The record-union., 1897-08-09
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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.


About the only good thing that Secre-
convince farmers that they were not
as poor as they thought they were un-
less we add his Intellectual opposition
to the seed distribution fake, but Sec
retary Wilson seems to be doing some
solid work. Just now he is employ
ing the consular service in ascertain
ing the requirements of foreign gov
ernments for cavalry horses with the
view of opening up market for Amer
ican horses. This is good and good
may come of it for market for Amer
lean horses is an urgent need, but the
greatest service the Agricultural De-
partment can confer upon farmers is
to procure, digest and publish week
ly observations on crop areas and pros
poets for the civilized world An eff
cient organization of forces that would
accomplish this end would be a boon
to humanity.
TEXAS AND HAWAIIAN ANNEXA-
TION.
Stockton Mail: AS a matter of poll
icy, We consider the acquisition of the
Islands foolish and foolhardy. But if
the United States does see fit to ac-
cept the overtures of the Government
of Hawaii-the only Government Ha-
waii has-we most certainly would not
stigmatize annexation as theft Pres
ident Dole is de facto and de jure the
President of the Hawaiian Republic
The machinery of the Government in
the islands is regular, and the Gov
ernment is recognized by the nations.
1t is fixed maxim of international law
that We cannot go beneath the surface
OF affairs in a friendly country to make
inquiry into the means whereby a rec
ognized Government established its au-
therity. The Hawaiian Republic has
the right to maintain it's independence
with arms or to annex itself to whatso-
ever people it Will. The annexation
of the islands is a radical departure
from our policy and traditions, and Is
likely to prove mischievous and dan
gerous. But annexation is not theft,
nor would it be a violation of any canon
of International law with which we are
acquainted
The acquisition of Texas is on all
fours with the annexation of Hawaii
| 1t was a foolish thing to do, and we
paid for our folly, as Tom Corwin pre-
dicted we would pay for it, in the coin
of battle and bIoodshed A few years
passed away and the territory we had
acquired was sending it's soldiers to
shoot at the flag. Yet, we think, Texas
had the right to offer itself to the
| United States, and the United States
had the right to accept the offer. What
are the facts?
! Tba PanI1hlia la ~
independence as the thirteen colonies
won theirs, by the sword. On the
banks of the San Jacinto the Texans
had avenged the slaughter of the Ala
mo and made themselves a nation. The
treaty of annexation became law on
March 3, 1916, the last day of Presi-
dent Tyler's term OF office At that
time there was an armistice between
the Republics of Mexico and Texas.
pending the conclusion of a treaty of
peace. Mexico had surrendered Texas
to Texas. Nor did the southern repub-
lie aNege the annexation of Texas as
cause of war. The trouble arose over
the definition of the boundary line of
the newly acquired territory. The
United States asserted the Rio Grande
to be the boundary; Mexico insisted
was as eager for war as the United
States. The world knows the story of
the victorious progress of our arms
Mexico was -prostrate. Her capital and
her cities We're ours What did we
do? We signed with her a treaty by
which We paid her in money and debts
assumed S1S,500,000 for territory we
had conquered and which Mexico never
similar instance of magnanimity in
modern warfare. We can see no theft
in this. 1t is not the habit of thieves
to pay cash down for their booty
IRRIGATED WHEAT.
Chico Record: The fact that the irri-
gated wheat farmer has a fine crop
to sell this year when prices are UP
and the lack of spring rains cut the
rainfall crops so short, suggests that
we do not give attention enough to the
subject of irrigation for wheat, says
the Rural" Wheat has been so low
of late that it hardly seemed worth
enterprise of any kind, but it is not so
now, nor is it likely to be 50 in fu-
| ture. 1t is more than likely that wheat
will not go so low again in a genera
| ton. And then it is so low any more
| weight enough can be had by irrigation
10 make a good margin. The Fresno
NExpositor'' tells of Lev GoodelI. who
has one of the finest places on the
| West Side. He raised wheat on an
i irrigated quarter section, on the Slough.
| and got 5000 sacks off it this year.
weighing 145 pounds to the sack. This
| is over twenty-five bushels to the acre
| and it certainly cost him less to ir-
rigate than it did his dry land neigh
| bors TO sow and reap nothing The
| irrigated land on the West site covers
| an area of about twenty-five miles
| wide. 1t is heavy, black tule land:
wheat does well on it, We ought to
have much irrigated wheat land.
CORNERED HIM.
! Yreka Journal: If it were possible
| to make a man like Senator Allen
ashamed of anything, Senator Fora
ker's prompt refutation of the charge
made by Allen that the Mckinley vote
| in Ohio last November was increased
by fraud would have had that effect.
As it was Senator F'oraker's vigorous
prodding and demands for proof and
specification of one single fraudulent
vote cast in the State of Ohio at the
Presidential election drove Allen into
corner from which he was glad to
escape by yielding to a motion to go
into executive session. Senator Fora
ker made Senator Allen blush when he
| reminded him that he was the first
man 70 slander his native State (Allen
| was born in Ohio) by such charges.
THE TARIFF LAW.