The record-union., 1897-11-04

tons Is likely TO cause, will compel
them ~ consider with ever increasing
anxisty the state of their Eastern ex-
chaygss. The United States can wait
chile II they can.
LAW IN NEW JERSEY.
Los Angeles Herald: The West is not
alore in having trials ard tribulatlons
or account of the law, its perversions
and vagaries. The East is another sur
ferer. but the conditions are different.
Here in the West the people are
plagued by the perversions of the law
and the adroitness with which 1t IS
made to turn against the interests II
was designed 70 protect. In the East
the law seems to rise out of forgotten
past TO deal hardships and injustice
! through the changed conditions that
have obtained with the passing OF the
years. New Jersey is having hot
competition with Connecticut for the
dubious title of the Blue Law State. A
Hackensack Justice has decided that a
bicycle rider cannot recover damages
for injuries received While riding on
Sunday. The law antedateS the bicy-
Gle by many years, and only a New
Jersey Dogberry could have arrived at
the decision reached by the Hacken-
sack Justice.
The New York World" commenting
upon the decision, says: If any such
antiquated barbarism is still valid in
New Jersey it's repeal is demanded in
the interests of the people of the State
and OF the citizens Of other States who
are growing fonder year by year cf
New .IarcQy q n for bQalth and
pleasure
AT first glance the foregoing seems to
have been a thoughtful suggestion in
| the interest of Dr. Grover Cleveland,
who has taken up his abode in the clas-
sic retreat of Princeton. within earshot
of the shouts of ''Old Nassau" Second
thought, however, cites that DR.. Cleve,
| land does not ride a bicycle; nor does It
appear that he took up his residence in
| New Jersey either for health or for
pleasure He lives there, not for his
] health, but for business and political
purposes, if recent reports regarding the
! Doctors Senatorial ambitions form
any reliable criterion. A more perti-
nent inquiry is this: Would the man
who is injured while fishing on Sun
| day, say on Elbow Lake, be entitled to
| damages under the law, as interpreted
by the Hackensack Justice Mr. Cleve-
land would doubtless be interested in
this application of the statute
WORDS THAT ARE WEIGHTY.
Stockton Mail: That is a formidable
accusation which William H. Mills
brings against the management of the
San Quentin Penitentiary He declares
| it to be a school of criminology from
which men are graduated seven times
more the children of the devil than
they were when they entered it.
The accusation is true The peni-
| tentiary is shame to the State. The
! spectacle presented there now Of a half
dozen condemned murderers feasted on
dainty fare at the States expense is
enough to make the blood boil.
| The penitentiary is not place of re-
| formation and punishment 1t is a
retreat where criminals enjoy an ele-
giant leisure, which becomes more ele-
CANT in proportion to the Nervousness of
! the crime.
The words Of Mr.. Mills are full of
weight. They should arouse an active
! determination TO put an end to the
scandalous state of affairs whereby it
happens that thieves, rapists and mur-
derers are afforded comforts and lux
uries which an honest workman cannot
win by hardest toll