The record-union., 1898-01-05
A PROTEST.


San Jose Mercury: The San Fran
| cisco Post" very properly condemns
the practice of converting a peniten-
| tiary into aplace of feasting and amuse-
ment on holidays AS the Stockton
Independent" says, the tenderness
| with which murderers, burglars, thugs,
thieves and other rogues are treated on
such occasions is disgusting If they
deserved to be pampered they would not
be in prison, and being in prison they
should not be given turkey dinners or
concerts and vaudeville shows as they
had in San Quentin on Christmas.
THAT WILL BE BAD, INDEED.
Los Angeles Herald: Senator Chand-
ler's prophecy touching the effect or
currency legislation, in splitting the
Republican party in two. is a trife
faulty. He should have said it will
split it in three It's first step toward
the gold camp split it in two, and
split it so badly that it would not now
be in power had dependence been placed
upon Republican votes The next split
will be official, final and irrevocable, if
we may employ the language of the
ultimatum, and thence will go into his
tory as the most magnificent political
wreck of the century.
THE SPECTACULAR ANDREWS.
Los Angeles Times: The ability of
Professor Andrews of Brown Uni
versity to make a picturesque spectacle
of himself Is not exceeded by that of
any person on the Western Hemis-
phere. Professor Andrews exploita-
ton of his extreme free-silver views,
which came near costing him his posi-
ton as President of Brown University,
1t well remembered. His extreme views
on this question, in the opinion of con-
servative people generally untitled him
for the position which he occupied as
the nominal head of a great educa-
tonal institution. But the trustees
of the university, after mature deliber-
alton. decided to retain him in his po-
sition, with the understanding that
he would thenceforth devote his ener-
gies chiefly to the legitimate work of
the institution.
Now comes Professor Andrews to the
front once more. in an address recently
delivered in Chicago on the subject of
THE Generals of the Confederacy.
with a fulsome and extravagant
eulogy of General Robert f. Lee Cen
eral Lee was confessedly a brave man
and a recognized genius. No American
citizen, whether of the North or of the
South, desires to rob him of any laurels
which are justly his due. But the
adulation of President Andrews is
simply nauseating. He declared that
General Lee. as a military genius, was
the equal of "Gustavus Adolphus. Ma
poleon, Wellington and Won Moltke."
He cast slur upon the soldiers of the
Union army, impugning their valor by
falsely declaring that their victories
were won only when they fought upon
their own soil; and he further declared
that "the cause of Lee is not the lost
cause so much as is suspected All
that was good in his cause said Pro-
fessor Andrews. has been grated into
our laws and Constitution
THE POPE AND CUBANS.
Tulare Register: Pope Leo has de-
clared in favor of the reigning dynasty
in Spain, against the Carlists and
against the Cubans in what he terms
their fratrieidal and paricidal strife.
Well. what business is it of the Pope's.
anyway? The sympathies of the
world. outside of Spain and the vati-
can. are with the oppressed and plum
dered Cubans. and the Papacy will not
make for itself friends among liberty
loving peoples when IL interferes in
temporal concerns after this manner
and uses its great influence over the
minds of Catholics TO turn them against
the bravest struggle for liberty that the
concluding century has witnessed.
Meantime the Blanco Government Is
tonomy will have q trial.