The record-union., 1897-11-13
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects of Living News
Interest.

HOfFland OregOniau. lHe VIZ
| partment's modification OF its Alaska
| military reservation order does no'
| guarantee those who want to do puSl-
ness there against delay and loss
through military restrictions. 1t Is
stated that ANY person who desires to
conduct a legitimate business there will,
on application to the War Department
! be gwen permission to do So" But
| there is hindrance here. In many cases
delay will occur; distances are great,
postponements, through the circumlocu-
ton office, will be common, and many
will be apt to find, while waiting for IA
! yorable action on their applications,
! that q good part of the season has run
by
BLOOMERS.
Visalia Delta: Some Tulare people are
making a great and unnecessary fuss
| about girls playing baseball in bloom
ers. Why should not girls engage in
athletic sports? They are as necessary
ITO them as to boys. And why should
! they not wear comfortable clothing
when they do so? If it is no sin to ride
a bike in boomers it is no sin to play
| baseball in boomers. We think more
of the healthy bloomer girl than of the
one that takes a pride in being old TO-
gyishly proper, wasp-waisted and
sickiy.
CAN LEARN.
| San Diegan-Sun: After all, this coun-
try can learn some few things of Eng
land. For instance, England has here
tofore depended upon telegraph and ca
BILE lines passing through the United
4 faf (S,,Ia fp hn
| its news and information from those
colonies. But England will not so de-
pend any longer. 1t has organized a
company, has secured a subsidy and
will build a cable of its own to the
West Indies. and will have it in opera
ton by February 1st. That is business.
In this country that proposition would
be wrangled over for twenty-five years
or more-as the Nicaragua canal has
been-before it would be put into oper-
alton. The people of the United States
must learn to make public progress in
| peaceful times. They are already able
| to make some progress when a war is
| on.
AN ABANDONMENT
Stockton Record: The Record" was
the first and only paper in the State
to point out promptly; on Maguire's an
nouncement of his Gubernatorial candi-
dacy, that it was a practical abandon
ment of the single-tax principle for the
sake of Office. The press of the State
has, however, not been slow to see the
| force of the charge and now from
| north to south and all over the com
| monwealth papers of al parties are
contrasting the sincere adherence o1
Henry George with the early treachery
of Mcguire. That one statement tol6
| more of the caliber of the man thar
had previously been learned in his
whole career.
BUSINESS IS ALL RIGHT.
Los Angeles Express: No careful oh.
server of industrial conditions in the
United State should have other thar
| confident views as to the present or the
future. The banks Of fifty cities, ex-
cepting only four report a very sub
stantial increase in the use of funds
over what was doing a year ago. One
of the four exceptions is New Orleans
where the raising Of the quarantine will
show a favorable report next week. The
others are all Southern cities of the
third or fourth class Taking the whole
over - per cent, and taking out New
York City, the increase is over % pei
cent. The Improvement is noted mos,
in the far West. All Pacific Coast
cities show figures above the general
average, Los Angeles publishing figures
| twice as encouraging as that average
| Next to the Pacific Coast cities are
those along the upper Mississippi and
the Missouri. Then follow the Allan
! tic Coast cities, the least Improvement
being in the central tier of States This
/ signifies that the betterment springs
from the better prices and prompter
sales oe farm products, affecting more
purely agricultural districts first and
most, and these reacting on the great
manufacturing sections in an increased
demand for fabrics as an incident OF
better times among the farmers.
TOO FULSOME.
Alameda Argus: Henry George was a
fairly earnest man, and died dramati-
cally, but the newspapers which permit
all sorts of people to send in and have
printed hysterical panegyrics of him are
| catering to q tiresome weakness. For
instance, in one of this mornings San
Francisco papers is a heading, Henry
| George Called Redeemer and Liberia
tor" 1t is belittling whatever of fame
Mr.. George is entitled to put it as ex-
| tvavagantly as that. Surely, he would
not have considered himself such al
exalted parsonage, nor have wished tC
be treated in his death by such fulsome-
| ness.
WILL ANGER SPAIN.
CO A.
| which ex-Minister Hannis Taylor has
seen fit to make, imputing bad faith to
Spain in her dealings with Cuba and
the United States, are very likely to ir-
ritate the Madrid Government In any
event they can serve no useful purpose
| MIR. Taylor, it is true, is now a private
citizen and may say whatever he pleases
about Spain or any other country. Still
iE view of his very recent diplomatic
position, his utteranceS will appear in
bad taste to most people. They certainly
give color to the reports that Minister
Taylor was practically ostracized while
st Madrid, and will cause the impress
| sion that he has taken poor method
of displaying his resentment
TAMMANY'S TRIUMPH
Los Angeles Times: Tammany's tri-
| umph means the election of a Demo
cratic President in 1900 does it? Who
| is to be the lucky man? Will it be Dick
| Crocker. or Van Wyck, or Sheehan, OF
| some other Tammany creature? II
| Boss Tweed were alive and out of Jail, il
might be Boss Tweed. Certainly it will
not be Bryan; for Bryan is not of the
Tammany cult neither is he Demo
crat. Who is the coming man, whom