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THE PRACTICE OF GIVING BONDS.

The car conductors of Chicago have
struck, and certainly not without an APP
pearance of reason. They complain that
they are expected to give bonds for the
faithful performance of their duties in the
first place, and that they are compelled to
work from twelve to fourteen hours a day
for wage of from 81 80 to 50. There
can be no doubt that their work is very
hard, and very i'll paid, and perhaps the
worst feature about it is the regulation
compelling them to give bonds. This
practice is one which has been greatly
abused. 1t is of course a method by
which employers seek to insure themselves
against dishonesty. But there is no justice
in the arrangement by which wealthy en-
ployers thus make other people guarantee
the integrity of their employees. On the
contrary, in the majority of cases this is an
imposition on the public. Here for instance
is great corporation, municipal or other.
wise, and it requires that for every man
~ pubo III ptoillOn VI iu5L Ddll q uOZtu OF
dozen citizens who are not interested in
the contract at all, shall become sureties
for the good faith of the individual. Why
should not great corporations do their own
insurance in such cases? Is it that
they are too poor to take the risk Yet
they will allow individual citizens to put
the whole Of their property at stake upon
bonds in these cases. In the case of public
officers the practice of exacting heavy
bonds appears to be an attempt to COM
pensate in this indirect way for the care
lessness and bad Judgment too often con-
spicuous in the choice of candidates.
But it ought to be plain enough that
the real remedy for dishonest Office
holders consists in the exercise of greater
care and discrimination in the filling
of offices. That is not a good system
which proceeds on the theory that
honest and dishonest men may be put on
an equality by making them give bonds.
The honest man does not need guarantees :;
and the dishonest man is not bound by
them. Sooner or later he will act after his
kind, and then his bondsmen are made
scapegoats, and are punished for an offense
really committed by the people themselves.
If the people knew that they would have
to bear the loss when defalcations were
committed, they would soon learn to exer-
else due caution in electing candidates for
fiduciary positions. As it is they rely en-
tirely upon the bonds of the ofiice-holder,
and thus many improper selections
are made The whole bond system is
at the bottom merely shifting of
responsibility. 1t is the parties to con.
tracts who ought to bear all the risk OF
their engagements, and there is no equity
in making outsiders accountable.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09

from the pastoral districts, and tap
"room statesmen from the towns. 1t
embodies, probably. a greater amount OF
political ignorance than any other general
Assembly of Illinois could have boosted.
50 Its most distinctive character
has been displayed in manifold mani.
"festations of childlike faith in the
omnipotence of legislative measures to
regulate all the affairs of society, and of
"the individuals comprising society. In
"the evident view of the controlling part,
&c its function is to regulate things, not by
simple general laws to further the ad-
ministration of justice, but by minute
prescriptions of special rules of action
for every human being, under all the
possible circumstances of human life.
The Times thinks that San eternal adj
"journment of the assembly of regulative
Ignorance called the Legislature of Hi
nois, 4" would be emphatically in the pub
lie interest, and possibly this is so. But it
does not appear to be perceived that the
blind passion for regulation which has been
the main characteristic of the Illinois Leg
islature is the legitimate outcome of the
extraordinary doctrines preached by the
United States Supreme Court in the famous
Chicago Elevator case. In that case the
Supreme Court took the position that the
Legislature was competent to regulate any
business or occupation into which public
use of any kind entered. Practically this
was an assertion of the right Of Legis-
latures to fix the price of everything,
goods. services, and all imaginable transac
tions. Practically it opened the door to
the regulation Of all human transactions.
Practically it put into the hands of knaves
and fools leverage whereby the fabric Of
modern society might be overthrown. That
an Illinois Legislature should exhibit an
abnormal desire to regulate everything
is perfectly natural and ineligible,
and when we reflect that the press of
Illinois not long ago approved the regula
tive doctrine of the Supreme Court, we
cannot wonder that that doctrine should
have become popular. The plain truth is
that when the Supreme Court adopted
that amazing theory it took departure
which must inevitably lead TO the rankest
Communism if it is permitted its normal
development. So mischievous and false a
doctrine was never before enunciated by
any Court of equal Importance and author
ity. It has been the germ Of all the disor-
ganizing agitation which has afflicted this
country ever since in increasing proper
lions, and the people have only begun to
perceive dimly the disastrous nature of it.
The Illinois Legislature may be all that the
Times says, but assuredly it never would
have reached its present stage OF degen-
eracy and mischievousness but for the de.
cision in Mum VS.. Illinois.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
TaE CHINESE AT THE EAST.

