Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-18

safe to lay the charge of plagiarism except
one has first made comparison of the two
articles.
No matter what the course Of journal
it cannot expect to escape the calumnious
charges Of the vulgar, enyious and embit-
tered. There is a slanderous method that
has not the forefront of courage, and is the
most contemplate, and at the same time
the most infamous form of caIumny. 1t is
the aasassin's method-striking in the back
and in the dark, and fleeing into the night
Of miserable pretense of virtue to hide its
own baseness. 1t is the innuendo that
seeks to scar virtue itself with these
shrugs, these huns and has" No Journal
with Independence of spirit sufficient to
deserve existence expects to escape either
open calumny or the back-stroke of in
nuendo.
THERE is now a Sanitary Aid Society in
every ward in the city of New York. These
societies are composed of citizens who or
ganize to aid the health officers. They are
doing splendid work. Up to May 10th in
the Tenth Ward the local society had, on
its own account and unaided, inspected
from garnet to cellar and subsoiI drain
1000 tenements, and cleaned out 200 Of
these. besides fitting up model lodging
house accommodating those driven out of
lodgings by their unsanitary condition
Here is an example of people who believe
they owe something to the town in which
they live.
0HE of the weekly journals Of San Fran
cisco, which has quarrel with the Argo-
no.f, has taken to the publication of open
METERS addressed g TO Mir. Frank ". Pix
ley the editor of the ArgonuH. This is
ii-advised. If its opponent desires to
strengthen the Argoaa,a it has taken pre-
c;sely the proper course in assailing its cd
itor personally. Newspapers should con-
duct their quarrcls upon their pages, and
even then they are proftleso.
MEN OF the day thoroughly realize the pro-
verbal truth that if they busy themselves in
responding to every lie told OF them, they will
have little time for the pursuit of Legitimate
business Newspaper men do not differ in this
respect from other business men Only the
silly aud those who have nothing higher or
better or nobler to animate them. propose to be
kept Jumping in their tracks by the yelping of
every NANCY cur that snaps at their heels
Sometimes however they turn. out Of pure
weakness OF the flesh and give an occasional
wheip deserved kic!,-and then the thing
bowls the louder, fairly peopling the ..ir with
It's yeIping
THE suppression Of the Rel rebellion in the
Northwest was a matter of course No one Sc.
riousy entertained all idea that Rel would sue
coed against the power of the Dominion au-
.hoTities. /; was little more than an Indian
uprising to secure like concessions of lands in
Severalty made to the Manitoba halfbrceds.
For Us it is wei! that Reira effort has collapsed
Any considerable measure of success on his part
would most likely have reused the tribes upon
our northern border TO have risen against Us.
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ScURmloUS innuendo; thc cowardly daIkly
limiting: the petty repetition OF Infamous libel,
under the thin guisc OF repeating it in order TO
make hypocriticai expressions of unbelief in
its verify, discloseS the anmus and the Actual
ing impulse aud is the sure index to littleness
Ct soui
TaE Governor declares that there is no war
rant for the rumor that he will call an extra
session OF the Legislature Probably the Gov
emo. stands ready to frankly admit that he has
had enough OF chat kind OF legislative expert
cuce
SAYS the san Jose Times Mercury: The pla-