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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-18
C0ETEMP0R EXPRESSION

Now that the RECORD-UNloN states that gam
bling has been wholly suppressed in that city
for period of three months, we accept the
statement as correct. In extenuation Of the
shortcoming of not having made earlier men
ton of the fact We plead ignorance.-[San
Francisco Call.
THE experience gained in the few wars i'll
which the United States has been engaged have
taught Us Enthusiastically that our only effective
land defense or power Of controlling internal dis
orders is in the volunteer soldiery, but the ma
ton has been remarkably neg lectful in the mat
ter of organizing, arming and drilling its mi
litia.-l San Jose Mercury.
WE are now starting on new year, and one
that promises much brighter days than the
long-to-be remembered one of 1885. There is
much that renders this almost certainty San
Francisco Journal of Commerce.
WE have now fairly entered upon the third
quarter of the calendar year, and the favorable
exhibit of the first six months of 1885 already
presented to our readers, encourages us to hope
for even more fiattering exhibit of our com
merefal progress during the balance of the year.
TSan Francisco Commercial Herald
WITH all the difficulties in the way OF the en-
fOrcement OF the law removed, nOtnlnS is now
needed but vigor on the part of the Federal of
ficers in the territory, and such a blow viii be
given the surviving relic of barbarism on this
continent that its recovery need not be looked
for-rChicago Herald on Mormonism.
1T is said that the position of woman is a test
of civilization AS woman is boss throughout
the United states our civilization may be said to
be fully louisville Courier-Journal.
GEN. BUTLER writes that he does not intend to
take part in politics save when he may be called
upon. That settles it. Gen. Buffers retirement
is final and complete Baltimore American.
Is it not time that the unauthorized use by
patent-medicne dealers and others of the
names Of prominent men should be prohibited?
philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
THE best way to find people out is TO let them
know you are about to call on them with petit
tion.-fChicago Current.
THERE is something radically wrong in Mex
leo when a country situated on top of rich silver
ore is lazy enough to so into bankruptcy while
Americans are building and owning her rail-
roads.-GNew Orleans Picayune.
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THE NUDE AGAIN.

The Salt Lake TjJuae holly denies that
it discussed the nude in art question
with any knowledge Of the debate Of the
question here, or of the act of the Los
Angeles committee that gave rise to it.
This it a somewhat strange statements, in
the light of the IITbuaSs first article on the
subject, but its explanation is accepted, as
ii cuts no figure in the consideration Of the
issue The Tribune charges that our strict
ures upon shameless street displays referred
to show-bills. when in fact the reference
was mainly to the sensual and indie
cent newsstand and bulletined flash
literature. Our contemporary adds; " If
It's objection to the play-bill is on the score
Of its utter lack of art, then the question OF
moral propriety doesn't come in at all. If
the art and excellence in it is ali that is to
be considered, then the moralitieS have no
business in the discussion. If decency and
propriety in morals are to he considered,
then high art has no more business to vio-
late them than low art. or no art at all"
Our objection is to that inconsistency of
taste which finds offense III such works as
Michael Angeles Creation Of Eve, but is
insensibe to the grossly offensive prints
that are circulated broadcast to work the
destruction of youth Both are the pro-
ducts Of artistic genius. The RECORD
UNION has not contended that the public
should receive any sort of vileness if only
it come indorsed as art To so construe
our language is to misrepresent it grossly.
The best test Of anything is that which ex-
perience applies. The representations of
the human form in accepted art works
must be shown to have produced i'll effects,
to have demoralizcd and debased, before
any claim for exclusion from art galleries
. can be rightfully made. The Tribune insists
that if the nude in art is defensible at alb
the exposition of the nude human form it
self is more 50. In this 1t begs the ques-
ton, as did the English critic it quoted.
The absurdity Of that position does not
merit further response than we gave some
DAYS AGO.
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continue to exclaim against the publica-
ton referred to as dirty reform" but it
remains that it was the only way left open
through which a reform could be brought
about that must be accomplished. We do
not believe that in this day and age the
wisest is he "who in the field of what is
called immortality, seeks safety, not in
knowledge or in courage, but in ignorance
! or flight for such 4 philosophy in prac-
tice ties the hands of the virtuous and
gives free vein and an unobstructe3 field to
to the vicious. Virtue need fear no con-
tamination in the battle with vice. We
| cannot exterminate vermin except we
search out It's hiding places, nor can moral
reforms be worked by the wisdom Of those
! who seek safety in ignorance or fight. 1t
is not at all likely that the commission in
| yestigating the London horror could have
been drawn to that work except the pull
lie sentiment behind 1t had been first
! prodded into activity by the publications
objected to by the Post. But all that
journal can say of the indefensibility
Of reproducing the Go-ettes nastiness,
on this side the water viii receive the con-
currence of decent American journalism.
Its presentation to readers here can have
but one purpose, to feed the morbid appe-
lite for sensational and immoral literature.
But when the time comes here, or any
where else, for the working OF a great moral
reform, the popular and right judgment
will be that exposure of the need Of it will
quickest bring it about. Every effort to
cover up, disguise or flee from neral pe5ti-
lence is an influence tending TO give it
legal vitality, and a contribution to its
perpetuation.
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d" IF FILTERED

