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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06
The TARIFF OF BOOKS.

We are pleased to see that the press gen.
orally is waking up to the necessity of de-
manding the repeal of the present tariff on
foreign books, and we are not at all sorry
that the Book Trade Association of PhiIa-
delphia has recently adopted formal pro.
test against the proposition to reduce the
tax on books from 25 to Is per cent. The
Philadelphia Book Trade Association occu.
pies position in this matter which cannot
but emphasize the wrong involved in the
book tariff. while it is equally evident that
the proposal of the Tariff Commission to
reduce the duty from % to Is per cent.
does not meet the requirement There
ought to be no tariff on foreign books OF
three-fourths of the books published In
Europe none are reprinted here, 80 that the
American public are compelled to pay
wholly needless and injurious tax for the
benefit of those publishers who choose to
print the other fourth. But the ra.
pacity and shamelessness of the Pnila-
delphia publishers are phenomenal. 1t
is not enough for them that in the
absence of an international copyright law
they can steal and reproduce any foreign
publication for the bare cost of paper and
printing. They must also be supported by
tax which compels every poor scholar
and professional man in the country to pay
two prices for ali the foreign books he is
obliged to import. The most important
and therefore the most urgently needed
foreign works on science are as rule never
reproduced in this country; but for all that
it is necessary to pay tariff of 25 per cent.
upon them, and this is naked tax upon
knowledge, the only result of which is to
plumber poor men. 1t is in fact nothing less
than an outrage, and Is per cent. is almost
as bad as % per cent, because such re.
ductien will in practice make little or no
difference to the importer. It is proposed,
it is true, to allow books ordered from
Europe by private individuals for their
own use, and not for sale, to
come in free, and also to re.
duce the prohibitory premium upon all
foreign books from twenty years to ten ;
that is to say, it is proposed that any
foreign books ten years old may be brought |
in duty free. But these are still INSULT
cient concessions. The American pub. |
fishers enjoy quite sufficient protection
in their ability to steal all foreign publica-
tons as soon as they issue from the press.
They ought not further to be allowed to
plumber the American people, and especial.
ly the ciass of poor students to whom the |
added cost of foreign books caused by the
tariff is very serious burden and eriev.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06
AWKWARD FIGURES.

The old allegation that protection keeps
up wages has recently received back
handed staggering blow from the Consular
reports which used to be cooked " in
the interest of the tariff. These show that
the Free Trade cotton-mil1 operatives of
England obtain a higher average annual
wage than the protected" cotton.mill op-
eratives of the United States. The census
reports also furnish another very embar.
RAISING fact, which is that American wages
in the unprotected industries are higher, by
nearly fifty per cent, on the average, than
those in the protected ones. Thus the
average annual wages Of the English cotton
operatives is $3.50 35, while the American
cotton workers average only S245 SO each.
Here, then, is square comparison between
wages under Free Trade and Protection in
the same kind of occupation, and it demon.
strates, what the advocates of Free Trade
claim, that Protection does not keep up or
raise wages at all, and that under it they
are liable to be lower even than under Free
Trade. The truth is that all the advan.
tages of Protection are enjoyed by the
manufacturers alone, and that the
working classes are both directly and indi
rectly injured by it. In the case cited it
must be borne in mind that the purchas
ing power of the American wages is not SO
high as that of the English, because the
American workmen have to contribute
their share of the involuntary taxation
which the tariff wrings from the people in
order to bolster up favored manufactures.
What becomes of the "pauper labor
can't, before these facts? The fact is that
Protection is making paupers of the Amer.
lean working classes, and that it is also
preventing our manufacturers from com.
peting with England in the worlds mar.
kets. 1t takes the workingmen and women
OF the United States long time to under
stand their own interests, but they will be
educated one of these days, and then Pro.
lection will go down by the run, despite
the efforts Of all the Tariff Commissions
that can be got together.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06

ance. The Ways and Means Committee
at present seem disposed to act on the
recommendations of the Tariff Commits.
sion, and reduce the tax to Is per cent.
Possibly the arguments of the Book Trade
Association may prevent even this partial
reform. But we trust that the press gen.
orally will keep up the discussion unti
Congress is brought to do justice in the
premises, and put books on the free list.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06

revenue. The plain truth is that Govern
ments are not capable of performing this
kind of function, and that when they try
they are certain to fail. In France the
trial has been made under far more favor
able conditions than in this country, yet
the break down, as NJ. Say shows, has
been conspicuous and hopeless. 1t is
scarcely necessary to say that with our
political methods state ownership in the
United States would necessarily involve
an increase of corruption, from which the
French republic appears to be at present
| free
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06

