The record-union., 1897-10-07

Dofu castles, palaces, clOlSleIS dilu
prisons, are inferior to the modern re-
alties where there are labyrinths of law
leading direct from the belfry charnel
to the morgue and from the morgue
to the highest court in Christendom-
What playwright will ever disclose the
winding Passages of modern jurispru-
dence that will lead all away from the
gallows?
RADICAL VIEWS.
Colusa Sun: When murder after muir
der is committed and no law is pro-
vided people are at a fault If they
do not insist on such a law being en-
acted by their Legislature. Stage rob
berry after stage robbery has been COM
mitted and burglars are everywhere
breaking into houses, all with the in
tention of killing If interfered with
There is no law to hang a man if he
goes deliberately to the house of a cit
iZen to kill him if he refuses to yield
UP his own; there is no law to hang
a stage robber, unless he kills some
one, though when he attacks stage
he intends to kill all who resist. This
looks like forcing the citizen to be
killed in order to hang robber. The
criminal intention is the real murder
and there should be a law which would
certainly hang every man who enters
the premises of another with deadly
weapons, or who holds up a stage with
firearms He intends to kill and he
should not escape being hung.
A POLITICAL JOKER.
Santa Rosa Republican: Governor
Budd is entitled to be classed among
the humorists of his day. Since the
people have been paying attention to
his utterances, he has said good many
droll things, not the least amusing of
which was spoken before a saloon bar
at San Francisco the other night. This
was when he toasted Mayor Phelan of
the metropolis as the next Governor
of California. He had just assisted IN
Phelan's undoing. He had just been
helping Phelan to make impossible the
thing that was then suggested. No
body could understand this any bet
ter than Mr. Budd himself. He knew
Phelan's ambition and the goal he was
striving to reach. At the supreme mo-
ment he advertised to the State the
handspring of Phelan's action in most
conspicuous manner Sly Mr.. Budd.
You are a good fellow and you can
see a joke with the quickest of them,
but it was cruel to make such sport of
Phelan.
THE BALLOT.
Seattle-Post Intelligencer: SO long
as Eugene Debs breaches the doctrine
that the right way to reform this coun-
try is by ballot, count us among the
adherents of Eugene Debs.
AS TO STATE EXHIBITS.
Los Angeles Herald The Herald
the other day, in speaking of the report
that the leading hotel men" of Cali
fornia had organized and made ar
rangements to maintain a permanent
exhibit of California products in New
York City, while commencing the idea,
said it would be well to investigate the
scheme and ascertain its relation to
Southern California products
The point was well taken, it would
appear. The local Chamber of Com
merce is in receipt of a communication
from the State Board of Trade at San
Francisco, saying that the Hotel Mems
Association had asked the board to as
sist it in maintaining such an exhibit.
This the board agreed to do provided
cluded. The association responded that
Southern California was not to be in
cluded, whereupon the Board of Trade
as a State institution, properly notified
the hotel men that the incident was
closed as far as they were concerned.
A State exhibition of California prod
ucts, Southern California not being rep
resented, would be farce Even the
people of the East who are unfamiliar
with the conditions would recognize it
as such
The hotel men can go ahead with
their show. We hope they will, and
that it will do Northern and Central
California a lot of good But let the
hotel men beware of calling it a. State
exhibit. Southern California is still a
part of the commonwealth of California
and pays her just proportion of the
contingent expenses. 1t has had not a
small share in giving the State it's en-
viable reputation as an agricultural and
horticultural producer, and large pro-
portion of it's products cannot be dupli-
Gated elsewhere in the State
Secretary Filcher or the Board of
Trade understands the situation. The
people of this section recognize his SER
vices and hereby tender him a vote of
thanks.
AND BE GOOD.
Bakersfield Californian: In view of
the fact that a Kentucky county court
adjourned the other day out of re-
for