The record-union., 1899-12-16
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.

English and American cable companies
are negotiating with the inventor for
the right to use his discovery. The late
CHARLES Noble, the inventor of dyna-
mite, who made a colossal fortune by
his discovery, had nearly ready to bring
before the public at the time of his
He had made many articles of artificial
rubber which were tougher than natur-I
al rubber and equally elastic, Won
derful discovery 1t is not yet known
whether the details of the composition
are among his papers, and it is feared
that the secret died with him. Nobel
also invented secret composition for
producing fire an hour after anything
had been painted with it. He himself
said that it was fortunate that the
petroleuses Of Paris did not know of
the substance. But, out of regard to
humanity, he destroyed the formula.
MR.. SEWALL
Los Angeles Times: The Hon. Arthur
SeWall of Maine, who had the distinc-
ton to be nominated for Vice Presi-
dent on the Popocratic ticket at the
Chicago convention of 1896 by a Los
of running in stern chase with Mr..
Bryan, is visiting Los Angeles, where
he will find the same generous well
come that is given to all misguided
Democrats. 1t Is interesting to note,
in this connection, that Mr.. Sewall
comes out strong for supporting the
Government in the contest that is now
on in the Philippines, and that he is a
believer in the principle that it is the
manifest destiny" of this Republic
to aid in the enlightenment and civiliza-
ton Of the world. All of which goes
to show that there are more differences
between Mr.. Bryan and his late run
ming mate than the wide difference that
separates the States in which they live.
PROTECTING THE FLAG.
Marysville Appeal: The American
Flag Association, the Sons of the
American Revolution the Sons Of the
Colonial Wars and other sons Of guns
and powdeE want Congress to pass a
law protecting the flag by prohibiting
it's use for advertising and other base
purposes. Doubtless those strange
papers which have Intellectually at
tempted to ridicule the President and
other loyal men for speaking in tones
of pride and affection of the flag will
see in this move of the Sons" another
evidence of imperialism. From the
manner in which these editorial varia-
tons scoffed at the spirit typif1ed in
the Stars and Stripes it is to be pre-
sumed that they would see no impro-
priety in using the rag" for most any
old purpose.
BAD JUDGMENT.
Alameda Argus; Mason of Illinois
thinks it good and proper American
policy to arise in his place in the Sen
ate of the United States and proceed to
poke his nose into the South African
war. He makes a plea for the
burghers." and "harshly condemns Eng
land" Sympathy for the Beers and
condemnation of England privately ex-
pressed is an altogether different matter
from that which is proclaimed from the
halls Of the highest national legislative
body. A newspaper may have ST. VitCs
dance in big type against British ag-
gresslon, or an orator may hire a hall
and violently illuminate, and it is only
an informal expression, but for a Sen
ator to rise in his place and make
formal declaration is vastly more a ma
tional expression. How would the
patriotic American have regarded a
pronounced expression of sympathy by
a member Of Parliament for Spain, and
denunciatien of the United States in
our late war? It would have set this
country afire- These things might be
remembered with advantage by the
ebullient American statesman.
A GOOD LESSON.
Fresno Republican: The arrest of
murderer ,Rosser in New York for a
crime precisely similar to that Of which
he was acquitted in San Francisco has
turned loose a flood of comment, but
none too much. 1t is too instructive a
lesson to be missed. Rosser was &C.
quilted in San Francisco, ostensibly on
the ground that he may have been
"drugged," but actually on the ground
that he was drunk when he committed
the crime. A salutary rule of law was
set aside at the behest Of a mistaken
tests the danger to society when muir
derers run at large and another COM
munity has the burden which San
Francisco shirked, of putting the man
who refuses to respect the life Of his
fellow-man beyond the power of doing
further harm 1t is a terrible thing
for a man to go on a harmless" spree
and wake up the next morning to find
himself murderer, but it is more ter
rible still II indulgences to irresponsible
and unpublished crime are for sale for
the price of few drinks. Society is
only safe if each man is held sternly
responsible for the legitimate conse-
quences of his acts. no matter how
small the act or how great the conse-
quence. The consequences of a drunk
range all the way from a headache to
murder, and the man who risks the
drunk risks the consequences, whatever
they are. No other rule is just to him
or safe to society. Drunkenness may
be a disease, but when it takes the
strictly osteopathic principles-by ex-
tension and incidental dislocation Of the
cervical vertebrae.
DOWN SOUTH INSTITUTION.
Pasadena News Dec. 11th): The
condition Of things at the Southern Cal
ifornia State Hospital near San Ber-
nardino is shame and a disgrace to
this great State. Saturday evening at
$3.50 o'clock DR.. M. B. Campbell. the
Medical Superintendent of the hospital,
showed US Through the various wards.
The patients had gone to he'd. In every
ward these unfortunate beings were
packed like sardines. In the women's
wards they were lying on couches in the
halls. In one room upstairs we saw