The record-union., 1897-12-07

York Sun answers this by saying that
all Of the vote cast by Low, the second
candidate in the race, was worked up
by the newspapers, and that it was
remarkable demonstration of the power
of the press. OF course the influence
of the newspapers has its limits, but
because they could not at once ere
ate a new party and make it victorious
over party one hundred years old,
it does not follow that they were de-
void of power in the community.
DISREPUTABLE JOURNALISM.
San Jose Mercury: Commenting
upon recent editorial in these coll
umns deploring the tendency of many
newspapers to denounce, to slander and
to villify without foundation or cause,
protesting against the growing habit
among editors Of seeing all things dark
ly, and asking If there is nothing noble,
generous, good, kind, manly and honest
in our social and business life that can
be discovered. approved and encour-
aged, the Sacramento Record Union
pertinently says that croaking, charg-
ing and suspeeting has been going on
in all the ages of civilization, yet the
world has moved forward, men are bet
ter, business is Sounder, science has
more advanced, human sympathy is
broader, charity and beneficence are
more general, life is more precious, love
is stronger and friendship is still fast
binding
Words like these are encouraging and
stimulating. Yellow journalism and its
imitators feed upon crime, and, in lieu
of that, upon the reputation of honor
able men and women. But the very
excesses in which these disreputable
papers indulge will eventually prove
their undoing. Their influence is rap
idly waning They have betrayed their
own selfishness, hypocrisy. evil designs
and general untrustworthiness. And,
as the Record Union observes, the
evils of which the Mercury" complains
ARE in the main chargeabl to metro
politan journalism. That which is
best, most manly and true in the pro-
fession, resides in country and town
journalism; that is the leaven that
will save the Loaf
CHINA'S FATE.
Stockton Record There is little
doubt that China must yield to the inc
vitable and become the victim of Eu-
ropean butchers who have carved up
other nations in the past. The fate of
Poland and of Greece awaits her. The
japanese in the recent war demonstrat-
ed to the world that China was weak
and helpless from her own great
weight, and the territorial vampires of
Europe have not been slow to take ad-
vantage Of the situation. Great Brit
ian, Germany, France and Russia have
now all secured foothold in the land
of the Celestials and each will insist on
an extra slice of the Empire every few
years until it is all reduced to subjec-
ton.
This process may not destroy the
Chinese as distinctive people any
more than British dominion in India
has done away with the 200,000,000
natives Of that region. But it will
have the effect of coercing the Chinese
to certain patronage. England went to
war to force opium on the Celestials.
because opium was a product of Brit
ish-India, and unless China is willing
to accept other products that European
nations are anxious to have consumed,
she will get in further trouble.
China is doomed as an Independent
Empire. She may be permitted
nominal existence for a hundred or
two years yet, but her certain destiny
is the carving knife Of European Cabi-
nets.