The record-union., 1897-09-13
VOICE OF THE PRESS
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

istics which has been exploited IN the
free trade newspapers of the country
claiming that the increase of manu-
factures increased largely under the
low tariff rates of the Wilson law has
led somebody to look into the general
history of our foreign commerce dur
ing the past half century. The result
of this investigation shows that in the
past twenty-five years the balance OF
trade has been in our favor to the
extent of s., 461, 600, 900, while in the
preceding quarter of a century bal
ance of trade was against us TO the
tune of 81 400, 100000. When it is re-
membered that the past quarter of
century has been one of constant pro-
lection with the exception of the three
unhappy years Of the Wilson law, ana
that the preceding quarter of cen
tury was one Of mostly low tariffs, the
significance of these figures will be rec
ognized
ABOUT MINING.
Folsom Telegraph: An exchange af-
ter telling you that you can get into
a good safe mining proposition at bed
rock rates by the use of good, ordinary
business judgment, adds: If you go IN
with them and want to succeed, do not
put an incubus around their necks by
sending a sick relative, a lame uncle,
a one-Iegged brother-in-law, a played
out life insurance agent, or some
broken-down song and dance man from
the East to manage the mine. Ii you
do your money is lost every time. First
get mine then a good, practical MIN
er for Superintendent, pay him good
salary and give him sufficient funds to
pay all his bills promptly.
A JEALOUSY CASE.
Alameda Encinal: There has seldom
been a case in which journalistic Jeal-
ousy has led to distortion of facts and
untruthful comment to such an extent
as the affair of Miss Cisneros in Cuba.
One must read calmly between the
lines, eschew the prejudiced comment,
and compare the alleged facts in order
to arrive at anything like the truth.
With the exception that she has not
yet been sentenced to deportation all
the statements made in her behat ap-
pear now to be borne out. And When
one takes into consideration the ra-
pidity with which trial, conviction ana
execution of sentence are carried out
in Cuba, it can be understood that
prompt action on the part of her
friends was essential, absolutely So
UNIFORM DIVORCE LAWS.
Sisson Mirror: Next to a uniform law
of marriage a uniform divorce law Is
to be desired. Under the constitutional
requirement that each State shall give
due credit to Acts of another State, the
existing condition Of our marriage laws
causes lamentable uncertainty in mat
ters that closely affect the well-being
of society. Certain States refuse to
recognize divorces obtained in other
States, on the ground that lax mar
riage and divorce laws are menace to
the family relation.
A movement is reported in Ohio to
present to the several State Leglsla-
lures a divorce bill for general adop-
ton. The bill requires residence OF
two years in a State before commenc-
ing suit This is designed to put an
end to the farcical proceedings Whlch
in recent years have tended to bring
divorce into contempt There are un-
doubtedlv cases in which divorce is a
remedy for an otherwise hopeless bond
age. and it is not just that parties re
sorting to this remedy should be classed
in court decisions with the adventures
who marry for money and fly as far
from home as possible to play the last
act in their disreputable drama. A
man who would not brave public opin-
ion in his own State by taking steps
to legally abandon a faithful wife may
be tempted by the facilities offered IN
a distant State for quick and easy di-
vorce to break the divine law.
The proposed law is expressly aimed
at the class of legal practitioners VINO
advertise to procure secret divorce.
The purpose of the law is to make Ill
vorce respectable by separating it from
the abuses that have grown out OF the
easy divorce laws of two or three
States. When divorce is obtained Tor
just cause, and in an open manner
no discredit should attach to it. But
as long as it is made a cloak for an
easy exchange of partners, certain
stigma attaches to those who have
cause and to those who have not.
WHAT 1T NEEDS.
Berkeley World: What the California
University needs is the cultivation OF
a spirit of dignity of bearing, something
akin TO that of chivalry, that Will de-
veIop boys into young men VINO VIII
discountenance uncouth demeanOr, in
act or in voice. and whose gentleman
ly character will assert itself by dis
missing from the vocabulary of college
life that detestable term coed,
which no gentleman with true chival-
ric spirit should permit to be applied
to any sister student.
FRIVOLOUS APPEALS.
San Jose Mercury: These frivolous
appeals, such as that taken in the case
of Allender, for the single purpose of
delaying or preventing the execution
of red-handed murderers who have
been duly tried and convicted, have
become so frequent that they are paw
ing the way for a regime of lynchings.
1t is unthinkable, however, that the
Supreme Court, when it reaches these
cases, will so rule that justice will be
defeated That body is more likely to
knock out every case of this kind, be-
ginning with Durrant, and murder Will
no longer receive the sanction and
sympathy of the law
HIGH TIME.
The Mail of Woodland: After spend
ing four years and thousands of dollars
surveying for "jetties, - easements, .
'levees," etc, the Board of Public
Works is preparing to dip down deeper
into the public Golfers by starting out
another surveying expedition. As Will
Green says, it is high time TO call in
the surveyors and begin throwing mud
with the dredger.
CASE OF THE GENTLEMAN.
Fresno Republican: The report that
Vice President Hobart had secured the