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THE DAILY RECORD-UNION.
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■<t«orol»cleal Observations — Takes ml
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O:jmma. .. 30.06 ii< Calm Calm ..Clear
Portland 30.05 70 .N. W. Light .... Clew
Ko^burz... 29.97 73 S. W. 8 Kre»h Clear
K«l Muff 29 72 »• 8 - 6 Fresh Clear
8«r»mroto. a*. 77 73 8. 9 Fresh Clear
8 F raiKUKO - ' " V s6 S.W. 18 Bri»k Clear
Viaalix 2O.~d|f>3 W. 6 Fresh <;leir
LosAnre'i* *».9Sj9l 5.8 Fresh Bear
Ban Diego. . 2».(W'« W. Light Clear
Maximum temperature, 83 ; minimum, 62.
<U> ur above low-nMr mark, 10 feet 6 inches.
JAMES A. BAKWICK,
Serjeant, Surnal Ccrpt, O. s A.
THE WEEKLY UNION
Is m paper o( special value. It ii issued in semi
wuekly parU, each ol eight page*, and appears
Wednesdays an.l Saturdays. It is thus the freshest
weekly paper on the coast, and the only one wl.ich
jf.oe« out to it« readers twice, a week. The family,
the farm, the miner's camp, the country home, can
have no more thoroughly valuable journal than the
Wrhki.y VskjS, -*:id for these reasons : It U a com
plete news and home paper ; it is a reliable business
journal ; it is a fearless and impartial critic ; it is
thoroughly devoted to the best interests of the State
and the people . it is constant in ltd information
ui«.u art, mechanic.", agriculture, horticulture, min
■ld?, viticulture, education, popular science, market
report*, etc., and is unsurpassed for its news facili
ties, availing as it does of the best telefiraphic and
other news gathering mediums of then arid. It is
«h&s*e in character, elevated in tone, scholarly in
diction, and clear, logical and unmistakable in ita
criticisms and editorials. It is mailed to my ad
dress for f2 50 per yeir.
THIS MORNING'S NEWS.
In New York Government bonds are quoted at
Ot ff.r of 1907 ; 11» fur ; 100} for ; .tci
(lot;, c I £6^4 89 ; silver bars, 113}.
Si.vcr iii London, 6151; consols, :<■•'!>; ; 6 per
cent. United State* bonds, extended, 107}; Is,
in) • t)e, 116 J.
In San Francisco half dol'axs are quoted at j dis
eounl to [«r ; Mexican dollars W|^BBj cents.
Mining stocks weakened considerably in San
Fnncisco Thursday after, and values were no
better yesterday morning. Sierra Nevada fell to $5,
against #7 a few days ago. All the other stocks
usually dealt in showed lower rates yesterday morn
lac than at any time this month.
The California horses lecently at Chica-o ban
tnne to Moumouth Park, to participate in the. rate*
tbere.
Six business blocks in DayWm, W. T., were
destroyed by flre Thursday night, causing a loss of
about $MO,OOO.
J. A. Wetherbce cut his throat in the City Prison
at San Francisco yea'.erday, and will probably die.
Shinn, another of the Cape Horn train-wreckers,
was found guilty at Auburn yesterday.
The Republicans of the Old Shoestring District in
Mississippi have nominated Judge Jcflerds, of Issa
que-na cnunty, for Congress.
HstSM counties and several cities in Ireland were
yesterJay proclaimed under the Repression Act.
St. Patrick's Citbolic church at Danville, 111., was
burned Thursdaj ni^-ht.
A fire at Owtn Sound, < >nt., yesterday, destrorsd
several buildings.
Curing the past week I*2l business failures occur
red in the United States, against 109 the previous
week.
AtCollinsrille, 111., Thursday, Kelson Cooper shot
and killed John Dooly.
For killing his do; in Orsnire county, Texu>, W.
Windbam ihot and killed John Goodwyn and his
brother-in-law, receiving a wound himself, from
which be died in an hour.
A disgraceful diEcumon toe k place in tie House
of Representatives yesterday in connection with the
ex jH-'nses of Garfleld's illness.
William Harland, an old and pmminenl .itizen of
Viwilia, died snddenly Thursday night.
Fa Governor Juan Fl. Alvarmdo died at San Pablo,
Contra Cost i county, Thursday.
A conveution of miners is to be held at J'evada
tSty on the 22d instant.
John Bright his resigned from the British Cab.
met.
Clause one of the arrears bill was passed by the
Hoaae of Commons jesterday without division.
The British rifle team, to Uke part in the interna
tional shooting match at Creedmoor, will leave Eng
land for New York Au.-mt L'fi'.h.
The anniversary of the fall of the Bastile was cele
brated at several points on the coast yesterday by-
French citiceDS.
The Board of Health at San Francisco yesterday
released the steamer Belgic from quarantine.
On the :!64th ballotat Portsmouth, 0., \rfterday,
th" Ilepuhlicang of the Eleventh District nominated
John W. Hc€oraiick for Congress.
B. II- Stocklagcr has been renoroinated for Con
gress by the Democrats of the Third Indiana DU
trict.
A man m arrested at Portland. Or., Wednesday
for stealing, indicted in the afternoon, arraigned
Thursday, pleaded guilty jesterday, and was sen
tenced to two years in the Penitentiary.
Late advices from Guavmas, Mexico, are given
Jois morning in a dispatch from Tucson, A. T.
The dispatches this morning indicate that Alex
andria has been almost totally destroyed, and that
about 2,000 Christians have been massacred by the
nob. British marines were larded jesteniay with
Catling guns, who killed many of the looters, and
last niclit men from the neural ships aided in re
storing order in the unfortunate town.
