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The record-union., 1896-06-08

spected by a derisive and uncontrol-
able minority of men? Can woman, in
short, enforce upon man laws which
man will not make for himself?
Shall she not rather say in paraphrase
of Beranger's famous sentence, Let me
mold the characters of men, and care
not who makes their laws" Her old
sphere is the larger, if she only really
filled it, instead of leaving it half con-
Guered and pushing into what she inn
agineS is a wider one. Dorothea Dix,
whose work will be remembered in
every State In the Union, who influ-
enced Legislatures and stirred up pub
lie sentiment so that the laws she ad-
vccalted were placed upon every stat
ute book from Maine to Texas, express
Is disapproved of giving the suffrage
to her own sex, on the ground that their
sphere was that of influence, and not of
public duty. She herself refused to make
addresses before any Legislature, and
in every way strove to preserve, as far
as possible, the characteristic note of
womanhood, it's dignity and delicacy.
She may have been mistaken, but in
view of the fact that she accomplished
more than anyone of her progressive
sisters has done since, her ideas have
some value
Many, very many, of the best minds
among the women of to-day agree with
her, for various reasons. The we'll
educated woman pauses before asking
for the ballot for herself, because she
objects to the certain inrush of ignor-
ant ballots from the masses Of her sex.
The thoughtful woman pauses. because
she recognizes the unframed prejudiceS
and unbalanced enthusiaSmS of those
who are proposed or who propose them
selves, as the leaders of the new era.
The religious woman doubts whether
Representative women can always be
guaranteed to represent the true spirit
of womanhood. The delicately nur-
tured woman shrinks from relinquish-
ing the privileges already hers to par
ticipate instead in the rough and tum-
BILE Of equal rights" And all these
women will have to be convinced by
their advanced sisters before suffrage
becomes a probability.
Will it ever become an accomplished
fact? If so, there are two classes of
women who will not be benefited by it.
The clever, able woman will not gain by
it, for she has always been successful
in securing any real good or any wise
reform without it's aid, and has had
more consideration shown to her and
exercised more influence than a mere
Individual vote will ever command for
her. And the woman who is not clever
and able will have no profit from it,
since it will simply mean a response
bilfty which she cannot rise to, and a
power which she does not know how to
use
The record-union., 1896-06-08
AN ANTl-SUFFkAGE LEAG UE.
Organization of Women Who Do Not
Want to Vote.

(From the San Francisco Chronicle.)
An anti-woman suffrage society is the
latest in organizations The club is
composed of ladies who do not wish to
vote and do not want other women to
have the ballot. 1t is formed on the
lines of the New York society which
opposed the extension of the suffrage
there two years ago.
The President of the new society is
Mrs. Carrie Murray. Associated with
her are Mrs. Brown, the Secretary, with
Mrs. Moore, Miss Anna Thauphas, Miss
Laura Ward and Mrs. Tate for charter
members. The first work the organi-
Zation has scheduled is to go to Sacra-
mento and oppose a suffrage plank in
the Democratic platform.
Mrs. Murray is enthusiastic over the
prospects of defeating woman suffrage.
She believes that the proper place for
woman is at home. She does not think.
moreover, that women have ever done
anything to entitle them to the ballot.
Besides" she said, there are plenty
of ladies and a lot of men who agree
with me-"
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Row THE INTERIOR PRESS Is
IMPOVERISHED.