1t is somewhat curious that the Chinese
who go East appear to develop ferceness
and an intractability very seldom seen on
the Pacific Coast. The scene related in
our dispatches yesterday, at the Belleville
laundry, where the Cinnamon threatened
their employer with condign vengeance
for discharging them, has had no parallel
on this side of the mountains. There
must be something in the atmosphere of
the Atlantic States which predisposes John
to mutiny and disaffection, for quite series
of similar outbreaks and demonstrations
have now occurred. 1t is interesting to
note that John as a washerman does not
appear to be a success at the East. Here
we have become SO used to his barbarous
and destructive habits in that occupati On
that we bear them meekly, but our neigh.
bors are not yet accustomed to having
their clothing pounded to ribbons, proba-
bly,, and so it is discovered that John is
not the right man in the right place. If
some Chris tian would introduce civilized
laundry work on this coast it would doubt
less be a boon, but hitherto all ATTEMPTS of
the kind have ended in the employment of
Chinese, and sometimes the last state of the
public has been worst than the first.
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against which no civilization could contend,
in land he would destroy all property. This
confiscation method is certainly the worst
defect in MIR. Georges system, but it is not
the only one. 1t has apparently not occurred
to him that if the land was all held by the
State, and if all rents went to the State, and
if rents produced large surplus revenue,
and if policy of internal improvements
with this surplus were adopted, an era of
jobbery and population would ensue to which
the contract thieveries of the rebellion would
seem as nothing, and this corruption would
increase in proportion to the spread OF demo-
cratic institutions.
Ia short Dir. Georges scheme fer the re-
generation of Ireland and all other lands APP
pears to US to be in its final expression equally
unphilosophical and inequitable. 1t is the
more to be regretted that he should have
fallen into such serious errors because the
audacity and dogmatism of bis assertions, and
the grace and eloquence of his style, are calcu-
lated to impress the ignorant and thoughtless
with belief in the truth of his statements
Mr.. George is a dangerous leader and
dangerous teacher, in fact. He Jug
giles with half truths and clever sophis-
tries so dextrously that unless we
watch him very closely the flaws in his
argument are apt to escape notice. But his
reasoning is in several important particulars
extremely fallacious, and on the most impor-
tant point of all, namely, the question of
remedies tor the existing evils of private land
tenure, it is so wild and wrong as to be really
cslpable. No man can be justified in pro-
posing measures which will either set the
world in flames or result IN wholesale plun-
der and its corollaries, unless he can bring to
their support very much stronger and more
defensihle reasons than Mr.. George has vet
eXeogitated in any Of his writincs
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
THE DEADLOCK IN THE SENATE.

The most conspicuous fact in the Senate
deadlock is the complete subordination of
the real business of the country to partisan
schemes. There is urgent demand for
many important matters. The Chinese
treaties are awaiting ratification. The reor-
ganization of the Supreme Court, necessi-
tated by the i'll health of several of the
Judges, cannot be postponed without seri.
Gus injury to manifold interests. But
everything has been thrust into the back.
ground in order that party contest over
questions of office holding may be fought
out, and the debates have latterly turned
almost exclusively upon the unwritten law
of party management. The Democrats
are no better than the Republicans in this,
and the Republicans are no better than the
Democrats And when, for moment, the
atteasl5. u tns publio is relieved from the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
Weather - Health Improving Sudden
Deatll-Gaye Himself LID.