Li Wasco county, Oregon, south of Fifteen-mile
creek, nearly half the growing crops have been de
stroyed by grasshoppers. But there is a dull-blue
fray fly that follows the grasshopper and fights
him. These insect* stay with them, and when tin
hopper flies, dart at it and fasten under the wings,
greatly retarding its flight. According to the best
observations which could be made the larva de
posited by the fly upon the soft, thin membranous
spot under the wing immediately pierces the mem
brane, entering the body of the hopper, and remains
until full crown, catinz from the substance of it.
Sometimes as many as five or six are found upon
opening the body of the hopper. Thfse larva are
■ carried about until the whole body is eaten out or
the hopper dies by their ravages. Upon the death
of the hopper the larva crawls out and enters the
ground to become in due time a fly again.
Ciiikk Jl-stick Morrison IB a Democrat. Evi
dently he docs not agree with his party platform,
for in the case of ex parte Burke he said : "It has
seen held, over and over again, in numerous. States.
of the Union, that an Act prohibiting the keeping
open of certain places of business on Sunday is cot
a religions regulation, and that such an Act in no
way interferes with the free enjoyment of religious
profession and worship. It is purely a secular, san
itary or police regulation, and has been too fre
quently ur held as such to be bh iken at the present
.day."
— ♦♦
Till-, new San Francisco paper, The flrecdrr ami
j SporUman, 1. C. Simpson editor, is at hand. It is
a sixteen-page journal, quarto form, well printed,
very attractive in appearance, and devoted to the
purposes indicated by its title. The departments
are full and varied ai.il well edited. The paper cer
tainly starts out well, and gives good promise of a
'Useful future.
Till* PrnpU't Cau*c (Red Bluff), in an article en
titled " The Poor Man's Rest Day," indorses the
Bkcomi-I'kio.n's demand of Sunday for all, and its
protest against the efforts of the Democracy to ab
. rogate the poor man's one day of rest.
"Alaboe area of sorghum has been planted this
- season in Jackson, Or., and more syrup than tver
will be manufactured there. It locks now as if the
- sugar business in Oregon will become a very im
portant industry. ' % '. ".
Walla Walla has seventy-eight citizens and cor
porations that pay taxes on 310,000 assessed valua
tions and upward. A good showing for a small
. place. ". '--
We invite attention to a charming letter in this
iasao by our versatile correspondent, Kate Ileatb,
descriptive of life lit the Monterey seaside.
Prong who complain of the beat down East
should think of Guiteau and be content, says BUI
Wye. „_
C. C. Powki.no, of the Xctailn Slate Journal, is
-about to start an evening paper at Salt Lake.
BC3IKS-.S in Sin Francisco is much duller now
t than at ■ like date in 1631-
CAMPAIGN CONSIDERATIONS.
The Republican State Central Commit
tee has wisely determined to make no
change in the time of holding the State
Convention. The morement to hasten the
nominations originated with some feather
headed folks who were frightened by the
beating of the Democratic tom-toms. The
Republican plan of a short campaign is
eminently sound, and nothing the Demo
crats have done or can do will cause any
necessity for a change in it. Meantime
the Democratic press may safely be left to
" shell the woods," and to expose the
weakness of its platform and professions
and candidates by its clumsy efforts to
avoid the awkward points. There is, how
ever, one thing which the P^epublican
presi needs to be cautioned concerning.
The Democrats have led off with an issue
ot their own choosing and making, which
they call the Anti-Monopoly issue. This
is not a genuine issue. The railroad ques
tion has been settled by the new Constitu
tion, which puts the whole question in the
hands of a Commission, empowered to
deal with it. The pretense of nominating
a Governor on the strength of his assumed
hostility to the railroads is a piece of
characteristic Democratic dishonesty. It
is in fact doubly dishonest. Kirst, because
the Governor, under the Constitution, has
no power to deal with the railroads in any
way whatever : second, becanse the as
sumption that a professed enemy of the
railroads is therefore specially eligible to
office, is a fraudulent and base pretense.
The Democratic anti-railroad programme
is the work of unscrupulous and insincere
politicians who found themselves without
issues, and who were prepared to sacrifice
any State interest to their ollice-hunger.
They having adopted this view, how
ever, it is not for the I; •.•publicans to fol
low suit. To do so would be a fatal
blunder, from any standpoint. It would
be an admission that the Democratic pro
gramme was the right one. It would be
an admission that the Democrats had been
the first to strike out a popular programme.
It won'd concede to them the virtue of
public spirit and the merit of origination.
It would put the Republicans in the position
of mere imitators. It would lose them
the campaign. The National Democracy
has been making just this mistake for the
last twenty years. It has walked in the
footsteps of the Ilepublicans, and it has
been beaten every time. It is perfectly
clear that if the Anti- Monopoly programme
is defensible, then the Democrats have a
pre-emption claim upon it this year, and
such a claim the voters always recognize.
But the Anti-Monopoly programme is an
imposition, and therefore if the Republi
cans indorse it they confess themselves to
be no more honest than their opponents.
Certainly they cannot win on any such
basis as that. If they expect to win they
must strike oat a course of their own,
which shall be distinct from that of Vie
Democrats, and shall rest on different prin
ciples.
Such a course we have already outlined
in these columns. The Republican party
will pat itself in an impregnable position
by taking the ground that it ia the duty
and intereet of the State to deal equitably
and dispassionately with all corporate in
terests, relying upon the Constitution and
the laws, as administered by honest men,
for the protection ef the general interests
and for the removal of abases. Instead of
adopting a sounding platform of word?,
and binding every candidate to accept
whatever rabid, unjust and reckless
propositions it contains, the Republican
party can put its guarantees forward in
the persons of its nominees. When Judge
Blake was nominated for Mayor of San
Francisco, they wanted him to sub
scribe to certain pledges, and he re
fused to do so. ' He said : "If my official
" record during twenty-five years of public
"service is not a sufficient guarantee for
" me, then no pledge I could give would be
"satisfactory ; for a man who, after so
" long a service, could not be trusted,
" would be certain to violate any pledge he
"might take.' He refused to take any
pledges, and the people of Sin Krancisco
indorsed liia position, and elected him
Mayor over the head of an opponent who
had fairly groveled in his abject readiness
to promise whatever was demanded of him.
