The record-union., 1897-09-04


way to build up the great industry OF
gold mining.
The San Francisco papers have dam
aged the mining counties to the extent
OF hundreds of thousands of dollars by
the sensation they have built up on
the narrow foundation of one lonesome
pocket found in Trinity County. The
whole mining country knows that these
papers are busy with an enormous
fake And taking and falsehood do
mining as much hurt as they do any
other business It is shame that
there is no newspaper in San Francisco
brave enough to tell the truth about
this stupendous and mischievous fake.
THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN.
Santa Cruz Surf: The President of
the American Bar Association in his
recent address called attention to many
new laws concerning the rights of chill
dren. Among others he mentions the
new laws of Utah and Indiana pro-
viding for what are called Parental
Schools" In Utah, any child between
8 and II years of age, found to be an
habitual truant or wandering about
the streets and public places Of cities
without lawful employment, shall be
committed to the parental school for
an indeterminate period. but not be-
yond the age of IA. So, also. children
under 16 of vicious parents, or, by rea-
son Of orphanage, growing UP without
salutary parental control and educa-
ton, or in circumstances encouraging
them to lead idle and dissolute lives,
may also be committed to such instltu-
tions. In either of the cases men
toned, under proper circumstances, the
child may be discharged In Indiana,
the age of a child liable to be commit
ted to such parental home shall not
exceed u years.
Now, all this is we'll enough in it's
way, humane and commendable, but
there is a higher right to which chill
dren are entitled and of which an APP
parently increasing number are being
denied in these days, and that is the
right of being legally born and law
fully reared.
! The statistics of orphanages and
other homes for unfortunate waits
show an appalling change in this re-
gard in the past twenty years. In
many institutions of this character the
majority of the inmates are not true
orphans deprived of one or both pa
rents by death, but they are the inno-
cent, helpless victims of the divorce
court more cruelty severed from pa
rental care than those whom Death
| has robbed Of their natural protectors
and instructors
TARIFF RECEIPTS.
Redding Free Press: The free trade
organs which are gloating over the fact
that the receipts under the new law are
running light in its first month or two
have evidently overlooked the fact that
/ the Wilson law has also q record. Dur
/ ing several months of it's early history
the receipts under it fell below the twen-
| ty million line, and yet it had the ad-
vantage of largely excessive importa-
! tions due to the fact that foreign inn
ports were held back prior to its final
enactment, While conditions are exactly
reversed with reference to the Dingley
law, the importations during the few
months prior to it's enactment being
nearly double the normal amount.
A GREAT THING
Fresno Republican: How very differ
ent are the customs of our own beloved
and highly civilized land from those of
Borneo, where, among the head hunters,
a man is not permitted to offer marriage
to a woman of his tribe until he brings
| her the head of a man killed by himself
Here a man may not only offer marriage
| to women of his own tribe or that Of
anybody else, but may do so with good
assurance of success, if he can bring her
! nice, fat bank account. Civilization
is a great thing.
OUR HIGH SCHOOL COURSE.
d l.
well for our high school course through
out the State when more than one-half
of the graduates who presented them
selves at Berkeley to take the examina-
tiOn for entrance into our State Uni
versity, failed to pass in simple Eng
lish and were either conditioned or sent
back for further and better instruction.
The examining Professor is reported as
saying that the amount of ignorance
displayed in the examination was ap-
palling and amply justified the course of
the University in dscrediting a large
number of high schools. The following
from the Santa Barbara Press is
timely and to the point:
Now it seems to US that this signi-
fes that we are, in our high school
course of study, spreading over too
time to essentials The power to ex-
press ones self plainly in grammatical
English is fundamental How can a
boy translate his Caesar or Virgil if he
has not the power? How can he, ex-
cept in parrot-like form. give a written
demonstration of a problem in geome-
try? It strikes at the very root of edu-
cation and no culture is possible in such
negligence or base soil. 1t tempts one
to a steady adherence to the old three
RS, for without these a mental slouch-
mess is sure to bar scholarship as a
matter course, and to seriously inter-
fere with a boys prospects and future
life.
NOW COMES PLUMAS.
San Jose Herald Now Plumas Coun-
ty comes forward with not one but sew
eral gold strikes. To be sure they are
in quartz, but they are so much the
more likely to be permanently valu
able. Perhaps some Of the prospectors
who are taking the back track from
Trinity County may strike eastward
from Redding into Plumas. No doubt
this Coffee Creek excitement is greatly
in excess of reason and the prospect of
striking good claims, but such an ava
kening is bound to produce results in
the way of new discoveries, to give en-
ployment to many and to increase the
gold output of the State.
PROSPERITY AND OPTIMISM
Los Angeles Herald: Prosperity is
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