The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-02

eynote Of poaffical success in combin-
ing the heresies Of his Chicago platform
with opposition to the acquiring or
eeping control of new territory. What
We have wrested from the tyrannicaa
clutches Of Spain he would have us sur
render, and let some foreign Power, OPP
posed to our expansion finally occupy.
1t will be a hundred times easier to
insure in all the islands we have taken
a beneficent republican form of govern
ment by retaining sovereignty over
them, as we do over Alaska, than to
protect them from the encroachment OF
foreign nations as Independent Powers.
| NOT HERS TO SELL.
| Oakland Tribune: Ex-Queen Lii
iuokalani's appeal to Congress for the
payment to her of $6,O0OO00 in lieu OF
the crown lands Of Hawaii is not very
likely to be successful. While it is true
that her ancestor, Kamehameha, set
aside the lands in question as individual
property, it must also not be forgotten
that they originally came from the peo-
pie to whom they have now returned.
However, it will only be doing the right
thing to give Liliuokalani pension OF
some sort, for in her instance it is prac-
| tically a case of the sins of her ances-
tors being visited on her head.
| THE LAWYERS, OF COURSE
| Colusa Sun: Some shrewd attorneys
and it is the business of an attorney to
be shrewd-have persuaded the Boards
of Supervisors of nearly all the coun-
| ties in the State to give them half what
| they can collect from the State ought
to pay it's proportion of the commissions
allowed for collecting taxes on personal
property, the whole Of which the coun-
| ties have been paying. The total sum
amounts to some million and a quarter
of dollars Now suppose they collect
| this of the State? The State will be
short that much and these same coun-
| ties will be called upon to pay right
back into the State treasury the amount
they get plus the amount the attorneys
get This is certainly a very shrewd
financial operation. Nobody can blame
| the attorneys. Each county that gets
| five hundred dollars will have to pay
thousand into the State Treasury next
year. Awfully shrewd! Almost cute.
| If the suit is decided in favor of the
counties the half dozen that are not IN
the combine will get the full amount,
but will have to pay it right back in the
shape of increased taxes. Who makes
any money?
INCREASING TRADE
San Diego Union: The figures that
come to hand, telling of the enormous
| increase of this country's exports dur
| ing the past year, are everywhere ac-
| nyridanaQ
prosperity. But while everybody real
| ICES that it is for the interest of the
! United States to be selling much to
other countries and buying compare
lively little, how many people take into
account the fact that this state OF
trade means employment for thousands
of men and women at home? Some
body has made calculation that the
| increase this year in the export OF
| American manufactures is equivalent
to the employment of 342, 429 American
workmen at 50 a day. These figures
may not represent a literal truth, but
nobody will deny that under the inf1u-
ence Of better times the "army of unem-
ployed," about which so much was
heard recently, is rapidly dwindling.
There is reason to hope that even, the
tramp problem may find a partial solu-
ton in the country's new prosperity.
THE LAW AS TO BOYCOTTS.
| Los Angeles Times: Yet another de-
claration as to the legal status of the
boycott was rendered few weeks ago,
| in an opinion of the Supreme Court
Of Michigan, in case which arose
| out of a boycott of a firm of mill own
| ers, by striking union teamsters. The
strikers picketed the mills and issued
| circulars establishing a boycott on the
| firm. The court prefaced an injunction
against the strikers with statement
| of the law regulating the relations be-
| tween employer and employee. Accord
| ing to the Court, the law protects en-
| ployers in the right to employ whom
they please, at prices they and their
| employees can agree upon, and to dis
| charge them at the expiration of their
term of service for violation of their
contract. So, also, the laborerS have
the right to fix a. price upon their Ia
Dor, and to refuse to work unless that
price is obtained. They have this right
singly or in combination. They may
organize in order to improve their con-
dition and secure better wages, and
may use persuasion to induce men to
join their organization or refuse to
work except for an established wage.
They may present their cause to the
public in newspapers or circulars in
| a peaceable way, and with no attempt
at coercion. This, however, marks the
limit of either party's right. The in
| junction granted by the Court restrain
ed the strikers from picketing the
premises and from distributing boycott
circulars which were said to embody
| threatening language.
Commenting upon this decision,
| Bradstreets says:
Labor, as the decision illustrates,
possesses freedom of action and Of
combination, but that freedom must
not be construed to include intimida-