The interior papers of every State in
the Union are deprived Of advertising
business done in the metropolis Of the
country, which constitutes the COM
mercial center of their district, by the
patent outside paper. The manner in
which this Is done should be clearly in
dicated. A patent outside publisher
takes advertising and then furnishes
xeady-made outside or inside with gen.
eral miscellany. It is well known that
these patent outside publishers get pay
for many of the articles that appear.
They are in the market constantly to
boom localities for which they charge
SO much a line. A patent outside con-
cern at the East during a Presidential
campaign offered to print articles In
favor of one candidate IN all the pa
pers to which they furnished ready
made forms for $4,000 for the cam
paign This one case will illustrate a
great many. In addition to the display
advertising, there is also some income
from the matter which appears, inno-
Gently enough, to be news or miScel-
lany.
But the worst feature of the case is
that the metropolis does its country ad-
yertising through the patent outside.
Hence a paper printed at home finds
little encouragement at the hands of
the merchants. manufacturers and
business men of the city.
Take the case of California The
patent outside papers published in this
State carry Eastern and San Francisco
advertising, which is paid fer to the
publisher of the ready-made pages.
In this way the entire business is
ruined for all classes Of papers. 1t is
doubtful whether there is any profit
whatever to any publisher in having his
paper partly printed by patent out
side concern. If he were paid the
money which is paid ON account of ad-
vertising in the ready-made side Of his
paper, il would amount TO a great deal
more than he is charged, the profit
to the ready-made publisher being in
the money he gets for reading matter
run in the paper There is absolutely
nothing gained by q paper in the pur-
chase of ready-made matter. The man
who furnishes the paper with one side
printed makes a profit In doing so, or
he would not do so, and this profit
would inure TO the paper itself If all
would agree to take no patent out
sides
But the injury does not stop with
the injury to the man who uses a
ready made newspaper. It initiates
against the business of the paper that
IS produced at home. San Francisco
is an exceedingly poor patron of enter
prising newspapers in the interior, and
solely because the patent outsider gets
all the business and claims 90 be cir
culating the advertising Of the manu-
facturer IN one hundred or one hun
dred and fifty newspapers in the in
terror. II the newspaper fraternity
would Join together and discontinue
the use Of patent outsides throughout
the country. they would find 1t 10
be greatly to their pecuniary advant-
age.
The record-union., 1896-06-08

The New York Mali and Express"
reads its contemporaries a lecture that
Is deserved Had the same been said
on this side of the continent, however.
IT would have received the same treat
ment from the San Francisco sensation
al press that the Record Union" Is
proud to be the recipient of. 1t seems
that a nasty and horrible murder case
Is ON trial In New York, in which a
yorrSanhs life is IN the balance. The
manner of reporting this trial Is the
subject for the Mail and Express" re-
r,roeaches. 1t declares that the offense
"a nausealting, against good taste, NOR
aafty, fair play. common sense ana COM
mon decency, and constitutes one OF
thu srawest reproaaaes to whlcn Ne"
The record-union., 1896-06-08

Lake Michigan is 400 miles long and
has an average width Of sixty miles.
Yet the sewage of Chicago so far con-
teammates the waters Of that lake.
from which the same city draws it's
domestic water supply, that the drain
age is now to be turned at enormous
EXPENSE into the Illinois River and sent
off into the Mississippi River. Yet
here is Sacramento using the water of
a river into which foul sewage is run,
and the stream is not so long as Lalse
Michigan, not so deep by several hun
dred feet, and not SO wide in rods any
where as Lake Michigan is in miles.
oh, yes, we need more pumps to suck in
slickens and prison and town sewage.
The record-union., 1896-06-08
ELECTION LAWS.
A Valuable Pamphlet Issued by the
Secretary of State.

Secretary Of State L. H. Brown has
compiled and published a pamphlet en-
bracing, the Constitution and election
laws of the State, together with the
naturalization laws Of the United
States, proposed amendments to the
State Constitution and other matter
OF interest to the citizens and voters
generally.
There are marginal notes all through
the book which enable one to readily
find any paragraph or section of the
law on any particular point.
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this interest in Cuban affairs.

