The record-union., 1898-02-21
NOW. AND THEN

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wasn't reputation then. But a couple
of weeks ago when Senator Teller intro
duced identically the same resolution,
the Republican House voted it down
by a heavy majority, because it was
reputation. How things have changed
since Towser was a pup.
ITS HANDS FULL.
Stockton Record: The Grand Jury OF
San Francisco has it's hands full in
attending to the boodlers of the vari-
Gus departments The Board of SUI
pervisors, the Board of Education and
the Harbor Commission seem to be
crooked enough to keep very efficient
Grand Jury employed for a whole year.
1t is now announced that the Grand
Jury will begin an investigation Of the
Harbor Commission just as soon as the
suit in court is completed. We may
expect, therefore, another outbreak
against the uselessness of Grand Juries
WE KNOW ENOUGH.
Pasadena Star: The Ticase of Repre-
sentatives wants more knowledge about
the sufferings in Cuba. We common
folks know enough
TOO LATE.
Oroville Mercury: The rapid progress
of the busy little Jap in acquiring the
arts OF modern civilization has been the
subject of much remark in recent years
and the talk has at last reached the
ears of the native priesthood who have
promulgated a formal request that all
Japanese cultivate feelings of abhor-
renee toward foreigners, refuse to have
q n line yvift -bo+ 4~
use any foreign language in any way
or to listen to Christianity The object
is obvious, but they have spoken toe
late; the japanese have their ambition
aroused to a high pitch, and the native
priests themselves must sooner or later
join the forward movement, either in
their religious capacity or some other
THE QUAKERS.
Pasadena News. The old-fashioned
society of Friends has piety about il
that is worthy of emulation. The ten
dency of all other churches in this age
is action and motion. That is consid-
cred the best class meeting, prayer
meeting, or young peoples meeting
which can get the most prayers or testi-
monies in a given time. These are
ample of the prosperity of the meeting
But with the Friends those long inter
walls of prayer and soul searching are in
strong contrast to the present day
tendency to count works as faith Who
ever heard of a Quaker being a hypo-
critic or doing dishonest acts? Measured
by the results, character, the Friends
have the best of it.
WHAT OF IT?
Los Angeles Herald: '"The populace
Of Madrid" our dispatches this morn
ing advise us, lis greatly enraged.' But
what of it? Isn't that the normal con-
dition of the populace of Madrid? Il
has little else to do but get itself en-
ragged, but, as a general thing, the only
sufferers are the bulls.
MEXICO'S EFFORT.
Petaluma Courier: Mexico is trying
to refund her debt in New York Il
will be on a gold basis, and if the op-
Grafton is successful it will knock an
other free silver argument into smith.
Greens.
AN UNSAFE COUNSELOR.
Portland Oregonian: The anxious, dis
satisfied cotton mill operatives of New
England find themselves face to face
with a crisis, needing knowledge Of un-
DERIVING and moving causes. The i'm
pulse of men who are confronted with
a reduced wage scale is to resist the
reduction on a basis of the greed anG
selfishness of capital. Acting upor
this impulse, labor unions governed by
the hotheads, rather than by the bust
hai 1l,tarc in,
have again and again ordered strikes
only to learn through bitter experience
that a business cause cannot be set
aside by the breath of agitators OF
overcome by individual opinions.
The cause of the reduction in tbs
wages of New England mill operatives
has been established Active competi-
ton in cotton manufacture in the South
with such advantages as accrue from
cheap labor and a saving in transporta-
ton of the raw material, together with
surplus product, force upon the mills
cheaper production. A large commit
tee of able and conscientious men was
for months engaged in the study of the
unpleasant problem of how to recover
a profitable business before sugges-
ton of a lower wage rate was made
Stockholders showed a remarkable de-
gree of patience during the sharpest
pinch of hard times, but it at length be.
came manifest that something must be
done. and that at once. A new schedule
was reported as the only practicable
way out of the difficulty, and opera
tives We're advised accordingly.
BUT SUPPOSE HE STATED FACT.
Alameda Encinal: Who are the bond
holders of the Government? Who are
the creditors of the United States? Not
the great financial institutions. not the
great bankers, not the great insurance
and trust companies in themselves
They are for the most part indirectly
the depositors in the savings banks
people of small means and the wage
earners of the country.
The foregoing is a quotation from a
speech of Senator Elkins recently de-
livered in Congress. Elkins must think
that the people are all fools all of the
time.
FRESNO VIEW OF 1T.
Fresno Republican,: Sacramento has
an ordinance prohibiting pool selling or
races and the authorities have decided
to strictly enforce it. They have beer
making war on all forms of gambling
recently, and. of course, could see nc
reason why the poolrooms should en-.
joy immunity Having received salts.
factory legal advice as to the validity
of the ordinance. the poolroom proprie.
tors have been notified that they mus
close their dens of infamy. What car
be done in Sacramento can be done II
Fresno, and would be done if our au.
thorities had backbone enough. II