The record-union., 1899-02-13
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had any prospect of gaining the COW
eted place. This was apparent to US
long ago. 1t has now become COM
mon and safe assumption. Grants
only chance to come off victorious is
through Burns himself, a condition pos
sible but highly improbable. There are
positions of trust and profit which MI
Grant could fill creditably and which
he could also reach easily, no doubt,
but he is too naive, as the French say
| to represent this great State in the
/ United States Senate This fact we
stated some time ago and it has been
demonstrated There is therefore no
longer any reason why he should con-
tinue to pose as a candidate for an Of
fee which fate and his own mismanage-
ment have made inaccessible to him.
WANT THE EARTH
Pasadena Star: In speaking of the
State Normal Schools the Sacramento
Record Union under the head, ''They
Want the Earth; Are Normal Schools
Sole Owners of the State? Insidious
steps Being Taken to Center all Power
of Certifcation in Them" says: Do
| the Normal Schools own the State or
does the State own the Normal
Schools? That is the question that is
puzzling the teachers of California and
| those who wish to be teachers.-San
Bernardino Times.
| In this query there are hopeful signs
| that the press of the State begin to
see the selfshness of the Normal
Schools attitude, and may by and by
see fit to come over, and help the "Star"
in the effort to put them where they
belong-as private enterprise. They
are necessary, of course, like any other
business; but have no right to be pen
sioners on the public bounty, and should
stand on their own bottom, the same as
a newspaper Let those who want
| them pay for them.
| REPEAL OF AN ACT OF '72
| Visalia Delta: The proposals to re-
peal the law requiring any one before
| beginning a libel suit to file a bond of
5000 with two sureties to guarantee the
! costs to the defendant in case the
| charge of libel is not sustained, should
not be seriously considered by the Leg
| islature. When a newspaper attacks
any person in way to injure him, the
law as it stands provides for the re-
covery of damages from the publishers.
| When newspaper willfully or even un-
| Intentionally Injuries a person, the in
| jured party may recover, but there are
| few newspapers that follow the lead Of
| the yellow journals, and it would be
unjust to place all newspapers in po-
/ sition where they could be caused end
less expense without proyocation being
given. Dishonest or incompetent pub
lie officials could plunder with little fear
of attention being called to their short
conlings, and the people would in the
end be the sufferers. It is not prob
able that any one with a clear record
! would favor such a measure, for such
a person hes nothing to fear from any
thing but yellow journalism; and the
yellow journals ignore all law and de-
cency, and should be dealt with accord
ingly.
A BILL THAT GOES TOO FAR.
Stockton Mail: The Mail" agrees
with the Record Union" that bill No
511,- proposing to amend the law rela-
tive to the practice of medicine, the
| original law having been passed in 1876
and amended ins 1873, has Objectionable
| features. 1t is too sweeping, as no
doubt it's authors will agree now that
the facts have been pointed out to them
In providing that no person without
license from one of the schools of med
icine named in the Act shall prescribe,
| direct, recommend, advise, supply give
or sell for the use of any person any
drug or medicine, or other application
| for the treatment, cure or relief Of any
bodily injury, infrmity or disease, they
provided too much We do not suppose
| that they intended to prohibit anybody
I from giving troche or a piece of foar-
4 hound candy or a little liniment to a
friend, or applying a poultice to any
| hOdy's but his own skin. Under the
! proposed law no one but a graduate
of medical school could make a crutch
| for anybody or put on a bandage or
porous plaster or administer a seidlitz
powder or some citrate of ma gnesia or
| a quinine pill; and even a barkeeper
who might sell glass of mineral wa
ter would be liable to prosecution. OF
course no druggist could sell any pat
ent medicine that had not been pre-
scribed.
The bill will have to be amended 1t
| is we'll to have a law to protect the
public against quacks, but we do not
want a medical school monopoly Gre
ated by Act of the Legislature.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Alameda Encinal: Some of the news
papers are already repeating the stale
old cry, This is the worst Legislature
| California ever had" Roti The pres
ent Legislature is no worse than any
previous one and a good deal better
/ than some. In any event, it is just
| exactly as good as the people who elect
| ed it-no better, no worse. 1t is all very
] well to call names, but when you sift
it down you will see we are right. Take
our own representatives, for instance,
and where will you find two men who
are more representative, more honest,
more energetic, more Independent than
Messrs Taylor and Knowland? Let
each newspaper in each county tell the
truth about it's own local representa-
| tives and they will have to admit that
! they are very good men as rule. The
| very papers that repeat these stale
charges of corruption always except
their own local representatives, and if
one starts out to run down the accu-
sations he can never find anything upon
which to base charge. 1t is a shame
that newspapers should indulge in such
wholesale and unfounded vituperation
against their representative men. The
present Legislature will compare favor
ably with any body of men that can be
selected at random all over the State.
Why, if it were composed entirely of
newspaper men we doubt not plenty of
people could be found who would de-
clare it was the very worst Legisla-
ture we ever had" For goodness sake,