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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-05-31
THE SHAME OF NATIONS.

It is becoming a matter of shame and
disgrace to modern civilization that the
Armenian outrages continue, and that as
against these acts of the 'Unspeakable
Turk the civilized world stands help
less protestant. The latest advices are.
and they are evidently verify. that even
where some humane Turkish officers
have attempted to protect the Armenian
Christians, the orders Of the Sultan have
been read that stayed their hands and
rendered them powerless to protect the
innocent victims of Turkish brutality.
One of the most recent accounts tells of
the butchery of a large number of Ar
menian villagers, whose flesh was cut off
and boiled in pots and fed to the surviy-
ing people, who were compelled to eat of
the bodies of members OF their families
or meet the fate of the murdered.
One case is recited in which babe was
snatched from its cradle, smothered,
spitted and roasted, and its unhappy
mother compelled to eat the flesh to the
last morsel SGT before her.
A gentleman of national prominence
speaking to 5000 people in this city SUM-
day night, said that he had just concluded
a trip around the world. He had been In
Turkey and Armenia. and he knew of
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-05-31

his own knowledge that the stories re-
cited from time 10 time concerning the
outrages were true. and that the half had
not been told US. It would seem as If the
Turks. aided by the Kurds, have set
about to exterminate the Armenian Sin
fdel dogs''; that the purpose is to 30 re-
duce the Christian population as to
practically obliterate it from the records
of humanity.
Turkey forgets the great lessons of
martyrdom. that for every martyr there
arise ten to avenge him. So it has been
and SO it will be. Turkey cannot blot
Christianity out within it's jurisdiction.
The blood of the unhappy murdered will
seed the soil for a growth OF Christian
men, who will as surely throttle the
Turk as that the earth will continue to
turn as it pursues its course around the
sun.
For now approaching two years the
butcheries have been going on, and the
powers of Europe have proved unequal
to their suppression. This is not be-
cause of inability in physical sense.
but because of mean jealousy and low
and contemplate spirit of distrust among
European nations.
The last number of the arena takes up
the subject with vigor that is inspiring.
but the chief value of it's paper is in its
pictorial and descriptive character. by
which means it shows us what character
of people the Armenian Christians are;
what is their intelligence, personal APP
pearance. their manhood and woman
hood, and their fitness for the respect OF
their fellowmen and women. But such
papers can do no other good than to in
iensify our anger at the Turkish Govern
ment, end excite our contempt for Eng
land, Germany, Austria, Russia and
France, that they supinely submit to
such outrages as are perpetrated in the
Eastern hemisphere, and do no more
than interpose red-lape protests.
1t is entirely safe to say that if Mexico,
the Dominion, or the Central American
States should enter upon such work of
causeless slaughter for religions sake.
the people OF the United States would
impel our Government TO interpose pro-
tests pointed with bayonets, backed by
colum biads, and enforced by an army OF
good men and true, who would see to it
that such butchery on this continent
should not continue.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-05-31

IT is not to be assumed that men legiti-
mately engaged in either kinds of mining
will feel, so long as their operations are
carried on without injury to the property
of others, that proper showing up of
hydraulic mining in its damaging as
pects will injure them. Unless there is
complete and radical change in the man
ner in which hydraulic mining is being
conducted. illicitly and otherwise. it can
be stopped, and will be stopped, as be-
fore. not necessarily by reference to any
prohibitory statute, but on the ground Of
its being injurious and nuisance
Quartz, drift and sluice miners have no
reason to make common cause with n.y.
efraulic miners, and they will not do SO;
they themselves may have to be legally
cautioned sooner or later with regard to
their ,iebris: but they can impound it
without 1reat expense.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-05-31
HOW ANARCHISTS ARE MADE.

