The record-union., 1897-06-22
VOICE. OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
iects of Living and News
Interest.

| Amador Dispatch: A treaty be-
tween Hawaii and the United States
has been signed by President Mckinley
and Secretary of State Sherman ana
sent to the Senate, by the provisions
of which it is proposed to annex the
Sandwich Islands to the United States.
We do not believe this is good move,
and think the Government will rue the
| day when it consented to listen to the
| jingoes of the country. The islands are
not at all desirable territory, and the
people who will become citizens under
| the terms of the treaty are not desira-
| bic as citizens. On the whole, Uncle
Sam will, in our opinion find he has
bitten off more than he can chew,
in making this move.
DEBS' PLAN.
| Ukiah Republican, Press: Eugene
| Debs announces that he will inaugur
ate his grand scheme for the rescue of
| the working people from the clutches of
capitalists by starting a colony in Tex
as, where a large tract of land will be
secured, divided into small sections and
settled by industrious and thrifty men,
bers of the society. This is a delight
full dream but it is by no means novel.
The experiment proposed by the labor
leader, who for aught we know may
be perfectly honest, has been repeat
edly tried. His scheme has been as
fascinating to others as it is to him. 1t
is built of beautiful theories and it
seems to belong in the list of those that
ought to succeed. But it will not. All
experience shows that as long as men
and women are constituted as they
are now they cannot be successfully
grouped in communiStic colonies. The
unbroken record is one of failure, due
sometimes, partially, to dishonesty or
mismanagement and always to the in
herent impossibilities. Some of these
colonies have been planted by thought
ful men of means who have devoted all
| their energies and money to the pro-
Jects, have gathered about them people
of excellent character and have start
ed under favorable circumstances, but
in no case has such an undertaking
been long lived. A few months or
years have exhausted all the resources,
demonstrated that the attempt must
fail and left the unfortunate colonists
to suffer privationS or make their way
back as best they could to their old
!
that from which they tried to escape.
NOT SO SERIOUS.
| Pasadena Star: With farmers get
ting more for their grain and cattle
and hogs, with the business handled
by the merchants of the country great
er than for many years, and with our
exports for 1896, 1926, 900 600 in excess
of our imports, conditions among the
people of this country cannot be so Sc
rious as the calamity shriekers would
make US believe.
TEA INSPECTION.
San Diego Union: The tea-inspec-
tlon law which went into operation re-
Gently, is having the effect it is said
to cause large quantities of adulterated
teas which had been refused admission
at ports Of the United States, to be
shipped to Canada. But of course the
Canadians have no cause to complain
/ They have the same power as this
country to prohibit the importation of
inferior or mixed tea. They need not
become dumping ground for the re-
fuse of that commodity unless they see
ht. The fact, however, that the Cana
dlans are already expressing concern
over the arrivals of bad tea at their
ports, serves to indicate only too plain
ly the extent to which such teas have
been heretofore imported into the Unit
| ed States. The breaking up of this
Objectionable custom, which now seems
probable, is a decided benefit to the en-
tire country.
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION
Oakland Times: In the discussion of
| the question whether it is advisable to
annex Hawaii to the United States the
paramount consideration is the po-
ltical, rather than the economic one. The
experience of the United States in the
| past has demonstrated that after the
annexation of territory no occasion has
| arisen to cause regret for the expansion
| of the area of interstate commerce. The
sugar and cotton planters of Louisiana
| have indulged in no complaint that
sugar and cotton have been admitted
| from Texas free of duty. Were Canada
to be annexed to the United States, as
an inevitable consequence, the COAL
| wheat and lumber now liable to duty,
would be admitted free, and the zone OF
| interstate free trade would be corre-
spondingly enlarged. In the same man
| ner Hawaii, once annexed, would be-