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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-26
WEIRD AND AWFUL SCENE.
TERRIBLE sCENKs or srrFERING.

When the Captain jumped ashore he was
horribly burned, and in his frantic desire to
De relieved from the pain he was suffering
he buried his face and hands in the soft
mud, and begged most piteously for some
one to help him. Smith was Just behind,
and was laid out by the side of the dying
Captain. Nothing could be done for the
suffering men, and the two died together
on the river bank.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-26
SPREADING THE LIGHT.

[See further telegraph on fourth page. ]
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-26

Wool-Growers' Association, has issued an
address TO the wool growers of the United
States. calling a meeting of the officers of
the National and State Associations at
Washington on January 10Th The ad-
dress sets forth that the wool schedule
pending before the Senate fails to afford
adequate protection, and 1t is TO consider
the question of relief that the meeting is
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-26
General KelIer's Arrest in Texas.
a Wrecked Crew Saved.

PORTSMOUTH IN. h, December 25th.-
The steamer Silver Star, of Bar Harbor,
was sunk this morning about I:30 o'clock,
about three miles east of the Whales Back
Light. She struck asunken wreck staving
a hole amidships, and filing with water.
Captain Parker and mis- crew of eight men
took to their boats, saving only the valu-
ab bIac tba,r had IN
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20

expenditures under Democratic Adj
ministration have been foolish, cor
ruptly extraragant. yet parsimonious.
Stinginess where hberality should pre-
vail, profuseness where economy
should rule, injudic:ous, if not corrupt,
appropriations tor Democratic dis
tricts and unjust refusals of appropri-
ations for Republican districts have
been customary. The President gives
IA llippant and insolent veto to q bill
appropriating a sum for a pubic
building at Sioux City, and approves
bills appropriating like sums for pub
lie buildings in the greatly inferior
towns of Brownsville, Texarkana, Ash
vile, Statesville and Tallahassee.
The inferior towns are in Southern and
Democratic States; the superior town
is in Northern and Republican State
Such discrimination savors of corrup-
ton.
The expenditures have been niggard-
IL toward disabled soldiers OF the
Union, or toward the widows and
orphans of such, and toward National
defenses, and profuse as to the enlarge
ment of creeks in sparsely settled re-
gions of the South. To dishonesty
swell the appearance of a surplus the
River and Harbor Appropriations bill
suffered pocket veto last year: to
placate the voters of districts eX-
pectant of grants like bill. for a much
greater amount. has been approved this
year. Mr.. Beck's defense of the Ad-
ministration was feeble. The in
creased appropriations OF this year."
he said, .'are accounted for by the De-
ficiency bill, the River and Harbor bill.
and expenditures for coasts and arma-
ments." But whose influence sup
pressed the passage of the Deficiency
bill Of last year? Who gave pocket
veto to last years River and Harbor
bill? The President. And why? That
dishonest showing as to the surplus
might be made. Besides which, Sem
ator Beck does no: meet Senator ALI
sons chief charge. The force of the
Iowa Sena tors Indictment does not go
so much against Democratic expend-
itureS for this year as against Demo-
cratic expenditures for the first four
years Of Democratic return to power.
The unanswered charge OF Senator AL
lison is tina. this Democratic Admins
tration is closing its term with a record
of expenditure which is S95. 900, 900
greater than that OF the last Reoub-
licau Administration, and the Demo-
cratic excess has been useless to the
Nation. corrupiing in its political in
fiuence. and sectional in its applica-
ii Chicago Inter Ocean.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20

under dog always has tighSng
chance. 1t is nct rs pleasant a pc
sition as that which the upper dog oc-
cupies, but it has a fighting chance.
The Democrats ought to stop propho-
sying altogether or else follow the en-
ample of the hen and prophesy after
the act. You can't make the Repub-
lican party die. Ii you want to you
must do it oftener than every twenty
four years.
The issues are sharply drawn. There
is no halfway house. and you have to
be square on one side or the other.
There can be no Republican-Delno-.
Gratis any moro than there can be q
Baptist-Presbyterian or a Bob Inger-
soll-Methodiss- Tho Democrats toll
yo.--. that the purchasing power of q
dollar is greater in Europe than it is
here. Tut that does not make much dif-
ference ii the people over there
haven't the dollar. When people talk
to me OF the holidays, and cheap food
and the clothing the wOrxnen in
Europe enjoy. am reminded of the
slave who was asked why he ran
away. You were not beaten. You
had your food, medicine and clothing
free. Why did you leavee' "An 1
have to say" he remarked. sis that if
any OF you want the position left it
is still vacant "-PuIadelphiG Press
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20
Brooks Rebel Sentiments.