That is the kind of candidate the Republi
can party needs this year, and with a
ticket composed of such men, standing on
a platform rational and moderate enough
for self-respecting candidates to occupy,
the party can carry the State in the teeth
of all the Anti-Monopoly froth and dema
gcgism the Democrats can muster.
As regards the Railroads, the only
officers of consequence are the lUilroad
Commissioners. To fill these offices the
people do not want demagogues. They do
not want political adventurers. They do
not want the kind of men who will swal
low any kind of pledges one minute and
then Bolicit the aid of the railroads the
next. What they want is honest men —
men who have made reputations for integ
rity in business, and therefore can be
trusted to do their duty faithfully. The
railroads do not aek anything more than ;
this. They are content to be judged byj
the measure of honeßt men's mindß. They
only demand fair play, and that they have
a right to. Now, if the new Constitution
has provided theeolution of this question, it
stands to reason that honest Railroad Com
missioners, applying that Constitution fairly,
must give the S'.ate tbe very bost situation
possible under the circumstances. The
Republicans therefore can take their stand
up»n this position with complete confi
dence. There remains the Sunday law
itHi". which the Democrats have certainly
taken a pronounced stand upon. They are
committed to the repeal of all legislation
securing a day of rest to the poor man.
Tne Republicans, we trust, will take
a very different position. They will hold
that it is the right of every
man, woman ani child in the State to en
joy one day of rest in every seven, and
that it is the duty of the State to secure
the possession of this right to all by appro
priate legislation. They will hold that
the curtailment of the liberties of the peo
ple is no part of the business of government,
but that when the working classes are in
danger of losing any of their privileges or
rights through the pressure of competition
or other agencies, the Government may, j
and indeed must, come to their rescue, and
check or stop the growing invasion of their
leisure. Upon such a platform the Repub
lican party can enter the campaign without
cny ground for misgiving. With a ticket
standing upon the individual merits of the
candidates the battle will be more than
half won when the nominations are made.
And the Democratic demagogue! will then
learn that the adoption of sham issues is
not of itself sufficient to assure success at
the polls, and that the Ass who pat on the
Lion's skin was after all only an Asi, as
everybody discovered the moment he
opened his mouth.
THE DESTRUCTION OF ALEXANDRIA.
If we may judge from the dispatches the
Arabs have destroyed a great part of the
city of Alexandria, since the bombard
ment, including the whole of the Kuropean
quarter. This involves the destruction of
the most modern aud attractive as well as
architecturally important p»rt of the city.
The most of this modern portion of Alex
andria was the work of the late Khedive
Ismail, who was ambitious to do for Kgypt
what Hausmann did for Paris. He intro
duced gas to the Oriental city, and paved
and watered it after the most approved
Kuropean models. In fact he placed both
Cairo and Alexandria very far ahead of
Constantinople in cleanliness and modern
improvements, and of Cairo in particular
he made the mOßtcharmingof eastern cities.
In the great square of Alexandria, called
Mehemet Ali square, and where an
equeatrian statue of the conqueror has
long stood (in open defiance of Moham
medan ecclesiastical law, whi.-li forbids the
making of any graven images), are (or were)
the foreign Consulates, the best hotels,
the banks, and th; Knglish Protestant
Church. The dispatches state that this
great square has been entirely destroyed,
and if that is tne case it will be a long time
before the city regains its former aspect of
prosperity. It has been the custom of
more than one Khedive to give plots for
building to whoever would guarantee to
erect buildings of a certain architectural
consequence upon them. Thus the Duke
of Sutherland has a mansion at Cairo,
which was built upon these terms, and
many foreigners, both resident and non
resident, have done the Eame thing. In
the suburbs of Alexandria, and particu
larly at Kamleh, are a great number of
villas standing in their own grounds, the
property and residences of foreigners, and
more especially of the Greek and Jewish
bankers and cotton brokers, who are
among the great financial magnates of
Alexandria. All these costly and beauti
ful residences will, it is feared, be sacri
ficed to the bigotry and malice of a brutal
and stupid mob, and the interests of
l\4ypt will thus suffer a blow from which
recovery will be tedious. It is perfectly
apparent that a great deal if not all of this
destruction of valuable property coald have
been prevented, and equally clear that it
ought to have been foreseen. Mr. Glad
stone's statement in the House of Com
ni',ne, that the Government could not have
anticipated the sack of Alexandria by
the Arabs, is hardly tenable. The Govern
ment certainly was aware that the Alexan
dria mob had only been restrained by the
presence of the Egyptian army, since
the first massacre of Europeans. As
Mr. Gladstone's purpose in bombarding the
forts was to urive away the army and cause
the downfall of Arabi Pasha, he must have
known that in the event of Arabi's with
drawal or defeat, the city would be left at
the mercy of a populace whose turbulence
had recently been demonstrated. It will,
therefore, not do for him to say that the
sacking of the city could not have been
anticipated. On the contrary, it is pre
cisely what ought to have been anticipated.
As to the intentions of the English Gov
ernment, Mr. Gladstone's statement ap
pears singularly inadequate and unsatis
factory. He surely cannot mean that he
proposes to suspend operations until Arabi
Pasba does something to make it necessary
to proceed againßt him again? Arabi is of
course responsible before all else, for the
looting and burning of Alexandria. It is
even said, though this requires confirma
tion, that he ordered the assassination of
the Khedive. There would be nothing un
characteristic or surprising in this, for
Arabi is a thorough Oriental, treacherous
and cruel and unscrupulous, and no doubt
he thought the opportunity a good one for
disposing of the occupant of the throne,
and thus clearing his own way to promo
tion.
