The record-union., 1897-10-29


treasure Of CASTLE will not accomplish
the end. Patriotism is much the same
In every land. The love of country
which induces men to draw the sword
TO secure its freedom is not often
tempted by the enemy's gold.
MAKE A CLEAN SWEEP.
Nevada City Transcript: Hon. E. II.
Preston of this city has been appoint
ed by the Governor TO succeed himself
as Trustee of the Preston School of In
dustry. Mr.. Preston Will doubtless at
once take off his coat and insist upon
throwing out the whole caboodle of
Wrangling, jangling officials who have
OF late made that institution a hot bed
OF scandal. AS the school is now run
ning It is disgrace to the State The
trouble seems to be because the princi-
pal, who was elected and has been kept
IN place in spite of Mr.. Preston's vote
ana protests, lacks executive ability, IS
afflicted with the big head and mani
tests brutal disposition toward his
suOordin3tes and the inmates judging
from the newspaper accounts of things
there. the quickest and most effective
way Of Strengthening out the muss is TO
discharge every employe from princi-
pal to stable boy and start all over
again. There are plenty Of good peo-
pie to be hired for the places if the
Trustees viii put aside all considera-
tions of friendship and politics in do
ing the hiring.
CONFLICTING VIEWS.
Bakersfield Californian: There are
two principal lines of thought acted
upon by those who would help direct
social and political tendencies in a wis
er direction. Two California college
professors express these conflicting
views.
Says Bernard Moses of Berkeley:
This must continue to be a represen-
tative republic. 1t is impossible to
highly educate all the people. It is
+ dangerous to half educate them. A
few should be thoroughly educated
that they may decide great questions
for the common people; be the masses
leaders"
Says David Starr Jordan of Stan
ford: An arraignment of democracy
is an arraignment of mankind. The
cure for the evils that accompany de-
mocracy, is an extension of democ-
raey."
/ 1t is as if Alexander Hamilton and
Thomas Jefferson were again with US.
NEWSPAPERS IN SCHOOLS.
! San Diego Union: The Kansas City
| school authorities have decided that
hereafter the daily papers shall be in
cluded in the curriculum of the public
schools. This does not mean however
that everything that calls itself news
paper shall be used What are termed
+ yellow" journals Will be barred, and
even the cleaner class of papers will
be scrutinized and any Objectionable
features will be eliminated. before be-
ing placed in the hands of the pupils
The plan, which has been heartily com
mended by the President of the Ma
tional Educational Association, is really
an excellent one. The idea is to make
use of current events as the basis of
practical instruction in geography, his
tory, political economy and other
/ branches Of study. Besides this, the
purpose is to make the pupils wide
awake boys and girls, who are familiar
with what is going on in the world
around them 1t is certainly not a bad
plan to have children who are studying
j history keep pace with events that are
/ making the history of the future.
MAY BE A GOOD THING.
I Oakland Times: The bowling which
/ is now being done in Germany, France
and other European countries over the
! Dingley tariff may be a good thing
after all 1t does no harm to this coun-
I try, and perhaps it relieves the fellows
/ who are bowling. 1t is noticed that in
/ the last outbulst a German manufact-
urer called the Dingley tariff the most
conflicting, contradictory and uncertain
/ tariff ever conceived" but we are in
4 clined to think that ii is the uncertain
/ ty of it hurting the industry in which
/ he is personally interested that makes
/ this foreign gentleman SO indignant.
WHY, OH, WHY?
Fresno Expositor: Carlyle never said
a truer thing than that about the
( "twenty-six million people, mostly
/ fools" The noted writer was talking
about England, but his remark applies
to the round world. And we've a good
many of EN- right here in the home
/ of the brave and the land of the free.
Anything more idiotic than that mob of
/ relic-hunters demolishing the benches
/ in Judge Tuthilfs courtroom for souve-
!
( hardly be thought Of A normal mind
can't comprehend what there is in a
murder trial to inspire this particular
kind Of idiocy If Luetgert is guilty,
and boiled his wife in a vat, he's G
monster If he didn't, the case was
/ still a remarkable one. But why should
any one wish to cherish relics of the
courtroom in which he was tried? We
/ give it up?
THE GOOD ROADS, LEAGUE.
San Diego Union: The California
Good Roads League which has just
been formed is an organization that
/ promises to do effective work for the
movement in favor of improved high
ways in this State The leagues eff
! forts will be educational and not po-
( litical. It viii prepare and circulate
literature in behalf of good roads, and
it viii draw up measures to be sub
mitted to the Legislature. Good-roads
legislation was to a great extent a fail
ure at the last session, and this Y as
very largely due to lack of combined
action by friends of the movement;
| both in and out of the Legislature 1t
is proposed to avoid this mistake at the
next session, by embodying the views
| of the league in a series of bills based
upon the experience of other States and
on the information gathered by the Bu-
reau of Highways in this State. The
league. it may be added. is entirely