Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-19
THE OLD MAN OBSERyANT.

BRETHREN AND SISTERS: THE plan of
THE SUNDAY UNION. of which this is the
initial number, includes little depart
ment consigned to my tender care. II is
merely matter of the supervision of the
earth and the people and things thereof
and II is expected that this assignment will
consume only small part of my time, so
If any of you happen 10 hear OF anything in
the way of genteel employment with
proper compensation which would serve
10 occupy part of my leisure hours, kindly
inform me OF the same. | hate to be idle.
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Seriously. expect to have weekly in
formal chat with you on matters likely to
interest you and me, concerning all sorts
OF subjects. | wrote out a very elaborate
prospectus of my intended plans for
this column. 1t made four pages of
closely-written manuscript, and it is in NV
boudoir now, in the shape of shaving
paper. finally concluded that it would
suit you better to find out for yourselves
what were my designs upon the commu-
nifty.
The familiar old phrase, THE Chinese
Al GSt So las OCO4l anu DOW runs
thus: The Chinese must go and stav
gone Gentlemen of the United States
Supreme Court: For this relief much
thanks"
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John was good thing in his way for
awhile. but there got to be too many of
him. He may be said to have outlived
his usefulness as factor in American civil
lzation, and when he quits our usually
hospitable shores for his natural home the
chances are that the stereotyped polite invi-
tation to come again" will be conspicu-
ously omitted.
1t is matter of fact however. that we
are every day receiving accessions to our
population which are worse by far than the
Chinese. The latter come here to work
and they work hard. As rule, they are
peaceable, neutrality-suspicious., even if thev
are curse IN the matter of robbing white
citizens of chance to earn livelihood.
But what shall we say of and what shall
we do with the great overflow from the
moral cesspools of Europe which is
washed upon our shores? The Devil has a
big American branch office at Castle Garden
and 1t is doing rushing business from one
years end to the other. Biped cattle and
fiends In human form; mendicants, paupers
scum OF humanity in general Such are
we receiving into American citizenship
every day. Is it wonder that there .are
many who contemplate with fearful ap-
prehension the future social and political
life of the nation?
We have made good start in the way of
self-defense in the matter of restricting the
immigration of Chinese, who cut no figure
in our politics now let US devoutly pray
roll of from ba ioin
cast VINO is the worst curse of American
citizenship, and whose vote counts for lust
as much as that of the noblest citizen in
the land
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About year ago our worthy CITY Trus-
tees passed an ordinance against cigarette
smoking by boys under seventeen wears of
age. The law appears to be imperative,
lnasmuch as we frequently see on our
thoroughfares boys whose ages range from
seventeen down to seven years putting
away at the other end of a poisonous cigax-
cite, Just like a full-grown man." The
cigarette habit is harmful enough to
adults, as has very clearly been demon
strated in thousands of cases, but in the
case of growing children it is simply slow
poison.
If private command, advice, entreaty.
for the check of this disgusting and alarm
ing evil, how would it do to erect public
spanking machine for the benefit of the
juvenile offendersP
And through this machine it might be well
to run another class of smoking offenders
those who spoil opium. They are not
generally children in the sense of age and
physical development, but they are very
young children in the matter of sense. and
| have no doubt of the efficacy, in their
cases, of an occasional allopathic dose of
spanking. *&#
Sir Edwin Arnold, author OF 'sThe Light
of Asia" ETC., has for TWENTY-FIVE wears
been a leading editorial writer on the Lon
don Telegraph. He has written in that
time 5000 editorials, which work he
characterizes as the hardest of-his life He
might acquire some very valuable points
from certain of our American editorial
writers. Many of them have been far
more prolific of editorials than has the dis.
matter bears upon its face evidence of the
fact that it was not hard work at all.
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By the way, it is noteworthy that the
vapid and inane jokes about the poverty
strlCkeu newspaper Iueu are becoming
more rarely met with of late years. Time
was when it was considered quite the
thing for "the printer man" to exploit his
poverty necessarily and for the public to
look upon him as modern edition of
Lazarus. Times are changed now, and the
newspaper man, as rule, holds his head
pretty high. OF course many of them do
not succeed, but they are not newspaper
men-they're only journalists
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The Kings of Belgium. Saxony, Greece
and Servia will visit the Paris Exposition.
They are not very big kings, it is true; but
they beat four-ordinary men, as draw
ing card for the great exhibition.
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The rush on the Atlantic steamers for
the season has been so great that many of
us will be compelled to abandon our pro-
posed trip to Paris on account of the i'm
of securing travelling accom-
modations suited to our imperial taste and
royal deserts. SO
AT this juncture of my discourse the
Managing Editor interrupts me with
casual observation to the effect that brevity
is oftentimes an admirable feature in a
article. don't know Just what
he's driving at, but I'll think it over for a |
week. OLD MAN.