The destruction of Alexandria would,
however, have been accomplished to very
little purpose if the Porte were to step in
at this juncture and take the work out of
the hands of Kugland. It would not be
unlike Mr. Gladstone's forcible-feeble for
eign policy to make such a blunder as this,
and as he would certainly be encouraged in
such a line by all the powers who view
with impotent jealousy the progress of the
British arms in Egypt, he would no doubt
obtain plenty of backiDg for the policy.
But what would be the result to E^ypt
and the world of Turkish intervention?
Either the Turks would refuse to leave
Egypt, having once obtained possession, or
they would be dominated by some Patha
of the Arabi kind, and would play M. -
hemet Aha game over again. In either
event the future of the country would re
main unsettled, the condition of the fellah
ten would be changed for the worse, and
the security of the Suez Canal would be
imperiled. In fact nothing but harm can
possible come of Turkish intervention.
The Porte has not the strength to hold the
country aa a province. It has been too
weak to assert its sovereignty for half a
century and more. And if it would a»sert
its sovereignty it would only restore the
old bid government, so that it is better
that it should be as impotent aa it
is. But one effect of placing Kgypt in
the hands of a weak power like Turkey is
to challenge the cupidity of every strong
power that has ever cast longing eyes upon
that fertile province. Turkey could not
hold the country against all comers —
hardly againit any comer- and so E^ypt
would at once become the assumed prize of
intrigue. Russia would no doubt be fore
most in this underhand work, and as her
influence at Constantinople is very great,
she might supplant England. France, too,
would be in the field, and perhaps Italy,
also, and the last state of E.jypt would be
worse than the first. It would be much
better for the interests of the country, and
for those of the world, that a great power
like England should take and hold the
country under a protectorate. In that
case all the hungry governments would be
warned off, for no one of them would ven
tnre to take the bone away from that
mastiff. Egypt would prosper under such
an arrangement, the fellaheen would escape
oppression and revolution, and the debt of
the country would be liquidated. Under
Turkish rule, on the contrary mismanage
raent, profligacy and oppression would once
more be in the ascendant, and no matter
what arrangements were patched up for the
moment, the whole work of freeing and re
forming Kgypt would have to be done over
■gain.
THE DEMOCRATS AND THE SUNDAY
LAW.
The Gridley flrrabt makes the folio wing
statement: " During a drive in the conn
" try Sunday we were surprised to see a
" header running in one of the grain fields.
" It had a full crew of men at work, and
" they were toiling as hard as though it
" were a generally recognized working day.
" We are informed that this system is
"rigidly adhered to on Dr. Glenn's ranch,
"and that if a man with a team is em
" ployed there and refuses to work on Sun
"day, the board of his team is charged
" against bim. From these facts it would
" seem that a new era is dawning in Amer
" iea — an era when the hitherto freedom of
" the laboring classes will be supplanted
" by a serfdom worse than that of slavery."
The condition of things here described by
the Gridley Jirrald may serve to indicate
what the Democratic platform tends to.
There can be no doubt that in the absence
of any legislation the selfishness and sharp
competition which control all business
must break down and finally abolish the
Sunday holiday. In the case cited we see
what a very wealthy man, greedy for more
money, will do to deprive his employes of
their Sunday. To Dr. Glenn it is a mat
ter of no importance whether these hired
men have any reßt. It appears that he
has not even sense enough to comprehend
that they can do more work in six days
than in seven. All he thinks of is getting
his crops in, and in doing that he pro
poses to work all who are in his employ
every day of the week.
And what Dr. Glenn does now, the ma
jority of men would do if there was no
law to hold them in check. Take away
the last statutory barrier, and Sunday
would soon cease to exist as a day of rest
in California. Now this is precisely what
the Democrats stand committed to by
their platform. They are opposed to any
legislation which is calculated to protect
the workingman's Sunday. Under the
pretense of opposing " sumptuary " laws,
they have pledged themselves to the
repeal of the present Sunday law, and to
the prevention of the enactment of any
substitute for it. This is a very serious
and a very real issue, as our quotation
from tho Gridley Herald demonstrates.
Already the attack upon the Sunday holi
day has been begun, and by a prominent
Democrat. Dr. Glenn, of course, sub
scribes heartily to the doctrines of his
party platform, and he shows how fully he
indorses the Sunday law plank by under
taking to abolish Sunday on hia own ranch,
without waiting for the close of the cam
paign, ile has, it is stated, adopted Sun
day as a working day, systematically, and
he forces his hands to work on that day by
virtually tiuing them if they refuse to do
ao. Who can doubt that if the Democratic
principle was indorsed by the majority of
the people at the polls, Dr. Glenn's prac
tice would bo followed everywhere ? He
can, or thinks he can, afford to do this
now, because he is far from the public
eye. But though at present in the towns
and cities public opinion and the law to
gether prevent a general working on Sun
day, the repeal of the law, and the in
dorsement by the popular vote of the
Democratic position, would produce a
sweepiog change in the general position.
The working classes will have to realize
that they cannot vote the Democratic
ticket this year without votiDg for the
abolition of Sunday. They must also re
member that if Snnday is abolished they
will be the chief Bufferers. Employers of
labor cau always wecure a holiday when
they want it, but if once the custom of
using Sunday as a working day should be
set U]i, the working classes would find that
they could not stand out against it. If
they attempted to do so they would be
discharged, and more pliable men would
be taken in their places, and as there are
always many unemployed there would be
no difficulty in rinding such. And the
more business prospers, and the greater
the demand for labor becomes, the more
certain is it that the pressure upon the
Sunday L.'i.l.-iy will become heavier. It
ia always the tendency for Society to take
everything it can get, and to coerce the
feebler classes at every opportunity. In
the absence of any restrictive law, there
fore," all efforts to preserve the Sunday as
a day of reßt would be in vain. Even
those employers who disapproved of the
new practice would be compelled to yield
to it or suffer injury in their business.
