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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
VESTS ANr1-poLYeAMy BILLS.

Senator Vest has introduced two bills in
accordance with the recommendations of
the President in his message, to prevent
polygamous marriages. The first bill pro.
vides that whenever any marriage, accord
ing to the forms or belief or practice of
any religious denomination. shall be
solemnized in any Territory of the United
States, written certificate of such
marriage, containing the names and resi-
dences of the parties married, shall be
filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Su.
preme Court of the Territory. II also
provides that certified record of such
marriage shall be admissible as evidence
upon the trial of any cause in any Court
of the United States. The second bill
provides that women may be witnesses in
trials for bigamy, when they are married
to the defendant. The intention of these
bills is doubtless good, but we do not
think either of them likely to effect the
purpose aimed at. Polygamous marriages
are performed always in the Endowment
House at Salt Lake City, and in secret.
Polygamous Mormons will not file certif-
Gates to the effect that they have broken the
law, and it will be impossible to ascertain
in any other way whether plural marriages
have been solemnized. Nor is the other bill
likely to be any more effective. The Nor
mon women as rule are under TOO severe
restraint, or are too b.goted in their devo.
ton to their Church, to make any dis
closures which may convict their husbands.
Some convictions no doubt may be obtained
in this way. where jealousy instigates re-
vengeful feelings in the woman, but NO such
law can reach the broad evil of polygamy.
The strong probability is that these laws,
if enacted, would become dead letters In
six months, and that their failure would
only encourage the Mormons and make
them the more determined. In fact, SO
far nothing in the way of legislation has
been proposed which seems to meet the
case at ali efectually, nor, in our opinion,
will it be possible to suppress polygamy
unless Congress is prepared to adopt much
more radical and severe measures than
have been spoken of in the past. 1t will
be no use to allow the polygamists to de,
eide for themselves whether laws shall be
obeyed. They will walk into no such
trap. II cohabitation was accepted az
proof Of marriage, as in some Of the States,
it might perhaps be possible to demonstrate
bigamy, but even then conviction would
be hopeless if Mormons were admitted to
the jury, and under the present Territorial
laws they cannot be excluded.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
TIE VIENNA FIRE.

The terrible destruction of human life
caused by the burning of the Vienna Ring
Theater appears to have been primarily
due to the negligence Of some one who was
charged with the supervision of the very
elaborate preventives which in this case
never came into operation. In building
the theater an iron screen was 80 arranged
between the stage and the auditorium
that by letting it down the two parts of
the theater could be completely separated.
As the fire originated on the stage it is
evident that the iron screen ought to have
been lowered at once. But those who
were in charge of the machinery lost their
presence of mind and ran away, and the
result was that some three hundred people
were suffocated, trampled to death, or
burned. The disaster shows once more
how useless the best devised precautions
may be if the human intelligence requisite
for their application is lacking at the criti
cal moment,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
FOR THE HOME.

There is no paper published on the Pacific coast
tina. is 50 well suited to all the demands OF the
home circle as the WEEKLY UNION. In stories
Of chaste character, in selected miscellany
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for the leisure hour, in scientific miscellany, in
fashion, in mechanical and art notes. in dramatic
and music news-infact in all the literary depart
ments, the WEEKLY UNION is unsurpassed.
To the farmer the Agricultural Department,
specially edited by skilled agricuturist, presents
itself with especial force.
The News Department, to the general reader, is
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dispatches, home and foreign correspondence, mar
ket and stock quotations, agricultural and horti-
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and stands in journalism as the best OF editorial
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The WEEKLY UNION is issued in semiweekly parts,
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UNION for the first week in January, 1852, will be
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If its matter for its commercial, historical and
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
TIE moRmoNs AND THE MESSAGE.

In our comment upon the Presidents
message yesterday we expressed our belief
that his recommendation in regard to legis.
lation against Mormon polygamy would
not meet the requirements of the case,
for the reason that it would be found i'm
practicable te compel the Mormons to
make statements inimical to themselves,
and that it would be equally impracticable
to confront them with proofs of their
perjury. We perceive that the Salt Lake
Tribune takes very much the same view
of the case, pointing out that no compul-
sorry registration of marriages would suffice
to overcome the fanatical subservience of
the Mormons to their priesthood, or pre-.
vent them from committing perjury. The
Tribune thinks that the President " evi.
IDENTIFY has no conception of the ways
" resorted to in Utah to evade the laws"
but it is gratifed to find that he can be
depended on to indorse radical remedies.
The Tribune suggests the appointment Of
special Commission to administer the
government OF Utah. We presume that the
idea of our contemporary is practically iden.
teal with that which this journal not long
since advanced, namely that it is useless
to attempt to extirpate polygamy by means
of laws which depend for their enforce
ment upon the consent of the people
against whom they are directed. The
failure of that mode of procedure both in
the Southern States and Utah ought by
this time to have persuaded Congress that
it will be necessary to adopt much more
coercive measures before success can be
attained,
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"duties. It still fulflls its chief function
by employing body of faithful men to
"run primaries and attend nominating
Z" conventions" We have no doubt that
the "stalwarts really hold opinions not
very different from these, though perhaps
they would not admit the fact. The main
tenance of these useless Custom.houses,
however, must be regarded as proof that
the partisan consideration alone has been
at work here, and therefore it is certain
that Mr.. Tingle's recommendations will be
received with sharp disfavor by the man.
ayers of the machine" Indeed we shall
not be at ell surprised if, in spite of the
muttered pretenses of regard for civil ser.
vice reform which are just now SO fashion
able in official circles, this too candid
Agent should lose his place.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
MACHINE cusrom-EoUsEs.