Some city officials and citizens were the
other day examining artesian wells east Of
the city, when, it is reported one of the
company remarked that no artesian well
water is better than the Sacramento river
water "when filtered and that in this
opinion there was general concurrence by
the company.
It was well enough to have put in the
proviso quoted. But there IS misconception
regarding even that. Iilteration does not
absolutely purify. The idea prevails to a
considerable extent that the process re
moves from fluids poisonous and con-
Eliminating matter 1t has been conclu-
siyely established that this is fallacy.
Filteration removes matter that is abSo-
luteIy foreign to it, mechanically inter
mixed with it, and sufficiently coarse to be
retained by the iltering substance. Be
yond this it has no effect. 1t IS not a
purifying process in a chemical sense, but
only SO far as it removes solid matter.
The Judgment Of the residents Of Sacra-
mento Regarding the palatable quality of
the river water is very largely biased by
habit. 1t may be admitted that no chemi-
cal analysis has disclosed any grave
impurities in the river water, but dates
NAV be recalled when such submission of
the water of the stream would certainly
have resulted differently.
The need of Sacramento now is clearer
water and purer water from source Of
unqucstioned character, furnished at
the lowest possible cost, and in
manner that will not bind
the city hand and foot to any scheme,
beyond possibility of release. We may
90 into ectasies over the softness, sweetness
and general excellence of the river water
to our hearts content, but the fact re-
mains that it is a muddy, nasty-looking
fluid bearing such an undue proportion of
solid matter that it is offensive to sight
and, very often, to other senses.
All the words in the English language,
however employed, will not eliminate from
the question Of the river water supply the
quoted words, If filtered" The very
necessity for the use of the qualifying
term is kind Of condemnation. We of
Sacramento may take some comfort in it.
but the stranger, whom We would have
come to and be one of us, viii find nothing
inviting in the qualification.
Even Saeramentans may feel some
stomachic qualms when they recall the sea-
sons of overflow, succeeding which the
water furnished the people for domestic
uses takes on a milky hue, and, to the
sense of smell tcstifies to its recent visit
to vast beds of vegetation.
They may be brought to yield even the
qualifying " if filtered when they sail up
stream and witness the Feather river pour
ing in its filthy flood, bearing the washings
of a half score or more OF towns and min
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IS 1T DIRTY REFORM?r

The Poll Nal Gozettes exposures are
characterized by the New York Post as
seryitors of the purposes of obscene litera-
ture. Published here, where the lofty
end to be attained by the application Of
such drastic remedies for the quickening
Of the moral health is not in view, ard
the printing of the disclosures would
indeed be Objectionable But the social
body in England is sick with moral leprosy,
and only the revelation OF the disease, and
the shaking Of the dry bones of society,
can work a reform 1t is, indeed, one of
the few pardonable instances of justifying
vulgar means by the desirable end 1t is
unquestionably true that in England few
have read the filthy disclosures Of the Ga
zette as an aid either to personal or social
Improvement, but it is not credible that
the reading of the articles has lessened
the horror Of vice, or enlarged the ideas of
vicious possibilities and opportunities.
Those who could be 50 influenced had no
need to seek information or stimulant in
the columns of the Gazette. The ease with
which a depraved nature could find the
opportunity to crafty its vicious appetite
in England is one of the most remarkable
features Of the expose. The Post NAV
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Query and Reply.

EDS. RECORD UNION: VIII you please
answer the following question and obhge a
constant reader: Whether Roman Cath
oIic has liberty to sit in the British Parlia-
ment and make laws for the English or any
one else? l say they cannot; Joe says they
can Please answer and oblge, yours
truly, CHARLES thompson
Williams, Colusa county, July 18th.
RErLY: BY the Catholic Emancipation
Act. passed in 1929, the Roman Catholic
citizens of Great Britain were made eligible
to hold any Office under the Government
except those of Regent, Viceroy Of Ireland,
tbe Lord Chancellors of England and Ire
land. and Lord justices of the Council.
Subsequently, some twelve or fifteen years
ago. Parliament passed an Act to remove
from the list of exceptions the positions of
Lord Chancellors of England and ireland,
So as to permit Lord o Hagan to take office,
and thus the law remains to the present
fine. Roman Catholics can therefore hold
seats in the British Parliament. Our cor
respondent IS wrong in this instance, and
=" Joe is right.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-18
ANOTHER FAITH CURE.