pels him to abstain from work on that day.
The conclusion is that the law discrimi.
mates unjustly against the Jews, and
though it does not seem to have been sug-
qested, it appears to US that they have
right under the circumstance to claim the
protection of the Fourteenth Amendment,
with which, if there is any meaning in
the language, the new code certainly con.
ficts. For it is evident that if certain
classof citizens are virtually prohibited from
working more than five days in the week,
they are thereby placed at distinct dissd-
vantage. and that they are IN fact deprived
of that freedom which is guaranteed to
them by the United States Constitution.
Nor can it be pretended that under the dis
guise of police regulation any State has
the authority thus to discriminate against
| particular class or Sect And it may
plausibly be claimed also that such law
operates, in regard to the Jews, as an in
reference with their religion, inasmuch as
one e1ect Oh IL must De TO SUBJECT them TO
pressure calculated to make them violate
their religious injunctions, and keep their
stores open on Saturday. The law in effect
puts them in such a position that they are
compelled to choose between violating
their religion, or being handicapped in
their competition with their fellow.cit
zens. But to impose such alternatives upon
certain class is clearly unjust and in.
equitable. 1t cannot be necessary to dc
this, and in fact no tangible benefit can be
shown to accrue to the community from
the law. We are of opinion that the Jews
have it in their power to invalidate the
new code, or at least that part of it which
discriminates SO odiously against them.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06
The NEW YORK SUNDAY Law.

Under judicial Interpretation the New
York Sunday law is continually developing
new and startling peculiarities. The new
code, itappears, mskesno exceptions in favor
of the Jews with regard to the Sunday
law. If one of that people keeps his store
open on Sunday he is held to be guilty of
Sabbath-breaking precisely as if he were
a Christian. The code therefore compels
the Jew to observe two holidays out of the
week. He must keep Saturday because
his own religion requires him to do SO, and
he m2st keep Sunday because the law com.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06
"a COMPLETE RhFLgX. y
[Merced Star.I

The New Years edition OF the SACRAMENTO DAILY
RECORD UN ON is the most comprs hensye issue of a
newspaper ever printed in the State and is highly
creditable TO the enterprise Of the proprietors Of
this leading journal of California The sixteen
full pages of the issue Oh New Years Day contain a
complete reflex Of the business and commercial
sources Of Sacramento. Every commercial enter
prise with which sacramentois identified is dis
tnctly set forth, and every important business is
fully illustrated The merchants Of Sacramento are
fairly and fully presented in this paper. For good
editorial management, enterprise in the collection
of news, and reliable information, the RECORD
UNION is unsurpassed as daily newspaper.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06

THAT portion Of the apple crop which is annually
made into cider probably exceeds 80 900 900 of bush
els. The product consists of 1000 GOO gallons of
cider and 10000, 600 pounds Of pomace. In other
words, the pomace pile OF the United States
amounts to about 40o, 900 tons. George B. Boomer,
OF Syracuse, proposes that this pomace be utilized
as food for stock, is richer food than any other
vegetable except the potato. He claims the pomaee
for enslags may be entirely saved, and that with
the successful introduction of the slo, the 100000
tons Of pouace now wasted viii become worth
s., 900, 600 per ann,1m
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06

A Commission is now investigating, at
Portland, the Maine Reform School. Su-
perintendent Harrington admitted that he
has been in the habit of putting cayenne
pepper in the boys mouths as punish
ment for swearing. He said that the
novelty of the penalty had induced him TO
adopt it. The Superintendent might better
have adhered to the time honored domestic
remedy and secured the profane mouths
with wood-ashes than which nothing can
produce nsstier sensation, while at the
same tine it is cheap and harmless.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06
"a POLITICAL HANDBOOK.


The New Years number of the SACRAMENTO
REcoRD-UsIcS is compendium of valuable political
and statistical information concerning the products
and industries of the State. AS political hand
book Qn all but FORM of the State it will be found
quite useful for reference.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06

SANITARY journals now credit West virginia with
hclding the first position among the States in its
health service. She has provided for wide range
of sanitary work, has secured effective heath laws
and by the special energy of her officials has
brought sanitary science to service in the most
practical forms.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06

The very latest rage in the fashionable world IS
Che "pioneer furnishing style, and under which
house interiors brought resemble as nearly as
may be, by fittings and furniture the log cabin OF
the backwoods and the pioneer era Coon skins and
the like viii now experience use in the market.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06
SUPERIOR COURT.
rARrxxsr osE-McFARLAsp. Judge

UkPAhIhtNI UNE-nICf ARLAND, Judge.
FRIDAY, January s. 1888
John Reynolds vs. L. N. Lincoln ct al Summons
issued directed to Francis Z. Lynch.
Estate OF Nicholaus Messerschuldt decaased--Par.
tial distribution Of the estate entered.
Meredith vs.. Christy Contested election)- Reset
for January 18th.
Whyte vs. Whyte- Reset for January 11th
Belden Gwynn vs.. David Hamilton Demurrer to
complaint sustained. Plaintiff allowed to amend
Demurrer to amended complaint overruled; ten
days to answer.
The People vs.WIlam Stone ION habeas corpusl-
Judgment Of lower Court sustained and writ dis
,nissed.
The People vs W. E. Coleman-case dismissed en-
melton Of District Attorney and by Of pros
ecuting witness
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06
"a MASS OF FACTS AND STATISTICS.
rsan Jose Mercury.

