The record-union., 1897-10-13
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions or Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

to any one who would solve the fol-
lowing problem: A bottle and cork
cost 81 TO-. The bottle cost 81 more
than The cork. How much did the cork
COST" The Bulletin" says that out OF
all the answers received only one was
correct. This does not speak very we'll
for the mathematical inclinations and
the arithmetical intelligence of the
'Bulletin's'' subscribers. Editor Bur-
ton ought to start kindergarten
KEEP THEM OUT.
Alameda Encinal: If there is no law
by which such pestilential anarchists
as Louise Michel and her ilk can be
kept out of the country, then there
should be one. While there is room
in this country for all self-supporting
friends of liberty, there is no room for
the Nest and Michel classes. They do
not know the difference between lib
erty and license, and will never learn
it except at the mouth of a musket or
the end of a rope.
AN OLD TRICK.
Stockton Independent: No honest
man can understand why the United
States Government should consent to
sale of the road whereby the people
are to lose from $20,000,000 to S25,00O,-
600, especially when the Government
officials are not ignorant of the fact
that the syndicate intends to capitalize
the property for $236, 900, ,000.-Senator
White in the Examiner"
This is an old trick of the stump
orator. 1t says in effect: Accept my
ipse dixit or consider yourself a rogue.
/ 1t is as ungentlemanly as it is illogi-
cal and presents only the alternative
of accepting the insult or exposing the
dishonesty of the insulter who thus un-
truthfully presents the question. Hon
est men can we'll understand why the
Government should prefer S50OOO,OO0
to nothing in the settlement of bad
debt. 1t is what banks, corporations
and individuals do every day. If the
$50 900. 900 offered the Government for
its interest in the Union Pacific Rail-
road is accepted it will receive nearly
| 75 per cent of a bad debt, and if it
foreclOses it is in great danger of get
ting nothing. No honest man could
make such dishonest presentation of the
case as does Senator White, who there
by calls all who disagree with him dis
honest.
THE GAMBLING CARNIVAL.
Fresno E,xpositor: The gamblers
spoke by the book when they boasted
that the town had ''been squared" and
that everything would go during fair
week. Everything does go and in the
most open and unblushing manner. x
To square a town. means for the
gamblers to make an arrangement
with the peace officials whereby they
after their own desires, including the
use Of steerers, cappers, stool pigeons
and all the rest of the swindHng outfit
In return for this protection" the Off
GERS get q percentage of the winnings
| sometimes running as high as so per
cent, the officers putting on their own
'lookouts," but more often the COM
pensarion comes in a lump sum paid
in advance. The privilege which has
been granted the gamblers this week
ought to be worth $4,000, though it
may be less in these pinching times
We presume, of course, that the officers
have been corrupted by the gamblers
or they would not violate their oaths of
office nod disgrace the community in
the eyes of the rest of the State
What would a elf-respecting Eastern
man, here to invest money and build
a home, do after walking through the
Grand Central gambling hell? He would
| fly from that mob Of sure thing men
and tim n-horns, pack his belongings and
! flee from the city. He would no more
think of bringing his sons in possible
contact with such influences than he
would think of consigning them to the
sea.
| Financially and morally this carnival
of gambling is a, loss to Fresno. It
drains the town of some money. which
the skin-game fellows carry away. and
it leaves a low moral tone from which
the city will not recover for months
/ 1t is a disgrace on the community and
| should destroy the prospect of re-elec-
ton of every man holding a peace
office in the city.
ANARCHY AND UNIONISM.
! Los Angeles Times: The Council of
the Federation of Labor in Chicago has
| refused its official Endorsement to the
| movement inaugurated by the anarch-
fst contingent of that city for a DEM
onstration in memory of the rioters and
murderers executed for the Hayn1arket
massacre. This decision of the Fedora
ton of Labor was reached after a vio-
| lent debate lasting half an hour. the
final vote being about four to one
against any differentiation between
trades unionfsrn and anarchy.
The action taken by the Chicago
Federation of Labor is to be COM
mended. But this action is not con-
elusive The attitude of trades unions
toward anarchism is not determined
by ostentatious resolutions, pro or con.
but by actions. The Chicago Fedora
| ton of Labor may s'resoloot till the
cows come home" against fraterniza-
ton with anarchists; but if, in the
next industrial crisis, that organization
be found aiding and abetting the
schemes of anarchists its resolutions
will be Of no more value than if they
We're writ on the shifting sands.
If labor organizations honestly de-
sire to purge themselves of the taint
and the suspicion of anarchism, they
can do so in one way, and in one way
only. Let them disavow by deed as
well as by word all affiliation with the
forces of lawlessness and violence.
Let them show. by arraying themselves
on the side of law and order in all
emergencies, that they are upholders
and defenders of the law, instead of
violators and defiers of it.
If labor organizations throughout the
country would pursue such a course,
lending all the aid and support possible
under all circumstances, to the side Of
| law and order. they might gain much
| of the public respect and confidence
which has been withheld from them
in the past, for good and substantial
reasons by their fruits ye shall
know them. Do men gather grapes of
thorns or figs of thistles?"