The record-union., 1897-08-02

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system that has no superior, if an
| equal, in any county in any State in
! the Union, and placed us thirty years
back, in the primitive period of road
building. Happily the danger IS passed.
i Our road system is still intact. Our
Supervisors, who have given the coun-
! ty the best roads in the State-high-
ways which haze ELECTED the praise Of
| every visitor TO the county-can con-
! tinue to extend their admirable sys-
/ tenn without danger of having their
work obstructed by some individual
whose methods are based upon the OBJ
solete and worthless practices of half
century ago.
MRS. LEASES CANDIDACY.
San Diego Union: 1t is easy to be-
come popular candidate for Governor
| in Kansas. Mrs. LeI- is now on the
crest of the wave that may carry her
/ to gubernatorial honors. That some
what noted lady, it appears, having oc-
caSion to borrow money, mortgaged her
home to some minion of the Eastern
money power AS Mrs. Lease did not
pay up, the minion foreclosed, and is
now trying TO enforce a personal judg-
ment against her. OF course in Kan
Sas an incident Of this sort is quite
sufficient to make martyr out of any
debtor, man or woman. SO it is now
announced that the reform" forces of
| the State are urging Mrs. Lease to run
| for Governor That lady herself is not
averse to entering the race. She has
declared recently that while she had
/ no office and
pleasantly and profitably occupied with
| her lecture engagements and literary
work, she would be compelled to sacri-
/ fee personal preference if her fellow
citizens did not cease their clamor for
| her to announce her candidacy" From
all of which it would appear that the
essentials for political preferment in
! Kansas are a voice like foghorn and
an unalterable aversion to the pay
ment of honest debts.
BUT IT IS NOT SO IN CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Herald: There is in
| Prussia and in the other States corps
of educated, highly trained State EN-
ployes who have made roads their pro-
fession, and they know their business
Constant repair is one main reason for
the condition of the German roads
Comprehensive and minute reguia tions
are strictly enforced In some prov
inces the village Mayor is held strictly
responsible for the good condition of all
| the roads in his district except the
| State roads The work of repair is
constant and the labor is constantly
supervised. Another main reason why
the building of roads is carried out
honestly is the virtual absence of temp
tation to do otherwise. The laws are
very strict and violations are severely
punished by fine and Imprisonment.
There are three kinds Of highways
the provincial, the Kries and the Ge-
mein de Wege. The former two are
those whose building and maintenance
rests on the shoulders of the proVin-
cial or district representative bodies
All the rest are commercial or private
roads, and the same strict regulations
| apply to them as to the provincial
roads
In Prussia alone S11 ,000,000 per an
mum is paid out of the public funds for
the maintenance of roads and this does
not include the moneys expended by in
dividual communes and by private
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highest grade of public roads it is for
hidden to use them for vehicles with
protruding wheel nails, screws, spokes
! or otherwise Objectionable gear The
horseshoes must be of particular kind
Heavy loads may not pass over the
roads without special permission.
MINDS ITS OWN BUSINESS.
Petaluma Argus: The United States
minds its own business nearer than any
other first-rate Power, and yet there is
considerable snaFling at it just now
1t has seal fishery disagreement with
England, Spain is mad as a wet hen
because it imaglnes we want to annex
| Cuba Japan is talking ugly because
our President wishes to annex a few
! islands, at the earnest desire of their
inhabitants, and Germany is making
mouths at us for adopting a tariff that
shuts out their raw sugar and many
of their manufactured articles. But
we hope to pull through without blood.
A DECIDED IMPROVEMENT.
! Fresno Republican: Even the dis
senting and protesting Democrats must
admit that the present tariff law is a
| decided Improvement on the Wilson law
! in one respect, at least The Wilson
| law provided that a person coming to
! this country could bring over free such
/ articles Of clothing and personal adOrn
ment as were necessary for his COM
| fort and convenience during the voy
age" and also as much more as had
! been worn. A wealth of diamonds
might be necessary for persons com
| fort and convenience on a voyage, and,
as for wearing clothes, he is not much
| of a man who could not on a stress
! wear twenty or thirty suits III a day
| The present law, however, admits free
not more than 500 worth of articles
| purchased abroad, and, under its pro-
! visions the wearing of many suits of
clothing in a day becomes a useless in
| dustry.
| CLARKE ROAD LAW.
Pasadena News: Now the last yes
| tige of ROAD law enacted by the last
Legislature has been wiped out except
| that portion which Governor Budd let
stand in providing five jobs for five
pets with nothing to do. The way the
| Governor left the road law bungled up
gave the Supreme Court Wednesday an
! occasion to decide that the Clarke law
| is null and void.
RETROSPECTIVE.
Colusa Sun: When the steamer EX
celsior sailed from San Francisco last
| Tuesday, a great crowd of many thou
sands Of people gathered on the wharf
/ to see her float into the stream. This
crowd did not know the people on
/ board, rushed to the water-side to see
people who We're going on the hunt for
/ L 1T 70 mind ut