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The record-union., 1897-02-22
HERE WE GO AGAIN.

Really, it makes one busy these days
to keep track of the losses to cities,
towns, counties and States, because Of
the unwise procedure that puts pub
lie money into private repositories. The
very latest instance is reported by
wire from Nebraska, whose State
Treasurer put State money into pri-
vate banks, whereupon they promptly
failed
OF course there is an old adage about
burned children dreading the fire, but
this does not seem to apply in the case
Of the quasi robbery that goes on
whenever some official turns up short
Of funds, because of the failure of
some bank with which he has placed
public money. The Record Union"
insists that it's claim long ago made
is sound and wise one, namely, that
there should be law prohibiting, un-
der severe penalty, any official custo-
dian of public money permitting it to
go out of his possession, or to be de-
posted in any private or other bank
ing concern, or to be used to capital
ize private business or to be paid out
drawn and presented.
The record-union., 1897-02-22

The Record Union this morning
enters upon the ninety-third volume
and the seventeen Thousand two hum
dred and ninety-eighth number Of its
life. Its years count from the date of
its establishment in 1851 and its con-
solfdation with the Record" February
80, 1875. Thus it writes fts age as
entering upon its forty seventh year.
The Record Union and the Weekly
Union" regard their past with satisfac-
ton, and their future with high hope.
They have served California we'll and
Will serve her better still and will con-
tinue their work with the consciousness
of having the respect and esteem Of the
communities of the State.
The record-union., 1897-02-22
LABOR EXCHANGE.
Its Membership is Climbing Up Quite
Rapidly.

The Labor Exchange had a meeting
yesterday afternoon at Pythian Castle
which was very largely attended. Ad-
dresses were delivered by good speak
ers, who explained the whole scheme
of the exchange, and this resulted in
the obtaining of sixteen new mstmbers
raising the roll to seventy.
The InterEational Hotel will be Open
ed about the first of the month and will
be the headquarters of the exchange
from that time on. Each occupant of
a room will have to furnish and care
for 1T himself, Though there will be a
janitor and janitress in the building.
The proprietor has promised to give
a receipt for three months rent as
soon as the first months rent is paid,
and AssemblynLan Houghton has
agreed to advance the rer,t. The hotel
will probably be rechristened, but the
new name has not yet been decided on.
The meeting yesterday was very en-
thusiastic and the explanations of the
scheme We're we'll received.
The record-union., 1897-02-22

moving the fair? Will the great agri-
cultural sections be more or less bene-
fitted by having the fair taken from the
center of the State and held in the bed
room Of San Francisco? Will it be for
the good of the State to place the fair
cheek by jowl With that of the Mechan-
ics' Institute, held at the same time in
San Francisco annually?
What responsibility stands behind
any offer to guarantee success if there
is removal of the fair? Who, If any
one, is to provide the State with an
Exposition building? What guarantee
to heavy cost annually for rental of
offices for the Secretary of the State
Board Of Agriculture and for the board
and it's property ON removal to Oakland
since it as a statistical and meteoro-
logical office and the State Board has
large work 20 do outside of promot-
ing a fair once a year.
These and similar questions should
concern the Legislature and not the
ambition of Craigie Sharpe, Mr. Tom
Williams or any group of citizens in
or about Oakland or Sacramento, either
We contend that it would be unwise,
uneconOmic, uurepresent ntative and the
hight of folly to take the State Fair
away from it's present central location.
IT would be farcical to make it shut
tleccck to be knocked about between
bidding towns or cities. If 1T is to be
given to Oakland this year on the thin
promises and nom guarantees of Craigie
Sharpe and Mr.. Williams. what will the
Legislature in common fairness be
bound to do two years hence for the
town that offers more aMurements for a
second removal? Will it put the fair
upon wheels and destroy the high value
1T now has as a means of good to the
State?
The record-union., 1897-02-22
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Mr. William j. McDermott, Newspaper Man. cf
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From the Necs, Indianapolis, Ind.

The following communication speaks for
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headache and sour stomach, my food rising
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notwithstanding my misery was compelled,
being q poor man, to get up and earn my
living through sheer necessity.
This was my condition for FIVE years
SO you may suppose my life was one of
misery, for l could get no relief from my ills,
and l had very little hope of recovery, hav-
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The record-union., 1897-02-22

chimes that raises the constitutional
question squarely, whether the Legisla-
ture can delegate it's power to regulate
elections. The friends of electoral re-
form may hope that it will be deter
mined that in the limited sense of this
bill there may be such delegation, since
1T will hasten the test of the voting ma
chine in California, whereas, the de-
cision has been reached that the whole
question of voting machinne adoption
should go over for two years and be
examined into by special commission.
Mr.. Bettman's bill provides that Su-
pervisors for all county elections, and
cities for all municipal elections, may
ADOPT voting machines and prescribe
regulations for their use If that can
be done under the Constitution and the
laws, it will be decided step in ad-
vance
The record-union., 1897-02-22
THE STATE FAIR MATTER.