Theodore Durrant was arrested for
murder now nearly seven weeks ago.
He had his preliminary examination in
San Francisco and was bound over two
weeks ago. The police has stated that it
is fully ready to prosecute, and the de-
fendant has announced that he is ready
for trial and to establish his innocence.
On Wednesday the prisoner was
brought into San Francisco court and
this question was asked of both prosecu-
ton and defense, Are you ready?" and
both responded, "Ready for trial" There
upon the court, on suggestion of coun-
sci for the people, fixed July I'D for the
trial on the two charges of murder.
be tried when he answers ready" and
the prosecution states its readiness to
proceed. If he is guilty, it is the right of
the people to have him tried with due CO.
lerity without invasion Of his rights to
prepare for trial.
This postponement for nearly two
months is one of the ways we make an
archists in this country and bring the
law into contempt. In England and
France they do things differently. Such
a case in either of those countries would
have been before jury by this time and
a conclusion have been reached, and pos
sibly an end of the case had.
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NOTE AND COMMENT.


The industry of extracting the juices of Cali
fornia fruits and preserving them has been
entered upon on a large scale i'll central
county. The wonder is that the scheme was
not long ago taken up. We believe that it
will prove an important adjunct OF our hor-
ticultural interests.
The citizen who best serves the community
is not he who objects and raises obstacles to
progress, but who helps clear the way and
builds hope by the CHEEKY encouragement Of
his optimism.
The Los Angeles Herald, under its new
management. protests against and objects to
its contemporaries appropriating matter 1t
originates, and that is ground out by its en-
ergy and study, without credit being given.
Never mind il, neighbor. When you have
long been in the newspaper business in the
State you will find that it is "a way Californi-
ans have" Nothing exclusive about scissors
men, you know.
Actually a lot of idiots at the East are talk
ing about the danger of another intefne cine
war between sections of the United States
this time the East and the North against the
West and South, and the issue silver. The
Boston Gto6e went SO far recently as to ask a
number OF people their opinions on the sub
Ject, and the result is about as mixed o lot of
sayings as is possible on any subject. Such
men as Edward Atkinson, economist, and
Professor Hart OF Yale laugh at the bare sug
gestlon OF a war, while Coxey, the crazy, and
Dr. Elderer see the loosng of the dogs of war
already taking place. The idea is absurd.
First, the Nation has not forgotten the days
OF the sixties; secondly, war would not settle
the issue; thirdly, there is no issue in the Sec
tional sense; fourth. the East and North are
commercially dependent upon the West and
the South, and the latter two in turn upon
the first two, as Professor Hart we'll puts it;
fifth, intereommunicaton is too quent and
its means too plentiful to permit {; sectional
war; sixth, there are now no racial differences
to incite in men the spirit of warfare within
the common country; seventh, the issue di-
vides the great parties and the parties are
tional, not sectional, at this time and will so
remain; eighth. the Federal is strong
enough 10 crush the foolish attempt of Who
ever opens the ball.
The way to Kill the anti-nuisance move
ment is to insist that nothing shall be done
until the promoters of the movement or the
Trustees select and name some other section
OF the city where the nuisance may be located.
There is no other conclusion 10 be reached
than that such excuses are intended as means
of defeat.
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THEY DO NOT LIKE THE MEDI-
CINE.

