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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-01
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
THE SULTAN and ARABI

1t is announced that the Sultan has
ordered the abandonment of the prosecu.
ton of Arab. Considering the strong
probability that his trial must reveal a
close connection between him and the
Porte during his rebellion, this would not
be an unnatural step for the Sultan to
take. He has much to apprehend from
the developments OF the trial. But such
an order to the Khedive would also have its
own embarrassments, fori it would bring the
Porte into collision with England. If the
Sultan is opposed to the prosecution of
Arab the corcllary follows that he is still
IN sympathy with Arabs rebellion. Now
England certainly cannot submit to be re.
buked by the Sultan, and it is therefore
unlikely that she will permit the Khedive
to abandon the prosecution, even if the
Sultan does order it. The Sultan has no
real authority in Egypt, to begin with. II
the khedive leans upon England, as he
must, he will have to obey English or.
ders. Consequently the Saltan cannot do
more by taking such course than con.
Tess the fact that ne has all along desired
the success OF Arabs revolt, and that he
has been playing false with his dear
friends, the English. O: course this would
not be news, but its continuation could
not do the Sultan any good
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
TIE GREEDY RAscALs.

1t appears that the Philadelphia pub
fishers are making special fight, not
merely to prevent the abolition of the
present duty on books, but to secure an
enormous increase in that shameful impost
With the usual whining pretense of Pro.
tectionists, they complain of "the large
duties which the book trade pays on raw
material" The said duties being in fact
20 per cent. ad calorem on printing paper
or about two cents per pound. As the
publishers pay nothing az all for the foreign
books the reprinting Of which constitutes
the bulk of their business, since they steal
those books, it might be thought that they
could afford to stand the duty on raw ma.
terial. But they ask that the duty on
books be increased from % per cent. ad
UaloreWa to 25 cents per pound. The pres.
emit duty is about equal to four cents a
pound on the greater part of the magazines,
illustrated papers, pamphlets. etc., which
form very considerable portion of the
regular importations, and therefore the
Philadelphia sharks are coolly demanding
an increase of duty from 25 to $50 per cent.
on the cost price; in other words, an in.
crease of over 500 per cent. over the pres
ent rates. We trust that the effect of this
example OF shameless rapacity will be to
make certain the abolition of the unjusti.
fable duty on books.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
THE TWO FUNDS.

Between the so.called SkIrmiehinp Fund
and the Land League Fund there seems to
be good deal of trouble abroad, though
why the contributors to either should have
waited until now to express their doubts
as to the application of the money is in
comprehensive. 1t would appear that so
long as subscription lists are open these
secret funds continue to command conf
dence, but as soon as it is intimated that
no more money is required everybody who
has contributed begins to suspect that he
has been swindled. The logic of thi. is
difficult to understand, and the agitation
of the subject seems the less useful when
we reflect that in any event the money is
irretrievably lost to the subscribers. Tn.
der the circumstances one might think the
most philosophical course would be to let
the matter drop. Certainly discussion
cannot change the situation. Nobody as.
sumed any legal responsibility in either
case. Whoever subscribed money did so
with his eyes open. If he had not conf.
dence in the custodians of the fund he
might just as we'll have pitched his money
into the sea. If he had confidence in them
he ought to retain it. But no doubt the
charges and explanations will alternate
until the parties get tired of quarreling,
or until new fund for something else is
opened; when the contributions viii at
once begin to flow freely as formerly, and
all caution and suspicion will disappear.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
COAST pEFENsES.

General Benet, Chief of Ordnance, q. S.
Army, refers in his annual report to the
pressing need for sea-coast armament
constantly before US" and thinks that we
ought to stake every advantage of our
Gown resources to help provide for our
wants" To this end he recommends
the production of rifed guns of moderate
power, of cast iron, and holds that, "pro-
"vided the cast iron be suitably strength
"ened with steel hoops, or better, with
hoops on the exterior and steel tubes
son the interior" such ordnance will be
serviceable. Why we should rest content
with rified guns of moderate power"
made Of cast iron, when all the rest of the
world are making guns of steel, and of
very much more than moderate power, we
are at a loss to understand, unless General
Benet belongs to that peculiar school of
political economy which maintains that we
ought not to depend for anything upon
other countries, but should supply every
thing we need ourselves For it seems
clear enough that if we arm our coast de-
lenses with guns which are not equal to
the artillery of other powers, they will
fail US at our need. If, however, we are
ever to have any coast defenses deserving
OF the name, it is certainly time they were
begun. At present we have no maritime
Notifications capable of excluding modern
ironclads, and no guns which would not be
siienced in ten minutes, without being able
to hit the enemy at all. Under the cir
cumstances General Benet's recommends
ton for cast iron guns seems little less than
preposterous, and we are almost surprised
that he did not also propose the erection OF
canvas representations of forts, such as
the Chinese employed to brighten the allied
fleet with in the Peiho river some years
auo
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
THE JURY BRIBsRs.

