The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-04

if such error, ruling, instruction. or de-
feet had not occurred or existed There
shall be no presumption that error
is prejudiciai, or that injury was done
IL error is shown. On effect, February
26, 1917
If to sustain an appeal the party
must prove by the record that such
error, ruling or instruction was preiu-
dlcial and if there is to be no presume
ton that error is prejudicial. it is hard
to see what cases can be taken up to
the Supreme Court on appeal. But.
since the Supreme Court is supreme in
this State, it will probably legislate this
restriction out of existence and go on
as it has in the past with it's decisions
and reversals of the lower courts.
whether errors are proven to be preju-
dicial or not. If the Supreme Court in
tends to carry out the intent of this
law 1T will soon have little work to do.
as 1t will make each Superior Court a
supreme Court in itself
THE RESULT.
Oakland Enquirer: .'Of all the things
which should be left to the care of the
local authorities county roads are one"
says the San Francisco Post" Roads
have been considered a local concern in
this State and in most States for long
time. and what is the result? 1t is that
we have no good roads. Excess of To-
calism is recognized by all experts as
being the bane of our road system. if
system it may be called where really
there is no system. 1t has been found
in the exEt rience of all governments
which maintain good roads that the
backbone of the system is a proper
classification and the treatment of
each class according to its needs. and
that this requires something more than
local control. Wherever the roads are
left entirely to the control of local au-
thorities. roads are bad, and wherever
roads are treated as a national con-
Germ, or State concern, Improvement
begins at once. If our common school
system were left entirely to the man
agement of district boards our schools
would be as poor as our roads.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
The Pajaronian: The question of call
ing another constitutional convention is
to be submitted to the voters of Califor-
mia at the general election to be held in
1898. The resolution providing for the
submission was worked through the
Legislature by single-tax advocates,
and in the event the Democrats nomin-
ate Judge Mcguire for Governor the
calling of a constitutional convention is
apt to prove the big issue in the cam
palgn. The revenue and taxation arti-
Gle of the. Constitution does not suit the
radical single takers, and yet what was
the most pleasing part of the Constitu-
ton to the 'reformerS of 1879. The
Constitution has been saddled with mn
merous amendments since its adontion
in 1879. and is threatened with a lot
more on which the people are to vote
next year. If it could be guaranteed
that a new convention would formulate
a simple and satisfactory Constitution
one that would have for it's object
the cinching of any class or the Danish
ment of possible capital-investing en-
terprises-then it would be for the ben
eft of California to have a new con-
vention and a new Constitution: but if
it is proposed to try another series of
experiments the State had much better
hold on to the Constitution it has.
CRETAN CHRISTIANS.
Stockton Independent: Cretan Chris
tians are evidently hard lot, but they
must be degraded indeed if thew are
worse than the naval commanders of
the Christians Powers who shelled the
CretanS and aided the Turks in their
massacre Of Christians and turned loose
on them the Turks whom the Christians
captured and paroled. Political Chris