The New York journal comments
unon the changes custom makes in the
language. and defends all such by a
sweeping assertion concerning the
Iiuaitless wish and power Of common
usage. That is al very well as to the
use of Cyclone" for tornado" the
words which started the Journal" at
q white heat, but we confess to some
alarm if common usage is to set up
standards in the language and news
papers be taken as representative of
common usage. For instance, every
day we take up some one Of our ex-
changes in which effected" is used
for Affected" and vice versa Only the
other day so generally correct a. pa
per as the San Francisco Bulletin"
was guilty of using effected" for ''af-
fected," and that, too, in a critical ar
tiele. Now, no length Of time in usage,
no possible number Of people or pa
pers confusing the two words can
make one correctly serve for the
other. Why it is that so many papers
misuse these words has long been a
puzzler to the Record Union"
The record-union., 1896-06-08
A Word for Sacramento.

F. de Wolfe Hennah, the optioian, is
meeting with good success here and
thinks Sacramento the business center
of the State. He has located, and exam
ines the eye free of charge at the Nor
mandie, Tenth and K.
The record-union., 1896-06-08

York Journalism has 'recenhly" been
laid open. 1t adds that DIT is not enough
that these offenses carry with them
their own condemnation among inteali-
gent and self respecting readers. They
reach, unfortunately, q very large class
of persons who are neither Intelligent
nor self respecting, Tor blessed with
any moral sense beyond thaa which is
catered to by just such publications.
Indeed, the object of these Journals,
says our New York contemporary, is
to increase their circulation in such di-
rections, and TO add to their revenue
at the sacrifice of honesty and honor.
How we'll that describes the situation
in certain quarters in California, and
how we'll the following criticism applies
in this State in certain directions. The
Mail and Express" says:
1t lis needless to set forth these Of
fenses in detail. 1t is sufficient to say
that they aim to anticipate the jury S
verdict amid influence public opinion by
liAc IBdlbOQS Ol Hu1iC SliclI " tlChlC
a perverted moral taste by drawing un-
savory conclusions created to order; to
serve up in daily instal1ments of cheap
wit and cheaper illustration the pro-
ceedings of a. court wherein a woman
stands with her life in the balance.
They are scandalous and unclean be-
yolld endurance.
We do not assume a censorship over
our fellows of the press, but it seems to
uS that this sort of thing demands some
recognition alS a menace to the good
nadle of journalism Those papers
which most offend are the same which
are constantly raising their voices in
sycophanltic defense of justice and NOR
ality, and the integrity and great mis-
sion of the daily press, while at the
same time they are outragfng all OF
these and incidentally Stabbing a
woman in the back with the most cow
ard1y of weapons. They pirate of re-
sponsibilfties which they never miss an
opportunity to betray.
Let these Journals reform themselves
before they attempt to reform others.
Morality out off the mouth of immor-
elity is not an effective agent for good
The record-union., 1896-06-08
Weather forecast.

Northern California-Fair; continued warm
weather Monday; fresh to brisk northerly
winds; moderate norther in the interior
valleys.
The record-union., 1896-06-08

Those who depreca!te the manifesto
tfons of sentiment in favor of the Cuban
rebels, as not in consonance with our
own claims, when we We're in the tlhroes
of a rebellion, mistake the real cause of
Jthe sentiment faWoring recognition of
the belligerency of the Cubans. 1t is
due to the honest belief that if the Gu
bans achieve independence it will be
best for Cuba. Ever since the United
States was a Government this people
has felt and manifested special interest
in the welfare Of Cuba. 1t is so far
from being a new thing, that when in
island we entered our protest. When
Great Britain was seeking to take the
dsIand under its wing jefferson declared
to the President that the possession of
Cuba by England would be calamity
to the United States. And so on through
all the administrations we have been
Jealous of any attempt of foreign pow
ers to take the island from Spain. But
at the same time we have uniformly
smiled upon all efforts of the Cubans
to establish free Government because
while it secured us against foreign pos
session of Cuba, it was, in the belief of
our people the best thing for Cubans,
and would soonest and most surely ad-
vance them upon the plane of civilza-
tion. Really, the people of the United
States have not hatred for Spain, but
have greater regard for the right OF the
people of Cuba to govern themselves,
since i'm our own case we have proved
the exercise of that right TO be wise
and beneficial. In short, 1T is the most
natural thing In the world that we
should wish to see Cuba free. 1t is
neither sentimental, nor is it selfish,
but honestly generous and high minded,
this interest in Cuban affairs
The record-union., 1896-06-08