The Supervising Special Agent of the
Treasury Department., Mr.. Tingle, has
made report pointing out number OF
vexatious practices in the customs SER
vice which call for reform, and incl
dentally mentioning that "there are
" twenty-five ports Of entry at which not
:" a dollar of duties has been collected for
+" a whole year, and this is true of many
"previous years." OF course these Custom
houses have been kept up for the sole pur-
pose of making so many more places for
&c machine politicians, and SO many more
supporters for the machine" The Ma
lion thinks Mr.. Jingle will be denounced as
a doctrinaire " by the " stalwarts be-
cause he recommends the consolidation of
Custom-houses in such cases, or their abo-
Htion. 1t says: !" he apparently does not
:. know that the collection of the customs
sis very secondary and subordinateobject.
IS A Custom-house in fact hardly loses any
I" of its value because it collects no
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
MRS. GRUMPY RErARD1Ne CIVILIZATION.
The habit of imitation is the controlling
inHuannn with Ill hut 4hn atrornoa4 nan

The habit of imitation is the controlling
influence with all but the strongest minds.
1t prevents the adoption of manifest i'm
provements. 1t makes men and women
shrink from the censure of their neigh
bors. 1t gives to the opinions of people
whom we despise an influence over our &C.
tions of the most important kind. Fashion
is the tyrant of Woman. It is after all
only the dictatorial voice Of Mrs. Grundy.
Democracy tends to strengthen the chains
of Fashion, because it tends to establish
monotonous uniformity of conditions. Pro-
gress, however, necessarily opposes what
ever makes things run in one groove. 1t
is the breaker Of conventions who ad-
vances his generation. The man who first
carried an umbrella, who first discarded
wig, who first abandoned the voluminous
cravat of our grandfathers, was a revolu-
zionist and world benefactor No votary
of Fashion makes improvements. All who
follow their leaders thereby lose some elas-
ITCHY of intellectual muscle. Originality of
thought and action are the rarest things in
life, but they are needed for progress.
Most of the worlds habits are devised to
extinguish originality. The worlds canons
of taste and conduct are essentially vi
cious. They tend to stife naturalness and
the spirit Of rational inquiry. Against this
spirit the ecclesiastical element has always
opposed itself also. 1t has enlisted the
powerful aid Of Mrs. Grundy. The world
owes all its emancipations, both small and
great, to the few strong Drained men who
have despised Mrs. Grundy, aud have lived
their own lives without the comfort OF the
degradation of mimicry.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
PASSENGER LISTS.

