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THE JEHAD.

1t is said that Arab Pasha has started
newspaper to advocate the Jehad, or
holy war. For many years there has been
sharp controversy in Europe over she
question whether it is possible to inaugurate
holy war in these days. There are some
good grounds for doubling the feasibility
OF the undertaking. 1t is so long since the
attempt was made that there are no useful
presidents, but it is significant that though
during the Russo. Turkish war the Porte
seriously meditated recourse to this means
of defense, it did not after all try the ex.
pertinent. The real fact is that nobody
knows what effect the proclamation of the
Jehad would have at the present time.
The threat of proclaiming il is very much
like that of naming" refractory mem.
Der, in the House of Commons. A certain
Speaker of the House was orce asked what
would happen if he should be compelled to
name member, and he replied mys-
teriously. The Lord only knows It is
very much the same with the holy war.
The Lord only knows what would
happen if it should be proclaimed.
There is, however, reason to sus-
peot that the call to all Moslems to fol.
low the standard of the Prophet would be
answered but by very few of them. The
Mohammedans of Hindostan, for exam.
ME ha0a veyv little in con,po,, ,-;th xL
of Africa and Europe. and they would prob.
ably refuse to recognize the appeal 1t
might De otherwise with the people of Gen.
trail Arabia There the Wahabees, the
most fanatical Of all Arabs, still hold
sway. and they might take up the cry and
range themselves under the sacred bspner.
Whether the Moslems of the Soudan
would come in cannot be known in advance,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-05
DEMOCRATIC HYPOCRISY.

The Democratic managers are trying to
create the belief that the Auti-Monopoly
issue In their programme is real one. The
Eraminer, however, in its first rage of disap.
pointment at the defeat of Hearst, declared
that General Stoneman had been nominated
by the railroad. As to General Stoneman's
railroad record. as shown in the reports as
Railroad Commissioner which he has signed,
1t certainly is not that of an anti railroad
man. In fact General Stoneman has in the
strongest terms declared his disapproval of
the kind of legislation which the Demo-
Gratis now pretend to be in favor OF. 1t is
clear from all this that if these men were
once elected the Anti Monopoly cry would
be quietly dropped. General Stoneman
prefers quiet, easy-going life to constant
wars and rumors of wars. The Eraminer
only wants to put Hearst into the United
States Senate. In fact the anti.raiiroad
howl is hollow sham, which has been put
forward by INSCRIPTIONS demagogues for
the purpose of deceiving the people, and
enabling the Democrats to escape the conse-
quences of their own blunders and mis-.
deeds, of which the plank on the Sunday
law is an example.
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NOT A GOOD ILLUSTRATION.

The San Francisco Chronicle says of the
civil service reform proposition of Mr..
George William Curtis that "his proposed
method is servile copy of the English
"system, and what that is one may gain a
fair idea of by reading the satires of
Dickens and others. This is not true. No
one can gain fair idea of the English civil
service system by reading Dickens, and for
the sufficient reason that the system now in
operation had not been established when
Dickens wrote his description of the Cir
cumlocution Office. Since that time the
whole service has been revolutionized, and
therefore those who look to Dickens for
=" fair idea of the existing situation will
be misled. The fact is land whoever de-
sires to verify this statement can do SO by
reading Dorman B Eaton's work entitled
civil Service in Great Britain y that the
English civil service of to, day is beyond
question the best in the world and If
Mr.. Curtis proposes "servile copy of it,
by which epithet we suppose the Chronicle
thinks it means close copy, he is fully
warranted in advocating that line, and the
country cannot do better than to take his
advice. There is no danger that any ma
ton, unless it be the Turks, would think
OF proposing either . "servile or any
other kind of copy of our civil service sys-
tam
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and brutal oppression, no recourse for the
Fellsheen; this il all that an Egyptian Gov.
eminent could possibly mean for the
Egyptian people. On the other hand, IN
European Protectorate implies ~ distinct .
change for the better. Under that system
the Fellah of Egypt becomes measurably q
free man. The stick is eliminated from the
revenue system. Forced labor is abolished.
Pashas and cadis and sheiks are all com.
PEELED to behave themselves. The sover.
eign is not permitted to evict hundreds Of
thousands of his subjects. In fact there is
all the difference between life worth hv.
ing and one which is not. The statements
Of the Arab party as to their purposes
have been altogether untrue and mislead-
ing. The fact is that . European Protect.
crate over Egypt has become necessary
through the incapacity and tyranny and
extravagance of her governing class, and
that it will have to be instituted, and in
all probability perpetuated. And there
can be no doubt that such an arrangement
is very much the best that can be made, for
the Egyptian people themselves.
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WORSE AND MORE OF IT.