PORTLAND, April Sth.-The weather is cool
and cloudy.
G. F. Beatty, Chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee, who was danger
Dusty i'll few days ago at his home in Clack-
amas county, is reported much improved
and is thought to be out of danger
A farmer named 81. Thomas, living a few
miles from this city, died very suddely yes
terday evening. Thomas went into the gar
den to trim some shrubbery. and failing to
return in time search was made for him He
was found IN the garden in dying condition,
and died before he could be removed to the
house. The cause of death is unknown. He
leaves wife and several children.
George Marshall, who is implicated by the
Coroner's jury in the Mollie Ross abortion
case, has returned to the city of his own ac-
cord, and proposes to stand his trial Mar
shall waived examination, and was held to
await the charge before the Grand Jury. He
furnished bonds and was released.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
Chinaman Hanged for Murder-Baptixed
Before NeparIIng

NEVADA, April Sth.-Ah Luck, the Chinese
murderer who has been confined in the County
Jail at this place for nearly two years, was
hanged to-day at 11:30 o'clock in the Jail
yard, the execution being Witnessed by about
100 spectators, including several Cinnamon.
Yesterday All Luck was baptized by Rev.
Father Dalton, of Grass Valley, and this
morning he was visited by the Sisters of
Mercy. He seemed resigned to his fate and
affirmed TO the last that ne did not commit
the murder. On the gallows he made a few
remarks, talking quite calmly, but broke
down and wept like child when the straps
were about to be put around him.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
THE BEST PAPER.

The WEEKLY UNION is the best family paper. Its
the only weekly paper which is issued in two parts,
and carries to its readers the of the day twice
each week 1t is the only sixteen-page weekly
journal in the State it is a complete news, COM
mercal, literary and critical paper; It's columns
have special departments carefully edited for the
farmer, mechanic merchant, the housewife, the
young people, the lovers OF curious puzzles, educa-
tors, artisans bankers, brokers' readers of fiction
and poetry, and the general reader of the political,
scientific and business news OF the day. The
WEEKLY USloy is mailed for one year, prepaid, to
any address in the United States for 3 so.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
PACIFIC COAST.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES To THE RECORD.
UNION.
CALIFORNIA.
Departure of Moody and Sankey Young
Mems Christian Association Dividend
Declared.

-h''NNAsAetNsA
Declared.
San FRANoIsco, April Sth.-Moody and
Sankey left this morning for the East. They
will spend next Sunday in Los Angeles, the
following Sunday in Denver, and the next
Sunday in Chicago. At the closing meeting
yesterday $50, 600 was raised to pay off the
debt upon the Young Mems Christian Asso-
Citations building. The Association was reor-
gained, with new officers and Directors.
Thomas X Cree, Travelling Secretary of the
International Committee of the Young Mems
Christian Association, was placed in charge
of it. In addition to The entire debt being
raised, gentleman subscribed So. 600 for the
use of the Association in evangelistic work.
Of the amount of debt Mr.. Moody pledged a
large amount. Large subscriptions were
made by Morris K. ,Jessup, w. E. Dodge, c..
Vanderbilt ard James Stokes, Jr, of New
York; Cyrus Mccormick of Chicago Fred
etick Billings of Woodstock, Vermont; ] b.
Thomas of Charlestown, Mass d. NJ. Wes-
ton of Boston; Balfour, Guthrie & Co. of
Liverpool, and other Eastern friends of the
Association work. Moody and Sankey have
been laboring continuously on the coast for
six months, and the result has been large ac-
cessions to all the churches.
Silver King declares dividend of % cents
Der share
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
Fatal Fall OF a Drunken Man-senienced
for Robbery Escape Recaptured,

THE DALLEs. April Sth.-A man by the
name of Thomas Wilson was found dead two
miles above Cello. at the foot of bluff go
feet high. late Wednesday evening. by an
Indian. He started from Cello Saturday
afternoon in company with a man named
Ray. Both were in au intoxicated condition,
and went around the bluffs in the wagon road
going to the saloon near the mouth of the
Deschutes. Ray left him asleep by the side
of the road, and he was not again seen until
found dead. A Coroner's INQUEST was held
to-day, and verdict rendered that he came
to his death while drunk by falling over
cliff. Wilson is a Swede, single, about So
years of age, and has been an employee of the
company long time. He was commonly
known as :" Monkey Wilson"
NJ. Pendegrast, James WEIGH and E. J.
McCarty were sentenced yesterday, each to
five years in the Penitentiary, by Judge Nc
Arthur, for robbery committed at the Cas-.
cades March 18th.
Tom Hite, who. escaped from the County
jail last fall. has been recaptured.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
Cattle Shipments from Reno
Properfy Attached