A few years ago, when the press and
people of California were protesting
against indiscriminate and unrestricted
Chinese immigration. as destructive OF
the rights and interests of the wage
earners of the State. and as tending to de-
grade the labor of the community to the
economic level of the Chinese coolie, the
great East could not find terms of rebuke
for us sufficiently strong.
New England was especially uncom-
promising, and denounced California as
brutal and inhuman toward the Chinese,
and declared that if we could not main
tain ourselves against their exclusive
ness and cheap methods we ought to go
to the wall. "The brotherhood of man"
doctrine was given to us in solid chunks,
along with many another lecture upon
fair play for the coolie.
California finally reached the wise con-
clusion that the only way to convince the
East of the justice of its claim that an
American workman could not maintain
himself as our civilization and citizenship
demand, while in competition with
Chinese worker whose wage represented
q manner of living that would be intoler-,
able in the American, would be to await
the advent of ooolis labor into New Eng
land.
Time has justified that judgment. The
great East has received the Chinese Ia
borsr and is to-day ready to return him.
There ia no longer any abuse of California
because of her protest; we have ceased to
be "unamerican," ''boodlums," row
dies' and "embittsred, prejudiced and
unreasoning."
There is before uE q very recent con-
fession to this effect. The Day of New
London. Conn.,, in it's issue of the 10th
of May, reviews the history of the anti
Chinese agitation in California, and now
admits that California was. in the main,
right in its contention. It says:
Last year 10, 900 Japanese came into Cali
fornia, and to-day they are employed in great
numbers on farms and IN vineyards. to the
6ACluSlOQ Oh WnIIt 1aDOE, WHICH, DcS4h
to compete with these orlentals. They live
on nothing, are industrious and tractable-all
good reasons for making them in demand;
but at the same time the white laborer is idle
and the question of how to live confronts
him. Sentiment has had its day, and now,
when 1t is too late. many who favored the re-
moval of all restrictions on Chinese immigra-
tion would like to see the pigtail on his way
back to China. 1t is the same question, in a
little different guise that is troubling the peo-
pie of the Eastern States, and the medicine
that we prescribed for California a few years
back We do not like TO take ourselves.
This is coarse way Of putting it, but it
serves to show how sentiment has changed
at the East California never contsnded
for the exclusion OF all Chinese; it OPP
posed the incoming of the nou-assimi-
lative, exclusive. law-defying and labor
degrading coolie worker. and it was that
only which brought upon the State the
anger and lectnring of our Eastern
brethren,
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-05-31
FIRST AND GREATEST NEED.
The Improvement of the Sacramento
River.
[From the Suffer Independent.

from the Suffer independent.
We make the point that while there
are many things tor the sacramento Val
ley press to do for the opening up of a
new era of prosperity and progress for
this vast section, the most important
thing, and the thing OF most pressing
necessity, is a united effort for the preser
walton and improvement OF our rivers.
Not until that is assured will the pros
perity OF this valley rest on solid basis.
We prefer to take an optimistic view of
this matter. Our hope has never failed
that in the fullness of time this great
problem will be satisfactorily settled.
But for some years the valley press, with
a few EXCEPTIONS has not given the prom
inence to this question which it deserved
and which tull understanding of the
situation has demanded. Do the people
and papers west of the Sacramento River
know that the levee districts along the
Feather stand as a bulwark between
them and great evil, perhaps destruc-
ton? We ask them TO consider what
would be the result if the people on the
Feather and Yuba should abandon their
levees and give up the struggle? The
foothills of the Coast Range would be
washed by the muddy waters OF these
streams. The navigation of the lower
Sacramento would have to be abandoned
except in high water, and then there
would be no use for boats, for there
would be no commerce.
1t behooves every journalist in this val
ley to become acquainted with the true
facts and shape his course accordingly.
We may be called a crank OH this sub
ject, but it is not true. A careful study
of this valley for twenty five years has
convinced us that its future depends upon
the manner in which its streams are to be
handled. No amount of Individual
energy or anti-Silurianism will avail I'M
less these rivers are properly taken care
OF. 1t has been the custom for our Con-
gressmen to leave this matter almost
wholly to the member from this district.
1t is the duty of the press to urge all our
Representatives and Senators in Con-
gress to take an active interest in Secur-
ing appropriations for these rivers. Our
delegation in Congress should be unit
on this question and the press should
help to make them q unit. We do not
speak from sectional standpoint. We
know that all the counties in this valley.
and also the city of San Francisco. are
vitality interested in the proper solution
of this matter. TO make this valley what
it ought to be we need $l0,000,000 ex-
pended upon the Sacramento and Feather
rivers within the next ten years. We
will not get it unless we ask for it. Let
the press stir up the people and let the
people demand adequate recognition of
their wants.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-05-31

