The record-union., 1897-10-20
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Jects or L1v1ng NEWS
Interest.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: The man VINO
talks most about hard times IS usualiy
one who does the least advertising
Watsonyille Register.
As a rule. the men who do the most
with their mouths do the least win
their hands Usually the orator u
a blowhard a wind-bag, gas factory
a diluted quality of incandescent hght
after being operated till about run Out
LIBERTY WILL TRIUMPH.
Riverside Globe: The fight for inde-
pendence by the Cubans has the weii
wishes of liberty-loving people every
where, and from the great success OF
the little band Of 10000 against the
tremendous odds Of 220,0O0 it seems
there may be an unseen power on the
side of the battling Cubans. Modern
history affords no parallel to the trans
portation of men across the sea Tor
conuuest-of which Spain's effort TO
hold her parasitic grip on Cuba IS an
example truly says one writer. 1t IS
not likely that in ancient history could
q similar movement of armies be found,
certainly not outside Of the Mediter-
ranean The official figures show that
the thirteen expeditions sent across the
Atlantic UP to last spring numbered
nearly 1SS.O00 officers and men, max
ing a total, including the army already
in Cuba, of about 220,000 troops. Near
" 10000 more soldiers have been sent
to the Philippines.
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have failed. The struggle for liberty
in Cuba is as determined as ever. All
this tremendous expenditure of men
and money has not crushed the spirit
of the Cuban patriots. They hold most
of the territory in Cuba, they hold the
Spanish troops confined within fortifi-
cations. they raid at will towns within
walking distance of Havana, and they
lack only money, siege guns and am
munition to reduce Moro Castle itself.
With the recognition when Congress
meets in December the Cubans will
have the same rights in our ports as
now have the Spaniards, and this will
enable them to equip navy. We hear
less Of the war in the Philippines, but
there is no evidence that Spain is win
ming eny more success there than in
Cuba.
MARKETS FOR OUR BREAD
STUFFS.
Tacoma Ledger: An encouraging
feature of the fast growing Oriental
trade is the fact, now well established,
that the inhabitants of China and ia
pan are changing from rice-eaters to
bread eaters. Among so many millions
the change must come slowly, on ac-
count of the greater cost, but these and
other Asiatic countries are now afford
ing a good market for American ce-
reals, where but a short time since none
existed The demand for American
breadstuffs from Asia bids fair to more
than keep pace with the increased acre
age Of American wheat fields, with a
consequent Improvement in prices.
In comparison with an increase of
25.6 per cent. in wheat production the
Increase in foreign countris of what
may be called bread eaters has been
just 37.5 per cent, for the past twenty
five years, and the increase in the past
four or five years in Asiatic countries,
which largely draw their supplies from
the Pacific States, has been more rapid
than for the balance of the time for
which the figures are given.
The farmers of Washington and the
business men of Tacoma will be strict
ly in it as the trade develops.
LES MISERABLEs.
Alameda Encinal: 1t would appear to
be rather late in the day, or rather in
the century, to exclude such a book as
Les AGiserables" from a high school.
Even if the work were Objectionable
beyond argument, still the publicity
given to its exclusion shows that to
have been the wrong way to go to
work at it. 1t is safe to say that every
pupil in the Philadelphia high school
from which the book is question has
just been ostentatiously excluded, will
make haste to read it and will search
it diligently to find any Objectionable
passage. And by the way. he must
be a rrude indeed who can find filth in
Victor Hug0's masterpiece.
CHINESE IMMIGRATION
Oakland Enquirer: A Chinese Immi-
grafton Inspector in New York has re-
signed and therefore feels free to tell
the truth. He says the Exclusion Act
is farce and that many Government
employees are making $4,000 a year
by importing Chinese We suspect the
frauds on this coast are bad enough
but probably those practiced along the
Canadian border, from Seattle to New
Brunswick, are worse. In those parts
of the country where people are less
experienced on the subject of Chinese
immigration than they are here. the
opportunities for plying the illegal traf-
fee without detection are very good.
GERMANY AND THE TARIFF.
San Diego Union: The German Gov
eminent is showing a disposition to act
prudently in the matter of adopting
retaliatory legislation against the Ding
ley tariff bill. But the agrarian party
is quite as active as ever in its efforts
to exclude American products. The
methods used to work up public senti-
ment are illustrated by the trial of a
wholesale pork merchant at Cologne,
who was arrested for selling diseased
meat He asserted that the pork came
from America. On investigation it was
found that all the spoiled meat, and
there was an enormous quantity of it,
came from Servia- The merchant, it
seems, lied, because he thought thereby
to curry favor with the authorities, and
that they would be disposed to deal
more leniently with him. Fortunately,
the judges were not Influenced by po-
litiea considerations, and pushed the