ISan Jose MeTcury.I
The RECORD UIoS's New Year number contains
sixteen pages, embracing such mass Of facts and
statistics and general matters of reference that every
editor in the country will want to file it away for
future nae
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06
A MERIToRIoUs PUBLICATIONS.
LAIarysvllle Appeal. |

lnaiJssnie appeal
The New Years holiday issue Of the Dali,
RECORD UNION was a meritorious publication, and
reflects much credit upon its manager
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06

eve can no longer exist without America" says
the London Times. This is comforting, aud gives
new stimulus to our pride.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06
"MAasIrIcEHr Few YEARS NUMBER

ALAMEDA Enc;nal.l
The SACRAMENTO RECORD UsIos issues, as usual, a
magnificent New Years number.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06

Assistant Secretary. j. Mccarthy, San
Francisco Alex. T. Vogelsang. San Joaquin.
Sergeant-st- Arms-James Fs,relly, ssh
Francisco Stephen Ford, Modoc; J. G..
Messic, Santa Clara.
Assistant Sergeant. at-Arms-Mr Dunn,
San Francisco Mr.. Liebsrmarn, Butte I;
Henry Newman, Yubs.
Journal Clerk-Will J. McGse, Amador.
EngrossiDg Clerk-C. Perkins Sonona I;
Major Howell and George johnson, San
Francisco.
Postmaster or Postmistress w. T. Beve-
ridge. San Francisco; Mrs. Ackley, Sacra-
mento; Mrs. Chamberlain, San Francisco.
Page-Arthur E. Crozier, Sacramento.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-06

OF the ninety-six of whom we make report
ten served in the Federal army as privates.
Lieutenants, Captains or Adjutant of regi-
ment and Surgeon, and two served as privates
or Lieutenant in the Confederate army One
OF the members is o Mexican wsr veteran.
1t is understood that the Grand Army of the
Republic and the Boys in Blue will give these
old s,ldiers a campfire reception" before
the Close of the session.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-24
MINDS DISEASED.
Incidents of Fridays Fire at the Wards
Island Lunatic Asylum.

New York, Dec 22.-When the removal of
the insane patients began one old chap, who
had not left his bed for months, sprang out
of it at the first puff of smoke. In his scanty
attire he ran under the windows, shrieking:
Throw 'em out! Throw 'em out I'll save
theml" He caught straw-stuffed mattress
on its descent, and carried It carefully to the
doctor for treatment
Another 'loon''-as they call them there
with rather an indistinct idea of the true
nature of the accident, threw himself fiat on
the floor and began moving his arms and
kicking out his legs as if swimming.
A third opened an umbrella, and, seating
himself, began singing, Wait till the clouds
roll by.''
Still another stood directly in the course
of one of the streams playing on the build
ing until the force of the water sent him
sprawling. His conduct was explained by
the fact that before his confinement he had
worked in Turkish bath establishment.
A young man whose face was once very
familiar about the Haymarket cried bitterly
for doll that he had left behind, and
shouted: 20, save my baby! Save my baby!'
An ex-policeman showed that the recollec-
ton of his former calling was strong upon
him. He seized an iron bar and gave the
doctors something to do by cracking the
skulls of three or four men near him, as he
shouted "Stand back, will yez, or Oi'll run
yez inp' A messenger-boy, who had been
driven insane by being compelled to 90 from
the Battery to Harlem in less than two hours
and half, plunged into the icy river to
carry the news to headquarters. He was
rescued
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-24
A False Alarm,

JEFFERsoNvILLE, Dec. 22.-Telegrams have
been published stating that Tom Buford,
who killed Judge Elliott, of the Kentucky
Court of Appeals, had returned to Kentucky
and was threatening the lives of the other
members of the court. The landlord of the
National Hotel, in this city, where Col. Bu-
ford has been stopping for months declares
that the Colonel has not been absent from
the town single day for more than three
weeks, and that his absence then was to pay
a few hours visit to relatives in this city
He would occasionally go out back of Jeffer-
sonville cunning, but for no nobler game
than quails or rabbits. A number of other
prominent citizens corroborated the state
ment of the landlord, and say that the Colo
mel is a quiet, we'll behaved, inoffensive citi-
zen, who is liked by all who know him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-24
CapeI a Victim to Runko.

