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MOVING IN TIE RIGHT DIRECTION.

The State Teachers Association held a
meeting recently, and after discussion, en-
lightened by the statement of Mr.. Slade,
one of the Quincy School Directors, framed
contained the following words "That
this Association believes that the ac-
"quirements, the breadth of culture and
experience, of the primary teacher, as
well as her general knowledge of
&C human nature and aptness to teach,
should be greater rather than less than
GO those of the teachers of the higher grades.
g That the salaries of primary teachers
should be greater rather than less than
those of the higher grades.n Mr.. Slade
told the teachers that he found the
theory held in San Francisco that the
primary grades should be taught by the
youngest and least experienced teachers.
In Quincy, he said, they promoted teach
ers to the primary department. The
superiority of this method is OBJ
vious, for, as Mr.. Slade observed, sit
takes double the capacity, ingenuity,
"patience and experience to teach a child
&c five years old than it does one of ten. :"
And it is absolutely necessary to recognize
the supreme Importance of the primary
schools before any systematic improve
ment in teaching can be looked for. The
primary schools ought to be taught by the
best instead of the poorest teachers, and if
they are not, the most important steps in
the whole educational course must go
wrong, and the utility of the schools be
endangered. 1t is time that Superintend-
ents stopped the unmeaning and insincere
practice of congratulating the public at the
end of each year upon the efficiency of
schools which everybody knows are any
thing but efficient, and which will never
succeed while this sluggish and indolent
spirit controls them. The work of reform
requires to be undertaken vigorously from
the bottom up, and primary reform is the
IlOSG lliipOTldut Vi oil. IHe OUdle IedCH-
ers' Association has shown wisdom
in thus proclaiming itself on the side
of such reform, and particularly in
taking the ground that the primary teach
ers ought to be the best, and therefore the
best-paid teachers. The San Francisco
School Board, at present the most barbar-
Gus and retrogressive on the coast, has I'M
dertaken to prevent all advance in the
schools of that city by providing that the
primary grades shall be taught only by the
worst teachers. This of course is involved
in the salary reduction applied to those
grades, and we warn the people of San
Francisco seriously that if they allow that
reduction to 60 into effect without protest
or remonstrance, it will destroy the eff
cheney of their schools in less than year.
There is no room for halfway measures of
reform in this connection. If popular ed
ucation is to be the means of securing pop
ular intelligence and political capacity it
must be reorganized, and in the manner
pointed out by experience.
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AUTHORITY WANTED.

There is kind of loose statement made in
these DAYS that often sufices to create public
sentiment, yet which is far more likely to
mislead than not. Here is case in point. A
Washington dispatch Wednesday said cit
sis asserted on excellent authority that 10
"many cases, especially in Alabama and
" Florida, the colored men have attempted to
"become owners of some of the vacant pub
''lic lands, but have been prevented by the
white people. Instances are mentioned
"where colored men who had taken up home
g teads under the homestead law Were
squeezed out and driven off as soon as their
Improvements had become Of sufficient
"value to excite the cupidity of white men,"
Now that statement may be true, but
it seems to us to have good many of the
earmarks of a lie. If the authority for it is
excellent" why not give it? If specific
cases have occurred, why not particularize
them? Why, also, not state precisely how
the wicked white men squeezed " and
"froze out the poor darkies? People are
easily led to put faith in stories of this kind,
and therefore they should be printed with
more precaution unless it is the deliberate in
tention to deceive the public. Loose asser-
tions, coupled with mysterious references to
concealed authorities, are not enough to ar
raign whole communities upon, and all such
statements deserve to be flung out of the
court on the sufficient ground of their vague
nasa apd absapna of ,,roof
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BILE of being replaced with ease. The new
Constitution unfortunately remains long
after the wretched demsgogues who made
it have passed into oblivion. 1t remains
to plague and embarrass the people, to yex
and to damage them with unjust imposts,
to inflict imbecile and silly fantasies upon
them for reforms, to force them to demon
strate for the hundredth time the folly and
futility of devices which have been tried
and abandoned by nation after nation and
State after State, yet which have been in
troduced here with as owlish a gravity as
though the. world was now to hear of them
for the first time. All this and more the
people know to in store for them through
and by the new Constitution. What
wonder, therefore, if confidence is slow
to return, and if those wh9 have some
thing to lose decline to take the assur-
ances of the sans-culottes that everything is
right. Demagogism has done this frightful
injury to California. Demagogism still
keeps the State down and prevents her
from advancing In company with the rest
of the Union. The coarse and dirty
thumbp print of Kearneyism Is upon San
Francisco, and the faint of a rampant So
cialism hovers about the new organic law.
Under such circumstances it is vain for
those who helped and howled with the
demagogues to seek to restore public conf
dence. The truth is that no word of con-
domination uttered against the new Consti-
tuition while 1t was in issue, was exagger-
ated The blots and blemishes then
pointed out were every one real. And it
IS because this is so, and because no sane
man can examine the instrument without
finding it to be so, that the business de-
preston continues. California could have
saved herself from all these evils and
losses, but she chose to let the dema-
gogues have their way, and now she must
suffer without present remedy. The new
Constitution has hitherto been terror in
anticipation only. Henceforth it will be
an active nuisance, and it will be found i'm
possible to avoid it. Demagogues have thus
done as much actual material injury to
the State as would have resulted from some
tremendous casualty or some sweeping
financial panic. The thought that.the COM
munity must always be exposed to such in
Juries, moreover, is not reassuring in the
least. The situation, indeed, in calculated
to be productive of unmixed evil, unless it
convinces every citizen that in democratic
government there is no room for apathy,
and that those who do not actively exert
themselves to secure good government are
really leagued with those whose interest it
is that the government should be bad.
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tupity serves she is opening her schools
and extending the discipline of her train
ing. 1t is, as We before observed, a saga
cious and statesmanlike programme, and it
ought to be examined by all thinking men,
and especially by all public men. The
world has grown, great deal during the
last century, but it has not outgrown the
possibility of retrogression. Nothing
but untrammeled and unauthorized
teaching of pure truth can preserve human
freedom. No government not founded
upon the intelligence of the people can en-
dure, call it what men WILL Education is
therefore the key to freedom, and to neg
lect it is to open the door to those who
are Freedoms sworn foes
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03
FoREsHADowED ABDICATIoN.

