The record-union., 1895-08-26
KEEP THE DEPARTMENT ON
DUTY.

The RECORD UNION is second to none
in it's desire to have the celebration of
val in the evening of that day successful
in all respects. 1t hopes and believes
that both celebrations will be imposing
and grand, and what it can do to make
them so the RECoRD-U UNION has done and
will do. But in common with many others
it does not believe that it is essential or
proper that the Fire Department should
parade on either occasion.
More than that, we do not believe that
it is safe. The department is small, but
very handsomely equipped and thor
oughly efficient. 1t has to cover very
state of constant readiness enables SO
small department to so admirably pro-
tect the homes Of the people from fire.
To parade the department involves an
element OF risk that 10 city such as this
should permit. Trustee Leonard has
well set forth reasons against the pro-
posed turn out OF the Fire Department
that ought to be conclusive.
The Fire Department is supported by
the taxes of all the people. 1t is for one
certain and clearly defined purpose, and
q parade is not included in il. Indeed, to
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occasion is an invitation to arson and rob-
berry. 1t may be serious question should
q fire break out when the department is
on such q parade as is proposed, and thus
be delayed In reaching the scene Of the
coniagration. whether the city would not
De responsible in damages TO whoever
would lose by reason of the delay. Let
the Trustees, if at all in doubt, do as the
skilled card player does and play trumps,
and trumps Oh the occasion referred to is
readiness for possible alarm. We shall
be most agreeably gratified if the day and
the night of the Ninth of Septem Der pass
without an alarm of fire being sounded.
So serious do we consider this matter
that the RECORD UNION enters its protest
ana warning now. and in doing so echoes
the thought of thousands of our citizens
in whom desire for display has not SUBJ
ordinated ordinary caution.
GENERAL GRAHAM makes such reply
published elsewhere this morning-to the
meeting at San Francisco gotten up by
unscrupulous calamity -howlers and
trouble breeders, as BELTS man and
loyal citizen. He tells the members OF
that meeting that they are disloyal, treas
enable, and engaged in atrocious work IN
apolog izing for murder. He knows how
his men were killed. by whom, at whose
connivance, and who paid the bills after
the killing, for the powder, weapons and
ham practically says that if "a" shoots
and kills "B," and sc" thereafter imme-
diately issues an order for "a" by which
he gets pay for the weapon and ammuni-
ton with which "B" was killed, and for
the carriage bill involved, &c" confssses
himself particeps ca'inltisis. And that is
the long and short of it. He practically
says, also, that when it is threatened
among an organized body of men that a
train will be wrecked if sent out. and
thereafter the train is wrecked, and just
where it was prophesied, and by the act
OF men who were members of that body
or organization, and one of them is con-
yicted of the act by jury of his country,
and really confesses by drawing plat of
the scene of the wrecking, locating in de-
tail the position of each man who took
part in it, hs. General Graham. has
right to conclude that the leaders in that
organization are guilty of that wrecking.