Rev. DR.. Brooks has broken out
again. He now denies that he ever
said ne had ''been a rebel, slave
holder and a Democrat. but. thank
God, had never been a Republican.
Mr.. Brooks is making things worse
for himself. The facts are sworn to
by the best of Witnesses He has =
good deal to deny beside the Decatur
speech. At the Metropolitan Opera
House, in New York, June %, in a
speech, he used this language, which
has been dug up out of the verbatim
reports of the meeting made at the
time: "In that contest my distin-
guished friend (Fisk) and brother
who leads me in this conflict was
on the side of emancipation He
was an Abolitionist; and / used to
hate an Abolitionist worse than did
the devil II there was any thing out
side the neither regions that / hated
worse than another it was an Abo-
litionist- Laughter.1 And, while he
was fighting on one side, / was doing
all the praying, and all the exhorta-
ton, and all the entreaty, and little
fighting. on the other side" The last
few words differ from his rebel
speeches at the West in admitting
that he was rebel fighter. Thank
God" Brooks would undoubtedly be a
better man If he possessed the virtue
.. veracity of which he appears to be
asstitute. - Chicago Journal
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20
Does 1t Mean Free Trade?

"All trade should be as free as pos
sible. "-Speaker Carlisle.
Il desire free trade, and 1 will not
help protect any law that stands in the
way of free trade. y Roger @. Mills.
1.-The Democratic party is a free
trade party or it is nothing" 1.-The
Democrat who is not a free trader
should go elsewhere Henry Waiter
son.
Add to the free list as many arti-
cles as possible. Reduce duties upon
every dutiable article to the lowest
point possible. "-SecretGry Fdirchild.
cit would be glorious consumma-
ton of this debate could We only have
gentlemen on the other side join in this
invocation to paper and TO type and to
the hearts of honest men to clear the
way for British Golden free trade
S. S. Con.
"Mr. Cleveland stands before the
country as champion of free trade. -
London Times.
Mr.. Mills speech is manly, Wig
orous and most effective free-trade
speech. Henry George.
'H we did not require money to de-
fray the expenses of government ]
would be an absolute and uncompro-
missing free trader" - Congressman
Har-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20
THE MORAL ISSUE.
Why the Tariff Question Is of Greater
importance Than Prohibition.

Why the Tariff Question Is OF Greater
Importance Than Prohibition.
The tariff question is not merely q
matter of finance or political economy.
At the bottom it is moral question OF
the greatest Importance. The stand
ard of labor II any country to q large
extent determines and fixes the stand
ard of morality that the laboring classes
OF that country can attain.
Wages and morality have a closer
relation than many good people i'm
aeine. Where labor is degraded, a
high standard of morals such as OBJ
tains among the wage-workers of the
United States can not be looked for.
Degrade country's labor and you de-
grade woman. Adopt fiscal policy
which will certainly depress wages to
low level, and you increase crimes
and introduce a whole train OF soci al
evils.
A policy which will cut down the
wages of the father will OF necessity
bring about an increase OF child labor.
1t will take the children from the
schools and put them into the mills,
mines AID factories at an early age.
Adopt it in this country and, as the coun-
try fills up and men begin to crowd one
another in the lower walks OF life, we
shall see the hopelessness, ignorance.
reproductive recklessnes5 and lack of
ambition that characterizeS European
populations, reappear among the Ia
boring classes of the United States to
take the place OF the intelligence, hope
fitness, independence, Judgment and
ambition that now belong to our work
ing people. There is not a working
man or woman who is not vitality con-
cerned in the outcome of the tariff dis
cussion and the impending election on
which it hinges, as a moral issue.
Third party orators assert that their
party presents the only moral issue
now before the people. They claim
for their party monopoly or trust Of
the conscience of the country. But on
its moral side, the tariff issue is of
far greater Importance, for it embraces
in its scope not only the question
whether by depressing wages drunk
enness shall be increased, but a wrong
determination of the tariff issue may
bring about a host Of other evils big
with disaster.-Aurora (Nl.) Beacon.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20
DR.. JOHN a. BROOKS.
His Attempts to Destroy the Effect of
Damaging Statement.