1t is stated that the Republican man
ayers have become SO bold in their adhe-
sion to the spoils system under the
present Administration that they have
determined to collect political assessments
this year, not only from the department
and postal clerks, but from the laborers
working in the Navy Yards. It does not
need to be said that the politicians have
for many years "worked the Navy Yards
for all they were worth. 1t is notorious
that nearly all. if not quite all, the appoint.
ments in them have been political. It is
unquestionable that the disgraceful condi.
ton of the Navy is in part attributable to
the employment of unfit and incompetent
workmen for political reasons. But though
the managers have always demanded that
the lAborsrs in the Navy Yards should
vote the straight ticket" this is the
first time it has been proposed to make
them pay for their places. The extent to
which evil communications corrupt good
manners is shown in the rapid growth of
shamelessness which the Republican man
ayers exhibit. This is the most audacious
and at the same time imrolitic step they
have yet taken, for it will be employed
against them with the working classes,
and with telling effect. As the Nation
observes :, 1--WE believe no Government
bat our own, and no party but the Re-
publican party, has until now forced the
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MISS K1LMANssaa,s FATE REPEATED.

A very singular fate befell John Clark at
Chicago the other night, He wore a
wooden leg, like Mr.. Silas Wegg, and he
was incarcerated in the Bridewell for some
cffense, being put into cell with man
named Pettigill, who was regarded as an
idiot. In the night Pettigill unscrewed
his companions wooden leg, and beat him
to death with it. This was the fate which
Tom Hood prepared for lis Miss Kilman.
segg, the young lady who had golden leg,
and who was finally murdered by her hus-
band, a rascally foreign adventurer who
had married her for ner money, with this
auriferous limb. The poet has painted the
last scene in very realistic manner. The
young wife is in bed, and suddenly feels
stir at her pillow, and some object be.
fore her glittered."
% Twas the golden leg che knew its CLEAN
And up she started and tried to rtsm,-
But even in the nome Mt she started -
Down came the limb with frightful smash,
And, lost in the universal flash
That her eyebas made at so mortal a crash
The spark, called Vital, departed ~
1t remains to be seen whether the Chicago
Coroner's jury will follow the precedent
set in the case of Miss Kilmansegg in de.
termining the cause of Clark death. The
poet states that Il:
At the Golden Lion the inquest met
Its foreman, q carver and glider
And the jury debated from twelve till three
What the verdict ought to be,
And they brought it in as Felo-de-se
Because her Oton leg had killed her"
Of course such verdict would acouit
Pettigill of all blame in the premises, and
it must be said that it is quite in accord
with many of the renderings of modern
juries in murder cases.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-05
IT Is THE DESIRE

