The record-union., 1898-08-25

from taxation and place all it's burdens on
the farmers and owners of homeSteaoS
We approve of the war revenue recently
passed by Congress as being in line with
the above sentiments. as 1t compels the
luxuries and the corporations and aggre-
gated wealth of the nation to pay a
greater-yet not improper-Share OF the
taxation made necessary by the war
adopted. It's provisions for the issuance
OF bonds wisely extended the payment OF
the expenses of the war to include the
generation who will receive greater ben
eft from its results than the present,
While it enables the people of America TO
show their patriotic faith in the coun-
required, striking contrast in financial
and statesmanlike policy to the selling OF
bonds to a greedy syndicate by the last
Democratic National Administration.
THE JUDICIARY.
This is a law-abiding country and we
are a law-abiding people. Under our sys-
TEN of government there is no danger
of anyone of it's departments assuming
power to the detriment Of 4 the others 5 o., or
the injury of the Nation. The voters have
always remedy for the ills that they
think affiict them by a change of officials
IN the. manner provided by the organic
law of the land. De deprecate the at
tempt by the mocratic-Populistic Fu-
sion party of California to stir up hatred
Of the judiciary and contempt OF law as
calculated, If not designed, to sap the
foundations of our republic and bring
anarchy upon our country Those who
abuse the laws and the Judges thereof
and have felt the deserved punishment Of
the law There is no document so wicked
as that which seek to override the courts
because of fancied errors, and no man
so criminal as he who enunciates such
doctrine In our country the law must
ever be the ruler or socialism,, anarchy
the commonwealth. We appeal to all
good citizens and to all true Americans
to rebuke this unholy assault upon the
courts, that have ever been in America
the bulwark of the people and the shield
of the innocent.
WAR VETERANS.
The veterans Of the army and navy
of the United States deserve and should
receive fair treatment and generous re-
cognition. Whenever practicable they
should given the preference in the mat
ter of employment and appointive offices.
and they are entitled to the enactment of
such laws as are best calculated to secure
to them the fullfillment of the pledge made
to them in the dark days of the country S
peril
Furthermore, we ask our State legis-
lators to work to the end that the Act of
the Legislature, approved March 81, 1891,
relative to the employment Of Union vet
Grams, may be made more effective and
binding upon the various State and coun-
ty officials.
STATE SCHOOL BOOK SYSTEM.
The common schools have ever been
ported by the Republican party. The
publication of school books by the State
reduces the expense of furnishing them
to the minimum cost of manufacture, thus
saving large sums to parents and proving
a valuable aid in the general diffusion Of
knowledge, while it increases the attend
ance IN the schools
We condemn the efforts of the present
Governor to destroy the ability of the
State to economically produce school
books, as certain to again deliver the
people of California into the hands Of an
Eastern school book monopoly, whose
exaction will be all the more oppressive
because of our exemption therefrom for
the past six years.
We denounce the action of the present
Governor in vetoing the appropriation for
the support Of the State Printing Office
spirit of the law and injurious to the
interests of the State. Its inevitable re-
State school book system and the com
mon schools themselves.
We pledge ourselves to pass such laws
as will prevent such action in the future,
will maintain the common schools of Cal
ifornia at their present high standard,
continue the printing of school books by
the State, and, If possible, put into the
cost the books from which the learning
may be gained to fit the youth of our
great State to assume the burden of cit
iZenShip with all its attendant duties.
STATE UNIVERSITY.
The University of California has in the
past been the recipient of the care of the
Republican party, under whose liberal
support it has been enabled to reach its
present high standard. We pledge our
selves to continue that support and to
make the University worthy in every re-
spect, of the most enthusiastic hopes Of the
people. 1t fitly crowns the educational
system of our State.
MINING INDUSTRY.
The mining industry, ranking as it does
among the foremost industries of our
State, is entitled to the fostering care of
both our State and National Governments,
and we congratulate the miners of Cali
fornia that legislation inaugurated by a
Republican Governor and carried to com
Republican Congress, placed their in
dustry where it rightfuly belongs, and
surrounded it with such legislative safe
guards as has retored confidence among
those enga ged in the mining industry and
caused a large and rapid increase in the
yield of the mineral products of Cali
fornia.
We pledge our legislative and Congress
ional nominees to continue the work so
happily begun under Republican auspices
until all needful legislation in behalf of
the mining industry shall have been ac-
complished.
We favor the creation of a National
Executive Department of Mines. and Min
ing. with a Secretary at its head who
shall be a member of the Presidents
Cabinet, and we hereby pledge our Con-
gressional nominees to the use Of all
creation Of such a department.
We look forward with pardonable pride
to the early construction already assured
of the restraining barriers for which r.
half million of dollars has been appro-
priated by our State and National Gov
ernments
The mineral lands of California should
be preserved for occupation and develop
ment by the miner, and we pledge our
nominees for Congress to labor for such
national legislation as will fully accom-
plish this.
The navigable highways of California,
forming, as they do an effective means of
regulating the rates of transportation
throughout large portion of our State,
are entitled to such legislative and Con-
gressional aid as will insure their proper
connection, we denounce the action of
the present Democratic Governor In pre-
venting the dredging and other contem-
plated improvement of our nayigable
rivers, after an appropriation had been
made therefor by Republican Legisla-