The record-union., 1897-10-06

by Barlow last fall; Senator c. M.
Simpson, Judge H w. Magee, all of
Pasadena Henry T. Gage of Los An
geles, and Thomas r. Bard of Ven-
tura There are probably Others but
their modesty has SO far prevented
them from coming forward. Pasadena
certainly cannot be accused OF lack
OF enterprise, having three candidates
already in the field, and plenty of re-
serve material like City Attorney w
E. Arthur and Editor W. S. Melick OF
the News on tap.
COLLAPSED.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: After several
weeks Of terrible excitement and the
horror Of bloodsl1ed, the miners strike
in the Lehigh region has collapsed.
With a little judicious forethought ana
certain concessions through arpltrauoh
good temper could have been preserved
better feeling among workmen engeh-
dered, and, what is better no loss OF
wages or life would have ensued. Ifu-
ly. past experience should be guide
to the future. AS we have often said,
a free government must be one of law
and equity and not upheld by bay
onets.
PROBABLY.
Riverside Globe: And now comes the
announcement that rawhides nave IN
creased over 80 per cent. since the
Dingley bill was framed VIII the
Democratic brethren charge that to
foreign famine also?
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
Alameda Argus: Highway robbery
survives as an industry with remark
able tenacity. The modus is about the
same now that it was in the famous
days of Dick Turpin The chief feat
ures are the mask and the gun. In
the olden times the robber stopped
stage coaches; in the modern time he
does the same thing exactly, ordering
out the occupants and riffing them OF
their valuables The oldtime robber
wears a halo, created by the enchant-
ment of distance But he was without
doubt just as scurry a scoundrel as the
men who held up the Ukiah stage yes
terday, robbed it and murdered one of
it's passengers. Some of the robbers
of the long ago have been preserved
in story as chivalrous men. and their
acts given quite an appearance of no
bleness. Yet it is doubtful if any one of
Black Bart, who robbed and wrote
poetry through the mountains of Cali
fornia dozen years ago. Nothing will
discourage the highway robber, it
would seem. He was ruthlessly hanged
and quartered at the period when he
flourished most romantically; and it is
not to be expected that he is being ex-
terminated by the halting method of
/ .af1r hot
walls But the people of Ukiah will
solve the problem for these two par
ticular robbers if they come up with
them.
FAR-OFF NORWAY.
Mail of Woodland: Even far-off Nor
way, a Ions time free trade country,
has faced about and remodeled her
revenue laws on the American line of
! protection and reciprocity" This new
departure of Norway is of particular
interest to Americans, because emf
grants from that country hold the ball
ance of power, politically. in Minneso-
ia. the two Dakotas and other far
northern States. Heretofore their
only objection to Republicanism has
been the surrender of their home coun-
try free trade notions. Now that their
native land has adopted the Repubh-
can American tariff, the Norwegians
will, as a rule, be Republicans here
after without any 'ifs."
LAWLESSNESS
Alameda Argus: Californis, after
quite a. season of orderliness, has
sudden outbreak of lawlessness in the
matter of highway robbery This is
| unfortunate. in holding us up to the
people of the East and other sections
as a turbulent people, where life and
property are not safe. That is repu-
tation that California always suffered
under. 1t was started in the rough
days of early gold mining, and is kept
up by sensational occurrences that
never sem to have an end. From stage
robbing to the looting of dead mems es-
tates by contract widows is quite
ways, and there are many intervening
high handed offenses; but they are
more unusual in some way than the
common run, and seem to impress the
Fastener with an idea that this is
| hard country. We remember that as a.
| boy we used to look upon a returned
Californian as one who had carried
his life in his hand and who must be
| ready to shoot or cut at the drop of
hat. That idea, we think, was more or
less general. Perhaps it is not so pro-
nounced now but we are inclined to
think it still fingers in a degree There
has been scarcely a year of the last
twenty that has not seen some unusual
happening to confirm it. Then there
| is division of the press that seemingly
would rather discredit the State than
to defend it's reputation.