Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-22

tunate II 1t has not incurred the hostility
of those afflicted with moral strabismus
The merit of any proposition may be as
clearly inferred by the character of the
hostility it arouses, as the character of the
advocacy. So far journalistic opposition is
confined to Mr.. Pixley, and under analysis
we find that opposition to proceed from
two facts; first, one OF its most active and
leading promoters is Jew; second, one of
its most talented coadiutors bears the
name of Irish. No man can possibly be a
Jew or bear the name of Irish from any
justifiable motive And it is at this san
culinary ofense, the double-dyed crimson
of this flag, that the one should manifest
the depravity of adhering to his race, and
the other should maliciously persist in
bearing the name of his father, that our
journalistic contemporary lowers his head,
fills his foretop with the dust of the earth.
erects his tail in the air, and with his
mouth to the ground, bellows in earth
trembling tones: "These fellows mean
nothing less than the subyersion of our
political Constitution, and the eternal de-
struction Of all social order"
If the London Exhibition shall find
favor in the minds of this people, as we
hope it may, and an exhibition illustrative
of California is made in that limitless
metropolis of the world, with the casts of
the Yosemite, and the big trunks of our
big trees, and our ponderous squashes and
watermelons, let us also give adequate
space among our other abnormalities toour
picturesque friend of the Argonam, as be-
ing, perhaps, among the editors of all
climes, countries and zones, the most tune
fed and colossal crank that now graces
modern journalism. There is an eminence
of absurdity there are Napoleons of stu
pidity; there is a genius of asininity
which should command the respect, even
the reverence of men; and when Mr.. Pix
ley finds covert, sinister and selfish mo-
tive in the proposition to exhibit the min
eral, agricultural and horticultural pro-
ducts of California in the best market of
the world for these things, and vet finds
nothing sinister in the proposition to join
In worlds fair at Paris, or to hold a
State Fair in Sacramento, he achieves a
distinction of absurdity which should
| accord him place among the other en-
larged specimens of his country, and his
efigy distinguishing position with
Madame Tussand.
One hundred and ten leading citizens of
California, representing nearly every one
of the fifty-two counties of the State, as
sembled in San Francisco, and, after long,
earnest and careful consideration. decided
that an exhibition illustrative of Califor-
MIA in London was imperatively demanded
by the existing industrial exigencies of
this State. These one hundred and ten
men represented individually and collec-
lively an intelligence as high, patriot
ism as broad, and desire for the public
good as profound as any other group of
one hundred and ten that could possibly
have been assembled. Without examina-
ton of the facts, without any attempt to
review the argument which influenced
their course, without regard for the COM
mon decencies of life, Mr.. Pixley chooses
to impeach the motives of these people,
and that too in a spirit which is not only
unworthy of our eminent journalistic con-
temporary, but which would be mean and
contemplate in the most irresponsible
vilifer of the profession Perhaps when
Westminster Abbey was being constructed
there were those to charge the designer.
the architect and the contractor. with
most base and unjustifable motives, and
yet that great temple of reconciliation
and silence stands a monument to the
affection, the gratitude and the generation
of men for the benefactors of the human
race.
We assure Mr.. Pixley that these senti.
ments of affection, gratitude and venera-
ton do have place in the human heart:
that human nature in California is verv
much like it is elsewhere: that, therefore.
it is possible that some man, Jew, Irish
man or American, may possibly be pos
sessed of these attributes; and that, there
fore, something may be proposed for the
good of the country and the proposition
proceed from worthy motives. The exist
ence of noble motives will be denied by
| those only who have never felt them. Mr..
Pixley has not done himself justice in this
case. His position is libel upon his
more humane attributes. There must be
somewhere in the character of this man a
better Pixley than his present attitude
discloses. We say these things more in
sorrow than in anger. Nor do we say
them in defense of any one connected with
the London exhibition movement. We
would not insult any one of the one hun
dred and ten gentlemen who have become
sponsors for that movement, by supposing
for moment that their motives needed
any defense.