New York, Dec. 22.-The Journal prints a
statement to the effect that Mgr Capel has
fallen victim to the wiles of the seductive
steerer. The story is to the effect that the
noted cleric was beguiled into the rooms of
the equally noted bunko operator, kid
Muller" and there with the assistance of a
confederate, was relieved of $50 in cash and
$3.50 check. Mgr. Capel, it is said, having
parted with the men, suspected the true ma
tare of the operation that had been per-
formed, ana demanded the return of his
money and check, and that Muller, fearing
police interference likely to be brought to
bear upon him. consented to return the
check. but is now going about town boasting
of a brilliant, though not very profitable
piece of roguery. A reporter called upon
Mgr. Capel last evening, but the reverend
gentleman was out. His secretary treated
the story very lightly, as if its transparency
did not require that it should be denied
when the ability and dignity OF his superior
were to be set against the Boosting of an out
law
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-24
A RACE WAR.
A Decree Posted in the Mining Regions of
Pennsylvania Demanding the Expul-
sion of Hun garian Lab0rers,

PITTsBURG, Dec. pa dispatch from
Scottdale, Pa, says: "a war against Hun
garians was inaugurated and tonight the
following circular posted throughout the
coke country:
C tzens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:
One of the most degrading imposition has
been perpetrated on the people of the Common
wealth by the Wholesale importation of Slavo
mans (erroneously known as Hun garians) into
the Connellsville coke rego1s-a pernicious
custom which must Immediately end and the
serfs returned, for the following reasons Those
beings are crowdinC out our miners and labor
ers who are established and good citizens from
employment and nomes. They will not ne
return to Hungary with what cash they can
save, thereby draining the district of
many thousand dollars annually. They are
extremely filthy in habits, living
on what American people could not eat. Their
morals are the lowest of any Caucasian race.
being the lowest of any class of laborers which
ever inhabited the country, living in II state of
permiseuity, regardless of marital relations, and
are uhscrupuOus in all their transactions.
Their Intelligence is the lowest in the scale of
any class of people in the country to-day. Only
about per cent. can read and write, being far
below the average Chinaman. Much time and
labor has been lost by ali classes trying to ele-
Vate this people against their will. but all with
out avail. Their habits have grown worse the
longer they stay, until they can no longer be ell
dured. Forhearance has ceased to be virtue.
and injuring our commerce ana are a blot to
the Commonwealth cannot be endured. Ameri-
can labor, as well as American manufactures,
must be protected CITIZENS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-24
GUARDING GLADSTONE.
Extraordinary Precautions for Securing the
Prime Minister'S Safety.

Extraordinary Precautions for Securing the
Prime Minister'S Safety.
LONDON, Dec. 23-The extraordinary pre-
cautions taken at Hawarden for the safety of
Mr.. Gladstone have not been in the least de-
gree relaxed for an hour. Wednesday even
ing, while the Prime Minister was cutting
the branches OF tree which had been blown
down, he was closely guarded by two police
officers armed with revoivers. Another de-
tective arrived with Sir William Harcourt,
on Wednesday. These precautions are =
as full evidence of horrible plot cor :.
ing which the authorities are retict.
although dlligent. IT,
novel incident occurred at Hawardeu
Castle, on Monday evening The Premier
and Mrs Gladstone and the Misses Gladstone
were going to dine with Mr.. and Mrs. Scott
Banks, where they were to meet the Duke
and Duchess of Westminster. The Premiers
coachman was unable to drive, owing to in
disposition. Lord Aberdeen having put on
a coachman's attire, drove the party to their
destination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-24
JIM CUMMINGS.
Reported Arrest of Member of the Old
James Gang

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 22-An arrest was
made to-day in Alabama of importance, as
it is believed that no less person than the
notorious Jim Cummings has been captured
secret for some days that Sheriff Foute, of
Loudon, Tenn, had some important work
in hand. Foute, is the officer who brought
the notorious Andy Taylor, recently exc
cuted, back from Missouri, and since that
job it has come to be the custom to suspect
him OF being engaged almost all the time
on some case Of more than ordinary import
ance
This morning it was learned that Sheriff
Foute had arrived in Warrior, Ala, and this
evening it was learned that he had caught
his man. His prisoner is said to be a mem
Der of the old James gang and this is said by
those who are, or think they are, conversant
with the history of that celebrated bandit
band, to mean that Jim Cummings has been
arrested, as he is said to be the one member
of the old gang alive and not in the clutches
of the law.
While it cannot be positively asserted
that Jim Cummings has been arrested, it
can be said that 4 big catch has been made
that the arrest is made on a requisition
from Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, and
the man is wanted for four murders in that
State
Chattanooga dispatch says Bob. Young
er, one of the Younger brothers, and COM
panion of Jesse James, was captured near
Warrior, Ala, on a requisition of the Gov
ernor of Missouri.