The record-union., 1897-10-21
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| AAtcxcSts
san Jose Mercury: The promotion Of
Professor Schaeberle to the position
vacated by Director Holden at the Lick
| Observatory Will meet the approval of
all who are acquainted with him per-
sonally and of those who know him by
his scientific achievements He is an
able and earnest astronomers and he has
stayed by the Observatory in spite of
the unpleasant social conditions pre-
valiling there. The Mercury" trusts
that mis- appointment will be made per-
manent.
HOW ABOUT THAT?
Fresno Expositor: The Woman's
Parliament of Southern California pro-
tests against the slaughter of plumage
birds for hat decorative purposes. Mrs
Annie higgins of Santa Monica will
read her paper ON that subject entitled
Death for Halo" She believes that
women should overrule the fiat of fash
ION when it conflicts with the safety
ana happiness of the life about them.
Good. But carried to its logical concIu-
sion, this would apply also to seals and
the various other animals who supply
the cruel sex with furs. How do the
Iadles feel about that? And as an ex-
| IRENE, how about the birds we kill to
eat! They are awfully good, but-well,
thls subject is getting to a place where
II becomes PERSONAL and painful to the
writer, who holds sacred the memory
of certain juicy quails consumed since
the season opened. Let's switch off.
THE WHITTIER SCHOOL.
Oakland Enquirer: Inmates of the
Whittier State School continue to tes-
THY their lack of appreciation of Gov
| ernor Budd's reformed administration
| OF the institution by escaping ct every
opportunity Fifteen more ran away
yesterday The truth is that the DO
liucal removals and appointments re-
| Gently made have utterly demoralized
both the lone and the Whittier schools
ana deprived them Of any value they
| may have possessed before If Budd
had done nothing else to merit condem-
nation, this decentralization of the
schools created for the reform of way
ward boys and girls would be sufficient
| TO arraign him as an enemy of the
State.
/ SALOONS TO THE SQUARE INCH.
Alameda Encinal: The Examiner
knocks the wind out of Los Angeles
sails by saying that San Francisco
/ averages one saloon to every seventy
five or ninety people, while that of Los
Angeles is one to every 500. Mrs. Carr
had better send for some of those Bos-
ton missionaries for San Francisco as
well as the San Joaquin Valley.-Pasa-
dena Star
| There is a town of about 5000 in
habitants in this State which at one
time had one place where liquor was
sold to every fifty of population 1t
now has one to about every seventy.
POOR GIRL.
| Los Angeles Times: Poor Evangelina
| Cisneros After having spent fifteen
months in a Spanish prison she has had
to undergo the further indignity of be-
ing rescued by a yellow newspaper,
with the attendant lurid publicity that
has a tendency to cause an increase
| of crime. Miss Cisneros is paying an
awful price for her freedom and may
live to regret that she was not permit
ted to rot in prison, rather than become
a feature for the unholy exploitation of
the putrid press.
THAT DISPUTED SECTION.
Stockton Record: The controversy
over Section % of the Dingley bill has
not subsided. 1t is not settled by At
torney- General McKenna's ruling We
do not believe his ruling will hold. We
do not believe that the clause was in
troduced surreptitiously any more than
we Go that silver was demonetized in
1873 by a trick. The principle of pro-
lection to commerce and American
enterprise contained in that section is
one of the most important in the bill.
1t was discussed for months and
years before the present Congress
was elected 1t was made part of the
policy in Republican platforms. 1t
was demanded as an offset to subsi-
died Canadian railroads and subsi-
died British ships.
Why should it not stand? 1t is
just as important an element of pro-
lection as the one that compels all
cosating trade to be done in vessels
| of American build. That provision
has stood undisputed for years, and
has added hundreds of millions to
American capital that otherwise
would now be in British pockets.
Why should Americans fear to stand
for American railroads against Brit
| ish railroads, any more than for
American ships against Eglish ships, or
the American flag against the standard
of the British Empire?
Whatever grievances we may have
at home against our railroads or any
individual road such grievances are
our own. When an issue arises that
involves the welfare of those roads in
competition with British lines, subsi-
died for military purposes, then if
we are Americans we will stand by
the system of splendid roads that
American energy and enterprise has
established.
HOW TO KEEP TRADE AT HOME.
Marysville Appeal: 1t is the habit
among many interior merchants to de-
cry tfie merits of advertising Some
there are still in this day of the world
who iisinuate that it is money thrown
away. Others, but they are few, would
pass an ordinance if they had the pow
er prescribing newspapers in their To-
calities- Others, again, see and know
of the benefits of properly. announcing
their wares, but are of the Screw-down
order and by playing off one paper in
town against the other try to OBJ
tain rates that yield the newspaper
man little or no profit. The classes
commented on above are all clever bus
lnessmen-smart is no name for it. In
fatuated with the lustre of their busi-
ness ability they pursue their course in
narrow, hide-bound manner until at