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Show alllorni's Sew Constitution. New York, 8. The Commercial littlklin, to dey, refpnitig to the new California con-titu'ion, aays: Surprise id exprcse.d in many quarters that such a "constitution" was at all ptsible in a civilized coma) unity when! the rights ol property are supposed sup-posed tj obtain recognition. That surprise, .is it seems to 11s, is unreasonable. unrea-sonable. The surprise would be in a constitution of a diflereni stamp. The merchant?, capitalists and burners men, unfortunately, could not begot to take any prlicolar interest in elections which constituted ihe convention. con-vention. Tncy practically let Hum go by dtlftuit. The whole thing wan kit 1 relty much lo "hoodlum--," and tne " hood. u ins, ' in making the constitution in.it ia exprtsaiy do-siLinJ, do-siLinJ, to u-e ouo of their own ae.ecl phrase-, to "muzzle'' capital, capi-tal, have simply followed their communistic and agrarian instincts, and now that they are confronted with the misL-hievetis work waich the Jack Cdca and Anachariis Klotzes of tbt; Facitic slope have put on them tho business classes are thrown into a panic aDd asking what ie to be done The moral ol it ail is that under a system of government like ours, if intelligence in-telligence will not take tbe trouble to nr. 0 a 11 Uwo and to govern, ignorance will. |