Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-13

ION has Kept with science ana Tree thought.
THE meetings of the British and the
American Science Associations occurred
within q few days of each other. The first
has just closed an interesting session at
Montreal, the latter began its session on
the 18th instant at Philadelphia These two
bodies comprise in their membership the
leading thinkers and cxperimenters in sci
entific realms in the world 1t is but a little
more than two centuries ago that, in Eng
land, the life OF the first scientific associa-
ton hung by mere thread. Superstition,
the church, the state wealth and the preju-
dice of ages combined against it. Isaac
Newton was one of its members, nearly all
of whom were exceedingly poor men, and
who, for their foresightcdness and genius,
had 10 bear reproach and the ridicuic and
scorn of their communities Very different
is the atmosphere of this day. when all in
telligence lends aid to scientific research,
and no men are locked 10 more confidently
as helpers and leaders in the battle of prog
ress than the scientists. Great Britain
leading the nations Of the earth now sup
port and encourage over 500 scientific asso-
Citations, the membership OF which en-
braces a multitude Of distinguished natu-
ralists, botanists, geographers entomolo-
gists, astronomers, electricians, engineers,
chemists, BIOLOGISTS, physicians, metallur-
gists, and the like. These men are in the
forefront Of progress. They never are
found al the rear. They are the pioneers,
sappers and miners in the experimental
world, steadily undermining and over
throwing the breastworks of superstition
and all manner of ignorance.
The New York Times holds that it will be
impossible to confne the war between
France and China to those powers On
what it basis its prophecy of interference
we fail TO discover. Mere rivalry between
the European powers viii not lead 10 it ;
reason will not support such an assump-
ton. PROFESSIONALLY China would be well
pleased to cmbroil other nations in order TO
divert the tug of war from her soil and
transfer it wholly 10 naval engagements.
1t is not thinkab!e that Bismarck will at
tempt to reduce British ascendency in the
Orient at the expense of France. 1t would
be Il roundabout and doubtful method. To
supplant one power with another in the
hope of displacing the latter, is game that
has been tried, but has always been dan
gerous one. Germany is not so short
sighted as to fail to see that to England
such scheme would be transparent, and
would tend to make her an ally of France
when the hour of need came.
Nh. HENRY WATTERsoN, in his paper,
the Louisville C6,yjer-JoHnal, says: "If
the Democrats are not successful in No
yembcr it Will be because the management
of the campaign is given over to the men
who mismanaged it four years ago, and
who, in the last days of that struggle,
threw away, by trickery and cowardice,
what might have been most substantial
victory. Trickery, as shown in the man
ner with which they approached and han
died the Mercy letter, and cowardice in
their treatment of the real vital issue of the
campaign, the tariff" Mr. Watterson
weighs his words before he pens them. The
management has been given over to the
very class he denounces. Barnum is at
the head, as he was in 1880 The conclu-
sion of defeat is inevitable, if Mr.. Waiter
sons prophecy be worth anything, and we
think it Is.
Hon. PATRICK BURNS, of the State of New
York, is Il widely-known advocate of the
labor cause and in the Assembly of that
State has for many years been leader
among its leading chiefs. He recently adj
dressed a letter of no uncertain ring to the
Democratic committee of Kings county,
and this is what he said
l cannot support Grover Cleveland for any
position in the gift of the people. His recon-
mendationS and yetOes since his inauguration
as Governor of this State have not met with the
approval of the working class, of which claim
to be q member. My opposition to Governor
Cleveland on the floor of the Assembly during
the legislative session of 1854 leaves me no
other course to pursue. / cannot stultify my
actions as representative by supporting MIN
for the Presidency now.
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IT is significant that Mr. Wm. II. Barnum,
Chairman of the Democratic National Com
mittee Mr.. Frederick o. Prince, Secretary, and
Mr. Edward B. Dickinson, stenographer, do not
venture to reply to the charges OF Mr.. John l.
n, J;yu no fr0Itd