RENO, April Sth.-During the winter sea-
son 354 cars, or 6,346 head, of beef cattle
have been shipped from Reno to California.
Estimating the cattle to be worth S32 so per
head, the sales aggregate S277. OO0
All the property of the N and o. R. r.
was attached yesterday by General Hatch for
S14 900.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
Visitors AZ i,nnferer.

MONTEREY, April Sth.-The following are
among those registered at the Hotel Del
Monte to-day Miss T. Parrot Miss NJ Par
rot, MIR. Degaigne and wife, j. Duffy and
wife, John Hayes Hammond and wife, San
Francisco Mrs. NJ E. Kellogg, Gilroy; S.
NJ Shearer Salinas
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
Scarcity or Violent Deaths.

SAN Francisco, April Sth.-Not violent
death has occurred in this city for a week.
Such immunity has not been experienced for
many years, and possibly not since the rush
OF gold-sesk ers to the country.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
Approximations Herused

Los ANGELES, April Sth The City Coun-
Gil last night refused to appropriate IS, 600 to
lift the mortgage on the site selected by the
Trustees for the Normal School The pre-
vailing opinion was that the Council could
not legally make the appropriation.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
NEVADA.
Divorce Granted.

RENO, April Sth.-Judge King o-day
granted a decree OF divorce in the suit Of
Jane Lake VS.. M. G. Lake No division of
the common property-amountiug to several
hundred thousand dollars-will be ordered
until further evidence shall have been taken.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
OREGON.
Dashed to pieces.

PORTLAND, April Sth. "A scow loaded
with cord wood went over the falls at Oregon
City yesterday afternoon, and was crushed to
splinters. The four men on board narrowly
escaped by getting into boat and pulling
AWAY.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
THE eREC1AN DIFFICULTY.

The Powers have evidently determined
chat there shall be no war between Greece
and Turkey, but they have not yet discov-
cred a way by which the abandonment of
the war programme can be made accept
able to the Greek people. The result is
that the Greek Government is afraid to
stop its belligerent preparations lest it
should excite a revolutionary uprising, and
between the Turks and the Powers with
out, and the rabble of Athens within, the
poor King and his Ministers are sore be-
stead. Unfortunately they have no. tie
means OF making their power felt. The
population OF Athens is exceedingly in
fiammable, aud its heart is set
upon war with Turkey. Ii
now tbs war is nipped in the
bud, the King may lose his throne
and as the worst that could happen to him
If he deiied the Powers and insisted on
gong to war would be no more serious
than this. it is possible that he may elect
to obey his people and take the risk The
Powers can hardly require him to take a
position which threatens to dethrone him,
moreover, for revolutionary Government
would be quite certain TO pronounce for war
as is first measure, and it would not care
two straws what effect such policy might
have upon Europe. On the whole, there.
fore, the situation is an embarrassing one,
aud unless the King can devise some mode
of placating his people, the chances are
that the Powers may fail in carrying out
their programme after all.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-09
AN uNwARRANrABLg ADJOURNMENT


The adjournment of the Assembly yes
terday until Monday was wholly unjus.
tidable. It vas done by the Democrats,
and without doubt the purpose was to bring
the Republicans into popular disfavor
by making them responsible for a pro-
tracted session. Tricks OF this kind. how
ever, viii not answer. They are certain
to be exposed, and the public win not be
left in any doubt as to where the respon-
sibiEty for them rests, or what they sig
nifty. The Democrats can only injure their
own party by prolonging the extra session.
They may do something more indeed.
They may direct attention to the dubious
and ambiguous provisions of the Constitu-
lion upon which members rely for pay
during this extra session. There is room
For good deal of argument upon both
eidez Of that question.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-03-03
Goldfish in The Pacific.