Welch Bros, at Ninth and J, have
enlarged their store for ice-cream soda
purposes. Try their fruit flavors.
The record-union., 1896-06-08

Entered at the Postoff1ce at Sacramento
rs second-claSs matter.
The record-union., 1896-06-08

Torsemen Attention ! Call for
Humphreys veterinary stable chart
free. Humphreys Veterinary Specifics
at "cut rates. c. c. G. Pharmacy,
Granger building, cor Tenth and K.
The record-union., 1896-06-08

DIR. T. Wah Hing treats kidney trou-
hles successfully. Office, cor. Fourth
and x, Old Postofice building.
The record-union., 1896-06-08
Special Agencies.

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The record-union., 1896-06-08

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The record-union., 1896-06-08
Eastern Business Onices.

Eastern Business Offices.
s"The Tribune" Building, New York
City.
Western Business Office, 1.-THE Rock
cry" Chicago.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
sole agents foreign advertising.
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THE WEEKLY UNION
t12 Pages).

fs the cheapest and most desirable Home,
News and Literary Journal published on
the Pacific Coast.
The Weekly Union, per year. .......$1 eo
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Conrad Young, artistic photos, 421 ia
The record-union., 1896-09-27
Fall i'm the Value of Silver.

| If further evidence We're needed to
| show that the fall in the value of sill
Yer was not due to decentralization but
to economic causes, it is furnished in
the fact that Notwithstanding the de-
cline in the market price of silver, sill
Yer mining remains a profitable indus
try. We know that this will be de-
MED, but facts speak louder than
words. The test of the profitableness
of an industry is the tendency of cap
ital to go into it and continue produc-
ing. If the fall in the price of silver
from 81 80 an ounce in 1872 to 60
cents an ounce in 1896, did not repre-
sent a great reduction in the cost of
producing silver, so per cent. of the
silver mine owners would have been
bankrupt long ago, because a reduction
OF AZ per cent. in the price is more
than the profits of the most opuIent
industry in the world can stand. In
that case capital that did not go to
bankruptcy would have deserted the
silver mine business, and the produc-
ton would rapidly have declined. In
stead of this being the case, however,
the production of silver has steadily
increased from 1873 and is still in
creasing, both in this country and the
world. This is shown by the fact that
in 1873 the worlds annual production
Of silver was go, ,267.0 600 ounces, from
which time it has steadily increased,
until in 1894 it was 16T ,752, 561 ounces,
an increase of 165 per cent. If we take
the product of the United States, we
find the increase has been even more
striking. In 1873 the output was 2T,-
542,37 ounces, and in 1894 it was
100, 100000 ounces, an increase Of 263
per cent.-Gunton's Magazine
The record-union., 1896-09-27
SERIOUSLY CUT.
A rlan With Jag Who Says an
Italian Carved Him.

Shortly before midnight last night
the patrol wagon received a call to visit
the mansion of Grace Cook at Sixth
and q streets, and upon arrival there
found that a man giving the name of
George Marshall had met man armed
With knife, and had come out second
best in the encounter.
Marshall had been the recipient Of
two slashes across the face one sever
ing the cartileges of the nose and lay
ing open the right cheek, the other en-
tering the middle of the lip and cutting
outward and downward, ended in a
scratch upon the throat The ham of
the right thumb was slashed to the
bone, and the end of the little finger of
the left hand was severed and the fin
ger ripped open to the wrist. The
wounded man was carrying a jag, and
did not SO much as vince while the
eighteen stitches necessary to make
him whole again were being taken by
Assistant City Physician Ogden and his
assistant, Robinson.
When questioned regarding the cut
ting, Marshall said he was upstairs in
Grace Cooks house asleep, when an
Italian entered the lower part. Mar
shall started out to investigate and
said he asked the man what was want
ed when the latter, without further
provocation, drew his knife and COM
menced operations. When asked what
he was doing in the Cook mansion,
Marshall said that Grace was his
aunt His story is regarded as some
what "fshy" by the officers, but the
fact remains that he is painfully,
though not seriously, wounded.
The record-union., 1896-09-27
rIr. GIadstone's Eyesight.

