Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-10

I
IT has not been more than four weeks
since the American Minister at st. Peters
burg officially announced that the stories
of the anti-J ewish troubles were all moon
shine. and that no such anti-Semitic laws
were being enforced or contemplated, as
the reports referred to. Moreover, he had
the Cars Government that not for mo-
ment had the Emperor contemplated any
raids upon the jews of Russia. Now,
however, we have thoroughly well ac-
credited dispatches announcing that the
Director General of the Russian police
has issued the order Of the Empire under
official seal, directing that the proscriptive
laws against the Jews shall be at once en-
forced, and with rigor. Minister Smith
must have been deceived by General
Groesser and the Russian Secretary. 1t is
now certain that the Russian Government
has been preparing for an issuance of the
order for the last three months, and that
at the very time when it disclaimed such
intention to Minister Smith, it was hav-
ing the proclamations printed. However,
it was none of our Minister'S business, and
it may be that the Russian lied to him,
as = politely rude way of intimating that
in asking about the intentions of the Gov
eminent he was exceeding his authority,
and going beyond the Office of his mission.
II the opposition of the New York
Erening Post to the Tammany ticket had
anything to do with the overwhelming
triumph of Tammany last Tuesday, it
would be well for the victors to employ
the Post to fight them constantly. We do
not recall in all political history of which
we have knowledge, so bitter, persistent
and generally strong opposition as the Post
made to Tammany; there is probably no
instance of any newspaper making so Wig
orous personal and so courageous fight
against a political influence. The out
come seems to prove that the antagonism
of the paper, staid, clean and powerful as it
is, actually served to augment the major
ity of Tammany over all opponents. 1t is
possibly lesson teaching that personal
assault in campaigns is not good policy,
and that it no longer has any influence
among the people. There were some
things in the result of the election in San
Francisco last Tuesday that point in the
same direction. Candidates personally as
sailed by the local press, and against whom
the most was said, appear to have the
largest majorities, as verdicts of the peo-
pie sitting as Jurors in the cases. In all
this there is suggestion that journalists
may well ponder.
THE wives Of figure painters in London
are said to have held meeting on Friday,
in that city, and to have resolved that
their husbands must no longer use models
outside of their own families. sour fig
ures are quite as good" say these ladies,
''as those of the girls hired to pose in our
husbands studios" The introduction of
these models into the studios, they insist
results in domestic infelicity and the cor
ruption of morals. They, therefore, in
tend that the painters shall dismiss the
models, and if they need studies in the
nude from life, they can call upon their
wives. II the ladies are in earnest in this
matter, and apply the domestic boycott to
enforce their decree, London will be
treated in the near future to many sensa-
ton. Public sympathy will 60 out to the
wives but at the same time their protest
will be received as confession of lack of
faith in their husbands that is humili-
ating.