The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-15

Japan, over which the missionary
bodies of this country are exercised, is
| a two-edged sword. The Government
of Japan has prohibited religious in
struction in the schools we
suppose, schools supported in whole
or in part by the Government. Against
this the missionary societies protest,
saying that if the order is executed
| they must abandon their educational
work in that country. But the Gov
eminent of Japan is doing only what
our own Governments do-making the
schools non-sectarian, and on what
ground can Americans protest against
/ it?
OUR BoORISHNESS.
| Fresno Republican: The popular
American delusion that the best way
to honor great man is to deprive him
OF those common rights which are
| cheerfully granted to the least of his
| countrymen, is finding a striking ex
empliication just now in the bounding
OF Admiral Dewey through the streets
of New York. To any one not sharing
in the delusion, it appears as pure boor-
ishness, which in effect, it is. Mr.. and
Mrs. Dewey are not freaks and do not
make their living in a dime museum,
and it is an objectionable exhibition
of national bad manners to treat them
as such
This is one form of the evil of MAX
ing a public show of public men; the
boorish form. There is another variety
which ought to be known as the homi-
cidal form, inasmuch as it has literally
killed a large number of our public
a n
practically all of them. The American
OF note who arrogates to himself any
sort of right to his own privacy is
straightway dubbed snob and gets
no more votes. Even if he travels in a
private car. that car must be open at
all times to all corners, and he must
actively fulfill the difficult duties of
host twenty-four hours day. An actor
on tour is Carefully protected in his
right to privacy, because it is physically
impossible for him to act under other
conditions. A public man, doing much
more exhaustive work, is permitted no
privacy at all.
THE BAD SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
Santa Rosa Republican,: Here is rich
ness. We found it in Sundays "Chron-
icle" at the bottom of the third column
of the fifteenth page. It almost took
our breath away when we read it. II
the article had not been in bitter anti
railroad paper for the presenD we
could not have believed it. The article
tells that j. C. Stubs, Vice President
of the Southern Pacific; William F.
Herrin, general counsel of the road:
E. S. Pillsbury, William Sproule, Wake
field Baker Charles F. Tay and w. G.
Martin, all of San Francisco, and Jacob
Branch of Los Angeles are in ST. Louis
to answer charges filed against the
Southern Pacific Company. These
charges are to be investigated by the
Interstate Commerce Commission, and
they are indeed startling. The company
is charged with making traffic rate
from Atlantic seaports, via New Or
leans and other Gulf ports, to the Pa
cific Coast so low that it is impossible
for other and more direct transcontf-
mental lines to compete with it except
at a loss" Just think Of it. What in
fanny will the management of that road
not engage in? Its officers have been
charged with almost innumerable Of
lenses, but they have all been signifi-
cant in comparison with this one. Haul
ing freight to California at ruinously
low rates is indeed a serious matter. Ii
should be stopped, even if a standing
army is necessary to bring about this
result. Let Indignation meetings be
held everywhere to protest against the
railroads low rates. Unless prompt &C
ton is taken in this matter the COM
pany may haul freight to California
for nothing, and thus ruin the whole
country. Ha! Ha. Ha. This is indeed
richness
A YEAR OF PLENTY.
San Jose Herald: 1t is said that "All
signs fail in dry weather." but unless
this adage is applicable to wet weather,
also, California is on the threshold of
a year of plenty; plenty of rain; plenty
of sunshine; plenty Of products; plenty
| of money; plenty of people coming to
stay California needs such a season
Of good times to put her back to where
she was in 1887. Everything about and
within her is In prime condition for a
year of plenty. Her people have learned
| the true value of their lands, and or
chards and vineyards and prunes and
peaches and apricots and grapes and
wines. Fictitious values have no long
er place in the calculations of the land
owner or the producer. Reasonable
prices are placed upon real estate, and
only reasonable profits are expected on
sales of fruit. The markets of the East
and of Europe have been exploited by
our shippers and are being also sought
out and occupied in that farther East
which is the West. There can be no
doubt that the Pacific Ocean trade for
| California products will be largely in
creased during the coming year. This
means better prices and a steady de-
mand for our grain and fruit and wine
! San Francisco seems at last to be walk
| ing up to the Importance of Selling our
share of the new commerce of the Pa
cific. 1t behooves our people of the
Santa Clara Valley to be also awake to
| their interests and to the necessity Of
standing together for their advance
ment. The organization of our pro-
ducers into a unified and harmonious
body with view to securing for them
selves the cream Of the profits arising
from the marketing of their fruit, is a
subject which should receive instant
and constant attention now that a year
of plenty is at hand.
AN EFFECTIVE SLOGAN.
Stockton Mail: 1t appears that one of
the arguments used against the States
storage and distribution of it's own flood
waters is that, in case the reservoirs
and irrigation system should be con-
structed and put into operation, 'the
railroad" which owns land in this
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