The record-union., 1897-04-30


That money should not be paid from
the City Treasury. To order it from
the funds of the city is rank misap-
preparation, and the officer who per-
mits it ought to be held responsible
upon his bond. If the Trustees can pay
out S26 for such a purpose, they nave
equal right to pay out $40, 600 or $40
coo, or all the money in the treasury
The excuse in the one case would be
as valid as in the case of the smalIer
sum. The people were congratulating
themselves that they had earned the
gratitude and applause of the whole
State by standing off the LeffingWeH
brigade, and refusing to be throttled
by it and made to stand and deliver
Here now the shame is put upon US
of having taken coin from the treas
ury, paid in for the express purpose OF
conducting the government and dis
charging the legal liabilities of the city,
to bride the Leffingwell crowd to evac-
uate the city they had invaded. 1t was
low piece of business and does no
credit to the Board of Trustees. That
body has now given it to be understood
that any other bulldozing crowd that
comes along can be accommodated with
food on impudent demand. We have
thus done the very thing that We
should not have done, namely, recog-
nized the organization. Therein all the
trouble lies. AS individuals these men,
so far as they were personally worthy,
would have no difficulty in appealing
for assistance in time of need. But
it is the massing and coagulating that
makes their demand a threat that is
never complied with without injury to
them and to the community.
1t does not speak we'll for the Greek
character as we have it to-day that
the population of Athens should turn
upon King George, insult him, and
threaten a revolution and his undoing
because of defeat of Grecian arms by
the Turks. That same population drove
the King by their wild persistence into
1t applauded him when he sent his son,
inexperienced in arms, to have command
of the army on the frontier. 1t was that
same people who precipitated the con-
fiict by urging the irregulars to cross the
Thessalonian frontier and raid Turk
ish territory, and then insisted that the
King should follow up that raid by the
advance of the regular army and thus
ratify the act of the irregulars. 1t is al
together probable that had not the in
flammable people been so urgent in their
demands the opening of the war would
have been postponed some weeks, and
the commands have been IN betterscon
dition and under better generalship.
The "Amador Record (Sutter Creek
has just issued a work that stands
greatly to it's credit, and is likewise a
credit to journalism in the State. 1t
has issued what it styles it's special
mining edition. It is a large quarto Of
forty-six pages, with a large loose map
1t is devoted wholly to illustration and
text of mining properties of Amador
County, illustrations and accounts of
Amador towns and businesses. and to
articles expository of the several min
ing districts. There is a good deal Of
portraiture in the magazine, and it is,
along with the other pictures, all good,
being half-tone work of the better
order The issue surprises US by the
extent of its matter, the exhaustive
ness of the papers, the excellence of its
illustrations, and the enterprise that it
embodies. II is an issue that would
be worthy of a metropolitan journal.
Mr. Winfield ]. Davis, formerly Of
the staff of the Union" but for the
last twenty years connected with the
courts of the county as official report
er, and for a long time editor of a
weekly journal in this city. has bought
a half interest in the Sunday News"
of this city. and will hereafter give his
entire attention to the conduct of that
paper. Mr. Davis has served in the
House of Assembly, has been several
years President of the City Board of
Education, and is thoroughly familiar
with the history, needs and capacity
OF this county. It may be assumed
that he will make his ability felt in the
conduct and editing of the News" to
it's benefit and profit.
The attitude of France in this Grecian-
Turkish difficulty is to the credit of
that Republic, France insists with
much vigor and firmness that the great
Powers should at once intervene and
bring about a settlement of the issues.
since Turkey should be satisfied with her
victory and Greece much accept the in
evitable. The French do more than in
sist. they give notice that they stand
ready to do their full share of restoring
order, and if force must be employed
and in saving Greece from obliteration
from the map as an independent nation.
The next time Greece goes to war she
will have learned that when one has
an army 10 fight with. ii is also neces-
sary to have a General to command it.
Its kindergarten experimenting has
been costly, but it has been valuable
TO the little nation, and TO all the on
lockers
Railroad Extension Denied.