The report OF special counsel Wells upon
the star route trials at Washington, APP.
pears to confirm the previous suspicion
that the whole affair was plot conceived
and executed in the interest of the defend
ants. Its purpose was to throw the coun.
try off the track of the thieves, by creating
the impression that they were the victims
tunately for all such plots it is necessary
to employ in them men whose characters
will not bear inspection. Only scoundrels
can be made the agents of these schemers,
and therefore when the tools are known it
is always possible to gauge the affair cor.
rectly. In this case the attempt to con-
meet the Government with the attempt to
bride the jury has failed signally, and the
discredit of the transaction rests where it
belongs, namely, with the defendants.
The truth is that the conditions were at no
time favorable to such plot. 1t was
not as if the Government had failed
in its attempt to produce evidence
of the defendants criminality. On the
contrary, the proofs adduced at the trial
were ample for conviction. The Govern.
ment therefore could not have had any
reason to apprehend the aceuittal of the
defendants. Of course all such reasoning
assumes some show of excuse for the thsory
of the defense that the Government is as
bad as itself. Bus this assumption is not
warranted. 1t cannot, in short, be granted
that the Government had any sufficient
motive for perpetrating felony. nor can
it be allowed that its character was such as
to suggest crime of that kind. On the
other hand, the defendants may well be be.
lieved capable of a felony, seeing that they
are shown to have been engaged in sys.
tematic swindling. It is to be hoped that
the failure and exposure of this audacious
plot, however, will have tendency to Sc
cure their conviction on the next trial.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
BREWSTER AND GUIrE.u.

Ii seems to be concluded thai Attorney.
Gsneral Brewster's opinion as TO the sdvis.
ability of respiting Guiteau has been
locked in the recesses OF his own breast
until now. As We understand il this is a
mistake. The opinion was presumably
given to the President when he asked for
it; that is to say, wl.ile C-uiteau was vet
IN condition to be benefited by a RESPITE.
But 1t has not been thought necessary to
publish 1t until now; and in fact we fail
to perceive the necessity of publishing it
at all. OF course if the Attorney. Genera i
had been asked by the President what he
thought OF the proposition to respite
Guiteau, and had delayed answering until
three months after Guiteau had been
hanged, there would be good grou nd for
regarding him as an escaped lunatic, and
nobody has ever suspected Me-. Brewster
OF being deficient in intelligence. The
only cause for surprise about the matter
IS that it should haye been thought worth
while TO print the wholly uninteres;ing
and unimportsnt piece OF stale intelligence
at this distance of tina from the execution
of the assassin.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
A MICS QUESTION.

General Stoneman appears to have exer.
cised a sound discretion in declining to
make public speeches in support of his can
didature, if we may judge from the reports
of his frsgmentarY utterances on various
occasions. It is evident that he has not
the gift Of oratory, and when that is the
case it is always the part of wisdom for
candidate to take refuge in silence. In.
deed nice question suggests itself in this
connection namely, whether it is better
for candidate to speak untruths than to
speak at all. We have already shown that
General Stoneman no more represents truth
than does his opponent. But the one has
been travelling all over the State making
speeches which are even fuller of dema.
gogism and falsehood than the platform
upon which he stands, while the other has
at least refrained from adding anything
personally to the moral obliquity of his
canvass. OF course as the case stands it is
not naked question as to whether it lie
better not to speak than to tell falsehoods !;
for Stcneman represents falsehoods as much
as Estee, even if be does no. personally
utter them. Bat it would require more
than common skill in casuistry to prove
that, even with this limitation, man
was culpable for not initiating the Estee
methods. Mr.. Estee, as we have been
r-i-ea ~ ohaerva. has turned his
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
THE WEEKLY UNION

Is issued this morning. The first part-eight pages
is published Wednesdays; the second plrt-eight
pages-is published Saturdays Thus in each week
each subscriber to the WEEKLY UNION receives six.
teen Iages of news matter prepared by the highest
journalistic ability and chosen with eye single to
the entertainment, the education and the profit of
the reader. The editorials of the WEEKLY UNION
everywhere admitted to be unequaled for schol
arly finish, for vigor OF thought, independence Of
spirit and advanced ideas all questions OF public
and social policy, governmental affairs, community
interests and the progress and development of the
resources of the State. The Agricultural depart
ment of the WEEKLY UNION is under the direction of
an experienced farmer and competent writer The
home departments are edited with especial care
The columns of the WEEKLY UNION furnish the
choicest and most varied literary matter, chaste,
eevating and entertaining. The market reports ere
from the best commercial sources and are corrected
by the very best authorities The WEEKLY UNION
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advance
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
A MAIN POINT.

