Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-28
THE DAILY REC0RD-UNI0N.
MANHATTANISMS.
NEW YORK PRoFITING BY CALIFoR-
MAS NEW CONSTITUTION.
Robbing a Good Samaritan "A Theater
with Evangelic supporters-Edwin
Booth Going Abroad
New YoRK, February IA, Is

clearing house. which viii, it is expected
be a great financial power, and exercise
marked influence on Wall street and it,
concerns. The banking department, to be
called the United States Trust Company
and to be the principal feature of the or
sanization, has already secured Offices II
lower Broadway, and will be conducted
along with the Exchange and Clearing
house, to what can hardly fail to be very
prosperous issue. Several rich Cahfor
mans, VINO have omitted their old home.
to reside here, say that the establishment
Of the new Trust Company, with LOCO,
900 capital, and charter of almost Hnlim
tied powers, is another direct result OF tn,
PREVALENCE OF KEARNEYIsM
In your State. They add that, unless The
new Constitution be materially altered
and the determinations against property
and property-holders be rescinded, capita
will be driven away from California, and
that once driven away, it cannot be got
back, even by wise and conservative legis
lation. They point to their own example
in support of their opinion, and to the fact
that other CalifornIans are preparing to
leave San Francisco, Sacramento, Oak land,
Stockton and other centers, not because
they do not like those places, but because
they want to be in the East, where, as they
express it, property is not considered rob-
berry and where success is not an indictable
offense. The mining center, hitherto in
H., i ,aY,f no
transferred hither the transfer has already
begun, and will continue until that city
shall have lost all its mining prestige, un-
less the course of communism be promptly
and permanently checked.
do not give you the views OF New
Workers ON this subject-they might be
prejudiced-bu the views of people OF the
Pacific Coast, who wish it well, but who
see that demagogism is steadily working
its ruin. Every few days some prominent
Californian of energy, enterprise and
fortune appears here with the announce
ment that he has surrendered his residence
on the Slope in exchange for New York
citizenship. owing to the domination there
of Kearneyism. These are unmistakable
evidences of and practical arguments
against the new Constitution which no IN
telligent man can ignore, and as such their
recapitulation ought to be Of concern to
you and yours, who are SO much Interested
in the matter.
A MILLIONAIRE OF GENEROUS FAITH.
The faith shown by Henry C. Robinson,
the ex-Californian, who has just died at
Yonkers, leaving $40. 600 to the destitute
women and children of San Francisco, has
caused more surprise than admiration here.
The testator left tne money in trust to the
Mayor and City Council of the town, and
as they are, in part, of the Kearney party,
it is thought that he must have been
more generous than wise. Presuming
them to be strictly honest, the
ability of the Kearney section of that city
government to manage any such fund
might well be questioned. The reputation
OF Kearneyites, however it may be regard
ed on the sand lots, does not stand well
outside of that charmed locality. To con-
1ide money to them is, in intelligent esti-
nation, to lose it through scoundrelisIn or
ignorance. Robinson, an Argonaut, and
for several terms State Senator, seemed
to prove his sagacity by his financial sue
cess. His faith in men not deserving of
faith must be explained by his residence
abroad of late years. He had not probably
concerned himself with recent California
politics. He showed excellent sense in
combining his charity to women and chill
dren, who need charity far more than men
do. Men have everything on their side
nature, society, tradition, law. Ii they
cannot get on with all their ad-
vantages, the fault is generally in
them, not in the circumstances.
Women, on the contrary, have every
thing to contend against. When they
are destitute, they are destitute indeed.
For a woman to be poor and friendless is
sufficient to evoke the compassion of the
hardest heart. A man in want is at worst
more or less melodrama woman in
want is supreme tragedy.
"REMINISCENCES OF VIM. NJ. TWEED.
The death of the widow of VIM. NJ.
Tweed would have attracted no little at
tention few years ago, when Tweed was
virtually dictator of New York. But
when it was announced this morning it wa:
hardly noticed. The time was, and not re-
mote, when the newspapers would have
contained long and elaborate obituaries
full of laudation of her graces and virtues
not because they would have wished tc
honor her memory, but because they would
have been anxious to fiatter and conciliate
her husband. She is said to have been a
kind hearted, well meaning, commonplace
woman. She did not fiaunt in the public
eye and make herself ridiculous when the
political highwayman whom she called
husband was at the hight of his dishonest
power She had none of his vulgar am,
bition and love of display. 1t was
he, not she, who audaciously
adopted the crest of the Mar
auis of Tweeddale as his own, on &C
count of the Tweed in the title. She acted
much more becomingly than any member
of her family She always felt, it is said,
that her liege would have downfall, and
living under the shadow of that feeling
prevented her from enjoying his meretri
cious prosperity. Before he had tumbled
and during much of his reign, it is sale
that he neglected his wife for mistress, q
bold, bad woman, who had great influence
over him, and who used her influence fol
her own and her friends benefit. He ruled
the city, but his mistress ruled him. To
ward the close of his career she seemed t.
mold and manage completely. The manner
in which Tweed was treated after his ar
raignment, when his power had begun t,
crumble, proved that there is
NO HONOR. AMONG THIEVES
His associates in crime, who owed every
thing to him, not only abandoned him
they turned against him. they robbed hin
on every hand. He put property into thel
hands after his arrest, believing tba
they would give 1t back when wanted
But they kept it, and tried every
way to screen themselves by accusing
him. Putting off all their sins on him
they pretended TO be yirtuous. He ono
said when in Ludlow street, . / neve
have had very high opinion Of human
nature, but | would not have believed
that men whom / have bel ed and trusted
whom have actually made, could prov
to be such d scoundrels.n
Even the newspapers, which were s
riehteously indignant at him after his ex
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