The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-06-10
A GOOD BILL.

an experience, it should teach us better
than to indulge in any such silly bel
liefs.
A GOOD BILL.
San Jose Mercury: The bill bestow
ing enlarged Jurisdiction on the Federal
authorities in the matter Of quaran-
tines against infectious and epidemic
diseases is a meritorious measure. Elk
perience has taught, as in the case of
the yellow fever epidemic in the South
year or SO ago, that local regulations
are not sufficient. By making the Fed
eral rules operative in all such in
stances, epidemics can be more easily
restricted and kept under control.
A CASE IN POINT.
Stockton Independent: Some of the
American people have punctuated the
monotony Of peace occasionally by
finding fault with out military and ma
val academies, and even Congressional
agitators have declared that Annapolis
was rotten" and all that was taught
there thoroughly was precedence Of
rank in social matters. And yet an in
structor of Annapolis resigns his place
to go TO the front, and becomes the
hero Of the war, the originator and ex-
ecutor Of one Of the most daring pieces
Of strategy that has crowned the naval
warfare Of the century. Professor Hob
son was unknown last week Hence
forth his name will be familiar to every
tongue When such instructors are
employed at Annapolis we may be quite
sure that the cadets get some inspira-
ton beyond naval etiquette.
SHARP CRITICISM.
Fresno Expositor: A lot of pupils in
the San Jose High School threaten to
strike if certain demands made by
them are not complied with. Which
gives rise to the suspicion that perhaps
the parents or teachers of these bump
tious young men have been remiss in
their duties with regard to striking"
A course Of birch sprouts or good stout
rattan might be of avail in teaching
these youths their proper station and
conduct.-Alameda Encinal.
Quite true And it is entirely possible,
too, that if the parents Of the other lot
of High School pupils had not listened
to the garbled tales carried home by
their youngsters there would have been
no occasion for a demand that the Prin-
cipal be removed, which, is, we believe,
the reason why these strikers are to
the front in opposition. Believing that
he was talking to an intelligent body of
young men and women, the Principal
mentioned some truths of history which
were not received with the spirit in
which they were probably given, but
were distorted into evidence of treason
to the Government, lack Of patriotism,
etc. Parents nowadays are too prone to
act on the raw advice Of their smart
young hopefuls in school matters,
which has a tendency to swell the young
heads to the proportions noted by the
"Encinal."
ALL GLAD OF 1T.
Tulare Register: There probably is
not man in America who is not glad
that Congress has at last removed the
last shadow Of civic disability from the
paths of those who at one time took
up arms against their country. No
Power on earth can ever again place
the results of that war in jeopardy
and it will be we'll IL we can forget
the quarrel out of which it grew. And
the forgetting should be South as well
as North. Southern people seem to
feel that If they do not now and again
reassert their faith in the justice Of