjected to familiar
tiles that no decent woman would per-
nit for an instant.
MCKINLEY.
Pasadena Star: A maxim, Find out
what the enemy wants you to do and
then don't do it, is credited to Napo-
leon. The inverse of this proposition,
Find out what your enemy Eon't
want you to do and then do it," would
fit the Mckinley case exactly. The
Democratic fire is centered on the man
from Ohio-therefore. he is the man we
want.
THE ROAD CONVENTION.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: The Good Roads
Convention at Capitola recommended
the passage of a law permitting each
highway district to tax the property Of
the district for it's roads in addition to
the tax levied for the county highway
fund. Such law has been often sug-
gested by the Sentinel" and was en-
bodied in the County Government bill
which was passed by the last Legislat-
ure and knocked out by the little veto
of our wise Governor.
The convention also advised the pass
age of law frequently advocated in
these columns, a law to regulate the
width Of wagon tires. 1t is not neces-
sary to wait for the Legislature to pro-
cure legislation of this kind. The Su-
pervisors can pass an ordinance at any
time that will accomplish the desired
purpose. The sooner such an ordinance
is passed the better it will be for all
concerned, inasmuch as it should be so
| framed as not TO take effect until S1ffi-