The record-union., 1897-04-24
VOICE OF PHE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on Sub
ieCts of Living and News
Interest.

| ANcNo Nily iACN
ident Mckinley hits the nail on the head
when he says: What the country
wants is not more money, but more en-
ployment for the money we have.
THE TURKHEIM ABDUCTION.
Stockton independents: When the at
torney for Mrs. Delmas'-the Bar
| oness Won Turkheim Mrs. Won Arnold
or Miss Young-said there was some
power being eXerted here that was SUI
perior to law, he evidently spoke the
truth The story of how she was duped
into a bigamous marriage, was hurried
| away out of the country and is being
rushed to Europe, sustains his charge.
There must have been some such power
| to paralyZe the authorities of Oakland
| and Alameda County and have caused
| them to so delay action as to be always
| behind time in the perfunctory pretense
at an attempt to arrest the blgamlst
and kidnaper. The woman and her
child are on British soil and Detective
Stilwell, who is plotting the party, is
reported to have said that when I'VE
are done with her we will lose her" She
has been kept a virtual prisoner from
whom all knowledge of the conspiracy
against her has been kept away, and
she is being kidnapped as much as was
the wife of Go Sam or any other Chi
nese woman slave who has been sold
like a beast of burden. Had Arnold
stolen anything he would have been
| arrested before he reached Ogden, but
he only Committed bigamy and per-
jury by which no person lost money,
and no person cares to interfere while
a powerful agency hurries him and his
| victim out of the country. Who pays
for the expense of thus rushing five
| persons across the continent, their no.
tel bills, their champagne and bill
iards? Who pays for paralyzing the
police power? Who furnished Arnold
the money he paid the woman for her
| interest III the house she sold; who pays
his salary for his reflective" work or
the charges of his employer for manag
ing it? These are questions that peo-
| pie are asking. and the answer is, with
a nod wink and shrug: Who is inter
ested to be rid of the woman and the
dangerous knowledge she is alleged to
| pOsSess?" While the woman is, of her
self of little or no account, she is emit
tied to the protection of the law against
being kidnapped and abandoned to pow
=
and that protection has not been af
forded her nor has the law been put in
force against the bigamist, as it would
had he stolen a horse worth $40. The
whole story is disgraceful to California
and especially so to San francisco and
Alameda County by the indifference of
the officials in both places. which places
them in the-light of accessories to Ar
| 4 Pc nd n cfi
crimes which his flight with his vic
tim is said to be intended to keep under
cover.
WAR AND CHRISTIAN NATIONS.
Tulare Register: The news from the
Orient is great Only heaven can tell
what the consequences of the conflict
now raging between Greece and Tur-
key will be, but every friend of civiliza-
ton knows what it ought to be. The
Turks are not fit to rule. Their author
ity ought to be crushed in Europe and in
Asia Minor, for the Turks are barbarians
and are out of place in a civilized era
of the worlds history. But they know
the art of war, and make good soldiers.
Moreover the Turks are fully equipped
for war; are armed with the newest de-
vices for slaughter and are especially
strong in artillery. On the other hand,
the Greeks are a volatile people, sub
ject to extremes of unreasoning elation
and dependency, are capable of great
heroism or downright panic. The Greeks
are armed in a just cause and will have
the moral support of the world, but are
comparatively few in numbers, indif-
ferently armed and weak in artillery. In
naval strength Greece is superior to
Turkey, but Turkey cannot easily be
gotten at through naval power. All
things considered the condition of
Greece is desperate, and the Christian
world should rally to her support. And
it will if the war last long enough to
make an appeal to the Christian ma
tions effective but it will take time to
put the machinery into operation, and
Greece may have been whipped before
the Christian people of the earth awake
to the necessities of the occasion. 1t
looks that way now.
A MODEST CONGRESSMAN.
Marysville Appeal: 1t is surprising
that a busy man like Congressman Bal
ley of Texas should be able to devote
so much time as he does to questions of
raiment. 1T appears that he has firmly
resolved never to wear a dress coat.
unless he should be President or Secre-
tary of State His objection to the claw
hammer coat is not so much specific as
relative. He diSlikeS what he thinks
it stands for, to wit, social designations.
He does not wish to be diner-out in
Washington, and he carefully cutivates
an adherence for the conventional
male evening garb in order that he may
always have an excuse for declining in
vitations. He cannot conceive how pub
lie men, and young ones especially, who
need to study can find time to attend to
their duties and still CAD about in the
Ievening and go to dinners.
He is not the first member of Congress
who has found the day too short for his
laboTs, and has marVeled at his fellows
who find time to play; but while he may
be excusable in scorning such delights
as terrapin and ladies' conversation, he
is wrong in discountenancing the dress
coat. That garment, though in Texas it
may seem frivolous and ariStocratic, is
really the most democratic of all the in
cidents of garb. 1t saves money, be-
cause it never goes out of fashion; it
saves time, because the man who ac-
cepts it never afterwards need spend
thought on what he shall wear after
shutdown: and so far as the exterior is
concerned, it makes all men as nearly
equal as any garment can. 1t is the
friend of every man who has a mind
above raiment and Mr.. Bailey does not
do well to reject it,