The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-03

occasion to advertise for an assistant
bookkeeper.s The work was light and
the position was not worth more than
$40 or $15 a week At the same time I
advertised for man to take charge Of
the mechanical department the wages
of which We're four times more than
that of the assistant bookkeeper. About
sixty young men, many of them college
graduates, answered the advertisement
for the assistant bookkeeper and only
six applied for the other position. u
As we understand Mr.. Huntington
this is proof of the correctness of his
ideas. The education which units a
young mann for manual labor or permits
him to despise those who perform such
labor, is superfiuous. And that is the
kind of education that about 80 per
cent. of the young men are getting to-
day. All over this country the proper
ton found by the New York advertiser
holds good There are about sixty col
fege graduates looking for soft snaps"
and about six willing to take employ
ment where they will be called upon
to soil their lily white hands. The edu-
cation that produces such results is not
good education and there is entirely
too much of it.
TIME TO PROTEST.
Fresno Democrat: About the
smallest thing in the larger politics"
of Congress is the intinaation from
Washington that the contest over the
Speakership of the next House will be
determined upon considerations OF pa
tronage. Pennsylvania insists on a
Speaker, who will appoint a Secretary
who has the naming of multitude OF
clerks. New York wants one who will
give it doorkeeper competent
to organize the spittoon brigade.
Ohio wants the Sergeant at
Arms, Illinois must have the
Chief Clerk and-California wants,
but is too modest to- ask for what is
left. When the exalted office of Speaker,
second only to that of the President
in political power, is dragged down to
curbstone politics, it is time for the
| great American eagle to screach and
the ghosts of former patriots to visit
the halls of Congress and protest.
THE CUBANS.
| Oakland Tribune: The Cubans should
not object to the orders issued by our
Government compelling them to lay
down their arms, for they already have
ample evidence that we intend to give
them an epoch of peace. The trouble is
that they have been compelled SO long
! to be under arms for their own protec-
ton that they cannot realize that there
| is no longer any occasion for them.
LAWLESSNESS.
| Oakland Enquirer: The dangers of
1.-THE growing spirit of lawlessmess con-
tinue to be illustrated in labor strikes.
In Duluth recently, as an incident in q
tstrike of street railroad men, dynamite
was put upon the tracks, several cars
were derailed and one was smashed.
Five persons were injured and one was
probably fatally hurt. When a wreck
| ing crew made it's appearance it was
| boldly attacked by the strikers. The
| employment of such violent methods
ought to ALLEVIATE at once and forever
the public sympathy upon which alone
a railroad strike can depend for sue
cess.
A SOCIETY MATTER.
| Stockton Record: The attempt of the
society writers to make it appear that
American society at large is dreadfully
excited over the threatened visits of the
lyoung Duke of Manchester and the Earl
! of Rosslyn to this country is somewhat
| overdone. That there will be a silken
ffutter at Newport is unquestionable,
but the great solid and real society of
democratic America does not care a fig
for either of these young men, and it
! is only fair to the young women of
America to say that none but the super
fetal and artificial of them would care
to cast their fortunes in with either
of these titled sprigs after reading their
histories. The Duke of Manchester is
said to take after his father, and that
! is not a recommendation to any wo-
man who regards marriage as some
thing more than grab bag exploit. The
| Earl of Rosslyn comes here as an actor
| in a hardworking company, and it is to
! his credit that he has shown a DISPOSE
1 ton to do some hard work in an emo
Etional way. The choice Of the dramatic
profession by this noblen1an opens up a
new field in America for impecunious
and titled gentlemen. There can be no
better way to exhibit ones nobility than
! at matinee Of simpering girls.