1t has been whispered for some time past
that the Gar of Russia was growing weary
OF his position, and that he desired to re
sign 1t by abdication, if possible before the
Nihilists found the crevice in his armor.
1t is now reported that on New Years
Day the Gar introduced the Czarowitch
to the army in a very significant manner.
lntlmatlng that they would soon have
to pay allegiance to him. The Car.
owitch is believed to be willing to under
take the responsibility which has proved
too heavy for the Car, and he thinks it
possible to satisfy the complaints of the peo-
pie. As it is not known that he proposes
any radical change in the form of govern
mept, it is doubtful If the foreshadowed
abdica.ion involves any relief to the Rus
sian people
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03
WEEKLY UNION.

The WEEKLY UNION will soon present the first
chapters of B. L. Farieons great novel, which will
be published in America in the columns of the
UNION only During the legislative session about
TO open the readers of the WEEKLY UNION will be
kept fully informed Of all matters of interest trans
piring in the Legislature and will be favored with
reports of the proeeediags which the readers of
other journal will enjoy. The WEEKLY USoS is
issued in seui-week1y parts, each one containing
eight pages of matter. These semi-weekly parts &c
out on Wednesday and Saturday of each week, and
carry the news to the people fresher, sooner ano
more frequently than is possible with the old style
OF weekly. No~, at the beginning of the year, Is
the time of al others to subscribe for the bes
family, news and business Journal of all the West
and that is the WEEKLY UNION, which is sent to an!
postofice postpaid for two dollars per year.
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Nor is the confidence so destroyed capa-
some of those countries the habit of obedi.
ence to Rome is the one most firmly estab-
lished, and there is no enlightened public
opinion to point out pitfalls and traps.
And though it may seem that this is the
last resort of Rome, and that losing this
win back the peoples that have renounced
her allegiance, and the position of suprem-
acy from which she has been so rudely
ousted, yet it is evident enough that this
last ditch, if it be the last, is very strongly
defended, and that it is by no means a
desperate undertaking. Through educa-
tional machinery Rome keeps the ranks of
her grand army full continually, and at
the same time gathers in enough converts
to make the work worth doing. Her
schools and colleges are being multiplied
perpetually, not only here but throughout
Europe Quietly she adds college to COL
lege, ever reaching out and embracing a
larger aggregate of pupils. In France she
is making determined fight for what
looks at first blush like the mere right to
existence in an educational form, but for
what doubtless would prove to be, if she
succeeded, the right to insert an entering
wedge which would bring down the whole
theory of State education, and giveh the
power she seeks. In Italy she is about to
enter upon a similar undertaking. In
Belgium she Is engaged in the same kind
of controversy as in Germany, though
with somewhat better prospects. But
everywhere she is firmly but adroitiy
pressing her claims or her facilities
for teaching, and everywhere that oppor-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03

The public share in the stock business is
stlctiy limited to spending its own money.
1t is graciously permitted to earn nine or
ten millions year in legitimate business,
and turn it over to the stock sharps, who
thereupon hustle it out of sight very much
after the fashion of the thimble-rigger with
the pea. 1t is difficult in these times to
have patience with such as pretend to
speak seriously of Comstock mining, as of
an honest and honorably-conducted bust
ness, or who affect to regard it as among
the legitimate avenues of investment which
prudent and sagaeious men think well of
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A GREAT PAPER.