Rosa Warren, student in the OIden-
berg Convent, Indiana, leaving there, went
to Indianapolis An accident resulted in
injuries to her spine, and disease, be
heyed to be spinal meningitis, set in. She
suffered for three weeks she was partly
paralyzed: her neck was contorted, and
her head was drawn intoan abnormal pose.
She demanded to be returned to the con-
vent, and was taken back. Heretofore
she had been considered an irreligioUs girl
At midnight. shortly after her return, she
arose and engaged in earnest prayer to the
Virgin, and presently stood erect and an
nounced herself cured, and the testimony
is that she is wholly healed. Bishop Cha
tard investigated the case and vouches for
the facts. Rosa had always been a ner-
vous girl, and never was robust. So far as
the facts are concerned, they are not to be
denied-nor IS there any need to question
them. But rs to whether this is a case Of
miracle" is a very different matter. The
believers in the faith cure point TO it as
proof positive of the miraculous. But it
will bear Just as readily the application of
the theory that by her rising from bed and
engaging in PRAYER at midnight, she
brought into activity nervous forces that
had not before been awakened, and
these overeame or counteracted the alb
normal conditions that partially paraIyzed
her. There is just as much physical proof
of this as Of the alleged fact that miracu-
lous interposition restored her, Neither
can be logically substantiated.
The power of the WILL the effect of i'm
agination, have been exemplifed as potent
to heal in cases quite as miraculous as
the one Just recited. Both in this country
and in Europe innumerable instances Of
faith-cures are recorded, and some Of them
rest upon testimony that cannot be set aside
as deceptive or unreliable. The faith
cure" doctors at the East are even now
claiming to cure the lame, halt, blind and
sick by amounting with oil and the laying
on of hands, accompanied by prayer. Very
recently believers in the faith-cure held an
international conference in England, which
was attended by vast number Of people.
At that meeting cures are claimed to have
been effected that are not less than mar
velous if true. But there have been
equally as sudden cures effected by the
play of imagination, sudden fear and infu-
ences other than religious and having none
of the elements of religious faith. For in
stance, take the case of the sick girl in the
hospital into whose mouth the physicians
inserted the bulb of a thermometer to
ascertain the temperature. The girl be-
lieving it remedial appliance, at once
announced herself as better. The physi
clans found that her belief had really
effected beneficial change, and they pre-
sentIy again applied the instrument with
much show Of grave ceremony, and the
girl announcing herself cured arose and
was found to be free from disease. Ger
tainly this case is just as miraculous as
that of Rosa Warren.
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ing camps, to say nothing of the sllckens
which it continues to bring down to the
destruction of river navigation and the
menace of valley lands. They may cues
ton the correctness of their judgment,
even with the saving qualification, in the
face of the testimony of the river pilots
that each autumn the river banks are
strewn with dead fish, the decaying car
cases so communicating the atmosphere that
even these hardy boatmen sicken. Of this
fact the testimony is plentiful.
The Judgment of the Sacramentan must
afford him small comfort in the face of the
fact that the American river, emptylng
into the Sacramento at our doors, is made
the sewer pipe Of one public Institution
and the drain for a settled portion OF the
country for a very long distance. Towns
and villages, boats and boatmen use the
river for purposes that cannot contribute
to purity, and all the learned raphsodizing
in the world about the self-puriication Of
the running stream cannot remove the
suggestion Of impurity that forces itself
upon one in single days trip up stream
and observation upon the banks.
The medical testimony recently
telegraphed from Spain, where the
cholera is epidemic, is, that those
communities upon river banks and
using river water suffer most from the
scourge, while those using deep artesian
well water are practically exempt from the
afiliction Our own Boards of Health have
warned us that if the cholera reaches this
country it will be an act of only ordinary
prudence to boil every gill of river water
drawn for domestic use; and sanitarians
are quite agreed that TO boil water sup
piled by rivers traversing settled regions is
the proper thing TO DO in every family
where it is drawn for drinking purposes, at
any and all times.
Thi, city, we repeat, is in sore need Of
clear and pure water. The problem Of
procuring it may, or may not, be a difficult
one. a variety of schemes have been put
forward. The REcoRD-U MON is welded
to none of them. Experiment with the
arteoian well supply on the east of the
city cannot lie reasonably objected to-.
The cost at best will be light, and if it
fails the city will be left precisely
where she is now in respect to 4
water supply, No one can object
with any show of reason to a fair trial of
that scheme, and to a full examination
into all other plans for supplying us with
pure cool water. The introduction of such
supply Will be an absolute saving to bust
posses in which the use Of gritty river
water is positive burden and hindrance.
Ii will be economical for the city and re-
duce the wear and tear Of the pumping
machinery, if it shall be retained under
the new system. She has already paid out
large sums for repairs necessitated by the
cutting action Of our emery-like water.
The water supply question should not be
allowed to drag along and die out The
city is as able to deal with it now as she
will be one year or five years hence. She
should take hold of it now and probe it to
the bottom, fixing upon that scheme of
supply that will conserve the best interests
of economic government, the public
health, and the desirabeness Of the place
as a home.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-18

