The record-union., 1898-09-17
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects of Living News
Interest.

Oakland Tribune: No wonder the
Car had the utopian dream about all
the nations sheathing their swords and
sendlng their troops back to the farm
and mine. Here are the latest figures
as to what it costs the leading Powers
of the Old World annually to maintain
their standing armies: Russia: S154.-
oUO,UUO; Germany, $135, 600, 600;
France, $13O,O0O,0O0; Great Britain,
S90OO0,O0O; Austria, $50, 500, 900; Italy,
POD, 10000. 1t will be noticed that
the Car has a plurality of S19,5OO,000,
SO 1t can be seen why he figures he is
getting the worst of it,
THE ANARCHISTS.
San Jose Mercury: To kill those in
authority is a part Of the creed Of the
communistic anarchists. BY this
means they seek to establish equality.
1t is the doctrine of ignorance and is
the belief of those minds too narrow
and one-sided to view in a rational
manner the causes of and the necessi-
ty for social inequality. These men
are not wholly insane, nor are they
rational beings. They are a type and
class of themselves. They are mental
and moral deformities, and their pres
ence in the social organism is injurious.
They should be removed from all con-
tact with their fellow beings.
Not long ago it was proposed to es-
tablish a colony for this class of an
archists. 1t was suggested that some
island be secured to which could be
transported all those who professed a
belief in this form of anarchy, and
that these persons be then permitted
to follow out and put their creed into
actual practice. In this way the alb
surdities of their political belief could
be demonstrated to them and to others
who might be inclined to think along
similar lines. This scheme on it's face
appears to have considerable merit
WOMEN AT WORK.
Portland Oregonian: Women will be
at the Legislature again in few days,
but it would be better for all concerned.
for them, for the Legislature, for the
State, for the next generation, and
vastly better for the women them
selves, if, instead Of mingling in that
demoralizing contest for money and
power, they were away, each in some
quiet home Of love and happiness, pur-
suing the duties for which Providence
fitted and endowed them, making for
men a resting place from toll and a
shelter from the storms of cruel and
passionate evil, busy with the refine
ments of life and not its coarse tasks.
making more manly the men and moro
womanly the women of thirty five years
hence. Some of them will be lobbyists
some clerks, some merely seeking to
crafty curiosity, vanity, or a craving
for sensation. They would be far bet
ter off away and at home.
It is an ill-starred day for any wo-
man when she becomes a man. If she
is left alone in the world and has to
choose between charity and independ-
ence, that is her misfortune. Rare
cases like these will always find friends
to commiserate and helpers to aid to
suitable occupation. There are womanly
employments enough for all the women
who are forced to support themselves.
But because women who do not need
to work fill up the places, it is by
far SO much harder for women who do
need to work to find places. And be-
cause women who do not need to work
fill UP the places men should occupy,
men who should be supporting women
reasons.
Women will work for less wages than
men. And man whose wife is earn
ing well, soon loses the spur by which
his energies are quickened The wo-
man who, with a man responsible for
her support. becomes a breadwinner.
will soon find herself supporting not
only herself, but the man as we'll. And
If she does the work she is entitled to
rule. The women who bemoan the op-
preston of man are generally the un-
challenged masters of their domestic
dominion
THE CHRONIC FIGHT.
Alameda Argus: A San Francisco
paper which has an in-season and out
season fight with C. P. Huntington had
an editorial article in yesterdays issue
on intimidation of railway employees.
1t is common thing for people and
papers with chronic fights against the
railroad 10 vociferously declare that
railway men are straining and strug-
Cling to vote for their employers un-
doing. Every demagogue who floats
to the surface assures the public that
railway employees are on his side, and
are only kept from showing it in the
most open way through fear Kearney
played that game, the Examiner" has
played it for several years, and probab-
ly Mr.. Mcguire will attempt it. Why
should a railway man seek to damage
the railroad on which he is working :?
Why should he expect advantage in
helping out demagogue or a malig-
nant newspaper in a malicious fight
against the concern that finds him en-
n10Vn1Qnf1 c o ms af !,
should not and does not There might
be- more obsurd proposition than that
railroad man should join the "Ex-
aminer' black-fag crusade, but it is
not now apparent The ruination of
Mr.. Huntington and his railroad might
afford Mr.. Hearst a mighty glee, but
how could It be Of benefit to the man
who has a job on .he road? Can a
ruined corporation pay higher and bet
ter salaries than a solvent one?
A REMINDER.
Kern Echo: The "Visalia News
Pop) is reminding the Democrats Of
Tulare County that a few short years
ago they had this in their platform:
We indorse the administration of
Grover Cleveland. We believe. he has
done and is doing all IN his power to
redeem the pledges made to the people
by the national Democracy in 1892,
and we condemn as traitors all those
Democratic Senators and Representa-
tives who have in any way hinderad the
redemption of those pledges" Fine as
sociates for self-respecting Populists
this year. In the same year the Tu-
lare Democrats congratulated the coun-
try on the fact that the Cleveland ad-
ministration had placed the currency
of the country upon a sound basis.