Ii the prosecution can connect Arab
directly with the Alexsndria massacre it
will undoubtedly go hard with him. Thus
far the accounts are SO conflicting that we
cannot tell whether evidence to this effect
has yet been obtained. One report says
that it has been, but another intimates that
ii may be impossible to connect anyone but
Toulba Pasha with the massacre. The
rational presumption, of course, liz, that
Arab expressly ordered il, or that he in.
directly consented to it. 1t is most proba-
BILE that he commanded it; but yet he
may not have given any written order, in
which case it would be difficult, if not i'm.
possible, to bring IL home TO him. But if
it can be brought home to him, there would
be little incentive to interfere for his pro-
lection, ON the part of any of the European
powers, and the Egyptians in that case
woui9 probably be allowed 20 do as they
please with him.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
A SHAMEFUL DEED.

The crew OF the ship Brookville, aban-
ooned in a sinking condition at sea, were
brought to San Francisco by the Mexican
steamer the other day. The mate kept
log OF the events after leaving the ship
in the boats, and from it we take the fol-
lowing passage, under date of September
2Sth Sat l:20 A. M.-what joy for US
all we sighted steamer under our
"lee, about two miles off. Then we sent
cup rocket and blue light, but she
"took no notice of us. Then we kept up
torches for awhile, and at last she pulled
" her lights down and ran away from us.
"Oh, what disappointment and who
lever is master of the steamer, he must
" be very ,inhuman." The reader of the
mates log will certainly concur in this ex-
preston. Imagine the situation of those
poor seamen, after being many days at sea in
an open boat, half-starved, bruised and stiff
and sore and exhausted by hardships, thus
deserted in their need by those whose duty
it was to hasten to their relief. So fragrant
an act of inhumanity as the master of that
steamer perpetrated ought not to pass I'M
punished. 1t mus. be possible to find out,
ty careful comparison of dates and local.
tiles, what steamer it was. Tue Captain
of any vessel who refuses to rescue ship
wrecked men at sea, is a detestable brute,
who ought not to be intrusted with chip
again as long as he lives. No real
sailor would ever recognize or take the
hand of such a mean wretch, and it
is safe inference that any man
capable of thus deliberately abandoning
his fellow-creatures to what. for all he
knew, might be the horrors of death from
thirst and famine, would also be capable
Of betraying the interests of his employ
ers. We think that this abominable deed
ought not to be passed over, but that steps
should be taken to find out who the inhu-
man Captain was, to the end that at least
his name may be gibbsted for the con-
tempt and execration of all who hear of
his brutality. OF course under the cir
cumstances the master of the steamer can
not pretend not to have seen the boat.
Rockets and blue lights at sea make them
selves seen, and the fact that he pulled
down his lights and sneaked away in the
darkness proves cold. blooded and delib-
crate intention, as well as a thorough COM
prehension of the duty he was so basely
anxious to escape the performance of. 1t
is hardly too much to ssy that a master
who would do such thing as this would
do murder, fer such an abandonment
might very easily have led to the deaths of
all the shipwrecked men in the signaling
boat. We hope that the people of the
Brookville will take some pains to ascer.
tain the name of the scoundrel who de-
serted them in this abominable way.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
TARRED WITH TaE SAME sTIcK


The Chronicle asserts that S.oneman
sustained ''defeat" in that he did not
obtain Endorsement by the Stockton Con-
ven.ion. We should have thought that
in the light of its proceedings it could have
mattered very little to anybody who did
or did not secure the approval Of that
futile body. But inasmuch as both the
candidates for Governor were eager as.
pirants for that doubtful honor, there is
certainly no room for exultation over the
defeat of one OF them. OF course the
Chronicle knows that strong effort was
made on behalf OF Estee to procure for him
the same Endorsement which General
Stoneman is alleged to have sought Estee
himself may not have been in the neigh
borhood, but his agents and workers
were there, and for days before the Con.
vention met they were making desperate
efforts to arrange the matter for him.
There is, in fact, absolutely no room for
choice between the candidates In this mat.
ter. They both wanted the same thing :;
they both tried to get it; and they both
failed. L: is true that, as Mr.. Tooss was
in the habit OF remarking, " It's of no con-
sequence" but nevertheless "points
must be very scarce when the Chronicle
thinks it necessary to take up such an
Insignificant incident, and enc in regard
to which it is SO apparent that "honors
:" are easy as between the two demagogue
candidates.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28