OF all thoughtful to possess for the office and
the household a first-class journal. The
WEEKLY UNION is such a paper in every respect
1t is a newspaper that long has been and is con-
stantly extending its circulation and widening its
influence Its success is remarkable, and is due not
only to its high literary character, complete
department and mastery editorial reviews, criti-
cisms and Debates but TO the fact that It reaches
its readers in advance of all other weel:es and is,
therefore, fresher, more frequent and in every way
more desirable. 1t is a sixtcenp page paper, issued
twice week, in eght-page paris, and is mailed to
its readers Tuesdays and Fridays. One is not
compelled 10 wait a whole week in order to learn
the news Of the preceding day. The agricultural
department of the WEEKLY UNION, prepared by
practical and long Inexperienced farmer and agrcult
ura observer and critic, makes it peculiarly valua
bic to the farmers of California The WEEKLY
UNION is mailed TO any address, postpaid, one year
for - 20
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in fit of desperation. No doubt Arab
will feel greatly encouraged when he open.
his Chicago papers and finds how noblv the
Limos Hreenbackers are supporting him,
and with what vigor they abuse the Eng.
nsn Government. He may be little pug
zied by the incidental blow at the United
States, for he is not supposed to know any.
thug about Admiral Nicholson and the
american Navy, or what stands for the
latter. Perhaps, however, he may think
tnat the Illinois Greenbackers would do
DETER II they organized an Egyptian
skirmlshing fund.-" whether on a dyna.
mite basis or otherwise, No doubt he is
prepared to receive all contributions thank.
fully, and the Greenbackers can at least
entertain themselves by raising subscrip-
tions for him.
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"iaborer and mechanic to pay out Of his
"scanty earnings for the privilege of doing
public work." Nevertheless We ara
not sorry to soc this new evidence Of the
growth of corruption and audac;tv.
for we are certain that it will hasten
the reforms which are 90 URGENTLY
demanded. The assessment of laborars and
mechanics in the Navy Yards will do more
than anything which has yet occurred TO
call attention to the corruption perpe.
trated by whichever party undertakes to
employ the public service as purely par.
tlsan machine. The principle applied in
this case is, of course, not new. No
party has ever been justified in levying
assessments upon men il the service Of
the United States. All such men are paid
by the entire nation; by the Democrats
as well as by the Republicans and it is an
outrage when they are made to contribute
to the resources of one party. The Re.
publican managers, however, have now
undertaken to sell the right to labor upon
public works, and it will not be long be.
fore their authority to make this demand
will be required of them. The spoilsmen
are evidently becoming holder in proper.
ton as public opinion grows stronger
against their system. They apparently
rely upon the support of the Administra-
ton, and think they can afford to despise
outside sentiment. 1t will be left for them
to discover that the abuses on which thew
depend for the maintenance of their power
have profoundly Disguised and completely
slienated large and important element of
independent voters; an element suffi-
GENTLY important to constitute the balance
OF power, not only in the majority of the
States. but in the country at large.
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No person having . less income than
" 900 per annum shall be entitled 70
"plsce his or her children at the Uni.
versity," public opinion would have con-
demned the law at once. Yet - it stands
it involves almost precisely this meaning.
and nothing less.
What possible chance have the small
farmer, situated far from towns, the poor
miner, living far away among the mount.
aims, the mechanic and storekeeper in the
smaller towns and hamlets, the masses of
the people, in short, to send their children
to the University now? They cannot do
it at all. There are no higher schools for
them to take advantage of. They cannot
send their sons from the grammar schools
to the University, and therefore the whole
of this large class is literally cut off and
deprived of the benefits of the higher edu.
cation. We say that this is an evil which
must not be submitted to. That if it is
capable of being remedied in no other way,
the Constitution must be amended. That
if it is capable of being remedied in any
other way. that way must be taken. We
say also that it is the duty of the Repub-
lican party to take up and to carry this
issue, and to commit itself to the righting
of the great wrong which is being done to
the majority by the present state of the
law. What is specially and obviously
needed is system Of District High
Schools, so situated that the whole popu-
lation of the State can avail itself of the
opportunities offered by them for advanced
instruction. Until we have such series
of higher schools the University will as
suredly not be a popular institution will
not belong to the people; will not repre-
sent genuine State system of education.
Every year hundreds of the rising genera.
tion are deprived of the educational advan.
tages they are entitled to demand, through
this absence of higher preparatory schools.
Who can say how many young lives are
thus injured permanently = how many
promising intelligences are permanently
prevented from developing. through the
lack of the resources which that higher
education would supply?
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-05
CHASING PHANroMs.