is not nearly so much poker" pla, wing or
card playing for money now, as when I'M
lawful games were licensed by the city AZ
thorities and banking games were plenti-
full in the city. The attempt to injure the
fair fame of Sacramento by falsely denying
that gaming has been suppressed here, and
asserting that the evil of gambling is
worse than before banking games were
closed up, is willfully malicious, and de
serves to be characterized in terms we do
not choose to employ in these columns. 1t
is vicious, objectionable and contempt
ible effort to revive impressions abroad
that have done Sacramento such meal
culable injury in the past, for the sole pur-
pose Of bolstering UP an exploded theory.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-18

IT IS satisfactory to know that the First
Cremation Society of San Francisco Is
meeting with encouraging success in its eff
fort to raise, through the agency Of a joint
stock company, the means necessary for the
erection Of a crematorY The society has
resolved to receive subscribers outside OF
San Francisco, which is action in re-
Spouse TO Il desire of non-residents to par
ticipate in the benefits of the organization
and the Use Of the building about to be
erected. It is very desirable that the ere
matory be set up the coming fall. The
sentiment in favor of incarceration is rap
idly ard steadily broadening, and at the
present time there is in reality no serious
opposition to the cremation process being
used In this country. In fact, the senti-
ment of the people has undergone 4 rad
ical change upon this subject, and it is
altogether likely that the close of the
present decade will witness the general ac-
ceptance of the system in all the great
cities of the Union The action admitting
members to the San Francisco Association
who reside without that city, is wise and
will unquestionably result in material adj
ditions to the capital of the company just
organizing to put up the first retorts.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-18

WHEN the RECoRD-UNIoN asserts that
gambling is suppressed in Sacramento it
states the simple fact, and from which
there can be no escape. When any paper
in this city or elsewhere states that gam
bling has not been suppressed here, flat
falsehood is published, The pitiful eva
sion will not avail that poker games and
other card-playing continues. The fact is,
as every one knows, that no authorities can
suppress that which is not by the statute
made unlawful. Games of every kind
that are unlawful are suppressed; card
playing for money or otherwise is not pro-
hibited by law, and therefore cuts no figure
in the case. But as matter of fact, there
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SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY

LIP. FISHER is Sole Agent for this paper in
San Francisco and vicinity. He is authorized
to receive advertisements and subscriptions, and
collect for the same. Rooms q and p, Mer
chants Exchange.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-18

NEW ORLEANS people have discovered that in
deep strata beneath that city are veins of pure
water. The Pjcay,ne advises householders TO
form groups and have artesian wells sunk
Once give New Orleans water better than the
cistcrn rain-water and the supply from the Mis-
sissippi, and the sanitary condition Of that city
viii Immediately improve
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-18

DESPITE all that has been said and the
long period of business depression, the
figures prove that the exports from Cali
fornia for the past half year have been
much larger in volume than for the CORE
spending period in 18S4-the actual III
crease in export values is some $4,000,0O0.
Even in the matter Of imports we have
exceeded the figures of the first half of
the year 1884 The outlook is not bad,
but has many elements of encouragement.
The one most damaging thing is the con-
ventional groan about hard times" 1t
does far more to discourage and to pros
trate industrial energies, than the facts
about trade and commerce and production.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-18

The REcoRD-UNIo is the only paper or
the coast, outside OF San Francisco, that re-
csivss the full Assr9iated Press dispatches
tro1. all parts Of ia. rid. Outside q Sa"
FRANCISCO it Ics no competitor, in point Of
Numbers, in its honls and general circulation
iIroasqlSoct The coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-18

THE Stockton Wat devotesa leader to an argu-
ment 10 prove that women should learn to
swim. Certainly, why not 1t is conceded
proposition, and needs no labored effort to sup
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-18

TIE bluegrass region has been the
source of millions Of wealth to Kentucky
The evidences are patent that California
enjoys better facilities in all essential
particulars for the cultivation of fine
stock. authenticated horses are coming
to the front to prove their superior merits,
and it is safe to assume that the industry
that produces them will prove one Of the
chief means Of support for this State.
The men to-day engaged in breeding fine
horses in California are the pioneers in an
enterprise rich in benefits to this State
THE erratic Brick Pomeroy, whose crankiness
is assumed, proposes to start a subscription for
the purpose of erecting Il monument to the
memory Of Mrs. Surratt. II, now, some other
disloyal genius will open subscription for the
purpose Of setting up a statue of Wilkes Booth,
we shall have a team of fools attempting to
work up q mean sensation. There are some
men content to be notorious, if they cannot be
famous