CARLIN, December 9th.-Passed here to-
day. to arrive in Sacramento tomorrow w.
B. Banigap, joseph Banigan and wife, Ma
mic Banigan, Mollie Banigan, Providence. r.
l.; Miss Nellie Cord, Mrs. William Kain
and daughter, Miss Seckett, Dock Dolon,
Signior Noviasinio, Now York City !; j. L.
Hartman, Baltimore. Md; l.. Curran Clark,
Detroit, Mich; J. J. Dickey, Omaha @. G.
Coleman. Rev. FL. 2. Callahan. Mrs. James
Kelley. Professor j. L. Tuck and wife, Miss
Hermine Tuck, San Francisco; Mrs. G. J.
Fairfax, A. O. Fairfax, Miss A. S. E. Fair
fax, j. A. Fairfax. Sydney, Australia; Mrs.
Griffin, Oregon Mrs. Charles King, Gorham
X. King, Calais. Me-; Mrs. Emily Ames,
Weaverville, CAL; A. l.. Baily and wife,
Denver, COL; j. B. Mcclure, A. d. Kennedy,
Chicago, ILL.,; G. w. Reed, Sacramento; H. I.
Ford, Boston, Mass. III. n. Ryan. Salt Lake
City G. N. Thrasher, Scotland D. d. Hol-
land Oakland; Charles Brossener, Elko !;
Mrs. G. G. Kendall. Pearl Kendall, North
Bend. Neb.; A. II. Nichols. Council Bluffs /;
J. Barnhart, Illinois; Mrs. N. Barnhill,
Wellington, Mo-; 81 emigrant passengers, in.
Guiding sc males, to arrive December 18th.
NEwHALL, December 9sh.-Passed here TO-
day, to arrive in San Francisco tomorrow ::
G. Sullivan and wife, Miss Horn. Los An.
geles; William Mckee, Mrs. S. ID. Hoyey,
San Francisco; III. Mccoy, San Jose; w.
w. Stewart, San Diego; Milton S. Clapp,
A. T.; Ben. Lewis, J. NJ. Lane, San Fran
cisco; A. w. Lagat, J. McMann, John Full
ton. Mexico; j. W. Oates, Santa Rosa
Mrs. l.. Wilson, San Francisco Captain
Parker, wife and two children, Mexico
Crittendsn Thornton, wife, child and servant,
San Francisco; Covington johnson, Har-
shaw, A. T.; G. H. Light, A. T.; Edward
A. Flint, San Francisco; 2. Parish, Plumas;
Deputy Sheriff Huber and one prisoner, Los
Angeles; f. d. Robinson, A. T.; David
Cans aud wife. Illinois p Rice, Texas; W.
Moore, San Francisco Joseph Merritt and
wife, Maine; Frank w. Thompson, New.
hall.
OMAHA. December 9sb.-Left here to-day.
to arrive in Sacramento December 18th: D.
d. Taylor and family, The Dalles, Or; Mrs.
K. nj. Pearlman, Mrs. l.. K. Doutner, San
Francisco Mrs. E. Gumper, New Orleans
DR.. l.. S. Thompson, Mrs. J. w. Thompson
Kohala Hawsg, L. P. Adams, Honolulu: G.
A. Copely, Aurora, ILL.,; Mrs. E. Il. Dontv.
Foxcroft, Me-; Mary A. Dornin. Berkeley'
Cal; Mrs. d. D. Mccarthy, Centralia. III.
Forty-two through enigrants left on Last
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra.
rnento December 10th.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
A FRENCH EXPERIMENT.

Gambetta has made very curious ex-
pertinent in putting Paul Bert in charge of
official religion. 1t is true that he may
very well understand the temper of the
nation a great deal better than any for
eigner can, and therefore he may not have
been specializing so wildly as appears to
the outside observer. But in order to ap-
preciate the situation we must imagine
gentleman combining in himself the pro-
found unbelief of Charles Bradlaueh and
the eloquent power of exposition of Robert
Ingersoll, being put in absolute control of
all the churches and religious organizations
of this country. If we try to get at the
actualities of the case by putting it in that
way, however, we are in danger of con-
Guiding that the French feeling is much
stronger than it is at all likely to be. In
America there is still some positive relig-
ious belief even among men, and therefore
such measure as we have described would
provoke a very sharply defined feeling of
indignation and resistance. But in France
the spirit of skepticism is general among
the educated classes of both sexes, while
among the masses adherence to religion is
maintained almost entirely by the women,
the men being, even when not pos
tive skeptics, Indifferent. Neverthe-
less the advent of Mr.. Paul Bert
as Minister of Public Worship
is calculated to arouse whatever feeling of
religious hostility remains anywhere, mas
much as it is well known that he is not
merely skeptic, but believes that all who
hold any religious faith whatever are
either dupes or impostors. Of course it
must be difficult for Minister with this
conviction to maintain friendly relations
with the Church. In fact it would seem
impossible for him to do SO unless he plays
the hypocrite himself. Ii, however, he
can perform the functions of his new Office,
and if he is allowed to carry out his we'll
known convictions, there can be no doubt
that he will in short time abolish all con-
nection between the Church and the State,
and in the next place exclude religion
peremptorily from every educational sys-
TEN. This is Mr.. Bsrt's aim to eliminate
religious teaching altogether. Should he
succeed it can scarcely be questioned that
another generation of Frenchmen will re-
fuse to support the Church in any Way
and if the new generation of female chill
dren is carefully kept away from the priests,
the latter will probably lose their last
hold upon the nation. It remains to be
seen whether Mr.. Paul Bert can carry out
his programme. Ii he can it will have to
be admitted that M. Gambetta was better
informed than he appeared to be when he
announced his Cabinet.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
MoRRuL's soPHIsMs,

