The record-union., 1893-06-24
THE MOTE AND THE BEAM.

The San Jose Herald raises terrific
howl about the immortality of Sacra-
mento, and declares that because, for one
thing, OF such low tone of sentiment. and
especially because gaming is not wholly
suppressed here, the late legislators were
moved to inaugurate Capital removal.
Heaven save the mark What next,
when Satan rebukes sin? The idea OF San
Jose, the head and seat of more scandal
and gilded immortality than any other
city. lifting its hands in horror at the i'm
morality of Sacramento! Angels of grace
and mercy defend US when California
Legislature is shocked at the fact that two
or three upstairs and out-of-the-way
faro games are conducted and which the
Legislators found it difficult to find.
Here we have the San Jose Herald, in
long drawn editorial, moralizing about
the depravity of Sacramento because.
forsooth, here and there are people who
believe the better way to control gaming
is to license it.
The Herald knows that these people do
not represent public sentiment. Itknows
that seven times within three months
gamblers have been punished by the
courts in Sacramento, 1t knows that
gaming cannot be licensed; it knows that
it is no more prevalent here than in most
cities of this size on the coast. 1t knows
that if there is prostitution here it is pre-
cisely as true of other cities also. and that
since the time when the sweet singer of
Israel ached in his bones the world has
endeavored to exterminate prostitution
and has failed.
We have no defenses to make for anv
offenses; no excuses for any violation of
law; no pleas to put up for Sacramento
not based upon truth. But when any
assert that this is an especially immoral
city they falsity; when they say that this
city asks that gaming be licensed they
misrepresent; when they declare that the
chief paper of the city, that one most
representative and of widest influence.
demands that gaming be licensed, it per-
verts the truth and comforts fact.
When the Herald declares that in Sac
ramento ''it is proposed to disregard the
plain law of the State and license gam
blers to prey upon the public" it speaks
flat untruth. The Herald should be
ashamed of its libel upon this people; it
ought to be above such pettifogging as
that OF which it is now guiIty-not even
the desire to effect Capital removal
should excuse its libel.
1t is not intrequent that we find the
Herald declaring, with emphasis, that
certain of its contemporaries misrepre-
sent San Jose; stand for unclean policies
and corrupt methods, and we doubt not
if we accepted these journals as exponents
of the real sentiment of the people of San
Jose, the Herald would rebuke US. Let
it learn then that this community does not
approve of gaming; that it does not ask
or desire gambling to be licensed; that it
was due to Sacramento influences and
labors that the law prohibiting the
licensing of gaming was drawn and
passed; that the moral tone of this city is
higher and better than that of San Jose,
since its social circles have never been
charged with such moral crimes as have
frequently caused = the cheeks of San
Joseans to blush for their own. We have
no abuse to shower upon the Garden
City, no reproaches for it, but when