The record-union., 1897-05-31

trammeled by ouivering nerves does
the work so speedily and well. Men
of to-day or tomorrow, You need not
look behind you for woman, but right
at your side. She is the other half
of you and human nature, and you
might as well bid your right leg walk
on and leave your left as to attempt
to move forward yourself and keep
woman chained to obsolete duties and
past customs.-Clear Lake Press.
This may be progress and all that
sort of thing, but this idea that it is
not just the thing to earn daily bread
by honest sweat is not a good thing
for the generality of mankind. OF
course the Press is right about the
man and the woman progressing or
retrograding together When the man
plays ''the gentleman" the woman will
play 1.-The LADY, These ideas of pro
gress' have much to do with the pres
ent depression. People of all classes
have fallen into eXtravagant habits.
People with small incomes have lived
up to the full extent of them and when
depression came, as depressions will
come, no one was prepared to cut off
superfiuities-they had become necess-
tiles. The poorest people of to-day
cannot bear to live as the richest of our
grandparents lived. The rich women
of half century ago did the towel
and picking act, but how we would pity
the poor woman of to-day whose nee
essities would force her to take it up!
1t is progress after a fashion.
POLL TAX ASSAILED.
Alameda Encinal: The polltax law
is we'll called the poll-taX infamy. There
are counties in this State where an ag-
gregate of six dollars is collected from
every man in this way annually. There
is the State poll-tax, the road poll-tax
and the hospital tax, which is stated in
at least one case in the writer's knowl-
edge footed up So. This was ruthless
ly collected from all. Poor men, with
families dependent upon them, and
earning by the hardest kind of work
the beggarly wage of a dollar day,
We're literally held up and forced to
give up their hard earned wages in the
name of the law.
The poll-tax is the most unequal and
burdenSome one that is levied It's
workings have long been a disgrace to
this State, and there has been de-
mand for the repeal of the law from
those who have studied it, but Legisla-
| ture after Legislature is elected and
does nothing. though every Individual
member must know if he knows any
thing, that the sentiment of his con-
stituents is overwhelmingly in favor of
the abrogation of the law
STICK TO BUSINESS.
Santa Rosa Democrat: Stick to your
business and let politics alone! Plow
and plant and reap, dig in the mine,
sweat in the furnace, work like slaves
at whatever the hand finds to do. and
let politics alonei Except, of course.
when the taX-eater has something at
stake in an election, This is the advice
given by the bosses and the office hold
erS and the contractors and all who are
feeding off the people through the pub
lie treasury. The sooner the people get
to know that politics is a very serious
business affair and begin to give it at
tentlon as business the better it will be
for them. 1t is business which affects
the value from day to day of sixty bill
ions of dollars worth of property be-
longing to the people, and is conducted
at an annual expense to the people of a
billion and quarter of dollars.
VIOLENT ASSUMPTIONS.
Oakland Enquirer: Senator Stewart.
yesterday, in seeking to explain the
adoption of the gold standard by ia
pan, said: Japan has been bought
up" 1t needs some violent assump-
ton Of this kind to help the free silver
people out of the hole which they are
in with reference to that country. ONLY
year ago they were all arguing that
Japan was growing immensely wealthy
at our expense by adhering to her sill
yer standard, but the echoes of their
speeches had hardly died away before
the Mikado's Government proceeded
to surrender its supposed advantage
by joining the gold standard countries.
THE TARIFF BILLS.
san Diego Union To the Republican
party and to the country at large the
House bill is probably more satisfac-
tory than the Senate measure There
must be concessions before the two
houses can agree. But what is most
important of all now is that the work
pedlted- The trade of the country is
unsettled. 1t will remain so until a
ta1r comprehensive. and protective tar
iff bill is passed. Let the Senate debate
be as brief as possible And it NAV be
suggested that as the country had
prosperity under the Mckinley tariff.
the more closely the new enactment
conforms to that law, the more likely
1t viii be to afford the relief that is
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