| Show editorials THE CHINESE IN a noteworthy article a few days ago the san francisco ronile chronicle Ch acknowledged that the opponents of chinese 2 immigration had been signally 0 defeated that it continued 1 in a spite of all efforts to prevent it that the chinese were gradually working their way into the various industries of california and in fact monopolizing some of them Califi california gnia inia then seems to be destined to witness the final confluence of the races of the orient and of or the occident the caucasian Catl CaUs asian aslan and the mongolian there they meet face to face and there apparently is to be the theatre of the struggle 0 for foi the mastery or of the scene of the harmonious union of the two streams of human life lire flowing in diametrically 0 opposite directions which will it te be who will be the masters for it seems to be established that where two twe races so very different in character and attainment tain talu ment come together top ther one must be the rulers and the others other s the ruled over now the caucasians rule but the chinese come along in a steady flowing stream unchecked by any means yet adopted for that purpose undeterred by reproach indignity obloquy or brutality all of which have been meted out to them in greater or less degree if they continue to come as they have they will by and by be in the majority they do not yet claim naturalization but expect to return to their own elow Flow flowery ery erv land as individuals uis still some sore time or other they may claim naturalization and more especially such of them as are born on orthis this continent when they become the majority if they are allowed naturalization and universal suffrage rules they become the masters the rulers of Call cali california fornIA the golden land the whites can never compete with them numerically if it the chinese take a notion to t compete talat way because china is a full and overflowing ifo humanity and could quickly flood the pacific slope it becomes a very interesting question oti will americans cans or will chinese become the eventual rulers of that slope this basin seems naturally constructed ted to be the independent centre of the rocky bocky mountain region fashioned for a peculiar destiny and it may be that this section with its people will constitute at once the barrier and the ahe link of union between the peoples and add civilizations of the tha easland the west eliminating and appropriating that which is good and rejecting and casting away that chieh is bad in each of those peoples and civilizations and thus presenting the highest type of manhood and civilization which the world has seen this may be the destiny of the great basin nasin ba in and its people who knows EDITORIAL NOTES paper is coming into more and more general usa french journals say that it may be render ed exceedingly hard biard and tenacious and very durable by subjecting the pulp to the action of chloride of zinc zine and subjecting it to strong pressure it then becomes as hard hare aa j wood and as tough as b hide ide varying according to the strength of the metallic solution this hardened and toughened paper is useful for covering roofs and floors can be used instead of leather in the making of coarse shoes also for whip handles buttons combs saw mol moi mountings in tinos tings and many other useful articles now it is wendell phillips who tells the philadelphians ians in a lecture there recently that the criminal classes of am all the large cities on the continent are actually tile the characters who mould the re suits of elections for mun mune municipal cipal pal pai ofil cers possibly so salt lake lahe city elc excepted e apted mr phillips it is not the case cage here yet but it soon would be if the ring were toi tty rule ruie A great country this ahls is for co conventions they are are held helcl upon almost all conceivable subjects I 1 the very latest ahng reported dotted in this thia line is a call for for a atte cor con bention in ohio to consider the matter of the tram tramp evil ivil to come off at columbus dec ath what next review has an article on near relations I 1 in which the conclusion is deduced from all the facts that there ia 18 no rational ground for the prohibition of cousin marriages or of mar with deceased wives sisters aisters the latter prohibition is not sot believed in by very many people at virginia says sass the gold hill news there is perfect sociability now among all classes one stroke of nature makes the world worlds akin men are seen about saloon sat night who used to be bent beat at home but having no home like boioni of or eld old where can they go they have a hungry heart aching look plin ful fill to see seq are not as careful about their dresa as formerly and are unconsciously consciously adapting themselves to their chan ellan geil ged circumstances camul gamul gambling n goes on stronger than tham ever even the i lie ife faro and keno rooms are crowded and men play with a painful look that seems to say that its all a game anyway such is life at virginia mr dir geo goo belmore belmor T h ce lebrat de do english character actor died at new now york nov hemorrhoids aged 47 he was the son of george garstin garstin and caroline carr and grandson of james carr stage director with kemble rembie kenn kean etc As nat Goll gosling ng in the flying scud he played consecutive nights at the holborn theatre i london and then nights in the english provincial towns he was wa 8 an unequalled unequal led representative of dickens characters he was wag drenched ed and chil chii chilled ledon on the voyage of the steamer providence from fall river to newyork new york nov 10 I 1 which hastened his death H he married a beautiful woman of the astley cooke family his wife wire and seven children rire tire in england mr I 1 montague montagne vlon Slon tague is his executor fo for this iro tro country and mr ja K L toole for england rig huld hald joseph Jeffer jefferson son soo said sald that he was the greatest greater character actor in the world dr Cum cumming miGg of london is still working C on the prophecies he has been preaching a series of sermons on mr moody in prophecy tho tile dr regards mr 11 i as an eminent messenger sent from heaven and believes his mission has an important bearing upon the second advent of the savior which aich the dr has long believed to be near hear at band mr moncure D conway says that buddhism Is lathe the greatest pol poi polygamist Y among the religions of the world and that no great founder of religion was accepted among his ills own people peaple or in his own country except mohammed the archbishop of canterbury prim primate ate of england as is usual in such cases made a prayer to be used for the prince of wales during his absence on to india in which it has been humorously stated that his grace left the prince wholly k unprotected during the morning and for so some me time during the afternoon this has been a year of floods and tempests great britain suffering greatly in the later storms the recent high tidal wave appears to have