The record-union., 1897-10-24
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Santa Barbara Press: How do the
free trade theorists who are
charging up the advance in wheat
to the shortage abroad account for the
advance in all other farm products,
corn, rye, beef, pork. wool. cattle,
horses, sheep, hops, tobacco and pota-
toes? The fact is that it is due to the
increased consumption at home. Peo-
pie who earn little economize i'll eat
ing; those whose earning are increased
spend far more for food and set that
of better quality. When the working
people of the United States are en-
ployed at good wages they buy more
food and clothing than when unem-
ployed or working for half pay. 1t is
protective tariff that does the business.
WOMEN AND PROPERTY.
Marysville Appeal: An anonymous
correspondent, evidently a lady, who
believes in suffrage for her sex, asks the
editor Of the Californian of Eureka
to assist the women in securing what
the men Of America now refuse-their
rights. This correspondent asks if a
wife ought not to be accorded the same
right that a business partner demands; !;
an equal division of the profits. We
are then apprised that without her hus-
bands consent she cannot buy or sell
| or give while her husband can take to
a saloon or gambling table the last
cent earned by both and leave his fam
| lily to starve or work or beg. But this,
we are given to understand, is not all,
or the half If the mother dies she
cannot give her hard earnings even to
her children, unless she has it in her
own right separate property. Not even
can she make a will-she is an incom-
petent. When she dies the zephyrs are
so soft there is not a wrinkle on the
water; but when the husband climbs
the golden stair Humbold, bark looks
as black as the day Of doom. And un-
| til the court peeps into his financial
affairs not a dollar is wifey allowed
to handle. The fair correspondent says
something more to the same pusporse.
Not entirely free from error are her
statements. For instance, in regard to
property, woman possesses nearly all
the rights of man. and some that are
not his. She possesses something more
than merely the right of the business
partner to an equal division of the
profits. She is legally entitled to MAIN
tenance whether the partnership busi-
ness yields profits or not. She can live
off the property of the partner. if he
have any. She is not prevented from
| buying or selling without his consent.
Her separate property she may handle
and dispose of in accordance with the
dictates of her own sweet will; and in
protest not a finger can the husband
| legally raise. If he abandons he is
| compelled by law to make provision
| for her support By will to deprive her
husband of any interest in her sepa-
| rate property is entirely within her
power. In the disposition Of real prop
erty her privileges are superior, for
while she may sell or give away her
| own possessions without her husbands
consent, no man will buy her hus
bands property without her consent,
expressed in her own signature to the
! deed.
Especially favored is the married
woman in respect to- rights of main
tenance and the handling of property.
The rights and privileges of a single
woman are identical with those of a
single man. The husband has one ad-
vantage, he may direct the use of the
community property; on the death of
the wife the law turns it over to him
without administration But in COM
pensation for the greater responsibili-
| ties that both law and custom impose
that would seem only fair The law
| of property treats women with con-
| spicuous liberality.
PUTS ASIDE THE CROWN.
| Kern Echo: Our own dear Governor
| Jim says he will retire from politics
permanently at the close of his present
term. Our own dear Governor Jim
will do nothing of the kind If he can
help it. The leading political fakir will
not seek office next year. To that ex
| tent he tells the truth. But he will
not cease to scheme for office, and in
| 1902 he will be in the ring for Sena-
| tor. Here is the programme:
Budd cannot win anything next year,
so he will let White make the race
for the Senate and Mcguire for the
Governorship. If they, by any chance.
should be elected they ~iii be cared
for, and if they are defeated they will
be shelved. Then when the wheel turns
round in 1902, and a Legislature is to
| be formed to choose a successor to
| Perkins, Budd will be at the fore and
can command the assistance of all the
Whites and Maguires in the State. 1t
| is mistake to suppose that "our Jim"
| is about to die from overwork. He is
simply playing a pretty long game III
politics
A BIG CHIEF
| Los Angeles Times: Herr Buck, a
big chief Of the German Industrials, is
not entirely satisfied with the provis-
! ions of the DingIey tariff bill Mr.
Dingley's delinquency in overlooking
our German f1iends-in Germany-in
concocting his famous revenue -produc-
! ing measure cannot be tco seriously
| condemned But there it is, Herr
! Buck. and it looks as if you would have
to take your medicine. In the mean
while America is not doing any worry
| ing or floor walking, nor holding pub
lie meetings to protest against Dingley-
| esque iniquities.
LES MISERABLES.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: A great literary
| tempest in teapot has been aroused in
| Philadelphia by the proposition to give
| Les Miserables'' to the French class
in the Girls High School to be read in
the original 1t is a great work, but
some things are rather breezy to be
perused in a schoolroom, for instance,
THE Surprise in the very beginning
of the book But if we are to be over
prudsh we must have expurgated BIZ
bles, Shakespeares, Tom Joneses, iris
| tam Shandys and all the wits Of the
great Queen Anne'S reign. If French
moves arc to be read at ali Victor Hugo
offends the modest taste the least. On
| the same ground that Les Misara hles,,