The record-union., 1899-09-29
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects Of Living News
Interest.


Los Angeles Times: The worm has
turned; this time it is a lady worm.
She is an actress lady, and her name
is Julia Morrison. 1t appears that
down at Chattanooga, Tenn, last Fri
day night, Miss Morrison's leading man
in the company in which she was play
ing, made some criticisms of Julia's
acting, whereupon the gentle julia
grabbed gun and fired three shots
at close range into the head of the Of
Tending actor. If leading ladies of dra-
matte companies are going to slaughter
all the people who accuse them of be
ing lady farmers and blacksmiths in
the art of acting, the list of casualties
among professional and amateur crit
les promises to become exceedingly
large.
THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
Stockton Independent: President
Jordan of Stanford University in an
address to the students, predicted the
downfall of the British empire if it
crushed the TransvaaI republic. Pro-
fessor Jordan has given John Bull a
hundred years, however, in which to
release his grip, and as Jordan and
several of his lieutenants may be dead
by that time, it is possible that his
prediction will be forgotten-unless it
proves true. In the latter case some
one will be sure to resurrect it from
the Stanford archives. That is the
difficulty with predictions of that ma
ture. We forget them all but the very
few that chance to agree with the turn
of events. Could the unfulflled pre-
dictions of the past be gathered into
reference book the world of to-day
would be surprised at the disclosed
Stiffness of the supposed great men of
history.
PETTICOATED SOCIOLOGY.
San Jose Mercury: Miss Mary Rob-
erts Smith, assistant professor of soci-
ology in Stanford University, is-so the
world is Informed by the San Francisco
papers-"engaged in bringing the en-
ployer and employe in the field of do
mestic service into closer relations with
each other" This is really nice And
the job is just suited to young woman
full OF that profoundly practical knowI-
edge of mankind and of the world to
be gained in text books on sociology
We know this because just what Miss
Assistant Professor Smith is going to
do is done every now and again in just
this way. The separate worlds of
housekeeping women and house serving
working girls are just waiting for some
ciologiSt-feminine and without do
mestic experience preferred-to come
along and get them together. Now. we
trust that the Mercury will not be
deemed rude, but it has a notion or two
on this question, and it must be allow
ed to speak it out Here it is: The
problem of domestic service will be
solved when women-employing women
learn to- respect the work of their
own households, and to respect those
whom they hire to do it. So long as
domestic labor is stigmatized as s'me-
NAL, so long as those who do it are
named by a special and degrading
name; so long as social discredit at
taches to housework. just so long the
problem of domestic service will exist.
Indeed, as time goes on it will in this
country grow more serious, for girls
of American birth and breeding will
not, generally speaking, accept domes-
tic service, and after a while the sup
ply of European peasant girls. from
whom the ranks of American domestic
service are recruited, will run short.
A GOOD REASON.
Tulare Register: Whatever criti-
'cisms may be offered as to Mr.. Bryan's
theories of government no one can re-
frain from admiring his admirable
business qualities. A man who was
not able to exc out livelihood in the
practice of the law and was forced to
ar I11,ao l. II
rate newspaper has put his popularity
to such good use that he has acquired
something like a quarter of a million
out of it already and there is still sale
for his books and demand for his
speeches. Some papers are inclined to
criticise him because of this exemplif-
cation OF thrift, but to our mind it is
quite the brightest gem in his crown
OF glory There is no good reason why
popular IDOL should be pauper.
A FALSE NAME.
Los Angeles Express: The Anti
Imperialist League by the adoption of
that name would have the American
people believe there is a large BODY
of citizens who are imperialists. and
that the league is composed of patriots
who are fighting for them There are
no imperialists in the United States and
the league is trying to put up a man
OF straw so they can give it tongue
lashing.
HIS IDEA.
Ukiah Republican-Pre w. len
nlngs Bryan has such a poor opinion
OF the country in which he lives and
has grown rich that he declares it
would be Infamous to extend it's pro
lection over the land of the Filipinos.
Yet Mr. Bryan is the dictator and dem
igod of the Democratic party. the one
men in the United States before whom
every popocrat kneels in ecstatic. hum
bleness.
OUT OF HIS DEPTH.
san Diego Union: Even Mr.. Bryan's
admirers will probably concede that he
did not add to his reputation by his
performance at the Chicago trust con-
ference He had an admirable oppor
tunlty there. The majority of the del
egates were on his side, and they were
not backward in showing their enthu-
s1asm He made a speech-two in
fact. But somehow he did not emerge
from the assemblage with any increase
OF prestige. Perhaps as keen a com
ment as any, on his performance. is
that of the New York Evening Post"
which says:
II IS not surprising that Mr. Bryan
should get beyond his depth in his at
tempt to grapple with the problem. For