been caused by a sudden up heaving of the sea around the british isles and the north coast boasi 0 af pf france overflows overflowing pg much land and inundating many cities and towns this upheaval Is supposed to have been connected with the late earthquakes boynton had a swim down the rhine lately he left mayonce mayence oct 12 a and iid kid rea reh readied elied Cd cologne logne four hundred miles milc in three days staying a longer or shorter time at nearly emery every town lie he passed he lie proposes to swim three hundred miles milea down the rhine w shout leaving the water 41 A trial train on the pennsylvania central ran forty five miles an hour for teu ten hours bours be tween Jersey city and pittsburg without accident to cars or injury pj u ry I 1 to locomotive tee tha hebrews are n not ot easily caught napping the jowish jewish times calls public attention botho fact that hale while many panny chants havo have failed recently jewish mercantile credit stands good i throughout the debrew leader remarks id hi a similar strain I 1 the washington 2 tribune iouna gives that city the palm over every national capital possibly paris alone excepted for five reasons beauty of situation superiority of original plan or plot of the tile city government buildings climate and pavement of the streets it is the best paved capital in the world unless with the named these are four conclusions political to which tho the boston journal comes after considering the re suits of the late elections the tho granger movement has spent its force the independent movement is dead there will be HO no further at tempts at a 4 third party until khe the next presidential election and the presidential campaign will be fought out on the hard money molley principle the foot and mouth disease id Is very prevalent amon aming g the cattle in england but it is still more prevalent among the genof genig homo nomo in ill this thir country the tile form 1 it tta takes tates 1 kes in these latter instances being manifest in the symptom that a man cant open his mouth without putting utting hig big foot into it women rave cave gave the he disease but it Is thought to be not so common among them as among 0 the tile men monarchy as the best beat form of govern government me rit for this country is Js advocated by a writer in the boston globe glube he holds that popular self government ha has afalla a failure re that at no distant lay day fay the people of the united states will change their political status as free citizens to subjects of a personal sovereign the first step may be a dictator ship and add one or several monarchies may follow but to this complexion must it come eventually that thai is i monarchy and in the opinion of the writer referred to it is most desirable that it should come mr moncure D conway lectures on he che devil but he believe believes s I 1 that thera is no devil at all he therefore lectures daon what he be believes does not exist that if 14 upon nothing with a very ugly name to it and according to tradition and popular belief with a very horrifying appearance per contra I 1 many other people believe thai that there is little else than devils anil and deviltry in this carld world our opinion is that both these beliefs are faulty the london academy thinks it worth while to consider whether he elements of modern politics might not be systematically taught in the higher clashes of schools instead of being left lert to debating societies and incidental allusions ic in other lessons it would be a good deal better if modern politics were forgotten and real stat statesmanship esmah were systematically taught tn in the schools professor fawcett holds that students should be ail all allowed 0 wed 10 to choose their own studies so as io to be in keeping with their own aspirations and interests and he eltes cites cases showing the bened beben beneficial elal clai of or allowing such a choice the suggestion commends itself to every sens bens senoble bie ble e person so far as special studies are sire concerned wi though although a well rounded culture would demand a fair attainment in fit many bin bia branches riches of knowledge of course individual tastes adaptations and capabilities differ some leaning towards one depal department ament of knowledge and others towards other departments param part ments ants there are several ways of doing things obtaining whisky for instance revenue officers know how extraordinarily it is manipulated thatis that is 18 those of them who are in the whisky ring an inquest over d a dead indian in manitoba revealed how it was in his case and this is the way he be went into the store aid amid ald nothing but laid some money on the floor flau r and went out the rhe dealer happened to find the money picked it up tip set get eta a bottle of whisky on the floor and ald went to sleep by and by the indian happened to step in again found the whisky carried it kofl and drank it with fatal effect virginia nevada has been visited by a few washoe zephyrs lately anthe on the nights of or nov 12 and 13 the wind with rain sleet and snow blew with such poorer that fifteen ai or twenty new buildings nga were ere demolished and nd many i others racked and twisted to their foundations the fi streets were filled with debris slush and mud so 60 fierce was the gale that no man dared cross the divide signs 1 I n stove pipes chimney pots pot tin cans boxes bexes shingles himber lumber and all manner minner of rubbish ever and anon filled the air driven before the sud den gusts of the gale the ak virginia ania relief committee have been troubled with wealthy beggars beg bag gars since the fire one woman applied for assistance but it was discovered that sho she had a goodly sum in the bank another said those who wiio paid no taxes got all sorts of things while she a large taxpayer was very shabbily trVa treated ted a man asked for his lot and would not hold bold it at thu tha long as he expected to get some eurn Furn furnberg lumber ber from the relief committee to build with some persons persona abill still rich thought the committee should make inake good their losses a man who was working for wages went to the comm committee attee for a suit of clothes ills his family did not want any clothing but he be didas did as he llad lost all ail his bis clothes but those he had on virginia city has heaps of trouble troubie just now nok the latest is the abundance of trade dollars there after the mannen manner of aarons aarona nd rd they seem to have swallowed all other coins every petty buyer throws down a trade dollar dolla r ud and the sh shopkeepers op keepers are at times co so deluged with trade dollars that they become almost will wild they often have on hand a peck of trade dollars to half a dozen fifty cent pieces on the last payday the mill and mining companies paid out bushels of trade dollars next month they should pay out a few halves and aud quarters to RO go with the dollar dollare just send the trade dollars this way we hear of no dollars trade dollars or any other sort of dollars in this thia vicinity |