And it by no means follows that wages
would bs increased because seven days in
stead of six constituted the week. Here
again employers would avail themselves of
the competition for work, and would take
the men who were willing lo accept the
lowest wages. In short it is evident that if
the Democrats carry the State the Sunday
must "go," and that Dr. Glenn's practice
will then become the general one.
To prevent this the Republican party is
called upon to formulate a plank which
shall as3ure protection to the humblest,
and the untratnmeled enjoyment of the day
of rest. The present Sunday law has
proved inoperative, because it was badly
drawn. The Republicans, taking warning
and example from that failqre, must under*
take to pass a new law whiih shall secure
to every person one day's rest in seven,
without any reduction of wagep or other
drawbacks. This law should also provide
that whoever desires to carry on business
upon Sunday, Bhall employ special help for
that day, or shall make such other arrange
ments as will Becure a rest day to the help
that has been working throughout the
week. The main feature in the bill must
be the protection of the rights of the labor
ing classes. This is a kind of treasure
which every civilized and enlightened Oov
ernment is bound to adopt, for it involves
what the laboring classes caniot do for
themselves, and it is demanded a3 a pro
tection for them against an abuse which
they have no means of resisting out
side the law. With a platform which
embraces theae principles the Republican
party can confidently appeal to the people
of California. They may see from Dr.
(ilenn's example what is to be expected
from a democratic success. They know
that the maintenance of the Snnday
holiday is, speaking from a purely secular
standpoint, necessary to the physical and
mental health of the community. To
abolish the rest day would be not only to
inflict a cruel injury upon the working
clamm, but to increase the death-rate ; to
encourage intemperance (which always ac
companies misery) ; to undermine public
morals ; to deaden and stupefy the intelli
gence of the masses, and to check the
progreai of the State. This, however, is
what the Democratic party is pledged to
do if its candidates are elected. The
people, if they understand their own in
terests, will see to it that the San Jose
platform is not indorsed.
THE PROGRESS OF PROHIBITION.
The advocates of prohibition have bees
greatly encouraged by the election in lowa,
and are preparing to push their extreme
doctrine everywhere. But it will not do
for them to jump to the conclusion that
because the new prohibition amendment to
the Conatitution of lowa has received a
majority of the popular vote, therefore
prohibition is an accomplished fact there.
lowa casts 323,000 votes. In the late elec
tion, according to the fullest returns, the
prohibition majority was a little over
20,000. Now it must be understood that
on a question of this kind the defeated
party does not acquiesce in the observance
of the law. On the contrary, it must be
assumed that there are in lowa fully l. r .n,.
000 voters who do not believe in prohibi
tion, who do believe in freedom of action,
and who therefore will do all they can to
render the constitutional provision a dead
letter. Hut this is not all. It would be a
very great mistake to suppose that the ma
jority vote was mainly a temperance or
total abstinence vote. The presumption is
that by far the greater number of the ma
jority are moderate drinkers, and unbe
lievers in the theory of prohibition. The
motive of their action ib a different one.
lowa is emphatically an agricultural State.
It contains no large cities. The rural
population therefore outnumbers the
city population, « and the rural voters
are in favor of prohibition because when
the saloons are open their hired men get
drunk, and they are in favor of making
that kind of indulgence impossible. These
farmers, however, are not necessarily ab-
Btainers themselves, and probably the
majority of them drink to some
extent. Tney are moved by pre
cisely the same considerations which
cause the California farmers to be in
favor of closing tha saloons on Sunday, and
the California farmers are certainly not as
a rule advocates or practitioners of total
abstinence. To assume, therefor?, from
the lowa election, that the temperance
doctrine is winning great and permanent
victories, appears to us a delusion ; as is
the hypothesis that men's appetites of any
kind can be extinguished by statute. We
may grant for the sake of the argument
that the evils caused by intemperance are
so great as to justify the invasion of the
freedom of the individual to whatever ex
tent is necessary to stop it. But before
any such invasion is permitted it must be
made clear that the process to be applied
will have the results expected from it.
Now it is at this point that all the prohi
bition schemes collapse. For experiment
proves that Prohibition does not prohibit.
What it does do is to drive drinking into
disguises. In fact it does for intemperance
precisely what stringent legislation has
several times done ior prostitution ; that
is to say, it compels it to hide itself. But
experience demonstrates that prostitution
has always increased the more, the more it
has been driven into the dark, and the
experiments already made in prohibition
justify a similar conclusion. Of course the
prohibition of the sale of liquor will pre
vent some people from getting it when
they want it. Hit it will operate as a
deterrent far oftener in the cases of occa
sional and moderate drinkers than
in those of drunkards. The latter
will not tolerate denial of their fa
vorite vice, and their appetites will be
sure to rind support, by hook or by crook.
We have never yet heard of a so-called
prohibition place where it was really im
possible to procure liquors, and we do not
believe that such a place can be found.
Wherever a strong demand exists, there
the supply will arise to meet it, in disre
gard of all laws. And when laws are thus
defied or evaded, it is certain that the
principle sought to be enforced in them
will become specially odious to the people,
so that all hope of real reform must soon
disappear. A great deal has been done in the
last century to diminish intemperance, but
the reform has been the work of educa
tional agencies, and, above all, of the increas
ing comfort of tho masses. H.lucate men,
give them good wages and clean dwelling?,
and they will cease to crave for rum.
Leave them to sweat and suffer in filthy
tenement houses, grind them down to a
wage barely enough to keep them alive,
and they will drink the worst whisky they
can get, despite of all the laws and all the
temperance societies in the worM. The
cultivation of bodily and mental health is
the one true remedy for intemperance.
Neither statutes, nor tracts, nor temper
ance journals will cure dyspepsia, clear
away ignorance, enlighten mental dullness,
compensate for dirt, and cold, and hunger.
And because these attempted remedies do
not really touch the diseases at which
they are aimed, they are doomed to fail
ure in the very nature of the case,
and this no matter how they may
seem to be winning temporary successes.
