The record-union., 1897-06-25

by an earthquake on Sunday last, leav-
ing scarcely one brick upon another.
Fact is, this globe of ours is a good
deal of a misfit at best, and it hardly
stands any of us in hand to poke too
much fun at any neighboring State be-
cause of calamities which more or less
frequently befall.
THE BILTMORE INCIDENT.
Stockton Record: In the course of an
editorial relating to the unfortunate
Biltmore incident, the Washington
Post" says:
Vanderbilt doesn't want his place
overrun by cheap trippers and vagrant
sight-seers, and he is right. He wants
nothing but what others want-a chance
to enjoy his own in peace. Those who
represent him in his absence naturally
endeavor to carry out his views They
are expected to do this. They are paid
to do it. They have and ought to have
no option in the matter. Thus. when
Mr. Mckinley and his retinue reached
Asheville, Mr.. Vanderbilt's agent, while
perfectly willing to set aside the stand
ing rule in favor of the President of the
United States and his immediate party,
did not feel authorized, and in all PROB
ability was not authorized, to extend the
invitation to everybody who happened
to be travelling in the same train. 1t
is not at all likely that he meant the
slightest disrespect to the newspaper
correspondents. The fact is, doubtless,
that he saw no reason for assuming
that they belonged, in any social or ofn-
cial way, to the President and his inn
mediate retinue. And in this we imag-
inc he was quite correct"
This is substantially the ground TAX
en- by the Record and it is the only
correct one 1t is not a self-respecting
course for newspaper men, or for Sec
retary Porter on behalf of newspaper
men. to thrust them on an unwilling
host. The cry that has been raised is
the cry of communism. 1t is prompted
by the spirit that no man has rights
which other men are not privileged to
invade If one of our own townSpeople
of wealth and social position gave re-
ception to certain invited guests, 1t
would be just as consistent 10 insist that
he should throw his residence open to
all the friends, acquaintnaces and ad-
mirers of those guests. 1t is simply the
doctrine that the private house of a
wealthy man is public property and
may be invaded by the multitude
whenever the mob spirit moves the null
titude But the same sensational and
communistic writers, who think that
trainload of hangers should be priv
ileged to enter Vanderbilt's Biltmore
mansion, would grow justly indignant
if a millionaire should try to force him
self into the shanty of the poor against
the wishes of the guardian of the place.
ANNEXATION.
Santa Barbara Press: The action of
the President in submitting a treaty
for the annexation of Hawaii to the
Senate is undoubtedly based on infor
nation much fuller and more specific
than that in the possession of the peo-
pie at large. The comparative quick
ness of the decision is moreover due
to exigencies which must be met at
once The news will be received with
mixed motives by a large part of our
population. The change in policy
which it indicates is not per Sc to be
depfored simply because it is a change.
We are apt to be too conservative in
this traditional line of conduct. If Mr..
Jefferson or some other equally rev.
cred American a century ago advocat-
ed a scheme of politics, there is no
sanction given thereby to a similar
case in the present year of grace.
Steam and the telegraph have trans
formed the world, and the Hawaiian
Islands are nearer by far, and from
military or naval point of view more
important than the Bermudas in the
last century. Because again both our
coasts are commanded by British ma
val stations, there is no reason why the
very key of the position in the Pacific
should be allowed to go over to the enc
my. Of course there is a chance of en-
broilment with foreign powers over our
possession and its administration. and
the great foreign population of the ISL
ands may make it a doubtful gain.
BIG PROFITS.
Pasadena Star: Farmers and others
who are studying the beet sugar ques-
tion in the United States will be inter
ested to know that stockholders in the
Watsonville, California, beet sugar fac
tory, who got $500 a share for stock
which cost them 800, and upon which
they had also received Sill in dividends
frozen OUT by the company and only
got 81 Il for each 81 they invested II
this is a sample fthe profits which peo-
pie may expect from the beet sugar
| business, the results of Secretary Will
sons experiment may be of very ma
terial advantage to the agriculturists
and business men of this country.
FOR THE BALD.
Red Bluff Peoples Cause: So bald
ness is due to a microbe that penetrates
| the folicles at the roots of the hair
and destroys them? Well, why do not
| the doctors inoculate for badness, if
it is a germ disease? Inject into the
head a modified fo1m of baldheaded mi
crobe culture. Perhaps then every
tenth hair on a mans head would fall
| out but he would be sure of the rest
all his life. There is another cure for
badness that is recommended. A
Colorado man discovered that by work
ing in the fields bareheaded all one
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