The record-union., 1897-12-10
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.

! the Senate, as it has of the House, some
radical reform legislation might be had
on the money question; but, if as the
democratic and Free Silver Senators
assert, any currency amendment OF
law which may be introduced in the
Senate will come out a free coinage
measure" there is but little encourage
nent for currency reform.
That our currency system with its
nine different kinds of money in circu-
lation, needs a radical overhauling no
man with sufficient judgment to keep
him out of an asylum for imbeciles can
! doubt. The credit of the nation, the
! financial condition of its merchants,
banks and the people generally would
! be put at once upon a better basis by
adopting the gold standard without a
culver, and making every obligation
payable in gold coin, if the sum to be
paid exceeds $50
THE SCHOOL SCANDAL.
Redland Facts: The way of the Off
cial transgressor in Los Angeles is par
ticularly hard when the newspapers
strike his trail The developments of
rascality in the Board of Education
would be shameful, disgraceful in any
official bureau, but in this particular
| board they are infamous. But if the
miscreants survive the scorching they
are now getting from the newspapers
they may feel more hopeful about the
great hereafter
THE COURTS MISTAKE.
| Los Angeles Record: The renuncia-
ton by Governor Sheldon of his allie
glance to the Republican party and his
declaration in favor of an income tax,
reminds us that it is much to be Ia
mented that the Supreme Court did not
declare the income tax to be constitu-
tional.
! If the court had said it was constitu-
/ tional, it would have been constitution
al, and the country would have been
| much better satisfied with the decision
and the court than it is now.
| On its face the tax is fair. In it's op-
GRAFTON it would tax those who could
best afford to pay it.
RECIPROCITY.
| Riverside Press: The popularity of
the reciprocity idea in conjunction with
| the protective tariff was shown in the
protests which were made against the
destruction of the reciprocity systems
The people who We're disappointed at
the destruction of these reciprocity ar
rangements at that time Will be graft
| fed to know that the Dingley law is
| likely to operate in this line in much
wider and more complete way, and that
| reciprocity under the new Tariff Act
will be of even greater value and give
greater satisfaction than was the case
with the successful and popular expert
ments made in that line under the Nc
Kinley Act
THE lone SCHOOL.
Oakland Enquirer: Every time an Off
cial is dismissed from the lone school a
little more Of the truth about that in
stitution comes out. Of course the
testimony of discharged employe is
subject to discount, but when a number
of such employees give testimony which
is consistent, the presumption is that
they tell the truth. At any rate, so long
as they are in the school they are under
the ban of silence, and will not reveal
the facts. Captain Timothy Lee, for
merly Chief of Police of Sacramento, is
the latest witness. Lee, who held po-
sition in the school for months, says
that all the stories of brutalities prac-
ticed by Superintendent O'Brien are
true and that the half has not been told
And still Governor Budd and those re-
narkable directors think that no inves-
tigation is needed.
LEGISLATION FOR ALASKA.
oakland Tribune: Whether or not
President Mckinley calls attention in
his message to the condition of affairs
in clr ie,
for that vast northern region win come
up before Congress. Within the past
few years, and especially SO since the
Klondike rush, it has become very ap-
parent that something must be done
to check the existing evils which, as
regards land and liquor transactions,
are little short of the scandalous Take
the land question, for instance. Every
holder of realty is simply a squatter,
for the Government does not permit
the passing Of any titles AS for the
liquor issue it is a wonder that it has
been allowed so long in it's present
glaring form. Strong drink is sup
posed to be absolutely kept out of the
country, yet the whole region is food
ed with it, for smuggers take it in al
most openly.
CONGRESS.
Mother Lode Magnet: This is to be
great business session OF Congress.
We are told. Currency reform, Cuba and
Hawaiian annexation, postal savings
banks, railroad pooling, national bank
ruptcy law, immigration restriction,
waterway improvements, free alcohol
in the arts, changes in the postal serv-
ice and so on, are among the subjects
TO come up for consideration. But
the members of the appropriations
committees, remembering the revenue
deficit say it will be a short session.
and the shorter the better.
AT THE PRESTON SCHOOL.
San Bernardno Sun: It is perhaps
for reasons of public policy that much
that transpires in the States REFORM
atory institutions is not known to the
public generally, but the brutality
which this has concealed at the lone
School will reflect little credit on the
State administration which is respon-
sible for it. Governor Budd may have
found places for political favorites. but
at what cost to the State?
THE DISEASE AMONG HOGS
Willows Promoter: We have been
making inquiries among our farmers in
an endeavor to find out what the dis
ease is which is carrying off so many
hogs, and find wide difference of opin-
ion among them and no remedy. The
best and perhaps the correct opinion is
that the disease is throat worms. These
worms are imbedded in the throat and
at different periods travel up or down