The record-union., 1897-10-01

! which they cover. We trust that the
issue will be kept uppermost until the
! velley feels a pang Of humiliation for
/ having harbored two such notorious
/ outlaws as Sontag and Evans Tor
weeks: until Stockton can understand
that notorious thief who came from
another county to pick the pocket OF
| one of Stockton's citizens in plain view
| of others and in broad daylight, was
cleared in the courts of this county af-
ter three trials and by the efficacy OF
| the pull which was brought into play
/ from various quarters of the tSate.
/ We hope that the defense will con-
/ tinue; that the agitation will be kept
! up until the people of the valley are
/ convinced of the great truth of that
! lesson which Abraham Lincoln applied
to slavery, viz: "A house divided
against itself cannot stand" Either
the interested propagandists of vice
win have corrupted and completely con-
quered the valley by association, by
environment, by passion, by untruth. or
the devotees of truth and decency Will
/ have drawn the line between the home
and the bawdy house, between the re-
sorts of innocence and the places of as
/ S1SIdllO DGLWGEH lllc CSttoCo VI VS. -
dation and the agencies OF culture and
! publication. We hope that the suD]ect
| will not be allowed to rest until an en-
barge is placed on vice and crime, and
order and decency, virtue and innocence
may exist by themselves alone and their
! opposites may confess their identity by
their abodes and surroundings. we
trust that Boston will hear and heed
the appeal, and hope it may SEND
whole army of Unitarians or some oth-
er sectarians here to teach by example
higher order of social life, and cultl-
vate a desire for and an appreciation OF
decency for decency's sake.
FROM THE FRYING PAN TO FIRE.
Stockton Independent: In its haste
San Francisco has called all officials
rascals and has gleefully, tumultously
and with no aforethought bounced vio-
lently as many as could be hauled into
Judge Wallace's court. Now San
Francisco is taking thought, and it is
not cocksure that it laughed at the
right place in the play.
Government by corrupt Supervisors
is bad. But government by yellow
press is worse Besides, the suspicion
arises that the Supervisors may not
have been corrupt. Whereas the yell
| lowness of the press is a gorgeous and
| indisputable reality. There is no queS-
| ton that the arbitrary and unusual
| government now saddled on San Fran
cisco was cinched and girthed by the
| sensational press-by the whole press,
with the exception of the Call which
has foresworn yellowness with laudable
and increasing earnestness of purpose.
The rest of the San Francisco papers
still march under the yellow flag, sym
/ boil alike of the pest and the press, of
the yellow fever and of the yellow de-
ceivar.
The new Board of Supervisors pro-
vided by the sensational press has
promptly cut down the tax levy. This
may be good thing. 1t may be a bad
thing. 1t looks to one who is unbiased
that it is a bad thing, a mere grand
stand play.
The Chief of the Fire Department en-
phatcalIy states that the efficiency of
his force will be seriously impaired. If
/ this is so, San Francisco will pay for
this penny wisdom in higher insurance
rates. And it may pay in the pound
foolish coin of a disastrous confagra
tion.
The reduced levy compels the cessa-
ton of park improvement and the dis
charge of laborers and policemen. The
park policemen are the best in the
world. The park they protect is the
| only public Improvement of which San
Francisco is not ashamed. It ought to
be more beautiful It ought to have
twice as much expended on it as is now
expended But it is still a beautiful
park To hamper its Improvement to
cripple its force, is little less than a
crime. The corruption of forty boards
would not do so much hurt to the city
These are not the only things which
make thinking men pause. But they are
sufficient to raise a grave suspicion
that San Francisco has no cause to
shout its approval of the hasty action
of Mr. F'itch's Supervisors.
BETTER TIMES AND LABOR.
Fresno Republican,: The disciples of
calamity, with few exceptions, no
longer deny that prosperity has come.
They cannot longer close their eyes to
the overwhelming evidences of better
times in all lines of industry, and neith-
er can they close their mouths. The
force of habit is strong. They now find
relief for their pent-up feelings in de-
claring that labor has no share in the
prosperity which has come to the pro-
ducers, upon the farmers and in the
factories Fortunately for the work.
man and all whose interests are inter
woven with his welfare. they have no
/ barrcade of facts behind which to
make this last desperate stand for ca
lamlty.
Laaor is gaining its share of the in
coming prosperity. The fact is seen
| everywhere, from the broad fields of
California to the smoke -shrouded fac
tory towns and cities of New England.
Even the men who pick grapes and
fruit in the vineyards and orchards of
this State in competition with Chinese
| and Japanese are getting ST a day and
board, whereas many of them were glad
to accept rs and 80 cents a day for the
same labor during recent years. Not
only is common, unorganized labor get
ting better pay, but what is of equal
/ Importance there is work for all who
want it. Industrious men are no longer
compelled to beg for the chance to earn
! their hread-a change that is recog-
nized With gratitude by many an
humble and honest toiler.
We can see for ourselves that the sit
uation is here, but must depend upon
what we read for information regard
ing other portions of the country. The
New York Journal" is not a paper
that would be likely to exaggerate any
of the benefits of prosperity. It's nat
ural tendency would be to minimize
/ them. This is what the Journal said
| recently in regard to the change of
conditions for La Dor In that CITY.