San Francisco Chronicle.
San Francisco has hitherto been i'm
porting the Goldfish consumed ON the
coast. 1t appears that in lieu of de-
irving our supply from the east, we
shall soon be in a position to export the
article. By reference to the following
statistics it will be seen that the take of
fish by vessels belonging to the port has
increased yearly: In 1865 seven vessels
caught 459, 400 fish: in 1875 seven YES
sells caught 5O4, 900 fish; while during
the season of 1880, just closed, eight
vessels conveyed to San Francisco the
large number of 1,206, 900 fish. The
sources of supply are the Choumagin
Islands and the Ochotsk Sea. The cir
cumstances that attended the dis
covery of this valuable branch of
industry are somewhat curious
In 1864 the brig Timandra lay be-
Gained off the Island of Sagahlien,
in the North Pacific. The men occu-
pied their leisure time in fishing, and
were surprised to find that the Goldfish
came speedily to their hooks. Their
take was sufficient to enable them to
bring number of fish to San Francisco.
The good news led to the fitting out of
several vessels, and ever since the trade
has been steadily progressing, and is
likely to assume large proportions.
Many of the fish. when cured, average
from eight to ten pounds. They sell
rapidly to dealers at from 5 to 81 cents
for best quality.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-03-03
Colorado,

Silver Cliff (Col.) Prospect.1
Colorado, with its attitudes of both
mountain and plain, and its rarified air,
is the most promising of all climates for
consumptives. Not state in the
northern section of the Union but has
contributed its quota to the theory that
our climate would prove a balm for the
sufferers of that most terrible of mala-
dies. Cases of our own knowledge de-
monstrate the truth of the proud boast.
There are q number of gentleman in
Wet Mountain valley, hale and hearty,
who came with the shadow OF death
resting upon them; and ever since they
have regained their health they have
learned by visits East that it would be
impossible for them to live free from
the dread disease in the heavy damp
atmosphere of most of the Eastern cit
les. Colorado holds out as an induce
ment to the overworked business men
of the great commercial centers of the
East restored vigor, prolonged life. and
the broadest field for profitable invest
ment in the known world.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-03-03

Frank Wilkeson writes from Kansas
1 know of five families leaving one
township last Fall. All of them aban-
doned their mortgaged farms. All drove
mortgaged teams out of the country.
Not the slightest trace of them was dis
covered by the officers sent in pursuit.
Never again will they be seen or heard
of in Kansas. AS ships sail out to sea
and disappear, never to be seen or heard
of, so do the white-domed wagons roll
away from mortgaged homesteads and
disappear Oh the Western plains.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-03-03

In 1769, M. Cugnot, Frenchman
constructed locomotive steam-engino
designed for use on common roads Il
ran on three wheels, and was moved by
the impulsion OF two single acting cylin
ders, the pistons of which acted alter
nately on the single front wheel. This
machine would travel at the rate of two
or three miles an hour and would carry
four persons, but the boiler was so small
that 1t was necessary to stop about once
in twelve OF fifteen minutes to get up
steam.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-03-03

Paris, in the course of its history, has
been besieged ten times. The first time
in so b. c., and the last in 1870. 1t was
fortified until the time of Louis XIV,
who razed the defenses, as, in his day,
the idea of a foreign army reaching
the heart of France was laughed at
Napoleon l. did not fortify Paris, and
the allies, in 1914, found only few
hastily-built redoubts in their way.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-03-03

Gen. Nicanor Bolet Peraza, OF Cara
cas-, Venezuela, is visiting Gen. A.
Ybarra, who resides in Boston. Gen.
Bolet is one of the most prominent men
of Venezuela, and his wife is the
daughter of Il former President. He
was distinguished in the army of his
country; has been editor in-chief of one
of the first papers there, and Is consid-
cred as one of the first authors and ora
tors of South America. He is widely
known as man of letters in all Span
ish-speaking countries. In politics he
served as representative and Minister
of State, and filled many positions of
authority. He is now Il voluntary exile,
with his family, not being able to en-
dure the present Venezuelan govern
mont.