His Attempts to Destroy the Effect of a
Damaging Statement.
There is screw loose somewhere.
DR.. Brooks is reported differently in
different places. At Decatur, Ill,
sworn affidavits from men who heard
him set forth that he did say that he
had been a stakeholder, a rebel and a
Democrat. but thanked God that he
had never been a Republican. Two
or three days later he was at Bloom
ington, Ill, and was reported there as
having admitted that he said so at
Decatur, but explained it by saying
that he said it 'facetiously." The i'm
preston DIR. Brooks now seeks to make
is that he was not d .'rebe!." All rebels
were not officially connected with the
military nor civil service of the South
ern Confederacy. Some of the most
bitter ones were found in Southern
pulpits. They were either Union or
dis-Union men. Union Democrats who
held pulpits in the South all through
the war were mighty scarce.
But it isn't necessary to dwell upon
this subject. We have evidence from
his own lips that he was not Union
Democrat. When he was nominated
for Vice-President at indianapolis
May 81, he was called upon for q
speech. He responded, and in the
course of his remarks he said that
although once Confederate he was
now a Union man." (Most people are
now.) We refer the reader not to any
Republican partisan report, but to the
Associated Press report:
The difference between a "rebel"
and Confederate" was not visible
to the naked eye during the war, and
we rather think that the people even
now generally understand that rebel
was q Confederate and a Confederate
was a rebel.
We will now call upon Prohibition
organs for a little testimony. On July
10, 1888, the Center, Michigan's Prohi-
bition party organ, contained an edi-
torial headed ''Vice-President Brooks"
III WHICH was repuDIlSneO III extract
from speech by Mr.. Brooks in Mime
sofa as reported by the Minneapolis
Prohibitionist. That extract from Mr..
Brooks speech contained these words:
Il want to say here. to-day, in your
hearing as regards myself, l am Il
Southerner; was what was called a
rebel during the war, but l was never
soldier in the Confederate service. l
was not Il chaplain, as has been stated
by some of the opposition papers"
Hewas simplya ''re5el" or ''Confed-
crate" preacher. He is now candi-
date before the people for Northern
votes. The reader will draw his own
conclusions Tribune.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20
AN uNHOLY SCHEME.
Democratic Dirty Work in Iowa Which
May Be Tried in Other States.

Democratic Dirty Work in Iowa Which
May Be Tried in Other States.
The minions of darkness are always
more vigilant than those of light. We
are informed by reliable persons. who
say they positively know, that money
has been furnished by the saloons Or
the Democratic party to q few mcin-
bers in Iowa of the Women's Tenn
perance Christian Union. TO secretly
ascertain what women, who are mem
bers OF the Union, will act with them
in the interest of the third party
movement. and revoiutionize tho State
Woman 5 Temperance Christian Union,
and at the approaching State conven-
tion GUST Mrs. Ellen Foster and put Il
third-party woman in her place. The
women in the scheme are furnished
money to pay the yearly dues OF all
then, when the time comes to elect
delegates to the State Woman's Tenn
perance Christian Union, to object to
those voting who have not paid their
dues. In this way. the scheme is to
work a sharp game and elect all dele
gates who favor a third party in the
whisky interest. This movement is
inaugurated all over the State. The
messengers in this mischief are active
in Des Moines, and letters have beer
received from other parts of the State
sounding the alarm. If the true anc
good temperance women in the State
are warned in time. they have the
spirit and the true interests of tenn
perance at heart sufficiently t.
squelch this dirty scheme in the bud
Look out for them, and be on hand
with dues paid and the soul full O.
good resolutions. ready for noble
work. The enemy is encamped abou,
you. bushwhacking. and the friends
of temperance and the home must b
active.-Des Moines Register.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20
THE FISHERY MESSAGE:

Its Political Purpose Plainly Evident to
Great Religious Journal.
The President is evidently fond of
startling the country by strokes of
audacity. His tariff message was an
audacious stroke, much praised for its
boldness by tree-traders. The Presi-
dents vanity was touched, and he has
made second attempt to draw public
applause. But the same trick can not
be successfully played twice. 1t was
bold, undoubtedly, to limit. contrary
to custom, the Presidential message on
the assembling of Congress to a single
question. Whatever credit was due
TO the courage of the conception Mr..
Cleveland has had and enjoyed; but
the audacity of the Fisheries message
is rather calculated to excite disgust
than admiration. 1t is not a coup de
mdttre, but coup de hcdter.
In the first place it bears every mark
of collusive generalization. 1t was
clearly foreseen that the Senate in the
exercise of its constitutional preroga-
tive would reject the treaty because it
was not a careful adjustment of the
rights of both parties. but surrender
VI our National interests to Canada.
Politically, the effect of the rejection
Of the treaty which the Administration
claimed as triumph of diplomacy,
would tell strongly against the Demo-
"a I'D
could that effect be averted? BY a
sudden change of front, reasoned
the President His Administra-
ton has justly been arraigned
for betraying the cause OF
our fishermen in the negotiation of a
VIGOROUSLY one-sided treaty; the treaty
having been put away by Republican
vote, he would suddenly appear before
the country as the champion of our
outraged fishermen, and would in his
zeal for their rights go far beyond
their most Jealous advocates in the
Senate. Congress had clothed him
with power to retaliate against Can
ada He would ask for additional
power in that direction. This is the
design of the message. and that Demo
cratic leaders were in his counsel is
evident from the fact that both in the
House and Senate Democratic mem
bers were ready with q bill to grant
the power asked for as soon as the
reading of the message was ended.
The hsads had been together in con-
sultation, and the message and the bill
were the result.
The message has tone of insincer-
ity that is strange enough In our Presi.
dental documents. 1t is hard to be-
Iieve that the President asks for addi-
tional powers with a serious intention
of using them. We may do him an in.
justice In this, but the message makes
just this impression on US. 1t is SO OBJ
viously intended to make weight In the
Presidential canvass and retrieve the
effects OF poor diplomacy that it is
ecarcsly possible to judge u In any
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20
DRIFT OF OPINION.

NThe Presidents anxiety for adj
ditional authority to retaliate calls to
mind the original fighter, who backed
into the crowd and told them to let him
loose so that he could lick the other
fellow.-M Y Press.
g9-As between President Cleveland
$4,000 check for his own campaign
fund and Levi P. Morton's $4,000
check to load a vessel with food for
Ireland, the latter appears to the best
advantage. Chicago Journal.
BIIf Mr.. Cleveland really believes
what he now says about Canada's man.
fold iniquities during this fisheries
difficulty down deep in his heart what
a chump he must think himself for
recommending such milk-and-water
thing as treaty when the medicine
wanted was REORGANIZATION Toronto
World.
"Just see me wallop Canada!
Hand me club-no, not that one, il
bigger one" &c. Clereland. But the
Senate and the people are asking why
he hasn't used the club which was
placed in his hands year and a-half
ago. If the Senate now gives him a
bigger club he will lie right down be-
hind it, just as he did behind the
other and hide. As buffer Mr..
Cleveland swells up very large.-Detroit
Tribune.
NSy- Comrade James A. Underwood,
Acknowledgement Commanding the
Crippled Union Soldiers Association
of the United States. in general orders
No. Is, says: LAS the Commander-in-
Chief of the e. A. r. has ordered that
you shall not wear the G. A. r uni
form at any political meetings, or
argue for your rights. 1 hereby order
that you cut off the G. A. r. buttons
and put in their stead the old eagle
buttons, and fight for your rights to the
last"
ByThe recent labor troubles in
Paris, which were only subdued by
the heavy batons of the police. are
peculiarly suggestive to American
laborers. The strike was declared be-
cause the individual employers refused
to pay the increase OF wages which had
been granted by the Municipality of
Paris to the navvies employed by the
city. That increase, which the city
granted and the employers refused,
was from fourpence TO sixpence per
dayi-Irish World.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20
THURMAN AND DAVIS.
From a Speech Delivered by james
Garfield, October IL, 1879.