From the Sacramento Daily Bee, January 2d.I
The REcoRD-gSroS Issued a great paper Yesterday,
a double-double sheet containing the usual local
and general statistics, elaborate review Of the
doings OF the leading Governments and peoples Of
the world an entertaining original story, an Illus
trated paper on the Cooling Moth, or orchard pest
written by Cooke Son, Of Sacramento, an able ar
tice on tho trade of Sacramento for 1879, showing
that its footings exceed those of 1878. by a million
and half dollars, fine cut of the private resi-
denee Of Albert Gallatin, Esq.-and in addition to
all this it had two hundred special detailed state
ments concerning representative business houses Of
Sacramento
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03

A good country parson preached a series
OF sermons on practical morality, and yerv
interesting and instructive they were. <
lad IN the village who had heard only one
Of them was coming out of an orchard one
day, his pockets bullying out with stolen
fruit He met the parson, who noticed his
efforts to conceal the evidences of his guilt.
" Have you been stealing apples p asked
the minister. Eyes, SIR answered the
boy. sheepishly. "And you are trying to
hide them from me!' continued the good
man. Yes, sir, said the culprit, and
then added, his face frightening up, 'sYou
said last Sunday that we must avoid the
appearance of evil
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03
A FIT APPOINTMENT.

With this issue of the RECORD UNION
Captain J. ID. Young, its city editor for
four years past, sewers his relation with
the paper. Prior to the consolidation of
the RECORD and the UNION, he held the
same high and responsible post upon the
SACRAMENTO UNION during a period of
some nine years. His retiracy from the
exacting fell of journalism has been
brought about by information of his pro-
posed appointment to the important posi-
ton of Superintendent of State Printing,
by Governor George c. Perkins-an
appointment suggested by the eminent
fitness of Captain Young for the office.
Prior to his years of service as a journal
list he was an experienced and accomplished
printer, his commanding position in that
trade being matter of unanimous recogni-
tion by the craft. In this community,
where Captain Young is best known, his
being chosen to the trust named is looked
upon as but simple recognition of his
competency, his. honesty, and his entire
fitness to fill the Office with honor to him
self, and with profit to the people of the
State-an appointment not to have been
bettered on any score.
In parting with Captain Young his old
journalistic associates feel regret, the
keenness of which is only mitigated by the
qualification they experience at the recog-
milton accorded to his worth and thorough
qualification for the office to which he is
about to be inducted They bear testi-
meny, in common with the entire commu-
nifty, to his unwavering integrity and bis
unimpeachable manhood-in all which he
has but few equals and no superior They
part with him without wish for his sue
cess as public officer, because they feel
that even that expression might be received
as implying doubt not man among them
entertains
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03

The RATE.-0n and after Jdnuary L, 1880
the subscription price of tie WEEKLY UNION
viii be 50 per qnnuaa, or 81 25 for siz months.
These rates lriig be inrariable. No agent aeiu
be aliored to charge morr, and no trurelng
solicitor asiR be permitted to take less. At So
PER annnz the WEEKLY UNION is by far the
eheaesse paper published on this eoax,
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Sacramento, January 2, 1880.

There are two sorts of ignorance: we
philosophize to escape ignorance; we start
from the one, we repose in the other; they
are the goals from which, and to which,
we tend and the pursuit of knowledge is
but course between two ignorances, as
human life is only travelling from grave
to grsve.-[Sir William Hamilton.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03
STRIKING AT THE ROOT.

