The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-18

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of taking injury from it. This Will not
destroy the value of the paper as prop
erty, because it can command a large
circulation within these limits. 1t will
always be bought by large numbers in
San Francisco, as the World and
journal always will be bought by
large numbers in the tenderloin district
of New York The only way to reach
these papers in their citadel of vice and
infamy is to send their editors to Jail,
like Dunlop. Public opinion and the
Federal Courts are moving in this di-
rection. The New York World" has
just been notified by the Postoffice au-
thorities that it will be excluded from
the mails if it does not mend its ways
WAGES AND CHARITY.
Colusa Sun: A vast deal of harm is
done by discussing the plan of furnish
ing wages to those who cannot get pri-
waite employment. AS a rule those who
have not the ability to find employ
ment do not have the ability to handle
wages, and it is not only not charity
to give men money to sQuander, but it
is a crime to do so. A few days ago
there We're men marching around San
Francisco asking an opportunity for
something to eat, and some charitably
inclined persons began raising a sub
Scription to aid them. After a fund
was raised however, these men held
meeting and discussed the matter of
wages, and most of them were of the
opinion a dollar a day was too small.
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a living, but the beer and and a few
fact that all things that are created
owe their existence to labor, and that
the laborer ought to have a full share
thereof, no one has a right to demand
that any part of the increment shall be
his unless he has been Industrious, fru-
gal and intelligent. Every dollar that
is circulated must be earned by some
body; the thrifty man stores a part Of
what he earns, and the shiftless spend
thrift has no right to demand that this
thrifty one shall give him one dime to
throw away. except upon terms they
have both agreed to-. The idle and the
shiftless are continually pulling back
on the Industrious with all sc5ts of la
Dor rules and regulations that come as
an attack in the rear.
INROADS OF WOMEN.
Oakland Times: In all of the talk
about the large number of men out of
employment, little attention has been
given to one of the chief reasons for
this condition of things-the inrOads
made by women Of late years into fields
of industry heretofore occupied by men,
Formerly, women, as a rule found
enough to do at home to occupy most
of their time, but with the decrease in
the list of articles made by families for
their own use and for sale has come a
seeking elsewhere for the employment
which the home formerly supplied, aug
mented by an increased desire for fin
cry by young women. with the result
that in many instances the wife or the
daughter now fills position, at largely
decreased wages, which was formerly
filled by the husband or father, the lat
ter now being idle, and with no de-
crease in the family's living expenses.
A GOOD MEASURE DEFEATED.
Humboldt Standard: The Assembly
has refused to submit to the people the
constitutional amendment providing
for The Initiative and Referendum"
in law making. OF all the constitution
al amendments proposed, this. in our
opinion, would have been the best for
it would put into the hands Of the peo-
pie the power to legislate for them
selves on all important questions and
TO veto bad legislation. Judging from
the work Of each Legislature chosen
/ within the past eight years. we are con-
WINGED, beyond a reasonable doubt, that
/ the people must take this power into
/ their own hands or continue to be the
| prey OF lot Of political vultures and
vampires. Office holding has now be-
/ come one of the leading Industries in
/ California. New offices are created by
/ every Legislature and we are in the
! predicament of our forefathers at the
( time Tom Jefferson wrote the Declara-
/ ton Of Independence. "A horde Of
i Office holders" are eating out the sub
/ stance Of the people" With this work
/ constantly going on and each succeed
/ ing Legislature becoming more extrava-
/ CANT and less mindful of the peoples
/ interests. the initiative and referendum
! should be adopted, and our people
would adopt it as they did the new Con-
stitution if given chance 10 vote
upon 1t.