Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-14
A GREAT FAIR ASSURED.

The news is of absolutely positive
character that the exposition of pro-
ducts at the State Fair, to be held in this
city in September, will eclipse any thing
OF the kind ever attempted upon this
coast. We feel warranted in saying that
1t Will be the truest agricultural fair ever
held on the Pacific, the largest and the
best. When it is recalled that about
twenty counties are making ready to place
On exhibition grouped specimens of the
farm, orchard, vineyard, garden, shop,
mine, etc, it will be understood what the
fair will be. In former years five or six
counties have filled one of the largest
wings of the great building and made
magnificent showing; what then may we
expect from twenty in enthusiastic COM
petition. We trust that the number of
counties to enter may increase until it is
found necessary to add second great an
mex to the exhibition building, already
the largest upon the Pacific slope. The
activity in this direction of county ex-
hibits is an indication of what may be ex-
pected in the stock, mechanical, and other
departments. 1t is now known, and the
people can confidently rely upon the in
formation, that the fair of 1888 will be
one of great attractiveness, interest and
usefulness to the State, since it is this year
to have that attention from producers that
it has not heretofore received, but that has
always been its due.
WE are unwilling to believe that EN-
peror William, of Germany, is party to
the alleged detention of his mother in her
palace-practically prisoner. The young
man in his hatred of the English is capable
of it, but we hardly think he has gone so
far as to make his mother prisoner
though probably consenting to strict sur
veillance over her movements. The hol-
lowness of the claim for the "diyine right
to rule" was never more wildly illustrated
than at this time in Germany, where a
people fully capable to rule themselves,
competent to administer their own affairs
according to the will of the majority, are
dominated by monarch who keeps the
country in feverish nervousness because of
his ambition to achieve military distinc-
ton and his jealousy of other royal houses.
ENGLAND does the graceful thing, and
an act of justice, when she proposes COM
mission of Judges of known ability and
probity to sit upon the question of the
charges made by the London Times against
the Irish members of Parliament. This
Commission is to ascertain the facts and
report an opinion. Parnel cannot wish
for fairer offer than that. 1t is better
than to submit the matter to Parlia-
mentary committee of investigation, for it
insures a judicious and non-political exam
ination. The whole matter has less to do
with the Irish question after all than
that of the right of great journal to
screen itself from the consequences of a
libel, by taking refuge behind the Govern
ment itself,
The London Star is frank, though Mr..
Cleveland may well wish it had been less
open-mouthed. 1t says: "We may very
well re-echo that enthusiasm on this side
of the water, for the reelection of Presi-
dent Cleveland means the adoption of his
programme of tariff revision, and his ideas
on that subject go a long ray togards free