Whatever changes tend to substitute
more innocent for le3s innocent drinki are
also beneficent, The introduction of beer
in this country has done a great deal to
promote temperance, for it has led scores
of thousands to stop drinking whisky.' In
the same way the substitution of light
wines for spirits and strong beers would be
a decided step towards temperance. In
this State a great deal of energy and sa
gacity is now being employed in the im
provement of our native wines, and it is
specially significant that every Btep of im
provement in their quality is marked by
the elimination of so much more alcohol
from them. The better the claret the less
alcohol it contains, and our wine-makers
have already readied, in the Znfinlel, a
brand which is certainly as lijht and non
alcoholic as the best li^ht brands of Bor
deaux. If all the people of California
drank Zinfandel, the temperance problem
would be practically solved, and as this
and other native wines improve, they will
tend to this result continually more and
□ore. Thus the development of the great
vineyard resources of the State has a de
cided tendency to promote temperance, and
it is entirely safe to say that the perfection
and general distribution of our lightest
tiblo wines is calculated to produce the
most bcntficial results in this regard.
Under the prohibition system, however,
nothing ii done to refine and elevate the
appetite, and therefore the lover of whisky
and of drunkenness remains the lover of
whisky and of drunkenness to the end of
the chapter, under its operation, and only
concerns himself to evade the law.
A WILD PROTECTIONIST.
A venal sheet published at San Fran
ciaco, which is known to be always in the
market, and whose editorial columns are
at the disposal of any thieving adventurer
who is willing to pay for their use, is just
now engaged in an utterly uncongenial
business. It has undertaken the role of
defender of Protection, no doubt because
it has a fellow feeling with the plundering
system referred to. To perform this role
successfully, however, would require some
knowledge of the subject, arid that the
sheet mentioned does not possess. In fact
it never approaches the issus without
exposing its ignorance, and yesterday it
perpetrated some quite phenomeoal blun
ders. Thus it asserted that the I: *• < >i. ■-
Union favors tariff reform because the
Central and Southern Pacific llailroads are
extensive purchasers of steel rails. Now
any writer at all familiar with the facts
would have eeen that since the duty on
steel rails is ultimately paid by the public
who use the railroads, and not by the rail
road companies, it is a matter of practical
indifference to the latter how high those
duties are. The venal sheet referred to in
another article makes the ridiculous
assertion that the maintenance of the tariff
was necessary to the resumption of specie
payments; that without it'" the balance
"of trade " (an obsolete delusion)
" would have gone the other way;" and —
here is the richest piece of nonsense —
" Kngland instead of America would now
" be the most prosperous and progressive
" manufacturing country in the world."
It would be interesting to know when
England ceased to be " the most pros
" peroue and progressive manufacturing
" country in the world." It would be
still more interesting to know when Amer
ica supplanted her great rival. The fact
is, as of course every educated person
knows, that under the tariff American
manufactures have made extremely slow
progress, and that they have not so much
as begun to compete anywhere with those
of England. But the venal and stupid
sheet from which we have quoted does not
know enough about the subject to avoid
the most preposterous blunders. In fact,
according to its own confession, it advo
cates Protection because it supposes it to
be " an established Republican principle,"
in some vague way, and not because it has
any intelligent conception of its operation?.
NEW IDEAS ON THE RELIGION OF INDIA.
A contemporary solemnly observes, ap
ropos of the Eyptian situation, that
" Arabi will conduct his war on a relig
" ions basis, and if England should under
" take to do her fighting with East Indian
" troops there will be danger of wholesale
" desertions, for Mohammedans, Brahmins,
" Buddhists and Bedouins have much in
*' common in the way of religion* sentiment."
Oar contemporary seems to think that the
term Bedouin indicates a peculiar form of
religion, but we will let that pass. The
idea that Mohammedans, Buddhists and
Brahmins have " much in common in the
" way of religious sentiment," would cer
tainly be news to the people who hold
those faiths. There ia about as much "in
" common " between them as there is be
tween the followers [of Confucius and
Christians, as a matter of fact. The Budd
hists and Brahmins would no more fuse with
the Mohammedans, or the latter with them,
than fire and water wculd fuse. And
there would be no danger of desertion if
the East Indian troops were all Moham
medans, like the Bedouins, for there are as
many sects in Islam as there are in
Christianity, and these sects hate one an
other with a truly Christian cordiality. If
Indian troops are taken to Egypt it can be
predicted with perfect safety that there
will be no desertion from them, bat that
they will fight the Egyptians gallantly, and
will remain thoroughly loyal to the British
Government.
A MINERS' CONVENTION.
A Convention of miners will be held at
Nevada City on the ±2d instant, for the
purpose of diecusaing the dam question.
It is already ae en that ii the various mines
go to work independently and build dams
for the retention of the tailings, great con
fusion and cross purposes will result. They
would then auil'i r from all the embarrass
ments which a want of system has entailed
upon irrigation and reclamation works in
the lower country. Obviously their wisest,
«nd in fact their only wiso course, will be
to systematize the business, and thus make
every dam a part of one general plan em
bracing the entire mining area. They will
probably lind it best to employ some en
gineer of general reputation to frams the
scheme, and the detiila can then be car
ried out by the engineers of the several
mines, acting under his instructions. Any
other arrangement would certainly result
in the creation of formidable difficulties,
while the consequence of independent
plans would ala > bo the waste of money
and tiie failure to produce the best effect*.
The Convention has a very serious subject
before it, but we have no doubt that it
will be determined intelligently.
A GALLANT DEED.
