The record-union., 1899-07-15

! it punished. Even those who are prone
to forget the sufferings OF the victims
Of crime when 1t comes to the int1ictlon
of penalty are at times fain to accept
the doctrine of the whipping post as set
forth upon this basis, yet civilized peo-
pie in their ealmer moments repudiate
| it as derogatory to the dignity OF man
kind as represented in the law making
power, and shrink from the backward
step in community methods Of protec-
tion and penalty which it Enthusiastically
| indicates,
OF STRIKES.
| Fresno Republican,: If the Carnegie
works strike is precipitated by the re-
| fusal of the management to employ any
| union men, the management Is plainly
| in the wrong. The union, and all un-
| ions, are equally in the wrong When
| they insist that none but union men
| be employed. But two wrongs do not
make a right WOrkmen have right
| to organize, and it is oppression to dis
| criminate against them for doing SO. II
| is also oppression to discriminate
against any who do not do so. In
controversy over the right of men TO
work, it is always safe to say that the
| side which demands that certain men
shall not work is in the wrong. Tnis
| is the attitude of the workmen in the
| Idaho troubles and of the employers IN
| the Pennsylvania strike, and these
therefore. are the sides that are in the
| wrong.
CALIFORNIA TAGALS.
| Alameda Argus: What grievances
the people individually and collectively
have against the railroad company are
kept from settlement. or even just
understanding, by the malignant press
of San Francisco. Whatever the COM
pany seeks to do is wrong, and what
| ever attack is made upon 1t is right
| Controversies such as that over the
fruit cars are, in the first place, kept
| from an impartial understanding, and
| if they were understood every obstacle
| is thrown in the way of their settle
ment. Those journalistic Tagallos will
never leave off, nor subside, nor quit
! Just what end they are aiming at is
| not clear, but it appears to be the pure
ly savage one of inflicting injury with
out compensating benefit to anybody
The fail, minded man doesn't have to be
for the railroad to perceive these
facts.
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
Colusa Sun: The several Christian
organizations have Joined in resolu-
ton condemning baseball playing on
Sunday and also condemning the news
papers for encouraging the same. The
Sun" has had one editorial on the SUBJ
| ject, but has had reports in detail and
has had locals calling attention to COM
|
sometimes not. No newspaper can ex-
ist that does not give the news of past
and of coming events. 1t is therefore
to the editorial department of the sun
| to which one must look for the opin-
ions and the policy of the paper. In
an editorial commenting on the COM
plants of the Tulare Register" that
the ground there was the theater of
language and actions that made it an
unfit place for young people to visit,
and we said that the good people there
--as long as they must have baseball
should try to regulate that )hase of it
and bring it UP to the standard Of the
Colusa ground, where no gambling, no
swearing or bad language was allowed.
This withoutoregard to Sunday. Then
we agreed with the Register that
1 the Sunday question was a two-sided
| one, and it is. In this country there
can be no law on the subject of The OBJ
servance Of Sunday or any other day.
| The law makes it a holiday the same 9S
the Fourth ofsJuly, Washington's birth
day and others, but in none of these
! can the law specify what the citizen
shall do to pass away the time, 50 ne
does not interfere with the things some
other citizens want to do. The right
Of divine worship, uninterrupted, is
pretty we'll guaranteed both by the law
and by public opinion. That is all that
any statute law can do under our form
of government The country has now
come to be divided between employers
and wage earners, with the latter in
A an immense majority, These latter
must work six days in the week and
have one for rest Now how to spend
that one is the question. The churches
known as evangelical can claim less
than one in five of the people of the
United States, but nearly all the rest
| have respect for their teachings and all
| thinking men must acknowledge the
! moral force and the good effects of their
teachings. Now when it comes to the
| question of recreation on the day made
by our laws a legal holiday, in defer
ence to the sentiment above expressed,
in how far is it wise for the churches
| to try to dictate? These wage earning
young people. with thousands upon
thousands whose circumstances render
it impossible for them to command their
time, will have recreation-sport. Now,
what is the least harmful that can be
offered them? What has the gentlemen
who adopted the resolutions to offer
| better?