The record-union., 1897-12-15
VOICE OF the PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
iects Of Living News
Interest.

Stockton Record: The Merced Suns
anxiety TO create a Democratic-P Popu-
list-Free- e-Silver-Republcan trust for
the campaign of 1890 seems to meet
with opposition 1t goes to the length
Of saying that devotion to principle
suggests to Populists the expediency OF
working for success by whatever
means" This is very candid and ex-
plains the devotion TO principle" with
a nicely of language that admits of no
mistake.
HE WHO GOES OUT.
Bakersfield Californian: The Stock
ton Mail" suggests that an ordinance
that viii reach the man who goes out
between the acts would be about the
proper thing 1t would indeed, and a
reasonable fine for breaking it would
rapidly fill the Golfers of every munich
pality IN the State.
THE POOR FARM.
Tulare Register: The Colusa Sun"
objects to calling a poor farm a poor
farm because some people would have
to SO there for shorter or longer per-
iods who are really not to blame for
becoming public burdens and then they
ought to be helped to earn their liv-
ing even there. 1t must be allowed
that there is something in a name and
that no discredit ought to be attached
to one who is made a public charge
| through no fault Of his own, but it is
not easy to suggest a name that will
take aA ay from the sensitive and self
respecting soul the sting of accepting
aims and to those who are not self
respecting the term poor farm" will
have no terrors save in the inforced
labor which the term may come to
imply.
THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.
San Diego Union: There is little
doubt that during the present Congress
sional session determined effort is to
be made by the spoilsmen in Congress
to nullify or actually repeal the civil
service law The outcome will be
awaited with the keenest anxiety by
thousands of people all over the coun-
try, who believe in clean politics and
would deplore as a backward step a
return to the system in vogue only a
few years ago. The law which it is
now proposed to nullify, is the result
of earnest work by some of the coun-
try's best men.
THE ILL ODORS AT IONE.
Stockton Independent: Superintend-
ent OBrien of the Preston School of
Industry has resigned, and the public
will probably never know the exact
truth about the stories of brutality and
n1ismana cement. DR.. O'Brien is quot
ed as saying he must be vindicated by
the Trustees or his resignation doesn't
60" OF course he will be vindicated
That has probably been all arranged
IN advance. To those who suggest
that to vindicate him would be incon-
sistent the answer that inconsistency
would be nothing new or strange to
them would be sufficient. He has been
'vindicated' most vindictively, and
any further vindication will probably
be Of the same kind The programme
includes the return of Tim Lee to the
position which he recently resigned
OBrien is to be vindicated; Lee is to
be vlndicated; Trustee Tyrrell is to be
vim n1icated; everybody is to be vindi-
Gated, and all concerned will be popu-
larly regarded as afraid to do anything
but 10 yindicate everybody and every
thing. While this farce is being played
and Governor Budd will fatter them
selves that the public will be satisfied
because unable to see through the fog
they have raised around the reforna-
tory scandal. The people are begin
ming to believe the stories Of both par
ties to the scandal, ard conclude that
neither dares to have a full and COM
plete investigation. The lone institu-
ton is an example Of public charity
demoralized by politics.
THE FULL SHEAF.
Stockton Mail: We have no patience
at all with the intolerable cant which
is never SO happy as when death fur
nishes 1t a subject for maudlin bab-
bling. Death, when it comes peace
fully and naturally to end a long and
good Life, is not at all an awful thing.
Neither do any of us who are buoyed
up either by religion or philosophy, sor-
row as those who are without hopa
when The loved one goes away into the
unknown country. The outward signs
of ostentatious grief, the black robes,
the costly mourning-these things har-
monize neither with religion nor with
sense.
NO DEFICIT IN PROSPECT.
Marysville Appeal: A good deal of
distress has been felt in the minds of
Democratic editors for the past few
days over the fact that the estimates
Of the Treasury Department sent to
Congress at the opening of the session
indicates an apparent deficit of S21.-
61I SO during the fiscal year which
ends June 80 1899. 1t is proper to
say, with reference to this estimate
that a recently enacted law requires
the War Department to put into its
estimate for the expenditures of the
coming year all estimates made by sub
ordinate officers, or needed expenditures
upon the river and harbor works where
they are employed. The result of this
is that the estimates for river and har-
Dor improvements alone, amounted to
S65, 400, 400 which, of course. is from
forty to fifty million dollars more than
will be appropriated for that purpose.
Notwithstanding the fact that these
figures We're excessive, the Treasury
Department was compelled under the
law to include them in its so-called es-
Inmates, knowing full well they were
absolutely excessive, and that the ap-
preparations for this work would fall
PROBABLY $4,000 900 below the figures
named. These circumstances account
for the fact that the official figures es-
innate an apparent deficit of S21 900
COO. when in fact it is expected that
there VIII be surplus Of at least that
amount in the year in question.
A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.
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