The record-union., 1899-06-19


brought shame and disgrace upon her
own head
KLoND1KE.
Oakland Tribune: The would be al
turing tales from the Klondike viii fall
fiat in California this year. for the far
ners have got all the gold mines they
want right on their ranches The April
showers put the finishing touches to
their prospects, for they ensure bounti-
ful crops Of every description. The man
with the hoe will have more money
than the man with the pen by the time
the harvests are all in.
TRUSTS.
Yreka journal Many of the so-calfed
trusts that are making such a stir in
the papers of late have no solid founda-
tion. A fair specimen Of the is the
United Fruit Company, with a normal
capital of $20600.00O, Of which the
"Oregonian' peTltfnently says that it
is simply a TRUST formed on pretense.
It can control nothing. 1t has mo- $2O.-
G00,O00 capital, or any considerable por-
tion of it; it Will make no figure in
the fruit trade. and is not designed to.
It's field Of operation Will probably be
the stock market.
THECIVIL SERVICE ORDER.
Ukiah Republican, Press: A fair criti-
cism Of President McKinley's order TAX
ing 4OOO Federal officers out Of the
classified Service and transferring them
to the list controlled, as our reformer
friends say, by the spoilsmen, is that 1t
does not go far enough. Instead of f.
| COO the number should have been at
least 5000. But the order win do for
a beginning and sensible. practical peo-
PIE viii accept it as evidence that the
President carries a level head on his
shoulders; and moreover that he has
the courage to do what he sees is right: !:
for it requires courage to stand up and
defy the professional civil service re-
formers who insist that all the offices
shall he taken out of polfticz and that
only death or conviction of crime shall
terminate ain officials tenure, and who
| VIII greet this order with a chorus of
howls that Will express their disap-
pointment and evaporation. In doing
What he has he has invited net only
their denunciation but their opposition
from this time on. But he is right AS
! we have said, much more than enough
| of the so-called merit system remains.
which continues in the service of the
/ Government indefinitely, and regardless
of politics, employees whose duties are
merely clerical, or of an expert char
acter; who learn by practice to DO one
thing we'll and in learning lit -dfsqualify
themselves for all other work; whose
places cannot be filled by inexperienced
persons and whose discharge to make
the public service: and when the new
system was inauguarted, during Presi-
dent Arthur's administration, it was not
contemplated to go further than this.
1 THE MODERN WAY.
! Santa Cruz Sentinel: The veteran
Indian fighters now on duty in Luzon
must view the negotiation at Manila
! with silent wonder. In the old days
when our troops were after Sitting Bull,
4 Geronimo, the Apache Kid and those
! other copper colored George Washing
! tons of the Great West, there were no
! benevolent gentlemen from civil life.
around to hold UP the pursuit and offer
the weary '3hostiles" seIf-government.
| the suffrage, trial by jury, etc, if they
would quit shooting and become good
Indians again. That's a modern i'm
provement- When dealing with a tough
and irrational antagonist it is always
| best to knock him down first and at
tempt reasoning afterward This is less
4 dangerous AND bloody than its reverse
1t may seem cruel, but every surgeon
/ viii, say a quick and deep cut for a bad
abcess. As all war is brutal it is better
| to make it short. sharp and decisive
and be done with it. Big banquets and
peace pow-wows will not subdue the
Philippine Indians.
RAILROADS AND NEWSPAPERS.
4 'Colusa Sun: Contractors ON the coast
line say that they have orders to rush
the work of closing the gap, and they
cannot rush it too rapidly to suit the
residents of the counties through which
the road will pass Santa Clara County
expects great things from this coast
line, and it WIFI not be DISAPPOINTED =
San Jose Mercury.
And yet it will not be week after
! the road has been completed before you
will be declaring that the company is
the greatest nuisance in existence Let
us give the Mercury an instance:
Some years ago a railroad from San
Francisco to San Jose was considered
a great thing-of much more import
ance than the coast road just mention
! ed. One was built from very sparse
ly settled portion of San Francisco. AS
the city grew, streets were laid across
! the railroad track and people came to
! live close to the track A double track
\ becomes necessary to the acconn1oda-
! tion of the trade. and an application
! is made for privilege of double track.
| There is absolutely less danger in a
double track than in a single track,
/ taking all people who have to do with
| it into consideration. The papers that
always oppose all things, whether right
or wrong, proposed by the Southern Pa
cific, persuaded the people residing any
where in a couple of miles of the road
/ that the request was a great outrage,
and a big meeting is called in which
big speeches are made that are given
/ prominence in the papers. The men who
make them are patriots of the first wa
/ ter. They go to the length that the
! track now there must be taken up, and
! this sentiment is also applanded. Now
| how would fare the traffic between San
/ Francisco and San Jose with the track
| ending about seven miles. from the pres
! ent depot? Who would be inconven-
/ fenced, the company or the people? The
company would get about as much wit h
the depot out about the cemeteries. and
what would be cut short would be so
cut because it would be too inconven-
lent to do business in that way Yet
the Mercury at one end Of this line,
4 does not dare to proclaim the nonsense
1 of the hpwling When there was a
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