Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-28

thereby parts company with it entirely, so
far as any property right in it is con-
cerned. That is to say, he admits the
natural right of ownership in a literary
work only so long as it is not made public.
Ownership without control is valueless. If
writer can only own the product of his
labor by retaining it, of what earthly
value can it ever be to him? Mr.. Darling
reaches the conclusion that there ought to
be no copyright. In other words, if A
writes book ard B buys it, the latter
gains right to reprint and sell it equal
to the original right OF its author This
is the most absurd idea ever thrust before
the world upon the copyright question. If
one produces n new and valuable machine
after years OF study and labor; if he dis
covers new and useful application for a
mechanical principle; if he compounds a
remedial mixture or deyises methods to
save labor; common justice demands that
he shall be protected in the right to reap
the earlier profits of his genius, research
and inventive skill But when it comes
to the production OF books, Mr.. Darling
would deny to their authors the protection
due property right-the right of control.
What sort of world does this Univer-
salist clergyman think this is, anyhow ?"
THE San Francisco Mechanics Institute
Fair Association or management has again
fixed Its dates for an annual exposition, in
utter disregard of the interests CT any
other fair associations of the State 1t has
fixed its opening and closing dates so as to
take the heart out of the body of the ex-
hibition season, so far as it is in its feeble
power to do so. This action is parallel
with the record of the Institute managers
of former years. Experience teaches that
nothing better was to have been expected
of them. There is no reason whatever
why all the fairs cannot be so held as not
to materially conflict. The season is long
enough to permit this to be DONE But
when one fair management appropriates
six weeks out of the middle of the
season, and thus endeavors to tie
up a class of exhibitors who in
large numbers desire to aid the
District and State Fairs, it manifests a
grasping and illiberal disposition that can
be only truthfully characterized by such
word as hoggish." However, experience
also teaches us that the interior fairs can
maintain their independence despite the
San Francisco opposition. No such sue
cessful agricultural fairs haYe ever been
held in California as those of 1887. Yet
the San Francisco Institute crossed the
dates of most of them, and used money
plentifully and sent travelling agents
throughout the State in the endeavor to
establish damaging opposition. 1t failed
then, as it will in 1888, to do much dam
age. The State Fair and the District
Fairs will this year be superior to any
ever held upon the Coast. There are evil
dences apparent already that justify the
forecast. Moreover, they Will draw larger
attendance ana awaken much deeper in
terest than ever before, and be more than
ever agencies of the highest value in adj
vertising the resources of the State.
THE historical students who protest that
Charlotte Corday is misrepresented in
Gounod's new opera, because she is pre-
sented as manifesting the passion love, are
hasty They rushed into Geographic dis
patches Thursday to assure the world that
the woman, Charlotte, loved nothing on
earth but France. These defenders of the
patriotic Normandy girl must not forget
that experience proves no woman ever
lived who did not love. As well might
we speak of woman with total absence of
the maternal instinct, or as utterly desti-
tute of sympathy or the attributes of
benevolence in any degree whatever. Do
those who enter the protest, grant nothing
to operatic license? can they conceive of
the possibility of an operate soprano who
does not sigh in harmonies to the wooing
of the tenor? Love and poetry are twin
sisters Charlotte Corday was the descend
ant Of Corneille, and it is uncomfortable
that nothing of the passion of the poet was
to her. As Corday hated the
Marat, she must have entertained
for some man, his perfect contrast, senti-
ment at least akin to love. She could not
have so incarnated love in the France of her
devotion, as not to have felt for some
human being Of the opposite sex the ten
ierneSs that underlies love. The very
overflow of her devoted affection for France
must have fallen upon some mortal !
declares that she was ''imagina- |
i've" and that is the forerunner of love:
il gave an ideal of man; and If it was never |
realized there must have been, however |
we'll kept the secret, some one nearly
approaching to it, whom Corday loved. |
No matter who the woman, not one ever
lived to the age of Charlotte Corday, and |
never loved
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