The act of the sailor on board one of the
ironclatia cff Alexandria, who picked up a
burning shell hl.l extinguished the fire by
plunzin:; it into a backet of water, was un
questionably one of great bravery, fcr there
are few more ducompnaiir,; aad generally
uncertain objects to handle, or indeed to
remain in the neighborhood of, than a
live shell, and a man who bas the nerve to
take one up, without in the least knowing
how much longer the fuse has to burn,
must be capable of any feat of cool gal
lantry. The only description of a tirnilar
incident that occurs to ua is in a work
of fiction Captain Marryatt'a novel of
"The King's Own." He makes his hero,
then a little bey, walk up to a live shell
during an engagement at sea, and roll it
overboard. A child, however, might do a
thing like thia without comprehending the
danger he was incurring, whereas the
sailor on the ironclad was of course fully
aware that he was very titsnJry taking
his life in hia hands when he lifted the
hissing shell. Decidedly this was a
consummate proof of a Ttry high kind of
coorage indeed.
AN OLD DEMOCRAT PROTESTS.
D. 0. Shattuck, of Sonoma, ia one of the
former District Judge* of this State, and oe
cnpled the Bench in San Francisco. He is a
leading old-time Democrat ; a man of un
questioned integrity, of acknowledged ability
and is a sound lawyer. Judge Shattuck v
an aged man, and his views command the
respect that many year* of experience in
active life, close study and ability deserve,
loe Judge has positive viemi on the action
of the_ Democratic Convention at San Jose
regarding the Sunday law, and these are
published in a letter to the BaVetin of the
14th inst., from which these extracts are
made :
I confess myself disappointed and raorti'ed by the
act of the late Convention in making the /-peal of
the Sunday lair a distinct isnie. The repeal of
that law had not been a question before the people
anywhere, except San Francisco, and not even there
except by two excited factions, and not serioaalv
considered by the people generally. No deleirat.on
from «ny county, to my knowledge, was elected m
reference to it. It nevfr in this State has been
made a party question. It is not necessarily and
naturally Democratic doctrine. I consider its in
troduc'ion an unfortunate mistake and a fire brand
for evil, showing mu<:h more e&urage than ilium
lion. It means mischief, and cannot be sustained
without a division of the party.
The law known as the Sunday lent having never,
as to its policy, expediency and propriety, been gen
erally discussed before the people, was improperly
brought before the Convention.
If the repeal of said law is persisted in as Demo
cratic doctrine during the coining campaign, |the
party will be divided, and if uot beaten at the polls,
will, in my judgment deserve defeat.
_ That the law is not sumptuary, is not unconstitu
tional, nor unjust, ncr oppressive, nor fanatical, nor
unwise ; but, on the contrary, I maintain that it is
the reverse of all this — a wise, conservative and just
law, which, it properly enforced, will be found
among our laws must efficient in promoting the
peace, prosperity and happiness of the whole people,
and that it should not be repealed.
There will be found no difficulty in enforcing a
constitutional conservative law when the people
mire fully del-stand its object and its advantages.
That no class of people are materially injured by
the observance »( the Sunday law except the saloon
keepers, and they have no right to complain of the
law to close up and give peace on election days and
Sunday?.
The War Ships.— The following is a list
of the English vessels of war engaged at
Alexandria, Egypt, and the armament of
each : Inflexible, turret, U,4o<> tons, fonr
80-ton guna ; charge, 44.~> pounds ; shell,
1.700 pounds ; Pallieer ; diameter of guns,
10 inches. Monarch, turret, 8,82-2 tons,
four 25-ton guns, 12-inch, and two tii-ton
guns, 7 inch. Alexandria, 9,492 tonß.two
2">-too guns, 12 inch, and ten 1 8- ton guns,
10-inch. Sultan, 9 2S(> tons, eight 18-ton
guns, 10-inch, and fonr 12-ton guns, 9 inch.
Invincible, 0 034 tons, ten 12-ton guns. 11
--inch, and four til poonders. Superb, 8.760
tons, twelve lStpn gun*, 10-inch, and four
(>.\-ton guns, 7-inch. Temerarie, 8,540 tons,
fo&r 25-ton gun", 12 inch, and four Is. tan
guns, 10-inch. IYutlope, 4 394 tons, eight
0-ton guns, S inch, and three 40-pounders.
The first two named are turret ships, the
next live cafemate chips, and the last, tbe
Penelope, the smallest of the ironclads en
gaged, is an armed corvette.
NEW ADVEBTISEMEHTB:
$12500
IX PURSE* AND STAKE?.
€3 A.X.IS"OS,N X A.
STATE FAIR
Speed Programme for 1882.
FIRST DAT— tlondny, Hept. 11.
No. I— RUNNING — INTRODUCTION STAKE—
For all sjren ; three quarters of a mile dash ; 5.".0 en-
trance, $15 forfeit; 4210 added; second 1 to save
(take.
No. 2— RUNNING — BREEDERS 1 STAKE For
foals of 1879 ; one and a half miles dash ; 5.V) en-
trance, p. p.; $300 added. Closed March Ist with
nineteen cominations.
No. 3— RUNNING - SELLINO RACE— Purse,
$250. Free for all ; one mile and repeat second
horse to receive $75. Entrance five per cent, to
third horse. Hursts entered to be sold for $1,500 to
carry entitled weight, one pound off for each $100
under fixed valuation.
1 No. 4— TROrrINO-2:40 class ; purse. $1,000.
SfctO.Ml lit v'-Tnrmlay, Sept. if.
No. S— TROTTING— 2:2S class; purse, $1,200.
No. 6— TROTTING— Purse, $600; for three year
olds and under.
No. 7 TROTTING— Purse, «SO0; mile heats for
two year olds.
1 !lIKI> day- WestacMhqr, •< p'. i:i.
No 8-RUNMNO-FILLY STAKE FOR TWO
YEAR OLD FILLIES— Five eighths of a mile; $.'.*
entrance; $15 forfeit; $200 added ; second to receive
$75 ; third, fa.
No. 9 — RUNNING — CALIFORNIA DERBY
&TAKE— For three year olds ; one and one-half mile
dash; $ICO entrance; $25 forfeit; (260 added;
second horse, $100 ; toird, $5-1.