The hungry office.seeker in search of
issues desires above all things to convince
the voters that his election is necessary to
the salvation of the community. In order
to effect this he has to produce the impress
sion that the community stands in need of
salvation that it is in fact in the most
imminent peril. And so he invents all
manner of evils and abuses which he an
nounces his determination to combat, and
ell through the campaign he chases and
hews away at these phantoms in vigorous
fashion. The most curious circumstance,
however, is that there are always many
people who believe these fables, notwith-
standing the fact that everything about
them gives the lie direct to them. The
scribes who are hired to write down the
railroads in the interest of the office-seek.
ing Democrats are every day asserting that
the people of California are in grievous
bondage, that all their earnings and profits
are being swallowed up by the greedy cor
porations, that they are cowed and intim.
idated and generally bedeviled. Yet
every man knows, 80 far as he
himself is concerned, that there is no
truth in any of this sensational talk
that as matter of fact Californians are alb
solutely free to do as they please that az
matter OF fact all classes are prosperipg |;
that mi bar the ,narohapt nov +ha f,r,,o-
nor the wool. grower nor the maker,
are in any way oppressed or hindered of
their legitimate profits by the railroads !;
that, On the contrary, so far as most of
them are concerned, they owe all their
markets to the railroads, and could no
more do without them than without their
limbs; that times are better than they
have been for five years and that the
prospects for the future were never better.
These are the facts, as opposed to the ex.
travagant and gloomy fictions which the
political scribblers invent to brighten the
voters into throwing away their franchise.
The best antidote to this kind of poison is
fair and square look at tbs actual
facts. Such look will demonstrate the
absolute humbug of the Anti. Mo.
uopoly programme. For no man of
common intelligence can look the situation
squarely in the face without al once per.
ceiving that these demagogues are mis-
representing the facts in the most wild and
reckless way; that they are talking about
condition of things which has no exist.
ence; and that they sre proposing reme-
dies which have never cured anything, for
diseases which affect only their own NOR
bid imaginations. The truth is that Cali.
fornia is prospecting to-day that the PEG.
pie are saving money everywhere; that
there is no oppressed o. injured class in the
State; and that the explanation of all the
tom-tom beating now going on is the
| office hunger of certain INSCRIPTIONS dem.
agogues, combined with the bride. hunger
of certain journalistic blackmailers. See
ing how these demagogues have already
lied to the people, and how thoroughly
| hypocritical and insincere are their pre-.
lenses of public spirit, the only wise course
for self-respecting men is to give them the
| cold shoulder,
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THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1901 for as of 1907; ll4s for as; lo1i
for SIS; sterling, q s6@4 80 silver bars, ia.
Silver 10 London, 81 Is l6d consols, 80 l1l6d; 6
per cent. United States bonds extended, lol! Is,
4a2i; as, H.
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at dis
eount 10 par Mexican dollars, 9l@9lt cents
Mining stocks were less active in San Francisco
yesterday morning. and prices not so well sus-
tanned. call for sIOo, 900 more for the Mexican
mine did not help matters The ophir is collecting
in 100000 Other mines are expected to be as
lower than they were Thursday.
Mexican levies an assessment of 81
General Evelyn Wood has left London for Egypt.
fire occurred in oroyille Thursday night
woman named Gaff, it is believed, was muir.
dered ninety miles north Of Fresno this week
The Constitutional Convention question was de.
feated in Memphis, where the Democrats elected
their ticket
Business failures decrease.
The Constsntinople Council has adjourned, to
await instructions from the Porte to his representa-.
tives.
More troops have gone from England to Egypt
The Queen atten led the embarkation.
The new French Ministry is named.
Texas is alarmed about the yellow fever
The Guatemalan Minister resigns because he has
a hard task master
Serious foods in Michigan do much damage
Southern States that have been wheat buyers
are reported this year to be heavy wheat sellers,
their surplus being large.
boy was run over and killed in Modesto yester-
day.
boiler explosion Yesterday in the Idaho mine,
Nevada county
Jacob Greenberry shoots himself at San jose
Five persons drowned at Chicago yesterday.
freight-house falls at Albany
National meeting in Egypt declares for Arab
Pasha and against the Khedive.
Arab Pashs dares the British to attack him. He
says his is not holy war. He proclaims the Khe-
dive deposed by the Sultan.
The Catholic Temperance Union has adjourned
A great storm at Milwaukee yesterday.
An American cat boat won in the Cowes regatta
Harrison Carter executed at jacksonville, Fla,
for murder
The star route trial still continues.
J. J. HeIey shot VIM. Walsh at New Orleans, be.
cause they both wanted the same girl.
Bernard Stevens, California murderer has been
confined at San Antonio, Texas
Chinese are buying lands largely in British Col
umbia
The Muskingum river is rise.
The Turks send artillery stores to Egypt.
The Irish Constabulary is ON a strike.
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EGYPTIAN GREEsBacKsRs.

The Illinois Greenbackers have settled
the whole issue by coming out in favor OF
Arab Pasha. They have lugged him by
the ears into American politics, and we
suppose that hereafter every orthodox
Greenback platform win have its Egyptian
plank. Precisely what they have to do
with Egypt it is not easy to perceive, but
as they have long since ceased to
possess valid reason for existence, having
40 issues of their own, it is probable that
they have plunged into old-world politics
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-05

The Turks might or might not join the
movement. But the truth seems to be
that there is great deal of indifference in
Islam as well a. in other Churches, and
that the prospect of anything like gen.
eral rising of all the Mohammedan peoples
against the "infidel is extremely doubt.
full under any circumstances. Arab Pasha
is said to entertain an ambition to found a
new Arabian Empire, but it is far more
probable that he will be extinguished be.
fore he is three months older.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-05

The Commissioners of the Freedman's
Savings and Trust Company at Washington
announce that of the Is per cent. dividend
recently declared in favor of the creditors
of that company about 500, 1000 still re-
mains uncalled for. Books should be for
warded at once by mail or express or
through some responsible baoking- house,
ACCOMPANIED In each case by the deposit.
ors address,
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THE Forest City Tribune says the northern por-
ton Of Sierrs county is completely Chinazed by the
employment of Chinese by the different mining
companies, who give employment to that kind of
labor in preference to white men. Although the
county is Of the richest in the State in its min
.ersi resources, it does not increase in population
and permanence because o, the presence OF an I'M
due proportion Of Mongolians