The record-union., 1897-11-29

in label should be punished by impris-
onment as we'll as fine. Let California
take hold of this and set an example
for other States and for the nation.
BOIL AND BUBBLE. TOLL AND
TROUBLE.
San Jose Mercury: Is it necessary for
newspaper to be always finding fault
with some one? To be constantly quar-
reling? Must it do this or be over
looked Must editors be constantly
calling persons bad names or be forgot
| ten? Tell us, if YOU can, why some
newspaper men never see any good in
anything-not even in themselves?
We are sick and tired of this kind
of journalism. If some one does some
Kind thing. something generous, noble.
| few stray lines may get into one of
| the papers. But just let the same man
make mistake, or what is worse, hold
some little petty office, and he will have
his picture in the papers and he will
| get four columns of words, cheap words,
| thrown at him. Nothing is too mean
or low or cowardly to say of him.
There are lots of rings" and gangs
! in several places in this lovely State.
Read one of the miserable newspapers 5
which is reforming every body and
know for sure just how bad we really
are. Why, We are simply terrible.
Nothing but gangs and rings" all
the time. Never any better. The new
officers are always as bad or worse than
the old ones. The throned boss is more
corrupt than the dethroned. With such
people the laws are not being obeyed;
no one is doing his duty; the schools
and churches and everything and ev
eTybody is bad and growing worse and
more of it,
To what end are We coming? If you
read these miserable croakers you
would think the devil was waiting, just
around the corner, and that he was
sure to take u.s. What foolish waste
of words, of time. Fortunately, little or
no attention is paid to such newspaper
| men, or to persons who talk as these
men write, or hire others to write for
them. They are much like Poe's "Ra-
! ven; they have but few words: the
words they have are dark and gloomy
full of evil, meanness fairly dripping
| from them.
NEEDLESS WOMENS TROUBLES.
| Stockton Independent: Editorial
warnings to young girls, and to women
of mature years for that matter, seem
wasted. Writers all over the country
point morals from stories of girls who
permit themselves to be dazzled or
hypnotized by attractive rascals, and
come out of the hypnotic spell only to
| be plunged into disgrace. Though
| these warnings appear in all sorts of
forms, telegrams local news, editorial
moralizings, sermons and motherly
talks by the firesides, the supply of fool
ish girls increases, just as the supply
| of gold-brick and bunco suckers in
creaSes. Fresno has a case of a young
woman in Jail for initiating Mrs. Brad
bury, and a young and pretty widow
was scared out of San Francisco for a
/ like lapse Tuesday. Down from Red
ding came a woman of mature years
on Tuesday in search of a faithless
| lover and several thousand dollars
which she had intrusted to him ON the
| security of a promise to marry her as
soon as a divorce could be granted her
| When she arrived in San Francisco she
| found that he had started for the Klon-
| dixie with younger and handsomer
woman and the money of the fos'saken
widow by brevet. With a church for
every LOCO inhabitants throughout the
| United States; with schools colleges,
newspapers and other elevating and ed
ucating influences on the increase and
| the tone of all pointing out that the
way of the transgressor is hard the
J frequency Of these lapses is discour-