The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-05

propensitfes and lack of legitimate en-
terprise of the San Francisco jobbers
and wholesalers are we'll known, and if
they have lost large portion of their
trade they themselves are to blame for
it,
FAILURE OF THE PRIMARY LAW.
Tulare Register: But this failure
will only cause delay The Republican
party will grapple with the proposition
again at the next session of the Legis-
lature and will keep up the fight until
a primary election law is obtained that
will be feasible and constitutional. The
wheels of progress do not turn back
ward. Inasmuch as the law was defect
tive it was we'll enough to have it so
decided in advance of its attempted
operation. but reformed primary cleo
ton laws will soon be as universal
among the States of this Union as the
Australian ballot system now is and,
notwithstanding this failure the Regis
ter is glad that California and the Re-
publican party took the lead in TINS
much needed reform. A belief in hon.
est elections is cardinal principle OF
Republicanism and there cannot be hon
est elections without honest primaries,
and there cannot be honest primaries
without a good primary election law.
NO LONGER SUPREME.
Sau alto News: The editorial depart
ment of a great newspaper is no longer
supreme The business office is first to
be considered, and that department
finds yellow matter pays, so this vicious
style of later-day journalism has come
to stay until it kills itself or runs its
course.
THE RESERVATION ORDER.
San Bernardino TimesIndeX: To al
low grass in the mountains to go
through the season unconsumed While
cattle, horses and sheep stretch their
emaciated carcasses by thousands over
the dry plains and lower hills would be a
calamity to California and wrong to
her people. The President should open
the reservations for this season at all
events, but somehow the grazing lands
should be leased or apportioned so as
to prevent their being overstocked and
doing nobody substantial good.-Tulare
Register.
This is an untrue statement of the
conditions and the law. There is nothing
to prevent horses and cattle entering
the reservation, but the Government
has wisely ruled sheep out. The Presi-
dent should not open the reservation tc
sheep under any circumstances. If Edi-
tor Pillsbury of the Register" lived
south of the Tehachapi he would ap-
preciate the great Importance of pre-
serving the forest cover from destruc-
ton and our mountain streams from pol
luton.
Southern California has millions Of
dollars invested in irrigation enterprises
| by which our orchards are Watered
The interest of few nonresident, non
taxpaying, foraging sheep men are as
nothing compared with the fruit in
! terests.
WAR IS WAR.
| Los Angeles Herald: War is war. But
the alternative is sometimes infinitely
worse. The United States is a peace
full nation; nation of Christians, God
fearing, with a disposition to do unto
others much as they would be done by
OF the estimated population of 1860,
600 people "A, 0O0,0 900 are enrolled il
the membership of the various churche:
! dedicated to Christianity, while 10000,
600 of otfra children belong to the Sab
! bath schools of the various denomina
tons.
Not all Christians are churchmem
bers. 1t would require few figures tt
enumerate the inhabitants of thu
United States who are disbelievers, wht
scott at religion, who reject the divine
principle, Peace on earth, good will
to men,
But it is safe to say that no consider
able proportion of our people desir'
peace at any price. The great masses
prefer war, with all it's horrors, to
hellish peace.