The record-union., 1897-01-07
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on Sub
jects of Living and News
Interest.

w llLOWS REVIEW. JliSObSliA ~ SAA~
curse of America. If we could take
every Congressman and every editor
who is forever running around with
chip ON his shoulder and send him
TO Cuba, there to fight until he mas
had his fill, the country would be mucn
better off. If these men had their way
this country would be forever at war
and not a soul of them would so to
the front. Each one would be willing
to send his wife's relatives. Any little
rumor is sufficient for one of these
blood thirsty warriors to make the
base of revolution.
THAT RIVER DREDGER.
Colusa Sun: Certainly, if the State
can be got to put in one dredger and
build the weirs, the land owners can
we'll afford to wait the result or
course one dredger would find all 1t
could do to keep the river from the
mouth to Rio Vista in order, and this
| would be of no direct benefit to US OF
the upper river. There is no doubt,
however, of the fact that it is right
right and proper to begin operations at
the mouth of the river If the dredger
| then works as well as anticipated and
the matter passes over the experimental
stage it viii be easy to put others Ito
work.
CONFIDENCE.
| Middleton Independent: The restora-
| ton of confidence cannot fill the pock-
cts of every poor man with money as
in the days of protection, reciprocity
and progress. Our markets are now
| filling rapidly with Australian wool,
| and manufactured goods have been
| glutting our markets for the past three
years. When we shall have returned
to protective duties ON imports and re-
| covered from past experiments we may
expect the return of good times as of
| yore.
| TRUSTS.
| Ukiah Republican Press: The wage
Garner as a general thing Is the most
pronounced In his opposition to trusts
and combinations 1t perhaps never
occurred to the average member of a
labor union that the law to abolish a
mercantile or manufacturing trust
might also be employed to abolish
| labor trust.
| TOO STRONG TO HOLD.
! Stockton Independent: One new sec
ton of the Penal Code which the Code
Commission recommends is peculiar in
more ways than one. 1t reads thus:
Section 25S. Every person who, in
public manner, or at any meeting or
assemblage, where more than twenty
persons are present, states or charges
| that any class, or portion OF a class, of
females in a community, processing to
! lead virtuous lives, is unchaste, whether
such statement or charge is true or
false, Is guilty or a misdemeanor."
One popularity is in the limitation to
audiences Of more than twenty per-
sons" and another Is in restricting the
application of the proposed section to
females" but the astounding part of
it is in making the Act misdemeanor
whether the assertion is true or false.
However good the intentions of the
Commissioners may have been the last
provision Is absurd as well as unjust.
Under it's protection any number of dis
reputable human females might form a
class, profess to lead virtuous lives and
make their professions g. shield against
those who in a public manner would tell
the truth about them. This Is one seri-
GUS opJeCulOH anu the llInlllnS Oh Lne OF
fense to falsehoods spoken In a manner
| that is not public to more than twenty
persons in another. A wretch who ut
| tiers such a falsehood as is sought to be
prohibited, even In the presence of two
| persons should be punished and one
who utters the truth in the presence OF
thousands should not be molested The
commission, in trying to do too much
will probably find that they will accom-
plish nothing in that direction.
FPJIIT TAJ3TEsIN