The record-union., 1897-02-01
Voice OF TIE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jects Of Living and News
Interest.

per saws that a rich Woman'S dress
costing $500, II represented by coin,
would buy 1000 loaves of bread Ior tife
poor The material and labor employed
in making a dress worth SooO no doupt
enabled many poor people to earn hloil-
ey to buy their own bread. 1t must pe
borne in mind that the extravaganza
of the rich is always a blessing TO the
poor. Spending money never yet caused
hard times; yet it may impoverlsh the
spender.
A CIVIL SABBATH.
Marysville Democrat: The question vi
a Sunday law is being considered again
in certain quarters and undoupleuiy
will not down until a reasonably just
law has been placed upon the stature
books. There are many people VINO 90
not approve of a Sabbath law, yet there
has not to our knowledge been d Ten
able argument presented against Id"
that will cause the people IN sellei e'i
to show greater respect LOT lile uas
From birth to manhood we were taught
by a good mother to not only respect
the day, but to honor it as bleSslhS'
In nearly all of the older states there
is in force a civil Sabbath law and uli-
der such provisions of restraint the
day is observed by mercantile hrms
and nearly all branches of business
THAT LIST.
Red Bluff Peoples Cause: DUCK
worth's list Of attaches and those rec
ommending them has been given TO the
public, much against his wish he
credits himself with eighteen, ana Oh
the other ninety-one twenty were rec
commended by the Sergeant -at-ArfllS.
Of the remainder many were recon-
mended by persons not members OF the
LEGISLATURE. Duckworth's buster ana
threats Will simply facilitate his dls-
missal by the Assembly
HIGHWAY BILLS.
Marysville Appeal: The bills for high
way Improvement are dangerously nu-
merous and the legislators will very
likely do the wrong thing unless the
men who have framed and introduced
them really desire to accomplish a good
work far more than they do place them
selves on record as the author OF a
successful mea asure, in which they VIII
confer together and boil down the gooo
points of the whole batch and bring
forth one comprehensive measure
whose enactment shall result in event
ually giving California the best hlgh-
ways of any State in the Union.
NO PLEDGE TO BREAK.
Redwood City Times Gazette: with
hardly an exception, the Democratic
newspapers which supported Mckinley
or Palmer are protesting that the Re
publican party in preparing TO enact a
high tariff law is breaking faith with
the gold emocrats.-EXchange.
Neither the Republican party nor any
of it's accredited representatives ever
gave a pledge TO the gold Democrats
during the late campaign that they
would enact any different kind OF far-
iff law, in consequence of the co-opera-
ton of the latter than they would un-
der other circumstances. How, then,
can Republicans break a pledge when
they never gave? The tariff was sub
ordinated TO the money question in the
late campaign, it is true, but still 1t
received attention at the hands Of Re
publcans; and so far as it did, from
the humblest exponent of the party up
to the candidate himself, the necessity
not only for the purpose Of revenue,
but to more adequately protect Ameri-
can labor and capital. If Republicans
propose to frame a moderate law 1t IS
not with the view of rewarding gold
Democrats for their late cooperation
nor yet for the purpose of holding them
as coadiutors in the future There was
no bargain arranged during the late
campaign and therefore there is none
to complete. So far as we know gold
Democrats as we'll as Republicans will
subscribe to this statement.
COMMITTEE WORK.
Visalia Delta: The published reports
Of the labors of legislative committees
at Sacramento shows that some good
work is being done by them. The AS
sembly subcommittee on Labor and
Capital has wisely resolved to report
against the amendment to the bin con-
fining the use of rock crushed at Fol-
som Prison to highways outside the
city limits The Assembly Judiciary
Committee viii report favorably on the
bill making State and national labor
days identical. There is no necessity
of having two holidays for the same
purpose At a joint meeting of the
Committee on Roads from both houses
q sub committee was appointed to draft
bill providing for State system Of
highways. This is an excellent idea.
Something of this kind should be done,
and there is little prospect of having
| universal system of good highways
unless the State takes the lead.
AN AMAZING PROPOSITION.
Antioch Ledger: Senator Dickinson
| has fathered an amazing proposition
| to elect Supervisors at large from the
entire county. BY this it is aimed 10
rob the larger and more populous com
munities Of their franchise. The ex-
| cuse for this prosition is that the Su-
| pervisor is a county officer and the en-
! tire county Is interested in seeing who
is elected. Editor Farjeon of the Con-
| cord sun" makes a good point against
this proposition by limiting that Assem-
blymen and Senators are State officers
and the State at large is just as much
| interested in their selection as the
| county at large is in the selection OF
Supervisors. BY the same token Cor
gressmen. Railroad Commissioners and
all district officers should be elected
| by the State at large. There is a large
sized bug in this proposition, and if il
did not already smell so bad we would
| urge that it should be killed.
PATHS ON PUBLIC ROADS.
Wheatland Four Corners: Assembly
man Ennis of Sacramento has introduc-
| ed bill in the Legislature providing
that Supervisors may set aside not more
than six feet on the side OF the county
roads for use of pedestrians and vehi-
| cles moved by the power of the rider
/ The provisions OF this bill are good 81