The record-union., 1897-03-30

to look a little out lest they involve
themselves in difficulties with the po-
lice. One of these classes is composed
or the cie1gymen and the ether of the
barkeepers-pers who stand at op-
posItes extremes of the social scale.
First, the clergymen must not marry
divorced man or woman unless the date
or the divorce was at least year earil-
er than the second marriage. As for
the barkeepe,s they are prohibited
from selling liquor ito any habitual or
common drunlard'' on penalty of fine
or imprisonment which may run up to
1000 or two years. Formerly the law
required the wife or parents to notify
saloonkeepers not to sell to drunkards
before the prohibition took effect, but
now no notification is required.
AS TO CONGRESSMEN.
Redlands Citrograph: When Califor-
ria gets a good man for Congressman
or Senator, and he serves his constitu-
ents well fer two or three terms, the
howl goes up, Give some one else
chance. We want no office-holCIng
oligarchy" And the people proceed
to turn him down and out and send
a new man AS a consequence, Cali
East has learned better. When they
get a good man he goes back again
and again, and finally works his way
UP to the important committees ana
gets what he wants for his cOnStitu-
eEds. There is no immediate signifl-
canoe in these remarks, but they are
made in view of there being a Con-
gressional election next year, and the
Seventh as well as the Sixth District
ought to have experienced men in Con-
gress who are in close touch with a
distinctively Republican adminiStra-
tiOn.
A GREAT MISTAKE.
Red Bluff News: The Democrats
never made a greater mistake than
when they ignored the tariff issue and
fought the battle of '96 on the single
issue of the free coir1age Of silver. The
object was to unite all the elements IN
the country in favor of free coinage,
believing they could thus win, but in
this they did not succeed, and 1t is
clear now that had straight Demo-
cratic platform been adopted that COW
cred the tariff as we'll as the silver
question the party would have Jared
quite as we'll at the polls as it did, II
not better. By ignoring the tariff they
played the very game the RepuDllcans
wished them to, and allowed them TO
take Judgment in favor of higher
tariff by default Now they are claim
ing that the election of Mckinley meant
a demand from the people in favor OF
protection" as they put it, and who
can prove that it did not mean that
very thing.
We are glad that the time allowed
for a general discussion of the
Dingley bill was short 1t gave Demo-
cIats time enough to place themselves
on record against it, and that was suf-
ficient We should stand UP now and
take our medicine like men, 1t is a
nauseous dose, but it will be the MAX
ing of US in the end. The Republicans
are entitled to fair trial of their pol
icy. If it proves to be good, We shall
all be benefited; if bad we can say,
We told you So" and knock them out
next time. We don't believe that an
other national contest will ever be
fought over the free and unlimited
coinage of silver 1t was a pertinent
and proper issue in 80, but '96 was
the turning point 1t went against free
and unlimited coinage, and in doing SO
knocked the life out of it. Three years
from this every important nation on
the globe will be on "a gold basis ex-
cept China, and she will be getting
ready for it. We are not among those
who believe that the United States
could successfully adopt the free and
unlimited coinage of silver and stand
up under it in opposition to all the
world, and it is becoming more and
more evident every day that this they
WOlIld have to do