FEMALE loneliness" is always mat
ter of attractiveness. and pictorially pre-
sented within reasonable bounds the
printing is commendable. But it is be-
ing run to the extreme in these days of
magazines and newspapers. In Lippin
COTS Magazine for June Mr.. Sidney
Fairchild enters vigorous protest against
the cad" He declares it to be "a tyranny
of the pictorial" and we think sensible
people will agree with him. The rush of
Young women to have their pictures"
put into print cultivates vicious vanity,
and is destructive OF modesty. Mr..
Fairchild lays his claim for protest, how
ever, mainly on the ground that the pic
torial is crowding out literary matter,
which is true. The secular press is SIM
ply crazed in its anxiety to make the
sheets pictorial. 1t Is degrading art
greatly, too. because SO large percentage
of these pictures are bad in design and in
execution-very bad. The man who can
to be said and read, must, to get footing
in magazine nowadays-and largely it is
true as to the newspaper also-attach to
himself an 'artist," moro correctly,
pretended artist. or a camera. Very
greatly reading matter ia written about
and warped to fit illustrations in these
times, so that far more concern is taken
about the picture than the text. Old
rules are reversed, and writer's are COM
PEELED to write of the pictures, whereas
the old custom was thatthe picture should
be secondary to aud illuminate the text.
In the matter Of the printing of pictures
OF women, the craze has run to the very
verge of indecency-it long ago over
stepped the bounds of propriety and
modesty.
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Northern California-Fair; slowly rising
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A GREAT EVENT.
The Coming Of Gen. John H. Gordon at
 the Institute.

Ore of the greatest events in in- tellectual circles in this city for many years will be the lecture here next Saturday night of Gen. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, on s'The Last Days of the Confederacy," at the Merrill Institute.
 Gen. Gordon is no stranger to the people of Pine Bluff. His fame as a soldier, statesman and lecturer is well known throughout the United States, aside from which he has many comrades in arms in this city. It is we'll that the present genera tion can hear the story of s'The Last Days of the Confederacy" told by one who was such an active figure in the events which he relates, and to those who with Gen. Gordon were actors in the strife, it will be like the rising of a curtain on scenes of the past, the memory of which has faded into a dim recOllec- tion. No one who can should fail to hear this lecture. To say that it is thrilling but half expresses it. The speaker is entertaining and eloquent and throughout the leading cities of the country Gen. Gordon has aroused his hearers to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. His tributes to the characters of Generals Grant, Lee and Jackson are magnetic, and never fail to evoke a storm of ap- plause, while his pathos as he tells the pitiful story of the South, swim his audience in tears. As speaker he is magnetic, and possesses in marked degree the dash and bril- fancy characteristic of Southern orators.
 Gen. Gordon's lecture in this city will be under the auspices of the Ladies Hospital Association, and both the occasion and the man should serve to crowd the house to it's fullest capacity.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-04-18

silver men arc not willing to fight under the Eastern flag of the single gold standard. So it is probable that in the Illinois contest will be arrayed the single gold standard men, the real bimetallists, who be- lieve in both gold and silver in the currency of the country, and the radical silver men, who advocate the free and unlimited coinage of silver, regardless of whether their policy would result in silver monometal- lism or not. At any rate, evidences are cropping out that the opponents of the extreme radical silver men are divided There is reason to be- lieve that the President sympathiz- ing deeply, as he undoubtedly does, with the financial theories of New York and the East, is in favor of making a fight for the single gold standard as against the single silver standard.
 Many of the Presidents friends will not consent to that kind of an alignment. They believe that there is a safe middle ground between two extremes, and that there is no req son why true bimetallists, who are in favor of the coinage of gold and silver under popular regulations, should not be able to prove their theories correct.