The record-union., 1897-09-07
VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

loose by the decision. The Sunday law
is a queer contrivance. A man may
commit crime on Sunday and it is
still crime, but he cannot be pun
ished by a sentence passed on Sun
day. 1t is a wonder that the Sunday
law cranks have left to the police the
authority to make arrests on Sunday
Los Angeles Times.
Which indicates that the Times"
thinks everybody else ought to work on
Sunday because newspapermen are
forced to. The fact that a man COM
mits crime on Sunday is small argu-
ment that the officers of a court should
be compelled to attend trial on that
day. Ordinarily courts in this State
are not noted for the celebrity for with
which criminals are convicted, and
Sunday sessions are hardly required
until more rush is developed in the 9th
er six days of the week.
FIX UP AT HOME.
Tulare Register: The farmers of Tu
lare County are going to have little
money this fall, few dollars to spend.
What ought they to do with it? The
Register rejoices with them in their
prosperity. and viii venture an answer
TO the above query Fix up at home
Most of the happiness that comes to
men and women comes from the home
life, and there is nothing so essential
to happiness as comfort Fix up at
home. You do not need a mansion in
order to be comfortable, but you do
need a porch around the house, the
leak stopped in the roof, the windows
fixed so that the wind does not blow
in at the sides of the sashes; some
battons put on perhaps, a few more
dishes, a windmill, a tank and the
water piped into the house and barn
surrey if you can afford it so that
you can go to town in comfort, shed
to put implements under, a new car
pet for the sitting-room, a few really
good books to put on the shelves, some
warm, snug blankets and clothing for
the winter, sofa, an easy chair or
two-these are the things which make
for comfort and make life really worth
the living. Womans work is espe-
cially hard and more especially hard on
the farm. All the little things you
can put into the home that will save
her steps will prolong her days, keep
companion for you. Therefore, friend
farmer, it is to your interest to use all
the spare dollars to fix up at home.
If you put up windmill and tank,
and can possibly afford it, put hot
water pipes into your stove and a
reservoir back of it. You will never
know until you have tried it what a
convenience hot water at a sink and a
bathroom and tub really are. They
not only make work easy, but baths
seductive and the health of the family
better Have the bathroom open
off the kitchen so thai you can warm
it up by leaving the door open, for a
bath in a cold room is an ordeal and
not luxury, and we do not take or
deals as often as we do Injuries, there
fore all good things should be con-
verted into luxuries and all bad things
into ordeals. Fix up at home first
That will do you more good than to
take a trip and it's good effects will be
more lasting.
DEBS' FOOLISH TALK.
Stockton Mail: In the labor confer
ence at St. Louis Eugene V. Debs said:
when the people are ready, and that
day is not far off, my friends, there will
be a spontaneous uprising. the Supreme
Court will be abolished, Congress dis
persed, and the sacred rights of Amer
lean citizens and American freedom
will be enthroned"
This is foolish talk The Supreme
Court and Congress have unquestion-
ably sinned sins of omission and COM
mission against the common people.
What then? Shall we abolish our in
stitutions because weak men or bad
men have perverted those institutions
for a time? Indeed, we will do no such
thing.
The remedy for labor's wrongs-and
labor has been deeply wronged-is the
right use Of the ballot We have before
this said that men who cannot vote
straight cannot shoot straight. There
is nothing to be gained by an appeal to
arms except certain defeat and the
slavery of the masses. If the working
men begin to shoot at the flag, all the
forces that make against freedom and
content-the trusts, the monopolies,
the financial wreckers-become at once
identified with law anad order and the
who hate these villainies will yet line
up to defend them when their defense
becomes the defense of the nations
life.
This declaration of Debs is madness.
The mans wrongs have upset his
judgment. He is no longer fit to lead
labor.
1t is no use to abolish courts or
Congresses, if labor could do it, be-
cause somewhere law must find ex-
preston in law-naking and law-exe-
cutting bodies. The thing to do is to
vote the courts back into the exercise
of legitimate powers-to bit their arbi-
trary use of injunctions by a constitu-
with Congress is to send the Republi-
can trust-mongers home-to fill their
seats with men fresh from the common
people.
Do you say the workingmen cannot
do this? That money will buy votes
and so defeat the popular viii? Well
If money will buy votes it will buy
guns and men to shoot them at you,
won't it? If you can't hold together
TO win elections do you think you can
hold together to win battles? Nom
sense. You can hardly keep men to-
gether who are striking for the bare
right to live. How viii you hold them
together to fight fer an abstract thing?
Rebel, if you like Capital viii simply
hire other laborers to shoot you down.
You Will not even have the fun OF dy-
ing for revenge. For not a capitalist
will get in hearing of the fighting. Not
they. It's safer to hire fighting done
Mr.. Debs is very wrong and very
foolish TO indulge IN such talk.
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