From a Speech Delivered by James A.
Garfield, October IL, 1879.
Now, what purposes has the solid
South in thus grasping power and
killing liberty? ThisI They are de-
tern1ined to make their old .'lost
cause the triumphant cause. Who is
their leader to-day? By all odds the
most popular man south of Mason and
Dixon's line is Jefferson Davis. of
Mississippi He is to-day their hero
and leader; and l will give you my
proof of it. Do you know that our
friend General Rice has been making
great deal of small capital out of the
fact that he introduced an arrears of
pensions bills for soldiers? You all
know what kind of bill that was Il
was bill granting arrears of pensions
to our soldiers; but it also granted ar
rears of pensions to all rebel soldiers
who had fought in the Mexican war.
We made a law that the name of q
man who has taken up arms against
this country should be stricken from
our pension rolls, and he should re-
ceive no money out OF our Treasury.
That law Mr.. Rice's bill repealed in
so far as it related to the Mexican SOL
diers. and he knew and was told
plainly that that clause included JEFF
erson Davis as one of the pen
sioners to be helped by that
law; and even in that rebel
Congress there were many Demo-
Gratis who could not quite be brought
up to the scratch to vote to pension
Jefferson Davis; and hence Mr.. Rice's
bill hung in the committee and was
not reported. Then Republican
member of the HOUSE mo:ed to dis
charge the committee from the con-
sideration of the whole. He intro
duced a bill that did not have Jeffer-
son Davis in it, but had only our SOL
diers in it; and that bill, not Mr.. Rice's,
passed. But when that bill got to the
Senate a Democrat moved TO add the
Rice section that covered all rebel
pensioners under its provisions; and
then it was that Mr.. Hoar, of Massa-
chusetts, called the attention of the
United States Senate to the fact that
that amendment would include Jeffer-
son Davis, and he moved an amend
ment to the amendment that it should
not be so construed. What followed?
Immediately there sprung to his feet
our Ohio Senator. | blush for my
State when l repeat it. Allen G..
Thurman rose to his feet and said:
1.-The Democratic Legislature OF Ohio
has instructed me to vote to pension
the soldiers of the Mexican war, and
they did not instruct me to make
an exception against Jefferson Davis,
and therefore / vote against Mr.. Hoar's
amendment.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20
FUNNY BOS BURDETTE
The Hun,orists Recent Address to His
Ncighbors at Bryn Iawr, Pa

The Humorists Recent Address to His
Neighbors at Bryn Mawr. Pa
Some years ago. when James G.
Blaine was nominated in Chicago, Carl
Schurz pulled out his watch and said:
'.Let US note the time of the Repub-
lican party's death" Then he rose
and went out and knitted the man at
whose table he had sat, whose salt he
had eaten and whose bread he had
broken. He has his reward. He is
drawing his salary. no doubt. for his
work as a reformer, but he differs from
Judas in not having self-respect to go
out and hang himself in thorough
bred manner. I don't know where Mr..
Schurz is tonight, but 1 know where
the Republican party is, and it is by no
means dead If Mr.. Schurz is earning
his salary by holding his watch in his
hand and waiting to mark the hour
when the Grand Old Party dies. he is
working hard for his money. Other
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20

men before him have sat down tc
hold a wake over the remains of the
Republican party, and they have found
that it is the liveliest corpse they ever
sat up with, and that it is the soul and
spirit of its OWE funeral.
Chairman Hensel was one of these
prophets. He sent the following dis
patch at the last Presidential election.
under the date-line OF Lancaster, Pa i,
November 4: Il have made a canvass
of the State by telegraph"-(Yes, he
did, and that canvass was struck by
lightning twenty-four hours later)-
land l think the situation hopeful.
The Republicans may carry the State
by a small majority, but it is doubt
full" l believe the small majority was
up somewhere near &c., majority,
but still Hensel was right in thinking
his party had a fighting chance. The
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-20

bGC leveland's free trade messags
was In the nature of a feeler. 1t wa,
part free trade. part revenue and lit
tie protection. His message on the
fisheries question partakes of the nat
ure Of a political speech Statesmaa
ship il not made up Of thsse qualities
-C3;ca0o CxrreT6