The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-12
VOICE OF TIE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression OF
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jeCts of Living and News
Interest.

Oakland Telegram: The charge that
the Greek military forces have been too
slow does not appear to be pofhe OUT
by the facts The Turks have not been
able to catch up with them without
great difficulty at any time since the
opening battle.
GERMAN OBJECTION TO THE
DINGLEY BILL.
Los Angeles Herald: The injurious eff
fects of practically prohibitive tarlH du-
ties seem likely TO be illustrated in the
event of the Dingley bills becoming
law more pungently than ever before.
Notes of warning that we cannot play
q one-sided game in our protective pom
cy are reaching us from all the com
mercial nations of the world. Germany
leads in this movement, and gives I'M
Unstable signs of retaliatory measures
If we pass a tariff law the provisions
of which are manifestly intended to put
restrictions on the importation of Ger
man products into the United States
Is the trade Of Germany of a magnitude
sufficient to make this an important
matter to US?
OH. FOR SUCH A LAW HERE!
Tulare Register: In Germany a mer-
chant who advertises falsely is hauled
before a magistrate and fined. In that
country it will not do for a merchant
to announce with loud type, or by any
other device, that he is selling off at
cost unless he is, for the act is held to
be a fraud on the public and punish
able. In America there is no statute
ON ha lint he nj who
does exactly what he advertises to do
is the wise merchant and gains the con-
fidence of the people And so dishon-
esty in advertising is punished after all,
but not as it ought to be. Query: How
would enforced honesty in advertising
affect the newspaper business? That is
the crucial test as to its morality.
BEET SUGAR MEETINGS.
Stockton Mail: Throughout Mime
sofa they are holding county beet-sugar
rallies, which are addressed by men
familiar with the growing Of beets and
the making of sugar, railroad men ana
others The object is TO induce farm
ers to grow beets and to guarantee to
factories a certain acreage each sea-
son for some years to come. The Min
nesota plan should be introduced into
San Joaquin County. District meet
ings ought to be held throughout the
county and a general interest in beet
culture aroused. No movement can be
set in motion that promises so we'll for
the farmers as individuals and the
community in general as that for the
cultivation of the sugar-beet.
THE SULTAN'S OPPORTUNITY.
Santa Rosa Press: The unspeakable
Turk, as Gladstone calls him, has about
completed his task of humbling the
Greek The war has ended as every
one predicted it would end should
Greece be compelled to face the Mos
lem alone And, while the civilized ma
tons may have just aversion to the
Turk. they must admire the oily and
adroit manner in which he has con-
Quoted himself during the recent strug-
gle Il was his great opportunity, and
he awaited himself of it sagaciously.
With all the Christians condemning
him for his brutal slaughter of the Ar
menians, he saw that to conduct the
present war on strictly modern war
fare lines would do a great deal to-
ward restoring his prestige with the
Powers. and he has given the Powers
paign against the Greeks. Had the
Greeks been properly Differed it is
probable that they would have made a
much better resistance than they
showed under the command of the
fabby princes. It is not likely that the
Powers will permit the Turk to dictate
very drastic terms, or that the smooth
Sultan win insist upon them. 1t is the
nj
nous; his position in Europe depends
uponit, and it is generally conceded that
when it comes to diplomacy there are
few flies on the Moslem ruler.
THE PRICE OF ARBITRATION.
Fresno Expositor: The English
newspapers are savagely assailing the
United States because the Senate re-
jected the so-called arbitration treaty
formulated by Olney and Pauncefote.
The action of the Senate reflected
the judgment of the American people
and showed that our people did not
want such treaty. In like degree.
the hasty criticism of the British news
papers showed that their Government
wanted the treaty. If the advantages
secured by the treaty were in favor Of
Great Britain, the action of the Senate
was patriotic and logical and the cha
grin of British writers natural The
English criticisms thus go far toward
eliminating all doubt as to the wisdom
of the Senate in rejecting the treaty
The people of this country do not In
tend to surrender the principle declared
in the Monroe doctrine and they do not
intend to submit that doctrine TO arbi-
tration. where a European arbitrator is
a condition precedent. What chance
would we have In the arbitration Of
such a question, when the European
Powers deny that the Monroe doctrine
has a legitimate place in the interna-
tional code? Those Powers declare that
they do not recognize the Monroe doc
trine. but their practice has been diff