The record-union., 1897-12-14

satisfied to get up q cause of complaint
on the way the Pacific roads have been
handled. All the money owing the
Government is being recovered, and
one great point that some patrloUc
newspapers relied upon for cause TO
save the country from octopuses is be-
ling removed. This is only another in
stance where it is shown that things
are not as bad as they are made out.
Sensational journalism, for one thing,
has the knack of magnifying that
which is bad and discreditable and
dwarfing that which is good and en-
icouraging.
HAYTTS HUMILIATION.
Los Angeles Herald: 1t is a signal
triumph for the German Empire, and
its significance is accentuated by the
fact that the entire population of Hayu,
mainly black, is considerably less than
that of Berlin, and that its entire navy
could easily be slowed away in the
ample hold of the Fuerst Bismarck.
Herr Richter has the floor!
A MAN FROM THE SOUTH.
San Bernardino Times Index: We of
the south have been sailed upon by
our State relative of the north TO
choose between furnishing the State
with a Governor or a representative
in the upper halls of Congress. AT the
same time they suggest that we ask
for the latter. They present a very
logical argument as to why the UNITED
States Senator to be elected at the next
session of the Legislature should be a
man from the south, i. e., that one
of the Senators at the present time IS
from the North and the other from the
south, and should in fairness remain
so divided" To this, everything else
being equal we readily agree. But with
this quite fair geographical division of
Senator's from whence comes the logic
of their appropriating unto their ex-
clusively lonesome lonely selves the
sole, only and exceptional right to fur
nish the ship of State with a pilot dur
ing the coming four years? Then
again, if conceded, who are the parties
competent, vested with authority either
north or south to enter into such a
deal as suggested and if once entered
into with ability to carry it to a sue
cessful termination? The election of a
Governor from one section does not by
any means presage the election of a.
/ ln1tSu states SefdlbT IIOIl the OiiiSl.
ARE YOU SURPRISED?
Fresno Republican: That the Repub-
licans recognize they will have to con-
tend with the same spirit that charac-
terized the silver Senators during the
final session of the Ffftyfourth Con-
gress is shown by the remark of Chair
man Cannon of the House Appropria-
tions Committee to a reporter. Asked
in regard to currency legislation, Mr..
Cannon said:
"Oh, what's the use of talking about
that in the face of the condition of af-
fairs in the Senate? Why, if the House
should pass a currency bill the Senate
would probably strike out everything
after the enacting clause and send us
a free coinage bill"
That's the programme exactly. The
Bryanites, being masters of the situa-
ton, will pursue the same obstructive
tactics they did during the last Con-
gress, and unless the Republicans are
reinforced in the meantime the pros
pect of currency legislation will be any
thing but promising. But the silver
Democrats err in believing they can
shift the responsibility upon the Re
lpublicans They failed to fool the peo-
pie in 1896, and, we are confident, will
fail still more ANONYMOUSLY in 1900.
THE PENSION QUESTION.
| Pasadena News: Those illiberal critics
of the pension roll, who would withhold
the gratitude of the Republic to it's
defenders in the hour of peril, are in
dulging in their annual outcry about
the expense to the Government of this
honorable burden. They are especially
grfeved this year because the report of
the Secretary of the Interior shows an
increase in the total amount disbursed
for pensions for the last fiscal year of
81, ,5S4 ,4S0, over the fiscal year ending
in 1896 Secretary Bliss states this
fact frankly, and he even goes further
and announces a future increase. There
are now pending, he says, about 200
900 claims awaiting adjudication and
of these it is estimated that 40 or 30
per cent. will be admitted. The rapid
adjudication of these claims will swell
the pension roll between S5,OO0.0O0 and
$1,000, 600
But it is to be borne in mind that
this large increase VIII dispose Of the
first years payment on these new pen
Isions, which include arrears. Therefore
these first payments once made, the
total Of the pension roll will decrease
very rapidly The Pension Commission
er estimates this decrease for the frs
year of S10000,000 to $4,000. 900 There
lis, therefore, no occasion for the most
lniggardly opponent TO pensions to view
with alarm this temporary increase.
SUBDIVISION OF WEALTH.
Red Ruff People's CaJ1Se- Tho fact
that vast aggregations Of wealth in
this country are, as a rule, subdivided,
and even scattered widely, upon the
death OF the men who have heaped
them up, averts the danger to our Re
public predicted by alar1nists from the
accumulation of great fortunes. These
great fortunes are divided and subdi-
vided constantly split asunder. as it
We're. by the impact of the arrow of
death'-as a recent writer puts it. He
adds that a few years ago William H.
Vanderbilt held in his hand about
S30o,000,o00, but that in a moment
that hand became powerless. and the
process Of subdivision, which is still
going on, began. There being no law
of entail in our country. fortunes are
constantly shifting hands, and the rich
+ famaly or one generation is likely to
i be impoverished in the next.
ROUGH JUDGMENT.
Dixon Tribune: The San Francisco
papers are objecting TO the introduce
ton of the lock-step into the march
/ ing of the pupils Of the public schools
of that city. The practice is certainly
I open to objection. but the press should