The record-union., 1897-11-19


| any of it's institutions but especially
not in connection with its schools and
| reformatory establishments. 1t seems
at this distance as though the troubles
at some We're largely due to the exist
! ence of several opposing factions in
| the town and the activity of a few
| discharged employees in stirring up
strife and trouble generally. lone is
| a small town. and the Preston Reform
| School is a big institution and has ex-
| cited the cupidity of a number of its
| people. Others. again. concluded that
| the local community should direct and
control the destinies of the school. The
| great noguls of the town established
| themselves censors and critics of the
| management, and have succeeded in
| doing considerable mischief. Any rule
| or act that does not meet with their
preconceived ideas must, in their judg-
| ment be all wrong and therefore be
| publicly denounced While this is all
| wrong the Expositor" nevertheless
| has no apology to make for the man
| agement. DIR. O'Brien, the Superintend-
| ent, says he wants an investigation 1t
would be no reflection on him or on his
! associates if his desire should be sat
! isfied. Let us have a full and thorough
| examination of the schools affairs by
non-rartisan and impartial commits
| sion. The time has come for the de-
velopment of the truth and the outlin-
ing Of better policy for the institu-
| ton, If it be found thta a new policy
| is needed
WHEAT PRICES
| Sutter Farmer: When the wheat mar
ket declines after prices have been
I good there goes up a roar from the
| farmers who are holding their grain.
that the speculattors have combined
and are forcing the price down to rob
| the growers. While this may be true
| TO certain extent, the farmers who
were speculating themselves should not
complain. They had an opportunity
| 10 sell at a good figure but preferred to
take chances for a raise. A good gam
pier never kicks when he loses.
A SNAP FOR SACRAMENTO
san Jose Mercury: The citizens of
sacramento County will vote next
month on the proposition to issue bonds
Tor the construction of a model boule-
Vard from Sacramento to Folsom Az
the state will furnish the rock and will
maintain the road, should it be built
it looks like a sanp for the countv
And, speaking of boulevards when
does Santa Clara County propose to
take up in earnest the project of con-
structlng broad and attractive high
way around the bay, from the San
FRANCISCO line to Oakland?
THE WRONG WEAPONS
Los Angeles Herald: Mark Twain
attended a recent all-night session of
the Austrian Reichsrath. He said the
proceedings reminded him of an Amer
lean lynching meeting to punish a
horsethief, adding: 81 supposed some
body had been hanged, but I was not
there long enough to make sure Of it -
Mark ought to know better. The worst
event was scratch on the hand in
f1icted in a French" duel.
1t was Father Organ of Denver who
made pubic a saying of his grand
rather in Ireland a half century ago:
That for short distance a heavy
whisky glass, we'll aimed, was the most
effective method of settling an argu-
| ment"
The members of the Refchsrath NAV
call each other all the names in the yo-
cabuiary; they may fight French duels
every day in the week, but they have
not the moral courage to adopt the ink
stand Well aimed as an effective method
or concluding their disagreement. The
members of the Austrian Legislature
need backbone and an education. They
should invite Mark Twain and Father
ORyan to deliver a course of lectures
before their honorable body.
WHEAT PRICES.
Colusa Sun: Have good prices for
wheat come to stay? We, of this part
of the world, have been satisfied with
.he negative answer to this question
but now comes C. Wood Davis. a statis
tlclan OF some note and declares in the
Forum for November that a wheat
famine is imminent. His forecast,
from the standpoint Of the consumer. is
dismal enough. He tells us that GER
tain portions of the world are bread
eaters; that the populations that num-
bered 81 100000 in 1871 now aggre-
gate some 510,000,000 and that they are
increasing at the rate of 6,40O. 900 a
year. He tells us that the greatest
crops ever grown would not equal the re-
| quirements of the present population
and that it is impossible for the wheat
| acreage to increase as fast as the popu-
| lation; that not in a single year since
1880 have the additions to acreage
| eGualled the worlds increased demands; !;
! that but for an over average produc-
ton of wheat and rye aggregating
rnore than 1,300,000000 bushels-be-
cause of declining unit consumption in
Kussia-the supplies of the importing
nations would have aggregated some g.
| 100000, 900 bushels less in the last six
| teen years: that the world can expect
no better than average acre-YleldS, no
| matter what its necessities: that not
| even when the great valleys of North
America We're being developed did an
nual additions of bread-baaring acres
exceed two-thirds present increases of
annual requirements, and that an acre
| age deficit exists equal to the supply of
as many 'bread-eaters' as have been ad-
ded TO the worlds population in the last
twelve years, we can begin to under
stand the present situation"
APPARENT CONFLICT.
Red Bluff Sentinel: The conflict be-
tween the opinions of the Federal
Judges as opposed to our State Supreme
Court in the Durrant case demonstrates
very clearly that the criminal laws of
California are sadly in need of revision
TO afford a speedy trial of murderers
and to avoid interminable technical de-
lays after conviction and sentence. The
man who will formulate and simplify
the penal code and secure its passage
by the Legislature will make a name for
himself that will go down in history as
a great man.
BRYAN AND WHEAT.
Yreka Journal: Bryan's lntimatlon