The record-union., 1897-11-14

We're driven to fall back upon the in
finitesimal sesamoid-a bone about the
size of your little fingernail-and from
that minute bone particle attempt to
infer, set up and recognize a human
frame. give it sex, and present it to the
| jury as establishing the corpus deficit.
No wonder there was doubt in the
! minds of the jury. And no wonder that
| sensible people in Chicago are saying
that the $4,000 paid out of the tax
payers pockets for such testimony was
| i'll expended.
| 1t is the opinion of both professionals
| and laymen in Chicago, that expert
| testimony has been irseparably dam
aged Ly the ridiculous showing made of
it in this celebrated case.
PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTIVE
CAPACITY.
Humboldt Standard: The common
idea, writes Hon. D. Wright in the
November Forum" that an army of
unemployed springs into existence as
soon as a depression begins to be felt
with any severity, arises as much from
popular sentiment-fear of the future
as from the facts themselves. We
:
and at once infer that many thousands
of men, ordinarily employed, are with
out the means of supporting their fam
ilies and the statements grow until
the army of the unemployed assumes
vast proportions Calculations. sugges-
tions, methods of prevention are based
on the assumption that there are mill
ions of men seeking employment, and
that production is greatly reduced.
These exaggerated statements lead
to many pernicious views and false as
sertfons. There is now going the rounds
of the press a statement, attributed to
the author of this article, that if the
productive industries of the country
were run to their full capacity, every
thing necessary for the support of the
| people could be produced in thirty
seven and one-half days in the year.
| Such statements indicate a thorough
| misapprehension OF the conditions of
production. of the amount Of running
| time in manufacturing industries and
| of the number of people necessary to
produce all the things that enter into
| consumption.
The question of the unemployed and,
| consequently, the amount of non-em-
ployment at any time, as we'll as the
| relation of actual production to the
producing capacity of our manufactur-
| ing industries, should be discussed to-
| gether: and it may be that. with fair
| " good understanding of the latter. we
| may be better able to comprehend
methods of reducing the number of un-
| employed and of restricting the amount
of unemployment.
HE WILL PLAY, THOUGH.
Stockton Mail: The Lower House of
the Georgia Legislature has passed by
an overwhelming majority the bill lor-
bidding football playing. The Legis-
lature of Georgia is evidently a green
pasture, wherein feedeth the ass after
his kind. 1t is an inspiring spectacle.
wherein the wild ass of Dahlonega call
| eth unto the wild ass of the Chattahoo-
chez, and the ring -streaked animal
from the swamps of Glynn brayeth joy
| ously unto his tall-eared brother who
croppeth the fat herbage on the banks
of the Ocmulgee-wild ass answering
unto wild ass in one sonorous chorus Of
hee-haws against the corrupting, dew
ilish and debauching pastime of foot
ball.
develops the very highest qualities of
body and mind-courage. coolness,
speed of foot, quickness of eye and
thought, strength of arm, and the high
scorn of danger and hurts. The namby-
pamby young man, the pretty boy, the
curled little Willies-these chaps are OF