Morrill,, of Vermont, has opened the
fight against modification of the Tariff,
in speech embracing all the familiar
threadbare sophisms of Protection. His
assertion that American manufacturers
have Been enabled through that system to
compete with those of England is utterly
untrue, as we have shown in another ar
ticle, based on statistics collected by our
own Government The fact that there has
been general prosperity in the United
States, Notwithstanding the burden of the
Tariff, cannot be made use of to vindicate
Protection. We have prospered in spite Of
that system, not because Of it. The causes
of our prosperity have been, constant immi-
grafton, which is continually enlarging the
home market and infusing fresh capital into
the country the rapid opening up of new
regions CT virgin soil and the fortunate
circumstance of a succession of good crops.
None of these agencies owes anything to
our Tariff system, but on the contrary that
system handicaps the American farmer
heavily. He obtains no benefit of any
kind from protective duties. He is forced
by them to pay three and four times what
he ought to pay for ali his agricultural i'm.
plements, for every thing he wears, for
whatever manufactured goods he con.
sumea. The staple he cultivates cannot
be protected in turn. He is perforce
a Free Trader, for he must compete
with all the world in the raising
of cereals. The tariff further mulcts him
in the freight paid for the transportation of
his grain to the seaboard, for it forces the
railroad to pay double for its steel rails,
and this fine is ultimately levied upon the
producer As to Morrill's comparison OF
the American with the English farmer, it
is simply preposterous. The decadence of
English agriculture is not due to Free
Trade, nor could Protection have averted
it. II is the inevitable consequence Of the
rapid and enormous development OF
American wheat growing and cattle-rais.
ing. 1t is the effect of throwing upon the
worlds markets the produce of cheap
land and self.raised stock. It is in fact
due to causes similar to those which often
enable the storekeeper in a country town
to undersell the city storekeeper, who has
to pay SO much more for rent and taxes
that he cannot compete with his rural
rival. And it is not true, as Mr.. Morrill,
asserts, that there is in England any seri-
GUS question of abandoning Free Trade.
In fact the only possible help to the Eng
lish agriculturist, from a Protectionist
standpoint, would lie in the revival of the
Corn Laws, and that everyone knows to be
as hopeless as the revival of the Inquisition.
The real truth is that the soundness
of the Free Trade doctrine has never been
more triumphantly demonstrated than by
the present condition of English foreign
commerce. That country not only leads
the world in trade, but is SO far ahead Of
all her competitors that the case is repe-
tition of famous race, which was epito-
mized, Eclipse first, and the rest no.
"where. How far we have been dis.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
THE SUNDERLAND LIRsARY SALE.

The books at the Sunderland library sale
appear to be fetching good prices, though
the Mazarin Bible which went for 81, GOO
did not come up to the highest price that
work has brought In 1873 copy was
sold for $500. It is true that copy was
on vellum, but we are inclined to think
that the Spencer copy was in the
same condition. The Boccaccio referred
to must be the Valdarfer edition, and
f960 for that is by no means extravagant,
Judging from former sales. The copy of
the "Vinegar Bible appears to have gone
rather higher than could have been ex-
pected. It is called the Vinegar Bible
from an error in the title to the goth chap
ter OF st. Luke, in which Parable of the
Vineyard" is printed "Parable of the
Vinegar" This is the only popularity
about the edition, which is comparatively
modern one. having been issued in I7I7.
By the way, the telegraph made sad
blundar in the date of the Mazarin Bible,
putting it at 1926. OF course no book
had been printed at that date. The fact
is that the Mazarin Bible is without any
date, but the presumption is that it was
printed circa 1850. The Cranmer Bible
u540) is one of the most splendid typo
graphical monuments extant, but very
rarely found in clean and perfect state.
This work viii bring very high price at
any time, as does perfect copy of the first
folio of Shakespeare 1929. In fact
book-b buyer who understands his business
and has plenty of capital may buy to sell
again with tolerable certainty of making
a handsome profit on his investments, and
with Judgment he may do this even with
modern works, many of which are rapidly
increasing in value from various causes.
But it takes thorough training in bibli-
ography to venture upon this kind of
speculation.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
SUPERIOR COURT.
DEPARTMENT osn-pESsoS. Judge.

FRIDAY, December Q, 1881.
A. c. Blake ct al. vs.. A Coolot-Trial concluded :;
verdict for defendant
People VS.. All Kee-Continued for the session.
uary 90 1882.
NJ. NJ. Stewart VS.. E. T. Stewart Continued for
the session.
Germania Building and Loan Association vs.. join
Wagner ct al.-On trial.
DEPARTMENT Two-Judge TEMPLE, presiding.
The Peeple vs.. Tae Gold Run Ditch and Mining
Company trial
To-DAY's CALENDAR.
i9s-Ihe People VS. The Gold Run Ditch and
Mining Company.
s7o.Germania Building and Loan Association vs.
John Wagner, ct al
s62-Bridget Stoner vs.. Manlove & Carroll.
23-Thomas B. Withers VS.. S. A. Withers.
7O4-P. II. Duffy vs. Sacramento City haliSay
Company.
sso-Jennie Findlay VS.. J. B. Findlay.