1t turns out that Mr.. Tom Williams
and his race course near Oakland are
back of Craigie Sharpe's scheme to
move the State Fair to that place and
have the State forfeit between two and
three hundred thousand dollars worth
of property that it holds here, upon the
condition, and that only, that the
grounds shall be used for State Fair
purposes at the Capital.
Sharpe has a letter in yesterdays
San Francisco Examiner" full of mis-
statements concerning the fair manage
ment and charging falsely that it is run
in the interest of Sacramento and not
of the State In the same breath he
urges removal to Oakland on the
ground that it will greatly benefit that
place. A bill has been introduced to
effect Craigie Sharpe's and Mr.. Tom
Williams purpose. AS we forecast.
when the matter first came up, that
Sharpe would go back to Oakland and
work up some Endorsement of his
scheme, so he has done in the way Of
resolutions reputed to have been passed
by certain organizations.
The whole scheme is a personal one,
intended to make the State Fair side
bar and tailender supplement to a pri-
vate racing concern near Oakland, and
that is the beginning and end Of the
plan. The charges laid that the pre-
miums given at the State Fair are not
fairly awarded, and that coast and
Alameda exhibitors are cheated Of their
dues. and that the fat premiums are
given to Sacramento Valley people, is
a piece of shameful mendacity that not
even Craigle Sharpe should have been
guilty Of.
AS the Record Union" said the other
day. Sacramento has not selfish inter
ests in this matter. She wants the
State interest to be first in all things
1t may well be doubted whether the
state Fair is not Of heavier cost to
Sacramento than it is thing OF
profit. But even if of financial gain to
the city, 1t is very small. and with that
the Legislature should have no concern
The questions and no others for the
honest and discreet legislator to take
into his mind in this matter, are these
Why should there be any change in
the location of the fair? What, if any
State good will be conserved? Wha;
will be the State loss If the removal is
1 given that the fair will be conducted
without ccst to the State for premi-
| ulns. to excite competition among ex-
hibitorsp Why should the State throw
| away and permit forfeiture of tbs
splendid property it has here by re
The record-union., 1897-02-22

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and restore shattered nerves. They are an
unfailing specific for such diseases as loco
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The record-union., 1897-02-22
Is Life Worth IiYfnQf

If there is an individual on earth who is
excuSable for thus interrogating himself,
it is the unhappy mortal who suffers from
malaria in some one of it's diabolical forms.
This is no difficult conundrum, however.
Life is worth living by any man or woman
who enjoys good health, and is not har-
assed by reproachful conscience. The
malarial scourge, heavily laid on, Is a ter
rible one for the poor sufferer to endure.
A series of freezings, scorchings and
sweats-the last leaving one as limp and as
strengthless as dish rag, are hard IN
deed, recurring as they do with fiendish
regularity. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is
the worldwide known preventive and cur
ative of this class of maladies, either in
the form of ague and fever. bilious remit
tent dumb ague and ague cake. Used
with persistence they will, rely upon it,
eradicate disease from the system. They
der complaints, nervousness, dyspepsia,
liver complaint and constipation, and re-
new failing strength.
The record-union., 1897-02-22
THE DAY.

While there are tendencies of the
times which occasion the lover of his
country grave concern, the clear seeing
patriot has not within the line of his
vision that which causes him to
lose faith in the scheme of free govern
ment. There are evils to be renedied,
exigencies confront the nation that
must be responded to as have all de-
mands i'm the past.
Obstacles arise THAT must be over
come, theories disturb the peace OF
some and enlist the enthusiasm of
others which seem to threaten the
foundations of our system of govern
ment; but through ALL over all, and
underlying all, is the sterling unshaken
faith of the patriotic Americans in the
integrity of the nation, the perpetuity
of it's institutions and the destiny of the
Republic, which under the providence
of God is far from fulfilled
That the American citizen of firm
faith has reason for his trust lis, for
one thing, evidenced by the respect
shown for the natal day of George
Washington. 1t has not ceased to be
observed in thought or in cere-
monaal. Here and there throughout the
country there is still elaborate cere-
mony employed In noting the passage
of the day as a patriotic anniversary
and in all hearts its lesson is to-day
felt. Even where ceremonial has
ceased to mark the occasion, there is
such suspension of business such In
diyidual and social respect shown for
the day, as testify to the fact that the
lection.
Beyond all that, alt this time far more
than ever before, tihe day is the occa-
sion for instilfng into the minds of
youth lessons of patriotism In every
free school in the republic on this day.
OR some one near to and coqnmemora-
tive of 1t, there are held exercises in
tended Ito impress upon our youth the
reasons for the observance of the day,
the underlying principles of selfgov-
SrDfHeIlI, iIfS Sudi diFtetS VI Jul Nciif'Ni-
tutlonal form, and the distinction be-
tween people governed and a people
ruled.
The twenty or more hereditary pa
triotic, and other dfstictly American
associations hold their annual reunions
to-day. Numerous civic and literary
associations make this the date of their
festive, and their intellectual annual
gatherings Not a few orders require
that the day shall be specially observed
by exercises meet for the occasion. In
every State and Territory in the Ma
ton this is a legal holiday. On this
date on every ship in the navy and
merchant marine, at every army post
from the staff of every public building
in the land and over a million school
houses, business structures. academies,
halls. homes and other erections there
are floated the banner of the Republic
and the colors of the Nation. Even the
stage to a corlsidera Bile extent Is on this
day charged with patriotic expression
the press puts aside its contentious and
unites TO honor the birthday of the first
of American chieftians; the shipping OF
o,,r foreign brethren lying in our ports
decks itself in bunting in our honor
and we have now the novel announce
The record-union., 1897-02-22
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"Bright and Readable"
(From the Dixon Tribune.)