Ho. RUNNING— JENNIE B. STAKE — For
all ages ; daeh of one mile ; $.*>o entrance, $15 forfeit;
$200 ad.led ; second hone, $75 ; third, $25. .-take
to be named after winner, if Jennie B'.'s time —
1:4:.; -in beaten. v.. •
No. 11— RUNNING — SELLING RACE — Purse,
$i5O ; one and eighth miles ; second horse, $100 ;
entrance* five per cent, to third horse. Horses en-
tered to be sold forsl,oOo, to carry entitled weight.
Two pounds off foi each $100 under fixed valuation
No. 12-TROTriNG— 2:3oclasj; purse, 200.
io:l:ill I'll 111 'a -.>.■, it. 11.
No. 13 -TROT TINO-2:2! class; pn-ne, »1,200.
X... 14— PACING— 2:25 class; pune, $300.
No. 15— TROTTING— Two miles aud repeat; 2:49
horses ; purse, $£00.
- lIIi ll ItAV— Friday, Kepi. 1.'.. ,:
No. 16— RUNNING— COLT AND FILLY STAKE
— For two-year olds ; dash of one mile ; $o0 en-
trance, $15 forfeit, $21.0 added ; second horse, iSO *
third, $25.
No. IT— RUNNING— RACE — Purse,
$300 ; for ail ages ; da^h of one and a quarter miles ;
$100 to second horse ; entrance, five per cent, to
third ; horses entered to be sold for $1,500, cany
full weight ; for $1,200, three pounds oil; for sl,ooo,
five pounds off ; for $750, seven pounds off ; for
$300, ten pounds off.
No. 18 RUNNING- POST STAKE— of three
miles ; free for all ; $100 entrance ; $500 added ;
weight 100 pounds; three year olds, DO pounds;
second horse to receive $150 ; third, $100. Starters
to be named to the Secretary, Wednesday evening,
at or before 8 o'clock.
No. 19-RU.\'N>NQ— CONSOLATION PURSE—
$250 for beaten horses ; one mile and repeat ; en-
trance free ; second horse to receive $50.
SIX Ml IMT Hal.rdny, Sept. 16.
No 20— TROTTING -2:18 class; purse,sl,2oo.
No. 81— TROTriNG-Purse, $!>OO ; for double
teams of 2:3* horn* m
Xo.lt TBOTTIHa— OCCIDENT STAKE FOR
I '■*•.', closed in 1--1 with twelve nominations.
No. S-BPEUIAX TROT AGAINST IMP $250
in plate be awarded to any sta!l:on that beats Santa
ClauV time (2:17J).
Entries for the following events for IHH3 I were
ordered to he c!o««.d wit*i the above races :
No. 1 -RUNNING — CALIFORNIA DERBY
STAKE— For foals of 1880, 10 be run at the Mate
Fair 0(1888. One and one half miles dish ; $.10 en-
trance, p. p. ; $309 added ; ixcond horse, $100 ;
third, IK,
No. 2— ime stake, for foals of 1---1, to be run at
the State Fair of 1881. Same eoadai-n"
No. 3— RUNIfIKiI— MATURITY ,-TAKK Thrt«-
hjile ria-li. for fouryear-olds, in IHSS3; $100 en-
trance ; »■•:• f< rft-it . $600 ad.lwJ; seeond h< me, $1.'.0;
third horse, $100. To be run at the State Fair of
1883.
No. 4— RUNNING — CALIFORNIA ANNUAL
STAKE— For twn-)car-nld>, foals of 1881. Dash of
one mile ; $100 entrance; ir^'i forfeit; $-2.V) added ;
second horse, 1100 . third, •*.■-". To be run at the
Fair of 1-- I.
UEH4CKS ASU I O.MII l|a>w -
All trottinsr and pscltifc racn jpa the best three in
tivi-, except the twoyear-old trot, unless oth*rwUe
■aecifi.d; five to int*-r and three to start. Entrance
fee ten per cent, on purse, to accompany nomina-
tion. I'ur«s divided at the rate of kii't per cent.
to first boras thirty per c».t.t. to second and ten per
cert, to third.
National Association Rules to govern trotting;
but the B. ard rest-rve-* the ri^i.t to trot heauj of any
two claws alttrnalely, if msi Mary to fir i»h any
day's racing, or to trot a sa d ,| r»ce between heats
To fill miming rices, this* or more subscribe™
are necessary.
All two-year olds, when ranting in their class",
■hall carry one hundred pounds, with the usual al-
lowance for mares and i.'eMinm.
All three-year olds, when running in their clas-es,
to carry one hundred and ten p.,unu<>, wit!) the usual
allowances as above. " ■ - - -
Those who have notninatios in stakes am name
to the Secretary, u * Km.-..*, the |.., „„ they will
«Urt on Monday, on the Saturday prtvions ; and on
Wednesday, the Monday previous , and on Fridav,
the Wednesday previons, by 12 o'clock m This
rule is obvious, and must be strktly adhered to.
No added money paid for a walk over.
ll'.rses entered in purse* can only be drawn by
consent of Jud^H».
Rules (if the Pacific Coast Blood Horse Associa-
tion (old weights) to govern running races, ex. eat
when conditions named are o'herwi e.
All entri'B to be made in writing, giving name,
sex, color and marks of horses ; also, name and
residence of owner. In runniny races, full colors to
be worn by rider ; and driver, in trotting r<ces are
respect fully requested to wear cap* of distinct colors;
tube named In their entries, as their horses will lie
denignated upon programmes by colors worn by
drivers. This is „ -„ . .-,r , to enable iKe<.tl'.on to
dis'inguMi the hones in the race.
Knt'ics to all the above races to r:r,m mth the
Secretary on Tuesday, August I, 1882.
Wiite " Entries to Races " on ouulde of envel"pe.
HUGH M. LAKUE, Presider.l.
IMa F. fc*ini, tjtxrtUrj. Jyls 4p2w