The record-union., 1897-07-11

some logical minds will question
whether any special attempt should be
made to infiict a painless lawful exc
cution. Murderers make no such at
tempt in treating their victims.
FOOL AND DoLT
Tulare Register: Considerable diff
ference seems to exist as to what ought
! to be done with the two fools. Ward
and Bradbury. They ought to be strip
ped and whipped and kicked out of de-
cent society, and then suffered to go
where they will and do what they
please, but as the law does not suffer
such thing to be done it stands the
authorities in hand to punish them so
| far as the law will suffer it and then
suffer them to go their various ways.
/ Evidently the woman is a fool and the
man is dolt. This is incurabe, but
punishment sometimes modifies the
curse of folly if it does not effect a cure.
Whatever virtue there is in punishment
| should be extracted in this instance.
| RECKLESS ASSERTIONS.
Bridgeport Chronicle Union: Scrap
books and newspaper files are incon-
venient things to politicians who make
reckless assertions. Candidate Bryan
last fall paraded in his speeches in
/ various parts of the country the fact
| that Senator Sherman had asserted that
| the growth of population and business
| in the United States required an in
crease of $42, 100000 a year in the cur
rency, and said that the cessation of
the coinage of silver had cut off the
opportunity to add this necessary
amount to our money. Mr.. Bryan finds
this statement particularly embarrass-
ing just now in view of the announce
ment that the coinage mints of the
United States this fiscal year will be
| in round numbers hundred million
dollars, and that in the calendar year
1896 niLetynin million dollars. which
is two and half times as much as he
| last fail asserted was necessary to keep
pace with our growth of population and
| businf IS. When it is further consid-
cred lhet the money in circulation of
the United States to-day is S13S, ,0OO. 900
greater than year ago, it will be seen
that his distress over what he assumed
was a lack of ability to increase our
own currency $40, 100000 a year was
not only unfounded, but evidently in
tended to mislead
THE EXIT OF THE INDIAN.
Los Angeles Herald: However pic
turesque the Indian may stand out in
history, however idealized he may ap-
pear in our literature, providence or
fate has written his doom, as one of
the nations that have been, but are
not. The rele Aless facts of statistics
prove that the Indian is fast being
gathered to his fathers, and soon the
mounds scattered over the Eastern
States will be the only monuments of
a race once dominant on this continent
Without a great change in the rate of
mortality, within fifty years the Amer
lean Indian will be numbered with the
lost nations of the earth
LADY OR WOMAN.
Fresno Expositor: The Sacramento
Record Union" is down on the la
dies. 1t protests through three quar-
ters of a column against the term being
used in referring to the notorious crea-
lures without proper designation who
furnish most of our divorce court and
newspaper sensations, and with our
wives, mothers, daughters and sisters
in common. But the first named may
as well keep the distinction of being
termed ladies. Sensible, cultured women
gave it up to them long ago, and even
protest against being known as ladies'
Lady has lost its original meaning.
and has become a conventional term,
while woman" that was once despised
has taken on the attributes that once
belonged to lady" 1t means more