1t is significant of the indomitable char
acter and the subtle policy of the
Church of Rome that at the present time
it is conducting vigorous campaign all
over the world on behalf of what it knows
to be the key to final dominion, that is to
say, the control of popular education.
Whatever power governs the schools shapes
the intelligence of the generation. No
matter how gross may be the superstitions
or historical fables or mystical fantasies
that power maintains in its teaching, it can
get all the world to accept anything, if
only it can control the worlds schools In
vain would Science assail the strongholds
of Superstition and Credulity if these two
were permitted to mold the minds of the
coming men and women. The victory in
such case would be mere question of
time, and the Church could we'll af-
ford to endure the exposures of modern crit
icism for few years, confident that in the
next generation there would be no thirst for
truth, but that the well-drilled children
would accept obediently just such matter as
was recommended to them by their intel
lectual and moral governors. In Belgium,
in France, in Italy, in Germany, and,
last, though not least, in the United States,
Rome is doing her utmost to get this edu-
cational matter into her own hands, In
Belgium and France and Italy, where the
Church still controls important political
elements, it is boldly claimed that she is
entitled to this dominion over the schools.
In the United States that claim is seldom
advanced so markedly, but very effective
and even more polite method is pursued.
1t is simply to make the Catholic schools
better than the public schools To do this
is to capture the citadel by assault, but to
submit to such an assault is for Amer.
lean citizens to sell their birthripht
For education is and must ever be the AL
pha and Omega of democratic government.
A republic which does not rest upon an
intelligent suffrage is doomed, and the in.
telhgenee of the suffrage depends mainly
upon the nature of the public school sys.
TEN. The American people have always
acknowledged the necessity of good
educational system, but they have not al
ways taken the pains to make sure that
the system they pursued was what it
ought to be. 1t is to be hoped that the
recent stimulus to educational reform given
by the disclosure of the wonderful expert
ments at Quincy will work the inaueura-
ton of thorough and general improve
ment in the methods employed, for in no
other way than this can the predictions of
our enemies and the apprehensions of our
friends be alike triumphed over.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03
MATERIAL INJURIES CAUSED BY DEM
AGOGUES

1t is apt to be thought that while dema-
gogism is very bad thing, yet that it is
after all a somewhat insubstantial evil, and
that though it makes a great deal of noise,
it leaves little trace behind it. But this
IS not true. The truth is that demagogism
is one of the most potent agents of mate
rial injury among all the forces that move
society. What it can do, and what it has
actually done, to injure the community
that is infested by it, may be ascertained
by examining the case of San Francisco,
which, on this occasion, may be said to
stand for California. 1t has puzzled the
statisticians for some time past to account
for the fact that while the business. returns
from every other part of the Union were
encouraging, the returns from San Fran
cisco continued to show depression, want
of confidence, loss of trade. At first
an attempt was made to explain the
matter by referring it to the state of
the stock market, but as the statistics
of the stock market are kept separate
from the regular trade statistics, this theory
would not work. At the close of the year
1879 it appeared that the business decline
in San Francisco for the entire year Rad
been 3l.9 per cent, and this decline &C.
Cured in the very face of reviving pros
perity and confidence all over the North
and West, and despite a magnificent wheat
crop in California. What, therefore, could
be the cause of so remarkable state of
business depression We reply, the cause
is demagogism. During the greater part
of the year the whole State was kept in
agitation over the framing and adoption of
a new Constitution. That Constitution
was VIGOROUSLY made by ignorant, preju-
diced, malignant men. 1t was filed with
communistic attacks upon property. 1t
was more in the nature of a stump speech
than an organic law. The intelligence.
experience, enlightenment, conservatism,
of the State were necessarily op.
posed to it. But after most acri-
monious and INSCRIPTIONS campaign, it
was adopted and in it's adoption blow
was dealt at the material prosperity of the
State from which it neither has recovered
nor can soon recover. This is the Secret of
the decrease of business That decrease is
shown most markedly at San Francisco,
but it has been felt all over the State. and
the new Constitution, and nothing else,
is the cause of it. Demagogues have in
this instance inflicted upon the community
loss which must be measured by millions
of dollars. To enable themselves to ac.
quire little passing applause from the
most ignorant and stupid classes, 20 secure
for their utterly worthless selves a little
place and pelf, these knaves have subjected
the whole community to enormous losses,
have paralyzed trade, destroyed confidence,
driven capitalintohiding andhterally wiped
out the full profits of years successful
operations.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.

Large numbers of legislators have arrived
in the city, the greater number coming in
yesterday and last night. At thssleading
hotels crowds usual to the advent of legisla-
tive sessions were assembled last evening
There were many warm greetings between
old friends, but more of introductions be-
tween those recently strangers who are soon to
work together in Assembly or Senate Private
caucusing began early IN the day, and was
actively prosecuted till late at night The
appearances indicate fewer candidates for
legislative positions than in former years.
However, the number is not inconsiderable
at this date. The leading candidates who
have thus far come prominently to the.front
are:
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to deny the existence of any reserved
rights on the part of the States, and which
would empower it to ride roughshod over
their most cherished institutions, charters,
privileges and laws.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03

There is less danger. perhaps, in this
country than in any of the others named
that the policy of Rome can be successful.
For while the constant necessity of vigil
lance has accustomed us to be on our
guard against attempted invasions of re-
publican institutions and principles, in