The record-union., 1899-09-01
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country read the testimony given before
the military court now sitting at
in the Dreyfus case. No such evidence
would be permitted in any court, civil
or military, in this country In fact,
it is not evidence. 1t is merely the vent
ing of personal opinion, personal preju-
dice and private interest. The manner
and words of General Roget on the
stand We're not only insulting to the
prisoner but to the court and to the
name of justice. After such an exhi-
bition and torture growing out of
hatred it is strange that the anti-Drey-
fus party should have adherents. But
France has been SO thoroughly hum
buged by her army leaders and her civil
ministers have been SO subservient to
the military that it is now a grave ques-
ton whether public sentiment is really
in sympathy with Dreyfus.
THE STATE FAIR.
Amador Republican: The coming
| State Fair will be a valuable object
lesson which our people should not fail
to profit by. THE Fair promises to be
! most successful and to present oppor-
tunities for instruction which, if taken
/ advantage of, would greatly benefit our
| people and add to the wealth and prog
ress of California. The Fair presents
the best features of our State, and the
| farmer, breeder or producer who at
tends 1t can see the very highest type
! of development in grains and grasses,
in fruit and vegetables. in machinery
and manufactures, in horses, cattle,
hogs and poultry. If he goes home in
| structed and seeks to reproduce the
| fine specimens he has seen at the Fair,
| he cannot fail to improve his own con-
dition, and add to California's wealth.
The new ideas and stimulated interest
which a visit to the Fair inspires is not
the least of it's advantages
JUST TAXATION.
| Fresno Republican: There are COM
munities in which tax lodging is uni
Versal, orEpractically So Professor Won
Hoist has recently called attention to
the fact that this is the case. in Chi
cago, and has accounted for it on the
ground that the ostensible rate of tax
alton in that city is confisca tory, being
more than the income of property He
does not defend the tax dodgers, but at
tacks those who are responsible for the
conditions out of which the tax lodging
form in the whole condition. There are
other communities in which tax dodg-
ing is sporadic, confined to a few in
dividuals or class. In these the reme-
dy of course, is the stern arm of the
law. But in both cases, the final rem
edy must be a reform in public spirit,
and this reform can never reach the
taxpayers until it also reaches the
tax spenders. Laxity Of public senti-
ment on the one side does not excuse
it on the other, but both are symptoms
Of the same disease, and must be cured
together.
HIGHWAY PROGRESS.
Alameda Encinal: The general inl-
provement of highways through the
country is gratifying, and the good
work should be continued. General Roy
Stone, director of the Department OF
Agriculture, says that more activity Is
being displayed in road improvement
than has been shown for years, not
only in the construction of new roads
and in the general agitation for their
construction, but in the betterment OF
old established highways. There are,
he says, about forty road conventions
slated for this autumn, mostly in the
Northwest, under the auspices of the
Interstate Road Improvement Associa-
ton. In the South and Southwest
there is similar activity, arrangements
being made for the construction of
number of object lesson roads at va
rious agricultural colleges. The bureau
of which General Stone is the head is
overrun with applications for advice
n ell fae inf fioyz Yea-
garding road building machinery and
for assistance in road construction All
this is pleasing evidence that the peo-
pie are becoming alive to the necessity
/ of good roads.
MARRIED TEACHERS.
Stockton Mail: Recently the San
Francisco Board of Education made a
rule providing for the expulsion of any
female teacher who might thereafter
marry. Yesterday a teacher who had
violated the rule was forcibly expelled
from her classroom and the school
house by orders of the board. She in
tends to test the anti-marriage rule in
the courts, and viii win. The courts
will not sustain any law or rule in re-
straint of marriage, for such regula-
| tions are rightly held to be contrary to
good policy and good morals. A rule
that the female. teachers in the public
schools should be married would be
much better one; and one that no one
should teach unless she had children OF
her own might be better. STILL People
well acquainted with the School De-
partment of San Francisco and willing to
express candid opinion of it would be
unanimous in saying that decided in
| crease in the popularity of marriage
among the lady teachers would do 1t no
harm whatever.
INCREASED COST OF LIVING.
Los Angeles Express: The rapidly in
creasing price of bread stuffs, all over
the country, is attracting much atten-
ton, and all the indications point to
a still further rise before there is a de-
cline. This is especially noticeable in
regard to meats. An investigation at
the Chicago stock yards in regard to
the recent advance in the price of beef
brought out the statement that never
before in the history of the American
cattle market has there been such a
demand for all kinds of meat as at
the present time. The demand for ex-
port cattle is enormous. and it is con-
stantly increasing.
An additional reason for this phen-
omenal increase in prices is that Amer
ican exporters are reaching out for the
English trade, and attempting to drive
out the Australian supply. to do which
they are cutting rates abroad at the ex-
pense of the home consumer.
This is all right perhaps. for the