The record-union., 1897-06-13
Voice OF qHg PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
iects of Living and News
Interest.

| New York run short of material, they
| try to create a sensation by publishing
a Cabinet resignation under a Washing
ton date line. The latest of these stories
| had four members of the Cabinet about
to resign. The only wonder is that any
body can be found to believe anything
printed in these papers, which prove
their utter unreliability in every issue.
The Monarch of the Fakirs on this
coast is a blood relative to the most un-
reliable of these New York papers.
POLITICAL FORECASTS
Tulare Register: The fermentation
going on in the political world has
reached a point where it is possible to
foretell with some certainty what the
decoction will result in. The Democrats
will for a time have no politics but silver
and Bryan will be their apostle Pop
ulistic sentiment is gravitating more
and more toward socialism and Tom
| Watson is to be the nucleus of this neb
ulous body. Many of them ore chi
merical schemes of populism will be
dropped. but it will draw to itself the
socialist-labor organization and what
ever partakes of socialism, communism
and allied isms, but will no longer mar
shall under it's banners all the dangerous
elements of discomfort. The Bryan De-
mocracy will have it's full share of that
perhaps the larger share. The loss of
this will be distinct gain to popu
| lism and the more it loses of it the
| stronger it will become and the more re-
spect it will command. 1t is likely also
to draw very considerable from the emo
| tional religious organizations to become
| a party of great sentimental ideas, and
| to fall into the hands of sentimentaliSts.
| This will send the fusionists, the prac-
| tical politician of populism, out of that
| camp and into the Bryan Democracy
and there will be no other Democracy
except Bryan Democracy The gold
! Democrats will preserve an Independent
attitude in politics, but generally voting
with the Republicans. They will be
kept out of the Republican organiza
| ton by force of traditionary tariff an
| tipathies, though the tariff question will
| be out of politics for a season. There
! vii be nothing but finance in the air for
four years to come.
ABOLISH SAN QUENTIN.
| Los Angeles Times: The recent revolt
! anu dSlilOI dllZdllOIl dl Od1l NlutItIH OIlCc
more emphasizes the fact that the pris-
on at that place ought to be abolished.
| 1t is too near San Francisco, in addition
| to being under control of Warden who
| is altogether too soft-hearted to deal
| with the thugs who strike if they do not
get the daily papers every morning and
their regular supply of dope. Folsom is
the proper place for a prison, and better
than all else, it is under the domination
| of a man who is a master--and that is
what convicts need and is what they
have earned by their deeds of crime We
| hear of no grumbling about rations at
| Folsom, and We read no long-Winded
statements" from nor sensational in
terviews with the men therein cribbed,
cabined and confined. Men
| who have been convicted under the law
are entitled to no privileges. The pen
altly of sentence at hard labor should
be carried out to the letter, and those
under the ban should expect nothing but
the plaineSt of fare and the hardest kind
of hard work. If that We're always the
case we would not see men deliberately
committing grand larceny in order to be
resentenced and instead of our prisons
being looked upon as first-class free
boarding houses. they would appear
places to be fought shy of. There is al
together too much visiting at San Quen-
tin, too much leniency, too much pub
licity and too much weakness of disci-
pline on the part of the authorities. It's
close proximity to the metropolis is an
other factor that initiates against the
efficiency of San Quentin as place for
| a penitentiary, as has already been said,
and the sooner the whole thing is wiped
out and the pampered wards of Mr..
Hale sent to Folsom, the better it will
be for the State. San Quentin has had
its day, and, again we say. the prison
! there ought to be abolished, and that
with the least possible delay.
THE HIGH HAT ORDINANCE.
Kern Echo: San Francisco Supervis-
ors have passed an ordinance against
the proverbial high hat Many other
cities have done the same. This is the
most unpathetic reproof administered
to womanknd in many a day. For
years she has known that her useless
habit of wearing a big hat in public
gatherings was distasteful and annoy
ing to her friends and fellow citizens
of both sexes that in wearing an arti-
Gle of apparel which she in no sense
needed and which gave her no comfort
she was selfishly interfering with the
enjoyment of others. Yet neither hints
nor entreaties could persuade her to
desist. Respect for the rights of 9TH
ers. she had none Her pleasure in be
ing in style" was paramount to all
else. But now she is brought to the
,oo1 ha ictc
in her selfshness. Is not that humilia
ton sufficient to bring the flush of
shame to her cheeks? At this painful
juncture it is pleasure to know that
during the past year women by the
thousands throughout the country have
caught on to the coming expression
of Indignation and the elegance of the
coiffure has been taking the place of the
unsightly sunshade. To these, all hon
or: to the other class, the strict en-
forcement of these penal ordinances.
WHO LOSES?
Alameda Encinal: A question for
hair-splitters is, Who is the loser by
the so-called counterfeit half-dollars
made out of pure silver, of which two
or three million dollars worth are said
to be in circulation? Who is the gamer
is readily ascertained or at least,
though his identity may not be known,
the maker is the gamer But who
loses by the transaction? Not the Gov
ernment. for it has nothing to lose.
Not the people, for the coins circulate
side bv side with those from the mints.
and they even pass current at the
banks. Indeed, it is to be doubted if
the authorities themselves can tell the
,..e Then who loSpS2