The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-13

1t has been the effort OF the Supefln-
! tendent to inform himself thoroughly
on the history of the boys given him to
manage in order to deal with them
understandingly. and to that end has
many times written to this city to Sc
| cure the most minute accounts OF their
antecedents, surroundings, etc. On
| one occasion he came down here and
| held a heeting Of the mothers of all
the boys in the school who went from
Oakland. These things are mentioned
because they show the spirit in which
Mr.. Bank has been carrying on his
work. The chances are against secur-
ing as fit a man if Mr.. Bank is dis
placed, and very much against it if the
successor should be selected upon the
basis of politics, as no doubt would be
the case.
THE BRAHMIN FAD.
| Oakland Tribune: The invasion of
Brahmin missionaries is disturbing the
Pacific Coast little at present, but
| beyond furnishing subjects for con-
troversy and an occasional social dis
turbance, little is being accomplished
by these Asiatic preachers. The relig
ion they teach, though as old as
precepts, its history or it's results, and
though it claims attention as a novelty
to the average man, it has nothing
! that can recommend it in preference to
the established creed of the Christian
world
One of these Brahmin visitors has
been sending back word to India that
he is obtaining converts in America by
the hundreds, but he is either wilfully
misrepresentinG the facts or else is Woe
fully mistaken. Not single instance
! OF conversion to BrahmiSm has been
reported here and the large audiences
the turbaned priests have attracted
nave simply resulted from curiosity.
The creed they preach will lose what
little popularity it might have gained
/ by the attacks made on American
women. The Hindoo regards the fe-
male as a subordinate creature, but the
doctrine will not do here where wom-
an is regarded as mans equal in every
way, even if she is denied the right Of
suffrage for political reasons. There
ought to be stop put to the slanderous
! assaults made on American women by
these Brahmin missionaries, one of
whom has just expressed himself as
| follows: These church women are
awful fanatics, they make a hell on
earth they make a mess of religion"
Some day the courtesy due to visitor
will be forgotten by being thus insulted
! in our own homes-one- of these Brah-
min presses will get his nose tweaked
and then we will have a sudden terni-
nation Of this latest fad in the cir
| Gle of the cultured
THE HAWAIIAN LABOR BUREAU.
Oakland Enquirer: At last the Ha-
waiian sugar-planters have decided to
! do very wise thing They have or
gained an immigration bureau and will
work to secure the Introduction into the
island of good intelligent American
Workmen, who will constitute the right
kind Of labor force and at the same
time make good citizens, strengthening
/ the republican government and drawing
the two cOuntries-Hawaii and the
/ United States-clOser together. Seeing
what a reproach it has been to the SUI
gar planters that they have filled the
islands with a mongrel population Of
ASiatics and other undesirable elements,
! it is singular that they should not soon
er have adopted their present course,
| especially after they began to ask for
annexation and it was made so appa-
rent that the only really formidable
obstacle in it's way was the mixture of
races. The planter leaders find now
that they have invited a serious danger
! by filling their country up with Asiat-
/ les, because the leading military power
| of Eastern Asia is acting as if serious
thoughts might be entertained of taxi
| ing possession of Hawaii.
| The sugar planters have assumed
that they could not afford to cultivate
| their farms with American labor. but
this is as baseless as the assumption
which the California fruit-growers en-
tertained for years that they could not
do without Chinese. This latter fallacy
was exploded as soon as it became nee
essary to get along without the Chinese
and the sugar planters-they, too, hav-
| ing been brought face to face with the
wall of a blank necessity-are now ex-
ploding the Hawaiian labor fallacy
! With the advantages which they have
enjoyed in the free introduction of their
sugar into the markets of the United
States they have been utterly without
excuse in pursuing the course they
!
it is possible to make beet sugar with
well-paid American labor in California
| it is possible to make cane sugar in
Hawaii with the same kind of labor, in
country so well adapted TO it as Ha-
wall is doubtless cheaper than sugar
! from the beet. At least one big planter
! in the islands has asserted that he has
a plantation on which he makes sugar
at less than $50 ton--a cent and
| half per pound. The cane-growers are
to be congratulated upon getting on the
right track at last.
| COOLIES OF MONEY
| Santa Rosa Democrat: We were told
all last summer and fall that there was
coolies" of money in the country,
which was locked up because of some
lack of confidence in President Cleve-
land and through deadly fear of the
triumph of anarchism and chaos in the
election of MIR. Bryan. With a Repub-
! lican President assured, the fioodgates
would be opened and gold and silver
and greenbacks and bank notes would
overflow all this blessed land In No
vember d Republican President was
| assured. In March a Republican Pres
| ident was inaugurated. And the money
| is yet locked up Industries yet Ian
guish. Millions of men are yet idle.
1t is not confidence that is needed now,
| but additional taxation.
ONE BY ONE.
! Napa Register: Another head was
| Topped off at the Asylum last Saturday.
1t was that of Joseph B. Gridley, fire
| man in the engineers department, who
Was notified 70 Nacafn on hefnr.a