1t is due the Record Union to say
that it publishes the best reports OF
the proceedings of the Legislature.
The doings of the solons are recorded
which is not attempted by other pa
pers, and are written in a crisp style,
which makes them bright and readable.
The record-union., 1897-02-22
Granted a Divorce.

Judge Hughes has granted Eva H.
Bell a divorce from W. H. Bell ON the
ground of failure to provide for her
maintenance.
The record-union., 1897-02-22
Weather Forecast,

Northern California-Fair Monday; kill
ing frosts tonight and in exposed sections
Monday night; fresh northerly to westerly
winds.
Hight of river % feet 1 inch.
The record-union., 1897-02-22

These publications are sent either by
Mail or Express to agents or single sub
scribers with charges prepaid. All Post
masters are agents.
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast
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Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento
As second-class matter.
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The San Francisco call., 1897-03-27
LET IT BE COMMENCED.

The fact that the Federal authorities
have again suffered their attention to be
directed to San Francisco's postoffice site
is cheering, inasmuch as it foreshadows a
possible utilization thereof in the future,
and that would be tole-ably fair thing to
happen to it.
The CALL arrived at this conclusion
some time ago, only few days after the
general public had assured itself that 1t
had been mistaken in supposing that the
site was meant to have building put up
on it, and our conviction found ex xpression
In these columns several days since. The
result is that the authorities aforesaid are
again testing the famous ground, with an
encouraging significance.
Congressman Loud opines that work on
the new postoffice will be commenced dur
ing the coming summer. The money
necessary for an effective beginning mas
been duly appropriated and now lies in
the treasury awaiting the contractors
call. Congress will appropriate adequate
sums as the work progresses, as provided
for in the original resolution. Only let us
get started, and that site will assume a
more real aspect in the eyes of . hitherto
baffled community.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-27
"THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL"
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SAN FRANoIsOo's RAPID CROWDS

A leisurely person with an observant
eye and q mind given over to rumination
may station himself on any one OF San
Francisco's prominent thoroughfares and
be led into some interesting reflections by
simply marking the speed with which the
passing throngs go by him.
There is great deal in this speed. 1t
means more than rapid travelling up and
down the street. And the Significance of
it is confined to San Francisco no moro
than is the habit of speed itself, which is
pedestrianic characteristic of the entire
country, if not of the entire civilized
world.
One must at first experience mild Won
der at the haste which his sisters and
brothers display in going by him as he
stands under the protection of q doorway
and gazes out upon them. Every body APP
pears to be in most important hurry.
Every face indicates a consuming deter
mination to ''get there" in the shortest
possible space of time. So rigid are the
countenances set in this unalterable pur-
pose, that even the manners OF their own
ers generally fail TO assert themselves
when the exigencies Of personal encoun-
ters or collisions occur to warrant it; none
of the conventions of the drawing-room
prevail to divert our pedestrians from the
one inveterate aim of annihilating space.
Jostling and crowding, albeit speed with
smothered profanity or inaudible thoug hts
which i'll become brother travellers, are the
rule.
But after moments reflection one per-
ceives that in this regardless expense of
speed lies the cause of the Nations, or
mayhap of the human races, progress.
AS moves the individual in his inten tion
to accomplish his certain little plan or bit
OF business, so moves the composite man,
the community. the practical world. The
individual is always characteristic of the
multitude-his ways, in the average. sre
always synonymous with the definite re-
suits OF his community's ways. as evil
denced in all the perfections and achieve
ments OF what We call modern inventions,
or modern improvements. And in this
respect of speedy travelling along the
streets, The individual mans relation to
the age of progress in which he pursues
his way is strikingly brought out.
One might demand a reason for so much
haste, and deny that it is essen TALLY char
acteristic of the Nations Advancement, on
tho ground that man might start earlier
for his place of business and walk slower.
Indeed he might. He might spend fewer
moments over his morning pipe, or cut
short his leisure time with baby in the
back parlor, or he might in q hundred
logical and convenient ways get started in
good iime instead OF always late. to his
office. And so, indeed, might the ducks
out in Golden Gate Park walk about on
the lawn all the while and never 60 into
the water.
Our San Francisco crowds are human.
and it is natural for q human individual
to set the pace for the progress of his race.
He se.slt by walking fast, and his race
corresponds with rapid strides in modern
advancement. Wherefore let no man
swear at the "madding crowds" They
verify are mad in their flights, but SO is
civilization in it's fight of invention, pene.
tration and achievement.