some consolation in this thought for poor
people. They may solace themselves with
the reflection that the lack of means which
compels them to be content with movable
washing apparatus in their bedrooms,
also protects them from the deadly emana.
tons which the standing wash. basin in
PRODUCES to apartments. DR.. Hamilton is
OF opinion that in order to avoid this and
other similar dangers, it will be necessary
to put all the plumbing in an annex,
together with the water-closets, bath
rooms and lavatories, and separate this por.
ton from the rest of the house. Certainly the
sewers, though SO necessary for the CON-
fort and cleanliness of great cities, are
dreadful cradles of disease, and as ciyiliza-
ton advances they seem to become more
mischievous. No doubt one cause of this
appearance is the rapid advance of medical
and hygienic science, but it is quite clear
that our ancestors who lived simple and
not too cleanly lives, were very much less
pestered with malarial diseases than the
present generation.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
STATE SENATOR

EDS. RECORD U MON appeal to slI ,hose
who have the Interests of our city at hea-t to
vote for Grove L. johnson for State Senator.
He is by far the ablest candidate before :bs
people. He IS the most active worker. He
is able and experienced. He is the kind Of
man we need.
IL Is The duty o. every citiz sn TO chose s,c5
agents OF officers as viii truly and faitbfuilv
discharge the public outies assigned them
Looking At the qlestioh in this light, Il can.
nos be doubted who of the four candid taz for
state Senator will make the nost efficient
agent tor Sacramento.
Everybody admits that Grove L, Johnson
possesses, IN marked degree, the Qualities
essential to good legislator.
0roVe Ia. johnson, as cur agent, our Sem
ator' would perform truly and faithfully all
the duties intrusted to him. He has been
eur agent in the past. Business men ~ ali
kinds can testify to the fac. that be has been
OF benefit to Sacramento.
We of this city and county. with ALI o-,r
peculiar interests, must be represented by at
ieasS one man OF pre-eminent ability, of more
tnan ordinary influence, and possessed Of
coca oratorical powers. No one will deny
thas Grove l.. johnson is just such q man.
we nave Claims to present we have inter.
ssts to foster; and, of all the candidates for
State Senator, Mr.. Jehuson is best able In
present those claims, and is best able to adj
vince those interests.
property owners at this election shouId
vote for men who will help them. PsrsonaI
feeling should be discarded when the in;erasts
OF Sacramento county are at stake, Vote
iof 'oanson' SACRAMENTO.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
FRANCE ARD TUsIs.

By her treaty with Tanis France ap-
pears to have practically annexed that
country, taking over the charge of the
Government, and making the Bey retir.
ing allowance. Whether this conquest will
bring France good or i'll remains to be
seen, but it is already clear that in one
respect it must operate as check upon
her. with this treaty fresh in the world 3
eyes it viii be impossible for her to oppose
any serious objection to whatever England
may choose to do with Egypt. In fact
France has exchanged Egypt for Tunis,
and the probability is that it was anything
but wise transaction. Tunis, however,
must stop her mouth as to Egypt, and go
Mr.. Gladstone will be relieved from one
possible embarrassment in the near future,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28

back upon all the sound positions he
held while member of the Constitutional
Convention, and has been for some time
en- gagged in the singular task of demolish-
ing his own reputation for consistency and
sound thinking. General Stoneman has at
least avoided any such embarrassment as
this by his silence, though he has shown
that he has all the inclination to accept an
election which would be the outcome of
persistent demagogism. The question
which of these two positions is the most
discreditable is. as we have underworld to
show, very difficult. But at all events a
dispassionate analysis of the situation is
calculated to convince the observer that
there is no Justification for the expression
of dissatisfaction because one candidate is
in particular way less pronounced and
conspicuous demagogue than another. 1t
might have been thought that one such ex-
ample as Mr.. Estee's candidacy affords
would have satisfied the most greedy
student of morbid phenomena. Surely
the public have some reason to congratu.
late themselves on the silence of Stoneman,
when they reflect upon what his speeches
must have been had he spoken?