The record-union., 1897-05-20

ana taxes IN features lndl nave DeGH
condemned by every authority on good
roads in the country
1t is being generally pointed out
that Assemblvman Clarke's claim that
the law will take the roads out of
politics by preventing the Supervisors
from paying their political debts with
patronage is rather far-fetched, for
there is nothing to stop the road trus
| tees from also using their authority
and power to their own benefit. Then
there are conflicts with the County
Government Act to be overcome, the
difficulties attending the handling of
money and innumerable other little
bitches, all of which, it is declered, will
make the law injurious rather than
beneficial as compared with the present
system.
THE LATEST REVELATION OF
| THE ROCKS.
Mountain Democrat (Placerville):
! To substitute Lord Monboddo's monkey
or Professor Jordan's "nomadc ape"
! for Adam and Eve the scientists gave
US evolution, with a long tongue to lick
| its bantllngs into shape and teach them
/ how to talk Without a first cause or
antecedent life, the whole proletarian
| fraternity of monkeys and men We're
! a job lot of supernatural nondescrpts;
| and to promote the survival of the fit
! test, kept the Fool Killer in a brown
study and always on the war path. To
correct the alleged mistakes of Moses
and supply missing links, required more
| miracles than ever before puzzled
saint. sinner or Skeptic. To undermine
all Divine dispensations Of faith and
/ hope, biologists and antiquarians run
speculative science into the ground,
| only to find museum of lifeless bones
and fossils. But at last Professor Won
/ Schroen Of Naples has discovered the
genesis and fountain of life and force
! in crystals and rocks-the mother lode,
so to speak, of monkeys and men, scien-
lists and divines. And so this seven
sided son of crystal has found a new
version of scripture and science and for
/ bread has given us a stone. Let US re-
turn thanks and keep our ears to the
ground.
| PRIVACY AND THE REPORTER.
| Tulare Register: 1t is often lamented
| that there is no privacy in life since
! the reporter came into being to pry
about for news and other rubbish, but
there is a utility to this Rich men
used to live dual lives and riches used
TO be cloak for sin. 1t is not so any
more. The man who would be a Doctor
! Jeckyl and a Mr.. Hyde will be spotted
| the first time he doffs his good char
acter and undertakes to have some fun
in his bad guise. Some reporter will
hear of it and great papers which love
salacious experiences will parade the
rich mans faults before a gaming
world. Formerly to be rich was to be
| exempt from public reproach Now. to
be rich is to be a mark for the shafts
of wit and the bludgeons of sandlotism
Verify, there is a good side to this bad
style of Journalism classed as the
new journalism
ADVOCATING ANARCHY.
Fresno Republican: Mr.. Debs. the
head of the great railroad strike of 1894.
is now advising organized labor in this
country to secure the best modern guns
and drill for military duty in behalf of
it's rights
1t would be pretty hard to give worse
advice than this. When it becomes de-
sirable for the various interests and
classes OF this country to maintain their
rights by armed force the time will be
at hand TO declare the Republic a fail
ure and to inaugurate some other form
| of government. Mr. Debs has evidently
not recovered from the disappointment
incident to the failure of the undertak-
ing to hold up the internal commerce of
this country and thereby compel the
settlement of a labor dispute at Pull
man. Illinois. He doubtless believes
that bullets can accomplish what the
boycott has failed to do He apparently
has an idea that the result would have
been different had the American Rail-
way Union, at the time OF the strike.
been armed and equipped to oppose the
forces of the Government
If so he is mistaken. The only dif-
ferences would have been as to the de-
tails through which the end was
reached. The final result would have
been the same. There would have been
few weeks of anarchy and bloodshed
blazing ruins would have marked the
lsite of towering buildings and the streets
OF a good many cities would have run
red with blood; but the end would have
come quickly and the result would have
There would have been more property
teries, but law would have been main
tanned finally and the edicts of the ad-
iministration enforced.
If the advice which Mr.. Debs gives TO
one class of citizens is good, it is equally
good for other classes Carried to its
legitimate conclusion, it is that the great
mass of the people of this country
should arm themselves to resist the
power of the Government. 1t is the
doctrine Of anarchy, and the man who
breaches it proclaims himself an an
archist of the most dangerous type.
GAME PROTECTION.
Calaveras Prospect: If California
would preserve it's fish and game for
future generations it is very evident
that some more efficient means must be
adopted. Every year game grows scare
er, and despite the thousands of planted
fish, our mountain streams are becoming
almost fishless. The State has hun
dreds Of square miles of forest-covered
mountain and foothill country, almost
unsettled. which is the natural home of
fish and game. and yet the supply is
steadily decreasing.
In the matter of game and fish pro-
lection this State might learn something
/ of the State of Maine which, though the