There have been many anxious inqui-
ries at Hawarden as to the effect which
Mr.. Gladstone's illness and his subse-
Quent operation for cataract have had
on his eyesight. THAT is q matter -
Henry Gladstone told the representative
of the London Daily News about
which rather misleading statement
was published the other day. The state
Of his sight is far more satisfactory
than many persons suppose. The right
eye serves one purpose, the left another.
With the eye that was operated upon he
does all his work-of course with the aid
of a lens, but with impunity and facility.
Even when he writes and reads all day
there seems to be no strain, nor does ar
tfficial light prove 'hurtful. After dinner
he usually settles down to a book. He
reads by candle-lamp, furnished
merely with one candle, but carrying
a powerful reflector. The moment he
leaves off work the other eye is called
into use. 1t was affected by cataract,
but since the operation the progress of
the trouble has been arrested, whether
or not in consequence Of the operation /
cannot say. AS you will presently be
able to notice, he can see to walk about
without the aid Of spectacles."
The record-union., 1896-09-27
THE UNCHRISTIAN MAN.
he Left His Lawn Sprinkler Too
Near the Sidewalk.

He may stand high in the business
world, SIR said the suburbanite with
some heat, but tell you he is not a
Christian
II don't know what you would call a
Christian if he isn't one," returned the
city man with equal asperity. He is a
good citizen, honest and upright in all
his business dealings, gives extensive
ly to charity and processes Christian
ity.'
Nevertheless" asserted the suburb
ante, Il must stick to my original
statement"
When you say thing like that you
should be prepared to prove it," said the
city man
Il am" answered the suburbanite. II
live in the same block with him, and |
can demonstrate the truth of my asser-
ton any pleasant evening that you care
to call on me. The fact is" continued
the suburbanite, feeling that he ought
to give some facts in support of his
charge, "he has a large, well-kept
lawn"
Nothing unchristianlike in that
broke in the city man.
Certainly not" admitted the suburb
ante, 'but that is not all He person
ally attends to watering the grass on
this lawn"
Rather niggardly and small in a man
Of his wealth, perhaps" said the city
man, but / can't see that it is any proof
that he is not a true Christian"
"Of course not" answered the suburb
ante, but wait. You see, he has one of
those revolving lawn sprinklers that he
sets out on his lawn every evening and
keeps running till long after dark"
Perfectly lawful and proper, and not
at all lacking in Christian spirit
Possibly But he persistently puts
this near enough to the sidewalk so that
people passing in the dark cannot help
walking right into the spray"
The city man hesitated moment and
then surrendered.
Enough" he said, you have proven
your case. Se."-Chicago Post
The record-union., 1896-09-27
SOCIAL EVENTS.

Last Thursday evening the Diamond
z. Social Club of Perkins gave leap
year social and dance at that place. A
very enjoyable time was had, about
fifty couples being present. Dancing
was indulged in until 1870 o'clock,
when refreshments were served. The
pleasures of the dancers were looked
after by Miss Lillian Duden as Floor
Director, and Miss Annie Hackney, Miss
Eta Plummer and Mrs. Lou Terry as
Floor Managers. The feature of the
evening was a surprise rendered to
Thomas Leddy of Fisch & Leddy's or
chestra. About IL o'clock Hon. Jud-
son Brusie of Sacramento, in q very neat
little speech, presented him with the
proceeds of the dance as token Of es-
TEEN and friendship in which he is held
by the club members and the young
people who attend their dances, and also
for the many favorS he has shown them